Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volumen 2Harper & Brothers, 1839 |
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... nature has rendered our bodies fit for it , the presumption is in nature's favour , for she has not judged amiss in making us desire it . Late marriages are often at- tended , too , with this farther inconvenience , that there is not ...
... nature has rendered our bodies fit for it , the presumption is in nature's favour , for she has not judged amiss in making us desire it . Late marriages are often at- tended , too , with this farther inconvenience , that there is not ...
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... NATURE OF SEACOAL . I am persuaded , as well as you , that the seacoai has a vegetable origin , and that it has been formed near the surface of the earth ; but , as preceding convulsions of nature had served to bring it very deep in ...
... NATURE OF SEACOAL . I am persuaded , as well as you , that the seacoai has a vegetable origin , and that it has been formed near the surface of the earth ; but , as preceding convulsions of nature had served to bring it very deep in ...
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... natural ones ; which , as it may illustrate the process of nature in the production of these ter- rible phenomena under ground , we shall here add . To twenty pounds of iron filings add as many of sulphur ; mix , work , and temper the ...
... natural ones ; which , as it may illustrate the process of nature in the production of these ter- rible phenomena under ground , we shall here add . To twenty pounds of iron filings add as many of sulphur ; mix , work , and temper 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