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, and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-row; and C. Davis in Holbourn., 1744 - 174 pages |
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What entertainment foever the reasoning or notional part may afford the mind , I will venture to say , the other part seemeth so surely calculated to do good to the body , that both must be gainers . For if the lute be not well tuned ...
What entertainment foever the reasoning or notional part may afford the mind , I will venture to say , the other part seemeth so surely calculated to do good to the body , that both must be gainers . For if the lute be not well tuned ...
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Mr. Boyle and other later chemists are agreed , that fixed falts are much the same in all bodies . But it is well known that volatile falts do greatly differ , and the easier they are separated from the subject , the more do they ...
Mr. Boyle and other later chemists are agreed , that fixed falts are much the same in all bodies . But it is well known that volatile falts do greatly differ , and the easier they are separated from the subject , the more do they ...
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... rendered contemptible , appears to be an excellent balsam , containing the virtues of most other balsams , which it easily imparts to water , and by that ineans readily and inoffensively insinuates them into the habit of the body .
... rendered contemptible , appears to be an excellent balsam , containing the virtues of most other balsams , which it easily imparts to water , and by that ineans readily and inoffensively insinuates them into the habit of the body .
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If we may believe Pliny , the first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of such efficacy to preserve from putrefaction , that in Egypt they embalmed dead bodies with it .
If we may believe Pliny , the first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of such efficacy to preserve from putrefaction , that in Egypt they embalmed dead bodies with it .
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Agreeably to the old observation of the Peo . ripatetics , that heat gathereth homogeneous things and disperseth such as are heterogeneous , we find chemistry is fitted for the analysis of bodies . But che chemistry of nature is much ...
Agreeably to the old observation of the Peo . ripatetics , that heat gathereth homogeneous things and disperseth such as are heterogeneous , we find chemistry is fitted for the analysis of bodies . But che chemistry of nature is much ...
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| Pealkiri | 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 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 |
| Autor | George Berkeley |
| Contributors | William Bowyer, William Innys, Charles Hitch, Charles Davis |
| Publisher | Dublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-row; and C. Davis in Holbourn., 1744 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 27 mai 2009 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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