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At Iso- crates Atheniensis nonagesimum octavum annum complevit 10 ; 1 I do not know by whom Xenophanes is called Xenomanes : not , I believe , by any ancient writer . The name was probably suggested by a wrong reading in Simplicius on ...
At Iso- crates Atheniensis nonagesimum octavum annum complevit 10 ; 1 I do not know by whom Xenophanes is called Xenomanes : not , I believe , by any ancient writer . The name was probably suggested by a wrong reading in Simplicius on ...
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Thus in ( 458 ) he observes that it is reported by one of the ancients that artichokes will be less prickly if their tops have been grated off upon a stone . The writer referred to is Varro , but the statement is only preserved in the ...
Thus in ( 458 ) he observes that it is reported by one of the ancients that artichokes will be less prickly if their tops have been grated off upon a stone . The writer referred to is Varro , but the statement is only preserved in the ...
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We see it also in the generation of springs , which the ancients thought ( very probably ) to be made by the version of air into water , holpen by the rest which the air hath in those parts ; whereby it cannot dissipate 2 ; and by the ...
We see it also in the generation of springs , which the ancients thought ( very probably ) to be made by the version of air into water , holpen by the rest which the air hath in those parts ; whereby it cannot dissipate 2 ; and by the ...
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It is reported by some of the ancients ' , that whelps , or other creatures , if they be put young into such a cage or box as they cannot rise to their stature , but may increase in breadth or length , will grow accordingly as they can ...
It is reported by some of the ancients ' , that whelps , or other creatures , if they be put young into such a cage or box as they cannot rise to their stature , but may increase in breadth or length , will grow accordingly as they can ...
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The like is reported 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 store , without ...
The like is reported 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 store , without ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 578 - THE Turks have a pretty art of chambletting of paper, which is not with us in use. They take divers oiled colours, and put them severally, in drops, upon water, and stir the water lightly, and then wet their paper, being of some thickness, with it, and the paper will be waved and veined, like chamblet or marble.
Página 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...
Página 670 - The success was, that within five weeks space all the warts went quite away : and that wart which I had so long endured, for company. But at the rest I did little marvel, because they came in a short time, and might go away in a short time again: but the going away of that which had stayed so long doth yet stick with me.
Página 670 - I had had from my childhood : then she nailed the piece of lard, with the fat towards the sun, upon a post of her chamber window, which was to the south. The success was, that within five weeks space all the warts went quite away : and that wart tohich I had so long endured, for company.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen2 The Works of Francis Bacon, Douglas Denon Heath |
| Autor | Francis Bacon |
| Editores | James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath |
| Editor | Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1857 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 7 Ago. 2007 |
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