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2002 1, XLVIII | potency of the virtues of pneumatical bodies (which otherwise
2003 1, XCIX | imitations of God's works, as the poet well sang:~To man's frail
2004 1, LXV | fanciful and tumid and half poetical, misleads it more by flattery.
2005 1, LXII | found in the theater of the poets, that stories invented for
2006 1, XLVIII | straight, or as they say point-blank, and then try whether, if
2007 1, LIII | will instance those the pointing out of which contains the
2008 1, XX | putting a pair of tongs or a poker in the fire. If you put
2009 1, XII | sun in regions near the polar circles is found to be very
2010 1, XLVIII | flight of iron from one pole of the magnet is well observed
2011 1, LXXIX | root, though they may be polished and shaped and made fit
2012 1, XLVIII | a sort of government and polity exerted by the ruling over
2013 1, XCIX | Nor is natural history polluted thereby, for the sun enters
2014 1, XCIX | the palace, yet takes no pollution. And for myself, I am not
2015 1, XII | ancient sailors Castor and Pollux, and by moderns St. Elmo'
2016 1, LXXI | Gorgias, Protagoras, Hippias, Polus, does indeed suit the entire
2017 1, LXXI | while the latter was more pompous and dignified, as composed
2018 1, LXXXIX | confirm it by their authority, pompously solemnizing this union of
2019 1, XLVIII | compressed in children's popguns, when they hollow out an
2020 1, XII | relative and according to the porosity of the body to which they
2021 1, XX | mind longs to spring up to positions of higher generality, that
2022 1, XVIII | in the nature of things positively, and not as the effect of
2023 1, XLIII | as we find in the skin, possesses in itself both spirit and
2024 1, LXXV | as beyond the bounds of possibility, and pronounce, as if on
2025 1, XXVII | cadence; the mathematical postulate that if two things are equal
2026 1, XLVIII | sufficiently convinced by the potency of the virtues of pneumatical
2027 1, XLVIII | predominancy, as in watering pots with holes in them, where
2028 1, XXIII | communicated and conveyed by that pounding of the glass and that agitation
2029 1, XII | different bodies, and by pouring in different liquids.~To
2030 1, LXXXV | variety to astonishment at the poverty and scantiness of the subjects
2031 1, LXXI | boys: they are prompt to prattle, but cannot generate; for
2032 1, XLIV | the instances which are pre-eminently useful for the operative
2033 1, XCIX | childish; its conclusions are precarious and exposed to peril from
2034 1, XLVIII | generation of a new form, is preceded by a dissolution of the
2035 1, XCIX | then, the direction and precept will be, that another nature
2036 1, XLVII | it. And in breathing on precious stones you may see the slight
2037 1, L | heat either vehement or precipitate or that comes by fits and
2038 1, L | incorporations and mixtures precipitated by fire are far inferior
2039 1, XCIX | prejudice, but also a false preconception or prefiguration of the
2040 1, XLVI | this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former
2041 1, XXXIII | body in concrete, and the predicate the nature itself that is
2042 1, XXXIII | incorruptibility cannot be predicated of any of the bodies lying
2043 1, LXXII | birth, nothing great can be predicted of those systems of philosophy.~
2044 1, XLVIII | of the exciting as by the predisposition and easy yielding of the
2045 1, XLVIII | proportion in which they predominate or give place, should be
2046 1, XCIX | propels, what hinders; what predominates, what yields; and a variety
2047 Pre | AUTHOR'S PREFACE~Those who have taken upon
2048 1, XLVIII | latter and choose them as preferable; and seem to view this connection
2049 1, XLVIII | well endure the air but prefers some other tangible body,
2050 1, XCIX | a false preconception or prefiguration of the new thing which is
2051 1, LXXVII | themselves thereto from prejudgment and upon the authority of
2052 1, XCIX | have been raised and unfair prejudices removed, they may perhaps
2053 1, LXVI | breaking off the scrutiny prematurely — they would have made much
2054 1, XCIX | remains something to be premised. For whereas in this first
2055 Pre | to be united.~Upon these premises two things occur to me of
2056 1, XXI | relation to man; eighthly, of Preparations for Investigation; and lastly,
2057 1, XXXII | be employed as a sort of preparative for setting right and purging
2058 1, XCIX | discovered, is out of season and preposterous, and that the true and proper
