The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen2Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1857 |
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... reason for giving it precedence of the other his- tories is mentioned in the Aditus or preface , the extreme importance of the subject to which it relates , namely " the prolongation and setting up of human life , " a matter " in quâ ...
... reason for giving it precedence of the other his- tories is mentioned in the Aditus or preface , the extreme importance of the subject to which it relates , namely " the prolongation and setting up of human life , " a matter " in quâ ...
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... reason to believe that Bacon made use of . Three remarkable instances of longevity are mentioned by Egnatius and by Bacon in the same order . All these works ( there are probably others of the same class ) resemble that of Valerius ...
... reason to believe that Bacon made use of . Three remarkable instances of longevity are mentioned by Egnatius and by Bacon in the same order . All these works ( there are probably others of the same class ) resemble that of Valerius ...
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... reason to believe that he was much more than seventy when he died , though Bacon affirms that he was nearly a hundred and twenty . It would be quite in accordance with what we know of Postellus to suppose that he made himself much older ...
... reason to believe that he was much more than seventy when he died , though Bacon affirms that he was nearly a hundred and twenty . It would be quite in accordance with what we know of Postellus to suppose that he made himself much older ...
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... reason . That of the Lady of Formerey is clearly a legendary tale ; -how she was seeking a white doe , and how she met with a forest ranger , who had renewed his youth by anointing him- self with an ointment which he had found somewhere ...
... reason . That of the Lady of Formerey is clearly a legendary tale ; -how she was seeking a white doe , and how she met with a forest ranger , who had renewed his youth by anointing him- self with an ointment which he had found somewhere ...
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... reason , apparently , than that they appear to him to be suitable to a warm climate . It is worthy of remark that Campion , writing about a quarter of a century earlier , affirms that the Irish had given up the use of saffron , and were ...
... reason , apparently , than that they appear to him to be suitable to a warm climate . It is worthy of remark that Campion , writing about a quarter of a century earlier , affirms that the Irish had given up the use of saffron , and were ...
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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.