| William Charles Wells - 1815 - 174 pages
...of a serene night. The effects in question certainly cannot be occasioned by dew, since that fluid does not form upon a healthy human body, in temperate...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, * Meteorolog. c. vi. » by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned,... | |
| William Charles Wells - 1815 - 168 pages
...of a serene night. The effects in question certainly cannot be occasioned by dew, since that fluid does not form upon a healthy human body, in temperate...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, 1 ' Meteorolog. c. V5. by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pages
...temperature of the air as exhibited by the thermometer. ' I had often,' says Dr. Wells, p. 120, ' in tlie pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently...the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone 1 thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...doctrines of latent heat. « I had often," says Dr. Wells, " smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to...the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone 1 thought them liable to be injured. But when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1831 - 980 pages
...doctrines of latent heat. " I had often," says Dr Wells, " smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect...flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the température of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when I had... | |
| 1833 - 796 pages
...earth. " I had often smiled in the pride of half knowledge at the means employed by gardeners to protect plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy covering could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought... | |
| john murray - 1845 - 722 pages
...pride of half-knowledge, Broiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect tender plantg from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any *uch flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which... | |
| American Medical Association - 1853 - 930 pages
...sky, and thus prevent radiation with its mischievous consequences. " I had often," says Dr. Wells, " in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means...as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat or such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which... | |
| 1854 - 534 pages
...meadow is loaded with dew. " I had often smiled," says Dr. Wells, "in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect...appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such ffimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone... | |
| John Tyndall - 1865 - 494 pages
...beautiful passage in the Essay of Wells : — 'I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled al the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect...me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substanee could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought... | |
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