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 6Childs & Peterson, 1840 |
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... easily kindled , though , when sufficient fire is applied to them to separate their parts , they will all burn . But the fire applied to their surfaces enters more easily , is absorbed and divided ; and not enough left on the surface to ...
... easily kindled , though , when sufficient fire is applied to them to separate their parts , they will all burn . But the fire applied to their surfaces enters more easily , is absorbed and divided ; and not enough left on the surface to ...
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... easily determine that two strings are in uni- son by sounding them separately , as by sounding them together ; their disagreement is also as easily , I believe may say more easily and better distinguished , when sounded separately ; for ...
... easily determine that two strings are in uni- son by sounding them separately , as by sounding them together ; their disagreement is also as easily , I believe may say more easily and better distinguished , when sounded separately ; for ...
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... easily thrown out , and put into its proper situation . 6. It should be easy to take in again , and stow away . An ingenious old mariner , whom I formerly knew , proposed , as a swimming anchor for a large ship , to have a stem of wood ...
... easily thrown out , and put into its proper situation . 6. It should be easy to take in again , and stow away . An ingenious old mariner , whom I formerly knew , proposed , as a swimming anchor for a large ship , to have a stem of wood ...
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A Proposal for promoting Useful Knowledge among | 14 |
TO CADWALLADER COLDEN 4 November 1743 | 25 |
CADWALLADER COLDEN TO B FRANKLIN Dec 1744 | 32 |
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