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HE WEIGHED AND REWEIGHED THE METER PLATES AND PURSUED EVERY LINE OF INVESTIGATION IMAGINABLE BUT ALL IN VAIN | 2300 | 131720 | 0037 | |
THERE SEEMS NO GOOD REASON FOR BELIEVING THAT IT WILL CHANGE | 2300 | 131720 | 0006 | |
THE STREET CONDUCTORS WERE OF THE OVERHEAD POLE LINE CONSTRUCTION AND WERE INSTALLED BY THE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY THAT HAD BEEN ORGANIZED BY EDISON TO BUILD AND EQUIP CENTRAL STATIONS | 2300 | 131720 | 0021 | |
FOR SOME YEARS IT WAS NOT FOUND FEASIBLE TO OPERATE MOTORS ON ALTERNATING CURRENT CIRCUITS AND THAT REASON WAS OFTEN URGED AGAINST IT SERIOUSLY | 2300 | 131720 | 0009 | |
BROAD AS THE PRAIRIES AND FREE IN THOUGHT AS THE WINDS THAT SWEEP THEM HE IS IDIOSYNCRATICALLY OPPOSED TO LOOSE AND WASTEFUL METHODS TO PLANS OF EMPIRE THAT NEGLECT THE POOR AT THE GATE | 2300 | 131720 | 0007 | |
THERE MESSRS JOHNSON AND HAMMER PUT INTO PRACTICE MANY OF THE IDEAS NOW STANDARD IN THE ART AND SECURED MUCH USEFUL DATA FOR THE WORK IN NEW YORK OF WHICH THE STORY HAS JUST BEEN TOLD | 2300 | 131720 | 0002 | |
THE PARIS PLANT LIKE THAT AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE WAS A TEMPORARY EXHIBIT | 2300 | 131720 | 0000 | |
IN DECEMBER EIGHTEEN EIGHTY EIGHT MISTER W J JENKS READ AN INTERESTING PAPER BEFORE THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS ON THE SIX YEARS OF PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE HAD UP TO THAT TIME WITH THE METER THEN MORE GENERALLY IN USE THAN ANY OTHER | 2300 | 131720 | 0033 | |
WHY IF WE ERECT A STATION AT THE FALLS IT IS A GREAT ECONOMY TO GET IT UP TO THE CITY | 2300 | 131720 | 0005 | |
THE LONDON PLANT WAS LESS TEMPORARY BUT NOT PERMANENT SUPPLYING BEFORE IT WAS TORN OUT NO FEWER THAN THREE THOUSAND LAMPS IN HOTELS CHURCHES STORES AND DWELLINGS IN THE VICINITY OF HOLBORN VIADUCT | 2300 | 131720 | 0001 | |
THE PROBLEM WAS SOLVED | 2300 | 131720 | 0039 | |
MISTER EDISON WAS A LEADER FAR AHEAD OF THE TIME | 2300 | 131720 | 0014 | |
IN THIS CONNECTION IT SHOULD BE MENTIONED THAT THE ASSOCIATION OF EDISON ILLUMINATING COMPANIES IN THE SAME YEAR ADOPTED RESOLUTIONS UNANIMOUSLY TO THE EFFECT THAT THE EDISON METER WAS ACCURATE AND THAT ITS USE WAS NOT EXPENSIVE FOR STATIONS ABOVE ONE THOUSAND LIGHTS AND THAT THE BEST FINANCIAL RESULTS WERE INVARIABLY ... | 2300 | 131720 | 0035 | |
WE HAD METERS IN WHICH THERE WERE TWO BOTTLES OF LIQUID | 2300 | 131720 | 0041 | |
EDISON HAD INSTALLED HIS HISTORIC FIRST GREAT CENTRAL STATION SYSTEM IN NEW YORK ON THE MULTIPLE ARC SYSTEM COVERED BY HIS FEEDER AND MAIN INVENTION WHICH RESULTED IN A NOTABLE SAVING IN THE COST OF CONDUCTORS AS AGAINST A STRAIGHT TWO WIRE SYSTEM THROUGHOUT OF THE TREE KIND | 2300 | 131720 | 0017 | |
