 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...  The Family Library (Harper). - Page 1501836Full view - About this book
 | William Charles Wells - Dew - 1815 - 168 pages
...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,...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 Charles Wells - Dew - 1815 - 174 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1821 - 436 pages
...smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible...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 - Chemistry - 1821 - 436 pages
...smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible...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 pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible...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 - Agriculture - 1826 - 1252 pages
...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,...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 - Chemistry - 1827 - 904 pages
...“smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible...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 - Chemistry - 1831 - 980 pages
...smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible...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... | |
 | 1833 - 784 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 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... | |
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