 | Natural history - 1785 - 552 pages
...heard of the fact. I fuppofe, it will be generally allowed, on a little confideration of the fubject, that fcarce any drop of water was, when it began to...the earth ; the fame of the feveral pieces of hail ; becauie they are often fo large and weighty, that we cannot conceive a polTibility of their being... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1786 - 510 pages
...heard of the faft. * I fappofe it will be generally allowed, on a little confideratioii bf the fubjeft, that fcarce any drop of water was, when it began to fall from the clouds, of a magnitude equal to thit it has acquired when it arrives at the earth i the lame of the feveral pieces of hail ; becaufe... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Eighteenth century - 1794 - 538 pages
...precipitated and congealed again. I suppose it will be generally allowed, says Doctor Franklin, that scarce any drop of water was, when it began to fall from the clouds, of a. magnitude equal to that which it has acquired when it arrives at the earth ; the same of the several pieces of hail ; because... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 512 pages
...firft heard the fad. I fuppofe it will be generally allowed, on a little coniideration of the fubjeft, that fcarce any drop of water was, when it began to...acquired when it arrives at the earth : the fame of the fcveial pieces of hail ; becaufe they are often fo large and weighty, that we cannot conceive a poffibility... | |
 | Robert Dundas Thomson, Thomas Thomson - Science - 1836 - 504 pages
...observes, " I suppose it will be generally allowed, on a little consideration of the subject, that scarce any drop of water was, when it began to fall from...it has acquired when it arrives at the earth ; the same of the several pieces of hail ; because they are often so large, and so weighty, that we cannot... | |
 | Meteorology - 1836 - 950 pages
...matter: "V suppose it will be generally allowed, on a little consideration of the subject, that scarce any drop of water was, when it began to fall from the c\oud$, of a magnitude equal to that it has acquired, when it arrives at the earth; the same of the... | |
 | 1836 - 1042 pages
...«alter: •'1 suppose it will be generally allowed, on a little consideration of the "bJKt, that scarce any drop of water was, when it began to fall from the :«ids, of a magnitude equal to that it has acquired, when it arrives at the «rth; the same of the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1838 - 632 pages
...fact. I suppose it will be generally allowed, on a little consideration of the subject, that scarce any drop of water was, when it began to fall from...it has acquired, when it arrives at the earth ; the same of the several pieces of hail ; because they are often so large and so weighty, that we cannot... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...fact. I suppose it will be generally allowed, on a little consideration of the subject, that scarce any drop of water was, when it began to fall from...it has acquired, when it arrives at the earth ; the same of the several pieces of hail ; because they are often so large and so weighty, that we cannot... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1906 - 592 pages
...having been communicated to the society by Dr. Percival, and read on the 21st of January, 1784. — S. it began to fall from the clouds, of a magnitude equal...it has acquired, when it arrives at the earth ; the same of the several pieces of hail ; because they are often so large and so weighty, that we cannot... | |
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I suppose it will be generally allowed, on a little consideration of the subject, that scarce any drop of water was, when it began to fall from the clouds, of a magnitude equal to that it has acquired when it arrives at the earth ; the same of the several... 
