| Aaron Goodrich - 1874 - 426 páginas
...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 day...letters. Upon their separating from one another into different countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at a certain... | |
| World - 1874 - 452 páginas
...each of them possessed 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...that it could move round without impediment, so as to point to any of the twenty-four letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1876 - 536 páginas
...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 day are marked upon the ordinary dial plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could... | |
| William Tegg - 1878 - 346 páginas
...touched began to move, the other, though at never so great a distance, moved at the same time, and in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked...separating from one another into distant countries, they agree to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at a certain hour of the day, and to converse... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1879 - 588 páginas
...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 day...round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four-aud-twenty letters. . . . By this means they talked together across a whole continent, anil conveyed... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1879 - 590 páginas
...in. the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then iixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such...so as to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters. . . . By this means they talked together across a whole continent, and conveyed their thoughts to one... | |
| 1879 - 446 páginas
...of them 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 marked upon the ordinary dial plate. They then fixed one of the needles in each of these plates, in such a manner that it could... | |
| William John Johnston - 1880 - 288 páginas
...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 day...each of these plates in such a manner that it could be moved round without impediment so as to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1880 - 532 páginas
...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 day are marked upon the ordinary dial plate. They then fixed one of the needles on earch of these plates in such a manner that it could... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1880 - 618 páginas
...dial-plate. They then fixed one of the nee1 Lib. II. pro!. 6. See the Gunriian, Nos. 115, 119, 122.— 0 dies on each of these plates in such a manner, that it could mov« round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four-andtwenty letters. Upon their separating... | |
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