The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

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Brown and Taggard, 1862
 

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Page 148 - I have heard his lordship speak complainingly, that his lordship (who thinketh he deserveth to be an architect in this building) should be forced to be a workman and a labourer, and to dig the clay and burn the brick ; and more than that, (according to the hard condition of the Israelites at the latter end) to gather the straw and stubble over all the fields to burn the bricks withal. For he knowcth, that except he do it, nothing will be done : men are so set to despise the means of their own good.
Page 269 - Generally the straight line hath the cleanest and roundest sound, and the crooked, the more hoarse and jarring. 222. OF a sinuous pipe that may have some four flexions, trial would be made. Likewise of a pipe made like a cross, open in the midst.
Page 220 - Mustek which are Perfect, or Semiperfect, between the Unison and the Diapason, are the Fifth, which is the most Perfect ; the Third next; And the Sixth which is more harsh : And as the Ancients esteemed, and so doe my self and some Other yet, the Fourth which they call Diatesseron.
Page 391 - ... 515. It is reported also, that a citron grafted upon a quince will have small or no seeds ; and it is very probable that any sour fruit grafted upon a stock that beareth a sweeter fruit, may both make the fruit sweeter, and more void of the harsh matter of kernels or seeds. 516. It is reported, that not only the taking out of the...
Page 274 - ... of the teacher put in motion, should work with the spirits of the learner a predisposition to offer to imitate ; and so to perfect the imitation by degrees. But touching operations by transmissions of spirits, (which is one of the highest secrets in nature,) we shall speak in due place ; chiefly when we come to inquire of imagination.
Page 222 - Again, the falling from a discord to a concord, which maketh great sweetness in music, hath an agreement with the affections, which are reintegrated to the better after some dislikes ; it agreeth also with the taste, which is soon glutted with that which is sweet alone.
Page 206 - The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense ; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
Page 327 - A chameleon is a creature about the bigness of an ordinary lizard : his head unproportionably big: his eyes great: he moveth his head without the writhing of his neck, which is inflexible, as a hog doth : his back crooked ; his skin spotted with little tumours, less eminent nearer the belly ; his tail...

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