 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1787 - 510 pages
...over into the abyfs. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head-ach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful to the... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - United States - 1792 - 522 pages
...yet few men have refolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyfs. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep...from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head-ach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1795 - 558 pages
...yet few men have refolution to walk to them and look over into the abyfs. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet and peep over it. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme.... | |
 | Art - 1808 - 674 pages
...this bridge arc-, provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands, creep to the parapet, and peep over it; but if the view from the top be ¡minrui and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...parapet of fixed rocfes>1 • 't* '"<»"' -refolution to walk to them, and look over Into the abyfs. — You involuntarily fall upon your hands and feet, creep...parapet, and peep over it. LookIng down from this height aboi^ta minute, gave me a violent head-ache. If the view from the top be pain.ful and intolerable,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet- few men have reBolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Look ing down from this height about... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...of this Bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands, creep to the parapet; and peep over it. Looking down front this height about a minute... | |
 | Rev. Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 566 pages
...have resolution to walk to them and look over into the' abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands, creep to the parapet; and peep over it. Looking down from this height •bout a minute gave me a violent head-ache. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable,... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 538 pages
...have resolution to walk to them and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down...from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head- ache. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an... | |
 | Decorative arts - 1822 - 466 pages
...of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily full on your hands, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute... | |
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Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. 