IT COULD NOT BE USED FOR ELECTROPLATING OR DEPOSITION NOR COULD IT CHARGE STORAGE BATTERIES ALL OF WHICH ARE EASILY WITHIN THE ABILITY OF THE DIRECT CURRENT | 2300 | 131720 | 0010 | |
THE STRONG POSITION HELD BY THE EDISON SYSTEM UNDER THE STRENUOUS COMPETITION THAT WAS ALREADY SPRINGING UP WAS ENORMOUSLY IMPROVED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF THE THREE WIRE SYSTEM AND IT GAVE AN IMMEDIATE IMPETUS TO INCANDESCENT LIGHTING | 2300 | 131720 | 0019 | |
IT HAS OCCUPIED MOTHER A LONG TIME TO FIND AT THE SHOPS THE EXACT SHADE FOR HER NEW BONNET | 4970 | 29095 | 0024 | |
HAS THEE CONSULTED THY MOTHER ABOUT A CAREER I SUPPOSE IT IS A CAREER THEE WANTS | 4970 | 29095 | 0036 | |
WHAT A BOX WOMEN ARE PUT INTO MEASURED FOR IT AND PUT IN YOUNG IF WE GO ANYWHERE IT'S IN A BOX VEILED AND PINIONED AND SHUT IN BY DISABILITIES | 4970 | 29095 | 0033 | |
AND THEE WON'T GO WHY SHOULD I | 4970 | 29095 | 0025 | |
IF I CAN GET PATIENTS | 4970 | 29095 | 0015 | |
IS THY FATHER WILLING THEE SHOULD GO AWAY TO A SCHOOL OF THE WORLD'S PEOPLE | 4970 | 29095 | 0006 | |
FATHER THEE'S UNJUST TO PHILIP HE'S GOING INTO BUSINESS | 4970 | 29095 | 0030 | |
HE DOESN'T SAY EXACTLY WHAT IT IS SAID RUTH A LITTLE DUBIOUSLY BUT IT'S SOMETHING ABOUT LAND AND RAILROADS AND THEE KNOWS FATHER THAT FORTUNES ARE MADE NOBODY KNOWS EXACTLY HOW IN A NEW COUNTRY | 4970 | 29095 | 0031 | |
MOTHER I'M GOING TO STUDY MEDICINE | 4970 | 29095 | 0008 | |
THERE CERTAINLY WAS NO END TO IT AND EVEN RUTH WAS PHILADELPHIAN ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT A STREET OUGHT NOT TO HAVE ANY END OR ARCHITECTURAL POINT UPON WHICH THE WEARY EYE COULD REST | 4970 | 29095 | 0020 | |
I WILL PRACTICE IT | 4970 | 29095 | 0013 | |
MARGARET BOLTON ALMOST LOST FOR A MOMENT HER HABITUAL PLACIDITY | 4970 | 29095 | 0009 | |
WHERE THEE AND THY FAMILY ARE KNOWN | 4970 | 29095 | 0014 | |
AND IF I HAD A FORTUNE WOULD THEE WANT ME TO LEAD A USELESS LIFE | 4970 | 29095 | 0035 | |
IT'S SUCH A CRUSH AT THE YEARLY MEETING AT ARCH STREET AND THEN THERE'S THE ROW OF SLEEK LOOKING YOUNG MEN WHO LINE THE CURBSTONE AND STARE AT US AS WE COME OUT | 4970 | 29095 | 0027 | |
THY WAYS GREATLY TRY ME RUTH AND ALL THY RELATIONS | 4970 | 29095 | 0005 | |
WELL MOTHER SAID THE YOUNG STUDENT LOOKING UP WITH A SHADE OF IMPATIENCE | 4970 | 29095 | 0002 | |
DOES THEE THINK THEE COULD STAND IT SIX MONTHS | 4970 | 29095 | 0011 | |
RUTH ASKED THE ENTHUSIASTS IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO LIVE IN SUCH A SOUNDING MAUSOLEUM WITH ITS GREAT HALLS AND ECHOING ROOMS AND NO COMFORTABLE PLACE IN IT FOR THE ACCOMMODATION OF ANY BODY | 4970 | 29095 | 0018 | |
BUT THAT WISE AND PLACID WOMAN UNDERSTOOD THE SWEET REBEL A GREAT DEAL BETTER THAN RUTH UNDERSTOOD HERSELF | 4970 | 29095 | 0037 | |
RUTH WAS GLAD TO HEAR THAT PHILIP HAD MADE A PUSH INTO THE WORLD AND SHE WAS SURE THAT HIS TALENT AND COURAGE WOULD MAKE A WAY FOR HIM | 4970 | 29095 | 0038 | |
