Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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HISTORY</
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in Conſort,
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touching
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Perception in
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Bodies Inſen-
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ſible, tending
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to Natural
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Divination or
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Subiil Tryals.</
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have no Senſe, yet they have Perception: </
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one Body is applied to another, there is a kinde of Electi-
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on, to embrace that which is agreeable, and to exclude
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or expel that which is ingrate: </
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be alterantor altered, evermore a Perception precedeth
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Operation; </
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other. </
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of Bodies is far more ſubtilthen the Senſe; </
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in compariſon of it. </
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the Weather in Heat or Cold, when Men finde it not. </
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alſo is ſometimes at diſtance, as well as upon the touch; </
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ſtone draweth Iron, or Flame fireth Naphtha of Babylon a great diſtance off.
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Perceptions; </
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ſometimes better: </
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for that which in theſe Perceptions appeareth early, in the great effects
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cometh long after. </
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hid, as well as to foretel that which is to come, as it is in many ſubtil Tryals: </
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As to try whether Seeds be old or new, the Senſe cannotinform; </
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boil them in Water, the new Seeds will ſprout ſooner. </
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the taſte will not diſcover the beſt Water; </
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and many other means which we have heretofore ſet down, will diſcover it. </
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So in all Phyſiognomy, the Lineaments of the Body will diſcoverthoſe Natural
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Inclinations of the Minde, which Diſſimulation will conceal, or Diſcipline
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will ſuppreſs. </
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