Between the two actually shapeless extremes contained within magnetism as the abstract concept
of the figure there appears, as an immanent form of juxtaposition distinct from that determined by
gravity, a kind of magnetism transformed into total corporeality, cohesion.英文原著 · 《Philosophy of Nature》
"For a moment we were afraid that she was going to pass on like so many others, on account of your five flights of stairs. So all four of us tried to attract her without her knowing it, by the magnetism of our four staring pairs of eyes. We drew her gently by the feathers of her hat and the laces of her cape. 'Come up then, madame, come up,' and finally she entered. There is so much magnetism in eyes that are kindly disposed."英文原著 · 《The Nabob》
THE MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
[1] (p. Davy's paper before Royal Institution, 1810. [2] (p. Hans Christian Oersted, Experiments with the Effects of the Electric Current on the Magnetic Needle, 1815. [3] (p. On the Induction of Electric Currents, by Michael Faraday, F.R.S., Phil. Trans. of Royal Society of London for 1832, pp.英文原著 · 《A History of Science-3》
"No," said the lady, looking at them with a soft light in her eyes, "as you say, there is nothing like the good mother Nature. The little ones God sends should lie at the breast. 'Tis not the milk alone that they imbibe; it is the breath of life, -- it is the human magnetism, the power, -- how shall I say? Happy the mother who has a little babe to hold!"英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Ignorance, which years cannot wash away,--low instincts, what do YOU know?--all the servile side of life, which is turned from you,--what madness to choose this, because some current of earthly magnetism sets along your nerves? He loves you: what of that? You are a higher being to him, and he stupidly adores you. Think,--yes, DARE to think of all the prosaic realities of life, shared with him!"英文原著 · 《Beauty and The Beast》
However this may be, we are told that Thales of Miletus attributed the attractive properties of the amber and the lodestone to a soul within them. The name Electricity is derived from ELEKTRON, the Greek for amber, and Magnetism from Magnes, the name of the shepherd, or, more likely, from the city of Magnesia, in Lydia, where the stone occurred.英文原著 · 《Heroes of the Telegraph》
I've always exuded a certain sexual magnetism, and as I get older, I think it's only becoming more intense.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》