"It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and p…"

"We more easily give our assent to any proposition when the person who contends for it appears, by his manner of deliv…"

"Our anxiety during the King of France's escape, and our joy on his capture, cannot be described. I hope the new const…"

"Having thought it right to leave behind me some account of my friends and benefactors, it is in a manner necessary th…"

"I married a daughter of Mr. Isaac Wilkinson, an ironmaster, near Wrexham, in Wales, with whose family I had become ac…"

"The History of Electricity is a field full of pleasing objects, according to all the genuine and universal principles…"

"For the government of the temporary magistrates of a democracy, or even the laws themselves may be as tyrannical as t…"

"The history of philosophy enjoys, in some measure, the advantages both of civil and natural history, whereby it is re…"

"Great conquerors, we read, have been both animated, and also, in a great measure, formed by reading the exploits of f…"

"[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at f…"