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1 Pre | helped and guarded by a certain process of correction, I 2 Pre | open and lay out a new and certain path for the mind to proceed 3 Pre | probable conjectures, but certain and demonstrable knowledge — 4 1, XVIII | altogether better and more certain.~ 5 1, XXII | at once by establishing certain abstract and useless generalities, 6 1, XXIII | That is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true 7 1, LIV | LIV~Men become attached to certain particular sciences and 8 1, LX | There are, however, in words certain degrees of distortion and 9 1, LXIV | seems probable and all but certain; to all men else incredible 10 1, LXVI | that there are in nature certain primary forms which nature 11 1, LXVII | nothing may remain that is not certain and decided; a practice 12 1, LXXIII | signs there is none more certain or more noble than that 13 1, LXXVI | demonstration is there anything certain or sound.~ 14 1, LXXXV | they are but subjects of a certain and definite kind wherein 15 1, LXXXVIII| littleness of spirit comes with a certain air of arrogance and superiority.~ 16 1, LXXXVIII| vogue embraces and cherishes certain tenets, the purpose of which ( 17 1, LXXXVIII| which form themselves into certain pellicles, curiously shaped 18 1, LXXXIX | that by the simpleness of certain divines, access to any philosophy, 19 1, LXXXIX | simpleness and incautious zeal of certain persons been drawn to take 20 1, XC | imprisoned in the writings of certain authors, from whom if any 21 1, XCII | when they have reached a certain point and condition they 22 1, XCVIII | confirmation of their philosophy certain rumors and vague fames or 23 1, XCIX | from those particulars by a certain method and rule, shall in 24 1, XCIX | this form of induction to a certain extent for the purpose of 25 1, XCIX | anyone had said that a certain instrument had been invented 26 1, XCIX | like, may seem to depend on certain properties of things themselves 27 1, XCIX | of ancient Greeks, and of certain moderns, as Telesius, Patricius, 28 1, XCIX | be far more true and more certain and withal more fruitful 29 1, XCIX | themselves that are not quite certain, or perhaps that are quite 30 1, XCIX | still lurk at intervals certain falsities or errors in the 31 1, XCIX | alike. Moreover, as from certain putrid substances — musk, 32 1, XCIX | off being king." For most certain it is that he who will not 33 1, XCIX | as whiteness or heat) in certain subjects only, his knowledge 34 1, XCIX | superinduce an effect on certain substances only (of those 35 1, XCIX | which convey the form in certain cases) he may arrive at 36 1, XCIX | shall not tie him down to certain means and particular modes 37 1, XCIX | direction will be that it be certain, free, and disposing or 38 1, XCIX | in color, heavy up to a certain weight, malleable or ductile 39 1, XCIX | malleable or ductile to a certain degree of extension; it 40 1, XCIX | turns into a liquid with a certain degree of fluidity; it is 41 1, XCIX | understand by it is not certain measures or signs or successive 42 1, XCIX | vague to the finite and certain; as in the case of the letters 43 1, XI | reverbatory furnaces.~11. Certain seasons that are fine and 44 1, XII | To the 3rd.~9. There are certain coruscations which give 45 1, XII | flame be which, according to certain grave and trustworthy histories 46 1, XII | round it. It is also most certain that about a horse, when 47 1, XII | friction. It is also most certain that all sugar, whether 48 1, XII | from animals; or from a certain fat and oiliness, which 49 1, XII | hard substance, only when certain minute particles are struck 50 1, XII | in animals, save with a certain sensation of heat.~To the 51 1, XIII | touch, but seem to have a certain potential heat only, or 52 1, XIII | their former heat. Hence certain distillations and resolutions 53 1, XIII | daily, the earth collects a certain hidden heat which consumes 54 1, XIII | putrefaction contains in itself certain elements of a slight heat, 55 1, XIV | history proved and instances certain, but am also frequently 56 1, XVII | opinions. For it is most certain that these things, however 57 1, XX | though both are true in certain cases), but that heat itself, 58 1, XXIV | forms are obscured. But certain subjects are found wherein 59 1, XXVI | which collect together certain groups of instances (though 60 1, XXVI | despicable power, but have a certain prerogative.