...over their former Macedonian overlords. 'If men were all virtuous', returned the artist, 'I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing...

...now a pair of boots to ride a journey. JOHN GLANVILLE, 1641 If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing...

...feasible. "If men were all virtuous," explains Johnson's would-be inventor of manned flight, "I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing...

...repay the kindnefs that he has received.' ' If men were all virtuous, returned the artift, I mould with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what...if the bad could at pleafure invade them from the iky ? Againft an army failing through the clouds, neirher walls, nor mountains, nor feas, could afford...

...pvfuoarbv tros. 23 The Aviator of Abyssinia ' If men were all virtuous,' returned the artist, ' I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky ? Against an army sailing...

...parenthesis one may recall his famous premonition of aerial assault: ' If men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky ? . . . A flight of northern...