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 77
... ancient philofophers was used to fignify pro- mifcuously fometimes fire and fometimes air . For they diftinguifhed two forts of air . Plato in the Timæus fpeaking of air , faith there are two kinds , the one more fine and fubtile ...
... ancient philofophers was used to fignify pro- mifcuously fometimes fire and fometimes air . For they diftinguifhed two forts of air . Plato in the Timæus fpeaking of air , faith there are two kinds , the one more fine and fubtile ...
Page 80
... ancients under the name of Saturn ; which Voffius judges , not improbably , to be derived from the Hebrew word Satar , to lye hidden or con- cealed . And what hath been delivered by Hip- pocrates agrees with the notions of other philofo ...
... ancients under the name of Saturn ; which Voffius judges , not improbably , to be derived from the Hebrew word Satar , to lye hidden or con- cealed . And what hath been delivered by Hip- pocrates agrees with the notions of other philofo ...
Page 84
... ancient Perfians and their Ma- gi , is attefted by all antiquity . And the fect of Perfees , or old Gentils , of whom there are con- fiderable remains at this day both in the Mogols country and in Perfia , doth teftify the fame . 184 ...
... ancient Perfians and their Ma- gi , is attefted by all antiquity . And the fect of Perfees , or old Gentils , of whom there are con- fiderable remains at this day both in the Mogols country and in Perfia , doth teftify the fame . 184 ...
Page 85
... ancient Perfians , would have it thought , that they borrowed the use and reverence of perpetual fires , from the Jewish practice pre- fcribed in the Levitical law , of keeping a per- petual fire burning on the altar . Whether that was ...
... ancient Perfians , would have it thought , that they borrowed the use and reverence of perpetual fires , from the Jewish practice pre- fcribed in the Levitical law , of keeping a per- petual fire burning on the altar . Whether that was ...
Page 86
... ancient heretics into an opinion , that Jefus Chrift was the vifible corporeal fun . 188. We have feen , that in the most remote ages and countries , the vulgar as well as the learn- ed , the inftitutions of lawgivers as well as the ...
... ancient heretics into an opinion , that Jefus Chrift was the vifible corporeal fun . 188. We have feen , that in the most remote ages and countries , the vulgar as well as the learn- ed , the inftitutions of lawgivers as well as the ...
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