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 |
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pass the lacteals and other finer vessels , nor yet , perhaps , readily impart those
virtues to a menstruum , that may with safety and speed convey them throughout
the human body . Upon all which accounts , I believe tar . water will be found to ...
pass the lacteals and other finer vessels , nor yet , perhaps , readily impart those
virtues to a menstruum , that may with safety and speed convey them throughout
the human body . Upon all which accounts , I believe tar . water will be found to ...
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... ancient sages , to be thrust into the human body as into a prison , for
punishment of past offences . But the worst prison is the body of an indolent Epi .
cure , whose blood is inflamed by fermented lic quors ( a ) and high sauces , or
render ...
... ancient sages , to be thrust into the human body as into a prison , for
punishment of past offences . But the worst prison is the body of an indolent Epi .
cure , whose blood is inflamed by fermented lic quors ( a ) and high sauces , or
render ...
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Sir Isaac Newton in his Optics , asks ; Is not fire a body heated so hot as to emit
light copiously ? for what else , adds he ... Motion , and even power in an
equivocal sense , may be found in this pure ¿thereal spirit , which ignites bodies
, but is ...
Sir Isaac Newton in his Optics , asks ; Is not fire a body heated so hot as to emit
light copiously ? for what else , adds he ... Motion , and even power in an
equivocal sense , may be found in this pure ¿thereal spirit , which ignites bodies
, but is ...
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It hath been shewed in Sir Isaac Newton ' s Optics , that light is not reflected by
impinging on bodies , but by some other caufe . And to him it feems probable ,
that as many rays as impinge on the solid parts of bodies , are not reflected but
ftified ...
It hath been shewed in Sir Isaac Newton ' s Optics , that light is not reflected by
impinging on bodies , but by some other caufe . And to him it feems probable ,
that as many rays as impinge on the solid parts of bodies , are not reflected but
ftified ...
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body endeavouring to pass from the denser parts of the medium towards the
rarer . 224 . ... To this cause are afcribed the gravity and cohesion of bodies . ...
Light by the vibrations of this medium is thought to communicate heat to bodies .
body endeavouring to pass from the denser parts of the medium towards the
rarer . 224 . ... To this cause are afcribed the gravity and cohesion of bodies . ...
Light by the vibrations of this medium is thought to communicate heat to bodies .
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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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