...said the abbe, ' any should take upon him to prove, from a well-connected comparison of phenomena, that thunder is in the hands of nature what electricity is in ours ; that the wonders *e пои exhibit at pleasure are little imitations of those great effects which frighten...

...as being more accurate than a translation given in the Transactions of the Royal Society for 1752. " If any one should undertake to prove, as a clear consequence...imitations on a small scale of those grand effects which ter rify us, and that both depend upon the same mechanical agents ; — if it were made manifest that...

...any one,' he remarks, ' should take upon him to prove, from a well connected comparison of phenomena that thunder is in the hands of Nature what electricity is in ours — that the wonders we exhibit at pleasure are small imitations of those great effects which alarm us, and...

...any one (he observes) should take upon him to prove from a well connected comparison of phenomena, that thunder is, in the hands of nature, what electricity is in ours, — that the wonders we exhibit at our pleasure are little imitations of those great effects which inspire us...

...translation given in the Transactions of the Royal Society for 1752. " If any one should undertake to proire, as a clear consequence of the phenomenon, that thunder...are only imitations on a small scale of those grand effecls which ter rify us, and that both depend upon the same mechanical agents ; — if it were made...

...any one," he says, " should take upon him to prove, from a well-connected comparison of phenomena, that thunder is, in the hands of nature, what electricity is in ours ; that the wonders we now exhibit at pleasure are small imitations of those great effects which alarm us,...

...four years ago." In the fourth volume of his Lecons de Physique is found the following passage : " If any one should undertake to prove, as a clear consequence...if it were made manifest that a cloud prepared by th« effects of the wind, by heat, by a mixture of exhalations, &c., is in relation to a terrestrial...

...We take it as Kaemptz has given it. " If any one, after comparing the phenomena, undertook to prove that thunder is in the hands of nature what electricity is in our own ; that those wonders, which we now dispose of as we wish, are trifling imitators of those great...

...Abbe" says : " If any one should take upon him to prove from a well-connected comparison of phenomena, that thunder is in the hands of nature what electricity is in ours, that the wonders which we now exhibit at our pleasure are minor imitations of those great effects which...

...auy one (he observes) should take upon him to prove from a well connected comparison of phenomena, that thunder is, in the hands of nature, what electricity is in ours, — that the wonders we exhibit at our pleasure are little imitations of those great effects which inspire us...