 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 sider
...inventions, all his own, but of lesser note. Over his mantel he has a prodigious number of medals, busts, and casts in wax, or plaster of Paris, which...principally to show me was a huge volume on botany, which indeed afforded me the greatest pleasure of any one thing in his library. It was a single volume,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 sider
...inventions, all his own, but of lesser note. Over his mantel he has a prodigious number of medals, busts, and casts in wax, or plaster of Paris, which...principally to show me was a huge volume on botany, which indeed afforded me the greatest pleasure of any one thing in his library. It was a single volume,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 sider
...inventions, all his own, but of lesser note. Over his mantel he has a prodigious number of medals, busts, and casts in wax, or plaster of Paris, which...principally to show me was a huge volume on botany, which indeed afforded me the greatest pleasure of any one thing in his library. It was a single volume,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 sider
...inventions, all hia own, but of lesser note. Over his mantel, he has a prodigious number of medals, busts, and casts in wax, or plaster of Paris, which...principally to show me, was a huge volume on botany, which indeed afforded me the greatest pleasure of any one thing in his library. It was a single volume,... | |
 | John Nicholas Norton - 1861 - 294 sider
...and inventions, all his own, but of less note. Over his mantel he has a prodigious number of medals, busts, and casts in wax or plaster of Paris, which...principally to show me was a huge volume on botany, which indeed afforded me the greatest pleasure of any thing in his library. It was a single volume,... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 720 sider
...inventions, all his own, but of lesser note. Over his mantel he has a prodigious number of medals, busts, and casts in wax, or plaster of Paris, which...principally to show me was a huge volume on botany, which indecd afforded me the greatest pleasure of any one thing in his library. It was a single volume,... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 728 sider
...But what the Doctor wished principally to show me was a huge volume on botany, which indeed aflbrded me the greatest pleasure of any one thing in his library....It was a single volume, but so large, that it was with great difficulty that he was able to raise it from a low shelf, and lift it on the table. But,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 556 sider
...inventions, all his own, but of lesser note. Over his mantel he has a prodigious number of medals, busts, and casts in wax, or plaster of Paris, which...principally to show me was a huge volume on botany, which indeed afforded me the greatest pleasure of any one thing in his library. It was a single volume,... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 sider
...inventions, all his own, but of lesser note. Over his mantel he has a prodigious number of medals, busts, and casts in wax, or plaster of Paris, which...what the Doctor wished principally to show me was « huge volume on botany. • • • It was a single volume, but so large, that it was with great... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1884 - 558 sider
...inventions, all his own, but of lesser note. Over his mantel he has a prodigious number of medals, busts, and casts in wax, or plaster of Paris, which...principally to show me was a huge volume on botany, which indeed afforded me the greatest pleasure of any one thing in his library. It was a single volume,... | |
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But what the Doctor wished principally to show me was a huge volume on botany, which indeed afforded me the greatest pleasure of any one thing in his library. It was a single volume, but so large, that it was with great difficulty that he was able to... 
