 | 1820 - 472 páginas
...render the higher note inaudible, although the lower note is heard distinctly. The suddenness of the transition from perfect hearing to total want of perception, occasions a degree of surprize, which renders an experiment on this subject with a series of small pipes among several persons... | |
 | A.P. Beresford, Alexander Dedekind, Andrew Jameson, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, Benjamin Kidd, Bouffier de Sauvages, Charles Bucke, Edward Latham Ormerod, Esq. Thomas Hale, George Hubbard, Harry Wallis Kew, Herbert S. Shorthouse, I. Hopkins, James Caldwell, James Cavanah Murphy, Lippi, M.M.M., T. Slevan, Thorsley, Travers James Briant, William Carr, William Dunbar, William Hyde Wollaston - 1820 - 474 páginas
...render the higher note inaudible, although the lower note is heard distinctly. The suddenness of the transition from perfect hearing to total want of perception,...small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of a party in succession,... | |
 | James Rennie (surgeon.) - 1825 - 512 páginas
...the bearing of different individuals, whose ears are in other respects perfect. The suddenness of the transition from perfect hearing to total want of perception,...small pipes, among several persons, rather amusing. Those who enjoy a temporary triumph, from hearing notes inaudible to others, are often compelled in... | |
 | 1824 - 628 páginas
...render the higher note inaudible, although the lower note is heard distinctly. The suddenness of the transition from perfect hearing to total want of perception,...small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feelihg manifested by various individuals of a parly in succession,... | |
 | 1821 - 520 páginas
...render the higher note inaudible, although the lower note is heard distinctly. The suddenness of the transition from perfect hearing to total want of perception,...small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of a party in succession,... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 434 páginas
...the hearing of different individuals, whose ears are in other respects perfect. The suddenness of the transition from perfect hearing to total want of perception,...a degree of surprise, which renders an experiment, with a series of small pipes, among several persons, rather amusing. Those who enjoy a temporary triumph,... | |
 | David Brewster - 1834 - 370 páginas
...the transition," says Dr. Wollaston, " from perfect hearing to total want of perception, pccasions a degree of surprise, which renders an experiment...small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of the party, in succession,... | |
 | Thomas Johnstone Aitkin - 1838 - 558 páginas
...some definite limit, at no great distance beyond the sounds ordinarily heard." He states further, " The suddenness of transition from perfect hearing...small pipes, among several persons, rather amusing. It is curious io observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of the party in succession,... | |
 | William Mullinger Higgins - 1838 - 276 páginas
...unfrequently the limit of hearing, and but seldom extends many notes above the pitch of that sound. The suddenness of transition from perfect hearing to total want of perception, says our author, " occasions a degree of surprise, which renders an experiment on this subject, with... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 páginas
...render the higher note inaudible, although the lower note is heard distinctly. " The suddenness of the transition from perfect hearing to total want of perception...small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It ii curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of the party, in succession,... | |
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The suddenness of the transition/ writes Wollaston, ' from perfect hearing to total want of perception, occasions a degree of surprise which renders an experiment of this kind with a series of small pipes, among several persons, rather amusing. It is... 
