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1001 1, XXIV | crush, depress, break, and enthrall one another, and thus the
1002 1, XLVIII | in countless ways they be enticed and challenged to motion,
1003 1, XXXI | and subdued) be noted and enumerated, especially such as are
1004 1, LXII | exposed also to contempt and envy — doubtless there would
1005 1, XCIX | of the computation of an ephemeris. And yet hitherto more has
1006 1, LXXI | Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Epicurus, Theophrastus, and their
1007 1, XI | the body where there is no epidermis, as the eye, tongue, or
1008 1, LXXIX | occupied that third portion or epoch of time among us Europeans
1009 1, XXXV | generation and corruption, equality to conservation only. There
1010 1, LXVIII | classes of Idols and their equipage; all of which must be renounced
1011 1, LXXXII | digested, not bungling or erratic, and from it educing axioms,
1012 1, LXXXI | not strange that men have erred as to the means.~
1013 1, L | itself is a thing infirm and erring; neither can instruments
1014 1, XII | thunder.~To the 4th.~10. Eructations and eruptions of flame are
1015 1, XXXVI | bursting into flame, by mere eruption and expansion almost equals
1016 1, XLVI | both alike. Indeed, in the establishment of any true axiom, the negative
1017 1, LII | an improvement in man's estate and an enlargement of his
1018 1, LXXVIII | thoughts — which truly I myself esteem as the result of some happy
1019 1, XLII | authority of those whom he esteems and admires; or to the differences
1020 1, XLV | in their certitude, or by estimate, or by comparison, as the
1021 1, L | the pure and intersidereal ether. Yet these two quaternions
1022 1, XCIX | the other sciences, logic, ethics, and politics, should be
1023 1, LXXII | beyond the hither side of Ethiopia, of Asia beyond the Ganges.
1024 1, XIII | such as is thrown up from Etna and many other mountains,
1025 1, XCIX | is not Acatalepsia, but Eucatalepsia; not denial of the capacity
1026 1, LXXIX | or epoch of time among us Europeans of the West, and the more
1027 1, XXXV | rotation (however slow and evanescent) from east to west, though
1028 1, L | increased, and steel does not evaporate. But if the experiment succeed
1029 1, XLVIII | as soon as the spirit has evaporated, or been choked by cold,
1030 1, L | quantities, that is, that nothing evaporates or flows away. For then
1031 1, XXXVI | rays of the sun in fine evenings reflected from the fringes
1032 | everyone
1033 1, LXXXII | solicits and as it were evokes his own spirit to give him
1034 1, XL | before. I also call them Evoking Instances. They are those
1035 1, XCIX | taken and distinguished with exactness, men would have been carried
1036 1, XII | spirit is irritated and exasperated by the water so as to cause
1037 1, XLV | is a certain limit never exceeded, and a limit which depends
1038 1, XLVI | light of heavenly bodies exceeds many times over in force
1039 1, LII | instances, wherein they excel common instances, is found
1040 1, L | like a lid preserves them excellently from the injury of the air.
1041 1, LXXVII | matters intellectual (divinity excepted, and politics where there
1042 1, XX | It is also shown in the excitement or increase of heat caused
1043 1, L | Whatever therefore serves to exclude them may justly be reckoned
1044 1, XX | heat, an instance which excludes heating from the form of
1045 1, LXXII | which were rather suburban excursions than distant journeys, were
1046 1, L | magnitude. Let this suffice to exemplify the polychrest instances.~
1047 1, XC | science. For the lectures and exercises there are so ordered that
1048 1, XLVI | slowness of the bodily mass in exerting its resistance.~This one
1049 1, L | sulphur, oil, and greasy exhalation, flame, and perhaps the
1050 1, XII | to be warm unless newly exhaled from the warm body.~To the
1051 1, L | plants are succulent and exhaust the ground, and thus one
1052 1, XV | after exclusion has been exhausted.~
1053 1, XLVI | The compressions also and expansions and eruptions of bodies
1054 1, XVIII | evidently moves locally and expansively and yet acquires no manifest
1055 1, XXXV | was said by Borgia of the expedition of the French into Italy,
1056 1, XCIX | think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time,
1057 1, XCIX | and axioms, which I call Experimenta lucifera, experiments of
1058 1, LXIX | having performed these expiations and purgings of the mind,
1059 1, XXXV | particular star has long been exploded, not only because the reason
1060 1, XCIX | violently expanding and exploding would hardly have entered
1061 1, XLVI | periods.~Moreover, in the explosion of several guns at once,
1062 1, XIII | and play in; except the explosive flame of gunpowder and the
1063 1, L | it seems may be found by exposing bodies on steeples in sharp
1064 1, XXI | more room be left for the exposition of the system.~I propose
1065 1, XLVIII | which Democritus, who in expounding his primary motions is to
1066 1, XXXVI | part they are new, and are expressly and designedly sought for
1067 1, XLVIII | the stomach a motion of expulsion; a rough and bitter taste
1068 1, XCIX | causes and axioms, be easily expunged and rejected. It is nevertheless
1069 1, XCIX | said above concerning the extending of the range of natural
1070 1, XXXVI | finally stopping and becoming extinct in the immovable — that
1071 1, XLIII | action does overpower and extinguish another action of the same
1072 1, XIII | is pressed down with an extinguisher, or with the foot, or any
1073 1, XLIII | as the light of the sun extinguishes that of a glowworm; the
1074 1, LXX | will do much to render the extirpation of idols from the understanding
1075 1, IX | while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human
1076 1, L | perfect themselves when the extraneous and adventitious are stopped.
