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2502 1, XLVIII | be denned as that which sows wheat and plants vines —
2503 1, XII | and this sparkling the Spaniards call Sea Lung. With regard
2504 1, XII | water is sometimes found to sparkle by night when struck violently
2505 1, XII | only it be somewhat hard, sparkles when broken or scraped with
2506 1, XII | agitated emits sparks, and this sparkling the Spaniards call Sea Lung.
2507 1, XIII | softer, and the flames or sparklings arising from the sweat of
2508 1, XIII | especially doves, hawks, and sparrows.~12. Let further inquiry
2509 1, X | understanding; so that all those specious meditations, speculations,
2510 1, XXXIX | first kind (not to speak of spectacles and the like, which serve
2511 Pre | hands, would not any sober spectator think them mad? And if they
2512 1, XC | ordered that to think or speculate on anything out of the common
2513 1, LXX | laboriously, still they spend their labor in working out
2514 1, XLV | motions not progressive, but spherical, that is, with the expansion
2515 1, XIII | Cor Leonis, Cauda Leonis, Spica Virginis, Sirius and Canicula,
2516 1, XCV | the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of
2517 1, XLVI | and then up again without spilling the liquid; and many other
2518 1, XLVIII | with the quill, as in the spinet, the resonance immediately
2519 1, XCIII | end. And as it was said of spiritual things, "The kingdom of
2520 1, XII | among us, either tangible or spirituous, which does not contract
2521 1, L | just as every machine is spoiled or deranged by the same.
2522 Pre | and have done more harm by spoiling and putting an end to other
2523 1, LXXIII | and works are as it were sponsors and sureties for the truth
2524 1, XXV | shown in that other childish sport when they take water, made
2525 1, XXVII | most of which are rather sports of nature than of any serious
2526 1, L | or juices of herbs, which spreading over the surface like a
2527 1, XCIX | that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always
2528 1, XXXV | many ways, and were then to sprinkle and intermix a little moisture;
2529 1, XLVI | the reason why rings being spun round look like globes,
2530 1, LXXXVIII| also cuts the sinews and spur of industry, and throws
2531 1, L | methods that may be called spurious. Instances of cold therefore
2532 1, XLV | brought in, to make up the square with the other three which
2533 1, XXVII | another; again, of pricking, squeezing, stretching, and the like),
2534 1, XII | and Pollux, and by moderns St. Elmo's Fire, no sufficient
2535 1, XVII | drowning, by hanging, by stabbing, by apoplexy, by atrophy;
2536 1, XII | serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have
2537 1, XI | that hay, if damp, when stacked, often catches fire.~18.
2538 1, XCIX | after golden apples, but stake all on the victory of art
2539 1, XCIX | latter are the Creator's own stamp upon creation, impressed
2540 1, XLVI | the face of a clear and starlit sky be seen at the instant
2541 1, XLVI | superior velocity get the start and take effect before the
2542 Pre | but yet they have neither started from true principles nor
2543 1, XXXV | to the heavenly bodies, station or rest seems to belong
2544 1, LX | that all theories should be steadily rejected and dismissed as
2545 1, LV | their resemblances. The steady and acute mind can fix its
2546 1, LXI | not innate, nor do they steal into the understanding secretly,
2547 1, XLVIII | and by insinuation, and stealthily, simply inviting and disposing
2548 1, XLVI | the kind I have found on steeping violets in vinegar, where
2549 1, L | found by exposing bodies on steeples in sharp frosts; by laying
2550 1, XLVIII | come out and mingle with stenches. It is certain that quicksilver,
2551 1, L | which is as it were the steward and almoner of nature. Continuance
2552 1, XLI | unless the ground be very stiff; also, how it puts forth
2553 1, XXXVI | milder degree, with the stiffer kinds of leaves, the aqueous
2554 1, XXXVI | that a thin iron plate or stiffish iron wire, or even a reed
2555 1, XX | the preceding motion of stimulation or penetration must be somewhat
2556 1, XLVIII | latter there is the stronger stimulus of a malignant and contrary
2557 1, XX | penetrates, pricks, and stings the body like the points
2558 1, LXXXIV | the world, and stored and stocked with infinite experiments
2559 1, L | plants prosper best on what stocks, depends much on sympathy.