2059 1, XCIX | nature (besides the one prescribed) these may perhaps be within
2060 1, XXV | into a very thin thread to preserve the continuity of the water;
2061 1, XLVIII | stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore
2062 1, L | everywhere about us and pressing in, and the rays of the
2063 1, LXXV | known or done; thus most presumptuously and invidiously turning
2064 1, LXXXVI | artificial method; and did not pretend or profess to embrace the
2065 1, LXXXV | gold buried in a vineyard, pretending not to know the exact spot;
2066 1, XCVIII | greater diligence, though less pretense, have made many additions;
2067 1, XLVIII | bodies strive to escape from preternatural pressure or tension and
2068 1, XLII | drawing iron is entirely prevented. Gold placed between does
2069 1, L | and that open air which preys upon bodies, and such are
2070 1, LXXI | wisdom to sale, and taking a price for it, while the latter
2071 1, XXVII | it is burned or frozen or pricked or cut or bent or stretched,
2072 1, XXVII | cold for another; again, of pricking, squeezing, stretching,
2073 1, LXXI | the Greeks by the Egyptian priest — that "they were always
2074 1, XCIX | poor woman to the haughty prince who had rejected her petition
2075 1, XCIX | occurrence in a written or printed page of a letter or two
2076 1, XCIX | itself be as the seal which prints and determines the contemplative
2077 1, XXII | into the nature of color, prisms, crystals, which show colors
2078 1, XLVIII | appetites which aim at a private good seldom prevail against
2079 1, L | its succedaneum or quid pro quo, as they call it — such
2080 1, LXXXII | busy, and question her of probations and invention of principles
2081 1, XV | be set at work; for the problem is, upon a review of the
2082 1, LXIII | books on animals and his problems, and other of his treatises,
2083 1, XXXV | he could submit to a slow procedure, not indeed corresponding
2084 1, LXIII | about like a captive in a procession. So that even on this count
2085 1, XCIX | lest it might be taken as a proclamation of my own deserts. But since
2086 1, XCVI | school of Platonists, such as Proclus and others, by mathematics,
2087 1, XCIX | experiments to be sought for and procured, and that too of a different
2088 1, LXXXVII | air, of bringing down and procuring celestial influences; arts
2089 1, VII | VII~The productions of the mind and hand seem
2090 1, XCIX | ancients is by themselves professed and appears on the very
2091 Pre | spoken in simple assurance or professional affectation, have therein
2092 1, XCIX | But how sincere I am in my professions of affection and good will
2093 Pre | for discourse — for the professor's lecture and for the business
2094 1, XCIX | employed for the convenience of professors and men of business, to
2095 1, XCIX | bear myself soberly and profitably, sowing in the meantime
2096 1, LXXX | sciences — altogether lack profoundness, and merely glide along
2097 1, LXXXIX | which are barred by no prohibition. Others with more subtlety
2098 1, XXXVI | by the air carrying the projected body and collecting behind
2099 1, XCIX | machinery for ramming and projecting; but the notion of a fiery
2100 1, XLVIII | quantity, velocity, force of projection, and also to the helps and
2101 1, XVII | XVII~But when I assign so prominent a part to forms, I cannot
2102 1, XL | rare, though variously and promiscuously used, are, properly speaking,
2103 1, LXXXVII | with regard to these lavish promisers, this judgment would not
2104 1, XCIX | indeed for the present, but promising infinite utility hereafter.
2105 1, XXVII | similar isthmuses and similar promontories, which can hardly be by
2106 1, XLVIII | more or less impeded or promoted by their media, according
2107 1, XXIII | And though every exclusion promotes the affirmative, yet this
2108 1, LXXI | characteristic of boys: they are prompt to prattle, but cannot generate;
2109 1, XXXVII | brightness, rarity, mobility or promptness to motion. We find, however,
2110 1, L | careful attention. I mean the proneness or reluctance of bodies
2111 Pre | between the presumption of pronouncing on everything, and the despair
2112 1, XLVIII | dust) and by many other proofs. As for the other motions,
2113 1, XCIX | continued, what cut off; what propels, what hinders; what predominates,
2114 1, L | collect instances of the propensity or aversion of bodies for
2115 1, XCIII | has begun. Nor should the prophecy of Daniel be forgotten touching
2116 1, XLIV | here I class together as Propitious or Benevolent Instances.
