 ... 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-twenty...  The Spectator - Page 2771729Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 628 pages
...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 a manner, thatit could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the... | |
 | 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
...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...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... | |
 | 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 - 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,... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...these needles, made a kind of a dial-plate, inscribing it with the four and twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the...dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates, in such a manner that it could mave round without impediment, so as to touch any of the... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 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 fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round without tinpediment, so as to touch any of the... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...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...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... | |
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