 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 596 Seiten
...• Supposed to allude to a Club at the London Coffee-house. VOL. VIII. 27 TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY. Tnie Science and its Progress. — Inconveniences attend...humanity ! I am glad my little paper on the Aurora BoreaKs pleased. If it should occasion further inquiry, and so produce a better hypothesis, it will... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1844 - 592 Seiten
...Progress. — Inconveniences attend all Situations in Life. Passy, 8 February, 1780. DEAR SIR, Tour kind letter of September 27th came to hand but very...humanity ! I am glad my little paper on the Aurora BoreaKs pleased. If it should occasion further inquiry, and so produce a better hypothesis, it will... | |
 | John Foster - 1844 - 432 Seiten
...gravity, and give them absolute levity for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labour and double its produce: all diseases may by sure means...length learn what they now improperly call humanity !" In a very friendly letter to Dr. Mather, of Boston, he mentions a very simple cause as having, in... | |
 | John Foster - 1844 - 590 Seiten
...gravity, and give them absolute levity for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labour and double its produce : all diseases may by sure...that human beings would at length learn what they DOW improperly call humanity !" In a very friendly letter to Dr. Mather, of Boston, he mentions a very... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 728 Seiten
...that of old age), and our lives lengthened at pleasure, even beyond the antediluvian standard. Oh! that moral science were in as fair a way of improvement...length learn what they now improperly call humanity !" This was a favorite train of thought with him. He enlarges upon the theme, in his most delightful... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 720 Seiten
...lengthened at pleasure, even beyond the antediluvian standard. Oh ! that moral science were in as iair a way of improvement ; that men would cease to be...length learn what they now improperly call humanity !" This was a favorite train of thought with him. He enlarges upon the theme, in his most delightful... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 562 Seiten
...Supposed to allude to a Club at the London Coffee-house. — S. Mr. 74.] COUNSEL TO DR. PRIESTLEY. jOI may diminish its labor and double its produce; all...length learn what they now improperly call humanity ! I have considered the situation of that person* very attentively. I think that, with a little help from... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 768 Seiten
...Supposed to allude to a Club at the London Coffee-house. — S. Mr. 74.] COUNSEL TO DR. PRIESTLEY. 5ol may diminish its labor and double its produce; all...length learn what they now improperly call humanity ! I have considered the situation of that person* very attentively. I think that, with a little help from... | |
 | 1916 - 712 Seiten
...carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter ... О that moral science were in a fair way of improvement, that men would cease to be wolves...now improperly call humanity." ■¡■■¡■■i M ■n "'ЛГ■ I IV) TEXAS TEACHERS, you and your immediate families are invited to see Europe. FLY... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 Seiten
...and give them absolute Levity, for the sake of easy Transport. Agriculture may diminish its Labour and double its Produce; all Diseases may by sure means...length learn what they now improperly call Humanity ! Mixed with Franklin's other feelings about war, as we have seen, was a profound sense of its pecuniary_w-asteT""">... | |
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... gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labor and double its produce: all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured (not excepting even that of old age), and our lives lengthened... 
