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and not of excellence. It is simply to develope a 

 principle and not to carry out any express piece of 

 curious workmanship ; there is not, therefore, any 

 statement of its possessing surprising qualities, the 

 utmost proposed is u a constant water-flowing and 

 ebbing motion,&quot; without any condition as to degree, 

 quantity, or extent of its effect. This and no more 

 would the apparatus here described demonstrate on its 

 trial. 



This article of the &quot; Century&quot; strikingly illustrates 

 how truly the Marquis wrote it as he says &quot; in a way, 

 as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in 

 practice ;&quot; or, rather to repeat the practice of them, 

 for he has only a line or two before told us, they 

 are such of his inventions as &quot; I can call to mind 

 to have TRIED and PERFECTED &quot; and what he wrote 

 he meant, let sceptics and superficial critics pervert his 

 words as they may to uphold their own narrow 

 conceits. The reader of articles, Nos. 22 and 23, is 

 informed of effects without the least intimation of a 

 means ; he is then amused with springs, weights, 

 levers, portable bridges, fortifications, stenography, keys, 

 automata, stairs, ladders, cochlea, and so forth, to the 

 number of 33 inventions, and then, after losing sight 

 of No. 22, and No. 23, he is invited to examine the 

 machine by which the &quot; ebbing and flowing&quot; effects 

 are produced. All this is perfectly legitimate, but, 

 nevertheless, well worthy of notice, as opening to view 

 the peculiar tact and skill of the writer ; and the 

 extreme necessity of exercising cautious judgment in 

 our estimate of &quot; The treasures buried under these 

 heads, both for war, peace, and pleasure.&quot; 



It is when we refer back to No. 22, that we become 

 convinced, beyond what No. 57 alone might persuade 

 us of, that by no means short of the condensation 



