 Yet by some such fortuitous tuitous liquefaction was mankind taught to procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might extend the sight of the philosopher...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 57by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society (Pittsfield, Mass.) - 1894 - 918 pages
...as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world? Yet by some such fortuitous liquefaction was mankind taught to procure a body...and at another, with the endless subordination of the animal life, and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decay of nature, and succor... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Biser - 1899 - 192 pages
...would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world ? Yet. by some such fortuitous liquefaction was mankind taught to procure a body...once in a high degree solid and transparent. which would admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might extend the sight... | |
 | William Kurtz Wimsatt - 1954 - 324 pages
...Samuel Johnson, in one of which we find a description of a substance which is not immediately named, "a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent,...the philosopher to new ranges of existence . . . and . . . might supply the decays of nature, and succour old age with subsidiary sight."7 Johnson has a... | |
 | Alan Macfarlane, Gerry Martin - 2002 - 284 pages
...would, in time, constitute a great part of the happiness of the world. Yet by some such fortuitous liquefaction was mankind taught to procure a body...charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life; and, what is of yet... | |
 | 1841 - 520 pages
...would, m time, constitute a great part of the happiness of the world ? Yet, by some such fortuitous liquefaction was mankind taught to procure a body,...charm him, at one time, with the unbounded extent of material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life ; and, what is of yet... | |
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