The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the AuthorParry & McMillan, 1848 - 455 pagina's |
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... reported by him who bare a part in it , the Rev. Dr. Rawley . One day , his lordship was dictating to that doctor some of the experiments in his Sylva . The same day , he had sent a friend to court , to receive for him a final answer ...
... reported by him who bare a part in it , the Rev. Dr. Rawley . One day , his lordship was dictating to that doctor some of the experiments in his Sylva . The same day , he had sent a friend to court , to receive for him a final answer ...
Pagina 10
... reported by a sober man , that an artificial spring may be made thus : Find out a hanging ground , where there is a good quick fall of rain - water . Lay a half trough of stone , of man's flesh . 26. The French , which put off the name ...
... reported by a sober man , that an artificial spring may be made thus : Find out a hanging ground , where there is a good quick fall of rain - water . Lay a half trough of stone , of man's flesh . 26. The French , which put off the name ...
Pagina 11
... 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 drawing help ...
... 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 drawing help ...
Pagina 13
... reported of credit , that if you lay good store of kernels of grapes about the root of a vine , it will make the vine come earlier and prosper better . It may be tried with other ker- nels laid about the root of a plant of the same kind ...
... reported of credit , that if you lay good store of kernels of grapes about the root of a vine , it will make the vine come earlier and prosper better . It may be tried with other ker- nels laid about the root of a plant of the same kind ...
Pagina 19
... reported by some of the 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 ...
... reported by some of the 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 ...
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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...