 I would propose that upon the lover's dial-plate there should be written not only the four-and-twenty letters, but several entire words which have always a place in passionate epistles ; as flames, darts, die, language, absence, Cupid, heart, eyes, hang,...  Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester - Page 167by Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 436 lehte
...place in passionate epistles, as flames, darts, die, language, absence, Cupid, heart, eyes, Jiang, drown, and the like. This would very much abridge...significant words with a single touch of the needle. been written, with this particular example of the " received tenets and commonly presumed truths "... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 444 lehte
...always a place in passionate epistles, as flames, darts, die, language, absence, Cupid, heart, eges, hang, drown, and the like. This would very much abridge...it would enable him to express the most useful and siguificant words with a single touch of the needle. been written, with this particular example of... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 lehte
...heart, eyes, hang, drown, and the like. This would very much abridge the lover's pains in this «ay 1 «ingle touch of the needle. — C. No.242.] FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1711. Creditor, ex medio quia res... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 478 lehte
...place in passionate epistles, as flames, darts, die, language, absence, Cupid, heart, eyes, being, drown, and the like. This would very much abridge...as it would enable him. to express the most useful atfd significant words with a single touch of the needle." When electricians had become acquainted... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 lehte
...drown, and the like. This would very much abridge the lover's Experiments in Electro-telegraphy. 331 pains in this way of writing a letter, as it would...significant words with a single touch of the needle." When electricians had become acquainted with the new force by friction, then the only known method... | |
 | George Crabb - 1863 - 546 lehte
...and thinking, according to the genuine impulse of the mind, arc thereby considerably contracted; 1 This would very much abridge the lover's pains in...writing a letter, as it would enable him to express the mort useful and Hignifkant words with a single touch of the needle.'— ADDISOS. (I remember several... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 lehte
...practice, I would propose that on the lover's dial-plate there should be written, not only the twenty-four letters, but several entire words, which have always...the most useful and significant words with a single turn of the needle." WONDERFUL CAVES. CAVES are mentioned very frequently in Holy Writ, and they were... | |
 | Invention - 1868 - 230 lehte
...several entire words which have always a place in passionate epistles ; as flames, darts, die, languish, absence, Cupid, heart, eyes, hang, drown — and the...the most useful and significant words with a single turn of the needle. NAVIGATION BEFORE THE COMPASS. BEFORE the invention of the mariner's compass, the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 434 lehte
...playful suggestion of having in place of the letters on the dials certain amatory words, which should abridge "the lover's pains in this way of writing...significant words with a single touch of the needle." But when Strada wrote, and Addison quoted, it never entered into the mind of either to expect its almost... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 lehte
...which have always a place in passionate epistles, as flames, darts, die, languish, absence, C^rid, heart, eyes, hang, drown, and the like. This would...significant words with a single touch of the needle. C. No. 243. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8. Formam quidem ipsam, Marco fill, et tanqnam faciera honcsti vidcs... | |
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