The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volume 1Baynes and son, 1824 - English essays |
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... leaves , ibid . Of the lasting of flame , 378 Of infusions or burials of divers bodies in earth , 382 Of the effects of men's bodies from several winds , 383 Of winter and summer sicknesses , 384 Of pestilential years , ibid . Of ...
... leaves , ibid . Of the lasting of flame , 378 Of infusions or burials of divers bodies in earth , 382 Of the effects of men's bodies from several winds , 383 Of winter and summer sicknesses , 384 Of pestilential years , ibid . Of ...
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... leaves , ibid . Of the materials of glass , 513 Of the materials of putrefaction , and the long conservation of bodies , ibid . Of abundance of nitre in certain sea - shores , 515 Of bodies borne up by water , ibid . Of fuel consuming ...
... leaves , ibid . Of the materials of glass , 513 Of the materials of putrefaction , and the long conservation of bodies , ibid . Of abundance of nitre in certain sea - shores , 515 Of bodies borne up by water , ibid . Of fuel consuming ...
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... leaves no virtue untaxed , he was called cymini sector , a carver , or a divider of cumin seed , which is one of the least seeds ; such a patience he had and settled spirit , to enter into the least and most exact differences of causes ...
... leaves no virtue untaxed , he was called cymini sector , a carver , or a divider of cumin seed , which is one of the least seeds ; such a patience he had and settled spirit , to enter into the least and most exact differences of causes ...
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... leaves of trees are for protecting of the fruit ; or that the clouds are for watering of the earth ; or that the solidness of the earth is for the station and mansion of living creatures , and the like , is well inquired and collected ...
... leaves of trees are for protecting of the fruit ; or that the clouds are for watering of the earth ; or that the solidness of the earth is for the station and mansion of living creatures , and the like , is well inquired and collected ...
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... leaf of burrage hath an excellent spirit to repress the fuliginous vapour of dusky melancholy , and so to cure madness : but nevertheless , if the leaf be infused long , it yieldeth forth but a raw substance , of no virtue : therefore I ...
... leaf of burrage hath an excellent spirit to repress the fuliginous vapour of dusky melancholy , and so to cure madness : but nevertheless , if the leaf be infused long , it yieldeth forth but a raw substance , of no virtue : therefore I ...
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Page 129 - So that it was no marvel (the manner of antiquity being to consecrate inventors) that the Egyptians had so few human idols in their temples, 'but almost all brute : Omnigenumque Deum monstra, et latrator Anubis, Contra Neptunum, et Venerem, contraque Minervam, &c.
Page 213 - Spiritus intus alit: totamque infusa per artus ' Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet ' Inde hominum pecudumque genus vitaeque volantum ' Et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus.
Page 68 - For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs but it is the stirring of the earth and putting new mould about the roots that must work it.
Page 88 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 8 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Page 58 - Here was the scorn; the wonder followed: which was, that this young scholar, or philosopher, after all the captains were murdered in parley by treason, conducted those ten thousand foot, through the heart of all the king's high countries, from Babylon to...
Page 42 - The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out ;" as if, according to the innocent play of children, the Divine Majesty took delight to hide his works, to the end to have them found out ; and as if kings could not obtain a greater honour than to be God's playfellows in that game, considering the great commandment of wits and means, whereby nothing needeth to be hidden from them.
Page 96 - ... it were good to divide natural philosophy into the mine and the furnace, and to make two professions or occupations of natural philosophers, some to be pioneers, and some smiths ; some to dig, and some to refine and hammer: and surely I do best allow of a division of that kind, though in more familiar and scholastical terms: namely, that these be the two parts of natural philosophy, the inquisition of causes, and the production of effects ; speculative, and operative ; natural science, and natural...
Page 28 - Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time — did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as...
Page 216 - I have passed through, this writing seemeth to me, si nunquam fallit imago, as far as a man can judge of his own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are in tuning their instruments, which is nothing pleasant to hear, but yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterwards. So have I been content to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands.