 | Tobias Smollett - 1787 - 510 pages
...rocks, yet few men have refolutiou to walk to them, and look 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... | |
 | 1808 - 674 pages
...thickness of the mass at the summit of the arch, about forty feet. Though the sides uf this bridge arc-, provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks,...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...be the chord of the arch, is many times longer than the, transverse- Though the sides of 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... | |
 | 1811 - 576 pages
...feet \\\ the middle, but more at the ends. " Though the sfdes of the bridge," says Mr. Jefferson, " are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed...yet few men have resolution to walk to them and look oyer into the abyss, You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and look... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...be the cord of the arch, is many times longer than its transverse. Though the sides of this Bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed...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... | |
 | Rev. Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 566 pages
...is many times longer than its transverse. Though the sides of this Bridge are provided in some parls 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 from this height... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 344 pages
...be the chord of the arch, is many times longer than the transverse. Though the sides of this bridge are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have the resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall upon your hands... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pages
...be the cord of the arch, is many times longer than its transverse. Although the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few persons have sufficient resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. The passenger involuntarily... | |
 | 1822 - 466 pages
...be the chord of the arch, is many times longer than its transverse. Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed...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... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 440 pages
...be the chord of the arch, is many times longer than the transverse. Though the sides of this bridge are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have the resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall upon your hands... | |
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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.... 
