From whence it appears, that ſometimes compreſs’d Air is more diſpos’d to alter Colours, than uncompreſs’d; and it may not be amiſs to obſerve, that the Roſes after this manner ſhut up, did not acquire the leaſt Mucidneſs, but only a yellow Colour: But when the Experiment was try’d with Tulips and Lark-Spurs, the Succeſs was different.
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The average reader judges a paper by the amount of news it contains; its reliability as a chronicler of events; its enterprise in the direction of printing facts; its independence, coupled with the ability of its manager to extract solid news from slops, straight intelligence from fribbling mucidness.
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The windows that were inteneded to allow light and sun into the place have never been cleaned, and the rays that furtively find their way through serve only as a contrast, and helps to show the mucidness, rankness, and feculence of the surroundings and the defilement of the inhabitants […]
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Let us suppose that in a given space there exists a spore of mucidness. This spore is arrested on the surface of a liquid placed to receive it, and containing azote (nitrogen), carbon, oxygen, mineral substances, and other necessary elements for its germination, in certain proportions; the germination begins.
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