 | 1792 - 822 sider
...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 - 1793 - 324 sider
...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 - 1793 - 282 sider
...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 - 1806 - 586 sider
...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...waters that surround us, and leave the world in cold aud darkness, necessarily producing universal death and destruction. I have lived seven of those hours.;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 sider
...of our race, who lived and flourished long be* fore 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 opin-' ion ; since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary, that gives life to all nature, and... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 324 sider
...our race, who lived and flou" rishcd long before my time, that this vast " world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist " 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 292 sider
...foundation for that opinion ; since, by the appaient motion of the great luminary, that gives"life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently...then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters tiiat surround us, and leave the world in cold and darkness, necessarily producing universal death... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1817 - 266 sider
...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...declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of the earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters that surround us, and leave... | |
 | Hwiding - 1817 - 412 sider
...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 - 1820 - 360 sider
...losophers 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...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... | |
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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... 
