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1502 1, XCIX | account of the pernicious and inveterate habit of dwelling on abstractions
1503 1, LXXV | most presumptuously and invidiously turning the weakness of
1504 1, XLVI | former conclusions may remain inviolate. And therefore it was a
1505 1, LI | wheel; or by excitation or invitation in another body, as in the
1506 1, XLVIII | cares not to return, unless invited thereto by the application
1507 1, XLVIII | and stealthily, simply inviting and disposing the excited
1508 1, XLVIII | they know about it, being involved in many errors with regard
1509 1, XLVIII | are the slower to putrefy inwardly.~Lastly, I must not omit
1510 1, XCIX | generalities ruined all.~2 Ipsissimæ res. I think this must have
1511 1, LXVII | Acatalepsia, at first in jest and irony, and in disdain of the older
1512 1, XXVIII | fixed law, so that all the irregularity or singularity shall be
1513 1, XII | enclosed spirit, but not to irritate it. We should also extend
1514 1, XII | excessive keenness, and also irritates the mouth of the stomach,
1515 1, XCIX | whether the new world be that island of Atlantis with which the
1516 1, L | of the Tercera or Canary Isles (I do not well remember
1517 1, XXVII | tracts there are similar isthmuses and similar promontories,
1518 1, XXXV | expedition of the French into Italy, that they came with chalk
1519 1, XCIX | word can properly bear. — J. S.~CXXVI~It will also be
1520 1, XLVIII | running out in perforated jars unless the mouth of the
1521 1, XCI | XCI~Nay, even if that jealousy were to cease, still it
1522 1, XLV | examples) when amber or jet attracts straws; bubbles
1523 1, LXV | Genesis, on the book of Job, and other parts of the
1524 Pre | knowledge — I invite all such to join themselves, as true sons
1525 1, XCIX | it his care to have them joined together in some body, whence
1526 1, XL | manifesting it to the sense but by joining to it or substituting for
1527 1, LXXII | excursions than distant journeys, were talked of as something
1528 1, XXXIX | perhaps have leaped for joy, thinking a way was now
1529 1, XLVI | without being burned, and jugglers by nimble and equable movements
1530 1, XXXI | must not altogether contemn juggling and conjuring tricks. For
1531 1, L | emitted and generated from a juice of the earth which the corn
1532 1, LXXXVII | between the exploits of Julius Caesar or Alexander the
1533 1, XII | her in by the beginning of July, were disappointed in their
1534 1, XCIX | however, be allowed to jump and fly from particulars
1535 1, L | together; above all, that the junctures of composite bodies and
1536 1, XLVIII | rotation to the earth. But a juster question perhaps arises
1537 1, XL | proportions. Thus one would be justified in asserting that in any
1538 1, XCIX | feel it be great enough to justify the saying that "man is
1539 1, XL | whose sense in some cases is keener than man's; as of certain
1540 1, XII | the eyes by its excessive keenness, and also irritates the
1541 1, X | induction, which is the very key of interpretation. But of
1542 1, XLVIII | cold, in small quantities, kill one another. But if they
1543 1, L | benignant medicaments, by their kindly and gently cooling fumes
1544 Pre | like manner two tribes or kindreds of students in philosophy —
1545 1, XIII | species, as in the lion, the kite, the man; for in common
1546 1, LXXXVI | this admiration of men for knowledges and arts — an admiration
1547 1, LXXXIII | especially as they are laborious to search, ignoble to meditate,
1548 1, XCIX | removed the scaffolding and ladders out of sight. And so no
1549 1, L | by the equable warmth of lamps and the like, burning uniformly,
1550 1, XCII | his conviction that new lands and continents might be
1551 1, XXXVI | to west, however weak and languid; if the same motion be found
1552 1, XLVIII | doing so by spittle, hog's lard, turpentine, and the like,
1553 1, XLV | sphere being the figure of largest capacity. And when the hammering
1554 1, LXI | great infelicity and of such lasting and general agreement in
1555 1, LXXXV | whether he ought rather to laugh over them or to weep. For
1556 1, XCIX | would no doubt have been laughed at as dreaming of a new
1557 1, LXXXVII | But with regard to these lavish promisers, this judgment