2117 1, LXXXI | general, so far are men from proposing to themselves to augment
2118 1, XXI | and perfect Induction. In propounding which, I mean, when Tables
2119 1, XXVI | remembered more easily than prose. From this group of three
2120 1, XLI | from putrefaction. For to prosecute such inquiries concerning
2121 1, XCII | that such attempts have prosperous beginnings, become difficult
2122 1, XXXVIII | senses, the more easily and prosperously will everything proceed.~
2123 1, XII | many folds of leather to protect it from the outward air,
2124 1, XXXV | afterward passed into a proverb.~Again, let the nature in
2125 1, XCIX | men in the most civilized province of Europe, and in the wildest
2126 1, XCIX | and it must be used for proving and discovering not first
2127 1, L | medicaments soporific, or provocative of sleep: one by quieting
2128 1, LIX | mathematicians) it would be more prudent to begin, and so by means
2129 1, LXXXIX | Holy Writ against those who pry into sacred mysteries, to
2130 1, LXXXVIII| delighted with such trifling and puerile tasks, and have even fancied
2131 1, XLI | when the seed begins to puff and swell and to be, as
2132 1, LXXI | things which are light and puffed up, but letting weighty
2133 1, XCIX | namely, whether I desire to pull down and destroy the philosophy
2134 1, XCIX | Instauration which is devoted to pulling down, which part is performed
2135 1, XLVIII | both ends with a piece of pulpy root or the like, and then
2136 1, XLVIII | is found in the heart and pulses of animals, and must of
2137 1, XLVIII | after a certain amount of pulverization, the pestle produces no
2138 1, L | amber as the same piece pulverized. So also it is with tastes.
2139 1, XLVIII | drawn up by suction or in a pump; the flesh by cupping glasses;
2140 1, XII | There is an acridity or pungency both in cold things, as
2141 1, XX | consequence of their corroding and pungent nature.~And this specific
2142 1, XLV | needle passing over the very pupil. But though this may be
2143 1, LXI | willingly submit to its purgation and dismiss its idols.~
2144 1, XCIX | follow, now that I have purged and swept and leveled the
2145 1, LXIX | performed these expiations and purgings of the mind, I come to set
2146 1, XCIX | in the press, and finally purified and clarified in the vat.
2147 Pre | and obtain what they are pursuing. But if there be any man
2148 1, XXXVI | are driven together and pushed into the channel of the
2149 1, XXXVI | enduring the impression, but pushing forward in succession to
2150 1, XLVIII | outwardly are the slower to putrefy inwardly.~Lastly, I must
2151 1, XXX | which holds a place between putrescence and a plant; some comets,
2152 1, LXVII | all investigation, like Pyrrho and his Refrainers, but
2153 1, XXXVII | because they require a medium qualified for carrying on the operation.
2154 1, XXX | between man and beast —~Simia quam similis turpissima bestia
2155 1, XL | capable of holding about a quart from which I squeezed out,
2156 1, XXVII | generally effected by a quaternion of limbs or of bendings.~
2157 1, L | intersidereal ether. Yet these two quaternions or great tribes of things (
2158 1, XCIX | from long endured evils, quellers of tyrannies, and the like)
2159 1, XLVIII | their parts be discharged or quenched. Nor is this motion confined
2160 Pre | they have been effective in quenching and stopping inquiry; and
2161 1, L | by fire, in the repeated quenchings of metals, and like processes.
2162 1, XLVIII | filled with a lively and quickening spirit (such as there is
2163 1, XXXV | or water, by consequence quickens and gives them life. Eggs
2164 1, XXXVI | its motion is quicker, and quickest of all in the starry sphere;
2165 1, XCIX | on such a sand (or rather quicksand)? Let no man therefore trouble
2166 1, L | take its succedaneum or quid pro quo, as they call it —
2167 1, XX | itself, its essence and quiddity, is motion and nothing else;
2168 1, XXXV | would have my doctrine enter quietly into the minds that are
2169 1, XLVIII | in the harp, or with the quill, as in the spinet, the resonance
2170 1, XXVII | through skin as through quills.~Again, the scrotum in males
2171 1, L | succedaneum or quid pro quo, as they call it — such
2172 1, XLVI | many times over in force of radiation not merely the vivid color
2173 1, XLV | and the like. Lastly, the radiations of light and impressions
2174 1, XVII | the apparent red in the rainbow, the opal, or the diamond;
2175 1, LXXI | as Dionysius not unaptly rallied Plato) "the talk of idle
2176 1, LXXIII | of the Greeks, and their ramifications through particular sciences,
2177 1, XCIX | wheels and such machinery for ramming and projecting; but the
2178 1, XLIII | and none ever struck or ran against other. To these
2179 1, XXVI | immediately perceive the rancidity or the perfume. These instances,
2180 1, X | understanding, unless it be ranged and presented to view in
2181 1, XLVIII | according to the greater or less rapidity of their rotation; 5. the
