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... glass of water , I had the rest of the time , till their return , for study ; and my progress therein was proportioned to that clearness of ideas , and quickness of conception , which are the fruit of temperance in eating and drinking ...
... glass of water , I had the rest of the time , till their return , for study ; and my progress therein was proportioned to that clearness of ideas , and quickness of conception , which are the fruit of temperance in eating and drinking ...
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... glass , the latter from excited sulphur , sealing - wax , & c . But this he afterwards gave up as erroneous . Be- tween the years 1739 and 1742 , Desaguliers made a number of experiments , but added little of im portance . He first used ...
... glass , the latter from excited sulphur , sealing - wax , & c . But this he afterwards gave up as erroneous . Be- tween the years 1739 and 1742 , Desaguliers made a number of experiments , but added little of im portance . He first used ...
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... glass itself . After a phial was charged , he removed the coating , and found that upon applying a new coating , the shock might still be received . In the year 1749 , he first suggested his idea of explaining the phenomena of thunder ...
... glass itself . After a phial was charged , he removed the coating , and found that upon applying a new coating , the shock might still be received . In the year 1749 , he first suggested his idea of explaining the phenomena of thunder ...
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... glass and sulphur . This , we have said , was first observed by M. Du Faye ; but it was for many years neglect- ed . The philosophers were disposed to account for the phenomena , rather from a difference in the quantity of electricity ...
... glass and sulphur . This , we have said , was first observed by M. Du Faye ; but it was for many years neglect- ed . The philosophers were disposed to account for the phenomena , rather from a difference in the quantity of electricity ...
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... glass with a wet finger , had been generally known . A Mr. Puckeridge , an Irishman , by placing on a table a number of glasses of different sizes , and tuning them by partly filling them with water , en- deavoured to form an instrument ...
... glass with a wet finger , had been generally known . A Mr. Puckeridge , an Irishman , by placing on a table a number of glasses of different sizes , and tuning them by partly filling them with water , en- deavoured to form an instrument ...
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