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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I never knew any thing so good for the stomach as tar - water : it cures indigestion
and gives a good appetite . It is an excellent medicine in an asthma . It imparts a
kindly warmth and quick circulation to the juices without heating , and is ...
I never knew any thing so good for the stomach as tar - water : it cures indigestion
and gives a good appetite . It is an excellent medicine in an asthma . It imparts a
kindly warmth and quick circulation to the juices without heating , and is ...
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... whether in all cases of a pleurisy , one moderate bleeding , a blister on the spot
, and plenty of tepid tar - water may not suffice , without those repeated and
immoderate bleedings , the bad effects of which are perhaps never got over .
... whether in all cases of a pleurisy , one moderate bleeding , a blister on the spot
, and plenty of tepid tar - water may not suffice , without those repeated and
immoderate bleedings , the bad effects of which are perhaps never got over .
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Their condition of life makes them a prey to imaginary woes , which never fail to
grow up in minds unexercised and unemployed . To get rid of these , it is said ,
there are who betake them . selves to distilled spirits . And it is not improbable
they ...
Their condition of life makes them a prey to imaginary woes , which never fail to
grow up in minds unexercised and unemployed . To get rid of these , it is said ,
there are who betake them . selves to distilled spirits . And it is not improbable
they ...
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What the chemists say , of pure acids being never found alone , might as well be
said of pure fire . 160 ; The mind of man acts by an instrument necessarily . The to
geuorixov , or mind presiding in the world , acts by an instrument freely .
What the chemists say , of pure acids being never found alone , might as well be
said of pure fire . 160 ; The mind of man acts by an instrument necessarily . The to
geuorixov , or mind presiding in the world , acts by an instrument freely .
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For instance , in the eleventh book speaking of corporeal sensible things , What
wonder , faith he , if they never appear to us the same , no more than to lick men ,
fince we are always changing , and never remain the same our felves ?
For instance , in the eleventh book speaking of corporeal sensible things , What
wonder , faith he , if they never appear to us the same , no more than to lick men ,
fince we are always changing , and never remain the same our felves ?
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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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