...higher honours. « 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 (1) Costringeva l'acqua a salire in una torre da cui poi veniva distribuita. . . . chariots, man might...

...yet higher honours. " Sir, said he, you have seen but a small part of what the mechanick sciences can perform. I have been long of opinion, that, instead...tardy •conveyance of ships and chariots, man might muse the swifter migration of wings ; that the \ fields of air are open to knowledge, and that mly...

...mechanic's words have in retrospect, a curiously prophetic ring. " I have been long of opinion," he says, " that instead of the tardy conveyance of ships and...ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground." True the glowing imagination of the "artist" carried him farther than the scientific knowledge of the...

...yet higher honor. "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...chariots, man might use the swifter migration of wings; and the fields of air are open to knowledge, and that only ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the...

...the indifference of people than from my fall. I read with amusement in Johnson's Rasselas ( 1759 ) : "I have been long of opinion, that, instead of the...ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground"; and a little further: "If men were all virtuous I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly....

...BriUIn) I '•'•". 'Sir,' said he, 'you have seen but a small part of what the mechanic science* can perform. I have been long of opinion that, instead...ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground.' — Rasselas, Samuel Johnson, 1759 HISTORY has amply recorded Hannibal's blazing enthusiasm for his...

...visited him one day and found him building a flying chariot; he explains himself thus: " I have long been of opinion, that instead of the tardy conveyance of...ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground." Rasselas then remarks that he fears that the artist' s imagination prevails over his skill: "Every...

...opinion, that, inftead of the tardy conveyance of (hips and chariots, man might •ufe the fwifter migration of wings ; that the fields of air are open to knowledge 5 and that only ignorance and idlenefs need crawl upon the ground.' This hint rekindled ihe Prince's...