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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2914" xml:space="preserve">MEtals give orient and fine Colours in Diſſolution; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2915" xml:space="preserve">as Gold giveth an
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-01" xlink:href="note-0098-01a" xml:space="preserve">291.</note>
            excellent Yellow, Quick-ſilver an excellent Green, Tingiveth an
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-02" xlink:href="note-0098-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Orient Colours
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              in Diſſolution
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              of Metals.</note>
            excellent Azure. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2916" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe in their Putrefactions, or Ruſts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2917" xml:space="preserve">as Vermilion,
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            Verdegreaſe, Biſe, Cirrus, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2918" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2919" xml:space="preserve">And likewiſe in their Vitrifications. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2920" xml:space="preserve">The
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            cauſe is, for that by their ſtrength of Body, they are able to endure the Fire,
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            or Strong-waters, and to be put into an equal poſture, and again, to retain
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            part of their principal Spirit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2921" xml:space="preserve">Which two things (equal poſture, and quick
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            Spirits) are required chiefly, to make Colours lightſome.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2923" xml:space="preserve">IT conduceth unto long Life, and to the more placide Motion of the Spi-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-03" xlink:href="note-0098-03a" xml:space="preserve">292.</note>
            rits, which thereby do leſs prey and conſume the Juyce of the body:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2924" xml:space="preserve">
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-04" xlink:href="note-0098-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Prelongation
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              of Life.</note>
            either that Mens actions be free and voluntary, that nothing be done invitâ minerva,
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            but ſecundum genium; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2925" xml:space="preserve">or, on the other ſide, that the Actions of Men be full of Re-
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            gulation, and commands within themſelves: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2926" xml:space="preserve">For then the victory and performing
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            of the command, giveth a good diſpoſition to the Spirits, eſpecially if
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            there be aproceeding from degree to degree, for then the ſenſe of victory
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            is the greater. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2927" xml:space="preserve">An example of the former of theſe, is in a Countrey life;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2928" xml:space="preserve">and of the latter, in Monks and Philoſophers, and ſuch as do continually enjoyn
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            themſelves.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2930" xml:space="preserve">IT is certain, that in all Bodies, there is an Appetite of Vnion, and Evitation
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-05" xlink:href="note-0098-05a" xml:space="preserve">293.</note>
            of Solution of Continuity: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2931" xml:space="preserve">And of this Appetite there be many degrees,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-06" xlink:href="note-0098-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Appetite of
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              Vnion in
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              Bodies.</note>
            but the moſt remarkable, and fit to be diſtinguiſhed, are three. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2932" xml:space="preserve">The firſt
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            in Liquors, the ſecond in hard Bodies, and the third in Bodies cleaving
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            or tenacious. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2933" xml:space="preserve">In Liquors this Appetite is weak; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2934" xml:space="preserve">we ſee in Liquors, the
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            Threding of them in Stillicides (as hath been ſaid) the falling of them in
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            round drops (which is the form of Union) and the ſtaying of them for a lit-
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            tle time in Bubbles and Froth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2935" xml:space="preserve">In the ſecond degree or kinde, this Appetite
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            is ſtrong; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2936" xml:space="preserve">as in Iron, in Stone, in Wood,&</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2937" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2938" xml:space="preserve">In the third, this Appetite is in
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            a Medium between the other two: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2939" xml:space="preserve">For ſuch Bodies do partly follow the
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            touch of another Body, and partly ſtick and continue to themſelves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2940" xml:space="preserve">and
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            therefore they rope and draw themſelves in threds, as we ſee in Pitch, Glew,
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            Birdlime, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2941" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2942" xml:space="preserve">But note, that all ſolid Bodies are cleaving more or leſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2943" xml:space="preserve">and
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            that they love better the touch of ſome what that is tangible, than of Air.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2944" xml:space="preserve">For Water in ſmall quantity cleaveth to any thing that is ſolid, and ſo would. </s>
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            Metal too, if the weight drew it notoff. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2946" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Gold Foliate, or
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            any Metal Foliate, cleaveth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2947" xml:space="preserve">But thoſe Bodies which are noted to be
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            clammy, and cleaving, are ſuch as have a more in different Appetite (at once)
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            to follow another Body, and to hold to themſelves. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2948" xml:space="preserve">And therefore they are
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            commonly Bodies ill mixed, and which take more pleaſure in a Foreign Body,
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            that in preſerving there own conſiſtence, and which have little predominance
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            in Drought or Moiſture.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2950" xml:space="preserve">TIme and Heat are fellows in many effects. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2951" xml:space="preserve">Heat drieth Bodies that do
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-07" xlink:href="note-0098-07a" xml:space="preserve">294.</note>
            eaſily expire; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2952" xml:space="preserve">as Parchment, Leaves, Roots, Clay, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2953" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2954" xml:space="preserve">And ſo
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-08" xlink:href="note-0098-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              like Operations
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              of Heat and
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              Time.</note>
            doth Time or Age areſie; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2955" xml:space="preserve">as in the ſame Bodies, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2956" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2957" xml:space="preserve">Heat diſſolveth and
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            melteth Bodies that keep in their Spirits, as in divers Liquefactions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2958" xml:space="preserve">and ſo
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            doth Time, in ſome Bodies of a ſofter conſiſtence: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2959" xml:space="preserve">As is manifeſt in Honey,
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            which by Age waxeth more liquid, and the like in Sugar; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2960" xml:space="preserve">and ſo in old
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            Oyl, which is ever more clear and more hot in medicinable uſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2961" xml:space="preserve">Heat
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            cauſeth the Spirits to ſearch ſome iſſue out of the Body, as in the Volatility</s>
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