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

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            Nature; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3536" xml:space="preserve">for that attenuateth the Juyce, and furthereth the Motion of the
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            Spirits upwards. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3537" xml:space="preserve">Neither is it without cauſe, that Xenophon in the Nouriture
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            of the Perſian Children, doth ſo much commend their feeding upon Cardamon,
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            which (he ſaith) made them grow better, and be of a more active habit.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3538" xml:space="preserve">Cardamon is in Latin, Naſturtium, and with us Water-creſſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3539" xml:space="preserve">which, it is cer-
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            tain, is an Herb, that whilſt it is young, is friendly to Life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3540" xml:space="preserve">As for the
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            quickning of Natural Heat, it muſt be done chiefly with exerciſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3541" xml:space="preserve">and
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            therefore (no doubt) much going to School, where they ſit ſo much,
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            hindereth the growth of Children; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3542" xml:space="preserve">whereas Countrey-People, that go
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            not to School, are commonly of better ſtature. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3543" xml:space="preserve">And again, Men muſt
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            beware how they give Children any thing that is cold in operation; </s>
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            even long ſucking doth hinder both Wit and Stature. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3545" xml:space="preserve">This hath been
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            tryed, that a Whelp that hath been fed with Nitre in Milk, hath be-
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            come very little, but extream lively: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3546" xml:space="preserve">For the Spirit of Nitre is cold. </s>
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            And though it be an excellent Medicine in ſtrength of years for Pro-
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            longation of Life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3548" xml:space="preserve">yet it is in Children and young Creatures an enemy
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            to growth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3549" xml:space="preserve">and all for the ſame reaſon, For Heat is requiſite to Growth. </s>
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            But after a Man is come to his middle age, Heat conſumeth the Spirits; </s>
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            which the coldneſs of the Spirit of Nitre doth help to condence and
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            correct.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3553" xml:space="preserve">THere be two great Families of Things, you may term them by
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0112-01" xlink:href="note-0112-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching
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              Sulphure and
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              Mercury, two
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              of Paracelſus
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              Principles.</note>
            ſeveral names, Sulphureous and Mercureal, which are the Chymists
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            words: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3554" xml:space="preserve">(For as for their Salt, which is their third Principle, it is a Com-
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            pound of the other two,) Inflamable, and Not Inflamable; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3555" xml:space="preserve">Mature and Crude,
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            Oily and Watry: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3556" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee that in Subterranies there are, as the Fathers of
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            their Tribes, Brimſtone and Mercury; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3557" xml:space="preserve">In Vegetables and Living Crea-
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            tures, there is Water and Oyl; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3558" xml:space="preserve">in the Inferior order of Pneumaticals,
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            there is Air and Flame; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3559" xml:space="preserve">and in the Superior, there is the Body of the
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            Star, and the Pure Skey. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3560" xml:space="preserve">And theſe Pairs, though they be unlike in the
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            Primitive Differences of Matter, yet they ſeem to have many conſents;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3561" xml:space="preserve">for Mercury and Sulphure are principal materials of Metals; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3562" xml:space="preserve">Water and
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            Oyl are principal materials of Vegetables and Animals, and ſeem to differ
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            but in Maturation or Concoction. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3563" xml:space="preserve">Flame (in Vulgar Opinion) is but
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            Air incenſed, and they both have quickneſs of Motion, and facility of
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            Ceſſion, much alike: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3564" xml:space="preserve">And the Interſtellar Skey, (though the opinion be
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            vain, that the Star is the Denſer Part of his Orb,) hath not withſtanding
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            ſo much affinity with the Star, that there is a rotation of that, as well as
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            of the Star. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3565" xml:space="preserve">Therefore, it is one of the greateſt Magnalia Naturæ, to turn
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            Water or Watry Juyce into Oyl or Oyly Juyce: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3566" xml:space="preserve">Greater in Nature, than
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            to turn Silver or Quick-ſilver into Gold.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3568" xml:space="preserve">The Inſtances we have wherein Crude and Watry Subſtance, turneth
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            into Fat and Oyly, are of four kindes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3569" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, In the Mixture of Earth and
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            Water, which mingled by the help of the Sun, gathered a Nitrous Fat-
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            neſs, more than either of them have ſeverally; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3570" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee, in that they put
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            forth Plants, which need both Juyces.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3572" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is in the Aſſimilation of Nouriſhment, made in the Bodies
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            of Plants, and Living Creatures; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3573" xml:space="preserve">whereof Plants turn the Juyce of meer
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            Water and Earth, into a great deal of Oyly matter: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3574" xml:space="preserve">Living Creatures,
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            though much of their Fat, and Fleſh, are out of Oyly Aliments, (as Meat,
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            and Bread,) yet they aſſimilate alſo in a meaſure their Drink of </s>
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