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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extremely fine and fubtile spirit , whose immediate vehicle is an exceeding thin
volatile oil , which is itself detained in a grosser and more viscid re . sin or balsam
, lodged in proper cells in the bark and feeds , and most abounding in autumn or
...
extremely fine and fubtile spirit , whose immediate vehicle is an exceeding thin
volatile oil , which is itself detained in a grosser and more viscid re . sin or balsam
, lodged in proper cells in the bark and feeds , and most abounding in autumn or
...
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Whatever perspires , corrupts , or exhales , impregnates the air ; which , being
acted upon by the solar fire , produceth within itself all sorts of chemical
operations , dispensing again those falts and spirits in new generations , which it
had ...
Whatever perspires , corrupts , or exhales , impregnates the air ; which , being
acted upon by the solar fire , produceth within itself all sorts of chemical
operations , dispensing again those falts and spirits in new generations , which it
had ...
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This pure spirit or invisible fire is ever ready to exert and sew itself in its effects ( d
) , cherishing , heating , fermenting , diffolving , shining and operating in various
manners , where a subject offers to employ or determine its force . It is present in
...
This pure spirit or invisible fire is ever ready to exert and sew itself in its effects ( d
) , cherishing , heating , fermenting , diffolving , shining and operating in various
manners , where a subject offers to employ or determine its force . It is present in
...
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Now it should seem , that to define fire by heat , would be to explain a thing by it
felf . A body heated so hot as to emit light is an ignited body , that is , hath fire in it
, is penetrated and agitated by fire , but is not itself fire . And although it should in
...
Now it should seem , that to define fire by heat , would be to explain a thing by it
felf . A body heated so hot as to emit light is an ignited body , that is , hath fire in it
, is penetrated and agitated by fire , but is not itself fire . And although it should in
...
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gravity , is not explained by elasticity , a ph¿nd . menon not less obscure than
itself . But then , although it fhews not the agent , yet it fheweth a rule and analogy
in nature to say , That the solid parts of animals are endued with attractive powers
...
gravity , is not explained by elasticity , a ph¿nd . menon not less obscure than
itself . But then , although it fhews not the agent , yet it fheweth a rule and analogy
in nature to say , That the solid parts of animals are endued with attractive powers
...
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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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