~But great caution 61 1, XXVI | provided they be placed in a certain order), as animals, vegetables; 62 1, XXVI | the prenotion is clear and certain. In the first it must be 63 1, XXVII | simply point out and mark a certain agreement in bodies. But 64 1, XXVII | the like), it is yet most certain that all of them, as far 65 1, XXVII | middle term. In fine, a certain sagacity in investigating 66 1, XXXI | on the contrary this is certain: that the ways and means 67 1, XXXII | to be reserved until some certain nature be in question (as 68 1, XXXIII | such instances are formed certain and universal propositions, 69 1, XXXV | which acts always to a certain distance and no more), and 70 1, XXXV | instance on this subject certain and manifest. What seems 71 1, XXXV | this point I affirm nothing certain. Meanwhile in this and many 72 1, XXXV | history, when in place of certain instances I am sometimes 73 1, XXXV | correct one. Yet there are certain instances of actions performed 74 1, XXXVI | is this. If we find for certain that when there is a flood 75 1, XXXVI | rejection appears to be certain, if we take it for granted 76 1, XXXVI | different poles. And most certain it is, if one may but play 77 1, XXXVI | this action is confined to certain limits. So that if they 78 1, XXXVI | however may be set down as certain — that light on an even 79 1, XXXVI | case, it may be set down as certain that flame remains numerically 80 1, XXXVII | and sounds, and heat, and certain other things acting at a 81 1, XXXVII | action subsisting for a certain time and in a certain space 82 1, XXXVII | a certain time and in a certain space without a body, since 83 1, XXXVII | a body, can exist for a certain time and in a certain space 84 1, XXXVII | a certain time and in a certain space altogether without 85 1, XL | which is also sufficiently certain, viz., that this greater 86 1, XL | keener than man's; as of certain scents to the sense of a 87 1, XL | there is in the air itself a certain original light, though faint 88 1, XLII | doubtless useful, but is less certain, and should therefore be 89 1, XLII | bodies. There seems to be a certain affinity between bodies 90 1, XLII | not rather, for example, certain winds and exhalations or 91 1, XLV | being brought together; certain purgative medicines draw 92 1, XLV | distances. There are found also certain materials which catch fire 93 1, XLV | there appears to be always a certain corporeal discharge) act 94 1, XLV | be great or small, it is certain that they are all finite 95 1, XLV | things, so that there is a certain limit never exceeded, and 96 1, XLV | computed.~There are found also certain motions and virtues of a 97 1, XLV | the object converging at a certain distance from it. Moreover, 98 1, XLV | projectiles, too, it is certain that the impact is not so 99 1, XLV | compressed, it allows a certain compression of the air, 100 1, XLV | or dimension.~Now it is certain that the rarer bodies (such 101 1, XLVI | body and motion, but in certain periods.~Moreover, in the 102 1, XLVI | that there are required certain moments of time for its 103 1, XLVI | which has so astonished certain grave men that they preferred 104 1, XLVII | body. And first there are certain virtues which subsist only 105 1, XLVIII | phrase it); and after a certain degree of expansion cares 106 1, XLVIII | given body. For it is most certain that all bodies dread a 107 1, XLVIII | some less, but all to a certain extent. For while in hard 108 1, XLVIII | For in a mortar, after a certain amount of pulverization, 109 1, XLVIII | torpor of bodies, it is certain that there resides in tangible 110 1, XLVIII | in tangible substances a certain sluggishness, more or less, 111 1, XLVIII | elongations never exceed a certain distance; these motions 112 1, XLVIII | also. It is observed in certain forms of reaction; as in 113 1, XLVIII | mingle with stenches. It is certain that quicksilver, which 114 1, XLVIII | such trifles, it is most certain that the several parts, 115 1, XLVIII | leaven, yeast, curd, and certain poisons excite and invite 116 1, XLVIII | there are no doubt in nature certain things ultimate and without 117 1, XLVIII | caused in my opinion by a certain harmony and consent of the 118 1, XLVIII | remain. For it also moves on certain poles. And why, it might 119 1, XLVIII | especially in solids, a certain collocation and position 120 1, XLVIII | not prepared to say for certain whether or no there be a 121 1, XLVIII | itself in space, within certain limits, without the interposition 122 1, XLVIII | Leather stretches to a certain extent without breaking, 123 1, XLVIII | runs out at a crack of a certain size, so far does the motion 124 1, L | on natural bodies to be certain of his total quantities, 125 1, L | abundance in such a scarcity) in certain medicines which by their