 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pages
...produce great tenuity of air, it is very easy to fall : therefore I suspect that from any height where life can be supported, there may be danger of too quick des,cent." " Nothing1, replied the artist, will ever be attempted, if all possible objeclions must be first overcome.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...produce great tenuity of air, it is very easy to fall : therefore I suspect, that from any height, where life can be supported, there may be danger of too...if all possible objections must be first overcome. I will try the first flight at my own hazard. I have considered the structure of all volant animals,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...great tenuity of air, it is very easy•to fall : therefore I suspect, that from any height, where life can be supported, there may be danger of too...if all possible objections must be first overcome. I will try the first flight at my own hazard. I have considered the structure of all volant animals,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 pages
...that from any height where life can be supported, there maybe danger of too quick descent." r •' Nothing," replied the artist, " will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be Jirst overcome. If you will favour my project, I will try the first flight at my own hazard. I have... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 pages
...produce great tenuity of air, it is very easy to fall : therefore I suspect, that from any height where life can be supported, there may be danger of too...structure of all volant animals, and find the folding uoniinuity of the bat's wings most easily accommodated to the human form. Upon this model I shall begin... | |
 | 1820 - 286 pages
...produce great tenuity of air, it is very easy to fall: therefore I suspect, that from any height, where life can be supported, there may be danger of too...volant animals, and find the folding continuity of the hat's wing most easily accommodated to the human form. Upon this model I shall begin my task to-morrow,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 462 pages
...produce great tenuity of air, it is very easy to fall : therefore I suspect, that from any height, where life can be supported, there may be danger of too...structure of all volant animals, and find the folding contimiity of the bat's wings most easily accommodated to the human form. Upon this model I shall begin... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...produce great tenuity of air, it is very easy to fall : therefore 1 suspect, that from any height, where life can be supported, there may be danger of too...Nothing," replied the artist, " will ever be attempted, if al! possible objections must be first overcome. If you will favour my project, I will try the first... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 482 pages
...very easy to fall : therefore I suspect, that from any height, where life can be supported, there.may be danger of too quick descent." ' • " Nothing,...first overcome. If you will favour- my project, I wilj try the first flight at my own hazard. I have cohside/red the structure of all volant animals,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...produce great tenuity of air, it is very easy to fall : therefore I suspect, that from any height, where he evils themselves; — but when Mrs Wadmari went roundabout he first overcome. If you will favour my project, I will try the first flight at my own hazard. I have... | |
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I have been told that respiration is difficult upon lofty mountains ; yet from these precipices, though so high as to produce great tenuity of air, it is very easy to fall ; therefore I suspect, that from any height where life can be supported, there... 
