Note 34 — Chapter IV
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New Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia, in America.—Addressed to Mr. Collinson, from 1747 to 1754. By Benjamin Franklin. Of these Priestley remarks:—“It is not easy to say whether we are most pleased with the simplicity and perspicuity with which the author proposes every hypothesis of his own, or the noble frankness with which he relates his mistakes, when they were corrected by subsequent experiments.”