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501 1, XIII | the subtlety of nature. It commands assent therefore to the
502 Pre | of the understanding be commenced afresh, and the mind itself
503 1, LXXXII | the candle shows the way; commencing as it does with experience
504 1, XCIX | the incommensurable to the commensurable; from surds to rational
505 1, XLIII | Place, on account of the commerce and consort of men there.
506 1, L | submit to such extremely fine comminution, just as water refuses to
507 1, LXXVII | blunder or fault they may have committed. This sign, therefore, is
508 1, L | vessel quite closed for commixtures; in a vessel partly closed,
509 1, XCIX | necessity compelled to admit the commonest things into my history.
510 1, XIII | Even the heat of the hand communicates some heat to a ball of lead
511 1, XLVIII | The fourth, its power of communicating its virtue from stone to
512 1, XLVIII | it is a motion diffusive, communicative, transitive, and multiplicative,
513 1, XX | metals which, being of the compactest texture, do not readily
514 1, XXIV | quantity of matter and not on compactness of frame.~
515 1, XXXIII | attends, as an inseparable companion; or in which on the contrary
516 1, XC | have no advantage from the company of others. And if they can
517 1, XLVI | treating of, to wit, the comparative measures of motions — and
518 1, XLII | virtue more than any other; comparatively, that is, and in some degree.
519 1, XCIX | help of a rule or a pair of compasses can draw a straighter line
520 1, XL | quick has not hitherto been competently measured, and yet the investigation
521 1, XCVIII | while others, again, have compiled copious histories and descriptions
522 Pre | frequently and bitterly complaining of the difficulty of inquiry
523 1, XCVIII | something like an unjust complaint, seeing that Aristotle,
524 1, LXXV | more sober moods fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature,
525 1, XVIII | the most remote and most completely separate from the rays of
526 1, XCIX | modes of analysis; that the complex structure of the compound
527 1, XXXII | and to correct the ill complexion of the understanding itself,
528 1, XCIX | tables of discovery (which compose the fourth part of the Instauration),
529 Pre | everything, and the despair of comprehending anything; and though frequently
530 1, LVII | at once penetrating and comprehensive, and the inconveniences
531 1, XXXVI | is nothing to destroy or compress it. If the latter is found
532 1, XXXVI | the air admits smoke and compresses flame. For let no one dream
533 1, LXXXVI | they seem to embrace and comprise everything which can belong
534 1, XCIX | The glory of God is to conceal a thing; the glory of the
535 1, LXXXIII | increased by an opinion or conceit, which though of long standing
536 1, XI | and the air itself, which conceives the most powerful and glowing
537 1, XX | in itself, and thereupon conceiving an appetite for further
538 1, XII | equally well with water to concentrate the enclosed spirit, but
539 1, XXVI | brings the intellectual conception into contact with the sense (
540 1, XLV | lost by the compression and concluded that this was the extent
541 1, XCIX | now spoken. And this also concludes what I had to say touching
542 1, XLVIII | us, from the subduing and concocting power of the heavenly bodies,
543 1, XXX | radical errors in the first concoction of the mind are not to be
544 1, LXVI | of elements, and of their concourse for the formation of natural
545 1, XXXI | the like; or cemented of concreted juices, as brick, earthenware,
546 1, XLVIII | where the motion of gravity concurs with the blow.~Lastly, such
547 1, XCIX | do at greater things, I condemn all unseasonable and premature
548 1, LXXXVIII| And truly no art can be condemned if it be judge itself. Moreover,
549 1, XXXIII | and straying beyond the conditions of matter.~
550 1, XLVIII | own desires, but as may conduce to the well-being of the
551 1, XCIX | this is of use too, and conduces to the object we are seeking,
552 1, XCIX | blessings with them, and confer benefits without causing
553 1, XCIX | forms. And yet it must be confessed that this plan appears to
554 1, LXXV | most valid). I mean the confession of the very authorities
555 1, LXXVII | their progress, or from the confessions of their founders, or from
556 Pre | understanding, and had no confidence in the native and spontaneous
557 1, LXXV | the law on all things so confidently, do still in their more
558 1, LXXXVIII| something new, yet he will confine his aim and intention to
559 1, XLVIII | perhaps, though latent in the conflicts of motions, be apparent
