Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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culate ſounds of the voice of Man or Birds, will cnter into a ſmall crany,
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terial to the carriage of the Sounds, further or leſs way; </
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be heard, thoughit may be, they make them to be heard leſs way, than in
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a ſtill, as hath been partly touched.</
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ſee, that you may hear the ſound of a Preachers voice, or the like, when
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you cannot diſtinguiſh what he ſaith. </
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duced to ſuch an extream exhility, yet the Articulate ſounds (which are the
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words) are not confounded, as hath been ſaid.</
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not be Articulate, but that the Articulation requireth a mediocrity of
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below, and Vaulted likewiſe in the Roof, a Preacher cannot be heard ſo
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well, as in the like places not ſo Vaulted. </
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fore the Articulate Sounds are more confuſed, though the groſs of the Sound
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making of the ſeveral Alphabetical Letters are worthy inquiry, and perti-
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nent to the preſent Inquiſition of Sounds: </
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Experiments of Speech. </
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M. </
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Alphabet, there will be fewer ſimple Motions required, than there are
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to contract and dilate it ſelf; </
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the Air, which thorow the Artire, Throat, and Mouth, maketh the Voice:
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reft of thoſe they call Inſtruments of Voice.</
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