Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American TraditionBobbs-Merrill, 1953 - 320 pages |
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Page 51
... conduct . To see Franklin's particular con- tribution to America , therefore , we must try to understand how being a good scientist and being a good neighbor , friend and citizen were but different aspects of a single fundamental ...
... conduct . To see Franklin's particular con- tribution to America , therefore , we must try to understand how being a good scientist and being a good neighbor , friend and citizen were but different aspects of a single fundamental ...
Page 191
... conduct the patient through the distemper . The title page contained a note : " Printed at the expence of the author , to be given away in America . M , DCC , LIX . " Heberden began his Instructions as follows : Inoculation , as I am ...
... conduct the patient through the distemper . The title page contained a note : " Printed at the expence of the author , to be given away in America . M , DCC , LIX . " Heberden began his Instructions as follows : Inoculation , as I am ...
Page 203
... conduct a great quantity of this fluid . A wire no bigger than a goose quill , has been known to conduct ( with safety to the building as far as the wire was continued ) a quantity of lightning that did prodigious damage both above and ...
... conduct a great quantity of this fluid . A wire no bigger than a goose quill , has been known to conduct ( with safety to the building as far as the wire was continued ) a quantity of lightning that did prodigious damage both above and ...
Contents
PAGE | 27 |
IN THE SERVICE OF THE COMMUNITY | 164 |
INVENTIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF SCIENCE | 189 |
Copyright | |
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acquaintance advantage American tradition Assembly Autobiography Benjamin Franklin BERNARD COHEN Boston called Carl Van Doren character chimney colonies common conductors continued Cotton Mather distemper electricity empiricism England expence experience father fire fire-places Franklin stove Franklin's writings friends gave Gazette give hand heat hospital improvement industry inhabitants inoculation inventions Keimer lately laws letters liberty lightning rod living London Mark Twain means ment Mussulmen nature ness never observed occasion opinion paper parliament Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Gazette Pennsylvania Hospital persons Philadelphia philosophy political Poor Richard says pounds sterling present principles printer proposed published reason Richard Bache sect slaves society soon Stamp Act stoves taxes things thought thousand pounds thro tion took town trade VINDEX virtue warm wealth whole William Heberden wrote