The knots on the sinew will help you
to keep it tight and close to the side of the arm as you take it down
hand over hand, till the book comes to you; which would drop from
between the thumb and finger if the sinew was let loose.
All new tools require some practice before we can become expert
in the use of them. This requires very little.
Made in the proportions above given, it serves well for books
in duodecimo or octavo. Quartos and folios are too heavy for it; but
those are usually placed on the lower shelves within reach of hand.
The book taken down, may, when done with, be put up again into
its place by the same machine.
The Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams
INSCRIBED TO MISS SHIPLEY, BEING WRITTEN AT HER REQUEST
As a great part of our life is spent in sleep during which we
have sometimes pleasant and sometimes painful dreams, it becomes of
some consequence to obtain the one kind and avoid the other; for
whether real or imaginary, pain is pain and pleasure is pleasure. If
we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are
avoided. If while we sleep we can have any pleasing dream, it is, as
the French say, _autant de gagne_, so much added to the pleasure of
life.
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