The subject matter of a course of six lectures on the non-metallic elements, arranged by J. Scoffern1853 |
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... AGENCIES - PARACELSUS - THE INFLUENCE OF HIS CHARACTER AND WRITINGS . WHILST it is the peculiar attribute of astronomy to awaken our minds to an appreciation of those stupen- dous orbs which revolve in space , to waft us ideally into ...
... AGENCIES - PARACELSUS - THE INFLUENCE OF HIS CHARACTER AND WRITINGS . WHILST it is the peculiar attribute of astronomy to awaken our minds to an appreciation of those stupen- dous orbs which revolve in space , to waft us ideally into ...
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... agency of existing laws , is perhaps more calculated than any other science to awaken within us the most ennobling sentiment the mind can contemplate - the sentiment of immortality . If the grosser parts of our earth and its inhabitants ...
... agency of existing laws , is perhaps more calculated than any other science to awaken within us the most ennobling sentiment the mind can contemplate - the sentiment of immortality . If the grosser parts of our earth and its inhabitants ...
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... agencies to which it is ordinarily subjected . Many a recent medical hypo- thesis has rested on a basis far less seemingly rational than this . The hope expressed by many alchemists of their being enabled to extend the life of man ...
... agencies to which it is ordinarily subjected . Many a recent medical hypo- thesis has rested on a basis far less seemingly rational than this . The hope expressed by many alchemists of their being enabled to extend the life of man ...
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... agencies to the operation of supernatural causes , a custom which , however much it may have been conducive to the free play of poetic imagination , is but little accordant with the genius of inductive philosophy . With Paracelsus this ...
... agencies to the operation of supernatural causes , a custom which , however much it may have been conducive to the free play of poetic imagination , is but little accordant with the genius of inductive philosophy . With Paracelsus this ...
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... agency of spirits and genii every phe- nomenon which might not admit of a physical explana- tion , began to speak of the operation of laws , —a term not involving any theory , but merely expressing an ultimate fact . As the recognition ...
... agency of spirits and genii every phe- nomenon which might not admit of a physical explana- tion , began to speak of the operation of laws , —a term not involving any theory , but merely expressing an ultimate fact . As the recognition ...
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