1558 1, XXXVI | fingerpost. Take a clock moved by leaden weights, and another moved
1559 1, XCV | from a closer and purer league between these two faculties,
1560 1, XIII | receiving vessel and its neck lean slightly against the mouth
1561 1, LXXI | failing of their nation, but leaned too much to the ambition
1562 1, LXIV | of the understanding to leap or fly to universals and
1563 1, XXXIX | one, he would perhaps have leaped for joy, thinking a way
1564 1, XCIX | weights, to keep it from leaping and flying. Now this has
1565 1, XXXVI | between the finger and thumb, leaps away. For it is obvious
1566 Pre | discourse — for the professor's lecture and for the business of
1567 1, XCIX | founders of cities and empires, legislators, saviors of their country
1568 1, XXIII | the process of exclusion legitimately conducted.~I must now give
1569 1, XXVII | the extremities of the legs and arms not reckoned. In
1570 1, XCIX | indicated) from men abounding in leisure, and from association of
1571 1, XLV | there are whole woods of lemon and orange and like odoriferous
1572 1, XXV | there be water to follow, lengthen themselves out into a very
1573 1, XXXVI | be, while cooling, laid lengthwise between north and south,
1574 1, LXXXVII | of true history should be lessened because it has sometimes
1575 1, L | violets, dried rose leaves, lettuce, and like benedict or benignant
1576 1, XCIX | have purged and swept and leveled the floor of the mind, it
1577 1, XXXII | accustomed, smooths and levels its surface for the reception
1578 1, XLVIII | increased, it is overcome. A lever of given strength will raise
1579 1, L | striving to recover and liberate itself. It would not be
1580 1, LXXXV | from the workshop to the library, and wonder at the immense
1581 1, L | over the surface like a lid preserves them excellently
1582 1, XXXVI | the other; or else by a lifting up of the waters from the
1583 1, XLVIII | motion of heaviness and lightness only, whereby some parts
1584 1, LIII | LIII~The Idols of the Cave take
1585 1, XLVII | experiment, and not from likelihood or conjecture.~Lastly, in
1586 | likely
1587 1, XXXV | or congregations of their likes; light bodies upward toward
1588 1, XXXVI | inhabitants of Panama and Lima (where the two oceans, the
1589 1, XCIX | intermediate axioms are really limitations.~The understanding must
1590 1, XXXVII | neither subsists in the limiting nor in the intermediate
1591 1, XCIX | form. For as yet we are but lingering in the outer courts of nature,
1592 1, LXXXVI | scattered sentences, not linked together by an artificial
1593 1, XCIX | motion of the tongue and lips and other instruments, and
1594 1, XII | try its power in producing liquefaction. Let trial also be made
1595 1, XCIX | softness, rarity, density, liquidity, solidity, animation, inanimation,
1596 1, XCIX | experience which I term literate, to the discovery of many
1597 1, LIV | LIV~Men become attached to certain
1598 1, LXXXIV | world in which the ancients lived, and which, though in respect
1599 1, XLVIII | meat lie eye, nose, brain, liver; in the moisture of the
1600 1, XCVII | But in the next age Titus Livius took a better and a deeper
1601 1, XXIX | religion, as the prodigies of Livy, and those not less which
1602 1, LIX | LIX~But the Idols of the Market
1603 1, LXXXVII | partly in imposture, have loaded mankind with promises, offering
1604 1, LIV | study and observation of the loadstone, proceeded at once to construct
1605 1, XLVIII | of liberty bodies dread, loathe, and shun a new dimension,
1606 1, XCIX | true of nature: she has a lock in front, but is bald behind.~
1607 1, XII | shining about the head and locks of boys and girls, without
1608 1, XXVI | rather excited in a body, lodge and remain there for a considerable
1609 1, XLVIII | well with the air which is lodged in their pores. They are
1610 1, XXXV | hands to mark out their lodgings, not with arms to force
1611 1, XCIX | is a thing worthier and loftier than all utility and magnitude
1612 1, XXVI | for the first time, dwell longest in the memory. Other instances
1613 1, XLVIII | active spirit which, as lord of the whole, orders and
1614 1, LII | creation. Both of these losses however can even in this
1615 1, XXIX | are a kind of suitors and lovers of fables. But whatever
