| André Gide - 2000 - 374 Seiten
...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. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky?" 1S 12 Bromical, manufactured... | |
| Michael Waller, Kyril Drezov, Bülent Gökay - 2001 - 208 Seiten
...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... | |
| James Charlton - 2002 - 204 Seiten
...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... | |
| Howard Bruce Franklin - 2008 - 324 Seiten
...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... | |
| Sydney Castle Roberts - 1958 - 192 Seiten
...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... | |
| Henry Carr Pearson - 2018 - 240 Seiten
...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... | |
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