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Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
— Lightning
Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
Have you ever been hit by lightning? It hurts. It doesn't happen to everyone. It's an electrical charge. It finds its way across the universe... and it lands in your body, and your head!
Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az much difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug.
Did you know that I was struck by lightning seven times?
As frequent Mention is made in the News Papers from Europe, of the Success of the Philadelphia Experiment for drawing the Electric Fire from Clouds by Means of pointed Rods of Iron erected on high Buildings, &c. it may be agreeable to the Curious to be inform'd, that the same Experiment has succeeded in Philadelphia, tho' made in a different and more easy Manner, which any one may try, as follows.
The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?
He seized the lightning from Heaven and the scepter from the Tyrants.
To demonstrate, in the completest manner possible, the sameness of the electric fluid with the matter of lightning, Dr. Franklin, astonishing as it must have appeared, contrived actually to bring lightning from the heavens, by means of an electrical kite, which he raised when a storm of thunder was perceived to be coming on.
When a thunderstorm comes up, I can feel it inside. When lightning comes down, I can feel it wanting to come to me. Grandma said it was God. She said the white fire was God.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work.
