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

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head66" xml:space="preserve">THE
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          Particular Topick Places;
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          OR,
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          ARTICLES of INQUISITION
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          TOUCHING
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          LIFE and DEATH.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9180" xml:space="preserve">FIrſt, inquire of Nature durable, and Not durable, in Bodies Inani-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0279-01" xlink:href="note-0279-01a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note>
            mate or without Life, as alſo in Vegetables; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9181" xml:space="preserve">but that not in a
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            large or juſt Treatiſe, but as in a Brief or Summary onely.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9183" xml:space="preserve">Alſo inquire diligently of Deſiccation, Arefaction, and Con-
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            ſumption of Bodies Inanimate, and of Vegetables; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9184" xml:space="preserve">and of the
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            ways and proceſſes, by which they are done; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9185" xml:space="preserve">and further, of
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            Inhibiting and Delaying of Deſiccation, Arefaction, and Con-
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            ſumption, and of the Conſervation of Bodies, in their proper ſtate;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9186" xml:space="preserve">and again, of the Inteneration, Emollition, and Recovery of Bodies to their former freſh-
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            neſs, after they be once dryed and withered.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9188" xml:space="preserve">Neither need the Inquiſition touching theſe things, to be full or exact, ſeeing they
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            pertain rather to their proper Title of Nature durable; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9189" xml:space="preserve">ſeeing alſo, they are not Princi-
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            pals in this Inquiſition, but ſerve onely to give light to the Prolongation and Instauration
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            of Life in Living creatures. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9190" xml:space="preserve">In which (as was ſaid before) the ſame things come to paſs,
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            but in a particular manner. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9191" xml:space="preserve">So from the Inquiſition touching Bodies Inanimate and Vege-
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            tables, let the Inquiſition paſs on to other Living Creatures beſides Man.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9193" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the length and ſhortneſs of Life in Living Creatures, with the due
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            circumſtances which make moſt for their long or ſhort lives.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9195" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe the Duration of Bodies is twofold, One in Identity, or the ſelf ſame
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            ſubſtance, the other by a Renovation or Reparation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9196" xml:space="preserve">whereof the former hath place onely
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            in Bodies Inanimate, the latter in Vegetables and Living Creatures, and is perfected by
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            Alimentation or Nouriſhment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9197" xml:space="preserve">therefore it will be fit to inquire of Alimentation, and
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            of the ways and progreſſes thereof; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9198" xml:space="preserve">yet this not exactly, (becauſe it pertains properly
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            to the Titles of Aſſimilation and Alimentation) but, as the reſt, in progreſs onely.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9200" xml:space="preserve">From the Inquiſition touching Living Creatures, and Bodies repaired by Nouriſh-
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            ment, paſs on to the Inquiſition touching Man. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9201" xml:space="preserve">And now being come to the principal
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            ſubject of Inquiſition, the Inquiſition ought to be in all points more preciſe and accu-
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            rate.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9203" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the length and ſhortneſs of Life in Men, according to the Ages of
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            the World, the ſeveral Regions, Climates, and Places of their Nativity and Habitation.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9205" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the length and ſhortneſs of Life in Men, according to their Races
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            and Families, as if it were a thing hereditary; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9206" xml:space="preserve">alſo according to their Complexions, Con-
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            ſtitutions, and Habits of Body, their Statures, the manner and time of their growth, and
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            the making and compoſition of their Members.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9208" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the length and ſhortneſs of Life in Men, according to the times of
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0279-07" xlink:href="note-0279-07a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note>
            their Nativity; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9209" xml:space="preserve">but ſo, as you omit for the preſent all Aſtrological obſervations, and the
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            Figures of Heaven, under which they were born; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9210" xml:space="preserve">onely inſiſt upon the vulgar </s>
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