Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head35" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL
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          HISTORY.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head36" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Century IV.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3036" xml:space="preserve">ACceleration of Time, in Works of Nature, may well be
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0101-01" xlink:href="note-0101-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Clariſication of
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              Liquors, and
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              the Accelara-
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              ting thereof.</note>
            eſteemed Inter Magnalia Natura. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3037" xml:space="preserve">And even in Divine
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            Miracles Accelerating of the Time, is next to the Creating
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            of the Matter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3038" xml:space="preserve">We will now therefore proceed to the
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            enquiry of it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3039" xml:space="preserve">and for Acceleration of Germination, we
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            will refer it over unto the place, where we ſhall handle
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            the Subject of Plants, generally; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3040" xml:space="preserve">and will now begin with
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            other Accelerations.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3042" xml:space="preserve">Liquors are (many of them) at the firſt, thick and troubled; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3043" xml:space="preserve">As Muſt,
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            Wort, Fuyce of Fruits, or Herbs expreſſed, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3044" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3045" xml:space="preserve">And by Time, they ſettle and
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            clarifie. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3046" xml:space="preserve">But to make them clear, before the Time, is a great work; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3047" xml:space="preserve">for it is a
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            Spur to Nature, and putteth her out of her pace: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3048" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, it is of good
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            uſe for making Drinks, and Sauces, Potable, and Serviceable, ſpeedily.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3049" xml:space="preserve">But to know the Means of Accelerating Clarification, we muſt firſt know
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            the cauſes of Clarification. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3050" xml:space="preserve">The firſt cauſe is, by the Separation of the
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            groſſer parts of the Liquor, from the finer. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3051" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond, by the equal diſtri-
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            bution of the Spirits of the Liquor, with the tangible parts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3052" xml:space="preserve">for that ever re-
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            preſenteth Bodies clear and untroubled. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3053" xml:space="preserve">The third, by the refining the
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            Spirit it ſelf, which thereby giveth to the Liquor more ſplendor, and more
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            luſtre.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3055" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, For Separation: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3056" xml:space="preserve">It is wrought by weight; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3057" xml:space="preserve">as in the ordinary
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            reſidence or ſettlement of Liquors. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3058" xml:space="preserve">By Heat, by Motion, by Precipitation, or
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            Sublimation, (that is, a calling of the ſeveral parts, either up or down, which
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            is a kinde of Attraction,) by Adheſion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3059" xml:space="preserve">as when a Body, more viſcous, is
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            mingled and agitated with the Liquor; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3060" xml:space="preserve">which vifcous Body (afterwards </s>
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