 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1825 - 324 pages
...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:...to see and observe the state of America a hundred ^ars hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1831 - 310 pages
...from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such «. manner, that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant:...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1831 - 314 pages
...frooi this instance, to invent a method of emhalming drowned persons in such a maaner, that they may he recalled to life at any period, however distant : for having a very ardent desire to see and ohserve the state of America an hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, the heing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1834 - 310 pages
...from this instance, to inrent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner, that they nmy be recalled to life at any period, however distant:...ardent desire to see and observe the state of America an hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Madeira... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Economics - 1835 - 340 pages
...instanee, to invent a method of emhalming drowned persons, in snch a manner that they may he reealled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to sec and observe the state of Ameriea an hnndred years ueace, I shonld prefer to an ordinary death,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1838 - 632 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 96 pages
...instanee, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons, in sueh a manner that they may be reealled to life at any period, however distant ; for, having...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1839 - 268 pages
...from this instance, to invent a method of emhalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may he recalled to life at any period, - however distant, for, having a very ardent desire to eee and ohserve the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...thither. The third continued lifeless till sunset, when, losing all hopes of him, he was thrown away. 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,... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...when, losing all hopes of him, he was thrown away." The philosopher thus improves the occasion : — " I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent...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 Madiera... | |
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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... 
