That this venenation shooteth from the eye, and that this way a basilisk may empoison, although thus much be not agreed upon by authors, some imputing it unto the breath, others unto the bite, it is not a thing impossible. " For eyes receive offensive... The English Cyclopaedia - Page 51redigeeritud poolt - 1867Full view - About this book
| Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 810 lehte
...— The vifible fpccies of things ftrike not our fen Its immaterially ; but dreaming in corporal rays do carry with them the qualities of the object from...whence they flow, and the medium through which they pafs. Bro<wn't Vulgar Krrcuri. * IMMATER1ALNESS. nf [from immaterial} Diflinctnefs from matter. * 1MMATERIATE.... | |
| 1816 - 764 lehte
...— The vifible fpecies of things ftrike not our fenfes immaterially ; but ftreaming in corporal rays do carry with them the qualities of the object from...whence they flow, and the medium through which they pafs. Brown's Pulgar Errours. * IMMATERIALNESS. ». /. [from immaterial.] Diflinctnefg from matter.... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 lehte
...The visible species of things strike not our senses immaterially ; but, screaming in corporal rays, do carry with them the qualities of the object from...they flow, and the medium through which they pass. Browne'l Vulgar Errouri. No man that owns the existence of an infinite spirit can doubt the possibility... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 lehte
...the bite — it is not a thing impossible. For eyes receive offensive impressions from their objects, and may have influences destructive to each other....our senses immaterially, but streaming in corporal rays, do carry with them the qualities of the object from whence they flow, and the medium through... | |
| 1837 - 1822 lehte
...it is not • tnincc impossible. For eyes receive offensive impressions from tueir objects, and mav have influences destructive to each other. For the...corporal raies, do carry with them the qualities of tho object from whence they flow, and the medium through which they pass. Thus, through a green or... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 lehte
...For the visible species of things strike not our senses immaterially, but streaming in corporal rays, do carry with them the qualities of the object from...eyes affect those which are sound, and themselves alao by reflection, as will happen to an inflamed eye that beholds itself long in a glass ; thus is... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 568 lehte
...the bite — it is not a thing impossible. For eyes receive offensive impressions from their objects, and may have influences destructive to each other....species of things strike not our senses immaterially, J)ut streaming in corporal rays, do carry -with them the qualities of the object from whence they flow,... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 588 lehte
...the bite — it is not a thing impossible. For eyes receive offensive impressions from their objects, and may have influences destructive to each other....the visible species of things strike not our senses immaterinlly, but streaming in corporal rays, do carry with them the qualities of the object from whence... | |
| Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society - 1904 - 918 lehte
...Basilisk may empoison" .... "is not a thing impossible." And his reason for thinking so is, " that the visible species of things strike not our senses immaterially, but streaming in corporeal rays, do carry with them the qualities of the object from which they flow, and the medium... | |
| Frederick Edward Hulme - 1895 - 368 lehte
...empoison is not to Browne a thing impossible, " for eies receive offensive impressions from their objects, and may have influences destructive to each other....strike not our senses immaterially, but streaming in corporall raies doe carry with them the qualities of the object from whence they flow. Thus it is not... | |
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