 The electric fluid is attracted by points. We do not know whether this property is in lightning. But since they agree in all the particulars wherein we can already compare them, is it not probable they agree likewise in this ? Let the experiment be made.  The Boy's Own Book of Stories from History, &c - Page 40by Mary E. Bennett - 1848 - 185 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...the body of the earth. His account of this fuppofition is given by himfelf in the following words. " The electric fluid is attracted by points. We do not know whether this property be in lightning ; but fince they agree in all the particulars in which we can already compare them, it is not improbable,... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 460 pages
...is attradled by Paints. We do not know whether this property be in Lightning; but fince they Sgiee in all the particulars in which We can already Compare them, it is polfible that they agree likewife in ihis : lift the Experiment be made?'1 Difficulties, without doubt,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Children - 1801 - 372 pages
...Des" troying animals. 10. Melting metals. 11. Firing inflam" mable substances. 12. Sulphureous smell. The electric fluid " is attracted by points. We do not know whether this property ft is in lightning. But since they agree in all the particulars " wherein we can already compare them,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Children - 1801 - 416 pages
...let us fuppofe, that Dr. Franklin, at the time he wrote his me" 12. Sulphurous fmell, "the ele&ric fluid is attracted " by points. We do not know whether this property is " in lightning. But fibce they agree in all the particular* " wherein we can already compare them,... | |
 | William Smith - Sermons, American - 1803 - 528 pages
...known particulars of resemblance between lightning and electricity, he concludes with saying — " The electric fluid is attracted by points. We do not...particulars in which we can already compare them, it is possible that they agree likewise in this: Let the experiment be made." Difficulties, without doubt,... | |
 | William Smith - Sermons - 1803 - 492 pages
...known particulars of resemblance between lightning and electricity, he concludes with saying — " The electric fluid is attracted by points. We do not know whether this property be in lightning j bat since they agree in all the particulars in which we can already compare them, it is possible... | |
 | James Smith - Industrial arts - 1815 - 942 pages
...or danger, draw from it the matter of the thunder-bolt into the body of the earth. His words are : " The electric fluid is attracted by points. We do not...agree likewise in this; let the experiment be made." The earliest observation, it will be recollected, on the similarity of electricity and lightning, was... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1815 - 526 pages
...Destroying animals. 10.Melting metals. 111. Firing " inflammable substances. 12. Sulphurous smell. The " electric fluid is attracted by points. We do not know " whether this property is in lightning. But since they agree " in all the particulars wherein we can already compare them,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 766 pages
...thunder-bolt, without noife or dan-* ger, into the body of the earth. " The ckctrii: fluid (faid he) is attracted by points. We do not know whether this property be in lightning ; but trxe they agree in all the particulars in v.hkh we can already compare them, it it not improbable,... | |
 | William King - Electricity - 1825 - 116 pages
...with lightning, might draw from it the matter of the thunder bolt, without noise or danger. He says, " the electric fluid is attracted by points. We do not...since they agree in all the particulars in which we have already compared them, it is not improbable they likewise agree in this. Let the experiment be... | |
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