Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1842 |
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... hence also is deduced that admirable art of drawing sundials on any place , howsover situ- ate , and for any part of the world , to point out the exact time of the day , the sun's declination , al- titude , amplitude , azimuth , and ...
... hence also is deduced that admirable art of drawing sundials on any place , howsover situ- ate , and for any part of the world , to point out the exact time of the day , the sun's declination , al- titude , amplitude , azimuth , and ...
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... hence have their origin . It is recorded of Methusalem , who , being the longest liver , may be supposed to have best preserved his health , that he slept always in the open air ; for , when he had lived five hundred years , an angel ...
... hence have their origin . It is recorded of Methusalem , who , being the longest liver , may be supposed to have best preserved his health , that he slept always in the open air ; for , when he had lived five hundred years , an angel ...
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... hence the bedclothes receive it longer before they are saturated , and we may there- fore sleep longer before we are made uneasy by their refusing to receive any more . 2. By using thinner and more porous bedclothes , which will suffer ...
... hence the bedclothes receive it longer before they are saturated , and we may there- fore sleep longer before we are made uneasy by their refusing to receive any more . 2. By using thinner and more porous bedclothes , which will suffer ...
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... Hence the increase of good buildings , farms cultivated , and populous cities filled with wealth , all over Europe , which a few ages since were only to be found on the coast of the Mediter- ranean ; and this , notwithstanding the mad ...
... Hence the increase of good buildings , farms cultivated , and populous cities filled with wealth , all over Europe , which a few ages since were only to be found on the coast of the Mediter- ranean ; and this , notwithstanding the mad ...
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... Hence they are continual- ly discontented themselves , and by their remarks sour the pleasures of society , offend personally many people , and make themselves everywhere disagreeable . If this turn of mind was founded in nature , such ...
... Hence they are continual- ly discontented themselves , and by their remarks sour the pleasures of society , offend personally many people , and make themselves everywhere disagreeable . If this turn of mind was founded in nature , such ...
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