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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But the method of rendering it an inoffensive medicine and agreeable to the
stomach , by extracting it ' s virtues in cold water ... In effect this vulgar tar , which
cheapness and plenty may have rendered contemptible , appears to be an
excellent ...
But the method of rendering it an inoffensive medicine and agreeable to the
stomach , by extracting it ' s virtues in cold water ... In effect this vulgar tar , which
cheapness and plenty may have rendered contemptible , appears to be an
excellent ...
Page 48
... or inherited from their ancestors , amict the people of condition in these islands
, often rendering them , upon the whole ... living for bad appetite , low spirits ,
restless nights , wasting pains and anxiecies , be rendered easy and comfortable
.
... or inherited from their ancestors , amict the people of condition in these islands
, often rendering them , upon the whole ... living for bad appetite , low spirits ,
restless nights , wasting pains and anxiecies , be rendered easy and comfortable
.
Page 68
... whether it be called fire , ¿ther , light , or the vital spirit of the world ; in Jike
manner as the particles of antimony , of themselves not volatile , are carried off in
sublimation and rendered volatile , by cohering with the particles of fal ammoniac
.
... whether it be called fire , ¿ther , light , or the vital spirit of the world ; in Jike
manner as the particles of antimony , of themselves not volatile , are carried off in
sublimation and rendered volatile , by cohering with the particles of fal ammoniac
.
Page 82
Where , the word rendered light might have been rendered fire , the Hebrew
letters being the same with those in the ... perhaps , be rendered more agreeably
to the context , as well as consistently with the Hebrew , after this manner : Who ...
Where , the word rendered light might have been rendered fire , the Hebrew
letters being the same with those in the ... perhaps , be rendered more agreeably
to the context , as well as consistently with the Hebrew , after this manner : Who ...
Page 91
And air itself seems to be nothing else but vapours and exhalations , rendered
elastic by fire . Nothing flames but oil : and sulphur with water , salt , and earth
compose oil ; which sulphur is fire : therefore fire enclosed attracts fire , and
causeth ...
And air itself seems to be nothing else but vapours and exhalations , rendered
elastic by fire . Nothing flames but oil : and sulphur with water , salt , and earth
compose oil ; which sulphur is fire : therefore fire enclosed attracts fire , and
causeth ...
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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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