 | Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 560 pages
...period however distant; for, having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America an hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary...immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country. But since, in all... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...desire to see and observe the state of America zyi hundred years hence, I should prefer to airordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine,...until that time, then to be recalled to life by the softr warmth of my dear country ! But, since,, in all probability, we live in an age too early, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...period, however distant; for having vi very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America an hundred years hence, I" should prefer to an ordinary...immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, untif that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country ! But, since, in... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, all that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country ! But since, in all... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1831 - 310 pages
...period, however distant: for, having a very ardent desire to see and observe the stale of America an hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wni'N with a few friends, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1834 - 310 pages
...period, however distant: for, having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America an hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary...being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few frisnds, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country ! But... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Booksellers and bookselling - 1837 - 300 pages
...hopes of him, he was thrown away. " I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons, in such a manner that they...ordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Madeira The pnrts deposit by themselves, Like mineral specimens on shelves ; — And having seour'd off every... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1838 - 632 pages
...ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, till that time, to be then recalled to hie by the solar warmth of my dear country ! But since in all... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1839 - 268 pages
...ohserve the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, the heing immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, until that time, then to he recalled to life hy the solnr warmth of my dear country ! But since, in all prohahility, we live... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 96 pages
...distant ; for, having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of Ameriea a hundred years henee, I should prefer to an ordinary death the being immersed in a eask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, nntil that time, then to be reealled to life by the solar... | |
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I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant ; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a... 
