 | 1877 - 850 pages
...tells of a man who "had been eight years upon a project of extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw and inclement summers." There are some of these candle-light and cucumber fellows who are teachers... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 pages
...room hath in it one or more projectors, and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. warm the air in raw, inclement summers. He told me he did not doubt in eight years more that he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | James Burton (schoolmaster.) - 1878 - 124 pages
...and equals. He had been eight years extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to lie put into phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long wandered, bounded... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1878 - 522 pages
...eight years [engaged] upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers which were to be put into phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.' — SWIFT. [The 'cucumbers' were not ' to be put into phials.'] * ' Some men are too ignorant to be... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 466 pages
...colour. lie had been eight years upon a project for •^ extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement rammers. He told me, he did not <*..i.Dr, that in eight years more, he should be able fr supply the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm th? air in raw inclement summers. He told me he did not doubt in eight years more that he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers,* which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in...raw, inclement summers. He told me he did not doubt in eight years ,0 more that he should be able to supply the governor's gardens NOTES. — Line I. the... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. 10 He told me he did not doubt in eight years more he should be able to supply the governor's gardens... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1881 - 348 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in...raw inclement summers. He told me HE DID NOT DOUBT in eight years more that he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1882 - 76 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in...told me he did not doubt, that in eight years more, ho should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate ; but he complained... | |
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. 
