 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...other sorts from foreign countries. New improvements in planting, gardening, clearing land, &c. And all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life. That a correspondence, already begun by some intended members, shall... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Ecology - 1815 - 148 pages
...other sorts from foreign countries. New improvements in planting, gardening, clearing land, etc. And all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life. That a correspondence, already hegun hy some intended memhers, shall... | |
 | Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Art - 1827 - 58 pages
...water, and draining meadows ; all new arts, trades, and manufactures that may be proposed or thought of; all philosophical experiments that let light into...the nature of things, tend to increase the power of mind over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life." It proved to be impossible,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1838
...other sorts from foreign countries ; new improvements in planting, gardening, and clearing land ; and all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life. That a correspondence, already begun by some intended members, shall... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840
...other sorts from foreign countries ; new improvements in planting, gardening, and clearing land ; and all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life. That a correspondence, already begun by some intended members, shall... | |
 | James Parton - Franklin, Benjamin - 1864 - 668 pages
...other sorts from foreign countries ; new improvements in planting, gardening, and clearing land ; and all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life." He concluded his circular with these words • "Benjamin Franklin,... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1896
...other sorts from foreign countries; new improvements in planting, gardening, and clearing land, and all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life. That a correspondence, already begun by some intended members, shall... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1868 - 409 pages
...mechanics ; in arts, trades, and manufactures ; in geography and topography ; in agriculture ; and " all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life." The circular proposes that " a correspondence be kept up with the... | |
 | Joseph Carson - 1869 - 227 pages
...mining, chemistry, mechanics, the arts, trades and manufactures, geography, topography, agriculture, "and all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences and pleasures of life." Upon its going into operation Dr. Franklin himself acted as secretary.... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1897
...breeds of useful animals, the cultivation and the clearing of land, for " all philosophic experimenta that let light into the nature of things tend to increase the power of man and multiply the conveniences and pleasures of life." It is only necessary to add that the society... | |
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... all philosophical experiments that let light into the nature of things, tend to increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life. 
