 fishes have the water, in which yet beasts can swim by nature, and men by art. He that can swim needs not despair to fly : to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to...  Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia - Strona 17autor: Samuel Johnson - 1886 - Liczba stron: 157Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 230
...that you now tell me rather what you wish, than what you know. Every animal has his element assigned him ; the birds have the air, and man and beasts the...can swim by nature, and men by art. He that can swim need not despair to fly : N» Swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Liczba stron: 194
...that you. now tell me rather what you wish^ than what you know. Every animal has his element assigned him; the birds have the air, and man and beasts the...can swim by nature, and men by art. He that can swim need not despair to fly : to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - Liczba stron: 250
...that you now tell me rather what you wish, than what you know. Every animal has his element assigned him ; the birds have the air, and man and beasts the...mechanist, " fishes have the water, in which yet beasts can switn by nature, and men by art. He that can swim needs not despair to fly : to swim is to fly in a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Liczba stron: 428
...that you now tell me rather wh&t you wish, than what you know. Every animal has his element assigned him ; the birds have the air, and man and beasts the...replied the mechanist, " fishes have the water, in whiclvyet beasts can swim by nature, and men by art. He that can swim needs not despair to fly : to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - Liczba stron: 272
...that you now tell me rather what you wish, than what you know. Every animal has his element assigned him ; the birds have the air, and man and beasts the earth." "So," replied ihe mechanist, '•' fishes have the water, iu which yet beasts can swim by nature, and men by art.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - Liczba stron: 484
...that you now tell me rather what you wish, than what you know. Every animal has his element assigned him ;' the birds have the air, and man and beasts...is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion empower of resistance to the different density of mater through which we are to pass. You will be necessarily... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - Liczba stron: 194
...that you now tell me rather what you wisli than what you know. Every animal has his element assigned him ; the birds have the air, and man and beasts the...grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. Wo are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Liczba stron: 466
...thftt you now tell me rather what you wish, than what you know. Every animal has his element assigned him; the birds have the air, and man and! beasts the earth." ",So," replied the mechanist, "fish«8 hare the water, in which yet beasts can swim by nature, and1 men by art. He that can swim... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - Liczba stron: 762
...that you now tell me rather what you wish than what you know. Every animal has his element assigned y father had to say to my Lord of Verulam's opiates,...shall read, — but not to-day, — or to-morrow: man by art. He that can swim needs not despair to fly : to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - Liczba stron: 768
...that you now tell me rather what you wish than what you know. Every animal has his element assigned him ; the birds have the air, and man and beasts the...water, in which yet beasts can swim by nature, and man by art. He that can swim needs not despair to fly : to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to... | |
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