 Strada, in one of his prolusions, 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...  Science - Page 5981899Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...has often told me, that he could not have supported an absence of three years without this expedient. Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account...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... | |
 | 1804 - 498 pages
...language. to my hand in a speculation of one of my predecessors '.. Strada, in the person of Lucretius, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between...by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such a virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when oneof the needles so touched began to... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...exhibited to my hand in a speculation of one of my predecessors. Strada, in the person of Lucretius, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 296 pages
...has often told me, that he could not have supported an absence of three years without this expedient. Strada, in one of his Prolusions*, gives an account...help of a certain load-stone, which had such virtue iu it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to move, tlie... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 384 pages
...supported an absence of three years without this expedient. Strada, in one of his prolusions (Pro. 6.), gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between...friends by the help of a certain loadstone, which had No. 241. THE SPECTATOR. 251 such virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 328 pages
...in a speculation of one of my predecessors. Strada, in the person of Lucretius, gives an account ef 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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...employed in the same kind of contemplation , and making equal returns of tenderness and aflectjoa. Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two fiiends, by the help of a certain loadstone, wh : ch had such a virtue in it, that if it touched two... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 472 pages
...exhibited to my hand in a speculation of one of my predecessors '. Strada, in the person of Lucretius, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 476 pages
...in a speculation of one of my predecessors '. Stradu, in the pefson of Lucretius, gives an aecouat 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... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 360 pages
...exhibited to my hand in a speculation of one of my predecessors*. Strada, in the person of Lucretius, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between...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... | |
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