 ... with it; but from which a communication is secretly conveyed to a hammer, that regularly strikes the hour, and repeats the same at pleasure, by touching a diamond button fixed to the clock below. At the feet of the lady is a...  The Scots Magazine - Page 5641784Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 730 pages
...is fecretly conveyed to a hammer that regularly (Irikes the hour, and repeats the fame at pleafure, by touching a diamond button fixed to the clock below....fpiral fprings, the wings and feathers of which are fet witli ftones of various colours, and appear as if flying away with the chariot, which, from another... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1767 - 632 pages
...is fecretly conveyed to a hammer, that regularly ftrikes the hour, and repeats the fame at pleafure, by touching a diamond button fixed to the clock below....fprings ; the wings and feathers of which are fet with nones of various colours, and appear as if flying away with the chariot^ which, from another fecret... | |
 | Europe - 1784 - 506 pages
...is fceretly conveyed to a hammer that regularly ftrikes the hour j and repeats the fame at plcafure, by touching a diamond button fixed to the clock below. At the feet of the Ia3y is a gold dog; before which, from the point of the chariot, are two birds fixed on fpiral fprings,... | |
 | History - 1793 - 586 pages
...at p'eafare, by touching а tí ¡ame ' button fixed to the clock belcv. At the feet of a lady is л gold dog ; before which, from • the point of the chariot, are two birds fixed on fpiral iprings ; Che wings and feathers of which are fet with ¡tones of various couurs, and appears as if... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1793 - 620 pages
...diamond button fixed to the clock fcelow. At tht feet c." a iady is a gold dug; befbic which, frotn the point of the chariot, are two birds fixed on fpiral fprings ; die wing- and feathers of which are fet with Hones of various colours, and appears at if flying away... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...is ftcretly conveyed to a hammer, that regularly iliikcs the hour, and repeats the fame at pleafure, by touching a diamond button fixed to the clock below. At the feet of the lady is a gold dog; btfove which from the point of the chariot are two birds fixed on (piral fprings; the wings and feathers... | |
 | History - 1803 - 582 pages
...pleafure, hy touching л diamond button fixed to the clock below. At the feet ot a lady ¡J a. gold dug; before which, from the point of the chariot, are two birds fixed on fpiral fprings; the xv ing« and feathers of which arc fet with ííones of various colours, л 'id appears as if tbiiig... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mechanical engineering - 1806 - 590 pages
...is fecretly conveyed to a hammer, thai regularly ftrikes the hour, and repeats the fame at pleafure, by touching a diamond button fixed to the clock below. At the feet of the lady is a golden dog. As the fubject of clock and watch making is very important, we think the following copious... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...fecretly coaveyed to a hammer, that regularly ftrikes the hour, »nd repeats the fame at pleafure, by touching a diamond button fixed to the clock below....fprings ; the wings and feathers of which are fet with flones of various colours, and appear as if flying away with the chariot, which, from another fecret... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...ftrikes the '.our, and repeats the fame at pleafure, by touching a diamond button fixed to the c)ock below. At the feet of the lady is a gold dog ; before...fprings ; the wings and feathers of which are fet with ftones'of various colour", and appear as if flying away with the ch'ariot, which, from another fecret... | |
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