RUTH SAT QUITE STILL FOR A TIME WITH FACE INTENT AND FLUSHED IT WAS OUT NOW | 4970 | 29095 | 0016 | |
BUT PHILIP IS HONEST AND HE HAS TALENT ENOUGH IF HE WILL STOP SCRIBBLING TO MAKE HIS WAY | 4970 | 29095 | 0032 | |
THE SIGHT SEERS RETURNED IN HIGH SPIRITS FROM THE CITY | 4970 | 29095 | 0017 | |
SHE TRIED THIS MORNING AN AIR OR TWO UPON THE PIANO SANG A SIMPLE SONG IN A SWEET BUT SLIGHTLY METALLIC VOICE AND THEN SEATING HERSELF BY THE OPEN WINDOW READ PHILIP'S LETTER | 4970 | 29095 | 0001 | |
HE DOESN'T SAY BUT IT'S ON THE FRONTIER AND ON THE MAP EVERYTHING BEYOND IT IS MARKED INDIANS AND DESERT AND LOOKS AS DESOLATE AS A WEDNESDAY MEETING HUMPH IT WAS TIME FOR HIM TO DO SOMETHING | 4970 | 29095 | 0028 | |
THEE STUDY MEDICINE | 4970 | 29095 | 0010 | |
I HAVE NOT ASKED HIM RUTH REPLIED WITH A LOOK THAT MIGHT IMPLY THAT SHE WAS ONE OF THOSE DETERMINED LITTLE BODIES WHO FIRST MADE UP HER OWN MIND AND THEN COMPELLED OTHERS TO MAKE UP THEIRS IN ACCORDANCE WITH HERS | 4970 | 29095 | 0007 | |
WHY SHOULD I RUST AND BE STUPID AND SIT IN INACTION BECAUSE I AM A GIRL | 4970 | 29095 | 0034 | |
IS HE GOING TO START A DAILY NEWSPAPER AMONG THE KICK A POOS | 4970 | 29095 | 0029 | |
AND BESIDES SUPPOSE THEE DOES LEARN MEDICINE | 4970 | 29095 | 0012 | |
SHE WAS TIRED OF OTHER THINGS | 4970 | 29095 | 0000 | |
I HOPE THEE TOLD THE ELDERS THAT FATHER AND I ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PIANO AND THAT MUCH AS THEE LOVES MUSIC THEE IS NEVER IN THE ROOM WHEN IT IS PLAYED | 4970 | 29095 | 0003 | |
I HAVE NOTHING TO WEAR REPLIED THAT DEMURE PERSON | 4970 | 29095 | 0023 | |
IS THEE GOING TO THE YEARLY MEETING RUTH ASKED ONE OF THE GIRLS | 4970 | 29095 | 0022 | |
I HEARD FATHER TELL COUSIN ABNER THAT HE WAS WHIPPED SO OFTEN FOR WHISTLING WHEN HE WAS A BOY THAT HE WAS DETERMINED TO HAVE WHAT COMPENSATION HE COULD GET NOW | 4970 | 29095 | 0004 | |
BUT NEITHER SAINT GIRARD NOR BROAD STREET NEITHER WONDERS OF THE MINT NOR THE GLORIES OF THE HALL WHERE THE GHOSTS OF OUR FATHERS SIT ALWAYS SIGNING THE DECLARATION IMPRESSED THE VISITORS SO MUCH AS THE SPLENDORS OF THE CHESTNUT STREET WINDOWS AND THE BARGAINS ON EIGHTH STREET | 4970 | 29095 | 0021 | |
AND THEN THERE WAS BROAD STREET | 4970 | 29095 | 0019 | |
IF I GO TO MEETING AT ALL I LIKE BEST TO SIT IN THE QUIET OLD HOUSE IN GERMANTOWN WHERE THE WINDOWS ARE ALL OPEN AND I CAN SEE THE TREES AND HEAR THE STIR OF THE LEAVES | 4970 | 29095 | 0026 | |
IT IS SUCH A NOBLE AMBITION THAT IT IS A PITY IT HAS USUALLY SUCH A SHALLOW FOUNDATION | 4970 | 29093 | 0007 | |
LAW SEEMED TO HIM WELL ENOUGH AS A SCIENCE BUT HE NEVER COULD DISCOVER A PRACTICAL CASE WHERE IT APPEARED TO HIM WORTH WHILE TO GO TO LAW AND ALL THE CLIENTS WHO STOPPED WITH THIS NEW CLERK IN THE ANTE ROOM OF THE LAW OFFICE WHERE HE WAS WRITING PHILIP INVARIABLY ADVISED TO SETTLE NO MATTER HOW BUT SETTLE GREATLY TO TH... | 4970 | 29093 | 0006 | |
