| Joseph Priestley - Air - 1790 - 600 pages
...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.) - Eighteenth century - 1794 - 538 pages
...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... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...prodigious settlement. * * * B. FRANKLIN. . EFFECT OF VEGETATION ON NOXIOUS AIR. To Dr. Priestley. * * * THAT the vegetable creation should restore the air...purifies it by distillation, when it raises it in vapours, and lets it fall in rain ; and farther still by filtration, when, keeping it fluid, it suffers... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...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 - 232 pages
...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... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 884 pages
...in a letter upon the subject of this discovery 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 vapours, and lets it fall in rain ; and farther still by filtration, when, keeping it fluid, it suffers... | |
| William Thomas Brande - Chemistry - 1830 - 682 pages
...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 - Chemistry - 1830 - 678 pages
...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... | |
| John Towill Rutt - Chemists - 1831 - 450 pages
...inconvenient to a mouse which I put into it." Ibid. ; MR XIII. 677. Dr. Franklin remarks in reply, " That the vegetable creation should restore the air...It purifies it by distillation when it raises it in vapours, and lets it fall in rain ; and farther still by filtration, when, keeping it fluid, it suffers... | |
| William Paley - Theology - 1838 - 976 pages
...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.,... | |
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