Experiments made in electricity first gave philosophers a suspicion that the matter of lightning was the same with the electric matter. Experiments afterwards made on lightning obtained from the clouds by pointed rods, received into bottles, and subjected to every trial, have since proved this suspicion to be perfectly well founded; and that whatever properties…
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Right, Wrong, and Reasonable
To the PRINTER of the GAZETTEER. The East India contest, that necessarily took up so much of your paper, being now abated, I hope you will find room for the following answer to the paper intitled, Right, Wrong, and Reasonable, according to American Ideas, inserted in the Gazetteers of March 5, and 9. I flatter…
Reply to Coffee-House Orators
To the PRINTER of the LONDON CHRONICLE. Cinque gran nemici da pace, habitano con esso noi; civa l’avaritia, l’ambitione, l’invidia, l’ira, & la superbia: se detti inimici si mandassero in esilio, regenerebbe senza dubio tra noi pace perpetua. PETRARCH. Athens had her orators. They did her sometimes a great deal of good, at other times…
The Misrepresentation of America
To the PRINTER of the LONDON CHRONICLE. SIR, As the bare letter of a Governor of one of our provinces, accusing his People of rebellious intentions, is by many here thought sufficient ground for inflicting penalties on such province, unheard, without farther evidence, and without knowing what it may have to say in its justification:…
On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor
For the LONDON CHRONICLE. To Messieurs the PUBLIC and CO. I am one of that class of people that feeds you all, and at present is abus’d by you all; — in short I am a Farmer. By your News-papers we are told, that God had sent a very short harvest to some other countries…