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

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          <pb o="60" file="0338" n="338" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1640" type="section" level="1" n="89">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head123" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11982" xml:space="preserve">THis Canon ſolveth the knot and difficulty in the Operation of Intenerating by the
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            Detention of the Spirit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11983" xml:space="preserve">for if the Spirit not flying forth waſteth all within, there
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            is nothing gotten to the Inteneration of the parts in their ſubſiſtence, but rather they are
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            diſſolved and corrupted. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11984" xml:space="preserve">Therefore together with the Detention the Spirits ought to
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            be cooled and reſtrained, that they may not be too active.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1641" type="section" level="1" n="90">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head124" xml:space="preserve">Canon X.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11986" xml:space="preserve">THe heat of the Spirit to keep the body freſh and green, ought to be Robuſt, not
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            Eager.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11987" xml:space="preserve"/>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1642" type="section" level="1" n="91">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head125" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11988" xml:space="preserve">ALſo this Canon pertaineth to the ſolving of the knot aforeſaid, but it is of a
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            much larger extent, for it ſetteth down of what temperament the heat in the
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            body ought to be for the obtaining of Long life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11989" xml:space="preserve">Now this is uſeful, whether the
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            spirits be detained, or whether they be not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11990" xml:space="preserve">For howſoever the heat of the spirits
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            muſt be ſuch, as it may rather turn it ſelf upon the hard parts than waſte the ſoft;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11991" xml:space="preserve">for the one Deſiccateth, the other Intenerateth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11992" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, the fame thing is available
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            to the well perfecting of Aſſimilation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11993" xml:space="preserve">for ſuch an heat doth excellently excite the fa-
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            culty of Aſſimilation, and withall doth excellently prepare the matter to be Aſſimi-
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            lated. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11994" xml:space="preserve">Now the properties of this kind of heat ought to be theſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11995" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, that it be
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            ſlow, and heat not ſuddenly: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11996" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, that it be not very intenſe, but moderate: </s>
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            Thirdly, that it be equal, not incompoſed, namely, intending and remitting it ſelf: </s>
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            Fourthly, that if this heat meet any thing to reſiſt it, it be not eaſily ſuffocated or lan-
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            guiſh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11999" xml:space="preserve">This Operation is exceeding ſubtil, but ſeeing it is one of the moſt uſeful, it is not
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            to be deſerted. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12000" xml:space="preserve">Now in thoſe Remedies which we propounded to inveſt the ſpirits with
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            a Robust heat, or that which we call Operative, not Predatory, we have in ſome ſort ſatiſ-
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            fied this matter.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1643" type="section" level="1" n="92">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head126" xml:space="preserve">Canon XI.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12002" xml:space="preserve">The Condenſing of the Spirits in their Subſtance is available to Long life.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12003" xml:space="preserve"/>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1644" type="section" level="1" n="93">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head127" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12004" xml:space="preserve">THis Canon is ſubordinate to the next precedent: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12005" xml:space="preserve">for the Spirit condenſed receiveth
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            all thoſe four properties of heat whereof we ſpeak; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12006" xml:space="preserve">but the ways of Condenſing
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            them are ſet down in the firſt of the Ten Operations.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1645" type="section" level="1" n="94">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head128" xml:space="preserve">Canon XII.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12008" xml:space="preserve">THe Spirit in great quantity haſtneth more to flying forth, and preyeth upon the body
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            more, than in ſmall quantity.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1646" type="section" level="1" n="95">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head129" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12010" xml:space="preserve">THis Canon is clear of it ſelf, ſeeing mere Quantity doth regularly increaſe virtue.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12011" xml:space="preserve">Andit is to be ſeen in flames, that the bigger they are, the ſtronger they break forth,
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            and the more ſpeedily they conſume. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12012" xml:space="preserve">And therefore over-great plenty or exuber ance
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            of the ſpirits is altogether hurtful to Long life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12013" xml:space="preserve">neither need one wiſh a greater ſtore
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            of ſpirits than what is ſufficient for the function of life, and the office of a good Re-
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            paration.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1647" type="section" level="1" n="96">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head130" xml:space="preserve">Canon XIII.</head>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12015" xml:space="preserve">THe Spirit equally diſperſed maketh leſs haſte to flie forth, and preyeth leſs upon the body,
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            than unequally placed.</s>
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          </p>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1648" type="section" level="1" n="97">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head131" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12017" xml:space="preserve">NOt onely abundance of ſpirits in reſpect of the whole is hurtful to the Duration
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            of things, but alſo the ſame abundance unevenly placed is in like manner hurtful;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12018" xml:space="preserve">and therefore the more the ſpirit is ſhred and inſerted by ſmall portions, the leſs it prey-
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            eth for Diſſolution ever beginneth at that part where the ſpirit is looſer. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12019" xml:space="preserve">And there-
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            fore both Exerciſe and Frications conduce much to long life, for Agitation doth fine-
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            lieſt diffuſe and commix things by ſmall portions.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1649" type="section" level="1" n="98">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head132" xml:space="preserve">Canon XIV.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12021" xml:space="preserve">THe inordinate and ſubſultory motion of the ſpirits doth more haſten to going forth, and
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            doth prey upon the body more, than the conſtant and equal.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1650" type="section" level="1" n="99">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head133" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12023" xml:space="preserve">IN Inanimates this Canon holds for certain; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12024" xml:space="preserve">for Inequality is the Mother of Diſſo-
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            lution: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12025" xml:space="preserve">but in Animates (becauſe not onely the Conſumption is conſidered, but </s>
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