Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volumen 2Harper & Brothers, 1839 |
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... America are still in a forest , and a great deal even in Europe . On a hundred acres of this forest a man might become a substantial farmer ; and a hundred thousand men , employed in clearing each his hundred acres , would hardly ...
... America are still in a forest , and a great deal even in Europe . On a hundred acres of this forest a man might become a substantial farmer ; and a hundred thousand men , employed in clearing each his hundred acres , would hardly ...
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... America subordinate to the le- gislatures of Great Britain , one might conceive , I think , a power in the superior legislature to forbid . the inferior legislatures making particular laws ; but to enjoin it to make a particular law ...
... America subordinate to the le- gislatures of Great Britain , one might conceive , I think , a power in the superior legislature to forbid . the inferior legislatures making particular laws ; but to enjoin it to make a particular law ...
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... AMERICA . May 12 , 1760 . Agreeable to your request , I send you my rea- sons for thinking that our northeast storms in North America begin first , in point of time , in the south- west parts ; that is to say , the air in Georgia , the ...
... AMERICA . May 12 , 1760 . Agreeable to your request , I send you my rea- sons for thinking that our northeast storms in North America begin first , in point of time , in the south- west parts ; that is to say , the air in Georgia , the ...
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acquainted affectionately America appear assemblée des notables become body called cause centrifugal force clouds cold conductors continue David Hartley dear friend degree descending earth earthquakes endeavour England equal esteem farther favour fire fluid force Francis Hopkinson FRANKLIN give Glaucon globe gout hand happiness heat Hence honour hope imagine kind letter king king's counsel labour land late leave less light live Lord Kames Marquis de Lafayette matter ment mind motion nation nature necessary never obliged observed occasion opinion paper Parliament particles pass Passy perhaps person Philadelphia Philosophical pleased pleasure Poor Richard says present punishment pyrites quantity reason received rising river salt Socrates soon spiracles spout Star Chamber suppose surface things thought tion vapour virtue warm whirl whirlwind whole wind wish write