Cheyne

Cited as Cheyne. — 27 quotations

Adorable

The adorable Author of Christianity.

Broil

The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun.

Coincide

If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless.

Concoct

Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates.

Conglomerate

Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands.

Congress

From these laws may be deduced the rules of the congresses and reflections of two bodies.

Divinity

God . . . employing these subservient divinities.

draw

Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves.

Element

About twelve ounces [of food], with mere element for drink.

Elliptic

The planets move in elliptic orbits.

Equal

They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me.

Fromward

Towards or fromwards the zenith.

Fume

Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity.

Lodge

The memory can lodge a greater store of images than all the senses can present at one time.

Nervous

Poor, weak, nervous creatures.

Notion

Few agree in their notions about these words.

Oblique

It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion.

Originary

The production of animals, in the originary way, requires a certain degree of warmth.

Physically

He that lives physically must live miserably.

Play

The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play.

Reach

The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach, comes short of its reality.

Reflexible

The light of the sun consists of rays differently refrangible and reflexible.

Self-motion

Matter is not induced with self-motion.

Somehow

By their action upon one another they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length.

Subservience

There is a regular subordination and subserviency among all the parts to beneficial ends.

Through

Material things are presented only through their senses.

Triobolar

It may pass current . . . for a triobolar ballad.