The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author, Volumen2Parry & McMillan, 1859 |
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... ground 79 ... Of rotten wood shining 52 Of acceleration of birth CENTURY VII . 53 Of acceleration of growth and stature .. 53 Of the affinities and differences between Of bodies sulphureous and mercurial 53 plants and bodies inanimate ...
... ground 79 ... Of rotten wood shining 52 Of acceleration of birth CENTURY VII . 53 Of acceleration of growth and stature .. 53 Of the affinities and differences between Of bodies sulphureous and mercurial 53 plants and bodies inanimate ...
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... ground ; with one end upon the high ground , the other upon the low . Cover the trough with brakes a good thickness , and cast sand upon the top of the brakes : you shall see , saith he , that after some showers are past , the lower end ...
... ground ; with one end upon the high ground , the other upon the low . Cover the trough with brakes a good thickness , and cast sand upon the top of the brakes : you shall see , saith he , that after some showers are past , the lower end ...
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... ground , will put forth sprouts for a time . But it is a noble trial , and of very great consequence , to try whether these things , in the sprouting , do increase weight ; which must be tried , by weighing them before they be hanged up ...
... ground , will put forth sprouts for a time . But it is a noble trial , and of very great consequence , to try whether these things , in the sprouting , do increase weight ; which must be tried , by weighing them before they be hanged up ...
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... ground is but a version or condensation of the moist vapours of the night , into a watery sub- stance : dews likewise , and rain , are but the re- turns of moist vapours condensed ; the dew , by the cold only of the sun's departure ...
... ground is but a version or condensation of the moist vapours of the night , into a watery sub- stance : dews likewise , and rain , are but the re- turns of moist vapours condensed ; the dew , by the cold only of the sun's departure ...
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... ground , water , houses , or the like . Water in a river , though a swift stream , is not heard in the channel , but runneth in silence , if it be of any depth ; but the very stream upon shallows , of gravel or pebble , will be heard ...
... ground , water , houses , or the like . Water in a river , though a swift stream , is not heard in the channel , but runneth in silence , if it be of any depth ; but the very stream upon shallows , of gravel or pebble , will be heard ...
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Página 412 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath...
Página 403 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking; his language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Página 441 - Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
Página 400 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Página 402 - And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable; that, when he died, told his sons that he had left unto them gold buried under ground in his vineyard; and they digged over all the ground, and gold they found none; but by reason of their stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the year following...
Página 406 - ... seat, acknowledging that, by the breach of all thy holy laws and commandments, we are become wild olive branches, strangers to thy covenant of grace; we have defaced in ourselves thy sacred image imprinted in us by creation ; we have sinned against heaven and before thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy children. O admit us into the place even of hired servants. Lord, thou hast formed us in our mothers...
Página 403 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 230 - To give every man his due, had it not been for Sir Edward Coke's Reports, which though they may have errors, and some peremptory and extrajudicial resolutions more than are warranted, yet they contain infinite good decisions and rulings over of cases, the law by this time had been almost like a ship without ballast ; for that the cases of modern experience are fled from those that are adjudged and ruled in former time.
Página 402 - But to leave all reverent and religious compassion towards evils, or indignation towards faults, and to turn religion into a comedy or satire ; to search and rip up wounds with a laughing countenance, to intermix scripture and scurrility sometimes in one sentence, is a thing far from the devout reverence of a Christian, and scant beseeming the honest regard of a sober man.
Página 126 - ... we have set it down as a law to ourselves, to examine things to the bottom ; and not to receive upon credit, or reject upon improbabilities, until there hath passed a due examination.