 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...procuring lightning from the clouds by a pointed rod, and acquainted them with the success ; they soon made me more than amends for the slight with which...should be excused the customary payments, which would liave amounted to twenty -five guineas; and ever since have given me their transactions gratis.z They... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...procuring lightning from the clouds by a pointed rod, and acquainted them with the success ; they soon made me more than amends for the slight with which...me. Without my having made any application for that honour, they chose me a member ; and voted that I should be excused the customary payments, which would... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...pointed rod, and acquainted them with the success, they soon made me more than amends for VOL. I. Q the slight with which they had before treated me. Without my having made any application for that hpnor, they chose me a member ; and voted that I should be excused the customary payments, which would... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 pages
...procuring lightning from the clouds by a pointed rod, and acquainted them with the success; they soon made me more than amends for the slight with which they had before treated n* 'Without my having made any application for that they chose me a- member; and voted that I should... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 440 pages
...fabricated by his enemies at Paris. The Abb6 was eventually, however, deserted by all his partizans, and lived to see himself the last of his sect. In...me. Without my having made any application for that honour, they chose me a member; and voted that I should be excused the customary payments, which would... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 484 pages
...fabricated by his enemies at Paris. The Abb£ was eventually, however, deserted by all his partizans, and lived to see himself the last of his sect. In...me. Without my having made any application for that honour, they chose me a member; and voted that I should be excused the customary payments, which would... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1834 - 450 pages
...a work came from America ; but said it must have been fabricated by his enemies at Paris. The Abbe' was eventually, however, deserted by all his partisans,...me. Without my having made any application for that honour, they chose me a member ; and voted that I should be excused the customary payments, which would... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...clouds by a pointed rod, and acquainted them with the success ; they soon made me more than «mends for the slight with which they had before treated...me. Without my having made any application for that honour, they chose me a member ; and voted that I should be excused the customary payments, which would... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...compelled to pay more attention to what they had previously considered as chimerical speculation, " and soon," says Franklin, " made me more than amends for...me. Without my having made any application for that honour, they chose me a member, and voted that I should be excused the usual payments, which would... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1893 - 806 pages
...procuring lightning from the clouds by a pointed rod, and acquainted them with the success, they soon made me more than amends for the slight with which...treated me. Without my having made any application lor that honor, they chose me a member, and voted that I should be excused the customary payments,... | |
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Without my having made any application for that honor, they chose me a member, and voted that I should be excus'd the customary payments, which would have amounted to twenty-five guineas; and ever since have given me their Transactions gratis. They also... 
