| SEVERAL HANDS - 1767 - 588 pages
...experiment, that he felt himlelf ftruck in his arms, (boulders and bread, fo that he loft his breath, and was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and the terror. He adds, that he would not take a kcoml {hock for the kingdom of France.' H 3 of of this invifible... | |
| Augustus Brevoort Woodward - Sun - 1801 - 96 pages
...account of it in a letter to Reaumur of France, fays that it occafioned the lofs of his breath ; and that it was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow, and the terror. He added that he could not be induced to receive a fecond fhock, for the whole kingdom of France. This... | |
| William Enfield - Astronomy - 1811 - 476 pages
...experiment, that he felt hims. If struck in his arms, shoulder, and breast, so thnt he lost his breath ; and was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow nnd the terror. He added, that he would not take a second shock for the whole kingdom of France. M.... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1815 - 468 pages
...first felt the shock, which was by means of a thin glass bowl, and very slight, he wrote to M. Reaumur, that he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders, and breast, so that he lost his breath, and was two whole days before he recovered from th e effects of the blow. Charles. Perhaps he meant the... | |
| Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...a very thin glass bowl, says, in a letter to M. Reaumur, which he wrote soon after the experiment, that he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders, and breast, so that he lost his breath, and was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and. the terror. He adds, that he would... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 822 pages
...that he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulder, and breast, so that he lost his breath, and vva« two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and the terror. He added, that he would not take a second shock for the whole kingdom of France. Mr. Allamand, who... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 1825 - 682 pages
...that he felt himself so struck in his arms, breast, and shoulders, that he lost his breath ; that he was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow, and the terror ; and that he would not take a second shock for the kingdom of France. Another, after trying the shock... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1828 - 264 pages
...first felt the shock, which was by means of a thin glass bowl, and very slight, he wrote to M. Reaumur, that he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders, and breast, so that he lost his breath, and was two whole days before he recovered from the effects of the blow. Charles. Perhaps he meant the... | |
| George Crabb - Industrial arts - 1830 - 384 pages
...letter, that he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulder, and breast, so that he lost his breath, and was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow, and the terror which this unexpected result produced. He added that he would not receive a second ihock for the whole... | |
| George Crabb - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 426 pages
...letter, that he felt himself struck in his arms, -shoulder, and breast, so that he lost his breath, and was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow, and the terror which this unexpected result produced. '.!•• added, that he would not receive a second shock for... | |
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