 | Benjamin Franklin - 1974 - 260 ページ
...impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their...by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of Old Age, and oar lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard. Franklin... | |
 | David Garrioch - 2002 - 402 ページ
...carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter," wrote Benjamin Franklin from Paris in 1780. "All diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of old age and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard." Once... | |
 | Gerald Joseph Gruman - 2003 - 246 ページ
...impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their...sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labor and double its produce; all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even... | |
 | Michael Brian Schiffer - 2003 - 408 ページ
...& give them absolute Levity, for the sake of easy Transport. Agriculture may diminish its Labour & double its Produce. All Diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of Old Age.125 In his eighth decade, Franklin appreciated all too well that he would not... | |
 | Michael Brian Schiffer, Kacy L. Hollenback, Carrie L. Bell - 2003 - 398 ページ
...Years the Power of Man over Matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large Masses of their Gravity & give them absolute Levity, for the sake of easy Transport. Agriculture may diminish its Labour & double its Produce. All Diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that... | |
 | Renée Rose Shield, Stanley M. Aronson - 2003 - 264 ページ
...wished he had been born later in order to reap the advantages of scientific accomplishment in which "all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure" (quoted by Cole 1992:xxiv). Old age had... | |
 | Celia Deane-Drummond, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Robin Grove-White - 2003 - 394 ページ
...imagine the heights to which may be carried in a thousand years the power of man over matter . . . All diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure, even beyond the antediluvian standard.1... | |
 | Lucian Boia - 2004 - 228 ページ
...impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in 1,000 years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their...sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labor and double its produce; all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even... | |
 | Edward Cornish - 2004 - 348 ページ
...impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their...sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labor and double its produce; all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even... | |
 | Dwight Furrow - 2004 - 332 ページ
...impossible to imagine the height to which may be carded, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their...the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish in labor and double in its produce; all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting... | |
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The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the Power of Man over Matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large... 
