 | William Otter - 1824 - 700 pàgines
...night. At last, having blown off both my eyebrows, and eyelashes, and nearly blown out both my eyes, I ended with a bang that shook all the houses round...supplied with a simple but ingenious invention of Mr. Gumming (Chemical Professor at Cambridge), called the Safety cylinder, which by the intervention of... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 286 pàgines
...night. At last, having blown off both my eye-brows and eye-lashes, and nearly blown out both my eyes, I ended with a bang that shook all the houses round...alchemy, for I have actually decomposed the earths, and attained them in a metallic form." Dr Clarke's character for versatility and application was a frequent... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1837 - 408 pàgines
...eyebrows and eyelashes, and nearly blown out both my eyes, I ended with a bang that shook all tiia houses round my lecture-room. The Cambridge paper has told you the result of all this alchymy, for I have actually decomposed the earths, and obtained them in a metallic form." I adopt... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1859 - 396 pàgines
...night. At last, having blown off both my eyebrows and eyelashes, and nearly blown out both my eyes, I ended with a bang that shook all the houses round...Cambridge paper has told you the result of all this alchymy, for I have actually decomposed the earths, and obtained them in a metallic form." I adopt... | |
 | Englishmen - 1863 - 912 pàgines
...night. At last, having blown off both my eye-brows and eye-lashes, and nearly blown out both my eyes, I ended with a bang that shook all the houses round...alchemy, for I have actually decomposed the earths, and attained them in a metallic form." Dr Clarke's character for versatility and application was a frequent... | |
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Oh, how I did work! It was delightful play to me; and I stuck to It day and night. At last, having blown off both my eyebrows, and eyelashes, and nearly blown out both my eyes, I ended with a bang that shook all the houses round my Lecture-room. The Cambridge... 