 The kite being raised, a considerable time elapsed before there was any appearance of its being electrified. One very promising cloud had passed over it without any effect; when, at length, just as he was beginning to despair of his contrivance, he observed...  Curiosities of Literature - Page 243by Isaac Disraeli - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 pages
...cloud had passed over it without any effect; when at length, just as he was beginning to despair or his contrivance, he observed some loose threads of...immediately presented his knuckle to the key, and (tet the reader judge of the exquisite pleasure he must have felt at that moment) the discovery was... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...electrified. One very promising *.' cloud had passed over it without any effect ; when, at length, just " as he was beginning to despair of his contrivance,...another, just as if they had been suspended on a common conduc" tor. Struck with this promising appearance, he immediately pre" sented his knuckle to the key,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...being electrified. One very promising cloud had passed "over it without any effect; when, at length, just as he was beginning to " despair of his contrivance,...and to avoid one another, just as if they had been sus" pended on a common conductor. Struck with this promising appearance, " he immediately presented... | |
 | John Imison - 1822 - 528 pages
...as he was beginning to despair, he observed some loose threads of the hempen string to stahd'erect, and to avoid one another, just as if they had been suspended on a common conductor. Struck with this appearance, he immediately presented his knuckle to the key; and let the reader judge of the exquisite... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1825 - 892 pages
...despair of success, he saw some loose threads of the hempen string standing erect^ and separating from one another, just as if they had been suspended on a common conductor of an electric machine. Struck with this appearance, he immediately presented his knuckle to the key,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 834 pages
...promising cloud had passed over the kite without any effect; when, just as he was beginning to despair, he observed some loose threads of the hempen string to stand erect and avoid one another, just as if they had been suspended by the conductor of a common electrical machine.... | |
 | William Leithead - 1837 - 444 pages
...without producing any effect ; when, at length, just as he was beginning to despair of his success, he observed some loose threads of the hempen string...suspended on a common conductor. Struck with this appearance, he immediately presented his knuckle to the key, and (let the reader judge of the exquisite... | |
 | 1852 - 670 pages
...being electrified. One very promising cloud had passed over it without any effect, when at length, just as he was beginning to despair of his contrivance, he observed some loose thread« of the hempen string tn stand erect, and avoid one another just as if they had been suspended... | |
 | 1839 - 674 pages
...over it without any eflect, when at length, just as he was beginning to despair of his contrivance, be observed some loose threads of the hempen string to stand erect, and avoid one another just as if they had been suspended on a common conductor. Struck with this promising... | |
 | Robert Taylor Conrad - 1846 - 900 pages
...its being electrified. One very promising cloud had passed over without any effect ; when, at length, just as he was beginning to despair of his contrivance,...suspended on a common conductor. Struck with this favourable appearance, he immediately presented his knuckle to the key, — and let the reader judge... | |
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