Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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Fixation, Pliantneſs or Softneſs, Immunity from Ruſt, Colour or
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Solitary,
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Nature of
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Tincture of Yellow. </
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ure way (though moſt about) to
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that hath all theſe Properties, let Men diſpute, whether it be Gold,
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in Conſort,
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touching the
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Enducing and
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Accelerating
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Univerſal Enquiry. </
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are unquiet to get forth and congregate with the Air, and to enjoy the
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degree of getting forth) have five differing operations. </
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quation; </
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but Protrude a little, and that Motion be conſuſed, and inordinate, there
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into much inequality; </
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and alſo in the Ruſt of Metals. </
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there followeth Vivification and Figuration; </
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bred of Putrefaction, and in Living Creatures perfect. </
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iſſue out of the Body, there followeth Deſiccation, Induration, Conſump-
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ing ſome crude or watry moiſture; </
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Wood, with Water, & </
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lieth cloſe to another Apple that is ſound; </
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ſeen in Church-yards, where they bury much; </
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in Priſon, more then they would, and thereby irritateth them to ſeek iſſue;
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Humors, which thereupon Putrifie.</
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ſooner, if it be cut or pierced, and ſo will Wood, & </
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Creatures alive, where they have received any wound.</
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cipal Spirits, which preſerve the conſiſtence of the Body; </
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Government is diſſolved every partreturneth to his Nature, or Homogeny.
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