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

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head63" xml:space="preserve">To the preſent Age and Poſterity,
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          Greeting.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9115" xml:space="preserve">ALthough I had ranked the Hiſtory of
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            Life and Death as the laſt among ſt my
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            Six Monethly Deſignations; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9116" xml:space="preserve">yet I
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            have thought fit, in reſpect of the prime uſe
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            thereof, (in which the leaſt loß of time ought
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            to be eſteemed precious) to invert that order, and to ſend it
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            forth in the ſecond place. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9117" xml:space="preserve">For I have hope, and wiſh, that it
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            may conduce to a common good; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9118" xml:space="preserve">and that the Nobler ſort of
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            Phyſicians will advance their thoughts, and not employ their
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            times wholly in the ſordidneß of Cures, neither be honored
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            for Neceſſity onely, but that they will become Coadju-
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            tors and Inſtruments of the Divine Omnipotence
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            and Clemency in Prolonging and Renewing the
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            Life of Man; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9119" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially ſeeing I preſcribe it to be done by
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            ſafe, and convenient, and civil ways, though hitherto unaſſayed.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9120" xml:space="preserve">For though we Chriſtians do continually aſpire and pant
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            after the Land of Promiſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9121" xml:space="preserve">yet it will be a token of
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            Gods favor towards us, in our journeyings through this
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            Worlds Wilderneſs, to have our Shoes and Gar-
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            ments (I mean thoſe of our frail Bodies) little worn or
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            impaired.</s>
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              <emph style="sc">Fr</emph>
            . </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9124" xml:space="preserve">St. </s>
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              <emph style="sc">Albans</emph>
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