Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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HISTORY.</
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in Conſort
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touching
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good Variety; </
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the yielding of the Cauſes of the Practick, very weak-
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and not much truth. </
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there may be an Harmony, which Sounds are ever equal: </
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Sounds of Stringed, and Wind-Inſtruments, the Ringing of Bells, &</
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Immuſical Sounds, which are everunequal: </
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ing, all Whiſperings, all Voices of Beaſts and Birds (except they be Sing-
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ing Birds;) </
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their Parts and Pores equal; </
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VVhiſtles, Organs, Stringed Inſtruments, &</
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gals Pipes of Regals, or Organs, and other Hydraulicks, which the Ancients
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that the String of the Bow, and the String of the Vial, are neither of them
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equal Bodies, and yet produce Tones; </
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