 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 584 pages
...needles' made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with four andj twenty letters, in the same manner that the hours 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,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial plate, and inscribed 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 476 pages
...Addison, who copies this whole paragraph verbatim from himself. See Guard. No. 122. and notes ibidtm, are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then...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 (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of a dial-plate, inscribing it with the four and twenty stone. Itis wholly to this dreadful practice that we may ittribute a certain mave round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters. Upon their separating... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 472 pages
...Addison, who copies this whole paragraph verbatim from himself. See Guard. No. 122. and notes ibidem. are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then...in such a manner that it could move round without tinpediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 516 pages
...same manner that the hours 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...to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 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-tweuty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 360 pages
...as the hour* of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. Then they fixed one of the ne«dies on each of these plates in such a manner that it could...separating from one another into distant countries, zhey agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at a certain hour of the day, and... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 324 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 upon the ordinary dial-plate. Then they fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round... | |
 | 1826 - 316 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 upon the ordinary dial-plate. Then they fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round... | |
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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... 
