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Page 15
... questions in the present inquiry , but only shed a light on the prolongation and restoration of life in animals ; wherein , as has been observed before , the same things generally happen , though in their own manner . From the inquiry ...
... questions in the present inquiry , but only shed a light on the prolongation and restoration of life in animals ; wherein , as has been observed before , the same things generally happen , though in their own manner . From the inquiry ...
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... question that the spirits most absorb and consume the body , so that a larger quantity of them or a greater inflammation and acrimony greatly shortens life . It appears to me therefore that the great cause of longev- ity in birds is ...
... question that the spirits most absorb and consume the body , so that a larger quantity of them or a greater inflammation and acrimony greatly shortens life . It appears to me therefore that the great cause of longev- ity in birds is ...
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... questions calmly on either side , without any laborious inquiry . Such were the sects of Car- neades and the academicians , the rhetoricians and gram- marians . But on the other hand , philosophies dealing with troublesome subtleties ...
... questions calmly on either side , without any laborious inquiry . Such were the sects of Car- neades and the academicians , the rhetoricians and gram- marians . But on the other hand , philosophies dealing with troublesome subtleties ...
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... questions, but whether it be so in different bodies is disputed. But if it be demonstrated that one hogshead of water turned into air is equal to ten hogsheads of air (I take this computation because of the common opinion, though a ...
... questions, but whether it be so in different bodies is disputed. But if it be demonstrated that one hogshead of water turned into air is equal to ten hogsheads of air (I take this computation because of the common opinion, though a ...
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... question , How bodies may be relaxed and contracted more or less without the interposition of vacuum , has been handled by some . But with respect to the natures of Dense and Rare , one has referred them to abundance and paucity of ...
... question , How bodies may be relaxed and contracted more or less without the interposition of vacuum , has been handled by some . But with respect to the natures of Dense and Rare , one has referred them to abundance and paucity of ...
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