Joseph Priestley, Volume 39J.M. Dent & Company, 1906 - 228 pages |
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Page 167
... properties more or less fortuitous and accidental . The old idea of the nature of " air " had its origin in the doctrine of the Four Elements . It is Priestley's merit that he , more than any man of his time , contributed to the over ...
... properties more or less fortuitous and accidental . The old idea of the nature of " air " had its origin in the doctrine of the Four Elements . It is Priestley's merit that he , more than any man of his time , contributed to the over ...
Page 174
... properties of weight , elasticity and transparency . But he also points out that two remarkable kinds of factitious air had long been known to miners , viz . , choke damp , which is heavier than air , which lies at the bottom of pits ...
... properties of weight , elasticity and transparency . But he also points out that two remarkable kinds of factitious air had long been known to miners , viz . , choke damp , which is heavier than air , which lies at the bottom of pits ...
Page 181
... properties of nitric oxide . " One of the most conspicuous properties of this kind of air , " he says , " is the great diminution of any quantity of common air with which it is mixed , attended with a turbid red , or deep orange colour ...
... properties of nitric oxide . " One of the most conspicuous properties of this kind of air , " he says , " is the great diminution of any quantity of common air with which it is mixed , attended with a turbid red , or deep orange colour ...
Page 182
... properties of which he subsequently studied in some detail . In the paper which follows , viz . , " On Air infected with the Fumes of Burning Charcoal , " he incidentally gains MARINE ACID AIR 183 further insight into the nature of 182 ...
... properties of which he subsequently studied in some detail . In the paper which follows , viz . , " On Air infected with the Fumes of Burning Charcoal , " he incidentally gains MARINE ACID AIR 183 further insight into the nature of 182 ...
Page 183
... properties , most remarkably different from those which it had before . " " By heating pieces of lead and tin in air by means of a burning glass he observed the formation of a metallic calx , the volume of air was diminished , and it ...
... properties , most remarkably different from those which it had before . " " By heating pieces of lead and tin in air by means of a burning glass he observed the formation of a metallic calx , the volume of air was diminished , and it ...
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Page 47 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 165 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Page 13 - All mankind by their fall, lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever.
Page 178 - I had that expectation when I first put a sprig of mint into a glass jar standing inverted in a vessel of water: but when it had continued growing there for some months, I found that the air would neither extinguish a candle, nor was it at all inconvenient to a mouse, which I put into it.
Page 194 - ... and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than I can well express was that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame, very much like that enlarged flame with which a candle burns in nitrous air exposed to iron or liver of sulphur...
Page 194 - But having afterwards procured a lens of twelve inches diameter and twenty inches focal distance, I proceeded with great alacrity to examine by the help of it what kind of air a great variety of substances, natural and factitious, would yield...
Page 91 - I have long been of opinion, that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British empire lie in America; and though, like other foundations, : they are low and little seen, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure human wisdom ever yet erected.
Page 180 - This observation led me to conclude, that plants, instead of affecting the air in the same manner with animal respiration, reverse the effects of breathing, and tend to keep the atmosphere sweet and wholesome, when it is become noxious, in consequence of animals either living and breathing, or dying and putrefying in it.
Page 134 - I cannot but feel better pleased that Priestley is the sufferer for the doctrines he and his party have instilled, and that the people see them in their true light. Yet I cannot approve their having employed such atrocious means of showing their discontent.
Page 198 - 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 easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury ? Hitherto, only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.