 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...  The Life of Joseph Priestley - Side 58av John Corry - 1804Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Corry - 1804 - 124 sider
...but L 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...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 sider
...nir, but I fancied 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 of Luxury ? Hitherto only two mice and myself have h*<t the privilege of breathing it. Priestley on... | |
 | 1824 - 884 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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...and myself have had the privilege of breathing it. * * But perhaps we may infer from these experiments that, though pure dephlogisticated air might be... | |
 | Charles Thomas Kingzett - 1884 - 360 sider
...he wrote, " Who can tell 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." * In spite of all this, he very imperfectly understood his own results. The Parisian Lavoisier (born... | |
 | Jean Nicolas Demarquay - 1889 - 368 sider
..."VVlio can assure 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... | |
 | Arabella Burton Buckley - 1893 - 548 sider
...'Who 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.' Here, you see, we have come back again to Mayow's fire-air, so long forgotten, which supports life... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1894 - 406 sider
...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...and myself have had the privilege of breathing it. ... But, perhaps, we may also infer from these experiments, that though pure dephlogisticated air might... | |
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