2182 1, XL | not hollow) this is the rarest and contains the least quantity
2183 1, L | motion that Telesius has rashly and ignorantly enough attributed
2184 1, XII | sugar, whether refined or raw, provided only it be somewhat
2185 1, XCIX | waving harvests grow,~And re-created all our life below.~And
2186 1, XXXV | heavy bodies would stop on reaching the center. Certainly it
2187 1, LIX | is also true that words react on the understanding; and
2188 1, XCIX | this plan appears to be readier and to lie nearer at hand
2189 1, XCIX | everything will be in more readiness, and much more sure.~Nor
2190 1, LXIII | and more forsooth as a realist than a nominalist, he has
2191 1, LX | irregularly derived from realities. Of the former kind are
2192 1, XCIX | not at things solid and realized in matter. And when this
2193 Pre | designs and at the same time reap the fruit of my modesty.
2194 1, XCV | only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make
2195 1, XXXVI | light, and not by probable reasonings.~
2196 1, LII | altogether and forever a rebel, but in virtue of that charter "
2197 1, XXXV | approaching and increased, now receding and diminished; which thing
2198 1, L | vapors; the inverted cone in receivers helps the draining off of
2199 | recent
2200 1, XXVI | and divisions, reading or reciting aloud. Lastly, other instances
2201 1, XII | 8. Comets (if we are to reckon these too among meteors)
2202 1, XCIX | ply our arts, to read, to recognize one another — and nevertheless
2203 1, LXXXVIII| nature, which will never be recognized as long as the experiments
2204 1, LV | lofty and discursive mind recognizes and puts together the finest
2205 1, XXVI | infinity. For when we try to recollect or call a thing to mind,
2206 1, XXVII | it cannot too often be recommended and enjoined that men's
2207 1, XL | melts others, are easily reconciled, since in the former the
2208 1, XLVIII | similar material and never recovers its form.~Let the fifth
2209 Pre | remains but one course for the recovery of a sound and healthy condition —
2210 1, LII | proceed to the supports and rectifications of induction, and then to
2211 1, LIX | that it is necessary to recur to individual instances,
2212 1, XX | consumes, undermines and reduces to ashes, no less than fire;
2213 1, LXVI | these other matters — either reducing them to first qualities
2214 1, XIII | vegetable matter, as straw, reeds, and dried leaves, from
2215 1, XLVIII | declination of the magnet are referable to this motion. There are
2216 1, LXXXII | answer is well known; she refers you to the faith you are
2217 1, LXXXVIII| for new if a man does but refine or embellish them, or unite
2218 1, XII | that all sugar, whether refined or raw, provided only it
2219 1, LXXXV | Again, if you observe the refinement of the liberal arts, or
2220 1, LXXXIX | more subtlety surmise and reflect that if second causes are
2221 1, XII | level ground; nor have the reflex much, unless they are multiplied
2222 1, XCIX | all time. Moreover, the reformation of a state in civil matters
2223 1, L | of some alchemists of the reformed school all the more remarkable —
2224 1, XXIII | whiteness, through the unequal refraction of the rays of light.~But
2225 1, XLII | or den of his own, which refracts and discolors the light
2226 1, XCIX | notions; and the second, to refrain the mind for a time from
2227 1, LXVII | investigation, like Pyrrho and his Refrainers, but allow of some things
2228 1, XLII | I also call Instances of Refuge. They are those which supply
2229 1, XXIII | notions entirely false, and refuted by numerous exclusions.
2230 1, XLVIII | admits of nine differences regarding 1. the center round which
2231 1, XLV | existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
2232 1, XLVIII | curb, tame, subdue, and regulate the other parts, and compel
2233 1, XLVI | of matter overcomes and regulates a far larger mass — I mean
2234 1, XIII | hottest, then Cor Leonis or Regulus, then Canicula, and so on.~
2235 1, XXXV | therefore, the understanding, rejecting the notion of essential
2236 1, XLVIII | because they pertain to the rekindling of the vital power in old
2237 1, XLVIII | together by the tie of close relationship and, as it were, combine
2238 1, XLV | parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence
2239 1, XCII | and excellent object to relax or diminish the severity
2240 1, XLVIII | escape from compression to relaxation. For either in a mere thrust,
2241 1, L | causes the resolved and too relaxed spirits to recover themselves
2242 1, XXXVI | can bear no more piling) released and let down again, which
2243 1, XCV | philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the
2244 1, LXXXV | all nations and ages, and religions also, have worked or played.
