Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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the blowing of the Wind, the trickling of Water, humming of Bees, ſoft
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Bears) during their ſleep wax very fat, though they eat nothing. </
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have been found in Ovens, and other hollow cloſe places, matted one
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in Conſort,
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touching
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Teeth and
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quantity of hard ſubſtance continued, is towards the Head; </
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the Shell of the Egg, and their Quills; </
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in ſome Creatures, are caſt and renewed: </
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Horns, Teeth, Nails, and Beaks; </
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hath one kinde of Marrow, which hath an affinity with the Brain; </
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have a kinde of Marrow diffuſed, which cauſeth the Senſe and Pain: </
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