 ... 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
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 324 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 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
...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... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...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... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same ity of its duration, has, I think, been evinced to...demonstration. Secondly, From its passions and sentiments these plates in such a manner that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 548 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the da; are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate They then fixed one of the needles on each of tliese plates in such a manner that i could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...possessed of these needles, made a bind of dial-plate, inscribing it with twenty-four 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 point to any of... | |
 | Peter Progress (pseud.) - Clocks and watches, Electric - 1847 - 192 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Geology - 1847 - 486 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 458 pages
...of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with twentyfour letters — in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the...dialplate. 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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