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Page 419 - Generally the straight line hath the cleanest and roundest sound, and the crooked, the more hoarse and jarring. 222. OF a sinuous pipe that may have some four flexions, trial would be made. Likewise of a pipe made like a cross, open in the midst.
Page 660 - Trials likewise would be made upon plants, and that diligently : as if you should tell a man, that such a tree would die this year ; and will him at these and these times to go unto it, to see how it thriveth.
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Page 670 - The English ambassador's lady, who was a woman far from superstition, told me one day, she would help me away with my warts : whereupon she got a piece of lard with the skin on and rubbed the warts all over with the fat side ; and amongst the rest...
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Page 602 - ... naphtha of Babylon, a great distance off. It is therefore a subject of a very noble enquiry, to enquire of the more subtile perceptions; for it is another key to open nature, as well as the sense; and sometimes better. And besides, it is a principal means of natural divination; for that which in these perceptions appeareth early, in the great effects cometh long after.
Page 602 - 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...
Page 645 - ... 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.
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| Title | The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 2 The Works of Francis Bacon, Douglas Denon Heath |
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| Editors | James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1857 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Aug 7, 2007 |
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