 | History - 1805 - 608 pages
...struggling, yet, till you have obtained this experimental confidence iu the water, I cannot depend on your your having the necessary presence, of mind to recollect...to it. The surprise may put all out of your mind. For, though we value ourselves on being reasonable knowing creatures, reason and knowledge seem, on... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 572 pages
...still and forbear struggling; yet, till you have obtained this experimental confidence m the water, I cannot depend on your having the necessary presence...to it. The surprise may put all out of your mind. For, though we value ourselves on being reasonable knowing creatures, reason and knowledge seem, on... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...your having the necessary presence of mind to recollect that posture and the directions I gave yon relating to it. The surprise may put all out of your mind. For though we value ourselves on being reasonable knowing creatures, reason and knowledge seem on such... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...still, and forbear struggling; yet, till you have obtained this experimental confidence in the water, I cannot depend on your having the necessary presence...to it. The surprise may put all out of your mind. For though we value ourselves on being reasonable knowing creatures, reason and knowledge seem on such... | |
 | Colin MacKenzie - 1821 - 724 pages
...because, though I think I satisfied you, that your body is lighter than water, dence in the water, I cannot depend on your having the necessary presence...to it. The surprise may put all out of your mind. For, though we value ourselves on being reasonable knowing creatures, reason and knowledge seem, on... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...still, and forbear struggling; yet, till you have obtained this experimental confidence in the water, 1 cannot depend on your having the necessary presence...to it. The surprise may put all out of your mind. For though we value ourselves on being reasonable knowing creatures, reason and knowledge seem on such... | |
 | Colin Mackenzie - Chemistry - 1822 - 774 pages
...obtained this experimental confidence in the water, I cannot depend on your having the necessary pretence of mind to recollect that posture, and the directions...to it. The surprise may put all out of your mind. For, though we value ourselves on being reasonable knowing creatures, reason and knowledge seem, on... | |
 | John S Skinner - 1825 - 436 pages
...directiqns ' for such favours, in a few months, I shall endea- ,.• a tn •{ m, ...__:„ mav Dut a l] relating to it The surprise may put all out of your mind. For though we value ourselves on being reasonable knowing creatures, reason and knowledge seem on such... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...still and forbear struggling ; yet till you have obtained this experimental confidence in the water, I cannot depend on your having the necessary presence...to it. The surprise may put all out of your mind. For though we value ourselves OB being reasonable creatures, reason and knowledge seem on such occasions... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1838 - 632 pages
...still and forbear struggling ; yet till you have obtained this experimental confidence in the water, I cannot depend on your having the necessary presence...to it. The surprise may put all out of your mind. For though we value ourselves on being reasonable, knowing creatures, reason and knowledge seem on... | |
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I cannot depend on your having the necessary presence of mind to recollect that posture and the directions I gave you relating to it. The surprise may put all out of your mind. 
