 | John Poole, ESQ. - 1838 - 114 pages
...you)— at about that time, Vauxhall Gardens, with all the people in them, went down ! Tom— Tom—I cannot have been deceived. I speak from the evidence...safety to themselves, down they all went about thirty feet—then, up they came again, and so on. There we sat quietly all the while in our wicker buck-basket,... | |
 | 1837 - 800 pages
...I speak from the evidence of my senses, founded upon repetition of the fact. Upon each of the three experimental trials of the powers of the balloon,...away from us with safety to themselves, down they all fell, about thirty feet — then, up they come again, and so on. There we sat quietly all the while,... | |
 | Household words - 1852 - 252 pages
...the people in them, went down I" What follows is excellent. " I cannot have been deceived," says he ; "I speak from the evidence of my senses, founded upon...little iron, and thus letting loose the rope by which tlie earth was suspended to us — like Atropos, cutting the connexion between us with a pair of shears... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1852 - 914 pages
...people in them, iccnt down !'' What follows is excellent. " I can not have been deceived," says he ; "I speak from the evidence of my senses, founded upon...— then, up they came again, and so on. There we Pit quietly all the while, in our wicker buck-bai tet, utterly unconscious of motion ; till, at lengtii,... | |
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I cannot have been deceived," says he ; "I speak from the evidence of my senses, founded upon repetition of the fact. Upon each of the three or four experimental trials of the powers of the balloon to enable the people to glide away from us with safety... 