560 1, XXVII | and hunting out physical conformities and similitudes is of very
561 1, XCIX | dispersed as to distract and confound the understanding, little
562 1, XLVIII | For some very carelessly confuse this motion with the two
563 1, LX | than a mark loosely and confusedly applied to denote a variety
564 1, LXXIII | they have devised rather confuses the experiments than aids
565 1, XCIX | since no other kind of confutation was open to me, differing
566 1, XLVIII | separates Heterogeneous and congregates Homogeneous parts"; a definition
567 1, LXVI | is in bodies a desire of congregating toward masses of kindred
568 1, XXXV | carried toward the masses or congregations of their likes; light bodies
569 1, XXXVI | liquids do) remains in a conical or rather tends to a globular
570 1, XCIX | aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before
571 1, XLV | devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not
572 1, XXVII | represent the resemblances and conjugations of things, not in lesser
573 1, XXXI | altogether contemn juggling and conjuring tricks. For some of them,
574 1, XXIII | viz., lest they lead us to connect the form too much with the
575 1, XLVIII | concerning the nature of heat. Consequently heat is excited far more
576 1, XXXV | corruption, equality to conservation only. There is also a fourth
577 1, XLIII | and pierce even, though considerably weakened, through the holes
578 1, LXXXII | it is to one who rightly considers the matter, that no mortal
579 1, XLVIII | preserving themselves in their consistencies (or, if the Schoolmen like,
580 1, L | stopping up of vessels by consolidation and lutum sapientiæ, as
581 1, LXXXIV | negligent one and scarcely consonant with the word itself. For
582 1, XXVIII | its easy combination with consonants, sometimes with two, sometimes
583 1, LXVI(1) | Conspissatio. — Ed.]
584 1, LXVI | repulsion, attenuation, conspissation,1 dilatation, astriction,
585 1, XCII | promise greater steadiness and constancy. Nay, and we must take state
586 1, XIII | It is said, however, of Constantius, and some others of a very
587 1, XXVI | of aid to the memory is constituted. And this species may with
588 1, XLVIII | being the predominancy which constitutes the peculiar species of
589 1, XLV | suffered, but only when constrained by great violence.~But the
590 1, XXXI | the method of creating and constructing such miracles of art is
591 1, LXIII | conclusion before; he did not consult experience, as he should
592 1, LXXIX | principally employed and consumed on moral philosophy, which
593 1, XIII | is much hotter and more consuming than flame of spirit of
594 1, XXXI | are the noblest and most consummate works in each art, exhibiting
595 1, L | rarefaction, and desiccation, and consumption; nothing hardly to condensation
596 1, XXXVII | by a succession of actual contacts the virtue passes from limit
597 1, XXXI | we must not altogether contemn juggling and conjuring tricks.
598 1, LVIII | minuteness of the objects contemplated. And generally let every
599 1, LXVI | bodies. Again, when man contemplates nature working freely, he
600 1, XXI | unequal, and quite unfit to contend with the obscurity of things.~
601 1, LXXXVIII| light, when men have been contented and delighted with such
602 1, LXXIII | and briers of dispute and contention.~
603 1, LXXXV | inspect their matter and contents, and his wonder will assuredly
604 Pre | exception to it?) yet the contest, however just and allowable,
605 1, XLV | those senses unless they be contiguous to the organs.~There are
606 1, XCII | conviction that new lands and continents might be discovered besides
607 1, LXXIV | as they are popular) are continually thriving and growing, as
608 1, XX | best seen in air, which continuously and manifestly dilates with
609 1, XL | much more by the rents, contractions, wrinklings, and shrivelings
610 1, LXXXIX | senses would now think of contradicting) maintained that the earth
611 Pre | think for the allaying of contradictions and heartburnings, that
612 1, XXXV | diminished; which thing chiefly contributes to the generation of bodies.
613 1, XCIX | pledges of truth than as contributing to the comforts of life.~
614 1, XL | attempted by the following contrivance. I took a glass phial, capable
615 1, XLVI | larger mass — I mean the contriving that of two motions one
616 1, XLVIII | conveniently managed or controlled. But those eddyings in fluids,
617 1, XCIX | until they are made to converge, can impart none of their
618 1, XLV | the rays from the object converging at a certain distance from
619 1, XLVIII | which is in some sort the converse of the last named motion.
