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

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            Generals ſpake to their Armies, they had ever a Mount of Turff caſt up,
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            where upon they ſtood. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2324" xml:space="preserve">But this may be imputed to the ſtops and obſtacles
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            which the voice meeteth with, when one ſpeaketh upon the level. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2325" xml:space="preserve">But
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            there ſeemeth to be more in it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2326" xml:space="preserve">for it may be, that Spiritual Species, both of
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            things viſible, and Sounds, do move better down wards than up wards. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2327" xml:space="preserve">It is
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            a ſtrange thing, that to Men ſtanding below on the ground, thoſe that be on
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            the top of Pauls, ſeem much leſs than they are, and cannot be known: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2328" xml:space="preserve">But
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            to Men above thoſe below, ſeem nothing ſo much leſſened, and may be
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            known; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2329" xml:space="preserve">yet it is true, That all things to them above, ſeem alſo ſomewhat
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            contracted and better collected into figure; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2330" xml:space="preserve">as Knots in Gardens ſhew beſt
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            from an upper Window or Tarras.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2332" xml:space="preserve">But to make an exact tryal of it, let a Man ſtand in a Chamber. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2333" xml:space="preserve">not
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0084-01" xlink:href="note-0084-01a" xml:space="preserve">206.</note>
            much above the Ground, and ſpeak out at the Window thorow a Trunck, to
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            one ſtanding on the Ground as ſoftly as he can, the other laying his Ear cloſe
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            to the Trunck: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2334" xml:space="preserve">Then Via verſa, let the other ſpeak below keeping the ſame
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            proportion of ſoftneſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2335" xml:space="preserve">and let him in the Chamber lay his Ear to the Trunck.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2336" xml:space="preserve">And this may be the apteſt means to make a Judgment, whether Sounds
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            deſcend or aſcend better.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2338" xml:space="preserve">AFter that Sound is created (which is in a moment) we finde it continueth
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0084-02" xlink:href="note-0084-02a" xml:space="preserve">207.</note>
            ſome ſmall time, melting by little and little. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2339" xml:space="preserve">In this there is a wonder-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0084-03" xlink:href="note-0084-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Lacting and
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              Periſhing of
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              Sounds; and
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              touching the
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              time they re-
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              quire to the
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              Generation or
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              Delation.</note>
            ful error amongſt Men, who take this to be a continuance of the firſt Sound;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2340" xml:space="preserve">whereas (in truth) it is a Renovation, and not a Continuance: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2341" xml:space="preserve">For the Body
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            percufſed, hath by reaſon of the Percuſſion, a Tripidation wrought in the mi-
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            nute parts, and ſo reneweth the Percuſſion of the Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2342" xml:space="preserve">This appeareth
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            manifeſtly, becauſe that the Melting ſound of a Bell, or of a ſtring ſtrucken,
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            which is thought to be a Continuance, ceaſeth as ſoon as the Bell or ſtring are
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            touched. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2343" xml:space="preserve">As in a Virginal, as ſoon as ever the Jack falleth, and toucheth the
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            ſtring, the ſound ceaſeth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2344" xml:space="preserve">and in a Bell, after you have chimed upon it, if you
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            touch the Bell, the ſound ceaſeth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2345" xml:space="preserve">And in this you muſt diſtinguiſh, that there
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            are two Trepidations, The one Manifeſt and Local; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2346" xml:space="preserve">as of the Bell, when it
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            is Penſile; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2347" xml:space="preserve">the other Secret, of the Minute parts, ſuch as is deſcribed in the
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            ninth Inſtance. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2348" xml:space="preserve">But it is true, that the Local helpeth the Secret greatly. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2349" xml:space="preserve">We
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            ſee like wiſe, that in Pipes, and other Wind Inſtruments, the ſound laſteth no
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            longer than the breath bloweth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2350" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that in Organs there is a confuſed
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            murmur for a while, after you have played, but that is but while the Bellows
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            are in falling.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2352" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that in the noiſe of great Ordnance, where many are ſhot
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0084-04" xlink:href="note-0084-04a" xml:space="preserve">208.</note>
            off together, the ſound will be carried (at the leaſt) twenty miles upon the
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            Land, and much further upon the Water, but then it will come to the Ear;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2353" xml:space="preserve">not in the inſtant of the ſhooting off, but it will come an hour, or more later: </s>
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            This muſt needs be a Continuance of the firſt Sound; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2355" xml:space="preserve">for there is no Trepi-
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            dation which ſhould renew it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2356" xml:space="preserve">And the touching of the Ordnance would
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            not extinguiſh the ſound the ſooner: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2357" xml:space="preserve">So that in great Sounds, the Continu-
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            ance is more than Momentany.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2359" xml:space="preserve">To try exactly the time wherein Sound is delated, Let a Man ſtand in a
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0084-05" xlink:href="note-0084-05a" xml:space="preserve">209.</note>
            Steeple, and have with him a Taper, and let ſome Veil be put before the
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            Taper, and let another Man ſtand in the Field a mile off; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2360" xml:space="preserve">then let him in the
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            Steeple ſtrike the Bell, and in the ſame inſtant withdraw the Veil, and ſo let
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            him in the Field tell by his Pulſe, what diſtance of time there is between the
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            Light ſeen, and the Sound heard: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2361" xml:space="preserve">For it is certain, That the Delation </s>
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