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 126
... reafon , intellect , introduce us into the knowledge of their caufes . Senfible appearances , though of a flowing , unstable , and uncertain nature , yet having first occupied the mind , they do by an early prevention , render the after ...
... reafon , intellect , introduce us into the knowledge of their caufes . Senfible appearances , though of a flowing , unstable , and uncertain nature , yet having first occupied the mind , they do by an early prevention , render the after ...
Page 128
... reafon , chief and fovereign of all . Ofiris , if we may believe Plutarch , was the first , pure , unmixed and holy principle , not difcer- nible by the lower faculties ; a glympfe whereof like lightening darting forth , irradiates the ...
... reafon , chief and fovereign of all . Ofiris , if we may believe Plutarch , was the first , pure , unmixed and holy principle , not difcer- nible by the lower faculties ; a glympfe whereof like lightening darting forth , irradiates the ...
Page 130
... 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 ) 250 . Our judgment in thefe ...
... 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 ) 250 . Our judgment in thefe ...
Page 131
... reafon ( c ) , it fhould feem there is no room for neceffity , in any other fenfe than that of a fteddy regular courfe . 273. Blind fate and blind chance are at bottom much the fame thing , and one no more intelligible than the other ...
... reafon ( c ) , it fhould feem there is no room for neceffity , in any other fenfe than that of a fteddy regular courfe . 273. Blind fate and blind chance are at bottom much the fame thing , and one no more intelligible than the other ...
Page 134
... reafon , because the elements are not alive . Tho ' perhaps it may not be easy to prove , that blood and animal fpirit are more alive in man , than water and fire in the world . That phi- ( S ) 172 , 277 . lofopher , lofopher , in his ...
... reafon , because the elements are not alive . Tho ' perhaps it may not be easy to prove , that blood and animal fpirit are more alive in man , than water and fire in the world . That phi- ( S ) 172 , 277 . lofopher , lofopher , in his ...
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