I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant ; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a... Littell's Living Age - Seite 1161851Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Albert Tracy Huntington - 1909 - 298 Seiten
...period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Maderia wine, with a few friends, till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of... | |
| Theodore Diller - 1912 - 100 Seiten
...period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Maderia wine, with a few friends, till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of... | |
| William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 Seiten
...period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary...Madeira wine, with a few friends, till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country ! But since in all probability we live... | |
| John Clyde Oswald - 1917 - 276 Seiten
...of America a hundred Years hence, I fhould prefer to any ordinary Death the being immerfed in a cafk of Madeira Wine, with a few Friends, till that Time, to be then recalled to Life by the folar Warmth of my dear Country!" Many a tense situation was relieved... | |
| James Montgomery Beck - 1924 - 358 Seiten
...see and observe the state of America. a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country." Let us suppose that this vision has... | |
| 1938 - 462 Seiten
...ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country! But since in all probability we live... | |
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1895 - 510 Seiten
...in such a manner "that they may be recalled to life at any period, however " distant; for having a desire to see and observe the state " of America an...immersed in a cask of " Madeira wine, with a few friends until that time, to be " recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country ! " But since in all... | |
| James L. Hargrove - 1998 - 332 Seiten
...(1996): 183-189. 14 A Stochastic Model of Senescence and Demise [1l should prefer to any ordinary death, being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, until that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country. Benjamin Franklin... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1974 - 260 Seiten
...period, however distant ; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary...Madeira wine, with a few friends, till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country! But since in all probability we live... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, University Press of the Pacific - 2001 - 190 Seiten
...period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary...in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till 1 that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country! But since in all probability... | |
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