 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - English essays - 1714 - 382 pages
...began to move, the other, though at never fo great a distance, moved at the fame time, and in the fame manner. He tells us, that the two Friends, being each of them pofleft of one of theft Needles, made a kind of Dial-plate, infcribing it with the four and twenty... | |
 | 1739 - 336 pages
...began to move, the other, tho' at never fo great a Diftance, moved at the fame Time, and in the fame Manner. He tells us, that the two Friends, being each of them poffefied of one of thefe Needles, made a kind of a Dial-plate, infcribing it with the four and twenty... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1744 - 498 pages
...the other, though at never fo great a Di" ftance, began to move at the fame Time, and in the fame " Manner. He tells us, that the two Friends being each of " them poflefl of one of thcfe Needles, made a Kind of Dial^ " Plate, infcribing it with four and twenty Letters,... | |
 | 1786 - 694 pages
...began to move, the other, though at never lo great a dilhnce, moved at the fame time, and in the farce manner. He tells us, that the two friends, being each of them pofleiTed of one of thefe needles, made a kind of a dial-plate, infcribing it with the four and twenty... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 402 pages
...the needles so touched began to move, the other, though at never so great a distance, moved at the same time, and in the same manner. He tells us, that...possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of a dial-plate, inscribing it with the four and twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...of the needles so touched began to move, the other, though at ever so great a distance, moved at the same time, and in the same manner. He tells us that...dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, jn the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...the needles so touched began to move, the other, though at never so great a distance, moved at the same time, and in the same manner. He tells us, that...made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four ami-twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate.... | |
 | 1804 - 498 pages
...though at never so great a distance, moved at the same time, and in the same manner. He tells us, that two friends, being each of them possessed of one of...made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four and twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 294 pages
...the needles so touched began to move, the other, though at never so great a distance, moved at the same time, and in the same manner. He tells us, that...letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are mrfrked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixe:! one of the needles on each of these plates in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 340 pages
...the other, though at never so great a distance, moved at the same time, and in the same manner, lie tells us, that the two friends being each of them...of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, iiucribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in fhe same manner as the hours of the day are marked... | |
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Lucretius, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such a virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to move, the other, though... 
