| Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 páginas
...But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither...rolling under them. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent of some of the naked nations... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 268 páginas
...But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither...rolling under them. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent of some of the naked nations... | |
| 1907 - 506 páginas
...what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? • Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither...rolling under them. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might bs violated by the sudden descent of some of the naked nations... | |
| Laurence Goldstein - 1986 - 302 páginas
...But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither...of a fruitful region that was rolling under them, [chapter VI] Access to precisely this kind of power tempted the necromancer in Leonardo, as we have... | |
| Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 páginas
...lulled by peace" — he nevertheless insists that his invention be kept a closely guarded secret because "against an army sailing through the clouds neither...nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security." Moreover, the scientist in Rasselas has finished a number of successful projects, the most notable... | |
| Catherine Neal Parke - 1991 - 212 páginas
...But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither...capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.jYJ 16:27-28) The vow of secrecy proves to be comically unnecessary when the flyer's wings fail... | |
| Michael Waller, Kyril Drezov, Bülent Gökay - 2001 - 208 páginas
...But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither...hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible force upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.' Doctor Johnson, The History... | |
| James Charlton - 2002 - 204 páginas
...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 through the clouds neither...nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security. SAMUEL JOHNSON And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense,... | |
| Howard Bruce Franklin - 2008 - 324 páginas
...But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither walls, nor mountains, nor seas, could afford any security."2 Such warnings about technological progress were rejected by Franklin, with his faith in... | |
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