 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1850 - 780 pages
...ardent desire to see and observe the state of America an 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 tune, to he recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country.* Now, Heaven forbid,... | |
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...recalled to life at some distant period, Franklin characteristically remarks that "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 life by the solar warmth of my dear country." In this as well... | |
 | 540 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 life by the solar warmth of my dear country! But since in all... | |
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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... 
