Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..H. Colburn, 1818 |
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... Smoke ; written at Sea , 1785 , 499 ` - 505 On Improvements in Navigation ; addressed to Monsieur Le Roy Remarks on the Gulph Stream 518 542 551 554 On the pernicious quality of Lead , & c . addressed to B. Vaughan , Esq . On ...
... Smoke ; written at Sea , 1785 , 499 ` - 505 On Improvements in Navigation ; addressed to Monsieur Le Roy Remarks on the Gulph Stream 518 542 551 554 On the pernicious quality of Lead , & c . addressed to B. Vaughan , Esq . On ...
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... smoke immediately ascends with a grateful odour through the holes of the cover . This smoke is held under every one's chin , and offered as it were a sacrifice to his beard . The bristly idol soon receives the reverence done to it , and ...
... smoke immediately ascends with a grateful odour through the holes of the cover . This smoke is held under every one's chin , and offered as it were a sacrifice to his beard . The bristly idol soon receives the reverence done to it , and ...
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... smoke or vapor ? Does it not seem to have a great affinity with water , since it will quit a solid to unite with that fluid , and go off with it in vapor , leaving the solid cold to the touch , and the degree measurable by the ...
... smoke or vapor ? Does it not seem to have a great affinity with water , since it will quit a solid to unite with that fluid , and go off with it in vapor , leaving the solid cold to the touch , and the degree measurable by the ...
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... smoke coming down the vents , is not owing to any bad construction of the vent down which it comes , and therefore not to be remedied by any change of form . It is merely the effect of a law of nature , whereby , whenever the outward ...
... smoke coming down the vents , is not owing to any bad construction of the vent down which it comes , and therefore not to be remedied by any change of form . It is merely the effect of a law of nature , whereby , whenever the outward ...
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... smoke . The Philadelphia grate which you mention is a very good thing , if you could get one that is rightly made , and a workman skilful in putting them up . Those generally made and used here are much hurt by fancied improvements in ...
... smoke . The Philadelphia grate which you mention is a very good thing , if you could get one that is rightly made , and a workman skilful in putting them up . Those generally made and used here are much hurt by fancied improvements in ...
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