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 9
Pliny faith , it was customary for the ancients , to hold feeces of wool over the
steam of boiling tar , and squeeze the moisture from them , which watery
substance was called pissinum . Ray · will have this to be the same with the
piffel¿um of the ...
Pliny faith , it was customary for the ancients , to hold feeces of wool over the
steam of boiling tar , and squeeze the moisture from them , which watery
substance was called pissinum . Ray · will have this to be the same with the
piffel¿um of the ...
Page 14
There seems to have been some confusion in the naming of these trees , as well
among the ancients as the moderns . The ancient Greek and Latin names are by
later authors applied very differently . Pliny himself acknowledgeth , it is not easy
...
There seems to have been some confusion in the naming of these trees , as well
among the ancients as the moderns . The ancient Greek and Latin names are by
later authors applied very differently . Pliny himself acknowledgeth , it is not easy
...
Page 49
The soul of man was supposed by many ancient sages , to be thrust into the
human body as into a prison , for punishment of past offences . But the worst
prison is the body of an indolent Epi . cure , whose blood is infamed by fermented
lia ...
The soul of man was supposed by many ancient sages , to be thrust into the
human body as into a prison , for punishment of past offences . But the worst
prison is the body of an indolent Epi . cure , whose blood is infamed by fermented
lia ...
Page 55
It was a wise maxim of certain ancient philosophers , that diseases ought not to
be irritated by medicines . But no medicine difturbs the animal economy lefs than
this ( a ) , which , if I may trust my own experience , never produces any disorder ...
It was a wise maxim of certain ancient philosophers , that diseases ought not to
be irritated by medicines . But no medicine difturbs the animal economy lefs than
this ( a ) , which , if I may trust my own experience , never produces any disorder ...
Page 69
Air therefore is a mass of various particles , abraded and sublimated from wet
and dry bodies of all sorts , cohering with particles of ¿ther ; the whole
permeated by pure ¿ther , or light , or fire : for these words are used
promiscuoully by ancient ...
Air therefore is a mass of various particles , abraded and sublimated from wet
and dry bodies of all sorts , cohering with particles of ¿ther ; the whole
permeated by pure ¿ther , or light , or fire : for these words are used
promiscuoully by ancient ...
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| Title | Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another Eighteenth Century English short title catalogue Eighteenth Century collection 8128. number of Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature Siris: a Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water,: And Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another, George Berkeley |
| Author | George Berkeley |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Dublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 20 apr. 2009 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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