The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Bind 2Carey, 1841 |
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... close to it , especially in the begin- ning besides , this Natural History was a debt of his , being designed and set down for a third part of the Instauration . I have also heard his lordship discourse that men , no doubt , will think ...
... close to it , especially in the begin- ning besides , this Natural History was a debt of his , being designed and set down for a third part of the Instauration . I have also heard his lordship discourse that men , no doubt , will think ...
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... close , of themselves gather moisture . by some of the ancients , of the stalks of lilies . The cause is ; for that these plants have a strong , dense , and succulent moisture , which is not apt to exhale ; and so is able , from the old ...
... close , of themselves gather moisture . by some of the ancients , of the stalks of lilies . The cause is ; for that these plants have a strong , dense , and succulent moisture , which is not apt to exhale ; and so is able , from the old ...
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... close , or open , of the ashes ; as we see that ashes alone , if they be hard pressed , will lie in less room and so the ashes with air between , lie looser ; and with water closer . For I have not yet found certainly , that the water ...
... close , or open , of the ashes ; as we see that ashes alone , if they be hard pressed , will lie in less room and so the ashes with air between , lie looser ; and with water closer . For I have not yet found certainly , that the water ...
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... close the bung - hole , and so let it continue a day and half ; then draw it into bot- tles , and you may drink it well after three days ' bottling ; and it will last six weeks : approved . It drinketh fresh , flowereth and mantleth ...
... close the bung - hole , and so let it continue a day and half ; then draw it into bot- tles , and you may drink it well after three days ' bottling ; and it will last six weeks : approved . It drinketh fresh , flowereth and mantleth ...
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... close ; and see whether it will not alter the colours of the fea- thers or hair . It is received , that the pulling off the first feathers of birds clean , will make the new come forth white : and it is certain that white is a penurious ...
... close ; and see whether it will not alter the colours of the fea- thers or hair . It is received , that the pulling off the first feathers of birds clean , will make the new come forth white : and it is certain that white is a penurious ...
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Side 398 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath...
Side 427 - Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
Side 380 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion...
Side 389 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Side 380 - To conclude therefore : let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress, or proficience in both...
Side 408 - I for my part do confess, that in revolving the Scriptures I could never find any such thing : but that God had left the like liberty to the church government, as he had done to the civil government ; to be varied according to time, and place, and accidents, which nevertheless his high and divine providence doth order and dispose.
Side 471 - there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence." One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not...
Side 112 - ... we have set it down as a law to ourselves, to examine things to the bottom ; and not to receive upon credit, or reject upon improbabilities, until there hath passed a due examination. This is, the sympathy of individuals ; for as there is a sympathy of species, so (it may be) there is a sympathy of individuals : that is, that in things, or the parts of things, that have been once contiguous or entire, 1 Compare Porta, Nat.
Side 95 - IT is certain, that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception : for when one body is applied to another, there is a kind of election to embrace that which is agreeable, and to exclude or expel that which is ingrate...
Side 393 - Wherefore, if we labour in thy works with the sweat of our brows, thou wilt make us partakers of thy vision and thy Sabbath.