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Page 130
... Parmenide totle , Zend verse , each of plays ; whereof s and unlike tutions of the practic Severinus have come approbation at this , as i of this kind limit to each has his every one F as out of E THE NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY ...
... Parmenide totle , Zend verse , each of plays ; whereof s and unlike tutions of the practic Severinus have come approbation at this , as i of this kind limit to each has his every one F as out of E THE NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY ...
Page 131
... Parmenides , Anaxagoras , Leucippus , Democritus , Plato , Aris- totle , Zeno , and others . All these invented systems of the uni- verse , each according to his own fancy , like so many arguments of plays ; and those their inventions ...
... Parmenides , Anaxagoras , Leucippus , Democritus , Plato , Aris- totle , Zeno , and others . All these invented systems of the uni- verse , each according to his own fancy , like so many arguments of plays ; and those their inventions ...
Page 280
... Parmenides , and Apollonius , were long - lived . The rhetoricians likewise , who did but taste matters lightly , and busied themselves rather about light of speech than the darkness of things , as Gorgias , Protagoras , Isocrates , and ...
... Parmenides , and Apollonius , were long - lived . The rhetoricians likewise , who did but taste matters lightly , and busied themselves rather about light of speech than the darkness of things , as Gorgias , Protagoras , Isocrates , and ...
Page 476
... Parmenides maintained two principles of things , fire and earth , or heaven and earth . For he asserted that the sun and stars were real fire , pure and limpid , not degenerate as fire is with us , which is only as Vulcan thrown down ...
... Parmenides maintained two principles of things , fire and earth , or heaven and earth . For he asserted that the sun and stars were real fire , pure and limpid , not degenerate as fire is with us , which is only as Vulcan thrown down ...
Page 531
... Parmenides and Telesius supposed , the original source of cold , it is not easy to say for certain to what height this opposite and rival power to the heaven may in- sinuate itself by series and succession ; especially as rare bodies ...
... Parmenides and Telesius supposed , the original source of cold , it is not easy to say for certain to what height this opposite and rival power to the heaven may in- sinuate itself by series and succession ; especially as rare bodies ...
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