 | 1848 - 530 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 tbem possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dialplate, inscribing it with the four-andtwenty... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 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...of them possessed of one of these needles, made a land of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 600 pages
...of the needles w 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 same manner as the hours of the day are marked upou the ordinary dial-plate ; they then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates, in such... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 594 pages
...the needles so touched began to move, the other, though at ever .-o great ii instance, moved ;it the same time, and in the same manner. He tells us that the two friends, being eacTljQtilnWn possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1850 - 624 pages
...other, though ut ever so great a distance, moved at the came time, and in the same manner. He tolls us that the two friends, being each of them possessed of one of these ncedlps, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same manner... | |
 | England - 1851 - 790 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 dialplate, inscribing it with four-and twenty letters, in the same manner that the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary... | |
 | England - 1851 - 776 pages
...other, though at never so great a distance, began to move at the same time, and in the same manner, lie tells us that the two friends, being each of them...needles, made a kind of dialplate, inscribing it with four-andtwenty letters, in the same mauner that the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate.... | |
 | Scotland - 1851 - 792 pages
...though at never so great a distance, began to move at the same time, and in the same manner. He tells ns that the two friends, being each of them possessed...needles, made a kind of dialplate, inscribing it with four-andtwenty letters, in the same manner that the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate.... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1852 - 782 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 dial plate, inscribing it with the fourand-twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1852 - 650 pages
...the needles so touched h?gan to move, the other, though at never so great n distance, moved at the same time and in the same manner. He tells us that the two friends li/ing each of them possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial plate, inscribing it with... | |
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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... 
