 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - Liczba stron: 268
...man's talent for evolving great thoughts and grand principles from ordinary subjects, is his "Siris, or a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries, concerning the virtues of Tar- Water." " This is, indeed," says his ingenious biographer, in the Biographia Britannica, " a chain which, like... | |
 | 1838 - Liczba stron: 428
...the scholar. As the infirmities of age were stealing upon him, he had received much benefit from a medicine, the use of which he had learned in America....accuracy, reminds one of Bacon's most unfortunate * Critik der reinen Vernunft. — p. 214. inquiry concerning heat. From a discussion of the subtle... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1843 - Liczba stron: 542
...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 - Liczba stron: 556
...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 - Liczba stron: 552
...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 - Liczba stron: 888
...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 - Liczba stron: 446
...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 - Liczba stron: 796
...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 - Liczba stron: 786
...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... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - 1859 - Liczba stron: 854
...Mathematics, 1735. Queries proposed for the Good of Ireland, 1735. A Discourse addressed to Magistrates, 1736. Siris : A Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar-water, 1744. A Letter to the Roman Catholics of his Diocese, 1745. A Word to the Wise : A Letter... | |
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Siris, a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of TAR WATER... 
