Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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HISTORY</
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ſhall handle fully under the Title of Life, and Living
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in Conſort,
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touching the
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Affinities and
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Differences,
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between Plants
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and Inanimate
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Spirits, and Powers. </
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mention of them in this place. </
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are two. </
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within them; </
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mate and Inanimate are two. </
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of things animate, are all contined with themſelves,
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and are branched in Veins, and ſecret Sanales, as Blood is: </
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Creatures, the Spirits have not onely Branches, but certain Sells or Seats,
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where the principal Spirits do reſide, and whereunto thereſt do reſort: </
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the Spirits in things Inanimate are ſhut in, and cut off by the Tangible parts;
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difference is, that the Spirits of Animate Bodies are all in ſome degree (more
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or leſs) kindled and in flamed, and have a fine commixture of Flame, and
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an Ærial ſubſtance: </
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flamed or kindled. </
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neſs of Spirits; </
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ceeding hot Spirits (hotter a great deal than Oyl, Wax, or Tallow, &</
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not inflamed. </
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be in flamed, than they gather a much greater heat, than others have unin-
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flamed, beſides their light and motion, &</
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dical differences are, firſt, Plants are all figurate and determinate, which
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inanimate Bodies are not; </
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continue it ſelf, ſo far goeth the ſhape or figure, and then is determined.
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of their kinde, which is not in Bodies inanimate.</
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