 | 1785 - 596 pages
...him in time with a tube of mercury, firft- mark ing tlie point moft favourable to his intellefts,. according to rules which I have long ftudied, and...which I may, perhaps, reveal to mankind in a complete trcatiie of barometrical pneumatology. Another canfe of the gaiety nnct fprightlinefs of the dwellers... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 472 pages
...attending him from the cellar to the garret, and try upon him all the various degrees of rarefaction and condenfation, tenfion and laxity. If he is neither...barometrical pneumatology. Another caufe of the gaiety and fprightlinefs of the dwellers in garrets is probably the increafe of that vertiginous motion, with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...tenfion and laxity. If he is neither vivacious aloft, nor ferious below, I then confider him as hppelefs; but as it feldom happens, that I do not find the temper...barometrical pneumatology. Another caufe of the gaiety and fprightlinefs of the dwellers in garrets is probably the increaie of that vertiginous motion, with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...he is neither vivacious aloft, nor lerious below, I then cohfuiei him as hopelefs; but as it ftldom happens, that I do not find the temper to which the...time with a tube of mercury, firft marking the point mpft favourable to his intellects, according to rules which I have long ftudied, and which I may, perhaps,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...attending him from the cellar to the garret, and try upon him all the various degrees of rarefaction and condenfation, tenfion and laxity. If he is neither...in time with a tube of mercury, firft marking the points moft favourable to his intellects, according to rules which I have long ftudied, and which I... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...vivacious aloft, nor ferious below, I then confider him as hopelefs ; but as it feldom happens, that 1 do not find the temper to which the texture of his...I accommodate him in time with a tube of mercury, firfl marking the points moft favourable to his intellects, according to rules which I have long ftudied,... | |
 | 1803 - 296 pages
...he is neither vivacious aloft, nor serious below, Ithenconsider him as hopeless ; but as it seldom happens, that I do not find the temper to which, the...I accommodate him in time with a tube of mercury, first marking the points most favourable to his intellects, according to rules which I have long studied,... | |
 | 1806 - 340 pages
...he is neither vivacious aloft, nor serious below, I then consider him as hopeless; but as it seldom happens, that I do not find the temper to which the...I accommodate him in time with a tube of mercury, first marking the point most favourable to his intellects, according to rules which I have long studied,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 334 pages
...he is neither vivacious aloft, nor serious below, I then consider him as hopeless ; but as it seldom happens that I do not find the temper to which the...I accommodate him in time with a tube of mercury, first marking the point most favourable to his intellects, according to rules which I have long studied,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...he is neither vivacious aloft, nor serious below, I then consider him as hopeless ; but as it seldom happens, that I do not find the temper to which the...I accommodate him in time with a tube of mercury, first marking the points most favourable to his intellects, according to rules which I have long studied,... | |
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I then consider him as hopeless; but as it seldom happens that I do not find the temper to which the texture of his brain is... 
