 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 628 Seiten
...accommodated with a tail, loop, and string, will rise in the air like those made of paper; but this, being of silk, is fitter to bear the wet and wind of a thunder-gust without tear. ing. To the top of the upright stick of the cross is to be fixed a Tery... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 592 Seiten
...extremities of the cross, so you have the body of a kite, which, being properly accommodated with a tail, loop, and string, will rise in the air like those made of paper ; but this, being of silk, is fitter to bear the wet and wind of a thunder-gust without tearing. To the top... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 Seiten
...extremities of the cross, so you have the body of a kite ; which being properly accommodated with a tail, loop, and String, will rise in the air, like those made of paper ; but this being of silk is fitter to bear the wet and wind of a thunder gust without tearing. To the top... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 Seiten
...accommodated with a tail, loop, and strin°. nill rise in the air, like those made of paper; bui this being of silk is fitter to bear the wet and wind of a thunder gust without tearing. To the top of the upright stick of the cross is to be fixed a very sharp... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 Seiten
...extremities of the cross : so you have the body of a kite ; which being properly accommodated with a tail, loop, and string, will rise in the air like those made of paper ; but this, being of silk, is fitter to bear the wet and wind of a thunder-gust without tearing. To the top... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1835 - 340 Seiten
...extremities of the eross, so yon have the body of a kite ; which heing properly aecommodated with a tail, loop, and string, will rise in the air, like those made of paper ; bnt this heing of silk is fitter to hear the wet and wind of a thnnder-gnst withont tearIng. To the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 552 Seiten
...extremities of the cross, so you have the body of a kite ; which, being properly accommodated with a tail, loop, and string, will rise in the air, like those made of paper; but this being of silk is fitter to bear the wet and wind of a thundergust without tearing. To the top... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1893 - 806 Seiten
...extremities of the cross, so you have the body of the kite ; which, being properly accommodated with a tail, loop and string, will rise in the air like those made of paper ; but this, being of silk, is fitter to bear the wet and wind of a thunder gust without tearing. To 112 the... | |
 | T. C. Thornton - 1846 - 268 Seiten
...extremity of the cross ; and you have the body of the kite, which beiug properly accommodated with a mil. loop, and string, will rise in the air like those made of paper; but this being of slik, is more adapted to bear the aet and wind of a thunder gust, without tearing To... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...extremities of the cross, so you have the body of a kite ; which being properly accommodated with a tail, loop and string, will rise in the air like those made of paper ; but this, being of silk, is fitter to boar the wet and wind of a thunder-gust without tearing. To the top... | |
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Make a small cross of two light strips of cedar, the arms so long as to reach to the four corners of a large thin silk handkerchief when extended ; tie the corners of the handkerchief to the extremities of the cross, so you have the body of a kite ; which,... 