2560 1, XII | a few years ago a girl's stomacher, on being slightly shaken
2561 1, XLVIII | concretes and turns into a stony substance, or the scaly
2562 1, LXXXIV | advanced age of the world, and stored and stocked with infinite
2563 1, XCIX | pledge mankind in a liquor strained from countless grapes, from
2564 1, L | of fire close and open, straitened and in full flow, modified
2565 1, XXIX | to the point whither she strayed by accident; and that not
2566 1, XXII | For the black and white streaks in marble, or the spots
2567 1, XXXVI | collecting behind it, as the stream in the case of a boat, or
2568 1, XCVIII | but by the gossip of the streets; such exactly is the system
2569 1, XIII | or even tinder, unless strengthened by burning glasses or mirrors.
2570 1, XII | burning glass increases and strengthens it. For it is evident in
2571 1, XXXVI | Gilbert thinks, and labors so strenuously to prove. To this point
2572 1, XXIX | done, however, with the strictest scrutiny, that fidelity
2573 1, XLVIII | Gilbert to be not a flight strictly speaking, but a conformity
2574 1, XLVIII | the first percussion the string be touched, either with
2575 1, XLVIII | resounds no more — as in stringed instruments, if after the
2576 1, XIII | there should be affixed a strip of paper, narrow and oblong,
2577 1, XLVIII | philosophers, called motion of stripe) is nothing more than this
2578 1, XX | expansive motion whereby a body strives to dilate and stretch itself
2579 1, XLVIII | it be fired upward, the stroke will be feebler than when
2580 1, LXIX | demonstrations are as the strongholds and defenses of idols; and
2581 1, L | in fine by the different structures of furnaces; of fire excited
2582 1, XIII | different kinds, which have so stubborn a heat that they are not
2583 1, LVIII | And generally let every student of nature take this as a
2584 1, XLVIII | twig or some such thing and stuff it up at both ends with
2585 1, XLVIII | the roots or whatever the stuffing be toward the other hole,
2586 1, XCIX | or twice that a man shall stumble on a thing by accident which,
2587 1, XXXV | the revival of butterflies stupefied and half dead with cold,
2588 1, XXXVI | not produce by itself that stupendous effect); the other, of those
2589 1, LXX | men now use is blind and stupid. And therefore, wandering
2590 1, XLVIII | in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so.~
2591 1, LXVII | of which kinds the former subdues, the latter weakens the
2592 1, XLVIII | since here with us, from the subduing and concocting power of
2593 1, XLVIII | mutual predominance and subjection of virtues: which of them
2594 1, L | as in the restoration of sublimated mercury, which occupies
2595 1, XXVII | they often lead us along to sublime and noble axioms, especially
2596 1, XCIX | entering on the true road, and submitting my mind to Things, advanced
2597 1, L | primary bodies with their subordinates (for such those may be considered
2598 1, XX | small portions, and again subsiding.~It is also shown in those
2599 1, XCIX | separation merely, and to have subsisted in the compound before.
