 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 374 pages
...three or four words together, that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes. This work was repeated three...the square bits of wood moved upside down. Six hours a day the young students were employed in this labour; and the professor showed me several volumes... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pages
...three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes. This work was repeated three...students were employed in this labour ; and the professor showed me several volumes in large folio, alreadv collected, of broken sentences, which he intended... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes. This work was repeated three of four times, and, at every turn, the engine was so...students were employed in this labour ; and the professor showed me several volumes in large folio, already collected, of broken sentences, which he intended... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys who were scribes. This work was repeated three or four times, and at every turn the engine wu so contrived, that the words shifted into new places, a* the square bits cf wood moved upside down.... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 pages
...three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes. This work was repeated three...engine was so contrived, that the words shifted into hew places as the square bits of wood moved upside down." What a picture of a Logierian exhibition!... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes. This work was repeated three...the square bits of wood moved upside down. Six hours a day the young students were emp'oycd in tin's labour ; and the professor showed me several volumes... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes. This work was repeated three...the square bits of wood moved upside down. Six hours a day the young students were employed in this labour ; and the professor showed me several volumes... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...three or four words together that might make part of a sentence they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes. This work was repeated three...was so contrived, that the words shifted into new placea, as the square bits of wood moved upside down. Six hours a-day the young students were employed... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...together, that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were tcribes. This work was repeated three or four times; and at...the square bits of wood moved upside down. Six hours a day, the students were employed in this labor; and the professor showed me several volumes, in large... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes. 18. This work was repeated three or four times, and at...places, as the square bits of wood moved upside down. 19. Six hours a day the young students were employed in this labor; and the professor showed me several... | |
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He then commanded six and thirty of the lads to read the several lines softly as they appeared upon the frame ; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys who were scribes.... 
