Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Memoirs of His Early LifeHenry W. Gibbs, James St. John ... printer, 1810 - 274 Seiten |
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... electricity , which he called vitrous and resinous ; the former produced by rubbing glass , the latter from excited sulphur , sealing - wax , & c . But this idea he afterwards gave up as erroneous . Between the years 1739 and 1742 ...
... electricity , which he called vitrous and resinous ; the former produced by rubbing glass , the latter from excited sulphur , sealing - wax , & c . But this idea he afterwards gave up as erroneous . Between the years 1739 and 1742 ...
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... electricity . We give him the honor of this , without hesitation ; although the En- glish have claimed it for their countryman Dr. Wat- son . Watson's paper is dated January 21 , 1748 ; Franklin's July 11 , 1747 ; several months prior ...
... electricity . We give him the honor of this , without hesitation ; although the En- glish have claimed it for their countryman Dr. Wat- son . Watson's paper is dated January 21 , 1748 ; Franklin's July 11 , 1747 ; several months prior ...
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... electricity , d in conducting their fire silently and impercepti y , he suggests the idea of securing houses , ships , c . from being damaged by lightning , by erecting inted iron rods , which should rise some feet above e most elevated ...
... electricity , d in conducting their fire silently and impercepti y , he suggests the idea of securing houses , ships , c . from being damaged by lightning , by erecting inted iron rods , which should rise some feet above e most elevated ...
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... electricity appear ed . He almost despaired of success ; when sud denly he observed the loose fibres of his string to move towards an erect position . He now present- ed his knuckle to the key , and received a strong spark . How ...
... electricity appear ed . He almost despaired of success ; when sud denly he observed the loose fibres of his string to move towards an erect position . He now present- ed his knuckle to the key , and received a strong spark . How ...
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... Electricity , made at Philadel- phia in America . They were read with avidity , and soon translated into different languages . A very incorrect French translation fell into the hands of the celebrated Buffon , who , notwithstanding the ...
... Electricity , made at Philadel- phia in America . They were read with avidity , and soon translated into different languages . A very incorrect French translation fell into the hands of the celebrated Buffon , who , notwithstanding the ...
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Seite 248 - ... their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? 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...
Seite 167 - Remember that money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six; turned again it is seven and threepence ; and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced,...
Seite 239 - As every freeman, to preserve his independence (if without a sufficient estate), ought to have some profession, calling, trade or farm, whereby he may honestly subsist, there can be no necessity for nor use in establishing offices of profit, the usual effects of which are dependence and servility, unbecoming freemen, in the possessors...
Seite 218 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country, then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months, to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Seite 247 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Seite 203 - Almost all the parts of our bodies- require some expense. The feet demand shoes ; the legs stockings ; the rest of the body clothing ; and the belly a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should •want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.
Seite 226 - And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Seite 248 - I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Seite 219 - Mankind, shall be allowed to continue their respective employments, and shall not be molested in their persons, nor shall their Houses or Goods be burnt, or otherwise destroyed, nor their Fields wasted, by the armed force...
Seite 249 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility, and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.