1616 1, XIII | of a supply of air.~The lowered glass, before being inserted
1617 1, XCIX | which I call Experimenta lucifera, experiments of light, to
1618 1, XII | glowworm, or of the fly called Luciola, found to be warm to the
1619 1, XXXI | though in use trivial and ludicrous, yet in regard to the information
1620 1, XII | sparkling the Spaniards call Sea Lung. With regard to the heat
1621 1, XCIX | religious care, there still lurk at intervals certain falsities
1622 1, XCIX | household, and his fleet, in the luster of his name and the worship
1623 1, L | vessels by consolidation and lutum sapientiæ, as the chemists
1624 1, XCIX | purposes of wickedness, luxury, and the like, be made a
1625 1, LV | LV~There is one principal and
1626 1, LVI | LVI~There are found some minds
1627 1, LVII | LVII~Contemplations of nature
1628 1, LVIII | LVIII~Let such then be our provision
1629 1, LX | LX~The idols imposed by words
1630 1, LXI | LXI~But the Idols of the Theater
1631 1, LXII | LXII~Idols of the Theater, or
1632 1, LXIII | LXIII~The most conspicuous example
1633 1, LXIV | LXIV~But the Empirical school
1634 1, LXIX | LXIX~But vicious demonstrations
1635 1, LXV | LXV~But the corruption of philosophy
1636 1, LXVI | LXVI~So much, then, for the mischievous
1637 1, LXVII | LXVII~A caution must also be given
1638 1, LXVIII | LXVIII~So much concerning the several
1639 1, LXX | LXX~But the best demonstration
1640 1, LXXI | LXXI~The sciences which we possess
1641 1, LXXII | LXXII~Nor does the character of
1642 1, LXXIII | LXXIII~Of all signs there is none
1643 1, LXXIV | LXXIV~Signs also are to be drawn
1644 1, LXXIX | LXXIX~In the second place there
1645 1, LXXV | LXXV~There is still another sign
1646 1, LXXVI | LXXVI~Neither is this other sign
1647 1, LXXVII | LXXVII~And as for the general opinion
1648 1, LXXVIII | LXXVIII~I now come to the causes
1649 1, LXXX | LXXX~To this it may be added
1650 1, LXXXI | LXXXI~Again there is another great
1651 1, LXXXII | LXXXII~And as men have misplaced
1652 1, LXXXIII | LXXXIII~This evil, however, has
1653 1, LXXXIV | LXXXIV~Again, men have been kept
1654 1, LXXXIX | LXXXIX~Neither is it to be forgotten
1655 1, LXXXV | LXXXV~Nor is it only the admiration
1656 1, LXXXVI | LXXXVI~Further, this admiration
1657 1, LXXXVII | LXXXVII~Moreover, the ancient systems
1658 1, LXXXVIII| LXXXVIII~Far more, however, has knowledge
1659 1, L | most powerful effect, as in machines and projectiles, an effect
1660 Pre | and discretion in their madness? Yet just so it is that
1661 1, XXVII | stretching to the Straits of Magellan, in each of which tracts
1662 1, V | the alchemist, and the magician; but by all (as things now
1663 1, LXXXV | of the alchemists or the magicians, he will be in doubt perhaps
1664 1, LXVII | render sciences dogmatic and magisterial; the other in those who
1665 1, XCIX | or in lightning, which as magnalia or marvels of nature, and
1666 1, LXXXV | his mind upon them, and magnifies them to the most, and supplies
1667 1, XLVIII | foot, and the like, so, he maintains, does Archæus, the internal
1668 1, LXXXI | powers. But of this the great majority have no feeling, but are
1669 1, XXVII | greater force of heat in the male thrusts the genitals outward;
1670 1, XXVII | quills.~Again, the scrotum in males and the matrix in females
1671 1, XCIX | up to a certain weight, malleable or ductile to a certain
1672 Pre | that in that way they might manage it, would he not think them
1673 1, XCVIII | exactly is the system of management introduced into philosophy
1674 1, XL | this reduction or secondary manifestation is effected when objects
1675 1, XL | distance, there is no way of manifesting it to the sense but by joining
1676 1, XXVI | nature from its very roots is manifold and divided, and so reject
1677 1, LXXXV | whispers), or else that in his manipulations he has made some slip of
1678 1, L | that those honeydews, like manna, which are found on the
1679 1, XXXI | observation and thought on the manufacture of wool and cotton, would
1680 1, VII | very numerous in books and manufactures. But all this variety lies
1681 1, L | most delight; moreover what manurings, whether by dung of any
1682 1, LXXXIX | sense and faith as a lawful marriage, and entertaining men's
1683 1, XCIX | animate, be drawn up and marshaled; and the mind be set to
