 For example, paper, though a very common thing, is a singular instance of art. For if well observed, artificial matters are either merely wove with direct and transverse threads, as silk, cloth, linen, &c. or made of concreted juices, as brick, clay,...  The Works of Francis Bacon: Novum organum scientiarum - Page 38by Francis Bacon - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Basil Montagu - Learning and scholarship - 1820 - 198 pages
...but half conquered: the very paper from which you are now reading is in itself no mean contrivance; for, if well observed, artificial matters are either...silk, cloth, linen, &c. or made of concreted juices, a See note T at the end of this tract. 62 as brick, clay, glass, enamel, porcelane, and the like; which,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...Power, or of the Fasces ; called also the Head-works or Hand-works of Man (Ingenia sive Manus Hominis). For example, paper, though a very common thing, is...direct and transverse threads, as silk, cloth, linen, Sic. or made of concreted juices, as brick, clay, glass, enamel, porcelain, and the like, which if... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...though a very common tiling, is a singular instance of art. For if well ohserved, artificial matterare either merely wove with direct and transverse threads, as silk, cloth, linen, Sic. or made of concreted juices, ,as hrici. day, glass, enamel, porcelain, and the like, whic.Ii..... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...but half conquered, the very paper from which you are now reading is in itself no mean contrivance ; for, if well observed, artificial matters are either merely wove with direct and tranverse threads, as silk, cloth, linen, &c., or made of concreted juices, as brick, clay, glass,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...Power, or of the Fasces ; called also the Head-works or Hand-works of Man (Ingenia sive Manus Hominis). For example, paper, though a very common thing, is...of concreted juices, as brick, clay, glass, enamel, porcelain, and the like, which if well united shine, but if less united, prove hard, but bear no polish.... | |
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