 ... 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 - 1856 - 536 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 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. They then fixed one of the nee1 Lib. IL prol. 6. See the Guardian, NOB. 115, 119, 122.— C. dlea on each of these plates in such... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the fbur-and-twentv letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They tfien fixed one of the needies on each of these plates in such a manner, that it could move round without... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...inscribing it with four-undI twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of I the day arc marked upou the ordinary dial-plate. ! They then fixed one of the needles on each ot* the«* ' plates in such a manner, that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 436 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. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1864 - 472 pages
...kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same manner as the liours 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... | |
 | Invention - 1868 - 230 pages
...of these needles, made a kind of dialplate, 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... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 pages
...possessed 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 point to any of... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 340 pages
...needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with four and twenty letters, in the same manner that the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate : They then fixed the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round without impediment, so... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 524 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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