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

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[2.] SYLVA SYLVARUM, OR, A Natural Hiſtory, IN TEN CENTURIES. Whereunto is newly added, The Hiſtory Natural and Experimental of LIFE and DEATH, or of the Prolongation of LIFE. Publiſhed after the Authors Death, By William Rawley, Doctorin Divinity, One of His Majeſties Chaplains. Whereunto is added Articles of Enquiry, touch-ing Metals and Minerals. And the New Atlantis. Written by the Right Honorable FRANCIS Lord Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban. The Ninth and Last Edition, With an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Things contained in the Ten Centuries.
[3.] LONDON: rinted by J. R. for William Lee, and are to be Sold by the Bookſellers of London. 1670.
[4.] TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.
[5.] TO THE READER
[6.] A TABLE OF THE EXPERIMENTS. Century I.
[7.] Century II.
[8.] Century III.
[9.] Century IV.
[10.] Century V.
[11.] Century VI.
[12.] Century VII.
[13.] Century VIII.
[14.] Century IX.
[15.] Century X.
[16.] THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban. BY WILLIAM RAWLEY. D D. His Lordſhips firſt and laſt Chaplain, and of late his Majeſties Chaplain in Ordinary.
[17.] LONDON, Printed by S. G. & E. G. for William Lee, and are to be ſold at the ſign of the Turks-Head in Fleet ſtreet, over againſt Fetter-Lane, 1670.
[18.] THE LIFE OF THE Right Honourable FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban.
[19.] Et quod tentabam ſcribere, Verſus erat,
[20.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century I.
[21.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century II.
[22.] NATURAL HISTORY Century III.
[23.] Conſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
[24.] Diſſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
[25.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century IV.
[26.] NATURAL HISTORY Century V.
[27.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century VI.
[28.] --Teneriſque meos incidere Amores Arboribus, creſcent illæ, creſcetis Amores.
[29.] Grandia ſæpe quibus mandavimus Hordea Sulcis, Infœlix Lolium, & ſteriles dominatur Avenæ.
[30.] NATURAL HISTORY Century VII.
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            in the Frame thereof; </s>
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            which it was committed to the Preis; </s>
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            tures, do lick their young ones, till they bring them, to their
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            ſtrength of Limbs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s282" xml:space="preserve">In the Compoſing of his Books, he did rather drive at a
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            Maſculine and clear Expreſsion, than at any Fineneſs, or Af-
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            fectation of Phraſes, and would often ask, if the Meaning
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            were expreſſea plainly enough: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s283" xml:space="preserve">as being one that accounted
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            words to be but ſubſervent, or Miniſterial, to Matter; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s284" xml:space="preserve">and
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            not the principal. </s>
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            cauſe he could do no other wiſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s286" xml:space="preserve">Neither was be given, to any
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            Light Conceits; </s>
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            ever, purpoſely, and induſtriouſly, avoid them; </s>
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            ſuch Things, to be but Digreſsions, or Diverſions, from the
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s292" xml:space="preserve">He was no Plodder upon Books; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s293" xml:space="preserve">Though he read much, and
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            that with great Judgement and Rejection of Impertinences,
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            incident to many Authors; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s294" xml:space="preserve">For he would ever interlace a
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            Moderate Relaxation of His Minde with his Studies;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s295" xml:space="preserve">As Walking, Or Taking the Air abroad in his Coach; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s296" xml:space="preserve">or
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            ſome other hefitting Recreation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s297" xml:space="preserve">and yet, he would looſe no
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            Time, In as much, as upon his Firſt, and Immediate Return,
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            he would fall to Reading again, and ſo ſuffer no Moment of
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            Time to Slip from him without ſome preſent Improve-
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            ment.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s299" xml:space="preserve">His Meales were Refections of the Eare as well as of
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            the Stomack: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s300" xml:space="preserve">Like the Noctes Atticæ; </s>
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            no Sophiſtarum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s302" xml:space="preserve">Wherein a Man might be refreſhed in his
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            Mind and underſtanding, no leſs then in his Body. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s303" xml:space="preserve">And
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            I have known ſome, of no mean Parts, that have profeſſed to
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            make uſe of their Note-Books, when they have riſen from
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            his Table. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s304" xml:space="preserve">In which Converſations, and otherwiſe, he
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            was no Daſhing Man, as ſome men are; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s305" xml:space="preserve">But ever a Coun-
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            tenancer, and Foſterer, of another Mans Parts. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s306" xml:space="preserve">Neither was
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            he one, that would appropriate the Speech, wholy to Himſelf;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s307" xml:space="preserve">or à
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            elight to out-vie others; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s308" xml:space="preserve">‘But leave a Liberty, to the
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            Co-Aſſeſſours, to take their Turns. </s>
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