 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1856 - 354 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, behig each of them possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 436 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 four-and-twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 444 pages
...move, the other, though at never so great n distance, moved at the same time and in the same mauner. Ho tells us that the two friends being each of them possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same mauner as the hours of the... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 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 beiag cat-h of them po>sessed of one of tbese needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - Books and reading - 1859 - 302 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...dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-andtwenty letters . . . they then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates, in such a manner that it could move... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1864 - 472 pages
...of the needles so touched began to move, tin other, though at never so great a distance moved at the same time, and in the same manner. He tells us, that the two friend being each of them possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 340 pages
...needles so touched began to move, the other, though never at 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 524 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 are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1876 - 536 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 are marked upon the ordinary dial... | |
 | Church work with the poor - 1879 - 446 pages
...of the needles so touched began to move, the other, though at never so great 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 twenty-four letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are... | |
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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... 