620 1, XLVIII | this motion such bodies convert others which are related,
621 1, XL | computed how much had been converted into steam or air. Then,
622 1, XCIX | vehicles, or causes which convey the form in certain cases)
623 1, XXXVII | requisite for sustaining and conveying natural action than for
624 1, XCII | gave the reasons for his conviction that new lands and continents
625 1, XLVIII | Of this I am sufficiently convinced by the potency of the virtues
626 1, LXXXIX | church to those who on most convincing grounds (such as no one
627 1, L | extinguished or the air cooled. And therefore physicians,
628 Pre | either from the number and cooperation or from the excellency and
629 1, XXXVI | to the starry sphere, but Copernicus and his followers to the
630 1, XCIX | with the hand for a single copy only; or perhaps again for
631 1, XLV | cataract and push it into a corner, saw most distinctly the
632 1, XXXVII | which may be appended as a corollary or advantage not to be omitted
633 1, XCIV | hope that by dismissing or correcting these errors, a great change
634 1, XX | to the universe, and is correctly defined as merely the effect
635 1, LX | which nothing in reality corresponds), or they are names of things
636 1, XLII | the purpose, I mean, of corroborating the information which the
637 1, XX | in consequence of their corroding and pungent nature.~And
638 1, XL | also by the acridities and corrosions, and by the different colors,
639 1, XLVIII | For (to say nothing of corrosives and strong waters which
640 1, XCIX | these the final cause rather corrupts than advances the sciences,
641 1, XCIX | than the most splendid and costly, must be admitted into natural
642 1, XXXI | manufacture of wool and cotton, would he ever by such means
643 1, LXX | settled course, and taking counsel only from things as they
644 1, LXIII | procession. So that even on this count he is more guilty than his
645 1, XCVIII | nothing verified, nothing counted, weighed, or measured, is
646 1, XX | its way in one part and be counteracted in another, you will undoubtedly
647 1, XLVI | motion is over before the countermotion is begun, and thus at first
648 1, XCIX | determines the contemplative counterpart. We must therefore consider,
649 1, LXXXVIII| unite several in one, or couple them better with their use,
650 1, LXXXIX | the power of God," thus coupling and blending in an indissoluble
651 1, LXXXI | workman of acuter wit and covetous of honor applies himself
652 1, XCIX | dignity, though not less covetousness. But if a man endeavor to
653 1, XXXVI | spirit bursts out with a crackling noise before flame is caught;
654 1, XX | suddenly placed in the cold, cracks and breaks. In like manner
655 1, XXV | power, and as it were in its cradle and rudiments; striving
656 1, LXXXVI | has been increased by the craft and artifices of those who
657 1, XLVIII | it has stood a while, the cream rises to the top, while
658 1, XCIX | old opinion that tends to create a prejudice, but also a
659 1, XXXI | degree, because the method of creating and constructing such miracles
660 1, XCIX | discoveries are as it were new creations, and imitations of God's
661 1, XCIX | abstractions; the latter are the Creator's own stamp upon creation,
662 1, XXIX | be drawn from grave and credible history and trustworthy
663 1, XLI | upwards, and sometimes also creeping sideways if it there finds
664 1, LIX | of all — idols which have crept into the understanding through
665 1, L | forming, but the turning into Crocus Martis is immediate; and
666 1, XXXIX | glasses to be very uneven and crooked, the fact being that neither
667 1, XXXV | in the old story of the crow which, in a time of great
668 Pre | observation, or out of the crowd of authorities, or out of
669 1, XXXI | be the very* summits and crowning points of human industry,
670 1, XXIV | result is that they severally crush, depress, break, and enthrall
671 1, XI | thrown in becomes dry and crusted like toast.~25. Aromatic
672 Pre | of the art, would he not cry out that they were only
673 1, XXII | nature of color, prisms, crystals, which show colors not only
674 1, XCI | with the same persons to cultivate sciences and to reward them.
