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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... ship or coach with which he is connected . If the ship strikes the shore , or the coach stops suddenly , the motion continuing in the man , he is thrown forward . If a man were to jump from the land into a swift sailing ship , he would ...
... ship or coach with which he is connected . If the ship strikes the shore , or the coach stops suddenly , the motion continuing in the man , he is thrown forward . If a man were to jump from the land into a swift sailing ship , he would ...
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... ship . # He that travels by sea or land , towards the equinoc- tial , gradually acquires motion ; from it , loses . But if a man were taken up from latitude 40 ( where suppose the earth's surface to move twelve miles per minute ) and ...
... ship . # He that travels by sea or land , towards the equinoc- tial , gradually acquires motion ; from it , loses . But if a man were taken up from latitude 40 ( where suppose the earth's surface to move twelve miles per minute ) and ...
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... ships happen under it ; but if in the progressive motion of the whirl it has moved from the sea , over the land , and then breaks , sudden , violent , and mischievous torrents are the consequences . B. FRANKLIN , DOCTOR OF BOSTON , TO ...
... ships happen under it ; but if in the progressive motion of the whirl it has moved from the sea , over the land , and then breaks , sudden , violent , and mischievous torrents are the consequences . B. FRANKLIN , DOCTOR OF BOSTON , TO ...
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... ship , so I suppose it to be only the drops thrown off from the spout , by the centrifugal force ( as the birds were at Hatfield ) when they had been car- ried so high as to be above , or to be too strongly cen- trifugal for , the ...
... ship , so I suppose it to be only the drops thrown off from the spout , by the centrifugal force ( as the birds were at Hatfield ) when they had been car- ried so high as to be above , or to be too strongly cen- trifugal for , the ...
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... ships . By one account , in the Transactions , of a spout that fell at Colne in Lancashire , one would think the ... ship becalmed , on the coast of Guinea , and first threw her down on one side , carrying away her fore- mast , then ...
... ships . By one account , in the Transactions , of a spout that fell at Colne in Lancashire , one would think the ... ship becalmed , on the coast of Guinea , and first threw her down on one side , carrying away her fore- mast , then ...
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