Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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end that hemight exhibit therein
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a Model or Deſcription of a College,
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inſtituted for the Interpreting of
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Nature, and the producing of
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great and marvellous Works for the benefit of
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Men, under the name of Solomons Houſe, or, The
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Hiſtory diverted him, which he preferred many
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ſigned for this place, in regard it hath ſo near
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affinity (in one part of it) with the preceding
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