The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself ; in Three Volumes, Volume 2J. Johnson, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806 - 468 pages |
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... kind of haziness in it , which makes objects at a distance appear dull and indistinct . This haziness is occasioned by the great quantity of moisture equally diffused in that air . When , by the cold wind blowing down among it , it is ...
... kind of haziness in it , which makes objects at a distance appear dull and indistinct . This haziness is occasioned by the great quantity of moisture equally diffused in that air . When , by the cold wind blowing down among it , it is ...
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... kind of eddies , or whirlings , the parts of air acquiring a circular motion , and receding from the middle of the circle by a centrifugal force , and leaving there a va- cancy ; if descending , greatest above , and lessening downwards ...
... kind of eddies , or whirlings , the parts of air acquiring a circular motion , and receding from the middle of the circle by a centrifugal force , and leaving there a va- cancy ; if descending , greatest above , and lessening downwards ...
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... kind of salt rain ; for it has pleased the goodness of God so to order it , that the particles of air will not attract the particles of salt , though they strongly attract water . A Hence , though all metals , even gold , may be united ...
... kind of salt rain ; for it has pleased the goodness of God so to order it , that the particles of air will not attract the particles of salt , though they strongly attract water . A Hence , though all metals , even gold , may be united ...
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... kind may occasion the particles that are near cohering , immediately to do so ; and then the whole , thus condensed , falls at once ( which is what I suppose is vulgarly called the breaking of the spout ) and in the interval , between ...
... kind may occasion the particles that are near cohering , immediately to do so ; and then the whole , thus condensed , falls at once ( which is what I suppose is vulgarly called the breaking of the spout ) and in the interval , between ...
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... kind , I found the beginning to be always later the farther north - eastward . I have not my notes with me here in England , and cannot , from memory , say the proportion of time to distance , but I think it is about an hour to every ...
... kind , I found the beginning to be always later the farther north - eastward . I have not my notes with me here in England , and cannot , from memory , say the proportion of time to distance , but I think it is about an hour to every ...
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