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" I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarified by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another... "
The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History, Literature ... - Page 213
1829
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The Repertory of arts and manufactures [afterw.] arts, manufactures and ...

Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1802 - 556 pages
...run like a constant fountain stream forty foot high ; one vessel of water rarefied by fire drivcth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work...being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill wjth cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the selfsame person...
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Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 ..., Volume 5

1803 - 614 pages
...raised forty qf cold. The person who conducted the operation had nothing to do but turn two cocks, &o that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force, and then to fill itself with cold water, and so on in succession." Such are the Marquis's own words, but...
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Public Characters, Volume 5

1803 - 598 pages
...raised forty of cold. The person who conducted the operation had nothing to do but turn two cocks, so that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force, and then to fill itself with cold water, and so on in succession." Such are the Marquis's own words, but...
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The Harleian miscellany; or, A collection of ... pamphlets and ..., Volume 6

Harleian miscellany - 1808 - 588 pages
...them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain-stream forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarified by...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the...
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The Harleian Miscellany:: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ..., Volume 6

1810 - 578 pages
...run like a constant fountain-stream forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarified by fire, drivi'th up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the...
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The Harleian Miscellany, Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ..., Volume 6

William Oldys, John Malham - 1810 - 574 pages
...run like a constant fountain-stream forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarified by fire, diiveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the...
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The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ..., Volume 6

1810 - 620 pages
...seen the water run like a constant fountain-stream forty feX't high ; one vessel of water, Tariffed by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the...
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Wither's Motto

George Wither - 1814 - 348 pages
...the water run like a constant fountain-stream forty feet high; one vessel of water rarified by (ire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man' that tends...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the...
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A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive, Volume 2

Olinthus Gregory - 1815 - 632 pages
...have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty foot high; one vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water. And a man...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the...
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A Thousand Notable Things on Various Subjects: Disclosed from the Secrets of ...

Thomas Lupton - 1815 - 262 pages
...them, and the one to fill after the other. I have seen the water run like a constant fountain-stream forty feet high; one vessel of water rarified by fire,...-water being consumed, another begins to force and re-, fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the...
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