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 6Hillard, Gray, 1840 |
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... seen in Yorkshire M. De 449 451 TO JOHN INGENHOUSZ . 16 January , 1784 . On Balloons , and their probable Importance 452 TO BENJAMIN VAUGHAN . 29 April , 1784 . Fire supposed to exist in the State of a Subtile Fluid 454 Meteorological ...
... seen in Yorkshire M. De 449 451 TO JOHN INGENHOUSZ . 16 January , 1784 . On Balloons , and their probable Importance 452 TO BENJAMIN VAUGHAN . 29 April , 1784 . Fire supposed to exist in the State of a Subtile Fluid 454 Meteorological ...
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... seen what fire and water may do ; and that either of them are sufficient for all the phenomena of earthquakes ; if they should both fail , we have a third agent , scarce inferior to either of them ; the reader must not be surprised when ...
... seen what fire and water may do ; and that either of them are sufficient for all the phenomena of earthquakes ; if they should both fail , we have a third agent , scarce inferior to either of them ; the reader must not be surprised when ...
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... seen . " Bonajutus assures us , that , of 18,914 inhab- itants , 18,000 perished therein . The same author , from a computation of the inhabitants , before and after They were no sooner off , the earthquake , in the several cities and ...
... seen . " Bonajutus assures us , that , of 18,914 inhab- itants , 18,000 perished therein . The same author , from a computation of the inhabitants , before and after They were no sooner off , the earthquake , in the several cities and ...
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... seen at a time ; in some whereof , the people were swallowed up ; others the closing earth caught by the middle , and pressed to death ; in others , the heads only appeared . The larger openings swallowed up houses ; and out of some ...
... seen at a time ; in some whereof , the people were swallowed up ; others the closing earth caught by the middle , and pressed to death ; in others , the heads only appeared . The larger openings swallowed up houses ; and out of some ...
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... seen by holding a candle to a key - hole . If the room be so tight as that all the crevices together will not supply so much air as is con- tinually carried off , then , in a little time , the current up the funnel must flag , and the ...
... seen by holding a candle to a key - hole . If the room be so tight as that all the crevices together will not supply so much air as is con- tinually carried off , then , in a little time , the current up the funnel must flag , and the ...
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