1077 1, L | not easily submit to such extremely fine comminution, just as
1078 1, XX | which there generally arises exudation and always evaporation.~
1079 1, XLV | impatient of further pressure, exuded through the solid lead like
1080 1, XIII | speak, and which is very facile and delicate, may not be
1081 1, LVI | which is eternal. These factions therefore must be abjured,
1082 1, LXXXVIII| and to a deliberate and factitious despair, which not only
1083 1, LXXVIII | than of any excellence of faculty in me — a birth of Time
1084 1, L | applied to the nose in a fainting fit, causes the resolved
1085 1, XL | compound; whence strange fallacies have arisen. For it must
1086 1, XXXI | buried deep beneath a mass of falsehood and fable, yet they should
1087 1, XCIX | lurk at intervals certain falsities or errors in the particulars,
1088 1, XC | resting on authority, consent, fame and opinion, not on demonstration.
1089 1, XCVIII | certain rumors and vague fames or airs of experience, and
1090 1, XCIX | and honor, as men of no family devise for themselves by
1091 1, XCIX | then, the introduction of famous discoveries appears to hold
1092 1, LXV | understanding; but this kind, being fanciful and tumid and half poetical,
1093 1, XXXVI | flying and bursting out fans meanwhile the flame of the
1094 1, XV | and the like; but all are fantastical and ill defined.~
1095 1, LXIV | seriously to experiment and bid farewell to sophistical doctrines,
1096 1, XXXI | Instances of Power, or of the Fasces (to borrow a term from the
1097 1, XXXI | lies at the bottom, as in fascination, strengthening of the imagination,
1098 1, LXXIX | moral philosophy became more fashionable than ever, and diverted
1099 1, LXIII | philosophy by his logic: fashioning the world out of categories;
1100 1, XCIX | than enough of this, such fastidiousness being merely childish and
1101 1, XCIII | sciences, are destined by fate, that is, by Divine Providence,
1102 1, XCIII | author of good, and the Father of Lights. Now in divine
1103 1, LXXXIX | shown by some of the ancient fathers of the Christian church
1104 1, XIII | it.~6. Substances which fatten the soil, as dung of all
1105 1, XIII | heat, as is seen in the fattening of the land. In like manner
1106 1, LXIX | four parts, and has as many faults. In the first place, the
1107 1, LXXXIX | the sense, and therefore feared that the investigation of
1108 1, LXXXV | upon some error of his own; fearing either that he has not sufficiently
1109 1, LXXXIX | unlearned. But these two last fears seem to me to savor utterly
1110 1, XIII | motion and exercise, wine, feasting, venus, burning fevers,
1111 1, LXXXI | the great majority have no feeling, but are merely hireling
1112 1, LXXXVII | shadowy heroes are even feigned to have done; but they did
1113 1, XLVII | imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things
1114 1, XXXVII | as messmates and chamber fellows, namely: heat, brightness,
1115 1, XXVII | males and the matrix in females are conformable instances.
