 | 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 - 1806 - 586 pages
...could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion: since, by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours: and I think there was some foundation for that opinion ; since, by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably 'towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...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,...which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1810 - 292 pages
...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 declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...Jo/ycould not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion ; since, by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion ; since, by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Insects - 1817 - 266 pages
...could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion; since by the apparent motion of the great...which, in my time, has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of the 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... 
