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What we call the Scotch fir is fally so called , being in truth a wild forest pine , and
( as Mr . Ray informs us ) agreeing much with the description of a pine growing
on mount Olympus in Phrygia , probably the only place where it is found out of ...
What we call the Scotch fir is fally so called , being in truth a wild forest pine , and
( as Mr . Ray informs us ) agreeing much with the description of a pine growing
on mount Olympus in Phrygia , probably the only place where it is found out of ...
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And it is not improbable they are led gradually to the use of those poisons by a
certain complaisant pharmacy , too niuch used in the modern practice , palsy
drops , poppy cordial , plague water , and such like , which being in truth nothing
but ...
And it is not improbable they are led gradually to the use of those poisons by a
certain complaisant pharmacy , too niuch used in the modern practice , palsy
drops , poppy cordial , plague water , and such like , which being in truth nothing
but ...
Page 119
... is very certain that nothing in truth can be measured * or computed , beside the
very effects or motions themselves . Sir Isaac Newton asks , have not the minute
particles of bodies certain forces or powers by which they act on ( x ) 236 , 247 .
... is very certain that nothing in truth can be measured * or computed , beside the
very effects or motions themselves . Sir Isaac Newton asks , have not the minute
particles of bodies certain forces or powers by which they act on ( x ) 236 , 247 .
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beset and cling to her , to rub off those covers , that disguise her original form ,
and to regain her prim¿ . val state and first notions : Hence , that perpetual
struggle to recover the lost region of light , that ardent thirst and endeavour after
truth ...
beset and cling to her , to rub off those covers , that disguise her original form ,
and to regain her prim¿ . val state and first notions : Hence , that perpetual
struggle to recover the lost region of light , that ardent thirst and endeavour after
truth ...
Page 164
Itill recovering , and reaching on , and struggling inte the upper region , whereby
our natural weakness and blindness may be in some degree remedied , and a
taste attained of truth and intellectual life . Beside the constant prevailing opinion
...
Itill recovering , and reaching on , and struggling inte the upper region , whereby
our natural weakness and blindness may be in some degree remedied , and a
taste attained of truth and intellectual life . Beside the constant prevailing opinion
...
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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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