 | Benjamin Franklin - American letters - 1833 - 322 pages
...and acquisition of new and useful utensils and instruments; so that I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. For invention and improvement are prolific, and beget more of their kind. The present progress is rapid.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 572 pages
...and acquisition of new and useful utensils and instruments ; so that I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. For invention and improvement are prolific, and beget more of their kind. The present progress is rapid.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...and acquisition of new and useful utensils and instruments ; so that I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. For invention and improvement are prolific, and beget more of their kind." Shall we believe that this divine... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1856 - 588 pages
...miraculous progress of the modern sciences and of those ideas of which he beheld but the dawn. " I have sometimes almost wished," he writes, " it had...initiated by the Spectator, expanded into the elaborate Eeview, the brilliant Magazine, the Household Words, and Scientific Journals VOL. LXXXIII. — NO.... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1856 - 694 pages
...miraculous progress of ihe modern sciences and of those ideas of which he beheld but the dawn. ' I have sometimes almost wished,' he writes, ' it had...mode of popular education initiated by the Spectator, expended into the elaborate Review, the brilliant Magazine, the Household Words, and ¡scientific Journals... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1856 - 766 pages
...modern sciences and of those ideas of which he beheld but the dawn. 'I have sometimes almost wished,' be writes, ' it had been my destiny to be born two or...mode of popular education initiated by the Spectator, expended into the elaborate Review, the brilliant Magazine, the Household Words, and Scientific Journals... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Biography - 1857 - 492 pages
...miraculous progress of the modern sciences, and of those ideas of which he beheld but the dawn. "I have sometimes almost wished," he writes, "it had...journals of the present day ; the rude hand-press, upon which he arranged the miniature " copy" of the New England Courant, transformed into electrotyped... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Biography - 1857 - 492 pages
...miraculous progress of the modern sciences, and of those ideas of which he beheld but the dawn. "I have sometimes almost wished/' he writes, " it had...journals of the present day ; the rude hand-press, upon which he arranged the miniature " copy" of the New England Courant, transformed into electrotyped... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 pages
...and acquisition of new and useful utensils and instruments ; so that I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. For invention and improvement are prolific, and beget more of their kind." Shall we believe that this divine... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 796 pages
...and acquisition of new and useful utensils and instruments ; so that I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. For invention and improvement are prolific, and beget more of their kind. The present progress is rapid.... | |
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I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. For invention and improvement are prolific, and beget more of their kind. 
