What humor device does Benjamin Franklin use in the underlined passage from section 10 of “daylight saving”?

my guy how are we supposed to know

the author wants to draw the reader deeper into the experiences.

many is the pronoun that is used in this sentence. many is a quantifier that determines the amount of discoveries. when we use quatifiers followed by nouns, they act as determiners, but when they are used without a noun, as it is this case, they are pronouns.

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