 Hands made a vain effort to continue their course ; the Wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the Weights hung speechless. Each member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length the Dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of...  The Wesleyan juvenile offering - Page 46by Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1849Full view - About this book
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 480 pages
...vain effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise : the weights hung speechless : each member felt disposed to lay the...inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wjieels, weights, with one voice, protested their innocence. But now a faint tick was heard below from... | |
 | 1824
...ineffectual effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the weights hung speechless ; each member felt disposed to lay the...with one voice, protested their innocence. But now a taint tick was heard below, from the pendulum, who thus spoke : i «WHT«J ' " I confess myself to... | |
 | Theology - 1824
...vain effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the weights hung speechless ; each 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, when hands, wheels, weights,... | |
 | William Hone - 1826
...vain effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the weights hung speechless ; each member felt disposed to lay the...one voice protested their innocence. But now a faint lick was heard below from the pendulum, who thus spoke : — " I confess myself to be the sole cause... | |
 | Thomas J. Lee - Readers - 1827 - 179 pages
...vain effort to continue their course : the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the weights hung speechless ; each member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. 3. At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wheels... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1831 - 226 pages
...the hours. I Vain, ineffectual. Continue, keep on. Wheels, machinery within, which moves the handi. each 'member felt 'disposed to lay the blame on the...the cause of the 'stagnation, when hands, wheels, and weights, with one voice, 'protested their innocence. But now a faint tick was heard below from... | |
 | American periodicals - 1825
...motionless with surprise; the weights hung speechless ; each inemherfclt disposed to lay the iilumr on the others. At length the dial instituted a formal...stagnation ; when hands, wheels, weights, with one voice piotested their innocence. But now a faint tick was heard below, from the pendulum, who thus spoke... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831
...ineffectual effort to continue their course, the wheels remained motionless with surprise, the weights hung speechless, each member felt disposed to lay the blame...others. At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry into the cause of the stop ; when hands, wheels, weights, with one voice, protested their, innocence.... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 304 pages
...vain effort to continue their course; the wheels remained motionless with surprise; the weights hung speechless; each member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length the 10 dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wheels, weights,... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1837
...vain effort to continue their course : the wheels remained motionless with surprise : the weights hung speechless : each member felt disposed to lay the...stagnation, when hands, wheels, weights, with one voice,protested their innocence. 2. But now a faint tick was heard below from the pendulum, who thus... | |
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