 You, sir, whose curiosity is so extensive, will easily conceive with what pleasure a philosopher, furnished with wings and hovering in the sky, would see the earth and all its inhabitants rolling beneath him and presenting to him successively, by its...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 319by Samuel Johnson - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...extensive, will easily conceive with what pleaT sure a philosopher, furnished with wings, and hovering jn the sky, would see the earth, and all its inhabitants,...moving scene of land and ocean, cities and deserts! To survey with equal security the marts of trade, and the fields of battle; mountains infested by barbarians,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...3 by its diurnal motion, all the countries within the same parallel. Sow must it amuse the pendant spectator to see the moving scene of land and ocean, cities and deserts ! To survey with equal security the marts of trade, and the fields of battle; mountains infested by barbarians,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...effect. You, Sir, whose curiosity is so extensive, will easily conceive with what pleasure a philosopher, furnished with wings, and hovering in the sky, would see the earth, aud all its inhabitants, rolling beneath him, and presenting to him successively, by its dinrnal motion,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pages
...effect. You, sir, whose curiosity is so extensive, will easily conceive with what pleasure a philosopher, furnished with wings, and hovering in the sky, would...moving scene of land and ocean, cities and deserts ! to survey with equal security the marts of trade, and the fields of battle ; mountains infested by barbarians,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...effect. You, Sir, whose curiosity is so extensive, will easily conceive with what pleasure a philosopher, furnished with wings, and hovering in the sky, would...scene of land and ocean, cities and deserts \ To. survey with equal security the marts of trade, and the fields of battle ; mountains infested by barbarians,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...effect. You, Sir, whose curiosity is so extensive, will easily conceive with what pleasure a philosopher, furnished with wings, and hovering in the sky, would...countries within the same parallel. How must it amuse the pendant spectator to see the moving scene of land and ocean, cities and deserts ! To survey with equal... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...effect. You, Sir, whose curiosity is so extensive, will easily conceive with what pleasure a philosopher, furnished with wings, and hovering in the sky, would...countries within the same parallel. How must it amuse the pendant spectator to see the moving scene of land and ocean, cities and deserts ! To survey with equal... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 pages
...effect. You, sir, whose curiosity is so extensive, will easily conceive with what pleasure a philosopher, furnished with wings, and hovering in the sky, would...rolling beneath him, and presenting to him successively, '>y its diurnal motion, all the countries within the same parallel. How must it amuse the pendant spectator... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 pages
...whose curiosity is so extensive, will easily conceive with what pleasure a philosopher, furnished wilh wings, and hovering in the sky, would see the earth,...parallel. How must it amuse the pendent spectator to sea the moving scene of land and ocean, cities aud deserts ! To survey with equal security the marts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 250 pages
...effect. You, sir, whose curiosity is so extensive, will easily conceive with what pleasure a philosopher, furnished with wings, and hovering in the sky, would...parallel. How must it amuse the pendent spectator to r.ee the moving scene of land and ocean, cities and deserts ! To survey with equal security the marts... | |
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