| John Wilkins - Cryptography - 1802 - 294 pages
...serve : yet I do seriously, and upon good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying-chariot ; in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it,...with food for their viaticum* and commodities for traffic. It is not the bigness of any thing in this kind, that can hinder its motion, if the motive... | |
| John Wilkins - Cryptography - 1802 - 292 pages
...will serve : yet I do seriously, and upon good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying-chariot; in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it,...him through the air. And this perhaps might be made Isrge enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum, and commodities... | |
| John Wilkins - Cryptography - 1802 - 292 pages
...for a man to fly himself; it being easy from the same grounds, to frame an instrument wherein any one may sit, and give such a motion unto it, as shall convey him aloft through the air ; than which there is not any imaginable invention, that could prove of greater... | |
| Biography - 1817 - 552 pages
...chariot ; in which a man may sit, and give such a motion into it, as shall convey him through the aire. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with foode for their viaticum, and commodities for traffique. -It is not the bignesse of any thing in this... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 556 pages
...man may sit, and give such a motion into it, as shall convey him through the aire. And this perbaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with foode for their viaticum, and commodities for traffique. It is not the hignesse of any thing in this... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1823 - 402 pages
...will serve, yet I do seriously, and upon good grounds, affirm it possible to make a flying chariot, in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it,...with food for their viaticum, and commodities for traffic. It is not the bigness of any thing in this kind, that can hinder its motion, if the motive... | |
| Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...will serve, yet I do seriously, and upon good grounds, affirm it possible to make a flying chariot, in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it,...with food for their viaticum, and commodities for traffic. It is not the bigness of any thing in this kind, that can hinder its motion, if the motive... | |
| Fashion - 740 pages
...will serve, yet I do seriously, and upon good grounds, affirm it possible to make a flying chariot, in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it as shall convey it through the air : and this, perhaps, Probably Wilkins had not seen Borelli's work, might be made... | |
| Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulics - 1842 - 638 pages
...will serve, yet I do seriously, and upon good ground, affirm it possible to make a flying chariot, in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it...and this perhaps might be made large enough to carry diverse men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum, and commodities for traffic" The... | |
| Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulic machinery - 1842 - 608 pages
...will serve, yet I do seriously, and upon good ground, affirm it possible to make a flying chariot, in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it...and this perhaps might be made large enough to carry diverse men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum, and commodities for traffic."... | |
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