 | Joseph Priestley - 1790 - 494 sider
...and the animal powers be too foon exhaufted in this pure kind of air. A moralift, at leaft, may fay, that the air which nature has provided for us is as good as we deferve. Whether the air of the atmofphere was, in remote times, or will be in future time, better... | |
 | John Corry - 1804 - 124 sider
...burns out much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as may be said, live out too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted...nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve. " My reader will not wonder; that, after having ascertained the superior goodness of dephlogisticated... | |
 | 1824 - 884 sider
...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." We have not yet exhausted Dr Priestley's discoveries, but have seen enough to establish his claims... | |
 | John Bostock - 1826 - 674 sider
...burns out hiuch faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as it may be said, live too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted in this pure kind of air." On Air, v. ii. p. 168; but this, although a plausible conjecture at the time when it was formed, can... | |
 | Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences - 1882 - 502 sider
...burns out much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as maybe said, live out too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted in this pure kind of air. A moralist, at least, might say that the air which nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." Having these two-... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1894 - 406 sider
...burns out much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as may be said, live owl too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted...nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." Priestley at length got to the conclusion that common air was no longer a " simple elementary substance,... | |
 | 1894 - 458 sider
...medical uses and sanitary value of his " dephlogisticated air," he makes the very irrelevant remark: — "A moralist, at least, may say that the air which...Nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." In view of Priestley's obstinate adherence to the phlogistian system, the following passage is of interest:... | |
 | William Stirling - 1902 - 210 sider
...burns out much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as may be said, live out too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted...nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve. My reader will not wonder that, after having ascertained the superior goodness of dephlogisticated... | |
 | Forris Jewett Moore - 1918 - 364 sider
...burns out much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as may be said, live out too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted...nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve. "My reader will not wonder that, after having ascertained the superior goodness of dephlogisticated... | |
 | William Arthur Bone, Donald Thomas Alfred Townend - 1927 - 634 sider
...dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as may be said, live out too fast, and the animal processes be too soon exhausted in this pure kind of air. A...nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." Priestley also devised a method for estimating the ' goodness ' (ie oxygen-content) of air, by means... | |
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... it might not be so proper for us in the usual healthy state of the body: for as a candle burns out much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as may be said, live out too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted in this... 
