Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water ...Dublin printed, London reprinted, for W. Innys & C. Hitch, & C. Davis, 1744 - 174 pages |
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Page 76
According to the Peripatetics , the form of heaven , or the fiery ¿thereal
substance , contains , the forms of all inferior beings ( b ) . It may be said to teem
with forins , and impart them to subjects fitted to receive them . The vital force
thereof in the ...
According to the Peripatetics , the form of heaven , or the fiery ¿thereal
substance , contains , the forms of all inferior beings ( b ) . It may be said to teem
with forins , and impart them to subjects fitted to receive them . The vital force
thereof in the ...
Page 77
This acher or purer medium , seems to have been the air or principle , from which
all things according to Anaximenes derived their birth , and into which they were
back again resolved at their death . Hippocrates , in his treatise De di¿ta ...
This acher or purer medium , seems to have been the air or principle , from which
all things according to Anaximenes derived their birth , and into which they were
back again resolved at their death . Hippocrates , in his treatise De di¿ta ...
Page 110
Bodies are moved to or from each other , and this is performed according to
different laws . The natural or mechanic philosopher endeavours to discover
those laws by experiment and reasoning . But what is said of forces residing in
bodies ...
Bodies are moved to or from each other , and this is performed according to
different laws . The natural or mechanic philosopher endeavours to discover
those laws by experiment and reasoning . But what is said of forces residing in
bodies ...
Page 133
There is according to those philosophers a life infused throughout all things : the
wûæ voegov , Tû TEXvencv , an intellectual and artificial fire ( e ) , an inward
principle , animal spirit , or natural life producing and forming within as art doth ...
There is according to those philosophers a life infused throughout all things : the
wûæ voegov , Tû TEXvencv , an intellectual and artificial fire ( e ) , an inward
principle , animal spirit , or natural life producing and forming within as art doth ...
Page 149
To understand and to be , are according to Parmenides the fame thing . And
Plato in his seventh letter makes no difference between vgs and trusóun , mind
and knowledge . Whence it follows , that mind , knowledge , and notions , either
in ...
To understand and to be , are according to Parmenides the fame thing . And
Plato in his seventh letter makes no difference between vgs and trusóun , mind
and knowledge . Whence it follows , that mind , knowledge , and notions , either
in ...
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