The four principal points are called cardinal points.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
The cardinal expressed strong approval of trade unions, and of State intervention to fix the hours of labour to eight hours for miners and ten hours for less arduous trades, and he declared his conviction that no pacific solution of the conflict between capital and labour was possible till the State regulated profits and wages according to some fixed scale which should be subject to revision every three or four years, and by which all free contracts between employers and employed should be adjusted.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
It seems that the officials at the post-office know what is expected of them when the nephew of a cardinal wishes to carry off the bride of a foreigner.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse