I had the curiosity to learn how far he could be heard, by retiring backwards down the street towards the river; and I found his voice distinct till I came near Front street, when some noise in that street obscured it. The Howadji in Syria - Strana 137podľa George William Curtis - 1867 - Počet stránok 350Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - Počet stránok 812
...my distance should be the radius, and that it were fill'd with auditors, to each of whom I allow'd two square feet, I computed that he might well be heard by more than thirty thousand. This reconcil'd me to the newspaper accounts of his having preach'd to twenty-five thousand people... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - Počet stránok 579
...my distance should be the radius, and that it were fill'd with auditors, to each of whom I allow'd two square feet, I computed that he might well be heard by more than thirty thousand. This reconcil'd me to the newspaper accounts of his having preach'd to twenty-five thousand people... | |
| Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - Počet stránok 416
...in that street obscured it. Imagining then a semicircle, of which my distance should be the radins, and that it was filled with auditors, to each of whom...allowed two square feet, I computed that he might be well heard by more than thirty thousand. This reconciled me to the newspaper accounts of his having... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - Počet stránok 256
...obscured it. Imagining then a semicircle, of which my distance should be the radius, and that it were filled with auditors, to each of whom I allowed two...might well be heard by more than thirty thousand. This reconciled me to the newspaper accounts of his having preached to twenty-five thousand people... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - Počet stránok 156
...obscured it. Imagining then a semicircle, of which my distance should be the radius, and that it were filled with auditors, to each of whom I allowed two...might well be heard by more than thirty thousand. This reconciled me to the newspaper accounts of his having preached to twenty-five thousand people... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - Počet stránok 330
...obscured it. Imagining then a semicircle, of which my distance should be the radius, and that it were filled with auditors, to each of whom I allowed two...might well be heard by more than thirty thousand. This reconciled me to the newspaper accounts of his having preached to twenty-five thousand people... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - Počet stránok 250
...obscured it. Imagining then a semicircle, of which my distance should be the radius, and that it were filled with auditors, to each of whom I allowed two...might well be heard by more than thirty thousand. This reconciled me to the newspaper accounts of his having preached to twenty-five thousand people... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - Počet stránok 200
...obscured it. Imagining then a semicircle, of which my distance should be the radius, and that it were filled with auditors, to each of whom I allowed two...might well be heard by more than thirty thousand. This reconciled me to the newspaper accounts of his having preached to twenty-five thousand people... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - 1893 - Počet stránok 540
...distant;« would be the radins, and that it were filled with anditors, to each of whom I allowed '2 square feet. I computed that he might well be heard by more than thirty thousand. This reconciled me to the newspaper accounts of his having preached to 1*5,000 people in the fields,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - Počet stránok 310
...it. Imagining then a semicircle, of which my distance should be the radius, and that it was failed with auditors, to each of whom I allowed two square...might well be heard by more than thirty thousand. This reconciled me to the newspaper accounts of his having preached to twenty-five thousand people... | |
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