 | 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
...the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible, that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance,...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... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1815 - 174 pages
...the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible, that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance,...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
...the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible, that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance,...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,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance,...alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when 1 had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance,...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... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1826 - 440 pages
...the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance,...had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth became, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1826 - 1252 pages
...the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible, that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance,...alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I liad learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1827 - 904 pages
...the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance,...on the surface of the earth become, during a still arid serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the heavens, I perceived... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1831 - 980 pages
...the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such 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
...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...had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth became, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the... | |
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I had often, in the pride of half-knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature... 
