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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... tion to move on in a present direction , presently straiten the curve , raising the shoulder very swiftly , till lost in the cloud . Over every one of Stuart's figures , I see a cloud ; I suppose his clouds were first , and then the ...
... tion to move on in a present direction , presently straiten the curve , raising the shoulder very swiftly , till lost in the cloud . Over every one of Stuart's figures , I see a cloud ; I suppose his clouds were first , and then the ...
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... tion of neighbouring smoke coming down the vents , is not owing to any bad construction of the vent down which it comes , and therefore not to be remedied by any change of form . It is merely the effect of a law of nature , whereby ...
... tion of neighbouring smoke coming down the vents , is not owing to any bad construction of the vent down which it comes , and therefore not to be remedied by any change of form . It is merely the effect of a law of nature , whereby ...
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... tion of this I have not since had an opportunity of obtaining ; but discoursing of it with another person , who had often been in the Mediterranean , I was in- formed , that the divers there , who , when under water in their business ...
... tion of this I have not since had an opportunity of obtaining ; but discoursing of it with another person , who had often been in the Mediterranean , I was in- formed , that the divers there , who , when under water in their business ...
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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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