Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar WaterReprinted for W. Innys, 1744 - 174 pages |
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... some resemblance in it to the plague of Athens . It is hard to imagine any thing more dreadful than the case of ... Some have reckoned as many forts of the fcurvy , as there are different taints of the blood . Others have fup- pofed it a ...
... some resemblance in it to the plague of Athens . It is hard to imagine any thing more dreadful than the case of ... Some have reckoned as many forts of the fcurvy , as there are different taints of the blood . Others have fup- pofed it a ...
Page 61
... detained by oil and earth , in fpight of the extreme force of fire , which lodgeth in them , without being able to dislodge some remains of the acid . ( a ) 202 . 130. Salts , 130. Salts , according to fir Ifaac Newton , are ( 61 )
... detained by oil and earth , in fpight of the extreme force of fire , which lodgeth in them , without being able to dislodge some remains of the acid . ( a ) 202 . 130. Salts , 130. Salts , according to fir Ifaac Newton , are ( 61 )
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... Some moderns have thought fit to deride all that is faid of æthereal vehicles , as mere jargon or words without a meaning . But they fhould have confidered , that all fpeech concerning the foul is altogether , or for the most part ...
... Some moderns have thought fit to deride all that is faid of æthereal vehicles , as mere jargon or words without a meaning . But they fhould have confidered , that all fpeech concerning the foul is altogether , or for the most part ...
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... some learned men have fuppofed , be the cause of muscular motion , by a mere impulfe of the nerves communicated from the brain to the membranes of the muscles , and thereby to the enclosed æther , whofe expanfive motion , being by that ...
... some learned men have fuppofed , be the cause of muscular motion , by a mere impulfe of the nerves communicated from the brain to the membranes of the muscles , and thereby to the enclosed æther , whofe expanfive motion , being by that ...
Page 108
... Some corpufcularian philofophers of the laft age , have indeed attempted to explain the for- mation of this world and its phænomena , by a few fimple laws of mechanifm . But if we confider the various productions of nature , in the mine ...
... Some corpufcularian philofophers of the laft age , have indeed attempted to explain the for- mation of this world and its phænomena , by a few fimple laws of mechanifm . But if we confider the various productions of nature , in the mine ...
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