Timaeus: and all that kind which tends to expand the contracted parts of the mouth, so far as their nature allows, and by this property produces sweetness, has received as a general designation the name of “honey”; and the foamy kind, which tends to dissolve the flesh by burning, and is secreted from all the saps, is named “verjuice.” Of the species of earth, that which is strained through water becomes a stony substance in the following way. When the water commingled therewith is divided in the process of mingling, it changes into the form of air; and when it has become air it rushes up to its own region;

Quality thus stretches or widens itself, and retires from the Bitter, then the astringent always presses after it, and would also fain taste of the Sw...

The Heat of the Sun kindles in the Earth the sweet Quality of Water, in all imaged or framed Figures; and then through the Heat the Light comes to be...

The sweet Water is the Beginning of Nature, and the astringent Quality draws or attracts it together, that it becomes natural and creatural, to speak...