Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..H. Colburn, 1818 |
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... particles that receive greater heat can escape ; so living bodies do not putrefy if the particles , so fast as they become putrid , can be thrown off . Nature expels them by the pores of the skin and the lungs , and in a free open air ...
... particles that receive greater heat can escape ; so living bodies do not putrefy if the particles , so fast as they become putrid , can be thrown off . Nature expels them by the pores of the skin and the lungs , and in a free open air ...
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... particle of what is so much for your good - therefore- Franklin . - Oh ! Ehhh ! -It is not fair to say I take no exercise , when I do very often , going out to dine , and returning in my carriage . Gout . That of all imaginable exercise ...
... particle of what is so much for your good - therefore- Franklin . - Oh ! Ehhh ! -It is not fair to say I take no exercise , when I do very often , going out to dine , and returning in my carriage . Gout . That of all imaginable exercise ...
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... particles of grease and oil acting as so many little rollers , and preventing friction between the wood and wood , do thereby prevent the collection of fire . CONJECTURES ON THE NATURE OF FIRE . [ For the consideration of my dear Friend ...
... particles of grease and oil acting as so many little rollers , and preventing friction between the wood and wood , do thereby prevent the collection of fire . CONJECTURES ON THE NATURE OF FIRE . [ For the consideration of my dear Friend ...
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... particles of air , which forces the particles of this fluid to mount with the matters to which it is attached , as smoke or vapor ? Does it not seem to have a great affinity with water , since it will quit a solid to unite with that ...
... particles of air , which forces the particles of this fluid to mount with the matters to which it is attached , as smoke or vapor ? Does it not seem to have a great affinity with water , since it will quit a solid to unite with that ...
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... particles ; and they were besides often out of repair . Instead of either of these , Dr. Franklin proposed that openings should be made close to the ceilings of rooms communicating with a flue , which should ascend in the wall close to ...
... particles ; and they were besides often out of repair . Instead of either of these , Dr. Franklin proposed that openings should be made close to the ceilings of rooms communicating with a flue , which should ascend in the wall close to ...
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Abbés Morellet act of parliament advantage America appear better bills body Britain British chimney coin cold colonies commerce common conductor continued crown debt degree descending discharge duty earth England English equal expense fire fluid force Franklin friends funnel give glass Glaucon gold and silver governors grand council greater heat Helvetius Hence inches inconvenience increase Indians industry inhabitants kingdom of England labor land laws legal tender less liberty locum tenens manufactures means merchants motion nation natural necessary never observed occasion opinion paper paper-money parliament of England particles passing perhaps persons plate pleasure poor Portugal pound weight present produce proportion province quantity reason receive Rhode Island rise settlements shillings ships side smoke Spain stamp act subsistence sufficient suppose taxes thing thought trade vessel warm whole wind
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 250 - Methinks I hear some of you say, Must a Man afford himself no Leisure ? I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy Time well, if thou meanest to gain Leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an hour.
Seite 190 - Speak ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, .Angels; for ye behold Him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night Circle His throne rejoicing ; ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end.
Seite 309 - And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil.
Seite 249 - Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Seite 250 - Three removes are as bad as a fire ' ; and again, ' Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee ' ; and again, ' If you would have your business done, go ; if not, send.' And again, ' He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Seite 307 - From going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it.
Seite 318 - When I was a child of seven years old my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children ; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one.
Seite 66 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Seite 252 - Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Seite 180 - ... molested in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt, or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted, by the armed force of the enemy...