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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 the... "
The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary: Of the Late Benjamin Franklin - Page 17
by Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 182 pages
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and ..., Volume 1

Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 704 pages
...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...finish its course, be extinguished in the waters that sar"round us, and leave the world in cold and darkness, necessarily producing universal death and destruction....
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The Prose Writers of America: With a Survey of the Intellectual History ...

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...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...apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to bil nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of...
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Osgood's Progressive Fifth Reader: Embracing a System of Instruction in the ...

Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...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...which in my time has evidently declined considerably toward the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters...
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The graduated series of reading-lesson books, Book 4

Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...our race, who lived and nourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and...which in my time has evidently declined considerably toward the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters...
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The Autobiography and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...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...apparent motion of the great luminary, that gives light to all nature, antl which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at...
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Cyclopaedia of American literature, by E. A. and G. L ..., Volume 1; Volume 85

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 pages
...vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hour:.; and I think there woe some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the greit luminary that gives life to all nature, and whiuii in my time has evidently declined considerably...
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Swinton's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 6

William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...and flourished long before my time, J:hat this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist2 more than eighteen hours; and I think" there was some...evidently declined considerably towards the ocean tit the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters that surround...
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...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...which in my time has evidently declined considerably toward the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters...
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A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present ...

Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - American literature - 1894 - 592 pages
...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...which in my time has evidently declined considerably toward the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 656 pages
...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...to all nature, and which in my time has evidently de. clined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course,...
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