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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Liquid resin is properly an oily viscid juice oozing from the bark of evergreen
trees , either spontaneously or by incision . It is thought to be the oil of the bark
infpiffated by the fun . As it issues from the tree it is liquid , but becomes dry and ...
Liquid resin is properly an oily viscid juice oozing from the bark of evergreen
trees , either spontaneously or by incision . It is thought to be the oil of the bark
infpiffated by the fun . As it issues from the tree it is liquid , but becomes dry and ...
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There is , as hath been already observed , more or less oil and balsam in all
evergreen trees , which retains the acid spirit , that principle of life and verdure ;
the not retaining whereof in fufficient quantity , caufeth other plants to droop and ...
There is , as hath been already observed , more or less oil and balsam in all
evergreen trees , which retains the acid spirit , that principle of life and verdure ;
the not retaining whereof in fufficient quantity , caufeth other plants to droop and ...
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Theophrastus gives the preference to that resin which is got from the silver fir and
pitch tree ( ελάτη and πίτυς ) before that yielded by the pine , which yet , he faith ,
is in greater plenty . Pliny , on the contrary , affirms that the pine produceth the ...
Theophrastus gives the preference to that resin which is got from the silver fir and
pitch tree ( ελάτη and πίτυς ) before that yielded by the pine , which yet , he faith ,
is in greater plenty . Pliny , on the contrary , affirms that the pine produceth the ...
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A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar
Water, and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from
Another George Berkeley. ope seem se trees . The an for , or picea of the Latins ,
to ...
A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar
Water, and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from
Another George Berkeley. ope seem se trees . The an for , or picea of the Latins ,
to ...
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It is remarked by Theophrastus , that all plants and trees while they put forth have
most humour , but when they have ceased to germinate and bear , then the
humour is strongest and most shewech the nature of the plant , and that ,
therefore ...
It is remarked by Theophrastus , that all plants and trees while they put forth have
most humour , but when they have ceased to germinate and bear , then the
humour is strongest and most shewech the nature of the plant , and that ,
therefore ...
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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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