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 14
This was probably the spruce fir ; for the picea , according to Pliny , yields much
resin , loves a cold and mountainous licuation , and is distinguished , conlili
facilitate , by it's fitness to be fhorn , which agrees with the spruce fir , whereof I
have ...
This was probably the spruce fir ; for the picea , according to Pliny , yields much
resin , loves a cold and mountainous licuation , and is distinguished , conlili
facilitate , by it's fitness to be fhorn , which agrees with the spruce fir , whereof I
have ...
Page 77
This ¿ther 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 treaise De di¿ta ...
This ¿ther 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 treaise 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 philofopher endeavours to discover
those laws by experiment and reasoning . But what is faid 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 philofopher endeavours to discover
those laws by experiment and reasoning . But what is faid of forces residing in
bodies ...
Page 121
He who foreknoweth what will be in every kind , is the wisest . According to
Socrates , you and the cook may judge of a dilh on the table equally well ; but
while the dish is making , the cook can better foretell what will ensue from this or
that ...
He who foreknoweth what will be in every kind , is the wisest . According to
Socrates , you and the cook may judge of a dilh on the table equally well ; but
while the dish is making , the cook can better foretell what will ensue from this or
that ...
Page 149
To understand and to be , are according to Parmenides the same thing . And
Plato in his seventh letter makes no difference between vêç and imisiun , inind
and knowledge . Whence it follows , that mind , knowledge , and notions , either
in ...
To understand and to be , are according to Parmenides the same thing . And
Plato in his seventh letter makes no difference between vêç and imisiun , inind
and knowledge . Whence it follows , that mind , knowledge , and notions , either
in ...
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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 | 27 mai 2009 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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