 | Education, George Nicholson - 1805 - 276 sider
...facility, by means of a sail. This discovery I fortunately made by accident, and in the following manner. When I was a boy, I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite; and approaching the bank of a pond, which was nearly a mile broad, I tied the string to a stake, and the kite ascended... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 sider
...distances by means of a sail. This discovery I fortunately made by accident, and in the following manner. When I was a boy I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite; and approaching the bank of a pond, which was near a mile broad, I tied the string to a staAe, and the kite ascended to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 292 sider
...by means of a sail. This discovery I fortunately made by acci" dent, and in the following manner. - When I was a boy I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite ; and approaching the bank of a pond, which was near a mile broad, I tied the string to a stake, and the kite ascended to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 196 sider
...distances by means of a sail. This discovery I fortunately made by accident, and in the following manner. When I was a boy I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite ; and approaching the bank of a pond, which was near a mile broad, I tied the string to a stake, and the kite ascended ta>... | |
 | Roger Lamb - 1811 - 310 sider
...by means of a sail.- This discovery I fortunately made by accident^ and in the following manner : " When I was a boy, I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite ; and approaching the bank of a pond, which was near a mile broad, I tied the string to a stake, and the kite ascended to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 190 sider
...distances by means of a sail. This discovery I fortunately made by accident, and in the following manner. When I was a boy I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite ; and approaching the bank of a pond, which was near a mile broad, I tied the string to a stake, and the kite ascended to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 sider
...means of a sail : — this discovery I fortunately made by accident, and in the following manner : When I was a boy, I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite ; and approaching the bank of a pond which was near a mile broad, the weather being very warm, I tied the string to a stake,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 sider
...facility, by means of a sail. This discovery I fortunately made by accident, and in the following manner. When I was a boy I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite ; and approaching the bank of a pond, which was near a mile broad, I tied the string to a stake, and the kite ascended to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1821 - 758 sider
...means of a sail : — This discovery I fortunately made by accident, and in the following manner : When I was a boy I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite ; and approaching the bank of a pond which was near a mile broad, the weather being very warm, I tied the string to a stake,... | |
 | 1821 - 356 sider
...facility, by means of a sail. -This discovery I fortunately made by accident, and in the following manner. When I was a boy I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite ; and approaching the bank of a pond, which was near a mile broad, 1 tied the string to a stake, and the kite ascended to... | |
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When I was a boy, I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite; and, approaching the bank of a pond which was near a mile broad, I tied the string to a stake, and the kite ascended to a very considerable height above the pond, while I was swimming.... 
