| Zachariah Allen - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...over the four-and-twenty letters. They agreed to separate from one another into distant countries, and withdraw themselves punctually into their closets...day, and to converse with one another by means of their invention. To write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle to each letter that formed... | |
| William John Johnston - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 288
...moved round without impediment so as to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed...and to converse with one another by means of this invention. Accordingly, when they were some hundred miles asunder, each of them shut himself up in... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their clossts at a certain hour of the day, and to converse with • V. Spectator 241, by Addison, who copies... | |
| Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw punctually into their closets at a certain hour of...himself up in his closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write anything to his friend, he... | |
| 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...move round without impediment, so as to point to any of the twenty-four letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed...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... | |
| William Thomas - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 154
...round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed...himself up in his closet at the time appointed, and cast his eye upon his dialplate. If he had a mind to write anything to his friend, he directed his... | |
| 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 798
...round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed...himself up in his closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon his dial -plate. If he had a mind to write anything to his friend, he... | |
| George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...gives ' (folio). impediment, so as to touch any of the four-andtwenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed...himself up in his closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon his dial-plate. If he had a mind to write anything to his friend, he... | |
| 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 950
...move round without impediment so as to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries they agreed...himself up in his closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon his dialplate. If he had a mind to write anything to his friend he directed... | |
| 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 784
...needle in the midst that could be made to point to any letter at will. "When they were some hundreds of miles asunder, each of them shut himself up in his closet, at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon the dial-plate. If he had a mind to write anything to his friend, he... | |
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