1684 1, L | the turning into Crocus Martis is immediate; and it is
1685 1, LXX | of the causes removes the marvel — which two things will
1686 1, XCIX | lightning, which as magnalia or marvels of nature, and by man not
1687 1, LXXXVI | the world so fashioned and masked as if they were complete
1688 1, XXXI | history of the great and masterly and most perfect works in
1689 1, XXXI | only which are esteemed the masterpieces and mysteries of any art,
1690 1, XI | and palate, being a little masticated, they feel hot and burning.~
1691 1, XVI | Cold, Black, White, do not materially mislead us; yet even these
1692 1, V | in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist,
1693 1, LIX | the use and wisdom of the mathematicians) it would be more prudent
1694 1, XXVII | scrotum in males and the matrix in females are conformable
1695 1, LXVI | astriction, dissipation, maturation, and the like; and were
1696 1, XCIX | from the commonly received maxims. It is a correct position
1697 1, LXXXII | or the fluctuations and mazes of chance and of vague and
1698 1, XCII | giving them a worse and meaner opinion of things as they
1699 1, XXXIX | means.~Of the third kind are measuring rods, astrolabes, and the
1700 Pre | sinews well anointed and medicated according to the rules of
1701 1, XCVII | as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made
1702 1, XXVII | spirit to pass freely into a member rightly disposed, as into
1703 1, XXXI | almost rivals the skin or membrane of an animal, the leaf of
1704 1, XXXIX | glasses discovered by the memorable efforts of Galileo, by the
1705 1, XV | and axioms that must be mended every day, unless like the
1706 1, LXXI | class was wandering and mercenary, going about from town to
1707 1, XCVIII | ambassadors and trustworthy messengers, but by the gossip of the
1708 1, XXXVII | which Telesius accounts as messmates and chamber fellows, namely:
1709 1, XLII | man (according as it is meted out to different individuals)
1710 1, XXVI | from facts by a just and methodical process, I call Interpretation
1711 1, XXXIX | than artificial. For the microscope, the instrument I am speaking
1712 1, XII | spirit of wine, which is mild and soft. But still milder
1713 1, XIII | from flame, though of the mildest kind, and from all ignited
1714 1, XL | production of life both mildness in the heat and pliancy
1715 1, XXXIX | For these show us that the Milky Way is a group or cluster
1716 1, XLV | shrink, I made use of a mill or press, till the water,
1717 1, XCIX | must pass from Vulcan to Minerva if we intend to bring to
1718 1, XIII | passing and emanating from it mingles with the previously existing
1719 1, LI | mode of changing bodies per minima (as they call it) and of
1720 1, XLVI | now) — is conspicuous in mining with gunpowder where vast
1721 1, XXXV | since inequality of heat ministers to generation and corruption,
1722 1, LVIII | out of the largeness or minuteness of the objects contemplated.
1723 1, XCIX | publish their notes and minutes and digests of particulars,
1724 1, XCVII | Alexander had done seemed to him miraculous. But in the next age Titus
1725 Pre | for if there be anything misapprehended by them, or falsely laid
1726 1, XLVI | more subtlety does this mischief insinuate itself into philosophy
1727 1, XLVIII | inability interferes more mischievously in the discovery of causes;
1728 1, LXXXVIII| thought perfect, and for the miserable vainglory of making it believed
1729 1, XCIV | possible. But now, when your misfortunes are owing, not to the force
1730 1, XVI | White, do not materially mislead us; yet even these are sometimes
1731 1, LXV | tumid and half poetical, misleads it more by flattery. For
1732 | miss
1733 1, XCIX | how the world should have missed it so long. And this very
1734 1, LXXXII | been left either to the mist of tradition, or the whirl
1735 1, L | But this is altogether a mistake. For the air is not diminished
1736 1, XCIX | nevertheless true that if the mistakes in natural history and experiments
1737 1, XVI | alteration of matter and the mixing of one thing with another.
1738 1, XXVI | the method most used in mnemonics) assists the memory. Other
1739 1, XXXVII | them. For air is rare and mobile, not hot or bright; the
1740 1, XXXVII | heat, brightness, rarity, mobility or promptness to motion.
