28 Of expense,

321

29 of the true greatness of kingdoms and estates, 322

30 Of regimen of health,

330

31 Of suspicion,

332

32 Of discourse,

333

33 Of plantations,

335

34 Of riches,

338

35 Of prophecies,

341

36 Of ambition,

343

37 Of masques and triumphs,

345

38 Of nature in men,

347

39 Of custom and education,

348

40 Of fortune,

350

41 Of usury,

351

42 of youth and age,

355

43 Of beauty,

357

44 Of deformity,

358

45 Of building,

359

46 Of gardens,

363

47 Of negotiating,

369

48 Of followers and friends,

370

49 of suitors,

372

50 Of studies,

373

A COLLECTION of APOTHTHEGMS, new and old, 401

The writer's prayer,

ibid.

The characters of a believing Christian, in paradoxes,

and seeming contradictions,

494

An advertisement touching the controversies of the

Church of England,

499

Certain considerations touching the better pacification

and edification of the Church of England,

Circumstances in the government of bishops,

Concerning the liturgy, the ceremonies and subscription,

Touching a preaching ministry,

524

531

537

541

Touching the abuse of excommunication,

545

Touching non-residents and pluralities,

546

Touching the provision for sufficient maintenance in the

church,

548

Of titillation,

511

Of scarcity of rain in Egypt,

Of clarification,

Of plants without leaves,

Of the materials of glass,

ibid.

512

ibid.

513

Of the materials of putrefaction, and the long conser-

vation of bodies,

Of abundance of nitre in certain sea-shores,

Of bodies borne up by water,

ibid.

515

ibid.

Of bitumen, one of the materials of wildfire,

ibid.

Of plaister growing as hard as marble,

Of the cure of some ulcers and hurts,

Of the healthfulness or unhealthfulness of the southern

wind,

519

ibid.

520

Of wounds made with brass, and with iron,

Of supernatation of bodies,

Of the flying of unequal bodies in the air,

Of water, that it may be the medium of sounds,

Of the flight of the spirits upon odious objects,

Of the super-reflection of echos,

522

ibid.

523

Of the force of imagination imitating that of the

sense,

Of preservation of bodies,

Of the growth or multiplying of metals,

ibid.

524

ibid.

Of the drowning the more base metal in the more pre-

cious,

Of fixation of bodies,

525

ibid.

Of the restless nature of things in themselves, and their

desire to change,

526

CENTURY IX.

Experiments in consort touching perception in bodies insensible, tending to natural divination or subtile

trials.

:

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 and whether the body be alterant or altered, evermore a perception precedeth operation; for else all bodies would be alike one to another. And sometimes this perception, in some kind of bodies, is far more subtile than the sense; so that the sense is but a dull thing in comparison of it: we see a weather-glass will find the least difference of the weather, in heat, or cold, when men find it not. And this perception also is sometimes at distance, as well as upon the touch; as when the loadstone draweth iron, or flame fireth naphtha of Babylon, a great distance off. It is therefore a subject of a very noble inquiry, to inquire 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. It is true also, that it serveth to discover that which is hid, as well as to foretel that which is to come, as it is in many subtile trials; as to try whether seeds be old or new, the sense cannot inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner and so of water, the taste will not discover the best water; but the speedy consuming of it, and many other means, which we have heretofore set

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