 | 1838 - 472 pages
...and within what probable period ?" . i,, . .. , Utilitarian questioning and aeronautic answering. " This question is framed with such extraordinary precision,...of view, that you may be quite sure of coming down again—somehow: the second, affecting the man morally, is, that it must, in a greater or less degree,... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction VOL.XXXII - 1838 - 474 pages
...the chimney-tops, I am enabled to reply only, with anything approaching to certainty, first, that 1 do not know; secondly, that I cannot tell ; and thirdly,...ascent in a balloon, is, in a scientific point of ^iew, that yon may be quite sure of coming down again—somehow : the second, affecting the man morally,... | |
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This question is framed with such extraordinary precision, that, to one who could, there ought not to be the slightest difficulty in answering it. My observations, however, having been confined chiefly to the looking down on the chimney-tops, I am enabled... 