1741 1, XCI | but in very few cases even moderately learned. Moreover, this
1742 1, L | these same opiates taken in moderation do by a secondary accident (
1743 1, XCIX | only more probable but more modest, too, than a partial one
1744 Pre | time reap the fruit of my modesty. For if I should profess
1745 1, XXXVI | the tropics may rather be modifications of the one diurnal motion
1746 1, XCIX | interpretation, which in some measure modify the method of invention
1747 1, XXXV | through the air) it is far moister; the third (and this is
1748 1, XL | but may rather be able to mold and model them like wax.~
1749 1, XCIX | adduced, either they subtly molded them into their system by
1750 1, L | motion gives the shapes in molding and casting.~Operations
1751 1, XXV | but more tenacious, the molten drops often fly to the top
1752 1, XXVI | communication of light is momentaneous, and ceases at once on the
1753 1, XXIV | still, as susceptible of momentary extinction, does not display
1754 1, LXII | governments, especially monarchies, have been averse to such
1755 1, LXXX | man (unless it were some monk studying in his cell, or
1756 1, LXXV | still in their more sober moods fall to complaints of the
1757 1, XII | observed to be at the full moons.~The larger fixed stars,
1758 1, XCIX | repugnant to their dogmas were mooted and adduced, either they
1759 1, LXXIX | applied themselves to morals and politics; and in later
1760 1, L | inside of windowpanes toward morning after a night's frost; in
1761 1, XLVIII | minute fragments. For in a mortar, after a certain amount
1762 1, XXXVI | as we see in mines and mortars. With respect to this nature
1763 1, XLVIII | And this is called the mortification of quicksilver. The fact
1764 1, XX | degree in some gangrenes and mortifications, which do not excite great
1765 | mostly
1766 1, XLVIII | a piece of gold in their mouths to collect the exhalations
1767 1, XLVIII | the air, there occurs no movement or change of place until
1768 1, XCIX | Nor do I make haste to mow down the moss or the corn
1769 1, LX | the notion of chalk and of mud is good, of earth bad);
1770 1, LXXVI | split up into such vague and multifarious errors. And although in
1771 1, XL | Now this elaboration and multiplication of the spirit is made manifest
1772 1, XLVIII | communicative, transitive, and multiplicative, as is the other, and agreeing
1773 1, XLIV | matters, or through the multiplicity of instruments, or through
1774 1, XVIII | shown, I sometimes double or multiply an exclusion.~An Example
1775 1, XXVII | is conformable with the musical trope of avoiding or sliding
1776 1, XI | must first of all have a muster or presentation before the
1777 1, XII | out into the air, but may mutually cherish each other; whereupon
1778 1, LXXI | I omit Pythagoras as a mystic), did not, so far as we
1779 1, XXXVI | industry. One is, that an iron nail which has lain for a long
1780 1, XX | insomuch that in intense frosts nails fall out from walls, brazen
1781 1, L | and honest traditions and narrations; provided this be done without
1782 1, LII | solitary instances; or by narrowing and indicating more nearly
1783 1, L | is required, and one that narrows and widens in turn, and
1784 1, XI | hot herbs, as dracunculus, nasturtium vetus, etc., although not
1785 1, LXXII | from the season of their nativity or birth, nothing great
1786 1, XCIX | specific difference, or nature-engendering nature, or source of emanation (
1787 1, XI | of sensation of burning: "Nec Boreæ penetrabile frigus
1788 1, XLVIII | restrained by other appetites and necessities in the bodies which interfere
1789 1, XXXIII | absolute affirmation or negation. For it is sufficient for
1790 1, XLVI | side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by
1791 1, XXXI | aside to something in their neighborhood, or even apply and transfer
1792 1, XXVII | inverted. For the root of the nerves and faculties in animals
1793 1, XXXIX | cloth could be seen like network, and thus the latent minutiae
1794 1, XXXVI | instance of the fingerpost more nicely adapted to this purpose,
1795 1, XII | And in storms, too, at nighttime, the foam of the sea when
1796 1, XCIX | help of genealogies the nobility of a descent from some ancient
1797 1, XXX | similis turpissima bestia nobis;~likewise the biformed births
1798 1, XCIII | everything glides on smoothly and noiselessly, and the work is fairly
1799 1, LXIII | forsooth as a realist than a nominalist, he has handled over again.