675 1, XCIX | most glad to see them used, cultivated, and honored. There is no
676 1, XCIV | road for discovering and cultivating sciences, and had yet been
677 1, LXV | with it a coarser and more cumbrous superstition; another in
678 1, L | experiment of an inverted cup placed on water with a candle
679 1, XLVIII | than others, fettering, curbing, arranging them; some carry
680 1, XXX | of the mind are not to be cured by the excellence of functions
681 1, XL | fast to contraction as to curl and roll themselves up.~
682 1, XCIX | business, to be, in short, like current coin, which passes among
683 1, XXXVI | half, when pressed into a curve between the finger and thumb,
684 1, XC | XC~Again, in the customs and institutions of schools,
685 1, XCIX | better hopes of the sciences.~CV~In establishing axioms,
686 1, XCIX | that our chief hope lies.~CVI~But in establishing axioms
687 1, XCIX | the dawn of a solid hope.~CVII~And here also should be
688 1, XCIX | progress will not be so good.~CVIII~So much then for the removing
689 1, XCIX | presented and anticipated.~CX~But we have also discoveries
690 1, XCIX | deduced and brought to light.~CXI~There is another ground
691 1, XCIX | much labor and expense.~CXII~Meantime, let no man be
692 1, XCIX | the work of a few years.~CXIII~Moreover, I think that men
693 1, XCIX | and another of another.~CXIV~Lastly, even if the breath
694 1, XCIX | trouble himself for this.~CXIX~There will be met with also
695 1, XCIX | sober-minded and wise man believe.~CXV~Concerning the grounds then
696 1, XCIX | principal, be fully known.~CXVI~First, then, I must request
697 1, XCIX | of the great undertaking.~CXVII~And as I do not seek to
698 1, XCIX | harvest in its due season.~CXVIII~There will be found, no
699 1, XCIX | concerning things which are.~CXX~And for things that are
700 1, XCIX | childish and effeminate.~CXXI~But there is another objection
701 1, XCIX | of nature nor govern it.~CXXII~It may be thought also a
702 1, XCIX | with their works and deeds.~CXXIII~I may say then of myself
703 1, XCIX | and I do not think alike.~CXXIV~Again, it will be thought,
704 1, XCIX | any magnitude of works.~CXXIX~It remains for me to say
705 1, XCIX | to the comforts of life.~CXXV~It may be thought again
706 1, XCIX | can properly bear. — J. S.~CXXVI~It will also be thought
707 1, XCIX | anything we need to know.~CXXVII~It may also be asked (in
708 1, XCIX | subject of the inquiry.~CXXVIII~On one point not even a
709 1, XCIX | reason and true religion.~CXXX~And now it is time for me
710 1, XI | baskets; insomuch that hay, if damp, when stacked, often catches
711 1, XXXIX | small stars wheeling as in a dance round the planet Jupiter,
712 1, XCIII | Nor should the prophecy of Daniel be forgotten touching the
713 1, XLVIII | content as they are nor daring to advance further. Such
714 1, XX | For instance, an arrow or dart turns as it goes forward,
715 1, XCIX | at last shall we see the dawn of a solid hope.~CVII~And
716 1, XCII | diligently what encouragement dawns upon us and from what quarter,
717 1, LXXXII | had much better wait for daylight, or light a candle, and
718 1, XIII | not that it is impeded and deadened by the grossness of the
719 1, XL | distance from the sense; or by deadening its effects by the interposition
720 1, XCII | especially as I am not a dealer in promises, and wish neither
721 1, LXXXV | there has been so great a dearth and barrenness of arts and
722 1, XCIX | inventions.~Lastly, if the debasement of arts and sciences to
723 1, XCIX | the whole human race his debtor, how much higher a thing
724 1, XCII | flourish, at another wither and decay, yet in such sort that when
725 1, XCII | the shortness of life, the deceitfulness of the senses, the weakness
726 1, XCIX | something which will not deceive him in the result nor fail
727 1, LXXVII | of consent also men are deceived, if the matter be looked
728 1, LXIX | sense both fails us and deceives us. But its shortcomings
729 1, XL | excepting only that grand deception of the senses, in that they
730 1, XXIII | affirmative, yet this is done more decidedly when it occurs in the same
731 1, LXVII | in those who are ready in deciding, and render sciences dogmatic
732 1, XXXVI | flowing on the other. Now this decision or rejection appears to
733 1, XXXIX | discerning the atom, which he had declared to be altogether invisible.
734 1, LXXIV | first founder, and then declining. Whereas in the mechanical
735 Pre | vast obelisk were (for the decoration of a triumph or some such
736 1, XCIX | tyrannies, and the like) they decreed no higher honors than heroic.
737 1, LXXV | not only despaired of but dedicated to despair.~
738 1, XCIX | of which I spoke, may be deduced and brought to light.~CXI~
739 1, XXXII | when I come to speak of deductions leading to Practice.~
740 1, XLVIII | is felt instantly, they deem perpetual and proper, all
741 Pre | due delay the depraved and deep-rooted habits of his mind; and
742 1, XXXIX | relieve the infirmity of a defective vision, and therefore give
743 1, XLIII | men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means
744 1, L | considerable time, being meanwhile defended from all external force.
745 1, LXIX | are as the strongholds and defenses of idols; and those we have
746 1, XLIX | commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar.