1116 1, XXII | call solitary instances, or ferine, to borrow a term from astronomers.~
1117 1, LXXVIII | hardly pick out six that were fertile in sciences or favorable
1118 1, LXX | things as they fall out, they fetch a wide circuit and meet
1119 1, XLVIII | be nothing to hinder or fetter it) the parts unite from
1120 1, XCIX | only that a man is more fettered and tied down in operation,
1121 1, XLVIII | are stronger than others, fettering, curbing, arranging them;
1122 1, XLI | animals by cutting out the fetus from the womb would be too
1123 1, L | herbs, whence the order of Feuillans (though the will in man
1124 1, XII | them out run the risk of fever and inflammation. It can
1125 1, XCIX | essence (which admits of no fewer differences than the spirit),
1126 1, LX | Element of Fire, and like fictions which owe their origin to
1127 1, XXIX | strictest scrutiny, that fidelity may be ensured. Now those
1128 1, L | come up except in ploughed fields, it should rather be said
1129 1, XXI | the nature of the Subject; fifthly, of Prerogative Natures
1130 1, L | underground for forty or fifty years, and transmitted to
1131 1, XV | schoolmen we have a mind to fight for what is false; though
1132 1, LI | or motion; for forms are figments of the human mind, unless
1133 1, XXVII | because the juices do not filter so finely through skin as
1134 1, XXVII | by the fine and delicate filtering. Hence, too, it is that
1135 1, XXVII | else than exudations and filterings of juices, the former from
1136 1, XCIX | things that are mean or even filthy — things which (as Pliny
1137 1, XCIX | thread of linen or of wool in fineness and at the same time in
1138 1, XXXVI | borrowing the term from the fingerposts which are set up where roads
1139 1, XXXV | impatience of man, are made to finish their work in shorter periods.
1140 1, XXVII | are contained within.~The fins of fish, again, and the
1141 1, XII | resinous than in warm; as the fir, pine, and others. The situations
1142 1, XIII | or tow, which is used in firing cannon. After this comes
1143 1, XIV | the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our
1144 1, LXXX | order that they may be the fitter to receive another afterwards.
1145 1, XCIX | the zeal of others, it is fitting that I put men in mind of
1146 Pre | again, has had the effect of fixing errors rather than disclosing
1147 1, XCIX | yellow, weight, ductility, fixity, fluidity, solution, and
1148 1, XLVI | application. Now we find that the flash of a gun is seen sooner
1149 1, L | was free from sourness or flatness, but tasted much finer,
1150 Pre | in passage. It does not flatter the understanding by conformity
1151 1, LXV | poetical, misleads it more by flattery. For there is in man an
1152 1, XXXIX | and outline of body in a flea, a fly, a worm, and also
1153 1, XCIX | his household, and his fleet, in the luster of his name
1154 1, XCIX | been most popular) they flew at once to the most general
1155 1, XX | heated in hot ashes become flexible.~But this kind of motion
1156 1, XLV | ice that break loose and float about the northern ocean
1157 1, LXXVII | and less solid material, floated on the waves of time and
1158 1, XCIX | and swept and leveled the floor of the mind, it remains
1159 1, L | other fruits in sand and flour. It is good too to spread
1160 Pre | the philosophy which now flourishes, or with any other philosophy
1161 Pre | or from uncertainty and fluctuation of mind, or even from a
1162 1, XII | too, at nighttime, the foam of the sea when violently
1163 1, XXXIII | companionship as an enemy and foe. For from such instances
1164 1, XLVIII | matter is clearly capable of folding and unfolding itself in
1165 1, XXVII | invent with great vanity and folly.~But to leave these. The
1166 1, XCIX | world. But I say that those foolish and apish images of worlds
1167 1, XIX | while it rests and finds footing in due stages and degrees
1168 1, LXXXIX | impiety. Nor was much more forbearance shown by some of the ancient
1169 1, XCIX | also be thought that by forbidding men to pronounce and to
1170 1, XLVI | negative instance is the more forcible of the two.~
1171 1, XLVIII | even in the absence of a foreign nature to stir up strife.
1172 1, XLVI | Lastly, this distinction of foremost and hindmost ought to be
1173 1, LXIV | not to be omitted; for I foresee that if ever men are roused
1174 1, L | lately tried, of engrafting forest trees (a practice hitherto
1175 1, XXXI | there is nothing which can forestall or anticipate accident (
1176 1, XXXVIII | trouble us, unless men being forewarned of the danger fortify themselves
1177 1, XXXVI | ensues. Meanwhile, they forget to notice that although
1178 1, XLVIII | no one suppose that I am forgetful of the point at issue, because
1179 1, XIX | well knowing and nowise forgetting how great a work I am about (
1180 1, LXIII | imposing name, and more forsooth as a realist than a nominalist,
1181 1, XXXVIII | forewarned of the danger fortify themselves as far as may
1182 Pre | reminded. First, it falls out fortunately as I think for the allaying
1183 | forty
1184 1, XIII | no stone, metal, sulphur, fossil, wood, water, or carcass
1185 1, XIII | sometimes betrays itself by foul and powerful odors.~8. The
1186 1, XLVIII | when placed near sinks and foul-smelling places because they refuse
