 | 1850 - 602 Seiten
...acquires the 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... | |
 | 1866 - 824 Seiten
...changeful turnings tost, May touch the letter which shall pleaso thee most," ic. Addisou explains this as " a chimerical correspondence 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... | |
 | 1847 - 486 Seiten
...realized in one of the most extraordinary applications of modern science : — " Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence...between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, — which had such virtue in it that if touched by two several needles, when one of the needles so... | |
 | 458 Seiten
...realised in one of the most extraordinary applications of modern science. — ."Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence...between two friends, by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such virtue in it that, if touched by two several needles, when one of the needles so touched... | |
 | Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1847 - 192 Seiten
...realized in one of the most extraordinary applications of modern science : — ' Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence...between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, — which had such virtue in it that if touched by two several needles, when one of the needles so... | |
 | 1848 - 530 Seiten
...effected appears in the Spectator, No. 241, of December, 1711. "Strada," says Addison, "in one of his prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence...between two friends, by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, whet) one of the needles so touched... | |
 | Charles Maybury Archer - 1848 - 292 Seiten
...died in 1649. In his Prolusiones, a series of polished Latin essays upon rhetoric and literature, he gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends, by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such virtue in it that if touched by two several needles, when one of the needles so touched... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 Seiten
...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 load-stone, which had such a virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched... | |
 | R. Yorke Clarke - 1850 - 256 Seiten
...realized in one of the most extraordinary applications of modern science : — ' Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence...between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, — which had such virtue in it that if touched by two several needles, when one of the needles so... | |
 | 1850 - 594 Seiten
...carries us bock to the far-removed days of pagan Rome), STRADA, in LMtfpttVM^f LUCRETIUS, gives us 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 sevrul medlct, wlii'ii om: of the needles so... | |
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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... 
