 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1793 - 428 pages
...public cares, and I expect to be fo in a few months, why may we not refume that kind of correfpondence ? Our much regretted friend Winthrop once made me the compliment, that I was good at ftarting game for philofophers, let me try if I can ftart a little for you. Has the queftion, how came... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pages
...public cares, and I expect to be so in a few months, why may we not resume that kind of correspondence. Our much regretted friend Winthrop once made me the...question, How came the earth by its magnetism, ever been consisidered ? Is it likely that iron ore immediately existed when this globe was first formed, or... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...public cares, and I expect to be so in a few months, why may we not resume that kind of correspondence? Our much regretted friend Winthrop once made me the...philosophers : let me try if I can start a little for yon. Has the question, ' How came the earth by its magnetism,' ever been considered ? Is it likely... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...public cares, and I expect to be so in a few months, why may we not resume that kind of correspondence ? Our much regretted friend Winthrop once made me the...not rather be supposed a gradual production of time? If the earth is at present magnctical, in virtue of the masses of iron ore contained in it, might not... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...that kind of correspondence ? Our much regretted friend Winthrop once made mv the compliment, that 1 was good at starting game for philosophers : let me...not rather be supposed a gradual production of time ? If the earth is at present magnetical, in virtue of the masses of iron ore contained in it, might... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...wby may we not resume that kind of correspondence ? Our much regretted friend Winthrop once made mo the compliment, that I was good at starting game for philosophers : let me try if I cant start a little for you. Has the question, ' How came the earth by its magnetism,' ever been considered... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1825 - 490 pages
...this is the case ; if so, perhaps, some of our Correspondents will have the kindness to inform us. " Has the question, how came the earth by its magnetism,...not rather be supposed a gradual production of time ? If the earth Is at present magnetics!, in virtue of the masses of Iron ore contained in it, might... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...public cares, and I expect to be so in a few months, why may we not resume that kind of correspondence ? Our much regretted friend Winthrop once made me the...not rather be supposed a gradual production of time? If the earth is at present magnetical in virtue of the masses of iron ore contained in it, might not... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1906 - 1056 pages
...public Cares, and I expect to be so in a few Months, why may we not resume that kind of Correspondence? Our much regretted Friend Winthrop once made me the...Philosophers; let me try if I can start a little for you. 1 Read at a meeting of The American Philosophical Society, January 15, 1790. —ED. Has the question,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1907 - 496 pages
...public cares, and I expect to be so in a few months, why may we not resume that kind of correspondence ? Our much regretted friend Winthrop * once made me...question, How came the earth by its magnetism ever been consider'd ? Is it likely that iron ore immediately existed when this globe was first form'd, or may... | |
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Our ancient correspondence used to have something philosophical in it. As you are now more free from public cares, and I expect to be so in a few months, why may we not resume that kind of correspondence ? Our much regretted friend Winthrop once made... 
