 | Joseph Priestley - 1790 - Počet stránok 600
...the animal part of it, * looks like a rational fyftem, and feems to be of *' a piece with the reft. Thus fire purifies water " all the world over. It purifies it by di'rillation, u when it raifes it in vapours, and lets it fall in " rain ; and farther ftill by filtration,... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - Počet stránok 538
...purifies another. Thus fire purifies water. It purifies it by distillation, when it raises it in vapour, and lets it fall in rain ; and farther still by filtration,...fluid, it suffers that rain to percolate the earth. * Animal substances, when mixed with earth, and applied as manure, are converted into sweet vegetables... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - Počet stránok 232
...prodigious settlement. * * * * B. FRANKLIN. EFFECT OF YEGETATION ON NOXIOUS AIR. To Dr. Priestley. " * * THAT the vegetable creation should restore the air...the world over. It purifies it by distillation, when H raises it in vapours, and lets it fall in rain ; and farther still by filtration, when, keeping it... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - Počet stránok 232
...FRAXKLIN. 180 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS, EFFECT OF VEGETATION ON NOXIOUS AIR. To Dr. Priestley. * * * THAT the vegetable creation should restore the air...rest. Thus fire purifies water all the world over, ft purif,es it by distillation, when it raises it in vapours, and lets it fall in rain ; and farther... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1830 - Počet stránok 682
...letter upon the subject of these discoveries to Dr. Priestley, has expressed himself as follows :— " That the vegetable creation should restore the air...It purifies it by distillation when it raises it in vapour, and lets it fall in rain ; and farther still by filtration. Sir JOHN PRINGLE, who was then... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1830 - Počet stránok 678
...letter upon the subject of these discoveries to Dr. Priestley, has expressed himself as follows : — " That the vegetable creation should restore the air...over. It purifies it by distillation when it raises rt in vapour, and lets it fall in rain ; and farther still by filtration, Sir JOHN PRINGLK, who was... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1838 - Počet stránok 632
...remainder of the letter is lost. — EDITOR. TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY.* Effect of Vegetation on J\*oxious Mr. That the vegetable creation should restore the air...purifies it by distillation, when it raises it in vapors, and lets it fall in rain ; and farther still by filtration, when, keeping it fluid, it suffers... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - Počet stránok 976
...the air which is spoiled by the animal part which the vegetables on the face of the earth had been of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a insufficient to consume." piece with the rett." Life of Priestley. Davy's Elements of Chem. Phil.,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - Počet stránok 640
...afford some new light to the doctrine * TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY.* Effect of Vegetation on Noxious Jlir. That the vegetable creation should restore the air...purifies it by distillation, when it raises it in vapors, and lets it fall in rain ; and farther still by filtration, when, keeping it fluid, it suffers... | |
 | Willian Blaackwood aand Sons. Edinburgh - 1843 - Počet stránok 712
...communicated these curious and instructive experiments, wrote to him immediately, observing very justly, " That the vegetable creation should restore the air,...vapours and lets it fall in rain, and farther still by nitration, when keeping it fluid it suffers that rain to percolate the earth. We knew before that putrid... | |
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That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest. 
