 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1821 - 366 pages
...causes the bursting of the smaller blood-vessels in the nose and ears. Besides, in such situations, you are more exposed both to heat and cold ; for though...the sun's rays, and from the severity of the cold. ' Caroline. Pray, Mrs. B., is not the thermometer constructed on the same principles as the barometer?... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1821 - 350 pages
...heat and cold ; for though the atmosphere is itself transparent, its lower regions abound with vapours and exhalations from the earth, which float in it,...the sun's rays, and from the severity of the cold. Caroline. Pray, Mrs. B., is not the thermometer constructed on the same principles as the barometer... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1824 - 370 pages
...heat and cold; for though the atmosphere is itself transparent, its lower regions abound with vapours and exhalations from the earth, which float in it,...covering, which preserves us equally from the intensity ofthe sun's rays, and from the severity ofthe cold. Caroline. Pray, Mrs. B., is not the thermometer... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - 1826 - 286 pages
...and cold; for though the atmosphere is itself transparent, its lower regions, abound with vapours, and exhalations, from the earth, which float in it,...the sun's rays, and from the severity of the cold. Caroline. Pray, Mrs. B., is not the thermometer constructed on the same principles as the barometer?... | |
 | 1832 - 640 pages
...heat and cold ; for though the atmosphere is itself transparent, its lower regions abound with vapours and exhalations from the earth, which float in it,...the sun's rays, and from the severity of the cold. Now since the weight of the atmosphere supports mercury in the tube of a barometer, it will support... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 pages
...heat and cold ; for though the atmosphere is itself transparent, its lower regions abound with vapours and exhalations from the earth, which float in it,...the sun's rays, and from the severity of the cold. Now, since the weight of the atmosphere supports mercury in the tube of a barometer, it will support... | |
 | 1836 - 424 pages
...cold ; for though the atmos325 ! phere is itself transparent, its lower regions abound with vapours and exhalations from the earth, which float in it,...the sun's rays and from the severity of the cold. Now, since the weight of the atmosphere supports mercury in the tube of a barometer, it will support... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1838 - 266 pages
...takes place in the more dense air contained within the body is often painfuli it occasions distention, and sometimes causes the bursting of the smaller blood-vessels,...the sun's rays, and from the severity of the cold. f Any other liquid which is expanded by heat and contracted by cold, auch as •pirits of wine, &c.,... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...heat and cold ; for though the atmosphere is itself transparent, its lower regions abound with vapours and exhalations from the earth, which float in it,...the sun's rays, and from the severity of the cold. Now, since the weight of the atmosphere supports mercury in the tube of a barometer, it will support... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1839 - 262 pages
...both to heat and cold ; for, though the atmosphere is itself transparent, its lower regions nbonnd with vapors and exhalations from the earth, which...intensity of the sun's rays, and from the severity of lhe cold. t Any other liquid which is expanded by heat and contracted by coldi such as spirits of wine,... | |
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... vapors and exhalations from the earth, which float in it, and act in some degree as a covering, which preserves us equally from the intensity of the sun's rays, and from the severity of the cold. 
