 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...  The Guardian - Seite 1651804Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 444 Seiten
...mauner that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant...closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon his dial plate ; if he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 436 Seiten
...manner that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant...closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon his dial plate ; if he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 Seiten
...manner, that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the fourand-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant...withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at * certain hour of the day, and to converse with one another by means of this their invention. Accordingly... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - 1859 - 284 Seiten
...needles on each of these plates, in such a manner that it could move round without impediment . . . Upon their separating from one another into distant...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 Seiten
...a manner that it could move round without impediment so as to touch any of the twenty-four letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant...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 directed his needle to... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 Seiten
...manner that it could move round without impediment, so as to point to any of the twenty-four letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant...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 Seiten
...that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters. Upon separating from one another into distant countries,...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 directed his needle... | |
 | 1873 - 176 Seiten
...such manner that it could move round without impediment so as to touch any of the twenty-four letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant...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 directed his needle to... | |
 | World - 1874 - 452 Seiten
...manner that it could move round without impediment, so as to point to any of the twenty-four letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant...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... | |
 | Aaron Goodrich - 1874 - 426 Seiten
...to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another into different countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually...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... | |
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