 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1835 - 374 pages
...to say, whether we are most pleased, with the simplicity and perspicuity with which the«e letters are written, the modesty with which the author proposes...when they were corrected by subsequent experiments." 91 CHAPTER I. OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE SCIENCE. 694. The most general effect by which the presence... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1837 - 552 pages
...easy to say, whether we are most pleased with the simplicity and perspicuity with which these letters are written, the modesty with which the author proposes...when they were corrected by subsequent experiments. " Though the English have not been backward in acknowledging the great merit of this philosopher, he... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 96 pages
..." It is not easy to say whether we are most pleased with the simplieity and perspieuity with whieh the author proposes every hypothesis of his own, or the noble frankness with whieh he relates his mistakes when they were eorreeted by subsequent experiments." While Franklin's... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1844 - 610 pages
...easy to say, whether we are most pleased with the simplicity and perspicuity with which these letters are written, the modesty with which the author proposes...own, or the noble frankness with which he relates hia mistakes, when they were corrected by subsequent experiments." r •, ,. ,. ,... CHAPTER I. OF... | |
 | Denison Olmsted, Ebenezer Strong Snell - Physics - 1845 - 612 pages
...to say, whether we are most pleased with the simplicity and perspicuity with which these letters arc written, the modesty with which the author proposes...when they were corrected by subsequent experiments." CHAPTER I. OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE SCIENCE. 563. THE most general effect by which the presence... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Science - 1846 - 628 pages
...easy to say whether we are most pleased with the simplicity and perspicuity with which these letters are written, the modesty with which the author proposes...when they were corrected by subsequent experiments."* In the analysis of Franklin's discoveries, it is necessary to distinguish carefully fact from hypothesis,... | |
 | 1846 - 910 pages
...letters are written, the modesty with we are i with which these letters are written, the modesty wit! which the author proposes every hypothesis of his...when they were corrected by subsequent experiments. Priestley was almost the only man with the reputation of a philosopher in England who spoke with fairness... | |
 | Robert Hunt - Science - 1849 - 538 pages
...remarks : — " It is not easy to say whether we are most pleased with the simplicity and perspicuity with which the author proposes every hypothesis of...when they were corrected by subsequent experiments." (K) p. 38. — "The atomic philosophy of Epicurus, in its mere physical contemplation, allows of nothing... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...easy to say, whether we are most pleased with the simplicity and perspicuity with which these letters are written, the modesty with which the author proposes...when they were corrected by subsequent experiments." Before detailing Franklin's experiments we shall enter into a cursory review of what was known on this... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1850 - 624 pages
...to sny, whether we are most pleased with the simplicity and perspicuity with which these letters arc written, the modesty with which the author proposes...own, or the noble frankness with which he relates his mistake*, when they were corrected by subsequent experiments." CHAPTER I. OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES... | |
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It is not easy to say, whether we are most pleased with the simplicity and perspicuity with which these letters are written, the modesty with which the author proposes every hypothesis of his own, or the noble frankness with which he relates his mistakes,... 
