Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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            culate ſounds of the voice of Man or Birds, will cnter into a ſmall crany,
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            inconfuſed.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2241" xml:space="preserve">The unequal agitation of the Winds, and the like, though they be ma-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0080-01" xlink:href="note-0080-01a" xml:space="preserve">193.</note>
            terial to the carriage of the Sounds, further or leſs way; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2242" xml:space="preserve">yet they do not
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            conſound the Articulation of them at all, within that diſtance that they can
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            be heard, thoughit may be, they make them to be heard leſs way, than in
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            a ſtill, as hath been partly touched.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2244" xml:space="preserve">Over-great diſtance confoundeth the Articulation of Sounds, as we
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0080-02" xlink:href="note-0080-02a" xml:space="preserve">194.</note>
            ſee, that you may hear the ſound of a Preachers voice, or the like, when
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            you cannot diſtinguiſh what he ſaith. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2245" xml:space="preserve">And one Articulate ſound will con-
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            found another, as when many ſpeak at once.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2247" xml:space="preserve">In the Experiment of ſpeaking under VVater, when the voice is re-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0080-03" xlink:href="note-0080-03a" xml:space="preserve">195.</note>
            duced to ſuch an extream exhility, yet the Articulate ſounds (which are the
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            words) are not confounded, as hath been ſaid.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2249" xml:space="preserve">I conceive that an extream ſmall, or an extream great ſound, can-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0080-04" xlink:href="note-0080-04a" xml:space="preserve">196.</note>
            not be Articulate, but that the Articulation requireth a mediocrity of
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            ſound: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2250" xml:space="preserve">For that the extream ſmall ſound confoundeth the Articulation
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            by contracting, and the great ſound by diſperſing; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2251" xml:space="preserve">and although
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            (as was formerly ſaid) a Sound Articulate, already created, will be con-
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            tracted into a ſmall crany; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2252" xml:space="preserve">yet the firſt Articulation requireth more di-
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            menſion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2254" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved, that in a Room, or in a Chappel, Vaulted
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0080-05" xlink:href="note-0080-05a" xml:space="preserve">197.</note>
            below, and Vaulted likewiſe in the Roof, a Preacher cannot be heard ſo
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            well, as in the like places not ſo Vaulted. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2255" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the ſub-
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            ſequent words come on, before the precedent words vaniſh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2256" xml:space="preserve">and there-
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            fore the Articulate Sounds are more confuſed, though the groſs of the Sound
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            be greater.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2258" xml:space="preserve">The motions of the Tongue, Lips, Throat, Palate, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2259" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2260" xml:space="preserve">which go to the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0080-06" xlink:href="note-0080-06a" xml:space="preserve">198.</note>
            making of the ſeveral Alphabetical Letters are worthy inquiry, and perti-
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            nent to the preſent Inquiſition of Sounds: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2261" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe they are ſubtil and
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            long to deſcribe, we will refer them over, and place them amongſt the
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            Experiments of Speech. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2262" xml:space="preserve">The Hebrews have been diligent in it, and have
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            aſſigned which Letters are Labial, which Dental, which Guttural, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2263" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2264" xml:space="preserve">As
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            for the Latins and Grecians, they have diſtinguiſhed between Semi-vowels
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            and Mutes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2265" xml:space="preserve">and in Mutes, between Mutæ Tenues, Mediæ and Aſpiratæ, not
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            amiſs, but yet not diligently cnough. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2266" xml:space="preserve">For the ſpecial ſtrokes and moti-
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            tions that create thoſe Sounds, they have little enquired; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2267" xml:space="preserve">as that the
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            Letters, B. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2268" xml:space="preserve">P. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2269" xml:space="preserve">F. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2270" xml:space="preserve">M. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2271" xml:space="preserve">are not expreſſed, but with the contracting, or ſhut-
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            ting of the Mouth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2272" xml:space="preserve">that the Letters N. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2273" xml:space="preserve">and B. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2274" xml:space="preserve">cannotbe pronounced, but
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            that the Letter N. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2275" xml:space="preserve">will turn into M. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2276" xml:space="preserve">as Hecatonba will be Hecatomba. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2277" xml:space="preserve">That
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            M. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2278" xml:space="preserve">and T. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2279" xml:space="preserve">cannot be pronounced together, but P. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2280" xml:space="preserve">will come between;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2281" xml:space="preserve">as Emtus, is pronounced Emptus, and a number of the like: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2282" xml:space="preserve">So that if
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            you enquire to the full, you will finde, that to the making of the whole
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            Alphabet, there will be fewer ſimple Motions required, than there are
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            Letters.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2284" xml:space="preserve">The Lungs are the moſt ſpongy part of the Body, and therefore ableſt
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            to contract and dilate it ſelf; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2285" xml:space="preserve">and where it contracteth it ſelf, it expcllcth
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            the Air, which thorow the Artire, Throat, and Mouth, maketh the Voice:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2286" xml:space="preserve">But yet Arciculation is notmade, but with the help of the Tongue, Pallate, and the
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            reft of thoſe they call Inſtruments of Voice.</s>
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