747 1, XL | present I am dealing with the deficiencies of the senses and their
748 1, XLVIII | this source have strangely defiled philosophy. But he is no
749 1, XCVI | which ought only to give definiteness to natural philosophy, not
750 1, XXIX | open the way to errors and deflections on all sides. Under this
751 1, LXIV | gives birth to dogmas more deformed and monstrous than the Sophistical
752 1, XCIX | native country, a vulgar and degenerate kind. The second is of those
753 1, LXXX | with strange indignity been degraded to the offices of a servant,
754 1, LXXXVIII| of human power, and to a deliberate and factitious despair,
755 1, LXXXV | discovery once more of the delicacies of the table, of distillations
756 1, LXXXVIII| have been contented and delighted with such trifling and puerile
757 1, LXXXVI | seek to advance in things delivered to them as long since perfect
758 1, XXXVI | XXXVI~One method of delivery alone remains to us which
759 1, XCIV | done all that your duty demanded, and yet your affairs were
760 1, XLIII | also I sometimes call them Democritean. They are those which remind
761 Pre | conjectures, but certain and demonstrable knowledge — I invite all
762 1, XLII | in general) has a cave or den of his own, which refracts
763 1, XXXVII | doctrine of those who have denied that certainty could be
764 1, XLVIII | This the Schoolmen have denoted by the name of natural motion
765 1, XXXVI | provided it be of sufficient denseness. Certainly, one cause of
766 1, L | round another is far the densest. Caverns, again, and subterraneous
767 1, XXXV | on at once to corrupt and deprave what he has rightly discovered.
768 1, XL | the expansion of the air depresses the water, the contraction
769 1, LXVII | they are, are not to be deprived of their authority, but
770 1, XXXV | division and drawn from the depths of philosophy, that natural
771 1, L | every machine is spoiled or deranged by the same. It causes the
772 1, XLVIII | the Peripatetics justly derided by Gilbert, who says it
773 1, VII | an exquisite subtlety and derivations from a few things already
774 1, XIX | now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and
775 1, XCIX | a level, but ascends and descends; first ascending to axioms,
776 1, XX | observable in distillations per descensorium, which men use for delicate
777 1, XLVIII | motions themselves. For in describing this royal motion I am not
778 1, XCIX | which come nearest to a description of the thing), is the work
779 1, XCVIII | compiled copious histories and descriptions of metals, plants, and fossils;
780 1, LXXXIII | the true way is not merely deserted, but shut out and stopped
781 1, XXXI | the singularities of art deserve to be noticed no less than
782 1, XXVII | the axioms of science is deserving of notice. Thus the rhetorical
783 1, LXX | not less unskillful in the design than small in the attempt.
784 1, XLVIII | thereby to point out and designate more clearly the instances
785 1, XXXVI | new, and are expressly and designedly sought for and applied,
786 Pre | while I may carry out my designs and at the same time reap
787 1, XLI | them. Yet if anyone were desirous of examining and studying
788 1, XXIX | these also we are not to desist from inquiry until the cause
789 1, XXVI | in this regard are of no despicable power, but have a certain
790 1, XCVII | more than take courage to despise vain apprehensions." And
791 Pre | for it that are not to be despised; but yet they have neither
792 1, LVI | down by the ancients, nor despising what is well introduced
793 1, XCIX | it. If there be any that despond, let them look at me, that
794 1, XL | emulate nature, but rather destroying by the use of violent heats
795 1, XVIII | observable alteration, reject a destructive nature, or the violent communication
796 1, XCIX | occurrence do not arrest and detain the thoughts of men, but
797 1, XLVIII | excites in iron the virtue of detaining iron by similarity of substance,
798 1, XVII | more than those laws and determinations of absolute actuality which
799 1, XXXVII | fingerpost, in that they determine nothing, but simply notify
800 1, LXXV | timid disposition might be deterred from further search, while
801 1, XXIX | of nature, wherein nature deviates and turns aside from her
802 1, XLV | singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates
803 1, XCIX | my Instauration which is devoted to pulling down, which part
804 1, LXXIX | supplied; and that this devotion to theology chiefly occupied
805 1, XLVIII | the birth is immediately devoured and absorbed. It manifests
806 1, XXXVI | reflected from the fringes of dewy clouds with a splendor not
807 1, XX | speaking) their actions are diametrically opposite. For heat gives
808 1, XXXV | as his way is), he very dictatorially assigns as the cause of
809 1, LXXVII | systems of older philosophers died away, while in the times
810 1, XLVIII | produced, the sound soon after dies away. For though sounds
811 1, L | of their distribution and digestion when they are mixed, and
812 1, LXXI | latter was more pompous and dignified, as composed of men who
813 1, LII | LII~So much then for the dignities or prerogatives of instances.
