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Thook at Aristotle and Plato , as well as at the holy fcriptures . And the writings of
those celebrated ancients are by most men treated on a foot , with the dry and
barbarous lucubrations of the schoolmen . It may be modestly presumed , there
are ...
Thook at Aristotle and Plato , as well as at the holy fcriptures . And the writings of
those celebrated ancients are by most men treated on a foot , with the dry and
barbarous lucubrations of the schoolmen . It may be modestly presumed , there
are ...
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By Parmenides , Tim¿us , and Plato a distinction was made , as hath been
observed already , between genitum and ' ens . The former fort is always
generating or in fieri ( e ) , but never exists , because it never continues the same
, being in a ...
By Parmenides , Tim¿us , and Plato a distinction was made , as hath been
observed already , between genitum and ' ens . The former fort is always
generating or in fieri ( e ) , but never exists , because it never continues the same
, being in a ...
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In the Tim¿us of Plato mention is made of ancient persons , authors of traditions ,
and the offSpring of the gods . It is very remarkable , that in the account of the
creation contained in the same piece , it is said that God was pleased with his
work ...
In the Tim¿us of Plato mention is made of ancient persons , authors of traditions ,
and the offSpring of the gods . It is very remarkable , that in the account of the
creation contained in the same piece , it is said that God was pleased with his
work ...
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So I , that neither Heraclitys nor Parmenides , nor Pythagoras , nor Plato , neither
the ¯gyptians nor Stoics , with their doctrine of a divine whole or animal , nor
Xenophanes with his êv xal nãv , are justly to be accounted atheists . Therefore ...
So I , that neither Heraclitys nor Parmenides , nor Pythagoras , nor Plato , neither
the ¯gyptians nor Stoics , with their doctrine of a divine whole or animal , nor
Xenophanes with his êv xal nãv , are justly to be accounted atheists . Therefore ...
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But Plato himself consider ' d that doctrine as a venerable mystery , not to be
lightly treated of or tashly divulged . Wherefore , in a letter to Dionysius he writes (
as he himself professeth ) ¿nigmatically and briefly in the following terms , which
...
But Plato himself consider ' d that doctrine as a venerable mystery , not to be
lightly treated of or tashly divulged . Wherefore , in a letter to Dionysius he writes (
as he himself professeth ) ¿nigmatically and briefly in the following terms , which
...
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| Title | 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 |
| Author | George Berkeley |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | Reprinted for W. Innys, 1744 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 10 okt. 2008 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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