...was a true philosopher, an earnest Christian, and withal a man of sense, and yet he was the author of 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. It is one of...

...just how it should be prepared and what service might be expected from it. His book was, accordingly, entitled "Siris, A Chain of Philosophical Reflections...and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water and Diverse Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another." Siris is a Greek word...

...philosophical immaterialism : in his own day he was most favorably known for his Alciphron and for his Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of TarWater (1744). Men of his day could be both extremely theoretical and extremely practical in their...

...FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, portrait, 4to, contemporary russia, recentlv rebacked £2/2/93 [ ] Slris, a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar Water and divers other Subjects connected together and arising one from another, Dublin, printed by Margi....

...shares many rhetorical features with the Querist, being a list of thirty-nine provocative aphorisms. SIRIS: A CHAIN OF Philosophical Reflections AND INQUIRIES Concerning the VIRTUES of TARWATER, And divers other Subjects connected together and arising one from another. On one hand, this...

...sign place at the entrance to Plato's Academy. 27 Title of a work by Berkeley (1744) : "Siris or the chain of philosophical reflections and inquiries concerning the virtues of Tar- Water. "Siris" is the approximation of the Greek, seiris, diminutive of seira (chain, link, rope). 28 Compare...

...evidently dead to ambition and avarice." During his residence at Cloyne, he published that singular work entitled, " Siris," a chain of philosophical reflections...and inquiries concerning the virtues of Tar Water. The object of this book is to recommend a medicine from the efficacy of which he had derived great...

...as a relief or cure for all human ills. Two books are the result of his experience with this remedy: "Siris, a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water," and " Further Thoughts on Tar Water." Among the countless derivatives of the distillation of tar there...

...celebrated booklet on Tar Water. The entire work contains 176 pages, and the title page reads as follows: "Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Ariaing One From Another. By the Right Rev. Dr. George...

...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...