 | 1859 - 736 pages
...and Hall's translation. " The experiment, however, to which I owed my reputation was one inspired bv that fantastic god to whom Pascal attributes all the...elder brother's eyes, and made him guess the objects lie touched, and when the latter happened to guess right, they changed places. This simple game suggested... | |
 | Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin - 1860 - 448 pages
...The audience were amused by my jests, and the perusal of the paper between the acts gave me a little time to make my preparations. The experiment, however,...me the most complicated idea that ever crossed my mind. Pursued by the notion, I ran and shut myself up in my workroom, and was fortunately in that happy... | |
 | Albert Allis Hopkins - 1901 - 588 pages
...system under the following circumstances: " My two children," he says, in his memoirs, "were playing oue day in the drawing-room at a game they had invented...me the most complicated idea that ever crossed my mind — ' second sight.' " On the 12th of February, 1846, I printed in the center of my bill the following... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1907 - 314 pages
...fantastic god to whom Pascal attributes all the discoveries of this sublunary world: it was chance that led me straight to the invention of second sight....me the most complicated idea that ever crossed my mind. Pursued by the notion, I ran and shut myself up in my workroom, and was fortunately in that happy... | |
 | Harry Houdini - 1908 - 386 pages
...the form of an inspiration. I quote directly from the American edition of his "Memoirs," page 255: "My two children were playing one day in the drawingroom...elder brother's eyes and made him guess the objects that he touched, and when the latter happened to guess right they changed places. This simple game... | |
 | Jean Robert-Houdin - 2006 - 86 pages
...fantastic god to whom Pascal attributes all the discoveries of this sublunary world: it was chance that led me straight to the invention of second sight....me the most complicated idea that ever crossed my mind. Pursued by the notion, I ran and shut myself up, in my workroom, and was fortunately in that... | |
 | M. Robert-Houdin - 2006 - 70 pages
...fantastic god to whom Pascal attributes all the discoveries of this sublunary world: it was chance that led me straight to the invention of second sight....me the most complicated idea that ever crossed my mind. Pursued by the notion, I ran and shut myself up, in my workroom, and was fortunately in that... | |
 | M. Robert-Houdin - 2006 - 94 pages
...fantastic god to whom Pascal attributes all the discoveries of this sublunary world: it was chance that led me straight to the invention of second sight....me the most complicated idea that ever crossed my mind. Pursued by the notion, I ran and shut myself up, in my workroom, and was fortunately in that... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 2007 - 373 pages
...fantastic god to whom Pascal attributes all the discoveries of this sublunary world: it was chance that led me straight to the invention of second sight,...me the most complicated idea that ever crossed my mind. Pursued by the notion, I ran and shut myself up in my workroom, and was fortunately in that happy... | |
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My two children were playing one day in the drawingroom at a game they had invented for their own amusement. The younger had bandaged his elder brother's eyes, and made him guess the objects he touched, and when the latter happened to guess right, they... 