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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. "
Life and Correspondence of Joseph Priestley ... - Page 148
by John Towill Rutt - 1831
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Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, and Other ..., Volume 3

Joseph Priestley - 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,...
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With ..., Volume 1

Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 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...
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Essays and Letters, Volumes 1-2

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...
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Essays and Letters, Volumes 1-2

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...
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A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the ..., Volume 1

William Thomas Brande - 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...
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A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the ..., Volume 1

William Thomas Brande - 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...
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 6

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1838 - 632 pages
...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...
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The works of William Paley, Volume 1

William Paley - 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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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volume 6

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...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...
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The Quarterly Journal Of Agriculture

Willian Blaackwood aand Sons. Edinburgh - 1843 - 712 pages
...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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