 | Benjamin Franklin - Almanacs, American - 1900 - 190 pages
...race who lived and flourished long before my 125 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 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... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1905 - 316 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... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1907 - 374 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 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... | |
 | Adaline May Conway - American essays - 1914 - 144 pages
...think there was some foundation for tha opinion, since by the apparent motion of the great luminar that gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidentl declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our eart] it must then finish its course,... | |
 | Louis Wann - American essays - 1926 - 560 pages
...very sincerely and with un- parent motion of the great luminary that alterable affection. 60&'ves ''^e to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably _TTT, _„.,„,„„ , . XT _. tT.r „. , _._. towards the ocean at the end of our earth, THE EPHEMERA:... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...FRANKLIN. time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than To MADAME BRILLON eighteen hours; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since. THE EPHEMERA by ^ apparent motion of the great You may remember, my dear friend, luminary that gives... | |
 | Claude-Anne Lopez - Social Science - 1990 - 436 pages
...of our race . . . that this vast world, the Moulin Joli, could not itself subsist more than IS hours since by the apparent motion of the great Luminary...to all Nature, and which in my time has evidently dec lin'd considerably towards the Ocean at the End of our Earth, it must then finish its Course, be... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 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 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... 
