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The first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo . phraftus is
more particular : he tells us the Macedonians made huge heaps of the cloven
trunks of those trees , wherein the billets were placed erect beside each other .
The first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo . phraftus is
more particular : he tells us the Macedonians made huge heaps of the cloven
trunks of those trees , wherein the billets were placed erect beside each other .
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These reafons are given by Ficinus , in his comment on the first book of the
second Ennead of Plotinus . 207 . But it is now well known , that light moves , that
it ' s motion is not instantaneous : that it is capable of condensation , rarefaction ,
and ...
These reafons are given by Ficinus , in his comment on the first book of the
second Ennead of Plotinus . 207 . But it is now well known , that light moves , that
it ' s motion is not instantaneous : that it is capable of condensation , rarefaction ,
and ...
Page 126
The one placed body first in the order of beings , and made the faculty of thinking
depend thereupon , supposing that the principles of all things are corporeal : that
body most really or principally exists , and all other things in a secondary sense ...
The one placed body first in the order of beings , and made the faculty of thinking
depend thereupon , supposing that the principles of all things are corporeal : that
body most really or principally exists , and all other things in a secondary sense ...
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Osiris , if we may believe Plutarch , was the first , pure , unmixed and holy
principle , not discer : nible by the lower faculties ; a glympse whereof like
lightening darting forth , irradiates the understanding ; with regard to which
Plutarch adds , that ...
Osiris , if we may believe Plutarch , was the first , pure , unmixed and holy
principle , not discer : nible by the lower faculties ; a glympse whereof like
lightening darting forth , irradiates the understanding ; with regard to which
Plutarch adds , that ...
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However , as these make the first impressions , and the mind takes her first fight
and spring , as it ' were , by resting her foot on these objects , they are not only
first considered by all men , but most considered by most men . They and the ...
However , as these make the first impressions , and the mind takes her first fight
and spring , as it ' were , by resting her foot on these objects , they are not only
first considered by all men , but most considered by most men . They and the ...
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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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