Strada, in one of his 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... The Mechanics' Magazine - Page 1551858Full view - About this book
| 1803 - 402 pages
...has often told me, that he could not have supported an absence of three years without this expedient. Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account...between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...has often told me, that he could not have supported an absence of three years without this expedient. Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account...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... | |
| 1804 - 498 pages
...language. to my 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 oneof the needles so touched... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...exhibited to my 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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 340 pages
...told me, that he could not have supported an absence of three years without this expedient. Slrada, in one of his Prolusions*, gives an account of a chimerical...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... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 384 pages
...supported an absence of three years without this expedient. Strada, in one of his prolusions (Pro. 6.), gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, which had No. 241. THE SPECTATOR. 251 such virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when... | |
| Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...told me, that he could not have supported an absence of three years without this expedient. Sir. lib, in one of his Prolusions *, gives an account of a...between two friends, by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 328 pages
...in a speculation of one of my predecessors. Strada, in the person of Lucretius, gives an account ef 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... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...employed in the same kind of contemplation , and making equal returns of tenderness and aflectjoa. Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two fiiends, by the help of a certain loadstone, wh : ch had such a virtue in it, that if it touched two... | |
| 1822 - 788 pages
...has often told me, that he could not have supported an absence of three years without this expedient. e that time thrown me very often in her way, and she...me which I do not understand. This barbarity lias which had such virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched... | |
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