 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...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 descent."...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, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...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 descent."...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 - English fiction - 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
...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 descent."...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 278 pages
...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 descent....animals, and find the folding continuity of the bat's wing most easily accommodated to the human form. Upon this model I shall begin my task to-morrow, and... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 286 pages
...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 descent....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
...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 descent."...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
...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 quick descent."...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 - English literature - 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
...tenuity of air, it is very easy to fall : therefore I suspect, that from any height, where life can be mselves; — 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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Nothing, replied the artist, will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. If you will favour my project, I will try the first flight at my own hazard. I have considered the structure of all volant animals, and find the folding... 
