 An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable,)...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 4351824Full view - About this book
 | Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...visage or countenance had not i кое, pray who would, or who could, wear spectacles then ? С pon this the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable) changed countenance with alarm. To speak of nothing else, the arrival of the English in her father's «laminions must h;ive appeared... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - Unitarianism - 1828 - 332 pages
...dictates of common sense. The Discontented Pendulum. From the Youth's Magazine, an English Publication. AN old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...fable) changed countenance with alarm; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course; the wheels remain14 ed motionless with surprise; the weights... | |
 | 1823 - 450 pages
...old clock that had stood for fifty years in & farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any i;ause of complaint, early one summer's morning before the...stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the rabie) changed countenance with alarm ; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course ; фе... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...Indians of the Missouri, hearrived at the Fort. LESSON CXLI. The discontented pendulum YOUTH'S MAGAZINE. AN old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...fable,) changed countenance with alarm; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise : the weights... | |
 | Theology - 1824 - 314 pages
...dictates of common sense. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. From the Youth's Magazine, an English publication. An old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...fable) changed countenance with alarm ; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the weights... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1824 - 624 pages
...varied character. The first that we shall take, is of a sportive cast, • THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. 1 An old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...summer's morning, before the family Was stirring, suddenNr stopped. ' Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable) changed countenance with... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...will be found by the readers of the Every-Day Book. This is the tale. ; THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. " An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...fable,) changed countenance with alarm ; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the weights... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...it will be found by the readers of me Every-Day Book. This is the tale. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. 8 05 \P g &v fable,)changed countenance with alarm ; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course ; the... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...it will be found by the readers of the Every-Day Book. This is the tale. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we'may credit the fable,) changed countenance with alarm ; the hands made a vain effort to continue... | |
 | Etiquette - 1826 - 320 pages
...Contributions of QO" — Vol. II. p. 9.) . AN old clock that had stood for fifty years in a far* mer's kitchen without giving its owner any cause of complaint,...family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial plate, (if we may credit the fable,) changed countenance with alarm : the hands made an ineffectual... | |
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