 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - Children - 1921 - 716 pages
...Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Louis Wann - American essays - 1926 - 560 pages
...very sincerely and with un- parent motion of the great luminary that alterable affection. 60&'ves ''^e to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably _TTT, _„.,„,„„ , . XT _. tT.r „. , _._. towards the ocean at the end of our earth, THE EPHEMERA:... | |
 | Claude-Anne Lopez - Social Science - 1990 - 436 pages
...of our race . . . that this vast world, the Moulin Joli, could not itself subsist more than IS hours since by the apparent motion of the great Luminary...to all Nature, and which in my time has evidently dec lin'd considerably towards the Ocean at the End of our Earth, it must then finish its Course, be... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, University Press of the Pacific - American essays - 2001 - 190 pages
...Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 576 pages
...Moulin-Joli, could not itself subsist more than 18 hours; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since by the apparent motion of the great...which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 pages
...could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since by the apparent motion of the great...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... | |
 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 514 pages
...Moulin Joli, could not itself subsist more than 18 hours; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since by the apparent motion of the great...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
...Moulin Joli, could not itself subsist more than 18 hours; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since by the apparent motion of the great...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... | |
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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... 