2600 1, XXXVII | a body, since it neither subsists in the limiting nor in the
2601 1, XXXVIII | provide the sense with some substitute when it utterly fails; the
2602 1, XLII | may not inconveniently be substituted.~But with regard to these
2603 1, XL | but by joining to it or substituting for it some other object
2604 1, XLII | nineteenth place Supplementary or Substitutive Instances, which I also
2605 1, LV | dwell and fasten on the subtlest distinctions; the lofty
2606 1, LXXII | Pythagoras, which were rather suburban excursions than distant
2607 1, LXXXIX | something may be found to subvert or at least shake the authority
2608 1, L | cannot get a simple, take its succedaneum or quid pro quo, as they
2609 1, L | the condensation which succeeds the coming together) comfort
2610 1, XCIX | association of labors, and from successions of ages — the rather because
2611 1, L | both of these plants are succulent and exhaust the ground,
2612 1, XLVIII | considerable bulk, yields and succumbs to all other motions, as
2613 1, L | wasted by ages. So too the sudden incorporations and mixtures
2614 1, XXXVI | nature to remain with us, suffers violence and is destroyed
2615 1, XVIII | that not only each table suffices for the rejection of any
2616 1, XII | spirits should swoon and be suffocated by the tenuity of the air.~
2617 1, XXX | structure of things, and suggesting the causes of the number
2618 1, XII | In like manner a doubt suggests itself whether the warmth
2619 1, XX | that all strong waters (if suited to the body on which they
2620 1, XX | I shall speak presently) suiting nature; though in this specific
2621 1, XXIX | sort, who are a kind of suitors and lovers of fables. But
2622 1, XL | the absolute quantum or sum total of matter remains
2623 1, LXXXIX | and more perilous by the summaries and systems of the schoolmen
2624 1, XII | frequently in winter than in summertime, and chiefly during the
2625 1, XII | further stated that on this summit the air was so serene, and
2626 1, XXXI | which appear to be the very* summits and crowning points of human
2627 1, XL | courts of law, because they summon objects to appear which
2628 1, XIII | insomuch that a ray of sunshine, or the heat of the breath,
2629 1, XLVI | motions one shall by its superior velocity get the start and
2630 1, LXXXVIII| certain air of arrogance and superiority.~For in the first place
2631 1, L | antipathy on account of the superstitions and vanities associated
2632 1, XIV | can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore
2633 1, XCVIII | himself so great a man, and supported by the wealth of so great
2634 1, XLVII | and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow,
2635 1, XXXVI | although this be true on the supposition that flame is generated,
2636 1, XXIV | strength dominant over, suppressing and coercing them. For since
2637 1, LI | aspire to the ultimate and supreme, so do I forever hate all
2638 1, XCIX | the commensurable; from surds to rational quantities;
2639 1, LXXIII | as it were sponsors and sureties for the truth of philosophies.
2640 1, LXXXIX | Others with more subtlety surmise and reflect that if second
2641 1, XII | to warmth; or simply, as surmised in the preceding article,
2642 1, XXXV | equal or in some cases even surpass the works of the sun by
2643 1, XCIX | and furniture which far surpassed the thread of linen or of
2644 1, XXIV | quicksilver. For it far surpasses in weight all substances
2645 1, XXXVI | the contrary natures that surround it.~On this subject therefore
2646 1, XX | the form of heat.~From a survey of the instances, all and
2647 1, XIII | There are many degrees in susceptibility of heat. And first of all
2648 1, XXIX | things are to be chiefly suspected which depend in any way
2649 1, XLVIII | armed magnets that hold and suspend iron of sixty times their
2650 1, XCIX | generalities, I maintain a sort of suspension of the judgment, and bring
2651 1, XXXVII | be no less requisite for sustaining and conveying natural action
2652 1, XCVII | resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common
2653 1, XCIX | instance, and civet — the sweetest odors are sometimes generated,
2654 1, L | it manifestly contracts sweetness by the process. But for
2655 1, XL | to expand the bladder and swelled it out on all sides like
2656 1, XX | perpetually quivering and swelling in small portions, and again
2657 1, XCIX | now that I have purged and swept and leveled the floor of
2658 1, LXI | way, the more active and swift he is, the further he will
2659 1, XLVIII | for it with agility and swiftness enough, as weary and impatient
2660 1, XLVIII | the motion of water in swimming, of air in flying, of water
2661 1, XII | the animal spirits should swoon and be suffocated by the
