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Who , indeed , among my most abandoned associates , would not rather have disputed the clearest evidence of his senses , than have suspected of such courses , the gay , the frank , the generous William Wilson — the noblest and most liberal commoner at Oxford — him whose follies ( said his parasites ) were but the follies of youth and unbridled fancy — whose errors but inimitable whim — whose darkest vice but a careless and dashing extravagance ? This radiance , so apparent in the tropics , and which cannot be mistaken for any meteoric lustre , extends from the horizon obliquely upwards , and follows generally the direction of the sun 's equator . The balloon at first collapsed , then furiously expanded , then whirled round and round with sickening velocity , and finally , reeling and staggering like a drunken man , hurled me over the rim of the car , and left me dangling , at a terrific height , with my head downward , and my face outward , by a piece of slender cord about three feet in length , which hung accidentally through a crevice near the bottom of the wicker-work , and in which , as I fell , my left foot became most providentially entangled . If the new Congress wants to show its commitment to fix contracting , it should do something out of character - - amid hearings exposing waste , fraud , and abuse , maybe a lonely one could be held giving career officials occasions to present innovations they have developed to get better value from contracting . The sentence , no doubt , was thus intended : ' In less than half a minute , the respiration [ being continued , these feelings ] diminished gradually , and were succeeded by [ a sensation ] analogous to gentle pressure on all the muscles .