 | Ronald Campbell Macfie - 1909 - 396 pages
...curiosity by breathing it, drawing it through a glass syphon, and by this means I reduced a large jar of it to the standard of common air. The feeling of...and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." Scheele was a greater chemist than Priestley, and had obtained oxygen a year earlier than this English... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams - 1912 - 380 pages
...lungs," he said, " was not sensibly different from that of common air, but I fancied that my breathing felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards....pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury? . . . Perhaps we may from these experiments see that though pure dephlogisticated air might be useful... | |
 | William Ramsay - 1915 - 354 pages
...the curiosity to taste it myself. I have gratified that curiosity by breathing it, drawing it through a glass syphon, and by this means I reduced a large...time this pure air may become a fashionable article 1 Loc. til. p. 94. in luxury ? Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing... | |
 | Forris Jewett Moore - 1918 - 368 pages
...fancied that my breath felt peculiarly PRIESTLEY'S LABORATORY light and easy for some time afterward. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may...and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." We have seen that Priestley called the gas he had discovered dephlogisticated air, his idea being that... | |
 | 1922 - 1022 pages
...of common air; but I fancied that my breath felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterward. Who can tell but that in time this pure air may become...and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." Fig. 2. Priestle'y. From an engraving of a portrait by Gilbert Stuart. pired air thus : "It will follow... | |
 | Walter Libby - 1922 - 466 pages
...then inhaled some of the gas, and observed an exhilarating effect. "Who can tell," he writes, "but in time this pure air may become a fashionable article...and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." Before the end of the century the investigations of Priestley, Scheele, and others inspired Dr. Thomas... | |
 | Joseph Mayer - 1927 - 540 pages
...quantity of atmospheric air. He breathed some of this new "air" and thus described his sensations: "I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and...time this pure air may become a fashionable article of luxury? Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." Fortunately oxygen... | |
 | Bernard Jaffe - 1976 - 388 pages
..."but I fancied," he noted, "that my breath felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterward. Who can tell but that in time this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury. Hitherto only my mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." Priestley foresaw many practical applications... | |
 | Albert Truman Schwartz, John G. McEvoy - 1990 - 308 pages
...should have the curiosity to taste it myself. I have gratified this curiosity by breathing it .... The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different...mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.5 The Chemical Revolution Lavoisier incorrectly identified Priestley's dephlogisticated air as the... | |
 | John Brewer, Roy Porter - 1993 - 660 pages
...opportunity for aerating rooms and restoring the sick and Wedgwood picked up the hint. Priestley guessed that 'in time, this pure air may become a fashionable...mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.'132 The controversies described in this chapter brought before the public a fundamental trouble... | |
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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... 