2662 1, XCIX | but also by the use of syllogistic demonstration trained and
2663 1, XXXV | brutes too have some power of syllogizing; as in the old story of
2664 1, XIV | consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if
2665 1, XXI | Limits of Investigation, or a synopsis of all natures in the universe;
2666 1, L | the earthy parts; or when syrups are clarified with the whites
2667 1, XLVI | at night, seems to have a tail. And it was upon this inequality
2668 1, XCVI | philosophy that is pure; all is tainted and corrupted: in Aristotle'
2669 1, LXXXVII | there have not been wanting talkers and dreamers who, partly
2670 1, XIII | think comes flame from oil, tallow, wax, and such like fat
2671 1, XLVIII | parts in any body curb, tame, subdue, and regulate the
2672 1, XCIX | unseasonable and premature tarrying over such things as these,
2673 1, XCIX | rather sinks it to a very Tartarus of turmoil and confusion,
2674 1, XC | they must undertake the task all by themselves; they
2675 1, L | sourness or flatness, but tasted much finer, owing, it would
2676 1, XXVI | proposed nature be taste or tasting. The following instances
2677 1, XCVII | the Great, and let no man tax me with vanity till he have
2678 1, XII | animate substances, and tear asunder and consume the
2679 1, XXIV | quicksilver is liquid and teeming with spirit, and yet is
2680 1, XLV | for instance by the use of telescopes.~Most of these powers act
2681 1, LXXIII | wisely owns as much when he tells us that the experimental
2682 1, XXXV | set to work diligently to temper the heat of fire and reduce
2683 1, LVI | novelty; but few so duly tempered that they can hold the mean,
2684 1, XLVIII | long as it is in vigor, it tempers all the motions of the other
2685 1, XLVIII | infinity is wasting away and tending to become finite. The like
2686 1, LII | it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and
2687 1, LXXXVIII| embraces and cherishes certain tenets, the purpose of which (if
2688 1, XII | and be suffocated by the tenuity of the air.~To the 2nd.~
2689 1, XIII | relative; insomuch that tepid water feels hot if the hand
2690 1, L | of a tree in one of the Tercera or Canary Isles (I do not
2691 1, XLIV | But the whole business terminates in works, and as the former
2692 1, LXXIX | were called (all except Thales), applied themselves to
2693 1, LXVII | it as a tenet. And though theirs is a fairer seeming way
2694 1, LXXI | Aristotle, Zeno, Epicurus, Theophrastus, and their successors Chrysippus,
2695 1, XIII | a quarter of an hour, or thereabouts, so hot that you cannot
2696 1, XIII | in calendar glasses [air thermoscopes], which are made thus. Take
2697 1, XCIX | observing that ink can be so thickened as to color without running (
2698 1, XLV | like odoriferous trees, or thickets of rosemary, marjoram, and
2699 1, L | belong the material and thickness of the vessels in which
2700 1, XII | glass is made thicker or thinner in the middle as compared
2701 1, XXXV | drought being half dead with thirst, saw some water in the hollow
2702 1, XLVI | sometimes to the distance of thirty miles, the sound is caught
2703 1, LXXIII | grape and olive, it bear thorns and briers of dispute and
2704 1, LXXXIX | incorporating the contentious and thorny philosophy of Aristotle,
2705 1, XCIII | clearly intimating that the thorough passage of the world (which
2706 | thou
2707 1, XCIX | thousand as one, or the thousandth part of an integer as an
2708 1, XL | with a garment. Hence that three-fold source, so potent and wonderful,
2709 1, XLVIII | rejected by the palate or throat as to induce by consent
2710 1, LXXXVIII| and spur of industry, and throws away the chances of experience
2711 1, XXVII | force of heat in the male thrusts the genitals outward; whereas
2712 1, XXXVI | curve between the finger and thumb, leaps away. For it is obvious
2713 1, XI | Fiery meteors.~4. Burning thunderbolts.~5. Eruptions of flame from
2714 | thy
2715 1, XLVI | sexhorary motion of the tide.~But an example of the thing
2716 1, XLVIII | For if the bell be held tight so that it cannot move,
2717 1, LXXV | they did, some perhaps of a timid disposition might be deterred
2718 1, XXXII | itself, which cannot but be tinged and infected, and at length
2719 1, XLIII | organization; that a little saffron tinges a whole hogshead of water;
2720 1, XCIX | notebooks under heads and titles, from them completed their
2721 1, XCVII | miraculous. But in the next age Titus Livius took a better and
2722 1, XI | becomes dry and crusted like toast.~25. Aromatic and hot herbs,
2723 1, XXVI | are seeking, we seek and toil and wander here and there,
2724 1, XL | such bodies I mean as are tolerably compact and not quite spongy
2725 1, XX | shown by putting a pair of tongs or a poker in the fire.
