 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 514 pages
...flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joli, could not itself subsist more than 18 hours; and I think there was some foundation for that...to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declin'd considerably toward the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 513 pages
...flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joli, could not itself subsist more than 18 hours; and I think there was some foundation for that...to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declin'd considerably toward the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1875 - 542 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...towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then v finish its course, be extinguished in the waters that surround us, and leave the world in cold and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Howard - 1834 - 206 pages
...our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin July, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours : and...declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of the earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters that surround us, and leave... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 189? - 332 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... | |
 | Readers - 1873 - 350 pages
...lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself exist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some...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... | |
 | Readers - 1873 - 342 pages
...lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself exist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some...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... | |
 | 112 pages
..."long before my time, that this vast World, the "Moulin Joli, could not itself subsist more than "18 Hours; and I think there was some Foundation for that..."to all Nature, and which in my time has evi"dently declin'd considerably towards the Ocean "at the End of our Earth, it must then finish its "Course,... | |
 | 1793 - 648 pages
...itfelf fubfiil more than eighteen hours : and I think there was fome foundation for that opinion, iince by the apparent motion of the great luminary, that...gives life to all nature, and which in my time, has declined evidently towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it mull then finim its courfc — be... | |
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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... 
