The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 5Hillard, Gray,, 1837 - Statesmen |
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... surface being always in a Negative State of Electricity , when the inner Surface is in a Posi- tive State • To JAMES BOWDOIN , AT BOSTON . 25 October , 1750 . Enclosing Papers on Electricity To A FRIEND IN BOSTON . 25 December , 1750 ...
... surface being always in a Negative State of Electricity , when the inner Surface is in a Posi- tive State • To JAMES BOWDOIN , AT BOSTON . 25 October , 1750 . Enclosing Papers on Electricity To A FRIEND IN BOSTON . 25 December , 1750 ...
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... Surfaces . SIR , Philadelphia , 1 September , 1747 . The necessary trouble of copying long letters , which perhaps ... surface , and forms an electrical atmos- phere round it of considerable extent ; but the electrical fire is crowded ...
... Surfaces . SIR , Philadelphia , 1 September , 1747 . The necessary trouble of copying long letters , which perhaps ... surface , and forms an electrical atmos- phere round it of considerable extent ; but the electrical fire is crowded ...
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... surface of one bottle ) being exactly equal to the want- ing of the other ; and therefore , as each bottle has in itself the abounding as well as the wanting , the wanting and abounding must be equal in each bottle . See § 8 , 9 , 10 ...
... surface of one bottle ) being exactly equal to the want- ing of the other ; and therefore , as each bottle has in itself the abounding as well as the wanting , the wanting and abounding must be equal in each bottle . See § 8 , 9 , 10 ...
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... surfaces , serving only to give and receive to and from the several parts of the glass ; that is , to give on one ... surface ; then electrified that plate , and bringing a finger to it , there was a spark and shock . We then took two ...
... surfaces , serving only to give and receive to and from the several parts of the glass ; that is , to give on one ... surface ; then electrified that plate , and bringing a finger to it , there was a spark and shock . We then took two ...
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... surfaces , a violent shock ensued . Which demonstrated the power to reside in glass as glass , and that the non - electrics in contact served only , like the armature of a loadstone , to unite the force of the several parts , and bring ...
... surfaces , a violent shock ensued . Which demonstrated the power to reside in glass as glass , and that the non - electrics in contact served only , like the armature of a loadstone , to unite the force of the several parts , and bring ...
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Page 46 - To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will not say, that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm, that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. I will not say that the king is betrayed ; but I will pronounce, that the kingdom is undone.
Page 161 - Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men ? we will not come up.
Page 65 - They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Page 154 - We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government and examined the different forms of those republics which, having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist.
Page 211 - A turkey is to be killed for our dinner by the electrical shock and roasted by the electrical jack before a fire kindled by the electrified bottle; when the healths of all the famous electricians in England, Holland, France and Germany are to be drank in electrified bumpers under the discharge of guns from the electrical battery.
Page 154 - I have lived, sir, a long time ; and the longer I live. the more convincing proofs I see of this truth : That GOD goverra in the affairs of men ! And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 155 - I therefore beg leave to move, That henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business; and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.
Page 236 - On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box (as in Plate I., Fig. 9), big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let an iron rod rise and pass bending out of the door, and then upright twenty or thirty feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on it when...
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Page 156 - It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear, that our...