The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the AuthorParry & McMillan, 1848 - 455 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... 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 dissi- pate . And by the coldness of rocks ; for there springs are chiefly ...
... 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 dissi- pate . And by the coldness of rocks ; for there springs are chiefly ...
Pagina 11
... 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 drawing help from the earth , to ...
... 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 drawing help from the earth , to ...
Pagina 13
... ancients took up ex- periments upon credit , and yet did build great matters upon them . The observation of some of the best of them , delivered confidently , is , that a vessel filled with ashes will receive the like quantity of water ...
... ancients took up ex- periments upon credit , and yet did build great matters upon them . The observation of some of the best of them , delivered confidently , is , that a vessel filled with ashes will receive the like quantity of water ...
Pagina 14
... ancients is tion is not found in many medicines ; myrobolanes noted to be of the second sort ; which being in have it ; and it may be the barks of peaches ; small quantity , moveth wind in the stomach and for this virtue requireth an ...
... ancients is tion is not found in many medicines ; myrobolanes noted to be of the second sort ; which being in have it ; and it may be the barks of peaches ; small quantity , moveth wind in the stomach and for this virtue requireth an ...
Pagina 19
... ancients , that sailors have used , every night , to hang fleeces of wool on the sides of their ships , the wool towards the water ; and that they have crushed fresh water out of them , in the morning for their use . And thus much we ...
... ancients , that sailors have used , every night , to hang fleeces of wool on the sides of their ships , the wool towards the water ; and that they have crushed fresh water out of them , in the morning for their use . And thus much we ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 383 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath...
Pagina 320 - A DECLARATION OF THE PRACTICES AND TREASONS, ATTEMPTED AND COMMITTED BY ROBERT LATE EARL OF ESSEX AND HIS COMPLICES...
Pagina 375 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Pagina 401 - Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
Pagina 372 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Pagina 366 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion...
Pagina 366 - ... philosophy when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on...
Pagina 378 - ... sacred image imprinted in us by creation ; we have sinned against heaven and before thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy children. O admit us into the place even of hired servants. Lord, thou hast formed us in our mothers...
Pagina 368 - It is now my intention to show how those in our own nation, that have been unquestionably the most eminent for learning and knowledge, were likewise the most eminent for their adherence to the religion of their country. I might produce very shining examples from among the clergy; but because priestcraft is the common cry of every cavilling empty scribbler, I shall show, that all the laymen who have exerted a more than ordinary genius in their writings, and.
Pagina 309 - And another time, when the queen would not be persuaded that it was his writing whose name was to it, but that it had some more mischievous author; and said with great indignation, That she would have him racked to produce his author...