The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author, Volumen2Parry & McMillan, 1859 |
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... trial hath been made of salt - water passed through earth , through ten vessels , one within another ; and yet it hath not lost its saltness , as to become potable : but the same man saith , that , by relation of another , salt - water ...
... trial hath been made of salt - water passed through earth , through ten vessels , one within another ; and yet it hath not lost its saltness , as to become potable : but the same man saith , that , by relation of another , salt - water ...
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... 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 ; and afterwards again , when they are sprouted . For if they ...
... 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 ; and afterwards again , when they are sprouted . For if they ...
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... Trial would be made of the like brew with potatoe roots , or burr roots , or the pith of arti- chokes , which are nourishing meats : it may be tried also with other flesh ; as pheasant , partridge , young pork , pig , venison ...
... Trial would be made of the like brew with potatoe roots , or burr roots , or the pith of arti- chokes , which are nourishing meats : it may be tried also with other flesh ; as pheasant , partridge , young pork , pig , venison ...
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... trials of it ; for we have no strong or intense cold here on the surface of the earth , so near the beams of the sun , and the heavens . The likeliest trial is by snow and ice ; for as snow and ice , especially being holpen and their ...
... trials of it ; for we have no strong or intense cold here on the surface of the earth , so near the beams of the sun , and the heavens . The likeliest trial is by snow and ice ; for as snow and ice , especially being holpen and their ...
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... trial in great quan- tities doth not answer the trial in small ; and so deceiveth many ; for that , I say , the greater body resisteth more any alteration of form , and requireth far greater strength in the active body that should ...
... trial in great quan- tities doth not answer the trial in small ; and so deceiveth many ; for that , I say , the greater body resisteth more any alteration of form , and requireth far greater strength in the active body that should ...
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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.