Catalogue, 第 387 期

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1920
 

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第 ii 頁 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
第 iii 頁 - Nothing," replied the artist, "will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
第 iii 頁 - Sir, said he, you have seen but a small part of what the mechanic sciences can perform. I have been long of opinion, that instead of the tardy conveyance of ships and chariots, man might use the swifter migration of wings ; that the fields of air are open to knowledge, and that only ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground.
第 44 頁 - A treatise on the art of flying, by mechanical means; with a full explanation of the natural principles by which birds are enabled to fly: likewise, Instructions and plans for making a flying car with wings, in which a man may sit, and, by working a small lever, cause himself to ascend and soar through the air.
第 44 頁 - A treatise upon the art of flying by mechanical means, with a full explanation of the natural principles by which birds are enabled to fly; likewise instructions and plans for making a flying car with wings etc., Hull, 1810. Twelfth Annual Report of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain. 1877, Greenwich, pp. 27-69. В (1261Ы . Treatise upon the art of flying by mechanical means...
第 i 頁 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
第 i 頁 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
第 34 頁 - GULLIVER REVIVED; OR, THE VICE OF LYING PROPERLY EXPOSED : CONTAINING SINGULAR TRAVELS, CAMPAIGNS, VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES IN RUSSIA, THE CASPIAN SEA, ICELAND, TURKEY, EGYPT, GIBRALTAR, UP THE MEDITERRANEAN, ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, AND THROUGH THE CENTRE OF MOUNT .(ETNA, INTO THE SOUTH SEA.
第 7 頁 - Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester. With a Reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1663, and a Commentary thereon, by Henry Dircks.
第 30 頁 - LUNARDI (Vincent). AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST AERIAL VOYAGE IN ENGLAND, in a Series of Letters to his Guardian, Chevalier Gherardo Compagni, written under the Impressions of the various Events that affected the Undertaking.

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