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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owned , the chief philosophers and wife meni of antiquity , how much soever they
attributed to'fecond causes and the force of fire , yet they suppofed a mind or
intellect always refident therein , activo or provident , restraining it's force and ...
owned , the chief philosophers and wife meni of antiquity , how much soever they
attributed to'fecond causes and the force of fire , yet they suppofed a mind or
intellect always refident therein , activo or provident , restraining it's force and ...
Page 101
This I have often experienced , not without surprife , at feeing these falutary
effects follow so im . mediately in a fever on taking a glass of tar - water . Such is
the force of these active vivifying principles contained in this balsam . 220 , Force
220.
This I have often experienced , not without surprife , at feeing these falutary
effects follow so im . mediately in a fever on taking a glass of tar - water . Such is
the force of these active vivifying principles contained in this balsam . 220 , Force
220.
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Force or power , strickly speaking , is in the agent alone who imparts an
equivocal force to the invisible elementary fire , or animal spirit ( a ) of the world ,
and this to the ignited body or visible Aame , which produceth the sense of light
and heat ...
Force or power , strickly speaking , is in the agent alone who imparts an
equivocal force to the invisible elementary fire , or animal spirit ( a ) of the world ,
and this to the ignited body or visible Aame , which produceth the sense of light
and heat ...
Page 105
On the other hand , if force be considered as prescinded from gravity and matter ,
and as existing only in points or centers , what can this amount to but an abstract
fpiritual incor .. poreal force ? 226. It doch not seem necessary from the ph¿ ...
On the other hand , if force be considered as prescinded from gravity and matter ,
and as existing only in points or centers , what can this amount to but an abstract
fpiritual incor .. poreal force ? 226. It doch not seem necessary from the ph¿ ...
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Neither doth it seem , as is fuppofed by the greatest of mechanical philofophers ,
that the true way of proceeding in their fcience is , from known motions in nature
to investigate the moving forces . Forasmuch as force is neither corporeal , nor ...
Neither doth it seem , as is fuppofed by the greatest of mechanical philofophers ,
that the true way of proceeding in their fcience is , from known motions in nature
to investigate the moving forces . Forasmuch as force is neither corporeal , nor ...
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