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'On one day I had three letters about the air-balloon: yours was far the best, and has enabled me to impart to my friends in the country an idea of this species of amusement.
But I hope to stand another English winter. Lichfield, Sept. 29. 'On one day I had three letters about the air-balloon : yours was far the best, and has enabled me to impart to my friends in the country an idea of this species of amusement.
My mother thinks there is not a husband at all, that there never was a husband. In fact my mother has very strong convictions on the subject. But my mother intends to visit her all the same." "She does? Lady Fulkeward has decided on that? Oh, well, in THAT case!" and Sir Chetwynd expanded his lower-chest air-balloon. "Of course, Lady Chetwynd Lyle can no longer have any scruples on the subject.
"They are tall, certainly," said Sir Chetwynd, surveying his paunch, which lolled comfortably, and as it were by itself, in front of him, like a kind of waistcoated air-balloon. "I grant you they are tall. That is, the majority of them are. But I have seen short men among them. The Khedive is not taller than I am. And the Egyptian face is very deceptive.
Air-balloon of Mongolfier Arts of weaving and spinning Arkwright's cotton mills Invention of letters, figures and crotchets Mrs. Delany's paper-garden Mechanism of a watch, and design for its case Time, hours, moments Transformation of Nebuchadnazer St. Anthony preaching to fish Sorceress Miss Crew's drawing Song to May Frost scene Discovery of the bark Moses striking the rock Dropsy Mr.
The mind is naturally gratified by a sense of elevation above the usual level of mankind, as persons ascending in an air-balloon become elevated, even amidst their dangers, in consequence of attaining a height impossible to others, and attracting the idle gaze of spectators on the ground.
'Well, sir, I should advise you to get your lawyer to read it. In my opinion, sir, you are not liable at all. 'Not liable! Frank felt as if his heart had turned suddenly from a round-shot to an air-balloon. 'Why not liable? 'You were a little slapdashy, if one might say so, in matters of business, sir, and perhaps you read that bond less carefully than I did.
He entirely ignored the two young English painters, turning a blind eyeglass to their salutations, and continuing his remarks as if he were alone in the bosom of his family; and with every second word he ripped another stitch out of the air-balloon of Desprez' vanity. By the time coffee was over the poor Doctor was as limp as a napkin. "Let us go and see the ruins," said Casimir.
They are so remarkable that many strangers come to gaze at them, in the summer time, from all parts of the world; they come over the high snow-covered mountains, they come from the deepest valleys, and they are obliged to ascend during many hours, and as they ascend, the valley sinks deeper and deeper, as though seen from an air-balloon.
The air-balloon carried him above the clouds, the diving-bell to the bottom of the sea. The thermometer gave him true measures of the variations of heat; the barometer, of the pressure of the air. The introduction of the balance imparted exactness to chemistry, it proved the indestructibility of matter.
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