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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2700" xml:space="preserve">Both of them do receive and carry exquiſite, and accurate differences;
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-01" xlink:href="note-0093-01a" xml:space="preserve">258</note>
            as of Colours, Figures, Motions, Diſtances, in Viſibles; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2702" xml:space="preserve">and of Articulate
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            Voices, Tones, Songs, and Quaverings, in Audibles.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2704" xml:space="preserve">Both of them in their Vertue and Working, do not appear to emit any
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-02" xlink:href="note-0093-02a" xml:space="preserve">259.</note>
            Corporal Subſtance into their Mediums, or the Orb of their Vertue; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2705" xml:space="preserve">neither
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            again to riſe or ſtir any evident Local Motion in their Mediums as they paſs,
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            but onely to carry certain Spiritual Species. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2706" xml:space="preserve">The perfect knowledge of the
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            cauſe whereof, being hitherto ſcarcely attained, we ſhall ſearch and handle
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            in due place.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2707" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2708" xml:space="preserve">Both of them ſeem not to generate or produce any other effect in Na-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-03" xlink:href="note-0093-03a" xml:space="preserve">260.</note>
            ture, but ſuch as appertaineth to their proper Objects and Senſes, and are
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            otherwiſe barren.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2710" xml:space="preserve">But both of them in their own proper action, do work three manifeſt
              <lb/>
              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-04" xlink:href="note-0093-04a" xml:space="preserve">261.</note>
            effects. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2711" xml:space="preserve">The firſt, in that the ſtronger pieces drowneth the leſſer: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2712" xml:space="preserve">As the
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            light of the Sun, the light of a Gloworm, the report of an Ordnance, the
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            Voice. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2713" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond, in that an Object of ſurcharge or exceſs, deſtroyeth the
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            Senſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2714" xml:space="preserve">As the light of the Sun the eye, a violent ſound (near the Ear) the
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            Hearing. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2715" xml:space="preserve">The third, in that both of them will be reverberate: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2716" xml:space="preserve">As in Mir-
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            rors, and in Eccho’s.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2718" xml:space="preserve">Neither of them doth deſtroy or hinder the Species of the other, al-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-05" xlink:href="note-0093-05a" xml:space="preserve">262.</note>
            though they encounter in the ſame Medium: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2719" xml:space="preserve">As Light or Colour hinder not
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            ſound, nor è contrà.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2721" xml:space="preserve">Both of them affect the Senſe in Living Creatures, and yield Objects of
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-06" xlink:href="note-0093-06a" xml:space="preserve">263.</note>
            Pleaſure and Diſlike; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2722" xml:space="preserve">yet nevertheleſs, the Objects of them do alſo (if it
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            be well obſerved) affect and work upon dead things; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2723" xml:space="preserve">namely ſuch, as have
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            ſome conformity with the Organs of the two Senſes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2724" xml:space="preserve">As Viſibles work up-
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            on a Looking-glaß, which is like the Pupil of the Eye; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2725" xml:space="preserve">and Audibles upon the
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            places of Eccho, which reſemble, in ſome ſort, the cavern and ſtructure of
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            the Ear.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2727" xml:space="preserve">Both of them do diverſly work, as they have their Medium diverſly
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-07" xlink:href="note-0093-07a" xml:space="preserve">264.</note>
            diſpoſed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2728" xml:space="preserve">So a Trembling Medium (as ſmoak) maketh the object ſeem to trem-
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            ble; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2729" xml:space="preserve">and Riſing or Falling Medium (as Winds) maketh the Sounds to riſe or
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            fall.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2731" xml:space="preserve">To both, the Medium, which is the moſt propitious and conducible, is
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-08" xlink:href="note-0093-08a" xml:space="preserve">265.</note>
            Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2732" xml:space="preserve">For Glaſs or Water, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2733" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2734" xml:space="preserve">are not compairable.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2736" xml:space="preserve">In both of them, where the object is fine and accurate, it conduceth
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-09" xlink:href="note-0093-09a" xml:space="preserve">266.</note>
            much to have the Senſe intentive, and erect; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2737" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as you contract
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            youreye, when you would ſee ſharply, and erect your ear, when you would
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            hear attentively; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2738" xml:space="preserve">which in Beaſts
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            that have ears moveable, is moſt
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            manifeſt.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2740" xml:space="preserve">The Beams of Light, when they are multiplied and conglomerate,
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            generate heat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2741" xml:space="preserve">which is a different action, from the action of Sight: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2742" xml:space="preserve">And
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            the Multiplication and Conglomeration of Sounds, doth generate an ex-
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            tream Rarefaction of the Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2743" xml:space="preserve">which is an action materiate, differing from
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            the action of Sound. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2744" xml:space="preserve">If it betrue (which is anciently reported) that Birds,
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            with great ſhouts, have faln down.</s>
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