2245 1, L | will subjoin a few general remarks on them as examples merely
2246 1, XXIII | danger, however, easily remedied by the process of exclusion
2247 1, XLIII | Democritean. They are those which remind the understanding of the
2248 1, LXIII | indifferent nature of fire, and remolded into solids, have all of
2249 1, XLV | coat of the eye in order to remove the pellicle of the cataract
2250 1, LXX | explanation of the causes removes the marvel — which two things
2251 1, XLVI | believing that the earth moved) renders this motion of ejaculation
2252 1, XLVIII | the identical sound, but a renewal of it, as is shown by quieting
2253 1, XCIX | that in such abundance, and renewing itself yearly, they would
2254 1, LXVIII | equipage; all of which must be renounced and put away with a fixed
2255 1, XL | body, but much more by the rents, contractions, wrinklings,
2256 1, LII | this life be in some part repaired; the former by religion
2257 1, LXXXVII | alleviation of pain, the repairing of natural defects, the
2258 1, LXXXV | moment in time (whereupon he repeats his trials to infinity).
2259 1, L | mixed up with them, they yet repel the force of the body of
2260 1, XX | at the same time checked, repelled, and beaten back, so that
2261 1, L | meeting another impedes, repels, admits or directs its spontaneous
2262 1, XX | struggling, and irritated by repercussion, whence springs the fury
2263 1, LXXXV | observing their endless repetitions, and how men are ever saying
2264 1, XLVIII | us call it the motion of repose, or of aversion to move.
2265 1, XXXVIII | more copious and exact the representations of the senses, the more
2266 1, L | the works of nature can be represented in form, perfected in virtue,
2267 1, XLIV | but so many stage plays, representing worlds of their own creation
2268 1, XX | expanding motion, and can so repress this motion and turn it
2269 1, LXV | makes the inhibition and repression of it the more important,
2270 1, XLVIII | themselves, and being again repulsed, are yet forever trying
2271 1, LXXIX | magnitude of the Roman empire requiring the services of a great
2272 1, XXXVII | nature appears to be no less requisite for sustaining and conveying
2273 1, XCIX | ruined all.~2 Ipsissimæ res. I think this must have
2274 Pre | I said) too late to the rescue, and no way able to set
2275 1, XXV | in the way, the axiom is rescued and preserved by some frivolous
2276 1, XII | exhibits a power in it that resembles heat in producing incrustation.
2277 1, XXXII | of Power) ought not to be reserved until some certain nature
2278 1, XL | sympathies of things chiefly reside. Nor do they remember or
2279 1, XII | inflammable and more pitchy and resinous than in warm; as the fir,
2280 1, XXXVI | of by philosophers, the resistant and contrary motion to the
2281 1, XIII | certain distillations and resolutions of bodies are made by burying
2282 1, LI | which are fleeting. But to resolve nature into abstractions
2283 1, XL | altogether necessary to resort to reductions.~Thus let
2284 1, LXIII | according to his will, he then resorts to experience, and bending
2285 1, XLVIII | once comes to an end and resounds no more — as in stringed
2286 1, XLII | instances proper, as a last resource, yet I wish it to be understood
2287 1, XXXV | sun and his retreat), not respectively, but as it were indifferently,
2288 1, XII | not sufficient to support respiration; and it was further stated
2289 Pre | from true principles nor rested in the just conclusion,
2290 1, XC | established; these things resting on authority, consent, fame
2291 1, XLVIII | and stirring themselves restlessly, neither content as they
2292 1, XLVIII | pressure or tension and to restore themselves to the dimensions
2293 1, XLVIII | of the whole, orders and restrains the several parts of whatsoever
2294 1, LXIII | countless other arbitrary restrictions on the nature of things;
2295 1, XXII | received upon the object, resulting in the former case from
2296 1, LXVI | is in bodies a desire of resuming their natural dimensions
2297 1, L | on all leaves, they are retained on those of the oak as being
2298 1, XIII | unless enclosed and buried, retains its heat. But yet all dung
2299 1, LXXXVII | prolongation of life, the retardation of age, the alleviation
2300 1, XXXIII | the contrary it constantly retreats, and is excluded from companionship
2301 1, XCIX | or strong, progressive or retrograde, interrupted or continuous,
2302 1, XLVIII | quicksilver, which of itself would reunite into an entire mass, is
2303 1, LXXXIV | times laid widely open and revealed, the intellectual globe
2304 1, XVII | operation, except by the revelation and discovery of forms of
2305 1, XI | heat if confined, as in reverbatory furnaces.~11. Certain seasons
2306 1, XV | for the problem is, upon a review of the instances, all and
2307 1, XXXV | instance of alliance in the revival of butterflies stupefied
2308 1, XCIX | theories of this kind can be revived and many new ones introduced,
2309 1, LXXIII | among the Egyptians, who rewarded inventors with divine honors
2310 1, XXVII | deserving of notice. Thus the rhetorical trope of deceiving expectation
2311 1, LXXI | transferred to the ancient rhetoricians, Gorgias, Protagoras, Hippias,
2312 1, XLVI | Thus in an infusion of rhubarb the purgative virtue is
2313 1, LXXVIII | world, in respect of any rich or flourishing growth of
2314 1, LXXXIV | authors and yet deny time his rights, who is the author of authors,
2315 1, XLVI | which is also the reason why rings being spun round look like
2316 1, LXXXIV | knowledge of human things and a riper judgment in the old man
2317 1, XCIX | their settings and their risings according to the vicissitude
2318 1, XII | and take them out run the risk of fever and inflammation.
