Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water: And Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another. By the Right Rev. Dr. George Berkley, ...C. Hitch; and C. Davis, 1744 - 176 pages |
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... first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo- phraftus is more particular : he tells us the Mace- donians made huge heaps of the cloven trunks of thofe trees , wherein the billets were placed erect befide each ...
... first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo- phraftus is more particular : he tells us the Mace- donians made huge heaps of the cloven trunks of thofe trees , wherein the billets were placed erect befide each ...
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... first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of fuch efficacy to preserve from putrefaction , that in Egypt they embalmed dead bodies with it . And to this he afcribes their mum- mies continuing uncorrupted for fo many ages . 16 ...
... first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of fuch efficacy to preserve from putrefaction , that in Egypt they embalmed dead bodies with it . And to this he afcribes their mum- mies continuing uncorrupted for fo many ages . 16 ...
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... first purified by ftraining through the fine pores of the root , are afterwards exalted by the action of the air and the veffels of the plant , but , above all , by the action of the fun's light ; light ; which at the fame time that it ...
... first purified by ftraining through the fine pores of the root , are afterwards exalted by the action of the air and the veffels of the plant , but , above all , by the action of the fun's light ; light ; which at the fame time that it ...
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... first flies off from the fubject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apopthegm of the chemists , deri- ved from Helmont , that whoever can make myrrh foluble by the human body , has the fecret of pro- longing his days : and ...
... first flies off from the fubject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apopthegm of the chemists , deri- ved from Helmont , that whoever can make myrrh foluble by the human body , has the fecret of pro- longing his days : and ...
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... first of these is highly spoken of . But then those who magnify it moft , except against the use of it in such cases where the obstruction is attended with a putrefactive alkali , or where an inflammatory dif pofition appears . It is ...
... first of these is highly spoken of . But then those who magnify it moft , except against the use of it in such cases where the obstruction is attended with a putrefactive alkali , or where an inflammatory dif pofition appears . It is ...
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Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water ... GEORGE. BERKELEY No preview available - 2018 |
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