 | 1867 - 964 pages
...visage or countenance had not i кое, pray who would, or who could, wear spectacles then ? С pon this the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable) changed countenance with alarm. To speak of nothing else, the arrival of the English in her father's «laminions must h;ive appeared... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1828 - 332 pages
...any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable)...a vain effort to continue their course; the wheels remain14 ed motionless with surprise; the weights hung speechless; each member felt disposed to lay... | |
 | 1823 - 450 pages
...before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the rabie) changed countenance with alarm ; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course ; фе wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the weight« hung speechless ; each member felt disposed... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate, (if we may credit the fable,)...member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wjieels,... | |
 | 1824 - 314 pages
...any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable)...member felt disposed to lay the blame on the; others, At length the dial instituted a 28 Christian Repository. formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1824 - 624 pages
...cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family Was stirring, suddenNr stopped. ' Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable) changed countenance with alarm ; the hands made an ineffectual effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the... | |
 | 1824 - 602 pages
...cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. ' Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable) changed countenance with alarm ; the hands made an ineffectual effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. it, which when rent The earth ¡з covered thick with...the 18lh of June, 1817, the Strand- for the public At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wheels,... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 892 pages
...summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we'may credit the fable,) changed countenance with alarm...member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wheels,... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable,)changed T 0{J אJ+RhӚ ( n ? B uA 3 C U _ +]g4R T U t c ҽ At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wheels,... | |
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An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable,)... 
