 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
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 444 pages
...of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their...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... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 436 pages
...of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their...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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at * se few particulars, to the end that the reader may...with ridicule. I must also observe with Longinus, tha opon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write any thin* to his friend, he directed Ыэ needle to... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - Books and reading - 1859 - 302 pages
...round without impediment . . . Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their...with one another by means of this their invention .... If one had a mind to write anything to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter that... | |
 | Invention - 1868 - 230 pages
...any of the twenty-four 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 anything to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 pages
...any of the twenty-four letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their...hour of the day, and to converse with one another by this their invention. Accordingly, when they were some hundred miles asunder, each of them shut himself... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 340 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 dial-plate : If he had a mind to write anything to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter... | |
 | 1873 - 176 pages
...any of the twenty-four 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 anything to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter... | |
 | Aaron Goodrich - America - 1874 - 426 pages
...the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into different countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their...day, and to converse with one another by means of their invention. " Accordingly, when they were some hundred miles asunder, each of them shut himself... | |
 | World - 1874 - 452 pages
...any of the twenty-four letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their...hour of the day, and to converse with one another by this their invention. Accordingly, when they were some hundred miles asunder, each of them shut himself... | |
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