Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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ARTICLES of INQUISITION
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TOUCHING
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LIFE and DEATH.</
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mate or without Life, as alſo in Vegetables; </
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ſumption of Bodies Inanimate, and of Vegetables; </
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neſs, after they be once dryed and withered.</
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pertain rather to their proper Title of Nature durable; </
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circumſtances which make moſt for their long or ſhort lives.</
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ſubſtance, the other by a Renovation or Reparation; </
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the World, the ſeveral Regions, Climates, and Places of their Nativity and Habitation.</
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and Families, as if it were a thing hereditary; </
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their Nativity; </
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