814 1, LXVI | attenuation, conspissation,1 dilatation, astriction, dissipation,
815 1, LXXI | were for the most part (as Dionysius not unaptly rallied Plato) "
816 1, L | impedes, repels, admits or directs its spontaneous motion.
817 1, XCIX | and surrounding objects or disagreeing, etc. In like manner we
818 1, LXXVI | philosophers such great disagreement, and such diversities in
819 1, LXXVI | although in these times disagreements and diversities of opinion
820 1, L | trial (they say) well nigh disappeared, the thing not being endurable
821 1, XXIII | or on the other hand of disappearing when it existed before.
822 1, XII | beginning of July, were disappointed in their expectation and
823 1, LI | tumid, and do my best to discard them.~
824 1, XXXIX | way was now discovered of discerning the atom, which he had declared
825 1, XXXIX | recently invented glasses which disclose the latent and invisible
826 1, XL | in practice, and one that discloses many things quite beyond
827 Pre | fixing errors rather than disclosing truth. There remains but
828 1, LXVII | pleasant disputations and discourses and roam as it were from
829 Pre | show a kind of method and discretion in their madness? Yet just
830 1, XLIV | seven instances I will now discuss separately, and with them
831 1, XCIX | extent for the purpose of discussing definitions and ideas. But
832 1, LXXIII | discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason
833 1, LIX | that the high and formal discussions of learned men end oftentimes
834 1, XCIX | investigation, as if it could not be disentangled. On the contrary, the nearer
835 1, XXIV | degree of power; as being disenthralled and freed from all impediments,
836 1, LXXXIV | And surely it would be disgraceful if, while the regions of
837 1, XXXV | substances come before us in disguise. For example, let the nature
838 1, LXXXVII | excess of vanity, and the disgust it has bred, have their
839 1, XL | set the phial on a chafing dish of hot coals. Presently
840 1, XXXIX | the works of nature but dishonor to the works of art. The
841 1, XCIX | inventions of the wit, when disjoined and separated from the evidence
842 1, LXVII | no way open to reach and dislodge them.~This excess is of
843 1, XCIX | raising of hope through the dismissal or rectification of the
844 1, LXI | untouched. For they are no wise disparaged — the question between them
845 1, LXXXIX | matter, but all the while disparaging things divine by mingling
846 1, XXXV | differences to genera, and in dispelling phantoms and false images
847 1, XCIX | primary axioms which entirely dispels darkness and subtlety.~VIII~
848 Pre | both) two streams and two dispensations of knowledge, and in like
849 1, L | ascending to the head, disperse in all directions the spirits
850 1, XLVIII | the conflict is that they displace and eject each other in
851 1, XXIV | like bodies are so far from displaying the progress of expansion
852 1, XC | authors, from whom if any man dissent he is straightway arraigned
853 1, XXXVII | detect false forms and to dissipate slight theories suggested
854 1, LXVI | dilatation, astriction, dissipation, maturation, and the like;
855 1, XLVIII | excellent rule for opening and dissolving bodies. For (to say nothing
856 1, XVIII | other hot body, reject the distinctive or more subtle texture of
857 1, XLIII | and that too with such distinctness and velocity; that light
858 1, LIV | of a general character, distort and color them in obedience
859 1, XXXII | at length perverted and distorted, by daily and habitual impression.~
860 1, LX | words certain degrees of distortion and error. One of the least
861 1, XLI | receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature
862 1, LXX | full of hope, sometimes are distracted; and always find that there
863 1, X | diffuse that it confounds and distracts the understanding, unless
864 1, XLVIII | to free themselves or to distribute the pressure more equally.
865 1, XCII | counsels, whose rule is to distrust, and to take the less favorable
866 1, XCII | matters to be altogether distrustful, considering with themselves
867 1, XCIX | invention, that it first distrusts and then despises itself:
868 1, L | heavenly bodies, cause much disturbance. Whatever therefore serves
869 1, XLVI | the meanwhile, and similar disturbances in the medium. And thus
870 1, LIII | which have most effect in disturbing the clearness of the understanding.~
871 1, L | that of a man, so that the diver, when his breath failed,
872 1, L | water on sunk ships whereby divers are enabled to remain a
873 1, XXVI | well how to define and to divide."~
874 1, LX | direction; and that which easily divides and scatters itself; and
875 1, LXXI | that judgment, or rather divination, which was given concerning
876 1, LXXXIX | the simpleness of certain divines, access to any philosophy,
877 1, LXXXVII | celestial influences; arts of divining things future, and bringing
878 1, LXXVII | in matters intellectual (divinity excepted, and politics where
879 1, XLVIII | arises touching the infinite divisibility of lines, from the same
880 1, XXXV | the heated pan with which doctors cover the heads of apoplectic
881 1, LXVII | But the New Academy made a dogma of it, and held it as a
882 1, LXVII | deciding, and render sciences dogmatic and magisterial; the other
883 1, LXXXV | spoken, when the rational and dogmatical sciences began, the discovery
884 1, LXXV | Acatalepsia as a tenet and doomed men to perpetual darkness.
