 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 more readily heated by the sun's rays. It is the same before a fire; the heat of which sooner penetrates...  Annual Register of World Events - Page 1031800Full view - About this book
 | John Wesley - 1786 - 738 pages
...burning glafs. If it is white, you will not eafily burn it ; but if you bring the focus to ablackfpot, or upon letters, written or printed, the paper will...fooner penetrates black ftockings than white ones, andis fo apt fooner to burn a man's fhins. Alfo beer much fooner warms in a black mug fet before the... | |
 | Arthur Johnston - 1810 - 180 pages
...glass. If it is white, you will not easily burn it; — but if you bring the focus to a black spot, or upon letters, written or printed, the paper will...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... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1817 - 902 pages
...bring the focus to a black spot, or upon letters written or printed, the paper will be immediately 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 - 1820 - 360 pages
...burniugglass. If it is white, you will not easily burn it ; but if you bring the focus to a black spot, or upon letters, written or printed, the paper will...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... | |
 | 1821 - 356 pages
...burningglass. If it is white, you will not easily burn it ; but if you bring the focus to a black spot, or upou letters, written or printed, the paper will immediately...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... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1825 - 892 pages
...bring the ibcus to a black spot, or upon letters written or printed, the paper will be immediately 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, Jared Sparks - 1838 - 632 pages
...burning glass. If it is white, you will not easily burn it ; but if you bring the focus to a black spot, or upon letters, written or printed, the paper will...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... | |
 | 1839 - 230 pages
...burning-glass ; if it be white, you will not easily burn it ; but if you bring the focus to a black spot, or upon letters, written or printed, the paper will...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 - 1840 - 640 pages
...burning glass. If it is white, you will not easily burn it ; but if you bring the focus to a black spot, or upon letters, written or printed, the paper will...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 - 1853 - 522 pages
...easily burn it; but, if you bring the s to n black spot, or upon letters, written or printed, the paptn- 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 nooner than the white, being... | |
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