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" ... the northward, when I felt the heat of its current plainly upon my face. We all lay flat on the ground, as if dead, till Idris told us it was blown over. The meteor, or purple haze, which I saw, was indeed passed, but the light air that still blew... "
A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the Discovery of ... - Page 10
by R. P. Forster - 1818
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The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and ..., Volume 8

1790 - 614 pages
...that llill blew was of heat to threaten fuffocation. For my part, I found diftinftly in my brealt, that I had imbibed a part of it, nor was I free of an afthmatic fenlrttion nil 1 had been fome months in Italy, at the baths of Poretta, near two years afterwards.1...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 70; Volume 1790

Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 728 pages
...air that Itill blew was ot beat to threaten fuffocation. For my part, I found dillindly in my breail that I had imbibed a part of it, nor was I free of aa •Qhmatic fenfation till I had been fame months in Italy, at tot of Poretta, near two years afterwards,'...
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 3

1790 - 612 pages
...had imbibed a pirt of it, nor was I free of an althmatic lenúüon till I had been foine months iu Italy, at the baths of Poretta, near two years afterwards. ' An universal defpondency had taken poflcfiion of our people. They ceafcd to I peak to one another, and when they...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1790 - 606 pages
...flill blew was of heat to threaten fuffocation. For my part, I found diftinctly in my breaft that 1 had imbibed a part of it, nor was I free of an afthmatic fenfation till I had been fome months in Italy, at the baths of Poretta, near two years afterwards....
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The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated on the Principles ..., Volume 1

George Gregory - 1796 - 620 pages
...that ftill blew was of heat to threaten fuffocation. For my part, I found cliftinctly in my breaft, that I had imbibed a part of it; nor was I free of an afthmatic fenfation till 1 had been fome months in Italy, at the barns of Poretta, near two years afterwards...
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The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of ...

Erasmus Darwin - 1798 - 472 pages
...that ftill blew, was of heat to threaten fuffocation. For my part, 1 found diftinctly in my hreaft, that I had imbibed a part of it ; nor was I free of an afthmatic feni'ation till I had been fome months in Italy." Bruce's Travels, vol. IV. p. 557. It is...
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The economy of nature explained and illustrated on the principles of modern ...

George Gregory - 1798 - 630 pages
...breaft, that I had imbibed a part of it; nor was I free of an afthmatic fenfation till I had been fome months in Italy, at, the baths of Poretta, near two years afterwards*.' Whirlwinds and water-fpouts have by many philofophers been conlidered as entirely electrical phenomena,...
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The Atmosphere and Atmospherical Phenomena

Thomas Dick - 1799 - 200 pages
...which I saw was indeed passed, but the light air which still blew was of heat to threaten suffocation. For my part, I found distinctly in my breast that...imbibed a part of it, nor was I free of an asthmatic affection till I was in Italy two years afterwards." Hurricanes are violent tempests of wind, accompanied...
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Selim and Zaida: With Other Poems..

John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 174 pages
...I saw, was indeed passed ; but the light air that still blew, was of heat to threaten suffocation. For my part, I found distinctly in my breast that I had imbibed part of it ; nor was I free of an asthmatic sensation, till I had been some montbs in Italy at the...
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A General View of the Natural History of the Atmosphere: And of ..., Volume 1

Henry Robertson (M.D.) - 1808 - 452 pages
...was indeed passed ; but a light air which still blew was of heat sufficient to threaten suffocation. For my part, I found distinctly in my breast that...sensation, till I had been some months in Italy." It is extremely difficult to assign a probable cause for the origin of this species of wind. From the...
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