885 1, XXXV | sooner than they do out of doors; so that the ripening of
886 1, XVIII | plainly shown, I sometimes double or multiply an exclusion.~
887 1, XLVI | finger are to appearance doubled or tripled, because a new
888 1, LXXXIX | thought of their hearts doubted and distrusted the strength
889 1, L | anxious and (so to speak) a doubting faith. There remains a consent
890 1, XVI | general species, as Man, Dog, Dove, and of the immediate perceptions
891 1, XIII | the hottest, especially doves, hawks, and sparrows.~12.
892 1, XI | Aromatic and hot herbs, as dracunculus, nasturtium vetus, etc.,
893 1, XLV | perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly
894 1, XCIX | fluctuations of individual things, drags down the mind to earth,
895 1, L | cone in receivers helps the draining off of the dregs of sugar.
896 1, XXXVI | compresses flame. For let no one dream that lighted flame is air,
897 1, LXXXVII | been wanting talkers and dreamers who, partly from credulity,
898 1, XCIX | have been laughed at as dreaming of a new kind of cobwebs.~
899 1, XCIX | discovered for the purposes of dress and furniture which far
900 1, XLV | with a hissing sound), now drew in water in sufficient quantities
901 1, XIII | set on fire or burn the driest wood or straw, or even tinder,
902 1, L | which) which is constantly dripping, so as to some extent to
903 1, XIII | advances while the wind is driving it on.~30. Flame does not
904 1, L | body, as when stones are dropped into water to collect the
905 1, L | purging of metals from their dross. The fourth is brought about
906 1, XXXV | which, in a time of great drought being half dead with thirst,
907 1, XII | they are often followed by droughts. Moreover bright beams and
908 1, XLVI | are they painted that were drowned after their vows?" And such
909 1, XVII | kinds of death: death by drowning, by hanging, by stabbing,
910 1, XLIII | the report of a cannon drowns the voice; a strong scent
911 1, XCIX | in the matter of sciences drunk a crude liquor like water,
912 1, XCIX | certain weight, malleable or ductile to a certain degree of extension;
913 1, XCIX | forms of yellow, weight, ductility, fixity, fluidity, solution,
914 1, L | snow and ice in deep pits dug for the purpose; by letting
915 1, XLVIII | is sufficiently weak and dull, being one which, except
916 1, XXXVI | the sun, falling on the duller kinds of flame, appear to
917 1, L | understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions
918 1, XLVIII | owing to the permanent and durable restraint of a dominant
919 1, XLVI | of degree in respect to duration.~First, then, we see that
920 1, XXXVI | shine through a hole on some dusky bluish flame. For indeed
921 1, XII | heat, insomuch that the Dutch who wintered in Nova Zembla
922 1, XCIV | you had done all that your duty demanded, and yet your affairs
923 1, XXXVI | of the fingerpost. I have dwelt on them at some length to
924 1, LXX | overhasty and unseasonable eagerness to practice; not only for
925 1, XVII | universe: as of the lion, eagle, rose, gold, and the like.
926 1, XXVII | the construction of the ear and places returning an
927 1, LXXIX | particle of time; for in early ages the Seven Wise Men,
928 1, LXX | experiments more seriously and earnestly and laboriously, still they
929 1, LXXXIX | to men's then uninitiated ears the natural causes for thunder
930 1, XII | therefore be made in an earthen jar wrapped round with many
931 1, XXXI | concreted juices, as brick, earthenware, glass, enamel, porcelain,
932 1, XCIX | same may be said of all earthly goods: of wit, courage,
933 1, XCIX | seen, except perhaps in an earthquake or in lightning, which as
934 1, LII | sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread," it is now by various
935 1, XII | dissolution but also a violent ebullition. It appears therefore that
936 1, XXVII | and places returning an echo. From which conformity,
937 1, XLIII | water, and are moreover echoed back, and that too with
938 1, LXXXII | tradition, or the whirl and eddy of argument, or the fluctuations
939 1, XLVIII | or controlled. But those eddyings in fluids, by which when
940 1, XLVIII | rude mass of stone or wood educes, by separation and rejection
941 1, LXXXII | or erratic, and from it educing axioms, and from established
942 1, XCIX | being merely childish and effeminate.~CXXI~But there is another
943 1, XXXV | would be a wonderful and efficacious sort of nothing, or mathematical
944 1, XVII | expanded and exalted to new efficients and new modes of operation,
945 1, LXXI | concerning the Greeks by the Egyptian priest — that "they were
946 1, LXXIII | not strange that among the Egyptians, who rewarded inventors
947 1, XXI | in their relation to man; eighthly, of Preparations for Investigation;
948 1, XLVI | renders this motion of ejaculation of rays therefrom (although
949 1, XL | limbs, assimilates, digests, ejects, organizes, and the like.
