Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water. [Another] |
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... Plotinus , and others likewife before him , regard . ing mercury as the mother , and fulphur as the fa- ther of metals ; and Plato himself in his Timæus defcribing gold , to be a denfe fluid with a fhining yellow light , which well ...
... Plotinus , and others likewife before him , regard . ing mercury as the mother , and fulphur as the fa- ther of metals ; and Plato himself in his Timæus defcribing gold , to be a denfe fluid with a fhining yellow light , which well ...
Page 96
... Plotinus . 207. But it is now well known , that light moves , that it's motion is not inftantaneous : that it is capable of condenfation , rarefaction , and colli- fion that it can be mixed with other bodies , en- ter their compofition ...
... Plotinus . 207. But it is now well known , that light moves , that it's motion is not inftantaneous : that it is capable of condenfation , rarefaction , and colli- fion that it can be mixed with other bodies , en- ter their compofition ...
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... Plotinus fuppofeth , that from the fun's light which is corporeal , there fprings forth ano- ther equivocal light which is incorporeal , and as it were the brightnefs of the former . Marfilius Ficinus alfo , obferving it to be a ...
... Plotinus fuppofeth , that from the fun's light which is corporeal , there fprings forth ano- ther equivocal light which is incorporeal , and as it were the brightnefs of the former . Marfilius Ficinus alfo , obferving it to be a ...
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... Plotinus observes , in his third Ennead , that the art of pre- faging is in fome fort the reading of natural letters denoting order , and that fo far forth as analogy ob- tains in the univerfe , there may be vaticination . And in ...
... Plotinus observes , in his third Ennead , that the art of pre- faging is in fome fort the reading of natural letters denoting order , and that fo far forth as analogy ob- tains in the univerfe , there may be vaticination . And in ...
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... Plotinus indeed faith , that which acts natu- rally is not intellection , but a certain power of mov- ing matter , which doth not know , but only do . And it must be owned , that , as faculties are multi- plied by philofophers according ...
... Plotinus indeed faith , that which acts natu- rally is not intellection , but a certain power of mov- ing matter , which doth not know , but only do . And it must be owned , that , as faculties are multi- plied by philofophers according ...
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