 | John Corry - 1804 - 124 pagini
...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."* * Dr. Beddoes in his Medical Pneumatic Institutions, , informs us of the cordial effects of oxygengas,... | |
 | John Corry - 1804 - 124 pagini
...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."* * Dr. Beddoes in his Medical Pneumatic Institutions, informs us of the cordial effects of oxygen gas,... | |
 | 1824 - 884 pagini
...says he, " 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." To this he foolishly adds, that " the air which nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve."... | |
 | 1874 - 276 pagini
...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. ... But, perhaps, we may also infer from these experiments, that though pure dephlogisticated air might... | |
 | Arabella Burton Fisher - 1879 - 550 pagini
...a candle put into it burnt with a large vigorous flame, and a piece of red-hot charcoal burnt in it furiously. It was clear, then, that this could not...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 pagini
...powers to support combustion and maintain life. At that time he wrote, "Who can tell whether this pxire air may not at last become a fashionable luxury ?...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 pagini
...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. * * But perhaps we may infer from these experiments that, though pure dephlogisticated air might be... | |
 | Arabella Burton Fisher - 1883 - 550 pagini
...a candle put into it burnt with a large vigorous flame, and a piece of red-hot charcoal burnt in it furiously. It was clear, then, that this could not...breathing it.' Here, you see, we have come back again to MayoVs fire-air, so long forgotten, which supports life and flame. Priestley had learnt more about... | |
 | Charles Thomas Kingzett - 1884 - 360 pagini
...ascertained also its powers to support combustion and maintain life. At that time he wrote, " Who can tell whether this pure air may not at last become a fashionable...and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." * In spite of all this, he very imperfectly understood his own results. The Parisian Lavoisier (born... | |
 | Jean Nicolas Demarquay - 1889 - 368 pagini
...us that this air will not at some future time become a very fashionable object of luxury? Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it."* In writing these lines, Priestley very faintly foresaw the strange destiny which oxygen was to have... | |
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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... 
