Part

1001         | through
1002      Cat|           if there be any), besides Thunder.~14. History of Air as a
1003      Cat|              History of Lightnings, Thunderbolts, Thunders, and Coruscations.~
1004      Cat|           Lightnings, Thunderbolts, Thunders, and Coruscations.~6. History
1005      Cat|           belonging.~99. History of Ticking and Feathers.~100. History
1006      Cat|            the making of Bricks and Tiles.~103. History of Pottery.~
1007      Cat|         Words; Motions of the Eyes, Tongue, Jaws, Hands, Fingers; of
1008      Aph|         mentioned withal whether he took it from report, oral or
1009      Aph|           like a kind of particular topics. In other words, I mean (
1010      Cat|             Marshes, Lakes, Rivers, Torrents, Springs, and every variety
1011      Cat|       History of Stones; as Marble, Touchstone, Flint, etc.~31. History
1012      Aph|          them) of air, viz., of the tracts which lie between the moon
1013      Aph|             of speech, similitudes, treasury of eloquence, and such like
1014      Cat|            History Medicinal of the Treatment and Remedies and Cures of
1015      Aph|          therefore is threefold. It treats of the "liberty" of nature,
1016      Cat|              34. History of Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Herbs; and of their
1017      Cat|         Earth and Sea; Earthquakes, Tremblings and Yawnings of the Earth,
1018      Aph|            found any star oblong or triangular, but that every star is
1019      Aph|           derived); thirdly, things trifling and childish (and no wonder,
1020      Aph|             sciences may be no more troubled with them.~Besides, it will
1021      Aph|             from that experiment be trustworthy or fallacious, and also
1022      Des|         that it may not be amiss to try if there be any others who
1023      Cat|             of the Blue Expanse, of Twilight, of Mock-Suns, Mock-Moons,
1024      Aph|             remaining; whence those twin bulbs. And it is manifest
1025      Aph|     difference there is between the two in point of mass and volume.
1026      Aph|            threefold, is in its use twofold. For it is used either for
1027      Aph|           Proteus, which betray the ultimate struggles and efforts of
1028      Aph|        treatise I do not wish to be undertaken now at first, but a little
1029      Des|           beneath the dignity of an undertaking like mine that I should
1030      Aph|            that nothing will remain unprovided whereby the sense can be
1031         | until
1032         | used
1033      Aph|            some things which may be usefully added to the natural history,
1034      Aph|           reader, no, nor even that utility which may be derived immediately
1035      Aph|           Therefore, it would be an utter mistake to suppose that
1036      Aph|         like emptinesses, let it be utterly dismissed. Also let all
1037      Aph|                                     V~Among the parts of history
1038      Aph|            whether the author was a vain-speaking and light person or sober
1039      Aph|              when the source of any vanity or credulity happens to
1040      Cat|            as well according to the variations of Regions as according
1041      Aph|         some poor-spirited person a vast work — let him turn to the
1042      Cat|         neither entirely Fossil nor Vegetable; as Salts, Amber, Ambergris,
1043      Cat|             35. Chemical History of Vegetables.~36. History of Fishes,
1044      Aph|           it takes off the mask and veil from natural objects, which
1045      Cat|           Silver; and of the Mines, Veins, Marcasites of the same;
1046      Aph|      intimate with nature, I cannot venture to rely very much on other
1047      Aph|          and if money obtained from Vespasian's tax smelt well, much more
1048      Aph|            appearance. Finally, the vexations of art are certainly as
1049      Aph|                                     VI~In this place also is to
1050      Aph|                                     VII~Another precept is that
1051      Aph|                                     VIII~With regard to the credit
1052      Aph|   insubordination of matter and the violence of impediments, or she is
1053      Cat|           partly Natural and partly Violent; as of Respiration, Cough,
1054      Aph|        remain any grains of natural virtue in these dregs, they may
1055      Cat|            of Vision, and of things Visible.~68. History of Painting,
1056      Cat|           Medicines.~67. History of Vision, and of things Visible.~
1057      Cat|            History of Glass and all vitreous substances, and of Glass-making.~
1058      Cat|              History of Fossils; as Vitriol, Sulphur, etc.~29. History
1059      Cat|              History of Conception, Vivification, Gestation in the Womb,
1060      Aph|            two in point of mass and volume. For we (who as faithful
1061      Aph|          which would otherwise fill volumes. Nor is this all. For in
1062      Cat|          Stool, etc.~50. History of Voluntary Motions; as of the Instruments
1063      Aph|           are commonly derived from vulgar sympathies and antipathies,
1064      Cat|          generally.~109. History of Wagons, Chariots, Litters, etc.~
1065      Des|        introduce it at once without waiting for that. For a history
1066      Des|      established; and then will men wake as from deep sleep, and
1067      Aph|            a pleasant recreation in wandering among them and looking at
1068      Aph|           only a kind of sports and wanton freaks of nature and come
1069      Cat|          119. History of the Art of War, and of the arts thereto
1070      Aph|             room as possible in the warehouse. And this is exactly what
1071      Aph|            upon which men should be warned to be sparing of their labor,
1072      Des|     intention; lest men for want of warning set to work the wrong way
1073      Cat|           the like.~114. History of Washing, Scouring, etc.~115. History
1074      Cat|             and Prodigious; also of Waterspouts (as they are called); and
1075      Cat|     Parchment, etc.~111. History of Wax.~112. History of Basket-making.~
1076      Aph|     extremes be proposed, as that a weak magnet will raise so many
1077      Aph|            binds the magnet, garlic weakens it, that amber attracts
1078      Aph|           the quantity is small and weakly supplied, because the texture
1079      Aph|            far as may be) numbered, weighed, measured, defined. For
1080      Aph|             and south, not east and west, except perhaps in the extreme
1081         | whence
1082      Cat|            Head, Hairs of the Body, Whitlows, Nails, and the like.~47.
1083         | why
1084      Des|        intellect has to work are so widely spread that one must employ
1085      Cat|         Coruscations.~6. History of Winds and Sudden Blasts and Undulations
1086      Cat|         Miller, etc.~83. History of Wine.~84. History of the Cellar
1087      Aph|            meat is sooner salted in winter than in summer is not only
1088      Aph|             which treatise I do not wish to be undertaken now at
1089      Des|          dogmas and figments of the wit and a true and active philosophy,
1090      Aph|          but it should be mentioned withal whether he took it from
1091      Aph|        solid and succulent, the old withered and spongy. And therefore
1092      Aph|           must needs have been many witnesses; and finally, whether the
1093      Des|             repeat: that if all the wits of all the ages had met
1094      Aph|           mother, accustomed to old wives' fables. The time will perhaps
1095      Cat|      Vivification, Gestation in the Womb, Birth, etc.~55. History
1096      Cat|      History of the manufactures of Wool, and the arts thereto belonging.~
1097      Cat|            39. History of Serpents, Worms, Flies, and other insects;
1098      Des|           to prescribe, no progress worthy of the human race could
1099      Aph|      hereafter take it upon them to write natural history should bear
1100      Des|             warning set to work the wrong way and guide themselves
1101      Aph|                                     X~And this will be enough
1102      Cat|         Earthquakes, Tremblings and Yawnings of the Earth, Islands newly
1103      Aph|            but the information they yield to the sciences is slight
1104      Cat|           of Age; Infancy, Boyhood, Youth, Old Age; of Length and