| SEVERAL HANDS - 1776 - 612 pages
...tafteit myfelf. I have gratified this curiofity, by breathing it, drawing it through a glafs fyphon ; and, by this means, I reduced a large jar full of it to the ftandard of common air. The feeling of it to my lungs was not fenfibly different from that of common... | |
| Books - 1776 - 612 pages
...tafte it myfelf. I have gratified this curiofity, by breathing it, drawing it through a glafs fyphon ; and, by this means, I reduced a large jar full of it to the (tandard of common air. The feeling of it to my lungs was not fenfibly Jifferent from that of common... | |
| Joseph Priestley - Air - 1790 - 494 pages
...it: myfelf. I have gratified that curiofity, by breath-. ing it, drawing it through a glafs fyphon, and, by this means, I reduced a large jar full of it to the ftandard of common air. The feeling. of it to my lungs was not fenfibly different from that of com-'... | |
| John Corry - 1804 - 124 pages
...candle burns out much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as may be said, live out too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted...syphon, and by this means I reduced a large jar full of it-to the standard of common air. The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that... | |
| William Ramsay - Air - 1896 - 274 pages
...to taste it myself. I have gratified that curiosity by breathing it, drawing it 1 Loe. cit. p. 94. G through a glass syphon, and by this means I reduced...common air. The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air, but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and... | |
| William Ramsay - Air - 1896 - 278 pages
...superior goodness of dephlogisticated air by mice living in it, and the other tests above mentioned, I should have the curiosity to taste it myself. I...gratified that curiosity by breathing it, drawing it 1 Loc. <At. p. 94. G through a glass syphon, and by this means I reduced a large jar full of it to... | |
| William Stirling - Physiologists - 1902 - 210 pages
...after having ascertained the superior goodness of dephlogisticated air, by mice living in it and the tests above-mentioned, I should have the curiosity...common air. The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air, but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and... | |
| William Ramsay - Air - 1905 - 340 pages
...superior goodness of dephlogisticated air by mice living in it, and the other tests above mentioned, I should have the curiosity to taste it myself. I...common air. The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air, but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and... | |
| Ronald Campbell Macfie - Air - 1909 - 364 pages
...superior goodness of dephlogisticated air by mice living in it, and the other tests above mentioned, I should have the curiosity to taste it myself. I...glass syphon, and by this means I reduced a large jar of it to the standard of common air. The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from... | |
| William Ramsay - Air - 1915 - 354 pages
...superior goodness of dephlogisticated air by mice living in it, and the other tests above mentioned, I should have the curiosity to taste it myself. I...common air. The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air, but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and... | |
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