 | Denison Olmsted - 1835 - 374 pages
...Fellow of the Royal Society, written at different times from 1747 to 1764. "Nothing (says Dr. Priestly's Hist. Elec. page 159.) was ever written upon the subject...as if this was not sufficient to make them properly known, a translation of them has lately been made into Latin. It is not easy to say, whether we are... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 552 pages
...experiments and discoveries. " Nothing was ever written upon the subject of electricity," he says, " which was more generally read and admired in all parts...which they have not been translated ; and, as if this were not sufficient to make them properly known, a translation of them has lately been made into Latin.... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1844 - 512 pages
...in a series of letters, which were afterwards collected and published. " Nothing," says Priestley, " was ever written upon the subject of Electricity,...admired in all parts of Europe, than these letters. It is not easy to say whether we are most pleased with the simplicity and perspicuity with which they... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1844 - 618 pages
...Society, written at different times from 1747 to 1754. " Nothing," says Dr. Priestley, (Hist. Elec. p. 159,) " was ever written upon the subject of electricity,...which was more generally read and admired in all parts nf Europe, than these letters. There is hardly any European language into which they have not been... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 644 pages
...continued from 1747 to 1754, and were subsequently collected and published. " Nothing," says Priestley, " was ever written upon the subject of electricity which...which they have not been translated ; and, as if this were not sufficient to make them properly known, a translation of them has lately been made into Latin.... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 628 pages
...continued from 1747 to 1754, and were subsequently collected and published. " Nothing," says Priestley, " was ever written upon the subject of electricity which...There is hardly any European language into which they havti not been translated ; and, as if this were not sufficient to make them properly known, a translation... | |
 | 1846 - 910 pages
...at Philadelphia, in America — 'Nothing was ever written upon the subject of electricity which wag more generally read and admired in all parts of Europe...which they have not been translated ; and, as if this were not sufficient to make them properly known, a translation of them has lately been made into Latin.... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1850 - 624 pages
...Society, written at different times from 1747 to 1754. " Nolliing,'' says Dr. Priestley, (Hist. Elec. p. 159,) " was ever written upon the subject of electricity,...as if this was not sufficient to make them properly known, u translation of them has lately been made into Latin. It in not easy to sny, whether we are... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...Collison, beginning with one dated 28th March, 1747. Dr. Priestly, in speaking of these letters, says: "There is hardly any European language into which they have not been translated, and as if this were not sufficient to make them properly known, a translation of them has lately been made into Latin.... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1855 - 566 pages
...in a series of letters, which were afterwards collected and published. " Nothing," says Priestley, " was ever written upon the subject of Electricity,...admired in all parts of Europe, than these letters. It is not easy to say whether we are most pleased with the simplicity and perspicuity with which they... | |
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Nothing was ever written upon the subject of electricity, which was more generally read and admired in all parts of Europe than these Letters. There is hardly any European language into which they have not been translated; and, as if this were not sufficient... 