1187 1, LXXIV | thriving most under their first founder, and then declining. Whereas
1188 1, XXI | Rectification of Induction; fourthly, of Varying the Investigation
1189 1, XCIX | of high numbers or minute fractions. For in dealing with numbers
1190 1, XLVIII | discontinuity to minute fragments. For in a mortar, after
1191 1, XCIX | poet well sang:~To man's frail race great Athens long ago~
1192 1, LXIII | done, for the purpose of framing his decisions and axioms,
1193 1, XCIX | among men by consent. Nay, I frankly declare that what I am introducing
1194 1, XCIX | truth in speculation and freedom in operation.~IV~Although
1195 1, XXXV | of the expedition of the French into Italy, that they came
1196 1, XII | exudations or in their pith when freshly exposed. In animals, however,
1197 1, L | consents and aversions, or friendships and enmities, of bodies (
1198 1, LXIII | or less spaces), by the frigid distinction of act and power;
1199 1, XI | Nec Boreæ penetrabile frigus adurit." 1~28. Other instances.~
1200 1, XXXVI | evenings reflected from the fringes of dewy clouds with a splendor
1201 1, XL | ants' eggs, worms, flies, frogs after rain, etc. There is
1202 1, XCIX | nature: she has a lock in front, but is bald behind.~Lastly,
1203 1, XCIX | from those which I call fructifera, experiments of fruit.~Now
1204 1, XCIX | certain and withal more fruitful than those now received (
1205 1, XLVIII | or the propagation or the fruition of their nature; or again,
1206 1, XLVI | the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though
1207 1, LXVI | aberrations of nature in the fulfillment of her work, or from the
1208 Pre | or even from a kind of fullness of learning, that they fell
1209 1, XXX | cured by the excellence of functions and subsequent remedies.~
1210 1, XXXVII | omitted that here is a proof furnished by merely human philosophy
1211 1, XCIX | the purposes of dress and furniture which far surpassed the
1212 1, XLVI | quick that carries the body furthest. Nor would it be possible
1213 1, XII | which are softer and more fusible. For gold leaf dissolved
1214 1, XXV | Again in metals, which in fusion are liquid but more tenacious,
1215 1, XCI | and extinguished by the gales of popular opinions. And
1216 1, XLVIII | connection in the light of a gam (whence the term), as though
1217 1, LXXII | Ethiopia, of Asia beyond the Ganges. Much less were they acquainted
1218 1, XX | also to some degree in some gangrenes and mortifications, which
1219 1, XCV | from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms
1220 1, XXVI | food that is seasoned with garlic, or with roses, or the like.
1221 1, XL | wraps and clothes as with a garment. Hence that three-fold source,
1222 1, XXXIX | Instances of the Door or Gate, this being the name I give
1223 1, LXXXVII | the exploits of Amadis of Gaul or Arthur of Britain. For
1224 1, XCIX | themselves by the good help of genealogies the nobility of a descent
1225 1, XCIX | a time from the highest generalizations, and those next to them —
1226 1, LXXXVII | true that those illustrious generals really did greater things
1227 1, X | interpretation of nature embrace two generic divisions: the one how to
1228 1, LXV | on the first chapter of Genesis, on the book of Job, and
1229 1, LXII | sciences among spirits and genii. So that this parent stock
1230 1, XXVII | in the male thrusts the genitals outward; whereas in the
1231 1, LXXX | studying in his cell, or some gentleman in his country house), but
1232 1, XCII | everything may be done with gentleness, I will proceed with my
1233 1, XXXIII | is not; as in heat, the gentlest and least burning flames;
1234 1, L | are used in the north of Germany as granaries. The sinking
1235 1, L | passions of the female in gestation. Lastly, in the wombs of
1236 1, XII | that a few years ago a girl's stomacher, on being slightly
1237 1, XII | head and locks of boys and girls, without at all burning
1238 1, XV | work. To God, truly, the Giver and Architect of Forms,
1239 1, XLVIII | itself spontaneously and gladly to the density of ice; and
1240 1, XXII | infinite. For the one just glances at experiment and particulars
1241 1, LXXX | profoundness, and merely glide along the surface and variety
1242 1, XCIII | Divine Providence; everything glides on smoothly and noiselessly,
1243 1, XLVI | being spun round look like globes, and a lighted torch, carried
1244 1, XXXVI | conical or rather tends to a globular form, now that there is
1245 1, XLII | and floating therein in globules and drops and are rather
1246 1, XI | conceives the most powerful and glowing heat if confined, as in
1247 1, XLVIII | roofs, in the tenacity of glutinous bodies, and the like. But
1248 1, XLVI | acknowledge the power of the gods — "Aye," asked he again, "
1249 1, XCIX | may be said of all earthly goods: of wit, courage, strength,
1250 1, XXXVI | moon, but brighter and more gorgeous; and yet there is no proof
1251 1, LXXI | the ancient rhetoricians, Gorgias, Protagoras, Hippias, Polus,
1252 1, XCVIII | trustworthy messengers, but by the gossip of the streets; such exactly
1253 1, LXII | and were it not that civil governments, especially monarchies,
1254 1, XCIX | three kinds and, as it were, grades of ambition in mankind.
