 | Joseph Priestley - Air - 1790 - 494 pages
...and the animal powers be too foon exhaufted in this pure kind of air. A moralift, at leaft, may fay, that the air which nature has provided for us is as good as we deferve. Whether the air of the atmofphere was, in remote times, or will be in future time, better... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 884 pages
...Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." To this he foolishly adds, that " the air which nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." We have not yet exhausted Dr Priestley's discoveries, but have seen enough to establish his claims... | |
 | John Bostock - Physiology - 1826 - 674 pages
...burns out hiuch faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as it may be said, live too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted in this pure kind of air." On Air, v. ii. p. 168; but this, although a plausible conjecture at the time when it was formed, can... | |
 | Science - 1874 - 276 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...nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." Priestley at length got to the conclusion that common air was no longer a "simple elementary substance,... | |
 | Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences - Natural history - 1882 - 502 pages
...candle burns out much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as maybe said, live out too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted in this pure kind of air. A moralist, at least, might say that the air which nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." Having these two-... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - Chemistry - 1894 - 406 pages
...burns out much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as may be said, live owl too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted...nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." Priestley at length got to the conclusion that common air was no longer a " simple elementary substance,... | |
 | Chemistry - 1894 - 458 pages
...medical uses and sanitary value of his " dephlogisticated air," he makes the very irrelevant remark: — "A moralist, at least, may say that the air which...Nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." In view of Priestley's obstinate adherence to the phlogistian system, the following passage is of interest:... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - Chemistry - 1902 - 608 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...nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." Priestley at length got to the conclusion that common air was no longer a " simple elementary substance,... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - Chemists - 1906 - 252 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...Nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve. . . . Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury. Hitherto... | |
 | William Arthur Bone, Donald Thomas Alfred Townend - Combustion - 1927 - 634 pages
...dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as may be said, live out too fast, and the animal processes be too soon exhausted in this pure kind of air. A...nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." Priestley also devised a method for estimating the ' goodness ' (ie oxygen-content) of air, by means... | |
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... it might not be so proper for us in the usual healthy state of the body : for, as a 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 in... 
