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, and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-row; and C. Davis in Holbourn., 1744 - 174 pages |
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What entertainment so . ever the reasoning or notional part may afford the mind , I will venture to say , the other part seemeth so surely calculated to do good to the body , that both must be gainers . For if the lute be not well tuned ...
What entertainment so . ever the reasoning or notional part may afford the mind , I will venture to say , the other part seemeth so surely calculated to do good to the body , that both must be gainers . For if the lute be not well tuned ...
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And accordingly I have often known tar - water procure sleep and compose the spirits in cruel vigils , occafioned either by sickness or by too intenfe application of mind . 87. In diseases sometimes accidents happen from without ...
And accordingly I have often known tar - water procure sleep and compose the spirits in cruel vigils , occafioned either by sickness or by too intenfe application of mind . 87. In diseases sometimes accidents happen from without ...
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Their condition of life makes them a prey to imaginary woes , which never fail to grow up in minds unexercised and ... whose membranes are irritated by pungent falts , whose mind is agitated by painful oscillations of the nervous ( b ) ...
Their condition of life makes them a prey to imaginary woes , which never fail to grow up in minds unexercised and ... whose membranes are irritated by pungent falts , whose mind is agitated by painful oscillations of the nervous ( b ) ...
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I do verily think , there is not any other medicine whatsoever , fo effeétual to restore a crazy conftitution , and chear a dreary mind , or fo likely to fubvert that gloomy empire of the spleen ( a ) , which tyraniseth over the better ...
I do verily think , there is not any other medicine whatsoever , fo effeétual to restore a crazy conftitution , and chear a dreary mind , or fo likely to fubvert that gloomy empire of the spleen ( a ) , which tyraniseth over the better ...
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However the phänomena and effects do plainly shew there is a spirit that moves , and a mind or providence that presides , This providence , Plutarch faith , was thought to be in regard to the world , what the soul is in regard to man .
However the phänomena and effects do plainly shew there is a spirit that moves , and a mind or providence that presides , This providence , Plutarch faith , was thought to be in regard to the world , what the soul is in regard to man .
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