1255 1, L | varieties of soil. Again, the grafting and inoculating of trees
1256 1, LXXXV | use among the Chinese) in grammar; or again in things mechanical,
1257 1, L | the north of Germany as granaries. The sinking of bodies in
1258 1, XLVIII | turned and shaken in the granary remains pure; all things,
1259 1, XL | sense, excepting only that grand deception of the senses,
1260 1, LXXXIV | it shows a feeble mind to grant so much to authors and yet
1261 1, LXXIII | if, in place of fruits of grape and olive, it bear thorns
1262 1, XCIX | already known, or loosely grasp at shadows and abstract
1263 1, XCIX | other subtlety, though it grasps and snatches at nature,
1264 1, XLVI | nevertheless remains in it a most grateful odor, as strong as the violet
1265 1, LXXXIX | nothing else but to seek to gratify God with a lie. Others fear
1266 1, XII | countries, as in Iceland and Greenland. In cold countries, too,
1267 1, LXXIX | religion was received and grew strong, by far the greater
1268 1, XL | in use. For they have but groped in the dark and gone by
1269 1, XVII | captivity by custom, by the gross appearance of things, and
1270 1, LXVI | motion presents the thing grossly and palpably to the sense
1271 1, XIII | impeded and deadened by the grossness of the body.~39. Next to
1272 1, XLVIII | interruption from heat, as in grottoes and caverns of some depth,
1273 1, XXVII | resemblances; resemblances grounded in nature, not accidental
1274 1, LXXVI | laid out, when the same groundwork of philosophy (the nature
1275 1, XXVI | collect together certain groups of instances (though not
1276 1, XCIX | rather adopt because it has grown into use and become familiar.~
1277 1, XLIII | learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by
1278 1, LII | like an honest and faithful guardian) I may hand over to men
1279 1, LII | bordering instances; or by guarding it against false forms and
1280 1, XV | result will be fancies and guesses and notions ill defined,
1281 Pre | take its own course, but guided at every step; and the business
1282 1, XIII | plant or part of plant (as gum or pitch) which is warm
1283 1, XXXII | distorted, by daily and habitual impression.~These instances
1284 1, LIV | upon them and become most habituated to them. But men of this
1285 1, XLV | largest capacity. And when the hammering had no more effect in making
1286 1, XLV | springs, in projectiles, hammerings, and numberless other motions.
1287 1, XCIX | art and nature are but a handful to the inventions of the
1288 1, LII | therein. It was necessary to handle them beforehand because
1289 1, LXXXIX | religion as her most faithful handmaid, since the one displays
1290 1, XXXV | distance from the earth, would hang like the earth itself and
1291 1, XXXV | of fruit, even while it hangs on the tree, may be brought
1292 1, XXIII | therefore inquire what has happened to the glass or water from
1293 1, LXXVIII | esteem as the result of some happy accident, rather than of
1294 1, L | that the tangible parts are hardened and, the volatile being
1295 1, XL | the heat and spirit, the hardening is the action of the tangible
1296 1, LXII | therein to the peril and harming of their fortunes — not
1297 1, XLVIII | with the finger, as in the harp, or with the quill, as in
1298 1, XCIX | blade, but wait for the harvest in its due season.~CXVIII~
1299 1, XCIX | gave the seed whence waving harvests grow,~And re-created all
1300 1, XCIX | the race. Nor do I make haste to mow down the moss or
1301 1, XL | by the heat of fire, they hasten so fast to contraction as
1302 1, LII | understanding, either by hastening the exclusion of the form,
1303 1, XXXV | Eggs also are sometimes hatched by the heat of fire, which
1304 1, XLI | way we should examine the hatching of eggs, in which we might
1305 1, LI | supreme, so do I forever hate all things vain and tumid,
1306 Pre | known — whether it were from hatred of the ancient sophists,
1307 1, XCIX | of the poor woman to the haughty prince who had rejected
1308 1, XIII | hottest, especially doves, hawks, and sparrows.~12. Let further
1309 1, XCIX | affairs of state, and a man of health not very strong (whereby
1310 Pre | recovery of a sound and healthy condition — namely, that
1311 1, LXIII | physics of Aristotle you hear hardly anything but the
1312 1, LXXII | of the New World, even by hearsay or any well-founded rumor;
1313 Pre | allaying of contradictions and heartburnings, that the honor and reverence
1314 1, LXXXIX | secret thought of their hearts doubted and distrusted the
1315 1, LXXIX | philosophy, which to the heathen was as theology to us. Moreover,
1316 1, XCII | judgment, we must take good heed that we be not led away
1317 1, L | years, and transmitted to heirs, as a kind of artificial