1800 1, XLVIII | flame and air. Moreover, the non-vital spirit, which is contained
1801 1, XXV | attractive; namely, the nonattractive, which exists in a similar
1802 1, XXVI | like. Again, persons whose nostrils are accidentally obstructed
1803 1, LXIV | vain. Of this there is a notable instance in the alchemists
1804 1, XX | destroyed, or at any rate notably altered, by all strong and
1805 1, XCIX | digested the same into notebooks under heads and titles,
1806 1, LXXIV | condition, receiving no noticeable increase, but on the contrary,
1807 1, XXXVII | determine nothing, but simply notify the separability of one
1808 1, XCIX | which we now have) are notional and abstract and without
1809 1, XLVIII | chinks; even air itself, notwithstanding its subtlety, does not suddenly
1810 1, LXXX | established, they are no more nourished by natural philosophy, which
1811 1, XLII | the matter that feeds or nourishes them. Now the food of flame
1812 1, XII | the Dutch who wintered in Nova Zembla and expected their
1813 1, LXII | have been averse to such novelties, even in matters speculative;
1814 1, LXXXV | weep. For the alchemist nurses eternal hope and when the
1815 1, XII | when struck violently by oars. And in storms, too, at
1816 1, LIV | distort and color them in obedience to their former fancies;
1817 1, XL | tangible parts that are obedient and ready to follow, so
1818 Pre | us suppose that some vast obelisk were (for the decoration
1819 1, III | to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation
1820 1, XCIX | command nature except by obeying her.~Again, if men have
1821 1, XII | in their expectation and obliged to take to their boat. Thus
1822 1, XXXV | surface of the earth is the oblique course of the sun through
1823 1, XIII | respect to perpendicularity or obliquity.~18. The sun and other planets
1824 1, LXV | the human understanding is obnoxious to the influence of the
1825 1, LX | rejected and dismissed as obsolete.~But the other class, which
1826 1, XCII | But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science
1827 1, XLVIII | if it be met by various obstacles there follow putrefactions,
1828 1, XLIII | choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. Nor do
1829 1, XII | obliquely, the angles are very obtuse, and thus the lines of rays
1830 1, LXXXV | nature, and how easily and obviously and as it were by casual
1831 1, XXXVI | and Lima (where the two oceans, the Atlantic and Pacific,
1832 1, XLVIII | and not less in objects odious to some of the senses, especially
1833 1, XLV | lemon and orange and like odoriferous trees, or thickets of rosemary,
1834 1, LXXIX | the highest rewards were offered, and helps of all kinds
1835 1, LXXXVII | loaded mankind with promises, offering and announcing the prolongation
1836 1, XCIX | so neither do I hold out offers or promises of particular
1837 1, XCIX | competent to deal with it offhand and by memory alone; no
1838 1, LXXX | indignity been degraded to the offices of a servant, having to
1839 1, XII | or from a certain fat and oiliness, which is of a nature akin
1840 1, LXXIII | place of fruits of grape and olive, it bear thorns and briers
1841 1, XII | ancients that on the top of Olympus the rarity of the air was
1842 1, XLVI | whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the
1843 1, LXV | and first causes, with the omission in most cases of causes
1844 1, XLVIII | subordinate and subaltern omits to do so.~
1845 1, XLVIII | rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore
1846 1, XVII | red in the rainbow, the opal, or the diamond; so again
1847 1, XII | bright beams and pillars and openings in the heavens appear more
1848 Pre | life. Nay, more, I declare openly that for these uses the
1849 1, LXXXII | method that the divine word operated on the created mass. Let
1850 1, XXXVI | of the old philosophers opined, or dense and solid, as
1851 1, XLI | too inhuman, except when opportunities are afforded by abortions,
1852 1, XXXVI | discharge or removal of the opposing body, if flame be generated,
1853 1, XXV | which are pretty nearly the opposites of Striking Instances. For
1854 1, XII | is evident in the case of optical rays that according as the
1855 1, LXXX | want of this, astronomy, optics, music, a number of mechanical
1856 1, XCIX | dignity, may be taken for an oracle: "Then leave off being king."
1857 1, LXXXII | his own spirit to give him oracles; which method has no foundation
1858 1, XXXVI | Judicial, and in some cases, Oracular and Commanding Instances.
1859 1, XLV | whole woods of lemon and orange and like odoriferous trees,
1860 1, XLVIII | their circumference or orbit, according to their distance
1861 1, LXXXV | to imitate the celestial orbs, and their alternating and
1862 1, VIII | merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things
1863 1, XCIX | before the invention of ordnance, a man had described the
1864 1, XXVII | disposed, as into a fit organ. Again, as many as are the
1865 1, XL | assimilates, digests, ejects, organizes, and the like. And all these
1866 1, LII | remembered, however, that in this Organon of mine I am handling logic,
1867 1, XLVIII | whereas the causes and origins of most other motions are
1868 1, XLVIII | Bears rather than about Orion, or in any other part of
1869 1, LXVII | destroyed all the rest (as the Ottomans serve their brothers), has
1870 1, XLVII | given time, a bullet of two ounces ought to fall twice as quickly,
1871 | ourselves
1872 1, XXXIX | which the exact shape and outline of body in a flea, a fly,
1873 1, XCIX | observe indications and outlines of many noble works; still
1874 1, XXXVI | supposing that the fixed stars outrun the planets and leave them
1875 1, L | by liquids poured on the outside is a thing of very great
1876 1, XLVIII | farther than others; some outstrip others in speed; some cherish,
1877 1, LXI | who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong
1878 1, XLVIII | in short, that are shaken outwardly are the slower to putrefy
1879 1, L | things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately
1880 1, XLVI | wherein a small mass of matter overcomes and regulates a far larger
1881 1, XLVIII | the greater congregation overcoming in this case the motion
1882 1, XXVII | have used great and indeed overcurious diligence in observing the
