 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 476 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. TO!, iii. No. 241.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 496 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...needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with four and twenty letters, in the same manner that the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...the needles so touched began to move, the other, though at never so great a distance, moved at the ut that care ; and yet we cannot entertain hopes of prod t»so friends being each of them possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of a dial-plate, inscribing... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...of 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...each of them possessed of one of these needles, made * See Spect. No. 241, by Addison, who copies this whole paragraph verbatim from himself. a kind of... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 360 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...inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the * See Spcct. No. 241, by Addison, who copies this whole paragraph verbatim from himself. (ante manner... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 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...possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial plate, and inscribed it with the four and twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...the arts of dialling or navigation to mention the true system or earth'» motion. Berkeley. Sirada tells us that the two friends, being each of them possessed of a magnética! needle, made a kind of dtal-piatc, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty lefcen, in... | |
 | English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...the needles so touched began to move, the other, though at never so great «distance, moved at the any that are tobe met with in 'the most exalted science;...sensual pleasure, •; , It has been observed by so four-andtwenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate.... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 pages
...though at never во 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 these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscrib ing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are markec... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...and in the sami manner. He tells us, that the two friend being each of them possessed of one of thes< Then sh da; are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate They then fixed one of the needles on each of tliese plates... | |
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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... 
