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
| Gerald Joseph Gruman - 2003 - 246 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... | |
| Michael P. Branch - 2004 - 444 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... | |
| Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, Jeffry H. Morrison - 2004 - 340 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... | |
| Tom Huntington - 2006 - 100 Seiten
...thinking, as such things often did. "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," he wrote. If such things were possible,... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1850 - 780 Seiten
...persons, in such a manner that they might be recalled to Ufe at anv period, however dietant; for, having i very ardent desire to see and observe the state of...cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, till that tune, to he recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country.* Now, Heaven forbid, that in this... | |
| 540 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... | |
| 262 Seiten
...that they may be recalled to life at some distant period, Franklin characteristically remarks that "I should prefer to any ordinary death, the being...Madeira wine, with a few friends, till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country." In this as well as in some other passages,... | |
| 1903 - 1300 Seiten
...period however distant; for, having a very urgent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary...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. But since in all... | |
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