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, Band 5Hillard, Gray,, 1837 |
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... Hook , 12th of July . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TO LORD HOWE . Philadelphia , July 20th , 1776 . MY LORD , I received safe the letters your Lordship so kindly forwarded to me , and beg you to accept my thanks . The official despatches , to ...
... Hook , 12th of July . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TO LORD HOWE . Philadelphia , July 20th , 1776 . MY LORD , I received safe the letters your Lordship so kindly forwarded to me , and beg you to accept my thanks . The official despatches , to ...
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... hook , and the coating touched with the other , as when held by the coating , and touched at the hook . * Placing the book on glass or wax is not necessary to produce the appearance ; it is only to show that the visible electricity is ...
... hook , and the coating touched with the other , as when held by the coating , and touched at the hook . * Placing the book on glass or wax is not necessary to produce the appearance ; it is only to show that the visible electricity is ...
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... 4 Page 192 Fig . 9 Page 241 Page 237 H Fig . 8 ΙΚ Fig.10 Page 193 Page 193 Page 231 Boston Published by Hilliard . Gray & Co B M Fig.7 Page 230 , 2. To take the charged phial safely by the hook Plate I. Vol.V. p.196 .
... 4 Page 192 Fig . 9 Page 241 Page 237 H Fig . 8 ΙΚ Fig.10 Page 193 Page 193 Page 231 Boston Published by Hilliard . Gray & Co B M Fig.7 Page 230 , 2. To take the charged phial safely by the hook Plate I. Vol.V. p.196 .
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... hook , and the coating applied to the globe or tube ; as when held by the coating , and the hook applied . * 4. But the direction of the electrical fire , being dif- ferent in the charging , will also be different in the ex- plosion ...
... hook , and the coating applied to the globe or tube ; as when held by the coating , and the hook applied . * 4. But the direction of the electrical fire , being dif- ferent in the charging , will also be different in the ex- plosion ...
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... hook , and the other through the coating , * the ball , when it is re- pelled from one hook , will be as strongly attracted by the other , and play vigorously between them , fetching the electric fluid from the one , and delivering it ...
... hook , and the other through the coating , * the ball , when it is re- pelled from one hook , will be as strongly attracted by the other , and play vigorously between them , fetching the electric fluid from the one , and delivering it ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 65 - They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 124 - GENTLEMEN, A SHIP having been fitted out from England, before the commencement of this war, to make discoveries of new countries in unknown seas, under the conduct of that most celebrated navigator...
Seite 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...