Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from AnotherDublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744 - 174 pages |
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Page 68
... in was the opinion of Heraclitus , that the death of fire was a birth to air , and the death of air a birth : to water . This opinion is alfo maintained by . ( m ) 137 , 145 . Sir Sir Ifaac Newton . Though it may be queftioned , ( 68 )
... in was the opinion of Heraclitus , that the death of fire was a birth to air , and the death of air a birth : to water . This opinion is alfo maintained by . ( m ) 137 , 145 . Sir Sir Ifaac Newton . Though it may be queftioned , ( 68 )
Page 76
... Heraclitus to be the feed of the generation of all things , or that from which all things drew their original . The Stoics alfo taught , that all fubftance was originally fire , and fhould return to fire : that an active fubtile fire ...
... Heraclitus to be the feed of the generation of all things , or that from which all things drew their original . The Stoics alfo taught , that all fubftance was originally fire , and fhould return to fire : that an active fubtile fire ...
Page 80
... Heraclitus , ( b ) for inftance , who held fire to be the principle and caufe of the generation of all things , did not mean thereby an inanimate ele . ment , but , as he termed it , aug deílwov , an ever- living fire . ( g ) 168 . ( b ) ...
... Heraclitus , ( b ) for inftance , who held fire to be the principle and caufe of the generation of all things , did not mean thereby an inanimate ele . ment , but , as he termed it , aug deílwov , an ever- living fire . ( g ) 168 . ( b ) ...
Page 81
... Heraclitus is thought by fome to have drawn his principles from Orpheus , as Or- pheus did from the Egyptians ; or , as others write , he had been auditor of Hippafus a Pythagorean , who held the fame notion of fire , and might have ...
... Heraclitus is thought by fome to have drawn his principles from Orpheus , as Or- pheus did from the Egyptians ; or , as others write , he had been auditor of Hippafus a Pythagorean , who held the fame notion of fire , and might have ...
Page 107
... Heraclitus , Hippocrates , the Stoics ( a ) , ard other ancients . Intellect , fuperadded to ¿therial fpirit , fire , or light , moves , and moves regularly , proceeding , in a method as the Stoics , or increaf- ing and diminishing by ...
... Heraclitus , Hippocrates , the Stoics ( a ) , ard other ancients . Intellect , fuperadded to ¿therial fpirit , fire , or light , moves , and moves regularly , proceeding , in a method as the Stoics , or increaf- ing and diminishing by ...
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