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

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            gar and Trivial, mean and ſordid, curious and fruitleß;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s29" xml:space="preserve">and therefore he wiſheth, that they would have perpetually be-
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            fore their eyes, what is now in doing; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s30" xml:space="preserve">and the difference between
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            this Natural Hiſtory, and others. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s31" xml:space="preserve">For thoſe Natural
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            Hiſtories which are extant, being gathered for delight
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            and uſe, are full of pleaſant Deſcriptions and Pictures; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s32" xml:space="preserve">and
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            affect and ſeek after Admiration, Rarities, and Secrets. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s33" xml:space="preserve">But
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            contrariwiſe, the ſcope, which his Lordſhip intendeth, is to write
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            ſuch a Natural Hiſtory, as may be fundamental to the
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            erecting and building of a true Philoſophy: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s34" xml:space="preserve">For the illumi-
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            nation of the Under ſtanding; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s35" xml:space="preserve">the extracting of Axioms,
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            and the producing of many noble Works and Effects. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s36" xml:space="preserve">For he
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            hopeth by this means, to acquit himſelf of that, for which he
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            taketh himſelf in a ſort bound; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s37" xml:space="preserve">and that is, the advancement
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            of Learning and Sciences. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s38" xml:space="preserve">For having, in this preſent Work,
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            collected the materials for the Building; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s39" xml:space="preserve">and in his Novum
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            Organum (of which his Lordſhip is yet to publiſh a Second
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            Part) ſet down the Inſtruments and Directions for the
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            VVork; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s40" xml:space="preserve">Men ſhall now be wanting to themſelves, if they
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            raiſe not knowledge to that perfection, whereof the Nature of
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            Mortal Men is capable. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s41" xml:space="preserve">And in this behalf, I have heard
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            his Lordſhip ſpeak complainingly, That his Lordſhip (who
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            thinketh, that he deſerveth to be an Architect in this Build-
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            ing) ſhould be forced to be a VVorkman, and a Laborer; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s42" xml:space="preserve">and
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            to dig the Clay, and burn the Brick; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s43" xml:space="preserve">and more then that,
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            (according to the hard condition of the Iſraelites, at the lat-
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            ter end) to gather the Straw and Stubble, over all the Fields,
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            to burn the Bricks withal. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s44" xml:space="preserve">For he knoweth, that except he do
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            it, nothing will be done; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s45" xml:space="preserve">Men are ſoſet to deſpiſe the means
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            of their own good. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s46" xml:space="preserve">And as for the baſeneß of many of the
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            Experiments, as long as they be Gods VVorks, they are
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            honorable enough: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s47" xml:space="preserve">And for the vulgarneß of them, true
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            Axioms muſt be drawn from plain experience, and not from
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            doubtful; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s48" xml:space="preserve">and his Lordſhips courſe is to make VVonders </s>
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