2319 1, LXXIII | divine honors and sacred rites, there were more images
2320 Pre | been some comparison or rivalry between us (not to be avoided
2321 1, XXXI | that it imitates and almost rivals the skin or membrane of
2322 1, LXVII | disputations and discourses and roam as it were from object to
2323 1, L | the ground, and thus one robs the other. If it be said
2324 1, L | spirits and render them more robust, and check their useless
2325 1, XL | contraction as to curl and roll themselves up.~On the contrary,
2326 1, XXXVI | accession of other waters rolling in, must necessarily be
2327 1, XLVIII | threads of droppings from roofs, in the tenacity of glutinous
2328 1, L | says that the herb called Ros Solis is at noon and under
2329 1, XLV | odoriferous trees, or thickets of rosemary, marjoram, and the like.
2330 1, XXVI | rancid or sprinkled with rosewater. Again, persons thus affected
2331 1, XLVIII | experiments as in bubbles, in the roundness of drops, in the thin threads
2332 1, XCIX | quicken the industry and rouse and kindle the zeal of others,
2333 1, LXIV | foresee that if ever men are roused by my admonitions to betake
2334 1, LXXXII | ordered leads by an unbroken route through the woods of experience
2335 1, XLVIII | air in flying, of water in rowing, of air in the undulations
2336 1, XCIX | the highest generalities ruined all.~2 Ipsissimæ res. I
2337 1, XXXIX | hand, though aided by a ruler, nor the impression of the
2338 1, XLVIII | and polity exerted by the ruling over the subject parts.
2339 1, LXI | right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one. Nay,
2340 1, XXV | which little boys make on rushes with spittle, where also
2341 1, XII | employing the ashes and rusts of different bodies, and
2342 1, XII | finger in the ashes of the sacrifices on the altar of Jupiter
2343 1, XCII | tends rather to make men sad (by giving them a worse
2344 1, XXXIX | discoveries, so far as we may safely trust to demonstrations
2345 1, XCIX | dwelling on abstractions it is safer to begin and raise the sciences
2346 1, XLIII | organization; that a little saffron tinges a whole hogshead
2347 1, XCIX | mechanical pursuits, and sagacious in hunting out works by
2348 1, XLVI | through which they move. The sailing of ships, the movements
2349 1, LXXI | putting up their wisdom to sale, and taking a price for
2350 Pre | which have now acquired a sanction like that of judicial laws),
2351 1, XCIX | works, as the poet well sang:~To man's frail race great
2352 1, L | consolidation and lutum sapientiæ, as the chemists call it.
2353 1, XCIX | course of invention can be satisfactory unless it be carried on
2354 1, XCIX | and empires, legislators, saviors of their country from long
2355 1, XCIX | was built they removed the scaffolding and ladders out of sight.
2356 1, XLVIII | stony substance, or the scaly substance on the teeth turns
2357 1, XCIX | and turgid, or meager and scarce; whether it be fine or coarse,
2358 1, LX | which easily divides and scatters itself; and that which easily
2359 1, XLIV | creation after an unreal and scenic fashion. Nor is it only
2360 1, XLVI | them out, and (since the scented spirit in violets is small)
2361 1, LIX | I come to the method and scheme for the formation of notions
2362 1, LXVI | are entirely logical and scholastic, as is abundantly manifest
2363 1, XII | sparkles when broken or scraped with a knife in the dark.
