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" If therefore a person, unacquainted with swimming, and falling accidentally into the water, could have presence of mind sufficient to avoid struggling and plunging, and to let the body take this natural position, he might continue long safe from drowning,... "
British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an ...
by William Nicholson - 1821
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Encyclopędia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 18, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 452 pages
...ftruggling and plunging, .and to let the body take this natural pofition, he might continue long fafe from drowning, till perhaps help would come ; for as to the clothes, their additional weight while .immerfed is very inconfiderable, the water fuppoiting it; though when he comes out of the water, he...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 20

History - 1805 - 608 pages
...unacquainted with swimming, and falling accidentally into the water, could have presence of mind sufficient to avoid struggling and plunging, and to let the body...from drowning, till perhaps help would come. For, is to their cloaths, their additional weight, while immersed, is very inconsiderable, the water supporting...
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The British encyclopedia, or, Dictionary of arts and sciences, Volume 6

William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...miad sufficient to avoid struggling and plungins, and to let the body take this natural position, lie might continue; long safe from drowning, till perhaps help would come. For as to the clothe», their additional weight while immersed is very inconsiderable, tlic water supporting it;...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 3

John Walker - 1814 - 566 pages
...unacquainted with swimming, and falling accidentally into the water, could have presence of mind sufficient to avoid struggling and plunging, and to let the body...continue long safe from drowning, till perhaps help could come. For, as to the clothes, their additional weight, while immersed, is very inconsiderable,...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts ..., Volume 22

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 752 pages
...to let the body take this natural pofition, he might continue long fafe from drowning, till perrnps help would come ; for, as to the clothes, their additional weight, while immerfed, is very inconfiderable, the water fupporting it ; though, when he comes out of the water,...
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Essays and Letters, Volumes 1-2

Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...unacquainted with swimming, and falling accidentally into the water, could have presence of mind sufficient to avoid struggling and plunging, and to let the body...this natural position, he might continue long safe froiu drowning till perhaps help would come. For as to the clothes, their additional weight while immersed...
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Essays and Letters, Volumes 1-2

Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...unacquainted with swimming, and falhng accidentally into the water, could have presence of mind sufficient to avoid struggling and plunging, and to let the body...immersed is very inconsiderable, the water supporting it ; ihough, when he comes out of the water, he would find lhem very heavy indeed. But, as 1 said before,...
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One Thousand Experiments in Chemistry: With Illustrations of Natural ...

Colin MacKenzie - 1821 - 724 pages
...unacquainted with swimming, and falling accidentally into the water, could nave presence of mind sufficient to avoid struggling and plunging, and to let the body...drowning, till perhaps help would come. For, as to the cloaths, their additional weight while immersed is very inconsiderable, the water supporting it ; though,...
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Essays and Letters, Volumes 1-2

Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...water, could have presence of mind sufficient to avoid struggling and plunging, and to let the hody take this natural position, he might continue long...drowning till perhaps help would come. For as to the clothe!, their additional weight while immersed is very inconsiderable, the water supporting it ; though,...
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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of ..., Volume 12

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...unacquainted with swimming, and falling accidentally into the water, could have presence of mind sufficient to avoid struggling and plunging, and to let the body take this na'ural position, he might continue long safe from drowning, till perhaps help would come. For as to...
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