Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen5Brown and Taggard, 1862 |
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... land adjoining to the river of Nile , and preserve it in that manner that it neither come to be wet nor wasted , and weigh it daily , it will not alter weight until the seventeenth of June , which is the day when the river beginneth to ...
... land adjoining to the river of Nile , and preserve it in that manner that it neither come to be wet nor wasted , and weigh it daily , it will not alter weight until the seventeenth of June , which is the day when the river beginneth to ...
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... land of Idumea , a great part of the way you would think the sea were near at hand , though it be a good distance off : and it is nothing but the shin- ing of the nitre upon the sea sands ; such abundance of nitre the shores there do ...
... land of Idumea , a great part of the way you would think the sea were near at hand , though it be a good distance off : and it is nothing but the shin- ing of the nitre upon the sea sands ; such abundance of nitre the shores there do ...
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... land - birds , ( as crows , swallows , & c . ) when they fly from the land to the waters , and beat the waters with their wings ; do fore- shew rain and wind . The cause is , pleasure that both kinds take in the moistness and density of ...
... land - birds , ( as crows , swallows , & c . ) when they fly from the land to the waters , and beat the waters with their wings ; do fore- shew rain and wind . The cause is , pleasure that both kinds take in the moistness and density of ...
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... Land . " And these empoisonments of air are the more dangerous in meet- ings of people , because the much breath of people doth further the reception of the infection ; and therefore , where any such thing is feared , it were good those ...
... Land . " And these empoisonments of air are the more dangerous in meet- ings of people , because the much breath of people doth further the reception of the infection ; and therefore , where any such thing is feared , it were good those ...
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... land and sea . It seems as if Aristotle , if he had developed any theory of the tides , would have had recourse to some similar explanation . Thus Strabo says , ( I quote from Xylander's translation , ) " Jam Aristotelem Posidonius ait ...
... land and sea . It seems as if Aristotle , if he had developed any theory of the tides , would have had recourse to some similar explanation . Thus Strabo says , ( I quote from Xylander's translation , ) " Jam Aristotelem Posidonius ait ...
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Página 398 - The end of our Foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Página 402 - By art likewise we make them greater or taller than their kind is, and contrariwise dwarf them and stay their growth ; we make them more fruitful and bearing than their kind is, and contrariwise barren and not generative.
Página 404 - We have some meats also, and breads and drinks, which taken by men enable them to fast long after; and some other that used make the very flesh of men's bodies sensibly more hard and tough, and their strength far greater than otherwise it would be.
Página 410 - We have three that draw the experiments of the former four into titles and tables, to give the better light for the drawing of observations and axioms cut of them. These we call Compilers. We have three that bend themselves, looking into the experiments of their fellows, and cast about how to draw out of them things of use and practice for man's life and knowledge...
Página 410 - For the several employments and offices of our fellows we have twelve that sail into foreign countries under the names of other nations (for our own we conceal), who bring us the books, and abstracts, and patterns of experiments of all other parts. These we call merchants of light. We have three that collect the experiments which are in all books. These we call depredators.
Página 389 - But the grapes are daintily enamelled; and if the males of the family be the greater number, the grapes are enamelled purple, with a little sun set on the top; if the females, then they are enamelled into a greenish yellow, with a crescent on the top. The grapes are in number as many as there are descendants of the family.
Página 407 - We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds, and lesser slides of sounds.
Página 402 - We have also particular pools where we make trials upon fishes as we have said before of beasts and birds. We have also places for breed and generation of those kinds of worms and flies which are of special use; such as are with you your silkworms and bees.
Página 411 - For our ordinances and rites, we have two very long and fair galleries: in one of these we place patterns and samples of all manner of the more rare and excellent inventions; in the other we place the statues of all principal inventors.
Página 396 - Peru colour. There was also a sun of gold, radiant upon the top, in the midst; and on the top before, a small cherub of gold, with wings displayed.