| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...immediately cast his 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...or sentence, to avoid confusion. The friend, in the mean while, saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 328 pages
...immediately cast his 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...or sentence, to avoid confusion. The friend, in the mean while, saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent... | |
| Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter that formed the words which be had occasion for, making a little pause at the end...or sentence, to avoid confusion. The friend, in the mean while, savr his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of hiĀ» correspondent... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...his eye upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend,he directed the neadle to every letter that formed the words which he had...or sentence, to avoid confusion. The friend, in the mean, while, saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1819 - 366 pages
...immediately cast his 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, or sentence, to avoid confusion : the friend at tlie same time saw his own sympathetic needle moving itself to every letter, which that of his correspondent... | |
| Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 584 pages
...dialplate. If he had a mind to write any tiling to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter which formed the words which he had occasion for, making a little pause at the end of each word or sentence, to avoid confusion : the friend, at the same time, saw his own sympathetic needle... | |
| Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed the needla to every letter that formed the words he had occasion for, making a little pause at the...or sentence, to avoid confusion. The friend in the mean while saw his sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 476 pages
...immediately cast his 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...or sentence to avoid confusion. The friend, in the mean while, saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent... | |
| Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...immediately cast his eye upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he ootThere are inf mean while, saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 472 pages
...immediately cast his 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...or sentence to avoid confusion. The friend, in the mean while, saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent... | |
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