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

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head9" xml:space="preserve">TO THE
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          READER</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s18" xml:space="preserve">HAving had the Honor to be continually with
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            my Lord, in compiling of this Work; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19" xml:space="preserve">and
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            to be employed therein, I have thought it not
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            amiß, (with his Lordſhips good leave and
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            liking) for the better ſatisfaction of thoſe that
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            ſhall read it, to make known ſomewhat of his Lordſhips inten-
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            tions, touching the ordering and publiſhing of the ſame. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20" xml:space="preserve">I
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            have heard his Lordſhip often ſay, That if he ſhould have
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            ſerved the glory of his own Name, he had been better not to
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            have publiſhed this Natural Hiſtory; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21" xml:space="preserve">for it may ſeem an
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            indigeſted heap of Particulars, and cannot have that luſtre
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            which Books caſt into Methods, have: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s22" xml:space="preserve">But that be reſolved
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            to prefer the good of Men, and that which might best ſecure
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            it, before any thing that might have relation to himſelf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s23" xml:space="preserve">And,
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            he knew well, that there was no other way open to unlooſe Mens
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            mindes, being bound; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s24" xml:space="preserve">and (as it were) Maleficiate, by the
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            charms of deceiving Notions and Theories; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s25" xml:space="preserve">and thereby
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            made impotent for Generation of Works: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s26" xml:space="preserve">But onely no where
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            to depart from the Senſe and clear experience, but to keep cloſe
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            to it, eſpecially in the beginning. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s27" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, this Natural
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            Hiſtory was a Debt of his, being deſigned and ſet down for
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            a third Part of the Inſtauration. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s28" xml:space="preserve">I have alſo heard his
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            Lordſhip diſcourſe, That Men (no doubt) will think many
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            of the Experiments contained in this Collection, to be </s>
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