Book, Aphorism

 1      Pre         |              the understanding, very small would the matters have been
 2      Pre         |              the road — an office of small authority, and depending
 3        1, L      |           motion through exceedingly small spaces) is in like manner
 4        1, LXX    |        unskillful in the design than small in the attempt. For no one
 5        1, LXXII  |            the world they knew but a small portion, giving indiscriminately
 6        1, LXXVIII|            truly, shrink into a very small compass. For out of the
 7        1, LXXIX  |            no wonder if men made but small advance in that to which
 8        1, XCIX   |             generally decides on too small a number of facts, and on
 9        1, XCIX   |             value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound
10        1, XCIX   |         depends on things infinitely small, or at least too small to
11        1, XCIX   |    infinitely small, or at least too small to strike the sense, no
12        1, XCIX   |             after all, this is but a small part of the work of discovering
13        1, XII    | above-mentioned) on account of their small size. For in fishes, as
14        1, XIII   |         however, that the flame from small pieces of wood (such as
15        1, XIII   |               For a large fire and a small fire in the same room increase
16        1, XX     |            quivering and swelling in small portions, and again subsiding.~
17        1, XX     |           and acts on particles very small, the heat is not perceived.~
18        1, XXIII  |             the glass and water into small parts, and the introduction
19        1, XXIII  |           glass), do when mingled in small portions together exhibit
20        1, XXV    |            it has been observed that small wooden arrows without an
21        1, XXV    |     themselves most conspicuously in small and subtle portions of bodies;
22        1, XXXI   |             brought to light, not by small elaborations and extensions
23        1, XXXVI  |          Pacific, are separated by a small isthmus) whether the ebb
24        1, XXXVI  |             a lighted wax taper in a small metal stand; place the stand
25        1, XXXIX  |             is a group or cluster of small stars entirely separate
26        1, XXXIX  |              although with stars too small to be seen without these
27        1, XXXIX  |       instrument we can descry those small stars wheeling as in a dance
28        1, XL     |              about an ounce, using a small vessel that less heat might
29        1, XLV    |              distance, though a very small one; and of these only a
30        1, XLV    |         these powers act be great or small, it is certain that they
31        1, XLV    |             for the cataract, when a small silver needle was inserted
32        1, XLV    |             is not so violent at too small a distance as it is a little
33        1, XLV    |          subtle experiment. I took a small bell of metal, light and
34        1, XLV    |              had previously placed a small globe, on which the bell
35        1, XLV    |           then that if the globe was small enough in proportion to
36        1, XLV    |              took a glass egg with a small hole at one end of it, and,
37        1, XLVI   |        thrown into the air by a very small quantity of powder. The
38        1, XLVI   |         would it be possible for the small quantity of animal spirit
39        1, XLVI   |           speak presently) wherein a small mass of matter overcomes
40        1, XLVI   |         scented spirit in violets is small) put in fresh violets every
41        1, XLVII  |             of water corrupt slowly, small ones quickly. Wine and beer
42        1, XLVII  |           than impregnation; if in a small, impregnation rather than
43        1, XLVIII |             of matter, be it ever so small, to nothing, but it will
44        1, XLVIII |         earth. For heat and cold, in small quantities, kill one another.
45        1, XLVIII |             And under these heads no small portion of natural science
46        1, XLVIII |          more public good, except in small quantities — rules which
47        1, L      |     frequently and therefore save no small amount of labor and fresh
48        1, L      |           refuses to run out at very small chinks.~With regard to the
49        1, L      |            be employed. For it is no small gain if by the application
50        1, LI     |         efficient cause is scanty or small as compared with the work