 | 1792 - 822 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...nature, and which in my time has evidently declined confiderably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it mull then finifh. its courfe,— be cxtinguifhed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1793 - 324 pages
...fubfift " more than eighteen hours : and I think there " was fome foundation for that opinion ; fince, " by the apparent motion of the great luminary, " that...nature, and which in my " time has evidently declined towards the ocean " at the end of our earth, it muft then finifh its " courfe, be extinguimed in the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 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 - 1807 - 310 pages
...says he, " the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long be* fore my time, .that this vast world the Moulin Joly could...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... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 324 pages
..." It was/' says he, " the opinion of learned " philosophers of our race, who lived and flou" rishcd long before my time, that this vast " world, the Moulin...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... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Insects - 1817 - 266 pages
...celebrated Dr. Benjamin Franklin : — " My Brethren ; — It was the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joli, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for... | |
 | Hwiding - 1817 - 412 pages
...vast world , the Mo a,,lin Joly. cci.ld net itself subsist ,;mnre than eighteen hours: and I tliink ,,there was some foundation for that opi,,nion; since, by the apparent motion i ,,of the great luminary that givas life to „»!! nature, and which 311 my time has „ evidently... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...delicious company and heavenly harmony. " It was," says he, " the opinion of learned phi. losophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before...to all nature, and which in my time has evidently decliued considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, \t must then finish its course, be... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, lh.'l this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself...by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gjves life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...her delicious company and heavenly harmony. " It was," says he, " the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before...not itself subsist more than eighteen hours : and 1 think there was some foundation for that opinion ; since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary... | |
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the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by... 