2364 1, LXXXIX | in that ye know not the Scriptures and the power of God," thus
2365 1, XXVII | through quills.~Again, the scrotum in males and the matrix
2366 1, LXXII | indiscriminately the name of Scythians to all in the North, of
2367 1, XLVII | parts fall. The waters in seas ebb and flow; but not in
2368 1, XLVIII | to be ranked even below second-rate philosophers, called motion
2369 1, LXI | steal into the understanding secretly, but are plainly impressed
2370 1, XCIX | largeness as by a collateral security, that we may not either
2371 1, LXXXVI | the first and most ancient seekers after truth were wont, with
2372 1, LXXXV | immense variety of books he sees there, let him but examine
2373 1, XIII | fevers, animals are at first seized with cold and shivering,
2374 1, LVIII | that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar
2375 1, XCIX | similar to one another, and selected beforehand; but he does
2376 1, XL | wine almost to the neck, selecting spirit of wine, because
2377 1, XXXIX | placed, so that a sort of selenography can be made. With this we
2378 1, XLVIII | motion of connection), but self-continuity in a given body. For it
2379 1, VI | be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which
2380 1, XCIX | but admitting these as self-evident and obvious, they dispute
2381 1, XX | carries on the process of self-expansion till it turns into a body
2382 1, XLV | seems highly probable in the semimenstrual ebbs and floods), or between
2383 1, XXVII | animals is the head, while the seminal parts are the lowest — the
2384 Pre | And if they should then send for more people, thinking
2385 Pre | directly from the simple sensuous perception. The necessity
2386 1, XXXIII | called on to abide by the sentence of a tribunal which is itself
2387 1, LXXXVI | into short and scattered sentences, not linked together by
2388 1, XXXVII | nothing, but simply notify the separability of one nature from another.
2389 1, XXXVI | the other to be varied and separable; and thus the question is
2390 1, XLVIII | denned to be "that which separates Heterogeneous and congregates
2391 1, XX | reason is that in gold the separating acid enters gently and works
2392 1, XXVII | they nevertheless are very serviceable in revealing the fabric
2393 1, XCIX | ancients, and have their settings and their risings according
2394 1, XCIX | they turn out; for they settle the question.~C~But not
2395 1, XII | called), which sometimes even settles on a wall, has not much
2396 1, XXI | natures in the universe; seventhly, of the Application to Practice,
2397 1, XCIX | of knowledge may not be severed and cut off from the stem.
2398 1, LXXI | schools; but more silently and severely and simply — that is, with
2399 1, XII | to the touch; indeed the severest colds are observed to be
2400 1, XCIX | as Telesius, Patricius, Severinus, I wish to found a new sect
2401 1, XCIX | for the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace,
2402 1, XXVII | organic difference between the sexes (in land animals at least)
2403 1, XLVI | well informed as to the sexhorary motion of the tide.~But
2404 1, XXXIX | inequalities of light and shade in the moon are more distinctly
2405 1, L | works of the sun — as I have shadowed forth in the Aphorism on
2406 1, LXXXVII | greater things than these shadowy heroes are even feigned
2407 1, L | and the trees made more shady. In like manner the different
2408 1, XLVIII | no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes
2409 1, XLVIII | they may all have a fair share of the pressure, belong
2410 1, XXXV | heavenly bodies, but is shared also by air and water.~Even
2411 1, XCIX | following in no man's track nor sharing these counsels with anyone,
2412 1, XXVIII | most valuable, because they sharpen and quicken investigation
2413 1, L | instruments for enlarging or sharpening the senses do much; but
2414 1, XX | flame does not burn more sharply toward the sides than in
2415 1, L | the like formation in the shells of eggs, in which there
2416 1, XII | Zembla and expected their ship to be freed from the obstructions
2417 1, XIII | first seized with cold and shivering, but soon after they become
2418 1, LXIX | and deceives us. But its shortcomings are to be supplied, and
2419 1, XLVIII | in a right line (as the shortest path) to consort with bodies
2420 1, XCII | obscurity of nature, the shortness of life, the deceitfulness
2421 1, XL | and are contracted; skins shrivel; and not only that, but
2422 1, XL | contractions, wrinklings, and shrivelings in the body which thereupon
2423 1, L | soil the several trees and shrubs and herbs thrive best and
2424 1, XLVIII | shaking of the head and a shudder. But this motion has place
2425 1, L | portion of the body met and shuts it to another. Nor is the
2426 1, XLVIII | and relaxes itself, and shutting out or ejecting the latter,
2427 1, XLI | sometimes also creeping sideways if it there finds the ground
2428 1, XCII | hope, we must thoroughly sift and examine those which
2429 1, L | well observed and keenly sifted, may possibly shed great
2430 1, XXIII | empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the works
2431 1, LX | constant meaning. For it both signifies that which easily spreads
2432 1, LX | which the word is used to signify agree with each other, and
2433 1, LXXI | open schools; but more silently and severely and simply —
2434 1, XXXI | discovered the nature of the silkworm or of silk.~Hence it is
2435 1, XCIX | immediately to think of some silky kind of vegetable, or of
2436 1, XXXV | the schools, it is very silly and childish to suppose
2437 1, XXX | between man and beast —~Simia quam similis turpissima
2438 1, XXX | man and beast —~Simia quam similis turpissima bestia nobis;~
2439 1, XXVII | mouth.~Nor is that an absurd similitude of conformity which has
2440 1, XX | motion, and in boiling or simmering liquids, which also are
2441 1, XXIII | discovery of it in all. And the simpler the migration, the more
2442 1, XCIX | express the same in the simplest and least abstruse language.
