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

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            the original Sound: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2868" xml:space="preserve">But we ſee what a number of exquiſite Inſtruments
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            muſt concur in ſpeaking of words, whereof there is no ſuch matter in the
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            returning oſ them, but onely a plain ſtop, and repercuſſion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2870" xml:space="preserve">The exquiſite Differences of Articulate Sounds, carried along in the
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0097-01" xlink:href="note-0097-01a" xml:space="preserve">288.</note>
            Air, ſhew that they cannot be Signatures or Impreſſions in the Air, as hath
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            been well reſuted by the Ancients. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2871" xml:space="preserve">For it is true, that Seals make excellent
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            Impreſſions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2872" xml:space="preserve">and ſo it may be thought of Sounds in their firſt generation:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2873" xml:space="preserve">But then the Delation and Continuance of them, without any new ſealing,
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            ſhew apparently they cannot be Impreſſions.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2875" xml:space="preserve">All Sounds are ſuddenly made, and do ſuddenly periſh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2876" xml:space="preserve">but neither that,
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            nor the exquiſite Differences of them, is matter of ſo great admiration: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2877" xml:space="preserve">For
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            the Quaverings, and Warblings of Lutes, and Pipes are as ſwift; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2878" xml:space="preserve">and the
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            Tongue (which is no very fine Inſtrument) doth in ſpeech, make no fewer
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            motions, than there be letters in all the words which are uttered. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2879" xml:space="preserve">But that
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            Sounds ſhould not onely be ſo ſpeedily generated, but carried ſo far every
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            way, in ſuch a momentany time, deſerveth more admiration. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2880" xml:space="preserve">As for ex-
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            ample, If a man ſtand in the middle of a Field, and ſpeak aloud, he ſhall be
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            heard a Furlong in round, and that ſhall be in articulate Sounds, and thoſe
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            ſhall be entire in every little portion of the Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2881" xml:space="preserve">and this ſhall be done in the
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            ſpace of leſs than a minute.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2883" xml:space="preserve">The ſudden Generation and Periſhing of Sounds, muſt be one of theſe
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0097-03" xlink:href="note-0097-03a" xml:space="preserve">290.</note>
            two ways: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2884" xml:space="preserve">Either, that the Air ſuffereth ſome force by Sound, and then re-
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            ſtoreth it ſelf as Water doth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2885" xml:space="preserve">which being divided, maketh many circles,
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            tillit reſtore it ſelf to the Natural conſiſtence; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2886" xml:space="preserve">or other wiſe, that the Air doth
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            willingly imbibe the Sound as grateful, but cannot maintain it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2887" xml:space="preserve">for that the
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            Air hath (as it ſhould ſeem) a ſecret and hidden Appetite of receiving the
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            Sound at the firſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2888" xml:space="preserve">but then other groſs and more materiate qualities of the
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            Air ſtraight ways ſuffocate it, like unto Flame which is generated with
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            alacrity, but ſtraight quenched by the enmity of the Air, or other Ambient
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            Bodies.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2890" xml:space="preserve">There be theſe differences (in general) by which Sounds are divided:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2891" xml:space="preserve"># 1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2892" xml:space="preserve">Muſical, Immuſical. </s>
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            # 2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2894" xml:space="preserve">Trebble, Baſe. </s>
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            # 3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2896" xml:space="preserve">Flat, Sharp. </s>
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            # 4. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2898" xml:space="preserve">Soft, Loud. </s>
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            # 5. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2900" xml:space="preserve">Exterior, Interior. </s>
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            # 6. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2902" xml:space="preserve">Clean, Harſh, or Purling. </s>
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            # 7. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2904" xml:space="preserve">Articulate, Inarticulate. </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2906" xml:space="preserve">We have labored (as may appear) in this Inquiſition of Sounds diligently;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2907" xml:space="preserve"># both becauſe Sound is one of the moſt hidden portions of Nature, (as
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            # we ſaid in the beginning) and becauſe it is a Vertue which may be called
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            # Incorporeal and Immateriate, whereof there be in Nature but few. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2908" xml:space="preserve">Be-
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            # ſides, we were willing (now in theſe our firſt Centuries) to make a pattern
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            # or preſident of an Exact Inquiſition; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2909" xml:space="preserve">and we ſhall do the like hereafter in
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            # ſome other ſubjects which require it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2910" xml:space="preserve">For we deſire that Men ſhould
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            # learn and perceive how ſevere a thing the true Inquiſition of Naturs is; </s>
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            # and ſhould accuſtom themſelves by the light of particulars, to enlarge
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            # their mindes to the amplitude of the World; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2912" xml:space="preserve">and not to reduce the
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            # World to the narrowneſs of their Mindes.</s>
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