| 1827 - 500 páginas
...chink, told me, that by way of experiment, he had frequently practised this deception in the corner of a coffee-house ; and that he seldom failed to see some...putting on their hats, and buttoning their coats. " The same thing is exemplified on a greater scale in those theatres (formerly not uncommon on the Continent),... | |
| 1827 - 496 páginas
...chink, told me, that by way of experiment, he had frequently practised this deception in the corner of a coffee-house ; and that he seldom failed to see some...putting on their hats, and buttoning their coats. " The same thing is exemplified on a greater scale in those theatres (formerly not uncommon on the Continent),... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 páginas
...told me, that, by way of experiment, he had frequently practised this deception in the corner of a coffeehouse ; and that he seldom failed to see some...tightness of the windows; while others, more intent upon their newspapers, contented themselves with putting on tlreir hats, and buttoning their coats.... | |
| 1828 - 408 páginas
...told me, that, by way of experiment, he had frequently practised this deception in the corner of a coffee-house ; and that he seldom failed to see some...tightness of the windows ; while others, more intent upon their newspapers, contented themselves with putting on their hats, and buttoning their coats,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 páginas
...see some of the company rise to examine the tightness of the windows ; while others, more intent upon their newspapers, contented themselves with putting on their hats, and buttoning their coats. The same thing is exemplified on a greater scale in those theatres (formerly not uncommon on the Continent,)... | |
| 1833 - 370 páginas
...wind through a narrow chink, frequently prac.tised.this deception in the corner of a coffee house, and he seldom failed to see some of the company rise to...putting on their hats and buttoning their coats. The following extraordinary instance of the different effects of various vegetables, some of them poisonous,... | |
| Robley Dunglison - 1850 - 736 páginas
...some of the company rise to examine the tightness of the windows ; whilst others, more intent on the newspapers, contented themselves with putting on their hats, and buttoning their coats.* It is to account for the mode in which this is effected, that different hypotheses have been, from... | |
| Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1852 - 304 páginas
...narrow chink, told Dugald Stuart that he had frequently practiced this deception in the corner of a coffee-house, and that he seldom failed to see some...putting on their hats, and buttoning their coats."* Sounds. — " When sounds so mysterious in their origin are heard by persons predisposed to a belief... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 páginas
...chink, told me, that by way of experiment, he had frequently practised this deception in the corner of a coffeehouse ; and that he seldom failed to see some...tightness of the windows ; while others, more intent upon their newspapers, contented themselves with putting on their hats, and buttoning their coats.... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 448 páginas
...chink, told me, that by way of experiment, he had frequently practised this deception in the corner of a coffeehouse ; and that he seldom failed to see some of the company rise to examine the tightuess of the windows ; while others, more intent upon their newspapers, contented themselves with... | |
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