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What entertainment soever the reasoning or notional part may afford the mind , I
will venture to say , the other part seemech so surely calculated to do good to the
body , that both must be gainers . For if the lute be not well tuned , the musician ...
What entertainment soever the reasoning or notional part may afford the mind , I
will venture to say , the other part seemech so surely calculated to do good to the
body , that both must be gainers . For if the lute be not well tuned , the musician ...
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And accordingly I have often known tar - water procute sleep and compose the
spirits in cruel vigils , occafioned either by sickness or by too intente application
of mind . 87. In diseases sometimes accidents happen from without ...
And accordingly I have often known tar - water procute sleep and compose the
spirits in cruel vigils , occafioned either by sickness or by too intente application
of mind . 87. In diseases sometimes accidents happen from without ...
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Their condition of life makes them a prey to imaginary woes , which never fail to
grow up in minds unexercised and ... noth and indolence ; whose membranes
are irritated by pungent falts , whose mind is agitated by painful oscillations of the
...
Their condition of life makes them a prey to imaginary woes , which never fail to
grow up in minds unexercised and ... noth and indolence ; whose membranes
are irritated by pungent falts , whose mind is agitated by painful oscillations of the
...
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I do verily think , there is not any other medicine whatsoever , so effectual to
restore a crazy conftitution , and chear a dreary mind , or so likely to subvert that
gloomy empire of the spleen ( a ) , which tyraniseth over the better fort ( as they
are ...
I do verily think , there is not any other medicine whatsoever , so effectual to
restore a crazy conftitution , and chear a dreary mind , or so likely to subvert that
gloomy empire of the spleen ( a ) , which tyraniseth over the better fort ( as they
are ...
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However the phenomena and effects do plainly shew there is a spirit that moves ,
and a mind or providence that presides . This providence , Plutarch faith , was
thought to be in regard to the world , what the soul is in regard to man . 154.
However the phenomena and effects do plainly shew there is a spirit that moves ,
and a mind or providence that presides . This providence , Plutarch faith , was
thought to be in regard to the world , what the soul is in regard to man . 154.
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| Title | Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water. [Another] |
| Author | George Berkeley (bp. of Cloyne.) |
| Edition | 2 |
| Published | 1744 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 juuni 2008 |
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