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" Having heard it remarked that drowned flies were capable of being revived by the rays of the sun, I proposed making the experiment upon these; they were therefore exposed to the sun upon a sieve, which had been employed to strain them out of the wine.... "
The Scots Magazine - Page 525
1790
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The literary miscellany: or, Selections and extracts, classical ..., Volume 9

1812 - 314 pages
...therefore exposed to the sun upon a sieve which had been employed to strain them out of the wine. In less than three hours, two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions in the thighs, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..

Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pages
...therefore exposed to the sun upon a sieve, which had been employed to strain them out of the wine. In less than three hours two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions in the thighs, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped...
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Essays and Letters, Volumes 1-2

Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 pages
...therefore, exposed to the sun upon a sieve, which had been employed to strain them out of the wine. In less than three hours, two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions of the thighs, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped...
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The British Prose Writers...: Dr. B. Franklin's essays

1821 - 356 pages
...therefore, exposed to the sun upon a sieve, which had been employed to strain them out of the wine. In less than three hours, two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions of the thighs, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped...
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The Life of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; Together ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1823 - 310 pages
...therefore exposed to the sun upon ;« sieve which had been employed to strain them out of the wine. In less than three hours two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions in the thighs, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped...
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Terrible Tractoration, and Other Poems

Thomas Green Fessenden - 1837 - 300 pages
...therefore exposed to the sun upon a sieve, which had been employed to strain them out of the wine. In less than three hours two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions of the thighs, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped...
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 6

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1838 - 632 pages
...therefore exposed to the sun upon a sieve, which had been employed to strain them out of the wine. In less than three hours, two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions of the thighs, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped...
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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volume 6

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...therefore exposed to the sun upon a sieve, which had been employed to strain them out of the wine. In less than three hours, two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions of the thighs, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 21

1850 - 602 pages
...therefore, exposed to the sun upon a sieve, which had been employed to strain them out of the wine. In less than three hours two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions in the thighs, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 31

1851 - 640 pages
...therefore, exposed to the sun upon a sieve, which had been employed to strain them out of the wine. In less than three hours two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsivo * The skin of a human being , properly propared, is verу like fine kid leather. LEAVES...
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