| John Platts - 1876 - 986 pagina’s
...it; but if you bring the focus to a black spot, or upon letters written or printed, the paper \\ill immediately be on fire under the letters. "Thus fullers and dyers find thatblack cloths, ofequal thickness with white ones, and hung out equally wet, dry in the sun much... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 324 pagina’s
...not easily burn it; but if you bring the focus to a black spot, or upon letters, written or printed, the paper will immediately be on fire under the letters....Thus fullers and dyers find black cloths of equal thickness with white ones, and hung out equally wet, dry in the sun much sooner than the white, being... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1974 - 260 pagina’s
...not easily burn it; but if you bring the focus to a black spot, or upon letters, written or printed, the paper will immediately be on fire under the letters....Thus fullers and dyers find black cloths, of equal thickness with white ones, and hung out equally wet, dry in the sun much sooner than the white, being... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1770 - 620 pagina’s
...eafily burn it; — but if you bring the focus to a black fpot, or upon letters, written or printed, the paper will immediately be on fire under the letters....dyers find black cloths, of equal thicknefs with white enes, and hung out equally wet, dry in the fun much fooner than the white, being more readily heated... | |
| Endless amusement - 1820 - 232 pagina’s
...not easily burn it ; but if you bring the focus to a black spot, or upon letters, written or printed, the paper will immediately be on fire under the letters....Thus, fullers and dyers find black cloths, of equal thickness with white ones, and hung out equally wet, dryin the sun much sooner than the white, being... | |
| Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1906 - 652 pagina’s
...easily burn it; but if you bring the focus to a black spot, or •upon letters, written or printed, the paper will immediately be on fire under the letters...."Thus fullers and dyers find black cloths, of equal thickness with white ones, and hung out equally wet, dry in the sun much sooner than the white, being... | |
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