2443 1, LVII | do not penetrate to the simplicity of nature. These kinds of
2444 1, XCIX | and works only. But how sincere I am in my professions of
2445 1, XCIX | had chosen to deal less sincerely, I might easily have found
2446 1, L | more deeply into the others singly. Now a series or chain of
2447 1, XXVIII | all the irregularity or singularity shall be found to depend
2448 1, XII | fir, pine, and others. The situations however and the nature of
2449 1, XXI | inquired first and what last; sixthly, of the Limits of Investigation,
2450 1, XLVIII | portion of natural science is sketched out. I do not, however,
2451 1, XL | sense by artificial and skillful separations. But the nature
2452 1, LXXVI | the understanding was not skillfully laid out, when the same
2453 1, XCIX | to be hoped for from the skirmishings and slight attacks and desultory
2454 1, XLVIII | otherwise penetrate into their skulls and bones; by which also
2455 1, LII | not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch
2456 1, XXVII | musical trope of avoiding or sliding from the close or cadence;
2457 1, LXXI | of time obscured by those slighter persons who had more which
2458 1, LXXXVIII| spirit and the smallness and slightness of the tasks which human
2459 1, LXXXV | manipulations he has made some slip of a scruple in weight or
2460 1, LXXXV | have in their idle and most slothful conjectures ascribed to
2461 1, XLVI | spirit's motion, and the slowness of the bodily mass in exerting
2462 1, XCIII | divine operations even the smallest beginnings lead of a certainty
2463 1, XL | the former with a thread smeared with wax in order that it
2464 1, XL | by the different colors, smells, and tastes of the same
2465 1, XIII | any day in furnaces for smelting iron, in which a fire made
2466 1, XCIII | Providence; everything glides on smoothly and noiselessly, and the
2467 1, XXXII | which it is accustomed, smooths and levels its surface for
2468 1, LII | slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract
2469 1, XLV | ratio of density of the so-called elements is arbitrarily
2470 1, XXV | little more tenacious by soap, and blow it through a hollow
2471 1, LXXXIX | the permitted limits of sober-mindedness, wrongfully wresting and
2472 1, LXXIX | and in later times, when Socrates had drawn down philosophy
2473 Pre | men's minds, how strangely soever preoccupied and obstructed,
2474 1, XL | dries them up; if detained, softens and melts them; if neither
2475 1, XIII | of spirit of wine is the softest, unless perhaps ignis fatuus
2476 1, XII | all burning the hair, but softly playing round it. It is
2477 1, XLVIII | this motion, not indeed the sole, but the most potent, or
2478 1, XCV | philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers
2479 1, LXVIII | put away with a fixed and solemn determination, and the understanding
2480 1, XX | because of the order and solemnity of its disputations.~
2481 1, LXXXIX | their authority, pompously solemnizing this union of the sense
2482 1, LXIII | things; being always more solicitous to provide an answer to
2483 1, LXXXII | agitation and working of the wit solicits and as it were evokes his
2484 1, LX | indeterminate and cannot solidize; and that which readily
2485 1, L | that the herb called Ros Solis is at noon and under a burning
2486 1, XCIX | appears worthy of remark in Solomon that, though mighty in empire
2487 1, LXIX | ought, employ exclusions and solutions (or separations) of nature.
2488 | somehow
2489 | someone
2490 | somewhere
2491 1, XIII | lime or perhaps ashes and soot from fire, retain some latent
2492 1, XII | going out become a tangible sooty substance.~To the 16th.~
2493 1, XL | doctrine of the refutation of sophisms is to common logic.~
2494 1, L | condensed by medicaments soporific, or provocative of sleep:
2495 1, L | as is most observable in soporifics. There are two ways in which
2496 1, XCIX | so, too, from mean and sordid instances there sometimes
2497 1, XCIX | without causing harm or sorrow to any.~Again, discoveries
2498 1, XLVI | that come after, though far sounder and better. Besides, independently
2499 1, XXXVI | by trial in straits with sounding lines, viz., whether during
2500 1, XXVI | the tastes of salt, sweet, sour, acid, rough, bitter, and
2501 1, L | wine not only was free from sourness or flatness, but tasted