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Page 37
... taken inwardly ) that no man has endeavoured to make an imitation by art of natural baths and medicinal fountains ; although it is confessed that they receive their virtues from the mineral veins through which they flow ; and not only ...
... taken inwardly ) that no man has endeavoured to make an imitation by art of natural baths and medicinal fountains ; although it is confessed that they receive their virtues from the mineral veins through which they flow ; and not only ...
Page 39
... taken in proper order and at proper intervals will work the cure ; but if taken either singly , or in a different order , or without the interval , will prove most injurious . I do not mean that every scru- pulous and superstitious ...
... taken in proper order and at proper intervals will work the cure ; but if taken either singly , or in a different order , or without the interval , will prove most injurious . I do not mean that every scru- pulous and superstitious ...
Page 44
... taken in by the parts , and perform the proper office of emollients : things that impress not only act as vehicles for the virtue of the emollients , making it sink more easily and deeper , but themselves also expand the parts a little ...
... taken in by the parts , and perform the proper office of emollients : things that impress not only act as vehicles for the virtue of the emollients , making it sink more easily and deeper , but themselves also expand the parts a little ...
Page 57
... has been made concern- ing the Form of Light ( especially as men have taken great pains about perspective ) may be considered an 1 Virg . Æn . iii . 39 . astonishing piece of negligence . For neither in per- spective THE FOURTH BOOK . 57.
... has been made concern- ing the Form of Light ( especially as men have taken great pains about perspective ) may be considered an 1 Virg . Æn . iii . 39 . astonishing piece of negligence . For neither in per- spective THE FOURTH BOOK . 57.
Page 65
... taken from tradition and experience . " More- over they who have written about the first inventors of things or the origins of sciences have celebrated chance rather than art , and represented brute beasts , quadrupeds , birds , fishes ...
... taken from tradition and experience . " More- over they who have written about the first inventors of things or the origins of sciences have celebrated chance rather than art , and represented brute beasts , quadrupeds , birds , fishes ...
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