1318 Pre | The evidence of the sense, helped and guarded by a certain
1319 1, LXXXVIII| pellicles, curiously shaped into hemispheres, so that the solution of
1320 1, XII | of the mass of ice which hemmed her in by the beginning
1321 1, XXVII | amassing natural history be henceforward entirely changed and turned
1322 | herein
1323 1, LXXI | philosophical sects and heresies; so that their doctrines
1324 1, LXV | fantastic philosophy but also a heretical religion. Very meet it is
1325 1, LXXXVII | things than these shadowy heroes are even feigned to have
1326 1, XCIX | decreed no higher honors than heroic. And certainly if a man
1327 1, XCIX | off; what propels, what hinders; what predominates, what
1328 1, XLVI | distinction of foremost and hindmost ought to be observed in
1329 1, XXVII | nature. Again, upon this hint the understanding easily
1330 1, LXXXI | feeling, but are merely hireling and professorial; except
1331 1, XXVI | too, letters, characters, historical persons, and the like; although
1332 1, LXXII | nothing of Africa beyond the hither side of Ethiopia, of Asia
1333 1, XLVIII | from doing so by spittle, hog's lard, turpentine, and
1334 1, XLIII | little saffron tinges a whole hogshead of water; that a little
1335 1, XXXVII | separated and opposed. For the holders of that doctrine assert
1336 1, LXIII | among the Greeks. For the homoeomera of Anaxagoras; the Atoms
1337 1, LII | their rise either from the homogeneity of the substance of the
1338 1, L | spread bodies over with wax, honey, pitch, and like tenacious
1339 1, L | do I conceive that those honeydews, like manna, which are found
1340 1, XCIX | them used, cultivated, and honored. There is no reason why
1341 1, LXXV | others of a more ardent and hopeful spirit might be whetted
1342 1, XCIX | therefore much ground for hoping that there are still laid
1343 Pre | things, and like impatient horses champing at the bit, they
1344 1, XIII | disposition and preparation for hotness. After that I shall proceed
1345 1, XXVIII | kinds of touch; the scent of hounds among kinds of smell. So
1346 1, XLVI | borrowing the term from the hourglasses of the ancients, which contained
1347 1, XCIX | his works, his court, his household, and his fleet, in the luster
1348 1, XLVI | animals, especially in such huge creatures as the whale or
1349 1, XL | a degree of expansion a hundred times greater than it had
1350 1, LXXIII | philosophized about it, and hunted for and assigned causes;
1351 1, LXXXIII | long standing is vain and hurtful, namely, that the dignity
1352 1, XII | the Andes it pricks and hurts the eyes by its excessive
1353 1, LXII | phenomena of the heavens many hypotheses may be constructed, so likewise (
1354 1, XII | in warm countries, as in Iceland and Greenland. In cold countries,
1355 1, XXXVI | which two things we owe this idea of motion. For the first
1356 1, XII | confined herbs, or because the igneous spirit is irritated and
1357 1, LXXXIII | are laborious to search, ignoble to meditate, harsh to deliver,
1358 1, XCIX | errors, sluggishness, and ignorance which have prevailed; especially
1359 1, LXXI | talk of idle old men to ignorant youths." But the elder of
1360 1, L | Telesius has rashly and ignorantly enough attributed the shapes
1361 1, LX | exist, but yet confused and ill-defined, and hastily and irregularly
1362 1, LXIX | corrected. Secondly, notions are ill-drawn from the impressions of
1363 1, LXXXIII | meditate, harsh to deliver, illiberal to practice, infinite in
1364 1, LXXXVII | inciting the affections, of illuminating and exalting the intellectual
1365 1, XL | is latent in air when not illumined from without to the sense
1366 1, LII | everywhere sprinkled and illustrated with speculations and experiments
1367 1, XCIX | and there for proof and illustration; but thought it superfluous
1368 1, XLVIII | generally observed. We have illustrations of it when bubble dissolves
1369 1, LXXXVII | For it is true that those illustrious generals really did greater
1370 1, XLVIII | toward the middle — not to an imaginary center, but to union. By
1371 Pre | beset on all sides by vain imaginations. And therefore that art
1372 1, LXVI | composition or separation, and so imagines that something similar goes
1373 1, XLVIII | They are therefore glad to imbibe water or other moisture
1374 1, XCVII | notions which we at first imbibed.~Now if anyone of ripe age,
1375 1, LXXX | and likewise to wash and imbue youthful and unripe wits
1376 1, XCIX | of nature, and by man not imitable, would have been immediately
1377 1, L | being known, they may be imitated by art. Such we see in the
1378 1, XCIX | were new creations, and imitations of God's works, as the poet
1379 1, L | within its own limits) differ immensely in quantity of matter and
