Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            in the Frame thereof; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s279" xml:space="preserve">Till, at laſt, it came to that Model, in
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            which it was committed to the Preis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s280" xml:space="preserve">As many Living Crea-
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            tures, do lick their young ones, till they bring them, to their
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            ſtrength of Limbs.</s>
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          <p style="it">
            <s xml:id="echoid-s282" xml:space="preserve">In the Compoſing of his Books, he did rather drive at a
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            Maſculine and clear Expreſsion, than at any Fineneſs, or Af-
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            fectation of Phraſes, and would often ask, if the Meaning
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            were expreſſea plainly enough: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s283" xml:space="preserve">as being one that accounted
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            words to be but ſubſervent, or Miniſterial, to Matter; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s284" xml:space="preserve">and
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            not the principal. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s285" xml:space="preserve">And if his Stile were Polite, it was be-
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            cauſe he could do no other wiſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s286" xml:space="preserve">Neither was be given, to any
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            Light Conceits; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s287" xml:space="preserve">Or Deſcanting upon Words; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s288" xml:space="preserve">‘But did
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            ever, purpoſely, and induſtriouſly, avoid them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s289" xml:space="preserve">For he held
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            ſuch Things, to be but Digreſsions, or Diverſions, from the
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            Scope intended; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s290" xml:space="preserve">and to derogate, from the Weight and Dig-
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            nity of the Stile.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s292" xml:space="preserve">He was no Plodder upon Books; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s293" xml:space="preserve">Though he read much, and
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            that with great Judgement and Rejection of Impertinences,
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            incident to many Authors; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s294" xml:space="preserve">For he would ever interlace a
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            Moderate Relaxation of His Minde with his Studies;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s295" xml:space="preserve">As Walking, Or Taking the Air abroad in his Coach; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s296" xml:space="preserve">or
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            ſome other hefitting Recreation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s297" xml:space="preserve">and yet, he would looſe no
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            Time, In as much, as upon his Firſt, and Immediate Return,
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            he would fall to Reading again, and ſo ſuffer no Moment of
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            Time to Slip from him without ſome preſent Improve-
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            ment.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s299" xml:space="preserve">His Meales were Refections of the Eare as well as of
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            the Stomack: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s300" xml:space="preserve">Like the Noctes Atticæ; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s301" xml:space="preserve">or Convivia Deip-
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            no Sophiſtarum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s302" xml:space="preserve">Wherein a Man might be refreſhed in his
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            Mind and underſtanding, no leſs then in his Body. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s303" xml:space="preserve">And
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            I have known ſome, of no mean Parts, that have profeſſed to
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            make uſe of their Note-Books, when they have riſen from
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            his Table. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s304" xml:space="preserve">In which Converſations, and otherwiſe, he
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            was no Daſhing Man, as ſome men are; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s305" xml:space="preserve">But ever a Coun-
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            tenancer, and Foſterer, of another Mans Parts. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s306" xml:space="preserve">Neither was
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            he one, that would appropriate the Speech, wholy to Himſelf;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s307" xml:space="preserve">or à
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            elight to out-vie others; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s308" xml:space="preserve">‘But leave a Liberty, to the
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            Co-Aſſeſſours, to take their Turns. </s>
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