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

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              <pb o="61" file="0339" n="339" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
            Reparation, and Reparation proceedeth by the Appetites of things, and Appetite is
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            ſharpned by variety) it holdeth not rigorouſly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12026" xml:space="preserve">but it is ſo far forth to be received, that
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            this variety be rather an alternation or enterchange than a confuſion, and as it were con-
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            ſtant in inconſtancy.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head134" xml:space="preserve">Canon XV.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12028" xml:space="preserve">The Spirit in a Body of a ſolid compoſure is detained, though unwillingly.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12029" xml:space="preserve"/>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1652" type="section" level="1" n="101">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head135" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12030" xml:space="preserve">ALl things do abhor a Solution of their Continuity, but yet in proportion to their
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            Denſity or Rarity: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12031" xml:space="preserve">for the more rare the bodies be, the more do they ſuffer
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            themſelves to be thruſt into ſmall and narrow paſſages; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12032" xml:space="preserve">for water will go into a paſſage
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            which duſt will not go into, and air which water will not go into, nay, flame and
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            spirit which air will not go into. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12033" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding of this thing there are ſome
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            bounds: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12034" xml:space="preserve">for the spirit is not ſo much tranſported with the deſire of going forth, that
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            it will ſuffer it ſelf to be too much diſcontinued, or be driven into over-ſtreight pores
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            and paſſages; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12035" xml:space="preserve">and therefore if the ſpirit be encompaſſed with an hard body, or elſe
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            with an unctuous and tenæcious, (which is not eaſily divided) it is plainly bound, and,
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            as I may ſay, impriſoned, and layeth down the appetite of going out: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12036" xml:space="preserve">wherefore we
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            ſee that Metalls and Stones require a long time for their ſpirit to go forth, unleſs either
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            the ſpirit be excited by the fire, or the groſſer parts be diſſevered with corroding and
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            ſtrong waters. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12037" xml:space="preserve">The like reaſon is there of tenacious bodies, ſuch as are Gums, ſave onely
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            that they are melted by a more gentle heat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12038" xml:space="preserve">and therefore the juices of the body hard,
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            a cloſe and compact skin, and the like, (which are procured by the drineſs of the Aliment,
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            and by Exerciſe, and by the coldneſs of the air) are good for long life, becauſe they
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            detain the ſpirit in cloſe priſon that it goeth not forth.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1653" type="section" level="1" n="102">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head136" xml:space="preserve">Canon XVI.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12040" xml:space="preserve">In Oily and Fat things the Spirit is detained willingly, though they be not tenacious,</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1654" type="section" level="1" n="103">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head137" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12041" xml:space="preserve">THe ſpirit, if it be not irritated by the antipatby of the body encloſing it, nor fed by
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            the over-much likeneſs of that body, nor ſollicited nor invited by the external body,
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            it makes no great ſtir to get out: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12042" xml:space="preserve">all which are wanting to Oily bodies; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12043" xml:space="preserve">for they are
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            neither ſo preſſing upon the ſpirits as hard bodies, nor ſo near as watry bodies, neither
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            have they any good agreement with the air ambient.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head138" xml:space="preserve">Canon XVII.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12045" xml:space="preserve">THe ſpeedy flying forth of the Watry humor conſerves the Oily the longer in his
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            being.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1656" type="section" level="1" n="105">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head139" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12047" xml:space="preserve">WE ſaid before that the Watry humors, as being conſubſtantial to the Air, flie
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            forth ſooneſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12048" xml:space="preserve">the Oily later, as having ſmall agreement with the Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12049" xml:space="preserve">Now
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            whereas theſe two humors are in moſt bodies, it comes to paſs that the Watry doth in a
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            ſort betray the Oily, for thatiſſuing forth inſenſibly carrieth this together with it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12050" xml:space="preserve">There-
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            fore there is nothing more furthereth the conſervation of bodies than a gentle drying of
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            them, which cauſeth the watry humour to expire, and inviteth not the Oily; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12051" xml:space="preserve">for then
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            the Oily enjoyeth the proper nature. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12052" xml:space="preserve">And this tendeth not onely to the inhibiting of
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            Putrefaction, (though that alſo followeth) but to the conſervation of Greenneſs.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12053" xml:space="preserve">Hence it is, that gentle Frications and moderate Exerciſes, cauſing rather Perſpiration than
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            Sweating, conduce much to long life.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1657" type="section" level="1" n="106">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head140" xml:space="preserve">Canon XVIII.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12055" xml:space="preserve">Air excluded conferreth to Long life, if other inconveniences be avoided.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1658" type="section" level="1" n="107">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head141" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12057" xml:space="preserve">WE ſaid a little before, that the flying forth of the spirit is a redoubled action,
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            from the appetite of the ſpirit and of the air, and therefore if either of theſe be
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            taken out of the way, there is not a little gained. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12058" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding divers Inconve-
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            niences follow hereupon, which how they may be prevented we have ſhewed in the
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            ſecond of our Operations.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head142" xml:space="preserve">Canon XIX.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12060" xml:space="preserve">YOuthful spirits inſerted into an old Body might ſoon turn Nature’s courſe back
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            again.</s>
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