 | 1792 - 816 pages
...itfclf fubfill more than eighteen hours : and I think there wasfome foundation for that opinion, fincc, by the apparent motion of the great luminary, that...gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined confiderably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it mull then finifh. its... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Celebrities - 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 - 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...gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably 'towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its... | |
 | 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...gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 308 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...gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its... | |
 | 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...gives life to all nature, and which in my " time has evidently declined considerably to" wards the ocean, at the end of our earth, it " must then finish... | |
 | 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...gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its... | |
 | 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...gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its... | |
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