1883 1, XIV | matter) are confused and overhastily abstracted from the facts,
1884 1, LXX | almost always turn aside with overhasty and unseasonable eagerness
1885 1, XVI | endeavor, however, not to overlook any of the points which
1886 Pre | which, that they may not be overlooked, I would have men reminded.
1887 1, XLVIII | continue to resist but are overpowered. For in bodies here with
1888 1, XLIII | the voice; a strong scent overpowers a more delicate one; an
1889 1, XLVII | thereto by severe laws and overruling authority.~
1890 1, XCIX | judgment as of inattention and oversight, it is no wonder that men
1891 1, XL | use of violent heats and overstrong powers all that more subtle
1892 1, XCIX | either common, or mean, or oversubtle and in their original condition
1893 1, XLIV | Measurement.~Operation comes to overtask us, either through the admixture
1894 1, XLIV | operation either fails us or it overtasks us. The chief cause of failure
1895 1, XVIII | one contradictory instance overthrows a conjecture as to the form.
1896 1, XCI | take in, and is apt to be overwhelmed and extinguished by the
1897 1, XL | without to the sense of a cat, owl, and similar animals which
1898 1, LXXIII | Celsus ingenuously and wisely owns as much when he tells us
1899 1, XXXVI | oceans, the Atlantic and Pacific, are separated by a small
1900 1, XI | bruised together, as roses packed in baskets; insomuch that
1901 1, XCIX | in a written or printed page of a letter or two mistaken
1902 1, XLVI | picture of those who had paid their vows as having escaped
1903 1, XL | blind ways and with efforts painstaking rather than intelligent,
1904 1, XLVI | again, "but where are they painted that were drowned after
1905 1, XCIX | the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution.
1906 1, LXVI | presents the thing grossly and palpably to the sense as different
1907 1, XCIX | like these as being too paltry and minute, can neither
1908 1, XXXV | invention of the heated pan with which doctors cover
1909 1, XXXVI | asking the inhabitants of Panama and Lima (where the two
1910 1, XXVII | now about) are everywhere parading — similitudes and sympathies
1911 1, XLVI | astronomers in the correction for parallaxes. So incredible did it appear
1912 1, L | metal which, being let down parallel to the surface of the water,
1913 1, XCIX | use, having no affinity or parallelism with anything that is now
1914 1, XII | tell us that when large parcels and masses of spices are,
1915 1, XXXV | however they may themselves partake of a common nature.~These
1916 1, LXXX | grow not, seeing they are parted from their roots.~
1917 1, LVIII | to distinguish, or out of partiality for particular ages, or
1918 1, XXX | Instances, which I also call Participles. They are those which exhibit
1919 1, LXXIX | the Greeks was but a brief particle of time; for in early ages
1920 1, XXXVI | following will be a case of the parting of the roads.~This motion
1921 1, LVI | novelty are the humors of partisans rather than judgments; and
1922 1, XXVI | and in the division and partition of natures; with regard
1923 1, XXVI | and thereupon established partitions or divisions of the nature
1924 Pre | unknown), the case is altered: party zeal and emulation are at
1925 1, XV | Substance, Quality, Action, Passion, Essence itself, are not
1926 1, L | motion, sleep, food, and passions of the female in gestation.
1927 1, XXI | left to itself, in a sober, patient, and grave mind, especially
1928 1, XXXV | the heads of apoplectic patients who are given over, manifestly
1929 1, XCIX | certain moderns, as Telesius, Patricius, Severinus, I wish to found
1930 1, XXVII | animate, on account of the paucity of organs of sense. And
1931 Pre | or accomplished. Now (to pause a while upon this example
1932 1, XXXII | Moreover such instances pave and prepare the way for
1933 1, L | same taste in an unripe pear as there is in a squeezed
1934 1, XXXV | proceeded to drop in a number of pebbles till the water rose high
1935 1, LXXXVIII| themselves into certain pellicles, curiously shaped into hemispheres,
1936 1, XXXIX | line drawn with a pen or pencil is seen through such glasses
1937 1, XI | sensation of burning: "Nec Boreæ penetrabile frigus adurit." 1~28. Other
1938 1, XX | that burning undermines, penetrates, pricks, and stings the
1939 1, XLV | other three which the sense perceives. Hence also the ratio of
1940 1, XLVIII | in rays of light, in the percussions of sounds, and in magnetism,
1941 1, L | be represented in form, perfected in virtue, varied in quantity,
1942 1, XLVIII | stops without running out in perforated jars unless the mouth of
1943 1, XXVII | inanimate bodies, if there were perforations in the animate body allowing
1944 1, XCIX | individual excellence, because it performs everything by the surest
1945 1, XXVI | perceive the rancidity or the perfume. These instances, then,
1946 1, XXVI | have something fetid or perfumed in their mouth or palate
1947 1, LXXXIX | is made harder and more perilous by the summaries and systems
1948 1, L | gradually, orderly, and periodically, at due distances and for
1949 1, XLVIII | parts"; a definition of the Peripatetics justly derided by Gilbert,
1950 1, XX | understanding should have permission, after the three Tables
1951 1, LXXXIX | nature should transgress the permitted limits of sober-mindedness,
1952 1, XX | the fire. If you put it in perpendicularly and hold it by the top,
1953 1, LXVII | idols and in some sort to perpetuate them, leaving no way open
1954 1, LXXXVIII| diligently examined) is to persuade men that nothing difficult,
1955 1, XCIX | And this kind of operation pertains to the first kind of action.
