 | William Derham - 1754 - 506 pages
...time, by unftopping a Veffel full of this Liquor, he could fpeedily reftore to the troubled Air fuch a Proportion of vital Parts, as would make it again for a good while fit for Refpiration. The Secret of this Liquor Drebell would never difclofe to above one Perfon, who himfelf... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1842 - 536 pages
...experiment, and state that he accounted his chief secret to be ' the composition of a liquid that would speedily restore to the troubled air such a proportion of vital parts as would make it n'^ain, for a good while, fit for respiration.' The composition of this liquid for enabling the same... | |
 | 1842 - 538 pages
...experiment, and state that he accounted his chief secret to be ' the composition of a liquid that would speedily restore to the troubled air such a proportion of vital parts as wuuld make it again, for a good while, fit for respiration.' The com position of this liquid for enabling... | |
 | 1917 - 882 pages
...that the finer and purer part of the Air was consumed or over-clogged by the respirations and steams of those that went in his ship, he would by unstopping...make it again for a good while fit for respiration, whether by dissipating or precipitating the grosser exhalations or by some other intelligible way I... | |
 | William Newton - 1856 - 430 pages
...vessel, in which the air was supposed to have been renewed by " a composition or liquid that would speedily restore to the troubled air such a proportion...it again, for a good while, fit for respiration." Friar Bacon and Bishop Wilkins were both contrivers of diving apparatus ; and the Marquis of Worcester,... | |
 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1861 - 618 pages
...professes to give Debrell's secret from authority ; he says, " the composition •was a liquid that would speedily restore to the troubled air such a proportion of vital parts us would make it again, for a good while, fit for respiration." This novelty induced his Most Serene... | |
 | William Brenchley Rye, Friedrich I (duke of Würtemberg) - 1865 - 464 pages
...that the finer and purer part of the Air was consum'd or over-clogg'd by the respiration and steames of those that went in his ship, he would, by unstopping a vessell full of this liquor, speedily restore to the troubled air such a proportion of vitall parts... | |
 | 1868 - 884 pages
...said of it that it comprised an arrangement whereby ' the composition of a liquid speedily restored to the troubled air such a proportion of vital parts...make it again for a good while fit for respiration.' Bishop wilkins, in his Mathematical Magic, speculated ' concerning the possibility of framing an ark... | |
 | 1868 - 884 pages
...arrangement whereby ' the composition of a Hquid speedily restored to the troubled air such a proportion oí vital parts as would make it again for a good while fit for respiration.' Bishop Wilkins, in his Mathematical Magic, speculated ' concerning the possibility of framing an ark... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - 1870 - 872 pages
...said of it that it comprised an arrangement whereby 'the composition of a liquid speedily restored to the troubled air such a proportion of vital parts as would imikc it again for a good while fit for respiration.' Bishop Wilkius, in his ifatliematical Magic,... | |
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... of those, that went in his ship, he would by unstopping a vessel full of this liquor, speedily restore to the troubled air such a proportion of vital parts, as would make it again, for a good while, fit for respiration... 
