| 1838 - 428 Seiten
...efficacy in all cases of disease prompted him to communicate the secret to the world, and he published " Siris ; a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar Water." It is a fanciful work, reviving the method of the ancients in a strange mixture of physical and metaphysical... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1842 - 388 Seiten
...efficacy in all cases of disease prompted him to communicate the secret to the world, and he published " Siris ; a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar Water." It is a fanciful work, reviving the method of the ancients in a strange mixture of physical and metaphysical... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1842 - 388 Seiten
...efficacy in all cases of disease prompted him to communicate the secret to the world, and he published " Siris ; a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar Water." It is a fanciful work, reviving the method of the ancients in a strange mixture of physical and metaphysical... | |
| George Berkeley - 1843 - 542 Seiten
...his thoughts upon which subject he first communicated to the world in the year 1744, in a treatise entitled Siris, a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar-water. The author has been heard to declare, that this work cost him more time and pains than any... | |
| George Berkeley - 1843 - 556 Seiten
...his thoughts upon which subject he first communicated to the world in the year 1744, in a treatise entitled Siris, a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar-water. The author has been heard to declare, that this work cost him more time and pains than any... | |
| George Berkeley - 1843 - 552 Seiten
...his thoughts upon which subject he first communicated to the world in the year 1 744, in a treatise entitled Siris, a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar-water. The author has been heard to declare, that this work cost him more time and pains than any... | |
| 1853 - 888 Seiten
...public, was as quaint as its argument, and still more unintelligible. It was designated as ' S IRIS : a chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries, concerning the virtues of Tar- Water; and divers other subjects, connected together, and arising one from another.' By the Right Rev. Dr.... | |
| 1853 - 446 Seiten
...to the public, was as quaint as its argument, aud still more unintelligible. It was designated as ' SIRIS : a chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries, concerning the virtues of Tar-Water ; and divers other subjects, connected together, and arising one from another.' By the Right... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 Seiten
...disease upon him, and having received much relief in the use of tar-water, he published, in 1744, his "Siris, a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar-water," a work singularly curious for the multifarious erudition that it embraces, and for the... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...disease upon him, and having received much relief in the use of tar-water, he published, in 1744, bis " Siris, a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar-water," a work singularly curious for the multifarious erudition that it embraces, and for the... | |
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