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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It produceth vain terrours and vain conceits , and stiinulates the foul with mad
desires , which , not being natural , nothing in nature can satisfy . No wonder ,
therefore , there are so many fine persons of both sexes , shining themselves ,
and ...
It produceth vain terrours and vain conceits , and stiinulates the foul with mad
desires , which , not being natural , nothing in nature can satisfy . No wonder ,
therefore , there are so many fine persons of both sexes , shining themselves ,
and ...
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Galen likewise taught , that , admitting the foul to be incorporeal , it hath for it ' s
immediate tegument or vehicle a body of ¿ther or fire , by the intervention
whereof it moveth other bodies and is mutually affected by them . This interior
clothing ...
Galen likewise taught , that , admitting the foul to be incorporeal , it hath for it ' s
immediate tegument or vehicle a body of ¿ther or fire , by the intervention
whereof it moveth other bodies and is mutually affected by them . This interior
clothing ...
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guished from the ' anima mundi , than as life is from foul , and , upon the
principles of the oldest philosophers , may not improperly or incongruously be
styled the life of the world . Some Platonics indeed , regard life as the act of
nature , in like ...
guished from the ' anima mundi , than as life is from foul , and , upon the
principles of the oldest philosophers , may not improperly or incongruously be
styled the life of the world . Some Platonics indeed , regard life as the act of
nature , in like ...
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losopher , in his books of the foul , remarks upon an opinion set forth in the
Orphics , of the foul ' s entering from the universe into living creatures bed ing
born by winds , that this cannot be true of plants or of certain animals which do
not breath ...
losopher , in his books of the foul , remarks upon an opinion set forth in the
Orphics , of the foul ' s entering from the universe into living creatures bed ing
born by winds , that this cannot be true of plants or of certain animals which do
not breath ...
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Naturalists , whole proper province it is to consider ph¿nomiena , experiments ,
mechanical organs and motions , principally regard the vifible frame of things or
corporeal world ; suppo - - sing foul to be contained in body . And this hypothesis
...
Naturalists , whole proper province it is to consider ph¿nomiena , experiments ,
mechanical organs and motions , principally regard the vifible frame of things or
corporeal world ; suppo - - sing foul to be contained in body . And this hypothesis
...
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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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