 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...immediately cast his eye up in 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...needle moving of itself to every letter which that of bis correspondent pointed at. * lab. ii. prol. 6. VOL. ill. T f By this means they talked together... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 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 words which he had occasion for, making a little * Lib. ii. prol. 6. pause at the end of every word or sentence, to avoid confusion. The friend in the... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 360 pages
...immediately cast his eyes 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 occasion tor, making a little pause at the end of every word or sentence to avoid confusion. The friend, in... | |
 | English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...immediately cast his eye upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thins; to his friend, he ion, a frieud in the meanwhile saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 pages
...immediately cast his eyes 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 - Bookbinding - 1837 - 548 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 even' letter which that of his correspondent... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...sentence, to avoid confusion. The friend who was ' listening' to the information thus conveyed, did so by his own 'sympathetic needle' moving of itself to every...letter which that of his correspondent pointed at. Arthur Young, who visited France in 1787-8-9, mentions, in his travels, the experiments of M. Lomopd,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...immediately cast his eye upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write anything 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... | |
 | 1850 - 890 pages
...to write anything to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter that formed the words that he had occasion for, making a little pause at the end of every word or sentence, to avoid confusion. Tho friend, in the meanwhile, saw his own sympathetic needle moving of lt«elf to every letter which... | |
 | England - 1851 - 790 pages
...appointed, and immediately looked at the dial-plate. If he had a mind to write anything to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter that formed the...word or sentence, to avoid confusion. The friend, at the same time, saw his own sympathetic needle moving itself to every letter which that of his correspondent... | |
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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 occasion for, making a little pause at the end of every word or sentence, to avoid confusion. The friend, in the... 
