 | 1776 - 568 pages
...can I fee, upon the principle in queftion, hour the reft of mankind could have credited the teftimony of their firft difcoverer ; and yet to have rejected it, would have been to rejeék the truth. But that a piece of iron Ihould aicend gradually from the earth, and fly at tail... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1788 - 500 pages
...can I fee, upon the principle in queftion, hbw the reft of mankind could have credited the teftimony of their firft difcoverer; and yet to have rejected...itfelf to another piece of iron, or to a particular fpscies of iron ore, fhould remain fufpended in oppofition to the action of it's gravity, is confonant... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1788 - 494 pages
...can I fee, upon the principle in queftion, how the reft of mankind could have credited the teftimony of their firft difcoverer; and yet to have rejected...gradually from the earth, and fly at laft with an increafmg rapidity through the air ; and attaching itfelf to another piece of iron, or to a particular... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 pages
...in question, how the rest of mankind could have credited the testimony of their first discoverer ; and yet to have rejected it would have been to reject the truth. But that a piece of iron should ascend gradually from the earth, and fly at last, with an increasing rapidity through the air,... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1820 - 498 pages
...in question, how the rest of mankind could have credited the testimony of their first discoverer ; and yet to have rejected it, would have been to reject the truth. But that a piece of iron should ascend gradually from the earth, and fly at last with an increasing rapidity through the air... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...principle in question, how the rest of mankind could have credited the testimony of their first discoverer; and yet to have rejected it, would have been to reject the truth. But that a piece of iron should ascend gradually from the earth, and fly at last with an increasing rapidity through the air,... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...principle in question, how the rest of mankind could have credited the testimony of their first discoverer; and yet to have rejected it, would have been to reject the truth. But that a piece oi iron should ascend gradually from the earth, and fly at last with an increasing rapidity through... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...principle in question, how the rest of mankind could have credited the testimony of their first discoverer; and yet to have rejected it, would have been to reject the truth. But that a piece of iron should ascend gradually from the earth, and fly at last with an increasing rapidity through the air,... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1833 - 450 pages
...see the references in Home's Introd.. vol. ip 243. credited the testimony of their first discoverer ; and yet to have rejected it, would have been to reject the truth. But that a piece of iron should ascend gradually from the earth, and fly at last with an increasing rapidity through the air,... | |
 | 1835 - 612 pages
...in question, how the rest of mankind could have credited the testimony of their first discoverer ; and yet to have rejected it, would have been to reject the truth. But that a piece of iron should ascend gradually from the earth, and fly at last with an increasing rapidity through the air... | |
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There was a time when no one was acquainted with the laws of magnetism ; these suspend in many instances the laws of gravity ; nor can I see, upon the principle in question, how the rest of mankind could have credited the testimony of their first discoverer... 
