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, Band 6Benjamin Franklin Stevens, 1882 |
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... greater compass , the place becomes too narrow for it ; so that , pressing against it on all sides , the adjoining parts are shaken ; till , having made itself a passage , it spends itself in a volcano , or burning mountain . But to ...
... greater compass , the place becomes too narrow for it ; so that , pressing against it on all sides , the adjoining parts are shaken ; till , having made itself a passage , it spends itself in a volcano , or burning mountain . But to ...
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... it used to ascend to the surface , be- comes , by such means , preternaturally assembled in a greater quantity than usual into one place , and there- fore causeth a great rarefaction and intumescence of the water 4 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
... it used to ascend to the surface , be- comes , by such means , preternaturally assembled in a greater quantity than usual into one place , and there- fore causeth a great rarefaction and intumescence of the water 4 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
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... greater , so as sometimes to make miserable havoc and destruction . And it is for this reason , that Italy , Sicily , Anatolia , and some parts of Greece have been so long and often alarmed and harassed by earthquakes ; these countries ...
... greater , so as sometimes to make miserable havoc and destruction . And it is for this reason , that Italy , Sicily , Anatolia , and some parts of Greece have been so long and often alarmed and harassed by earthquakes ; these countries ...
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... greater or lesser impetuosity , according to the quantity of fire thus assembled , till it has made its way to the mouth of the volcano . That therefore there are scarce any countries much annoyed by earthquakes , but have one of these ...
... greater or lesser impetuosity , according to the quantity of fire thus assembled , till it has made its way to the mouth of the volcano . That therefore there are scarce any countries much annoyed by earthquakes , but have one of these ...
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... greater the shake ; and that the cause thereof lay there . Most of the rivers were stopped up for twenty - four hours by the falling of the mountains , till , swelling up , they found themselves new tracts and channels , tearing up in ...
... greater the shake ; and that the cause thereof lay there . Most of the rivers were stopped up for twenty - four hours by the falling of the mountains , till , swelling up , they found themselves new tracts and channels , tearing up in ...
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Seite 228 - I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her.
Seite 23 - That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.
Seite 435 - Convincing sovereigns of the folly of wars may perhaps be one effect of it, since it will be impracticable for the most potent of them to guard his dominions. Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defence, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together...
Seite 426 - Such changes in the superficial parts of the globe seemed to me unlikely to happen, if the earth were solid at the centre. I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with ; which therefore might swim in or upon that fluid. Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by the violent movements of the fluid on which it rested.
Seite 396 - That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.
Seite 16 - ... all philosophical experiments that let light into the nature of things, tend to increase the power of man over matter and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of hie.
Seite 343 - ... were, by the smoothness of the water over them, which might possibly be occasioned, he thought, by some oiliness proceeding from their bodies. A gentleman from Rhode Island told me, it had been remarked, that the harbor of Newport was ever smooth while any whaling vessels were in it : which probably arose from hence, that the blubber which they sometimes bring loose in the hold, or the leakage of their barrels, might afford some oil, to mix with that water, which from time to time they pump out...
Seite 365 - I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till 1 that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!
Seite 550 - ... with their food by slovenly workmen, who went to their meals after handling the metal, without well washing their fingers, so that some of the metalline particles were taken off by their bread and eaten with it.
Seite 236 - The fingers should be first a little soaked in water, and quite free from all greasiness ; a little fine chalk upon them is sometimes useful, to make them catch the glass and bring out the tone more readily.