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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The pure ¿ther or invisible fire contains parts of different kinds , that are
impressed with different forces , or subjected to different laws of motion ,
attraction , repulsion and expansion , and endued with divers distinct habitudes
towards other ...
The pure ¿ther or invisible fire contains parts of different kinds , that are
impressed with different forces , or subjected to different laws of motion ,
attraction , repulsion and expansion , and endued with divers distinct habitudes
towards other ...
Page 75
The groffer bodies separate , attract , and repel the several constituent particles of
that heterogeneous element ; which , being parted from the conimon mass , make
distinct essences , producing and combining together such qualities and ...
The groffer bodies separate , attract , and repel the several constituent particles of
that heterogeneous element ; which , being parted from the conimon mass , make
distinct essences , producing and combining together such qualities and ...
Page 113
Such a medium , distinct froin light or fire , seemeth not to be made out by any
proof , nor to be of any use in explaining the ph¿nomena . But if there be any
medium em . ployed , as a subordinate cause or instrument in attraction , it would
...
Such a medium , distinct froin light or fire , seemeth not to be made out by any
proof , nor to be of any use in explaining the ph¿nomena . But if there be any
medium em . ployed , as a subordinate cause or instrument in attraction , it would
...
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of those philosophers God is a mind , zwersor eido not an abstract idea
compounded of inconsistencies and prescinded from all real things , as some
moderns understand abstraction ; but a really existing spirit , distinct or separate
from all ...
of those philosophers God is a mind , zwersor eido not an abstract idea
compounded of inconsistencies and prescinded from all real things , as some
moderns understand abstraction ; but a really existing spirit , distinct or separate
from all ...
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And this aptness and concurrence thereunto furnishes the partial particular idea
of good in the distinct creatures . Hence it might have come to pass , that tayabor
and my were regarded as one and the fame . 343 Light and fight ( faith Plato in ...
And this aptness and concurrence thereunto furnishes the partial particular idea
of good in the distinct creatures . Hence it might have come to pass , that tayabor
and my were regarded as one and the fame . 343 Light and fight ( faith Plato in ...
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