 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 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...the two friends being each of them possessed of one these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 384 pages
...tells us, that the two friends, being each of them 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 day arc marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 628 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...of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, iiv scribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 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 - 1811 - 328 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 the two Mends, being each of them possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...never so great a distance, began to move at the same tinie, and in the same manner. He tells us, thai the two friends being each of them possessed of one...needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with four aud twenty letters, in the same manner that the hoars of the day are marked upon the ordinary... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...t!:e 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 the two friends , OF THE SPECTATOR. l53 bemg each of them possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 584 pages
...needles so touched began to move, the other, though at never so great a distance, began to move at the same time, and in the same manner. He tells us, that the two fiicnds being each of them possessed of one of these needles' made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 366 pages
...needles to touched began to move, the other, though at never so great a distance, began to move at the same time, and in the same manner. He tells us, that the twu friends being each of them possest of one of these needles, made a kind of dial plate, inscribing... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 472 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 and twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day ' See Spect. vol. iii. No. 241.... | |
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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... 