BUT PHILIP DID AFFORD IT AND HE WROTE THANKING HIS FRIENDS AND DECLINING BECAUSE HE SAID THE POLITICAL SCHEME WOULD FAIL AND OUGHT TO FAIL | 4970 | 29093 | 0012 | |
I WAS AFRAID IT WAS NEARER HOME | 4970 | 29093 | 0021 | |
PHILIP THEREFORE READ DILIGENTLY IN THE ASTOR LIBRARY PLANNED LITERARY WORKS THAT SHOULD COMPEL ATTENTION AND NURSED HIS GENIUS | 4970 | 29093 | 0009 | |
WHY IT'S IN MISSOURI SOMEWHERE ON THE FRONTIER I THINK WE'LL GET A MAP | 4970 | 29093 | 0020 | |
HE HAD NO FRIEND WISE ENOUGH TO TELL HIM TO STEP INTO THE DORKING CONVENTION THEN IN SESSION MAKE A SKETCH OF THE MEN AND WOMEN ON THE PLATFORM AND TAKE IT TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY GRAPEVINE AND SEE WHAT HE COULD GET A LINE FOR IT | 4970 | 29093 | 0010 | |
THE MODEST FELLOW WOULD HAVE LIKED FAME THRUST UPON HIM FOR SOME WORTHY ACHIEVEMENT IT MIGHT BE FOR A BOOK OR FOR THE SKILLFUL MANAGEMENT OF SOME GREAT NEWSPAPER OR FOR SOME DARING EXPEDITION LIKE THAT OF LIEUTENANT STRAIN OR DOCTOR KANE | 4970 | 29093 | 0003 | |
HE HAS NO TRADITIONS TO BIND HIM OR GUIDE HIM AND HIS IMPULSE IS TO BREAK AWAY FROM THE OCCUPATION HIS FATHER HAS FOLLOWED AND MAKE A NEW WAY FOR HIMSELF | 4970 | 29093 | 0002 | |
SOMETIMES HE THOUGHT HE WOULD LIKE TO STAND IN A CONSPICUOUS PULPIT AND HUMBLY PREACH THE GOSPEL OF REPENTANCE AND IT EVEN CROSSED HIS MIND THAT IT WOULD BE NOBLE TO GIVE HIMSELF TO A MISSIONARY LIFE TO SOME BENIGHTED REGION WHERE THE DATE PALM GROWS AND THE NIGHTINGALE'S VOICE IS IN TUNE AND THE BUL BUL SINGS ON THE O... | 4970 | 29093 | 0005 | |
I'VE BEEN READY TO GO ANYWHERE FOR SIX MONTHS | 4970 | 29093 | 0017 | |
HE KNEW HIS UNCLE WOULD BE GLAD TO HEAR THAT HE HAD AT LAST TURNED HIS THOUGHTS TO A PRACTICAL MATTER | 4970 | 29093 | 0022 | |
YOU'LL NEVER DIG IT OUT OF THE ASTOR LIBRARY | 4970 | 29093 | 0000 | |
HE WANTED TO BEGIN AT THE TOP OF THE LADDER | 4970 | 29093 | 0008 | |
TO THE YOUNG AMERICAN HERE OR ELSEWHERE THE PATHS TO FORTUNE ARE INNUMERABLE AND ALL OPEN THERE IS INVITATION IN THE AIR AND SUCCESS IN ALL HIS WIDE HORIZON | 4970 | 29093 | 0001 | |
HE WAS UNABLE TO DECIDE EXACTLY WHAT IT SHOULD BE | 4970 | 29093 | 0004 | |
NO ITS NOT TOO SOON | 4970 | 29093 | 0016 | |
THE NIGHT WAS SPENT IN PACKING UP AND WRITING LETTERS FOR PHILIP WOULD NOT TAKE SUCH AN IMPORTANT STEP WITHOUT INFORMING HIS FRIENDS | 4970 | 29093 | 0019 | |
YOU CAN BEGIN BY CARRYING A ROD AND PUTTING DOWN THE FIGURES | 4970 | 29093 | 0015 | |
O VERY WELL SAID GRINGO TURNING AWAY WITH A SHADE OF CONTEMPT YOU'LL FIND IF YOU ARE GOING INTO LITERATURE AND NEWSPAPER WORK THAT YOU CAN'T AFFORD A CONSCIENCE LIKE THAT | 4970 | 29093 | 0011 | |
HE WELL KNEW THE PERILS OF THE FRONTIER THE SAVAGE STATE OF SOCIETY THE LURKING INDIANS AND THE DANGERS OF FEVER | 4970 | 29093 | 0023 | |
