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Timaeus
The Elements (65d)
Timaeus: for testing-instruments of the tongue,—when they strike upon the moist and soft parts of the flesh and are melted down, contract the small veins and dry them up; and these particles when more rough appear to be” astringent,” when less rough “harsh.” And such as act on these veins as detergents and wash out all the surface of the tongue, when they do this excessively and lay such hold on the tongue as to dissolve part of its substance—and such, for example, is the property of alkalies,—
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (79)
Now when the astringent or harsh and the bitter qualities get their light from the heat, then they see the sweet quality, and taste of its sweet...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (60)
The astringent or harsh and sour quality, and the sweet, are the Salitter, which belongeth to the body, out of which the body is framed.
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (66)
Now the astringent or harsh quality (together with the sour), always contracteth or attracteth the other qualities together, and so apprehendeth and...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (84)
Therein the astringent, the sweet, the bitter and the heat struggle together, and the astringent quality in its coldness continually makes their...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (23)
First there is the astringent quality, then the sweet, and next the bitter: The sweet is in the midst between the astringent and the bitter. Now the...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (45)
The astringent or harsh quality is the kernel or stock, and is sour or attractive; and the sweet is the light, mollifying and softening; and the...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (78)
When the sweet quality thus stretcheth or wideneth itself, and retireth from the bitter, then the astringent always presseth after it, and would also...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (80)
And the sweet quality always flies from the bitter and the astringent, and always stretcheth its palate wider, and the bitter and the astringent conti...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (28)
When the astringent and the bitter qualities rub themselves so hard the one upon the other that they generate heat (the sweet quality, the sweet...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (61)
For coldness and hardness stand in the astringent quality, and are a contraction and drying; and in the sweet quality stand the water, and the light o...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (85)
So when that is done, then the bitterness is also together captivated or imprisoned in the body of the sweet water, and becometh also together dried u...
Chapter 17: Of the lamentable and miserable State and Condition of the corrupt perished Nature, and Original of the four Elements, instead of the holy Government of God. (11)
For the astringent quality now attracted the Salitter very strongly together, and dried it, whence the bitter earth is proceeded; but the stones are f...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (42)
Secondly, the astringent quality loveth the bitter, because the bitter quality in the sweet water, that is, in water, heat and light, triumpheth in...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (77)
When the sweet quality perceiveth the taste of the bitter quality, it caggs at it [checks or stops it], and giveth back; even as a man, when he...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (82)
When the sweet quality thus flies from the bitter, and from the sour and astringent, then the astringent and the bitter make all the haste they can...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (39)
For the astringent or harsh quality, in its stock or kernel, when it qualifieth or operateth in its own power, is a darkness: The sweet quality, in it...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (114)
But that the spirit, when it goeth forth at the mouth, conceiveth itself yet once more behind the astringent quality upon the tongue at the hindermost...