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

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            ing, and that though they be expoſed to the open air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9256" xml:space="preserve">much more if they be buried
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            in the earth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9257" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding Stones gather a kind of Nitre, which is to them inſtead
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            of Ruſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9258" xml:space="preserve">Precious Stones and Cryſtals exceed Metalls in long laſting; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9259" xml:space="preserve">but then they
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            grow dimmer and leſs Orient, if they be very old.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9261" xml:space="preserve">It is obſerved, that Stones lying to wards the North do ſooner decay with age than
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            thoſe that lie to ward the South; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9262" xml:space="preserve">and that appears manifeſtly in Pyramids, and Churches,
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            and other ancient Buildings: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9263" xml:space="preserve">contrariwiſe, in Iron, that expoſed to the South, gathers
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            Ruſt ſooner, and that to the North later; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9264" xml:space="preserve">as may be ſeen in the Iron-bars of windows.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9265" xml:space="preserve">And no marvel, ſeeing in all putrefaction (as Ruſt is) Moiſture haſtens Diſſolutions; </s>
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            in all ſimple Arefaction, Drineſs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9268" xml:space="preserve">In Vegetables, (we ſpeak of ſuch as are fell’d, not growing) the Stocks or Bodies of
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            harder Trees, and the Timber made of them, laſt divers ages. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9269" xml:space="preserve">Butthen there is diffe-
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            rence in the be
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            dies of Trees: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9270" xml:space="preserve">ſome Trees are in a manner ſpongy, as the Elder, in which
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            the pith in the midſt is ſoft, and the outward part harder; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9271" xml:space="preserve">but in Timber-trees, as the
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            Oak, the inner part (which they call Heart of Oak) laſteth longer.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9273" xml:space="preserve">The Leaves, and Flowers, and Stalks of Plants are but of ſhort laſting, but diſſolve into
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            duſt, unleſs they putrefie: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9274" xml:space="preserve">the Roots are more durable.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9276" xml:space="preserve">The Bones of living Creatures laſt long, as we may ſee it of mens bones in Charnel-
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            houſes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9277" xml:space="preserve">Horns alſo laſt very long; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9278" xml:space="preserve">ſo do Teeth, as it is ſeen in Ivory, and the Sea-horſe
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            Teeth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9280" xml:space="preserve">Hides alſo and Skins endure very long, as is evident in old Parchment-books: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9281" xml:space="preserve">Paper
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            likewiſe will laſt many ages, though notſolong as Parchment.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9283" xml:space="preserve">Such things as have paſſed the Fire laſt long, as Glaſs and Bricks; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9284" xml:space="preserve">likewiſe Fleſh and
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            Fruits that have paſſed the Fire laſt longer than Raw: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9285" xml:space="preserve">and that not onely becauſe the
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            Baking in the Fire forbids putrefaction; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9286" xml:space="preserve">but alſo becauſe the watry humour being drawn
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            forth, the oily humour ſupports it ſelf the longer.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9288" xml:space="preserve">Water of all Liquors is ſooneſt drunk up by Air, contrariwiſe Oil lateſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9289" xml:space="preserve">which we
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            may ſee not onely in the Liquors themſelves, but in the Liquors mixt with other Bodies:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9290" xml:space="preserve">for Paper wet with water, and ſo getting ſome degree of tranſparency, will ſoon after
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            wax white, and loſe the tranſparency again, the watry vapour exhaling; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9291" xml:space="preserve">but oiled Paper
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            will keep the tranſparency long, the Oil not being apt to exhale: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9292" xml:space="preserve">And therefore they
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            that counterfeit mens hands, will lay the oiled paper upon the writing they mean to
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            counterfeit, and then aſſay to draw the lines.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9294" xml:space="preserve">Gums all of them laſt very long; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9295" xml:space="preserve">the like do wax and Honey.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9297" xml:space="preserve">But the equal or unequal uſe of things conduceth no leſs to long laſting or ſhort laſt-
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            ing, than the things themſelves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9298" xml:space="preserve">for Timber, and Stones, and other Bodies, ſtanding con-
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            tinually in the water, or continually in the air, laſt longer than if they were ſometimes
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            wet, ſometimes dry: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9299" xml:space="preserve">and ſo Stones continue longer, if they be laid towards the ſame
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            coaſt of Heaven in the Building that they lay in the Mine. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9300" xml:space="preserve">The ſameis of Plants re-
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            moved, if they be coaſted juſt as they were before.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head69" xml:space="preserve">Obſervations.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9302" xml:space="preserve">L Et this be laid for a Foundation, which is moſt ſure, That there is in every Tangible
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            body a Spirit, or body Pneumatical, encloſed and covered with the Tangible parts;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9303" xml:space="preserve">And that from this Spirit is the beginning of all Diſſolution and Conſumption, ſo as
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            the Antidote againſt them is the detaining of this Spirit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9305" xml:space="preserve">This Spirit is detained two ways: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9306" xml:space="preserve">either by a ſtreight Incloſure, as it were in a Pri-
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            ſon: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9307" xml:space="preserve">or by a kind of free and voluntary Detention. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9308" xml:space="preserve">Again, this voluntary ſtay is
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            perſwaded two ways: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9309" xml:space="preserve">either if the Spirit it ſelf be not to moveable or eager to depart;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9310" xml:space="preserve">or if the external Air importune it not too much to come forth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9311" xml:space="preserve">So then, two ſorts of
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            Subſtances are durable, Hard Subſtances, and Oily: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9312" xml:space="preserve">Hard Subſtance binds in the
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            Spirits cloſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9313" xml:space="preserve">Oily partly enticeth the Spirit to stay, partly is of that nature that it is
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            not importuned by Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9314" xml:space="preserve">for Air is conſubſtantial to Water, and Flame to Oil. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9315" xml:space="preserve">And
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            touching Nature Durable and not Durable in Bodies Inanimate, thus much.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head70" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9317" xml:space="preserve">HErbs of the colder ſort die yearly both in Root and Stalk; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9318" xml:space="preserve">as Lettice, Purſtane;
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            alſo VVheat and all kind of Corn: </s>
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