 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 294 pages
...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 mrfrked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixe:! one of the needles on each of these plates in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...them possessed of one 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...in such a manner, that it could move round without im-- pediment, so as to touch any of the four-andtwenty letters. Upon their separating from one another... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 522 pages
...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 and twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...dial-plate, inscribing it with the four and twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day arc marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed...round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 328 pages
...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 up~ on the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates, in such... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 628 pages
...possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, iiv scribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upr on the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates, in such... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with four aud twenty letters, in the same manner that the hoars of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed their needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round without impediment,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...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 and twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries , they agreed... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 816 pages
...of a m.ignetical needle, made a kind of d:nlflate, infcribing it with the 24 letters, in the f.iine manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. Addifon, DIALTI-L32A, in pharmacy, an unjruent much ufcd as a rrfolvent ; fo called from ALTH^.A, of... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 366 pages
...the same manner that the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial plate ; they then fixed the needles on each of these plates, in such a manner,...round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters. Upon separating from one another, into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw... | |
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... 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 move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and... 
