| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1776 - 608 pages
...different from that of common air; but I fancied that my bread felt peculiarly light and cafy for fome time afterwards. Who can tell but that in time, this pure air may become a fafhionable article in luxury !* We muft, for the prefent, take leive of this ingenious work ; referving... | |
| 1776 - 612 pages
...common air ; but I fancied that my breaft felt peculiarly light and eafy for fome time afierwarcls. Who can tell but that in time, this pure air may become a famionable article in luxury !' We mull, for the prefent, take Ic^ve of this ingenious work ; referving... | |
| Joseph Priestley - 1790 - 494 pages
...different from that of com-' mon air ;. but I fanckd that my breaft felt peculiarly light and eafy for fome time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time,. this pure air may become a fafhionable article in luxury. Hithertoonly two mice and myfelf have had the privilege of breathing... | |
| John Corry - 1804 - 124 pages
...common air. The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but L fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy...Institutions, , informs us of the cordial effects of oxygengas, and, that " under a certain administration of this gas, sleep may possibly be dispensed... | |
| 1812 - 656 pages
...Dephlogisticated air. The feeling of it wa« tot dl£ ferent from that of common nir, but I fancied my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some...time this pure air may become a fashionable article of Luxury ? Hitherto only two mice and myself have h*<t the privilege of breathing it. Priestley on... | |
| 1812 - 664 pages
...Viz. DepMogisUcaled air The feeling of it Wai not dilferent from that of common air; but I fancied my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some...can tell but that in time this pure air may become a ftaliionablt article if Itiaury ? Hiiherto only two nnce and myself have had the privilege of breathing... | |
| 1824 - 884 pages
...fancied he felt, a peculiar sensation of lightness and ease of the chest. " Who can tell," says he, " but that in time this pure air may become a fashionable...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."... | |
| Arabella Burton Fisher - 1879 - 550 pages
...can tell,' he writes, ' whether this pure air may not at last become a fashionable luxury ? As yet only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.' CH. xxvn. PRIESTLEV'S DISCOVERIES. 233 Here, you see, we have come back again to Mayow's fire-air,... | |
| Charles Thomas Kingzett - 1880 - 208 pages
...he wrote, "Who can tell whether this pxire air may not at last become a fashionable luxury ? As yet, only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." * In spite of all this, he persisted in calling oxygen " dephlogisticated air," and very imperfectly... | |
| Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences - 1882 - 502 pages
...reference to the gas with which we have just been dealing . He made the experiment of inhaling the gas. "The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different...and myself have had the privilege of breathing it. * * But perhaps we may infer from these experiments that, though pure dephlogisticated air might be... | |
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