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The Modern Philosopher, Or Terrible Tractoration: In Four Cantos, Most ... - Page 34
by Thomas Green Fessenden - 1806 - 271 pages
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Life of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 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 see and ohserve the statu of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, the heing...
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The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 21

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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Littell's Living Age, Volume 31

Literature - 1851 - 640 pages
...— I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned per•ons, in such a manner that they might be recalled to life...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...
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Leaves from the Note Book of a Naturalist

William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1852 - 446 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 Madeira...
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The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 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;...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...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1857 - 652 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...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...
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Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1

James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 668 pages
...thither. The third continued lifeless till sunset, when, losing all hopes of him, he was thrown away." distant ; for having a very ardent desire to see and...America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a fewfriends, till that time,...
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Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1

James Parton - 1865 - 672 pages
...continued lifeless till sunset, when, losing all hopes of him, he was thrown away." distant ; for having ;i very 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,...
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Banquet Given by the Learned Societies of Philadelphia at the American ...

[Anonymus AC09680264] - Constitutional history - 1888 - 110 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,...
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Inventors

Philip Gengembre Hubert - Inventors - 1893 - 332 pages
...from this instance, to invent a method of cnbalming 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 being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, till that time, to...
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