 | R. Yorke Clarke - Railroads - 1850 - 256 pages
...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...round without impediment so as to touch any of the twentyfour letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...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. Up* It is a curious circumstance that public rumor should... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 594 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...manner that it could move round without Impediment, so u to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant... | |
 | University magazine - 1850 - 794 pages
...made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with twenty-four letters, iu the same manner as the hours uf the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They...each of these plates in such a manner, that it could more round without impediment, so .is to point to any of the twenty-four letters. Upon their separating... | |
 | 1850 - 890 pages
...kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with twenty-four letters, in the same manner as the hours of tho day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of those plates in such a manner, that it could move round without imjH*dinient, so as to point to any... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 600 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 upou the ordinary dial-plate ; they then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates, in such... | |
 | Scotland - 1851 - 792 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...to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon separating one from another, into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually... | |
 | England - 1851 - 776 pages
...needles, made a kind of dialplate, inscribing it with four-andtwenty letters, in the same mauner 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 mauner that it could move round without impediment,... | |
 | England - 1851 - 790 pages
...needles, made a kind of dialplate, inscribing it with four-and twenty letters, in 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 that it could move round without impediment,... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1852 - 782 pages
...possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial plate, inscribing it with the fourand-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... | |
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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... 
