 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Natural history - 1895 - 510 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; for having a desire to see and observe the state " of America an hundred years hence, I should prefer to "any ordinary... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1974 - 260 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, University Press of the Pacific - American essays - 2001 - 190 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 1 that time,... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pages
...whimsically wished that he might be recalled to earthly existence a hundred years later, for he had "a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence." This fancy suggests his leading traits: his orientation to this world rather than the next, his love... | |
 | Gerald Joseph Gruman - Medical - 2003 - 246 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,... | |
 | Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, Jeffry H. Morrison - History - 2004 - 340 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,... | |
 | Michael P. Branch - Nature - 2004 - 444 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,... | |
 | Tom Huntington - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 100 pages
...but began moving again after some time in the sun. It started him thinking, as such things often did. "Having a very ardent desire to see and observe the...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,... | |
 | 540 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,... | |
 | United States - 1903 - 1300 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; for, having a very urgent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any... | |
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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... 
