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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... surface of the earth , air is only one fourth less heavy than mercury . Now , this depth of 43,528 fathoms is only a seventy - fourth part of the semidiameter of the earth . And the vast sphere be- CAUSES OF EARTHQUAKES . 7.
... surface of the earth , air is only one fourth less heavy than mercury . Now , this depth of 43,528 fathoms is only a seventy - fourth part of the semidiameter of the earth . And the vast sphere be- CAUSES OF EARTHQUAKES . 7.
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... less than a minute three quarters of the houses , and the ground they stood on , with the inhabitants , were all sunk quite under water ; and the little part left behind was no better than a heap of rub- bish . The shake was so violent ...
... less than a minute three quarters of the houses , and the ground they stood on , with the inhabitants , were all sunk quite under water ; and the little part left behind was no better than a heap of rub- bish . The shake was so violent ...
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... less books . He is most commonly led astray by the glaring appearances of title - pages and other artifices of the mystery of bookselling . It is likewise a common complaint , that a poor au- thor makes nothing near the profit that the ...
... less books . He is most commonly led astray by the glaring appearances of title - pages and other artifices of the mystery of bookselling . It is likewise a common complaint , that a poor au- thor makes nothing near the profit that the ...
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... less expense than by engraving and by the rolling press . I accidentally , last summer , fell into company with a printer , the most ingenious in his way , without question , of any in America . Upon my mentioning my thoughts , which I ...
... less expense than by engraving and by the rolling press . I accidentally , last summer , fell into company with a printer , the most ingenious in his way , without question , of any in America . Upon my mentioning my thoughts , which I ...
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... less fierce ; in the other , a single part , a neck , or ear perchance , is attacked , and that with the greater violence probably , as it is done by a successive stream of cold air . And the cannon of a battery , pointed against a ...
... less fierce ; in the other , a single part , a neck , or ear perchance , is attacked , and that with the greater violence probably , as it is done by a successive stream of cold air . And the cannon of a battery , pointed against a ...
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