1380 1, XIII | surrounding air at the time of the immersion of the glass, and will draw
1381 1, XLIV | there are Idols which have immigrated into men's minds from the
1382 1, LXXXIX | superstition, and the blind and immoderate zeal of religion. For we
1383 1, XCIX | essential law) eternal and immutable, constitute Metaphysics;
1384 1, LXXXIII | dignity of the human mind is impaired by long and close intercourse
1385 1, LXXX | perceptions, the means of imparting to them fresh strength and
1386 1, LXXXII | altogether erroneous and impassable. And an astonishing thing
1387 1, XLIII | action does not disturb or impede another action of a different
1388 1, XX | a calendar glass without impediment or repulsion — that is to
1389 1, XLIII | I say) at once without impeding one another, just as if
1390 1, XXXVI | place on account of the impenetrability of matter, and not troubling
1391 1, LXXXIX | thereupon found guilty of impiety. Nor was much more forbearance
1392 1, XCIX | And as for the presumption implied in it, certainly if a man
1393 1, LXXXII | you grow more curious and importunate and busy, and question her
1394 1, LXXXVII | mentioned, because of those impostors who have attempted the like;
1395 1, LXXIII | and those trifling and imposture-like. Wherefore, as in religion
1396 1, LXXXIV | that they have been made impotent (like persons bewitched)
1397 1, XXVI | things which are chiefly imprinted when the mind is clear and
1398 1, XC | confined and as it were imprisoned in the writings of certain
1399 1, XCIX | And causes again are not improperly distributed into four kinds:
1400 1, XCIX | order and not by desultory impulses, they will discover far
1401 1, LIX | sciences sophistical and inactive. Now words, being commonly
1402 1, XCIX | liquidity, solidity, animation, inanimation, similarity, dissimilarity,
1403 1, XXXVI | quicksilver, which is not inaptly called mineral water. For
1404 1, XCIX | of false judgment as of inattention and oversight, it is no
1405 1, XXXI | to them, that it shall be incapable of dealing with any other,
1406 1, XLVIII | things rather by effects and incapacities than by inner causes) either
1407 1, LXXXIX | has by the simpleness and incautious zeal of certain persons
1408 1, XLIII | volume of air; that a little incense raises such a cloud of smoke;
1409 1, XCIX | merely to this first and inceptive attempt of mine, but to
1410 1, XXII | the different degrees of incidence, in the latter from the
1411 1, XII | perpendicular, for then the incident rays make acuter angles,
1412 1, XCIX | starting from the ordinary incidents of nature, extends its operation
1413 1, LXXV | spirit might be whetted and incited to go on farther. But not
1414 1, LXXXVII | senses; arts of binding and inciting the affections, of illuminating
1415 1, XX | has at the same time an inclination upward. And the struggle
1416 1, LXXXV | he will certainly be more inclined to admire the wealth of
1417 1, XCIX | workshop, and virtually includes and draws after it whole
1418 1, XXXI | discovery of forms capable of including them, so also is this done
1419 1, XCIX | special subjects and in an incomplete form I am in possession
1420 1, LXI | this case would be merely inconsistent with what I have already
1421 1, XCIX | thought it superfluous and inconvenient to publish their notes and
1422 1, XLII | images by analogy may not inconveniently be substituted.~But with
1423 1, XXXVI | charcoal, does no more than incorporate and combine the other two),
1424 1, LXXXIX | shape of an art, ended in incorporating the contentious and thorny
1425 1, XLII | in all of which cases no incorporation takes place. Now the representation
1426 1, L | ages. So too the sudden incorporations and mixtures precipitated
1427 1, XII | resembles heat in producing incrustation. In like manner therefore
1428 1, XCIX | by not succeeding we only incur the loss of a little human
1429 1, XLVII | must not stay here among indefinites, but proceed to inquire
1430 1, XLVI | sounder and better. Besides, independently of that delight and vanity
1431 1, LX | that which in itself is indeterminate and cannot solidize; and
1432 1, XCIX | barbarous districts of New India; he will feel it be great
1433 1, XXXVI | vast mass from the East Indian Ocean are driven together
1434 1, XCIX | after the way has been thus indicated) from men abounding in leisure,
1435 1, LXXX | sciences has with strange indignity been degraded to the offices
1436 1, XLVIII | property of heat, but only indirectly (for cold does the same,
1437 1, LXXII | a small portion, giving indiscriminately the name of Scythians to
1438 1, XLVIII | answers to the name, is yet indisputably a motion; and let us call
1439 1, L | oil, and the like), being induced by violence, can be made
1440 1, XX | senses are predisposed, induces a perception of cold as
