 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 - Page 1161851Full view - About this book
 | 1804 - 560 pages
...ardent desire to see and observe the state of America an 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... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1804 - 242 pages
...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, until ' that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar 'warmth of my dear country. But since,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 78 pages
...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, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country ! But since, in... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1806 - 326 pages
...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, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country. But since, in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...ardent desire to see and observe the state of America an hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death- the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country ! But, since, in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 292 pages
...ardent desire to see and observe the state of America an hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends,-, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar -warmth of my dear country ! But since, in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 190 pages
...ardent desire to see and observe the state of America an hundred years hence, I" should prefer to an ordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, untif that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country ! But, since, in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 196 pages
...desire to see and observe the state of America zyi hundred years hence, I should prefer to airordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the softr warmth of my dear country ! But, since,,... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer, tn an ordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country ! But since, in... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...ordinary death, the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine, with a few friends, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country ! But since, in all probability, we live in an age too early, and too near the infancy of science,... | |
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