| 1817 - 798 Seiten
...employed in experimental researches into nature, and of the success you meet with. The rapid progress irai science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes...over matter; we may perhaps learn to deprive large ' their gravity, and give them * Supposed to alloue to a club at the linduo < c'ffei'-hpUM'. absolute... | |
| 1817 - 780 Seiten
...believe me ever, my dear friend, your's, &c. BF To DR. PRIESTLEY. Patsy, February 8, 1780. DEAR SIR, YOUR kind letter of September 27th, came to hand but...carried in a thousand years, the 'power of man over mailer; we may perhaps learn to deprive large s of their gravity, and give them * Supposed to allude... | |
| William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1817 - 898 Seiten
...nature, and of the success you meet with. The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions r.iy regretting sometimes that I was born so soon : it...carried in a thousand years, the power of man over rautttr ; we may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 Seiten
...meet \vitf. The rapid progress true science now mate. occasions my regretting sometimes that I ULborn so soon : it is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in athousaal у ears, the power of man over matter; wemj perhaps learn to deprive large masses of then... | |
| John Foster - 1844 - 432 Seiten
...then a little touched with romance : as, for instance, in the following letter to Dr. Priestley :— " I always rejoice to hear of your being still employed...matter; we may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of the gravity, and give them absolute levity for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish... | |
| John Foster - 1844 - 590 Seiten
...a little touched with romance : as, for instance, in the following letter to Dr. Priestley : — " I always rejoice to hear of your being still employed...; we may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of the gravity, and give them absolute levity for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 Seiten
..."J>r. Priestley. Y, February 8, 1780. " DEAR SIR, — Your kind letter ofSeptember 27th, came to band but very lately, the bearer having staid long in Holland....now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I wae born so soon : it is impossible to imagine the height to whiclr may be carried, in a thousand years,... | |
| James Parton - 1864 - 728 Seiten
...see what improvements and discoveries had been made in his absence. To Priestley he wrote in 17S0: "The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions...was born so soon : it is impossible to imagine the hight to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter ; we may perhaps learn... | |
| James Parton - 1864 - 720 Seiten
...and discoveries had been made in his absence. To Priestley he wrote in 17S0: "The rapid progress tme science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes...was born so soon : it is impossible to imagine the bight to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter ; we may perhaps learn... | |
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