 | 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,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Children - 1801 - 372 pages
...Rending bodies it passes through. 9. Des" troying animals. 10. Melting metals. 11. Firing inflam" mable substances. 12. Sulphureous smell. The electric fluid...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, is it not proba" bable,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Children - 1801 - 416 pages
...Now, let us fuppofej that Dr. Franklin, at the time he wrote his me"12. Sulphurous fmelli The deftac fluid is attracted " by points. We do not know whether this property is rt in lightning. Bat fince they agree in all the particulars '•' 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 know whether this property be in lightning; but since they agree in all the particulars in which we can already compare them,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1811 - 528 pages
...through. " 9. Destroying animals. 10. Melting metals. 11. Firing " inflammable substances. 12. Sulphurous smell. The " electric fluid is attracted by points....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 ex"... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1815 - 526 pages
...through. " 9. Destroying animals. 10.Melting metals. 111. Firing " inflammable substances. 12. Sulphurous smell. The " electric fluid is attracted by points....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 ex.... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Children - 1815 - 330 pages
...metals. II. Firing inflammable substances. 12. Sulphureous smell. The electric fluid is at. tracted by points. We do not know whether this property is...lightning. But since they agree in all the particulars wherein we can already compare them, is it not probable they agree liktv wise in this? Let the experiment... | |
 | 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 know whether this property be in lightning : but since they agree in all the particulars in which we can already compare them,... | |
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Firing inflammable substances. 12. Sulphureous "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, is it not probable... 
