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... string , as soon as the quill of the jack falleth from it , stoppeth . For these sounds are produced by the subtile percussion of the minute parts of the bell or string upon the air ; all one , as the water is caused to leap by the ...
... string , as soon as the quill of the jack falleth from it , stoppeth . For these sounds are produced by the subtile percussion of the minute parts of the bell or string upon the air ; all one , as the water is caused to leap by the ...
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... strings , and the like , do swell in moist seasons ; as appeareth by the breaking of the strings , the hard turning of the pegs , and the hard drawing forth of boxes , and opening of wainscot doors : which is a kind of infusion ; and is ...
... strings , and the like , do swell in moist seasons ; as appeareth by the breaking of the strings , the hard turning of the pegs , and the hard drawing forth of boxes , and opening of wainscot doors : which is a kind of infusion ; and is ...
Página 385
... string of the bow See the note at § 172 . 2 Suetonius in Nero , c . 41 . by Pancirollo . VOL . II . Hydraulic music is mentioned as one of the lost arts See his Raccolta Breve , & c . , i . 7. See also Vitruvius , [ lib . v . c . 5 ...
... string of the bow See the note at § 172 . 2 Suetonius in Nero , c . 41 . by Pancirollo . VOL . II . Hydraulic music is mentioned as one of the lost arts See his Raccolta Breve , & c . , i . 7. See also Vitruvius , [ lib . v . c . 5 ...
Página 386
... string ; but between the string and the air ; no more than it is between the finger or quill and the string , in other instruments . So there are ( in effect ) but three percussions that create tones ; percus- sions of metals ...
... string ; but between the string and the air ; no more than it is between the finger or quill and the string , in other instruments . So there are ( in effect ) but three percussions that create tones ; percus- sions of metals ...
Página 388
... strings of a lute , there soundeth not the sound of the treble , nor any mixed sound , but only the sound of the base . 110. We have no music of quarter - notes ; and it may be they are not capable of harmony ; for we see the half ...
... strings of a lute , there soundeth not the sound of the treble , nor any mixed sound , but only the sound of the base . 110. We have no music of quarter - notes ; and it may be they are not capable of harmony ; for we see the half ...
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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.