Prolusions*, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain load-stone, which had such virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to move, the other, though... Routledge's every boy's annual - Sivu 308tekijä(t) edmund rouledge - 1883Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| 1836 - 932 sivua
...an absence of three years without this expedient Strada, in one of his Prolusions^ gives an account tnl dart Sticks in liia side, and rankles in hia heart, Dryden. t Lib. ii. pro). 0. if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to... | |
| Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 sivua
...hand in a specoation of one of my predecessors.* Strada, in the person of Lucretius, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends,...by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such a virtue in it, that if it touched •.wo several needles, when one of the needles so * See Spectator,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 sivua
...hand in a speculation of one of my predecessors. Strada, in the person of Lucretius, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends,...by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such a virtue in it, that, if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 sivua
...expedient. Strada, in one of his Prolusions, t gives an account of a chimerical correspondence be- « tween two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such virtue in it, that t Lib. ii. proi. 6, 350 No. 242.] 351 if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 sivua
...absence of three years without this expedient Strada, in one of his Prolusions, J gives an account acrifices were carried up to heaven by the winds; but that it was I Lib 11. proL 0. if it touched two several needles, when on' of the needles so touched began to move,... | |
| 1850 - 602 sivua
...character of cold reality in another. Strada, in one of his prolusions, says Addison, " Gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends...by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such a virtue in it, that if touched by two several needles, when one of these needles so touched began... | |
| 1866 - 822 sivua
...changeful turnings tost, May touch the letter which shall pleaso thee most," ic. Addisou explains this as " a chimerical correspondence between two friends by...great a distance, moved at the same time and in the saiuo manner, over a kind of dial plate inscribed with the twenty-four letters. By this mean they talked... | |
| Henry Allon - 1866 - 606 sivua
...half agio (Tuesday, July 28th, 1713), there is an account cited of a ' Chimerical Corres-- pondence between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone which, had such a virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, the other,, though at ever so groat a distance,... | |
| 458 sivua
...extraordinary applications of modern science. — ."Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends,...certain loadstone, which had such virtue in it that, if touched by two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to move, the ;other, though... | |
| 1847 - 486 sivua
...extraordinary applications of modern science : — " Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends...loadstone, — which had such virtue in it that if touched by two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to move, the other, though... | |
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