The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin - Page 413by James Parton - 1864Full view - About this book
| 1817 - 798 pages
...makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon: it is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried in a thousand years, the power...over matter; we may perhaps learn to deprive large ' their gravity, and give them * Supposed to alloue to a club at the linduo < c'ffei'-hpUM'. absolute... | |
| 1817 - 506 pages
...now makes, occasions my regretting that I was born so soon : it is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried in a thousand years, the power...sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labour and double its produce ; all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, (not excepting... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 524 pages
...swri§4Jttia tbfjusand -years, the power of iitun over inAttMjrrttolWiy P^tap* Iwn to deprive large QIAW^s of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for...(sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labour and double its produce : all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, (not excepting... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1817 - 780 pages
...occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon : it is impossible. to imagine the height to which may be carried in a thousand years, the 'power of man over mailer; we may perhaps learn to deprive large s of their gravity, and give them * Supposed to allude... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American letters - 1817 - 452 pages
...serrés dans la Chambre des Communes, surtout pour se mettre à genoux. f , Original, page a5. « Ail diseases may by sure » means be prevented or cured (not excepting » even thatof oldage),andour Hveslengthened »at pleasure even beyond the antidiluvian » standard ». Correspondance... | |
| John Towill Rutt - Chemists - 1831 - 450 pages
...makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the...sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labour and double its produce : all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, (not excepting... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1839 - 590 pages
...makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the...levity, for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may dimmish its labor and double its produce; all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not... | |
| John Foster - Essays - 1844 - 432 pages
...occasions my regretting sometimes that I •was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried in a thousand years, the power...matter; we may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of the gravity, and give them absolute levity for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish... | |
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