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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

Joseph Priestley (1966). “The History and Present State of Electricity: With Original Experiments. Reprinted from the 3d Ed., London, 1755, with an Appendix Containing Two Additional Papers of Original Experiments by the Author, and a New Introd. by Robert E. Shofield”
But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.