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Hence a fermenting heat , the immediate cause of the gout . The curing this by
cooling medicines , as they would increase the antecedent cause , must be a
vain attempt . On the other hand , spices and spirituous liquors , while they
contribute ...
Hence a fermenting heat , the immediate cause of the gout . The curing this by
cooling medicines , as they would increase the antecedent cause , must be a
vain attempt . On the other hand , spices and spirituous liquors , while they
contribute ...
Page 73
In the human body the mind orders and moves the limbs : but the animal spirit is
fupa posed the immediate physical cause of their motion . So likewise in the
mundane fystem , a mind presides , but the immediate , mechanical , or
instrumental ...
In the human body the mind orders and moves the limbs : but the animal spirit is
fupa posed the immediate physical cause of their motion . So likewise in the
mundane fystem , a mind presides , but the immediate , mechanical , or
instrumental ...
Page 78
It is not therefore to be wondered that Aristotle thought , the heat of a living body
to be fomewhat divine and celestial , derived from that pure ¿ther to which he
supposed the incorporeal deity ( zwersor sidos ) to be immediately united , or on
...
It is not therefore to be wondered that Aristotle thought , the heat of a living body
to be fomewhat divine and celestial , derived from that pure ¿ther to which he
supposed the incorporeal deity ( zwersor sidos ) to be immediately united , or on
...
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... make even one single step in accounting for the ph¿nomena , without
admitting the immediate presence and immediate action of an incorpo . real
agent , who connects , moves , and difposes all things , according to such rules ,
and for such ...
... make even one single step in accounting for the ph¿nomena , without
admitting the immediate presence and immediate action of an incorpo . real
agent , who connects , moves , and difposes all things , according to such rules ,
and for such ...
Page 136
... without the immediate action of a mind . And Ficinus , notwithstanding what
himself and other Platonics say of a plastic nature , is obliged to own , that with
the mundane force or soul it is to be understood there is joined an intelligence ,
upon ...
... without the immediate action of a mind . And Ficinus , notwithstanding what
himself and other Platonics say of a plastic nature , is obliged to own , that with
the mundane force or soul it is to be understood there is joined an intelligence ,
upon ...
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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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