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Title: The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany
Year: 1789 (1780s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist & J. Trenchard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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g on which almostthe whole weight falls, must be o-yerpowered; or, if it be equal tqthe weight sustained, it must cease;o act as a spring vi^hen only charg-ed with a fourth part of the wholeweight. The new invented springs,before mentioned, are altogetherfree from these inconveniencies, aseach spring, in every position, Briust:necessarily, bear an equal propor-tion of weighf; this will appear-very evident from the following ob-servations : if the whole weightwhich the two springs, A and B,are capable of sustaining, be su-spended on the shackle ^ of thqspring B, the spring A will havean equal proportion of the weight,and be uniformly wound up withthe spring B ; and if by any acci-dent one spring should fail, the o-ther would support the body of thecarriage, without any alteration inthe position of it; or, should bothsprings happen to fail, the shacklesF, F, with the braces, would restupon the curved supporters E, E 5and the body of the carriage remainperfectly upright, s^fe and secure.
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The Rhapsodist. 597 N, B. The play of the springs or contracting the arms D, D, and Js easily regulated for any weight, I, I, to which the springs and jand the temper or elastic power of shackles are connected,them regulated, by lengthening For the Columbian Magazine. The Rhapsqdist, No. III. JT was but two days since, thatthe letter mentioned in my se-cond number, was presented to me.In vain the .Rhapsodist announcesto his Readers, that he hates theintrusion of a visitor. Nothingbut the rights of the strictestfriendship (for the circle of myfriends is numctouj, though, mydisposition is averse to friendship)will entitle any one to demand aprivate audience from him. Inspite of my pretensions to unlimit- ed sovereignty over my oun personand actions. In spite of my strongoriginal propensity to silence andreserve, 1 am, in some measure,compelled to pay obedience, thogrudgingly, to the laws of society.Thus, indeed, it fares with everyone vrho aspires to the fame of sln- gularity. He, who a

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