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

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head182" xml:space="preserve">TO THE
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          READER</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12466" xml:space="preserve">THis Fable my Lord deviſed, to the
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            end that hemight exhibit therein
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            a Model or Deſcription of a College,
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            inſtituted for the Interpreting of
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            Nature, and the producing of
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            great and marvellous Works for the benefit of
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            Men, under the name of Solomons Houſe, or, The
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            College of the Six days Works. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12467" xml:space="preserve">And even ſo far his
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            Lordship hath proceeded as to finish that Part.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12468" xml:space="preserve">Certainly, the Model is more vaſt and high,
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            than can poſſibly be imitated in all things, not-
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            withſtanding moſt things therein are within
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            Mens power to effect. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12469" xml:space="preserve">His Lordship thought
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            alſo in this preſent Fable to have compoſed a
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            Frame of Laws, or of the beſt State or Mould
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            of a Commonwealth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12470" xml:space="preserve">but fore-ſeeing it would be a
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            long Work, his deſire of Collecting the Natural
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            Hiſtory diverted him, which he preferred many
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            degrees before it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12472" xml:space="preserve">This Work of the New Atlantis (as much as
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            concerneth the English Edition) his Lordship de-
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            ſigned for this place, in regard it hath ſo near
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            affinity (in one part of it) with the preceding
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            Natural Hiſtory.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12474" xml:space="preserve">W. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12475" xml:space="preserve">Rawley.</s>
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