950 1, XL | purpose and so digests and elaborates and turns them into spirit;
951 1, XL | escape together. Now this elaboration and multiplication of the
952 1, XXXI | brought to light, not by small elaborations and extensions of arts,
953 1, XLVIII | in immediate contact. For electricity (of which Gilbert and others
954 1, LXII | stage are more compact and elegant, and more as one would wish
955 1, XXXV | excellent use in raising and elevating the understanding from specific
956 1, XXVI | premature). That reason which is elicited from facts by a just and
957 1, XII | Pollux, and by moderns St. Elmo's Fire, no sufficient investigation
958 1, XLVIII | and Mercury so that their elongations never exceed a certain distance;
959 1, XCIX | instances there sometimes emanates excellent light and information.
960 1, XCIX | nature-engendering nature, or source of emanation (for these are the terms
961 1, LXXXVIII| a man does but refine or embellish them, or unite several in
962 1, XL | weight. Now the discharge or emission of the spirit is made manifest
963 1, XII | with a heat that does not emit rays or light, as that of
964 1, XII | when violently agitated emits sparks, and this sparkling
965 1, XXVI | mind in a state of strong emotion; impression made on the
966 1, XCIX | as founders of cities and empires, legislators, saviors of
967 1, XCIX | from experiments (as an empiric), but from works and experiments
968 1, XII | extend the experiment both by employing the ashes and rusts of different
969 1, XL | attempting to imitate or emulate nature, but rather destroying
970 Pre | altered: party zeal and emulation are at an end, and I appear
971 1, XII | carefully enough ascertained to enable us to subjoin a negative
972 1, XCIX | of light are infinite in enabling us to walk, to ply our arts,
973 1, XXXI | brick, earthenware, glass, enamel, porcelain, etc., which
974 1, LXXXIV | kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in the sciences
975 1, LXXXIV | wonder therefore if those enchantments of antiquity and authority
976 1, XCIX | particulars, but let this rather encourage him to hope. For the particular
977 1, XCII | observe diligently what encouragement dawns upon us and from what
978 1, LXXXVIII| that in them they have been endeavoring after, if not accomplishing,
979 1, LXXXIX | into the shape of an art, ended in incorporating the contentious
980 | ending
981 1, XCIX | chambers. Yet no one can endow a given body with a new
982 1, XLVIII | and stuff it up at both ends with a piece of pulpy root
983 1, XLVIII | In like manner the magnet endues iron with a new disposition
984 1, L | disappeared, the thing not being endurable by human nature. Also the
985 1, XXXVI | parts of the body itself not enduring the impression, but pushing
986 1, XXXIII | from companionship as an enemy and foe. For from such instances
987 Pre | follow up their object and engage with nature, thinking (it
988 1, XXVII | often be recommended and enjoined that men's diligence in
989 1, XLVIII | favorably placed for it enjoy their own nature, and follow
990 1, LII | improvement in man's estate and an enlargement of his power over nature.
991 1, L | neither can instruments for enlarging or sharpening the senses
992 1, L | aversions, or friendships and enmities, of bodies (for I am almost
993 1, XLVI | the infusion is at last so enriched that although there have
994 1, XII | heat, as is seen in the enriching of soil.~To the 24th.~28.
995 1, XCII | neither to force nor to ensnare men's judgments, but to
996 1, LXV | sophistical kind of philosophy ensnares the understanding; but this
997 1, XXIX | scrutiny, that fidelity may be ensured. Now those things are to
998 1, XCIX | issue at all, but endless entanglement. For men hitherto have made
999 1, LXXXVII | all greatness of mind in enterprises of this kind.~
1000 1, LXXXIX | as a lawful marriage, and entertaining men's minds with a pleasing