Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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them in Water gently boiled; </
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">It is ſtrange which is reported, That Baſil too much expoſed to the Sun,
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doth turn into Wilde Time: </
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Affinity; </
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Leaves; </
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a very great change.</
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">There is an old Tradition, that Boughs of Oak put into the Earth, will put
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ſorth Wilde Vines; </
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into a Vine, but the Oak-bough putrifying, qualifieth the Earth to put forth a
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Vine of it ſelf.</
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of an old Timber-Tree, the Stub hath put out ſometimes a Tree of another
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kinde; </
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be, for that the old Stub is too ſcant of Juyce to put forth the former Tree;
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riſhment.</
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ſown with the Grain that grew upon it, it will, in the end, grow to be of a
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baſer kinde.</
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kinde.</
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Infœlix Lolium, & ſteriles dominatur Avenæ.</
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as Corn, will ſooner change into other Species, than thoſe that come of them-
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ſelves: </
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eaſily put off.</
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nalia Naturæ: </
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tation of Species is, in the vulgar Philoſophy, pro-
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nounced impoſſible: </
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deep ſearch into Nature: </
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it, the opinion of impoſſibility is to be rejected, and the means there of to
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be found out. </
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there is much Tranſmutation of one into another. </
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Flies, &</
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life, is generated without Seed, that Creature will change out of one Spe-
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cies into another; </
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and boundeth in the Creature, that it doth not expatiate. </
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well conclude, that ſeeing the Earth of it ſelf, doth put forth Plants with-
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out Seed; </
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the moſt likely tryals: </
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this work of Sylva Sylvarum, account if ſtrange, or think that it is an over-
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haſte, that we have let down particulars untried: </
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own eſtimation, we account ſuch particulars more worthy than thoſe that
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are already tryed and known. </
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finde them, but the other do level point blank at the inventing of cauſes,
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and Axioms.</
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