1441 Pre | have been successful in inducing belief, so they have been
1442 1, X | and glosses in which men indulge are quite from the purpose,
1443 1, L | such as takes place in indurations by fire, in the repeated
1444 1, XCIX | in which the labors and industries of men (especially as regards
1445 1, XII | found to be very weak and ineffective in producing heat, insomuch
1446 1, XLIV | theory, but in practice inefficient. The four instances which
1447 1, XCIX | mine is so negligent and inexact? And what of the philosophy
1448 1, XLIX | the affections color and infect the understanding.~
1449 1, LXIX | induction is amiss which infers the principles of sciences
1450 1, L | sense by itself is a thing infirm and erring; neither can
1451 1, XII | run the risk of fever and inflammation. It can also be tried whether
1452 1, L | check their useless and inflammatory motions; whereby they contribute
1453 1, XCVIII | kind, or in certainty, to inform the understanding, or in
1454 1, XLVI | also without being well informed as to the sexhorary motion
1455 1, LXXIII | of philosophy. And Celsus ingenuously and wisely owns as much
1456 1, XCIX | though recent, is obscure and inglorious; namely, printing, gunpowder,
1457 1, XCIX | implies its absence, and inheres in nothing else. Lastly,
1458 1, LXV | living; which also makes the inhibition and repression of it the
1459 1, XLI | from the womb would be too inhuman, except when opportunities
1460 1, XLVIII | form of the element"; an injudicious name enough, since it is
1461 1, LXXXVII | because it has sometimes been injured and wronged by fables. Meanwhile
1462 1, LII | same time from his state of innocency and from his dominion over
1463 1, XC | turbulent person and an innovator. But surely there is a great
1464 1, L | Again, the grafting and inoculating of trees and plants, and
1465 1, XLVIII | questions seem to border on insanity, since these phenomena ought
1466 1, XXXIII | constantly attends, as an inseparable companion; or in which on
1467 1, XIV | tables, where I not only insert sometimes mere traditions
1468 1, XXVII | practice; but for getting insight into nature they are of
1469 1, XLVI | subtlety does this mischief insinuate itself into philosophy and
1470 1, XLV | Babylon does. Heat also insinuates itself at great distances,
1471 1, XXXVI | reduced to the necessity they insist on. For that expansion must
1472 1, XXXVI | earth being destitute, as he insists, of magnetic power), were
1473 1, L | parts, as astringent and inspissatory medicaments; while others
1474 1, XC | Again, in the customs and institutions of schools, academies, colleges,
1475 1, LII | logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that
1476 1, XCIX | confounds men rather than instructs them. But when it shall
1477 1, XCIX | even moderate sagacity and intelligence will everywhere observe
1478 1, XV | to the angels and higher intelligences, it belongs to have an affirmative
1479 1, XL | painstaking rather than intelligent, and (what is worst of all),
1480 1, XCIX | Vulcan to Minerva if we intend to bring to light the true
1481 1, LXVI | primary forms which nature intends to educe, and that the remaining
1482 1, L | hardly to condensation and inteneration except by mixtures and methods
1483 1, XX | the earth anything that is intensely cold. See Inst. 27. Tab. [
1484 1, XII | and chiefly during the intensest cold, but always accompanied
1485 1, XIII | the touch, and to their intensities and degrees.~1. In solid
1486 1, XLVIII | nevertheless seem always intent on recovering their state
1487 1, XLVI | images would oftentimes be intercepted and confused by clouds rising
1488 1, XLVIII | stop. But this inability interferes more mischievously in the
1489 1, XIII | pain.~10. When attacked by intermittent fevers, animals are at first
1490 1, XXXV | were then to sprinkle and intermix a little moisture; and if
1491 1, LXX | apple, but meanwhile they interrupt their course, and let the
1492 1, L | and perhaps the pure and intersidereal ether. Yet these two quaternions
1493 1, XLVIII | is, larger. But if there intervene intense and continued cold,
1494 1, XXII | has little to do with the intrinsic nature of a body, but simply
1495 1, XCIX | frankly declare that what I am introducing will be but little fitted
1496 1, LXXVII | which followed, when on the inundation of barbarians into the Roman
1497 1, XCIX | demonstration trained and inured to it. But then, and then
1498 1, XXVII | they describe and sometimes invent with great vanity and folly.~
1499 1, LXXIII | assigned causes; and not by an inverse process that philosophy
1500 1, LXX | For no one successfully investigates the nature of a thing in
1501 1, XXXVI | of the magnet of itself invests the iron with polarity to