 Another cause of the gaiety and sprightliness of the dwellers in garrets is probably the increase of that vertiginous motion, with which we are carried round by the diurnal revolution of the earth. The power of agitation upon the spirits is well known;...  The Works of Samuel Johnson... - Page 195by Samuel Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | 1751 - 228 pages
...Another caufe of the gaiety and fprightlinefs of the dwellers in garrets, is probably the encreafe of that vertiginous motion, with which we are carried...revolution of the earth. The power of agitation upon the fpirits is well known ; every man has felt his heart lightened in a rapid vehicle, or on a galloping... | |
 | Archibald Campbell - 1774 - 240 pages
...For the gaiety and fprightlinefs of dwellers, in elevated regions, is probably owing to the encreafe of that vertiginous motion with which we are carried...round by the diurnal revolution of the earth. The powers of agitation upon the fpirits are well known, and nothing is plainer, than that he who towers... | |
 | Archibald Campbell - 1783 - 238 pages
...For the gaiety and fprightlinefs of dwellers, in elevated regions, is probablyowing to the encreafe of that vertiginous motion with which we are carried...round by the diurnal revolution of the earth. The powers of agitation upon the fpirits are well known, and nothing is plainer, than that he who towers... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...Another canfe of the gaiety nnct fprightlinefs of the dwellers in garrets is probably the increafe of that vertiginous motion, with which we are carried...revolution of the earth. The power of agitation upon the fpii its is well known; every man has felt his heart lightened in a rapid vehicle, or on- a galloping... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 472 pages
...pneumatology. Another caufe of the gaiety and fprightlinefs of the dwellers in garrets is probably the increafe of that vertiginous motion, with which we are carried...revolution of the earth. The power of agitation upon the fpirits is well known ; every man has felt his heart lightened in a rapid vehicle, or on a galloping... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...dwellers in garrets is probably the increaie of that vertiginous motion, with which we are carried xound by the diurnal revolution of the earth. The power of agitation upon the fpirits is well known ; every man has felt his heart lightened in a rapid vehicle, or on a galloping... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...dwellers in garrets is probably the increafe of that vtrtiginous motion, with which we are carritd round by the diurnal revolution of the earth. The power of agitation upon , the ijiii irs is well known1; every man has felt his heart lightened in a rapid vehicle, or on a galloping... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...pneumatology. Another caufe of the gaiety and fprightlinefs of the dwellers in garrets is probably the increafe of that vertiginous motion, with which we are carried...revolution of the earth. The power of agitation upon the fpirits is well known; every man has felt his heart lightened in a rapid vehicle, or on a galloping... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...fprightlinefs of the dwellers in garrets is probably the increafe of that vertiginous motion, with which we ace carried round by the diurnal revolution of the earth. The power of agitation upon the fpirits is well known; every man has felt his heart lightened in a rapid vehicle, or on a galloping... | |
 | 1803 - 296 pages
...complete treatise of barometrical pneumatology. Another cause of the gaiety and sprightliness of the dwellers in garrets, is probably the increase of that...and nothing is plainer, than that he who towers to thefifth story, is whirled through more space by every circumrotatioiijthun another that grovels upon... | |
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