Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from AnotherDublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744 - 174 pages |
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Page 125
... Plotinus fuppofeth that the foul of the uni- verfe is not the original caufe or author of the fpe- cies , but receives them from intellect , the true principle of order and diftinction , the fource and giver of forms . Others confider ...
... Plotinus fuppofeth that the foul of the uni- verfe is not the original caufe or author of the fpe- cies , but receives them from intellect , the true principle of order and diftinction , the fource and giver of forms . Others confider ...
Page 129
... Plotinus ac- knowledgeth no place but foul or mind , exprefly affirming that the foul is not in the world , but the world in the foul . And farther , the place of the foul , faith he , is not body , but foul is in mind , and body in ...
... Plotinus ac- knowledgeth no place but foul or mind , exprefly affirming that the foul is not in the world , but the world in the foul . And farther , the place of the foul , faith he , is not body , but foul is in mind , and body in ...
Page 153
... Plotinus , in the fixth book of his fecond Ennead , obferves that heat and other qualities are not qualities in the things themselves , but acts : that heat is not a quality , but act , in the fire : that fire is not really what we ...
... Plotinus , in the fixth book of his fecond Ennead , obferves that heat and other qualities are not qualities in the things themselves , but acts : that heat is not a quality , but act , in the fire : that fire is not really what we ...
Page 158
... Plotinus remarks , incorporeal things are diftant each from other not by place , but ( to use his ex- preffion ) by alterity . 330. Thefe difquifitions will probably feem dry and ufclefs , to fuch readers as are accustomed to confider ...
... Plotinus remarks , incorporeal things are diftant each from other not by place , but ( to use his ex- preffion ) by alterity . 330. Thefe difquifitions will probably feem dry and ufclefs , to fuch readers as are accustomed to confider ...
Page 161
... Plotinus reprefents God as order ; Ari- ftotle as law . 335. It may feem perhaps to thofe , who have been taught to difcourfe about fubftratums , more reafon- able and pious to attribute to the Deity a more fub- ftantial being , than ...
... Plotinus reprefents God as order ; Ari- ftotle as law . 335. It may feem perhaps to thofe , who have been taught to difcourfe about fubftratums , more reafon- able and pious to attribute to the Deity a more fub- ftantial being , than ...
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