 Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at a certain hour of the day, and to converse with one another by means of this their invention. Accordingly when they were...  Notes and Queries - Page 821852Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 516 pages
...touch any of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their...time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon his dialplate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 472 pages
...of the four and twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their...time appointed, and 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 476 pages
...of the four and twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their...time appointed, and 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their...time appointed, and 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... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their...at the time appointed, and 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 324 pages
...of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their...closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eyes upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 360 pages
...of the four-and.twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, zhey agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at a certain hour of the day, and to cooTerse with one another by means of this their invention. Accordingly, when they were some hundred... | |
 | 1826 - 316 pages
...the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their sepa. rating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their...himself up in his closet at the time appointed, and immediatly cast his eyes upon the dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...invention. Accordingly, when they were some hundreds of miles asunder, each of them shut himself np in his closet at the time appointed, and immediately...eye upon his dial plate ; if he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed the needle to every letter that formed the words he had occasion... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they lowing satire affects only some of the lower part...' In the beginning God made the souls of womankind dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter... | |
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