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 80
... held fire to be the principle and caufe of the generation of all things , did not mean thereby an inanimate ele- ment , but , as he termed it , we dri ( wov , an ever- living fire . 2 ( g ) 168 . ( b ) 166 . 176. Theo . . 176 ...
... held fire to be the principle and caufe of the generation of all things , did not mean thereby an inanimate ele- ment , but , as he termed it , we dri ( wov , an ever- living fire . 2 ( g ) 168 . ( b ) 166 . 176. Theo . . 176 ...
Page 81
... held the fame notion of fire , and might have derived it from Egypt by his mafter Pythagoras , who had travelled into Egypt , and been inftructed by the fages of that nation . One of whofe te- nets it was , that fire was the principle ...
... held the fame notion of fire , and might have derived it from Egypt by his mafter Pythagoras , who had travelled into Egypt , and been inftructed by the fages of that nation . One of whofe te- nets it was , that fire was the principle ...
Page 107
... held that fire compre- hended and included the spermatic reasons or forms ( λógus oneguatine's ) of all natural things . As the forms of things have their ideal existence in the intellect , fo it fhould feem that feminal principles have ...
... held that fire compre- hended and included the spermatic reasons or forms ( λógus oneguatine's ) of all natural things . As the forms of things have their ideal existence in the intellect , fo it fhould feem that feminal principles have ...
Page 130
... held fate to be the eternal reafon or law of nature . Chryfippus fuppofed that fate was a spiritual power which difpofed the world in order ; that it was the reafon and law of thofe things which are admini- ftred by providence . ( b ) ...
... held fate to be the eternal reafon or law of nature . Chryfippus fuppofed that fate was a spiritual power which difpofed the world in order ; that it was the reafon and law of thofe things which are admini- ftred by providence . ( b ) ...
Page 131
... held together by one foul and fuch is their har- mony , order , and regular courfe , as fheweth the foul to be governed and directed by a mind . It was an opinion of remote antiquity that the world was an animal ( d ) . If we may truft ...
... held together by one foul and fuch is their har- mony , order , and regular courfe , as fheweth the foul to be governed and directed by a mind . It was an opinion of remote antiquity that the world was an animal ( d ) . If we may truft ...
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