AND HE WENT BACK TO HIS BOOKS AND TO HIS WAITING FOR AN OPENING LARGE ENOUGH FOR HIS DIGNIFIED ENTRANCE INTO THE LITERARY WORLD | 4970 | 29093 | 0013 | |
WELL I'M GOING AS AN ENGINEER YOU CAN GO AS ONE | 4970 | 29093 | 0014 | |
THE TWO YOUNG MEN WHO WERE BY THIS TIME FULL OF THE ADVENTURE WENT DOWN TO THE WALL STREET OFFICE OF HENRY'S UNCLE AND HAD A TALK WITH THAT WILY OPERATOR | 4970 | 29093 | 0018 | |
OH SIR DON'T MENTION IT SAID MISSUS POYSER | 2094 | 142345 | 0045 | |
SAID MISTER IRWINE WITH HIS STATELY CORDIALITY | 2094 | 142345 | 0044 | |
AND SHE WAS VERY FOND OF YOU TOO AUNT RACHEL | 2094 | 142345 | 0031 | |
MUNNY I TOULD IKE TO DO INTO DE BARN TO TOMMY TO SEE DE WHITTAWD | 2094 | 142345 | 0027 | |
DO NOT SUPPOSE HOWEVER THAT MISSUS POYSER WAS ELDERLY OR SHREWISH IN HER APPEARANCE SHE WAS A GOOD LOOKING WOMAN NOT MORE THAN EIGHT AND THIRTY OF FAIR COMPLEXION AND SANDY HAIR WELL SHAPEN LIGHT FOOTED | 2094 | 142345 | 0011 | |
OH SIR SAID MISSUS POYSER RATHER ALARMED YOU WOULDN'T LIKE IT AT ALL | 2094 | 142345 | 0054 | |
BUT THERE'S FATHER THE BARN SIR IF HE'D BE OF ANY USE | 2094 | 142345 | 0050 | |
BY THE BY I'VE NEVER SEEN YOUR DAIRY I MUST SEE YOUR DAIRY MISSUS POYSER | 2094 | 142345 | 0058 | |
MISTER OTTLEY'S INDEED | 2094 | 142345 | 0022 | |
NO THANK YOU I'LL JUST LOOK AT THE WHELPS AND LEAVE A MESSAGE ABOUT THEM WITH YOUR SHEPHERD | 2094 | 142345 | 0051 | |
TO ALL APPEARANCE MOLLY HAD GOT THROUGH HER AFTER DINNER WORK IN AN EXEMPLARY MANNER HAD CLEANED HERSELF WITH GREAT DISPATCH AND NOW CAME TO ASK SUBMISSIVELY IF SHE SHOULD SIT DOWN TO HER SPINNING TILL MILKING TIME | 2094 | 142345 | 0015 | |
THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE IS PLAIN NOW | 2094 | 142345 | 0007 | |
I NEVER KNEW YOUR EQUALS FOR GALLOWSNESS | 2094 | 142345 | 0017 | |
I MUST COME ANOTHER DAY AND SEE YOUR HUSBAND I WANT TO HAVE A CONSULTATION WITH HIM ABOUT HORSES | 2094 | 142345 | 0052 | |
HER TONGUE WAS NOT LESS KEEN THAN HER EYE AND WHENEVER A DAMSEL CAME WITHIN EARSHOT SEEMED TO TAKE UP AN UNFINISHED LECTURE AS A BARREL ORGAN TAKES UP A TUNE PRECISELY AT THE POINT WHERE IT HAD LEFT OFF | 2094 | 142345 | 0013 | |
I OFTEN HEARD HER TALK OF YOU IN THE SAME SORT OF WAY | 2094 | 142345 | 0032 | |
I DIDN'T PREACH WITHOUT DIRECTION | 2094 | 142345 | 0040 | |
MUNNY MY IRON'S TWITE TOLD PEASE PUT IT DOWN TO WARM | 2094 | 142345 | 0024 | |
THE FACT THAT IT WAS CHURNING DAY WAS ANOTHER REASON WHY IT WAS INCONVENIENT TO HAVE THE WHITTAWS AND WHY CONSEQUENTLY MISSUS POYSER SHOULD SCOLD MOLLY THE HOUSEMAID WITH UNUSUAL SEVERITY | 2094 | 142345 | 0014 | |
THIS MISSUS POYSER SAID BLUSHING AND BELIEVING THAT THE CAPTAIN WAS REALLY INTERESTED IN HER MILK PANS AND WOULD ADJUST HIS OPINION OF HER TO THE APPEARANCE OF HER DAIRY | 2094 | 142345 | 0059 |
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