 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 pages
...procuring lightning from the clouds by 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 - 1899 - 204 pages
...procuring lightning from the clouds by a pointed rod, and acquainting them 129 with the success, they soon made me more than amends for the slight with which...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... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pages
...procuring lightning from the clouds by a pointed rod, and acquainting 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 excus'd the customary payments, which would... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1899 - 1110 pages
...procuring lightning from the clouds by a pointed rod, and acquainting 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 mem1758, " began to prate upon the presumption of philosophy in erecting iron... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1902 - 688 pages
...procuring lightning from the clouds by a pointed rod, and acquainting them with the success, they soon made me more than amends for the slight with which...Without my having made any application for that honor, the>' chose me a member, and voted that I should be excus'd the customary payments, which would have... | |
 | 1904 - 612 pages
...later were again brought before the notice of the Royal Society. "They soon made me," says Franklin, "more than amends for the slight with which they had before treated me." He was made a member of the society without any application being made on his behalf and without the... | |
 | Frederick Robertson Jones - 1904 - 618 pages
...later were again brought before the notice of the Royal Society. "They soon made me," says Franklin, "more than amends for the slight with which they had before treated me." He was made a member of the society without any application being made on his behalf and without the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 pages
...procuring lightning from the clouds by a pointed rod, and acquainting them with the success, they soon made me more than amends for the slight with which...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 382 pages
...procuring lightning from the clouds by a pointed rod, and acquainting them with the success, they soon made me more than amends for the slight with which...payments, which would have amounted to twenty-five guinea ,; and ever since have given me their Transactions gra*' . They also presented me with the gold... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 268 pages
...procuring lightning from the clouds by a pointed rod, and acquainting 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 excus'd the customary payments, which would... | |
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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... 
