Lexicographical Neighbors of Effluences
Literary usage of Effluences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato (1902)
"And passages into which and through which the effluences pass? Men. Exactly. Soc.
And some of the effluences fit into the passage«, and some of them are too ..."
2. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Stöckl (1887)
"The influence of distant bodies upon one another as well as the possibility of
mixture, Empedocles explains by admitting effluences ..."
3. William Gilbert of Colchester, Physician of London: On the Loadstone and by William Gilbert, Paul Fleury Mottelay, Edward Wright (1893)
"These effluences cohere through continuity of substance; and heavy bodies, too,
are united to earth by their heaviness and advance with it in the general ..."
4. Source Book in Ancient Philosophy by Charles Montague Bakewell (1907)
"The objects in each case fit the corresponding pores, and the colors are carried
into the eye by effluences. ... Hearing, he says, is caused by sounds ..."
5. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"His characters are never exactly "human effluences," they are effluences of books
and of a fantastic individual combination of scholarly taste and wilful ..."
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