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Siris

Name: Siris
Author: George Berkeley

“[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.”

George Berkeley book Siris

Paragraph 217. Compare: "Cups / That cheer but not inebriate", William Cowper, The Task, book iv, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Siris (1744)

“Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.”

George Berkeley book Siris

Paragraph 368.
Siris (1744)

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