 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1897 - 1250 pages
...breeds of useful animals, the cultivation and the clearing of land, for " all philosophic experimenta that let light into the nature of things tend to increase the power of man and multiply the conveniences and pleasures of life." It is only necessary to add that the society... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 pages
...chemistry ; in mechanics ; in arts, trades, and manufactures; in geography and topography; in agriculture; and "all philosophical experiments that let light...multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life." The circular proposes that " a correspondence be kept up with the Royal Society of London, and the Dublin... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 pages
...chemistry ; in mechanics ; in arts, trades, and manufactures; in geography and topography; in agriculture; and "all philosophical experiments that let light...multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life." The circular proposes that "a correspondence be kept up with the Royal Society of London, and the Dublin... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...trades, or manufactures, that may be proposed or thought of; surveys, maps, and charts of particnlar parts of the sea-coasts or inland countries ; course...multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life." The association was never very prosperous, but it resulted, many years later, in the establishment of the... | |
 | Education - 1877 - 972 pages
...the country suggesting their associating together 'for conference and correspondence on subjects that increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life,' led to the establishment of the American Philosophical Society. In 1741, he invented the open stove... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1877 - 982 pages
...country suggesting their associating together ' for conference and correspondence on subjects that eracy than any other State in it.' Why Î ' From her attention to education unquestionably. led to the establishment of the American Philosophical Society. In 1741, he invented the open stove... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 pages
...effect. I was called upon for the instrument 1 Philosophical Society: the object of it was to encourage "all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the convenience or pleasures of life." 2 Quaker Assembly : the policy adopted by the Friends, or Quakers,... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Digital images - 1892 - 888 pages
...introducing other sorts from foreign countries; new improvements in planting, gardening, and 'clearing laud; and all philosophical experiments that let light into...of things, tend to increase the power of man over and multiply the convenience« or pleasures of lile. That a correspondence already begun by some intended... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Universities and colleges - 1893 - 540 pages
...new discoveries in chemistry, such as improvements in d,stillation, brewing, and assaying o fores; new mechanical inventions for saving labor, as mills...of things, tend to increase the power of man over and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life. That a correspondence already begun by some intended... | |
 | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton - United States - 1893 - 260 pages
...rather comprehensive list of subjects, it was added that the association should " give its attention to all philosophical experiments that let light into...multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life." The duties of the secretary of the society were laid down, and were especially arduous, including much... | |
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... all philosophical experiments that let light into the nature of things, tend to increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life. 