1956 1, XLII | thing variable and full of perturbation, and governed as it were
1957 1, XCIX | at any rate difficult and perverse and unsuitable to the nature
1958 1, XLVIII | putrefying; winds keep off pestilence in the air; corn turned
1959 1, XIII | the first in burning and pestilential fevers.~11. Let further
1960 1, XLVIII | amount of pulverization, the pestle produces no further effect;
1961 1, XCIX | prince who had rejected her petition as an unworthy thing and
1962 1, L | plunging them into waters which petrify wood; by burying them in
1963 1, XXXV | genera, and in dispelling phantoms and false images of things,
1964 1, XXXVI | of motion. For the first phenomenon is well accounted for by
1965 1, LXXI | Heraclitus, Xenophanes, Philolaus, and the rest (I omit Pythagoras
1966 1, LXXIII | and that afterwards men philosophized about it, and hunted for
1967 1, XLVI | rises an aqueous and useless phlegm, then a water containing
1968 1, LXXVII | intellectual matters the saying of Phocion, that if the multitude assent
1969 1, XLVIII | into a new form (so they phrase it); and after a certain
1970 1, V | the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the
1971 1, XLVI | him hanging in a temple a picture of those who had paid their
1972 1, XLVII | piercing, a sharp point pierces more quickly than a blunt
1973 1, XLVII | quantity has more effect, as in piercing, a sharp point pierces more
1974 1, XXXVI | when they can bear no more piling) released and let down again,
1975 1, XII | Moreover bright beams and pillars and openings in the heavens
1976 1, XII | than in warm; as the fir, pine, and others. The situations
1977 1, XLVIII | resistance. For if a man be pinned to the ground, tied hand
1978 1, XLV | capable of holding about two pints, and sufficiently thick
1979 1, XCIX | this course altogether a pioneer, following in no man's track
1980 1, XCIX | having yet passed into the pipes and trumpets of the Greeks),
1981 1, XII | more inflammable and more pitchy and resinous than in warm;
1982 1, XII | their exudations or in their pith when freshly exposed. In
1983 1, LXXXV | and on the contrary will pity the condition of mankind,
1984 1, LXIII | into conformity with his placets, leads her about like a
1985 1, LXV | error; and it is a very plague of the understanding for
1986 1, XCIX | natures, the easier and plainer will everything become,
1987 1, LXXVII | Aristotle and Plato, like planks of lighter and less solid
1988 1, L | and colewort, because when planted near each other they do
1989 1, XCVI | in the second school of Platonists, such as Proclus and others,
1990 1, LXI | received into the mind from the playbooks of philosophical systems
1991 1, LXXXV | religions also, have worked or played. These therefore we may
1992 1, XII | burning the hair, but softly playing round it. It is also most
1993 1, LXVII | is that men turn aside to pleasant disputations and discourses
1994 1, LXXXIX | entertaining men's minds with a pleasing variety of matter, but all
1995 1, XXVI | or any other things at pleasure (provided they be placed
1996 1, XCIX | wheels from a well. Whereas I pledge mankind in a liquor strained
1997 1, XCIX | are of greater value as pledges of truth than as contributing
1998 1, XL | mildness in the heat and pliancy in the substance, that the
1999 1, XCIX | filthy — things which (as Pliny says) must be introduced
2000 1, L | hardly come up except in ploughed fields, it should rather
2001 1, XCIX | enabling us to walk, to ply our arts, to read, to recognize