... letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at a certain hour of the day, and to converse with one another by means of this their invention. Accordingly,... Science - Page 5981899Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1803 - 402 pages
...such a manner, that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into...eye upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter that formed the word which he had occasion... | |
| 1804 - 498 pages
...manner that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty-letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant...closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eyes upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...at a certain hour of the day, and to converse with one another by means of this their inT vention. Accordingly, when they were some hundred miles asunder,...eye upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter that formed the words which he had... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 294 pages
...upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixe:! one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner, that it could move round without impediment,...eye upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter that formed the words which he had... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 340 pages
...such a manner, that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four-and twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into...eye upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter that formed the words which he had... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 370 pages
...himself. ing from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually mto their closets at a certain hour of the day, and to...closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eyes upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed hii needle... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 358 pages
...cUets at a certain hour of the day, and to converse with one another hy means of this their mvention. Accordingly, when they were some hundred miles asunder,...closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eyes upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 384 pages
...upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates, in such a manner, that it could move round without impediment,...eye upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter that formed the -words which he had... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...the needles on each of these plates in such a manner, that it could move round without im-- pediment, so as to touch any of the four-andtwenty letters....eye upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his * Lib. ii. prol. 6. voL. Iv. .U needle to every letter that... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 pages
...from one * See Spect. No. 241, by Addison, who copies thw •whole paragraph, verbatim from himself. . another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw...closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eyes upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle... | |
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