| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1793 - 324 pages
...fubfift " more than eighteen hours : and I think there " was fome foundation for that opinion ; fince, " by the apparent motion of the great luminary, " that...nature, and which in my " time has evidently declined towards the ocean " at the end of our earth, it muft then finifh its " courfe, be extinguimed in the... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1793 - 282 pages
...more than •" eighteen hours : and I think there " \\as fome foundation for that opinion ; *' fince, by the apparent motion of the " great luminary, that...gives life to all " nature, and which in my time has evi" dently 30 ESSAYS. " dently declined confiderably towards the " ocean at the end of our earth,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Essays - 1794 - 348 pages
...fince, by the apparent motion of the great iumiiury, that gives lite to all nature, and which in my rime has evidently declined confiderably towards the ocean, at the end of our earth, it muft hen rinifh its courfe, be extinquifiied in the waters 'hat furround us, and have the world in... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...itself subsist more than eighteen hours: and I think there was some foundation for that opinion ; since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary, that...nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably 'towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion: since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary, that...nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opin-' ion ; since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary, that...nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished... | |
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 324 pages
...subsist " more than eighteen hours : and I think there " was sonic foundation for their opinion, since, " by the apparent motion of the great luminary, " that...nature, and which in my " time has evidently declined considerably to" wards the ocean, at the end of our earth, it " must then finish its course, be extinguished... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion ; since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary, that...nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion ; since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary, that...nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished... | |
| Joseph Taylor - Insects - 1817 - 266 pages
...itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion; since by the apparent motion of the great luminary, that...nature, and which, in my time, has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of the earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished... | |
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