Adventures in the air, tr. and ed. by J.S. KeltieE. Stanford, 1877 - 304 Seiten |
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Seite 159 - Not a single object of terrestrial nature could anywhere be distinguished ; an unfathomable abyss of ' darkness visible' seemed to encompass us at every side ; and as we looked forward into its black obscurity in the direction in which we were proceeding, we could scarcely avoid the impression that we were cleaving our way through an interminable mass of black marble, in which we were...
Seite 82 - ... in the camp, but who only waited the advent of more peaceable times to resume his cassock. We may also mention Selles de Beauchamp, who entered the corps under the name of Cavalier Albert, and who rose to the rank of officer, and left interesting memoirs on the experiences of military balloonists. The father of Beauchamp, an officer in one of the royal regiments, was seriously wounded in Piedmont, where two of his brothers were killed; he retired, moreover, and died in 1781, leaving a child six...
Seite 191 - I should experience nothing morp, as death would come unless we speedily descended : other thoughts were entering my mind, when I suddenly became unconscious as on going to sleep.
Seite 304 - MONEY, WEIGHTS, and MEASURES of the CHIEF COMMERCIAL NATIONS IN THE WORLD, with the British Equivalents.
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