The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 530
for he will persist in standingupon his head. His brains are evidently the heaviest part of him. The centre ofgravity is in his skull, and therefore it will seek the lowest place, and keep ittoo. So you see what inconveniences a thick-brained, heavy-headed fellow isexposed to. * He is not much… … him : like St. Jamess double-minded man, unstable in all his ways, driven by thewind and tossed. * Whereabouts is the centre of gravity in a man ? *■ That would be difficult to say. Somewhere in his body or trunk; for that is, ofcourse, the heaviest part of him. * How could you find it out ? * You…
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