 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....  The Monthly Magazine - Стр. 2441808Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - Страниц: 932
...covered with soil and trees. Jefferson describes it as follows : " Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and knees, creep to the parapet and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - Страниц: 634
...the cord 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,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, 1 In... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - Страниц: 554
...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 on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - Страниц: 564
...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 on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - Страниц: 560
...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 on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - Страниц: 574
...the cord 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,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over 1 In the edition of 1853 is a footnote reference, "See... | |
 | William B. Cairns - 1909 - Страниц: 528
...the cord 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,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave... | |
 | Robert Alexander Lancaster (Jr.) - 1915 - Страниц: 568
...the chord of the arch, is many times longer than the transverse. Though the sides of the bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss. 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... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - Страниц: 654
...loved to show this eighth wonder of the world to his visitors. "Though its sides," he writes, "are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - Страниц: 420
...the length of the bridge, and its height from the water. . . . Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave... | |
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