The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters Official and Private Not Hitherto Published : with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 6Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason, 1838 |
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... carried on , as in a train fired ; the one , rolling and rattling through the air , takes fire as the vapors chance to drive ; as the other fired under ground , in like manner , moves with a desultory noise . Thunder , which is the ...
... carried on , as in a train fired ; the one , rolling and rattling through the air , takes fire as the vapors chance to drive ; as the other fired under ground , in like manner , moves with a desultory noise . Thunder , which is the ...
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... carried to any printing - press , and such a number of sheets as shall be thought proper be cast off , and then be laid by till more copies be wanted . I choose an octavo page , because , if the page - title and page - number be left ...
... carried to any printing - press , and such a number of sheets as shall be thought proper be cast off , and then be laid by till more copies be wanted . I choose an octavo page , because , if the page - title and page - number be left ...
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... carried out of the room , is supplied by fresh air coming in through doors and windows , or , if they be shut , through every cre- vice with violence , as may be seen by holding a candle to a key - hole . If the room be so tight as that ...
... carried out of the room , is supplied by fresh air coming in through doors and windows , or , if they be shut , through every cre- vice with violence , as may be seen by holding a candle to a key - hole . If the room be so tight as that ...
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... carry off all smoke , but a chimney - cloth was looked upon as essential to a chim- This improvement , however , by small openings and low breasts , has been made in our days ; and suc- cess in the first experiments has brought it into ...
... carry off all smoke , but a chimney - cloth was looked upon as essential to a chim- This improvement , however , by small openings and low breasts , has been made in our days ; and suc- cess in the first experiments has brought it into ...
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... carried off . In both these sorts of fire - places , the greatest part of the heat from the fire is lost ; for , as fire naturally darts heat every way , the back , the two jambs , and the hearth drink up almost all that is given them ...
... carried off . In both these sorts of fire - places , the greatest part of the heat from the fire is lost ; for , as fire naturally darts heat every way , the back , the two jambs , and the hearth drink up almost all that is given them ...
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