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 80
... understanding , prudence , growth , motion , diminution , change , fleep and waking . This is what governsall things and is never in repofe . And the fame author , in his tract , De carnibus , after a ferious preface setting forth that ...
... understanding , prudence , growth , motion , diminution , change , fleep and waking . This is what governsall things and is never in repofe . And the fame author , in his tract , De carnibus , after a ferious preface setting forth that ...
Page 112
... understand no more , than that bodies are moved according to a certain order , and that they do not move themselves . 237. So likewife , how to explain all thofe vari- ous motions and effects , by the denfity and elafti- city of ¿ther ...
... understand no more , than that bodies are moved according to a certain order , and that they do not move themselves . 237. So likewife , how to explain all thofe vari- ous motions and effects , by the denfity and elafti- city of ¿ther ...
Page 120
... understanding of na- ture , or that feries of effects in the visible world , whereby we are enabled to foresee what will come to pafs , in the natural_courfe of things . Plotinus obferves , in his third Ennead , that the art of pre ...
... understanding of na- ture , or that feries of effects in the visible world , whereby we are enabled to foresee what will come to pafs , in the natural_courfe of things . Plotinus obferves , in his third Ennead , that the art of pre ...
Page 121
... understand it : and we understand it , when we can interpret or tell what it fignifies . Strictly the fenfe knows nothing . We perceive indeed founds by hearing , and charac- ters by fight but we are not therefore faid to un- derstand ...
... understand it : and we understand it , when we can interpret or tell what it fignifies . Strictly the fenfe knows nothing . We perceive indeed founds by hearing , and charac- ters by fight but we are not therefore faid to un- derstand ...
Page 122
... understands nothing . 255. Nature , faith the learned Doctor Cud- worth , is not mafter of art or wifdom : Nature is ratio merfa & confufa , reafon immerfed and plung- ed into matter , and as it were fuddled in it and con- founded with ...
... understands nothing . 255. Nature , faith the learned Doctor Cud- worth , is not mafter of art or wifdom : Nature is ratio merfa & confufa , reafon immerfed and plung- ed into matter , and as it were fuddled in it and con- founded with ...
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abfolute acid ¿ther ¿therial againſt alfo alſo ancient animal fpirit Ariftotle attraction balfam becauſe blood bodies cafes caufe cauſe confequently confift conftitute cure diffolved diftempers diftinct diuretic divine doctrine doth effects elaftic elaſtic Ennead exift exiſtence fafe faid falts fame fcurvy fecreted feem feemeth felf fenfe fenfible feveral fhall fhew fhould fhould feem fir Ifaac Newton firft foap folar folid fome fometimes fomewhat force foul ftomach fubftance fubject fubtile fuch fulphur fuppofed fupreme fyftem gout groffer grofs hath heat Heraclitus himſelf intellect invifible itſelf juices lacteals laws of attraction lefs medicine mind moft moſt motion muft muſt nature neceffary nevertheleſs obferved Parmenides particles perfons ph¿nomena philofophers pine plants Plato Plotinus Plutarch prefent prefervative principle produce pure reafon refides refin ſeems ſpace ſpecific tar-water thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe Tim¿us turpentine underſtand underſtood univerfe uſe veffels vegetable virtues volatile whereof whofe τὸ