The Quarterly Review, Volumen35William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1827 |
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... electricity , at one flash , into a population of millions , and with devising an infallible method by which a turnkey over his muffins can prevent a three - quarter highwayman from corrupting the inno- cence of a seven - eighth ...
... electricity , at one flash , into a population of millions , and with devising an infallible method by which a turnkey over his muffins can prevent a three - quarter highwayman from corrupting the inno- cence of a seven - eighth ...
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... Electricity and Magnetism had long constituted two distinct depart- ments of physical science . It was , indeed , impossible entirely to overlook the marked analogies subsisting among the laws by which their respective phenomena are ...
... Electricity and Magnetism had long constituted two distinct depart- ments of physical science . It was , indeed , impossible entirely to overlook the marked analogies subsisting among the laws by which their respective phenomena are ...
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... electricity and to magnetism ; for all the phenomena included under these heads result , in either case , from the predominance of one or other of two contrary kinds of influence , which act only when separate - but which neutralise ...
... electricity and to magnetism ; for all the phenomena included under these heads result , in either case , from the predominance of one or other of two contrary kinds of influence , which act only when separate - but which neutralise ...
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... electric bodies . A body charged with electricity , no matter of what species , will , it is true , exert some action on the magnetic needle , because its influence extends generally to all bodies in its vicinity ; but its action is ...
... electric bodies . A body charged with electricity , no matter of what species , will , it is true , exert some action on the magnetic needle , because its influence extends generally to all bodies in its vicinity ; but its action is ...
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... electricity affects all bodies whatsoever . Both kinds of electricity are conducted with great facility by various bodies , and pass from the one to the other , not only when they are in contact , but even when a certain distance ...
... electricity affects all bodies whatsoever . Both kinds of electricity are conducted with great facility by various bodies , and pass from the one to the other , not only when they are in contact , but even when a certain distance ...
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