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

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            of old Walls, eſpecially tow ards the bottom, the Morter will become as
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            hard as the Brick: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1399" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that the Wood on the fides of Veſſels of
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            Wine, gathereth a cruſt of Tartar harder than the Wood it ſelf; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1400" xml:space="preserve">and Scales
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            likewiſe grow to the Teeth, harder than the Teeth themſelves.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1402" xml:space="preserve">Moſt of all, Induration by Aßimilation appeareth in the bodies of Trees,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0058-01" xlink:href="note-0058-01a" xml:space="preserve">90.</note>
            and Living Creatures: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1403" xml:space="preserve">For no nouriſh ment that the Tree receiveth, or that
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            the Living Creature receiveth, is ſo hard as Wood, Bone, or Horn, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1404" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1405" xml:space="preserve">but
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            is indurated after by Aſſimilation.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1407" xml:space="preserve">THe Eye of the Underſtanding, is like the Eye of the Senſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1408" xml:space="preserve">For as you
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0058-02" xlink:href="note-0058-02a" xml:space="preserve">91.</note>
            may ſee great objects through ſmall Cranies, or Levels; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1409" xml:space="preserve">ſo you may ſee
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0058-03" xlink:href="note-0058-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Verſion of Wa-
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              ter into Air.</note>
            great Axioms of Nature, through ſmall and contem ptible inſtances. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1410" xml:space="preserve">The
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            ſpeedy depredation of Air upon watry moiſture, and verſion of the ſame in-
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            to Air, appeareth in nothing more viſible than in the ſudden diſcharge, or
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            vaniſhing of a little Cloud of Breath, or Vapor, from Glaſs or the Blade of
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            a Sword, or any ſuch poliſhed Body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1411" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as doth not at all detain or im-
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            bibe the moiſture: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1412" xml:space="preserve">For the miſtineſs ſcattereth and breaketh up ſuddenly.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1413" xml:space="preserve">But the like Cloud, if it were oily or fatty, will not diſch arge; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1414" xml:space="preserve">not becauſe it
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            ſticketh faſter, but becauſe Air preyeth upon Water, and Flame, and Fire,
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            upon Oyl; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1415" xml:space="preserve">and therefore, to take out a ſpot of Greaſe, they uſe a Coal upon
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            brown Paper, becauſe fire worketh upon Greaſe or Oyl, as Air doth upon
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            Water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1416" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee Paper oiled, or Wood oiled, or the like, laſt long
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            moiſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1417" xml:space="preserve">but wet with Water, dry or putrifie ſooner. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1418" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that
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            Air meddleth little with the moiſture of oyl.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1420" xml:space="preserve">THere is an admirable demonſtration in the ſame trifling inſtance of the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0058-04" xlink:href="note-0058-04a" xml:space="preserve">92.</note>
            little Cloud upon Glaſs, or Gems, or Blades of Swords of the force of
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0058-05" xlink:href="note-0058-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Force of Vni-
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              on.</note>
            Union, even in the leaſt quantities, and weakeſt Bodies, how much it con-
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            duceth to preſervation of the preſent form, and the reſiſting of a new. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1421" xml:space="preserve">For
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            mark well the diſcharge of that Cloud, and you ſhall ſee it ever break up, firſt
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            in the skirts, and laſt in the midſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1422" xml:space="preserve">We ſee like wiſe, that much Water draw-
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            eth forth the Juyce of the Body infuſed, but little Water is imbibed by the
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            Body: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1423" xml:space="preserve">And this is a principal cauſe, why, in operation upon Bodies, for their
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            Verſion or Alteration, the tryal in great quantities doth not anſwer the tr
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            yal
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            in ſmall, and ſo deceiveth many; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1424" xml:space="preserve">for that (I ſay) the greater Body reſiſteth
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            more any alteration of Form, and requireth far greater ſtrength in the Active
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            Body that ſhould ſubdue it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1426" xml:space="preserve">WE have ſpoken before in the Fifth Inſtance, of the cauſe of Orient
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            Colours in Birds; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1427" xml:space="preserve">which is by the fineneſs of the Strainer, we will
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0058-07" xlink:href="note-0058-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Producing of
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              Feathers and
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              Hairs of di-
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              vers Colours.</note>
            now endeavor to reduce the ſame Axiom to a Work. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1428" xml:space="preserve">For this Writing
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            of our Sylva Sylvarum, is (to ſpeak properly) not Natural Hiſtory, but a
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            high kinde of Natural Magick. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1429" xml:space="preserve">For it is not a diſcription onely of Na-
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            ture, but a breaking of Nature, into great and ſtrange Works. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1430" xml:space="preserve">Try there-
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            fore the anointing over of Pigeons, or other Birds, when they are but in
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            their Down, or of Whelps, cutting their Hair as ſhort as may be, or of
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            ſome other Beaſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1431" xml:space="preserve">with ſome oyntment, that is not hurtful to the fleſh,
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            and that will harden and ſtick very cloſe, and ſee whether it will not alter
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            the colours of the Feathers, or Hair, It is received, that the pulling off
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            the firſt Feathers of Birds clean, will make the new come forth White: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1432" xml:space="preserve">And
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            it is certain, that White is a penurious colour, and where moiſture is ſcant.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1433" xml:space="preserve">So Blew Violets, and other Flowers, if they be ſtarved, turn pale and white.</s>
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