2726 1, LII | furnish practice with her tools in a general way. The rest
2727 1, XXVI | clearly aids the memory; also topics or "places" in artificial
2728 1, XLVI | like globes, and a lighted torch, carried hastily at night,
2729 1, XL | namely, that when bodies are tormented by fire or other means,
2730 1, L | of the sun at noon in the torrid zone, increased by the reflections
2731 1, XIII | and in like manner that of touchwood or tow, which is used in
2732 1, XIII | manner that of touchwood or tow, which is used in firing
2733 1, XCIX | means of which the strongest towers and walls could be shaken
2734 1, XII | snow and wind, that letters traced by the finger in the ashes
2735 1, XXVII | Magellan, in each of which tracts there are similar isthmuses
2736 1, LXXVII | have drawn both ages in its train — I answer in the first
2737 1, XCIX | syllogistic demonstration trained and inured to it. But then,
2738 1, LXX | clusters, and draw after them trains and troops of works. Of
2739 1, XCIX | withdrawing it from the serene tranquility of abstract wisdom, a condition
2740 1, XCIX | operate upon or change or transform), the investigation of the
2741 1, L | for the more remarkable transformations and alterations of bodies
2742 1, XCIX | body so to be altered or transformed. Otherwise he will run into
2743 1, LXXV | some power of generating or transforming natural bodies. By this
2744 1, LXXXIX | search into nature should transgress the permitted limits of
2745 1, XXX | together and combine and transmit their labors, yet will no
2746 1, XLVIII | a return, but a renewed transmutation. In the same way water,
2747 1, XCIX | or successfully and aptly transmute it into a new body, unless
2748 1, LXXXVII | intellectual faculties, of transmuting substances, of strengthening
2749 1, LXVI | different species and the transplanting of one into another. To
2750 1, LI | as they call it) and of transposing the subtler configurations
2751 1, XXXI | either woven in upright and transverse threads, as silk, woolen
2752 1, XII | disturbed. And at this day travelers ascending to the top of
2753 1, XCVIII | information deceptive and treacherous. And if anyone thinks that
2754 1, XXX | they should be ranked and treated separately, for they are
2755 1, XLVIII | altogether uneasy, keep forever trembling and stirring themselves
2756 1, XXXVI | waters, as they lie in the trench or hollow of the sea, cannot
2757 1, XLVIII | motion be the motion of trepidation, to which, as understood
2758 1, L | by the chemists in their triad of first principles that
2759 1, XXXIII | abide by the sentence of a tribunal which is itself on trial.~
2760 1, XXXI | contemn juggling and conjuring tricks. For some of them, though
2761 1, XXI | hindered by received doctrines, tries a little that other way,
2762 1, XXXV | Therefore philosophers do but trifle when they say that if the
2763 1, XLVI | to appearance doubled or tripled, because a new image is
2764 1, L | stood on three feet (like a tripod) the height of which was
2765 Pre | for the decoration of a triumph or some such magnificence)
2766 1, XCIX | first regards a body as a troop or collection of simple
2767 1, XCIX | passed into the pipes and trumpets of the Greeks), or even,
2768 1, XXXV | some water in the hollow trunk of a tree, and finding it
2769 1, XIII | milder than the flame from trunks and roots of trees. And
2770 1, XXXIX | so far as we may safely trust to demonstrations of this
2771 Pre | trying. And yet they too, trusting entirely to the force of
2772 1, XCIX | taking stand upon them as truths that cannot be shaken, proceed
2773 1, XX | iron rods, or two glass tubes, exactly alike; warm them
2774 1, XX | clear that heat causes a tumult and confusion and violent
2775 1, XXVIII | time, seem harsh and out of tune, much as the mysteries of
2776 1, XC | straightway arraigned as a turbulent person and an innovator.
2777 1, XCIX | whether it be copious and turgid, or meager and scarce; whether
2778 1, XCIX | it to a very Tartarus of turmoil and confusion, removing
2779 1, XLVIII | by spittle, hog's lard, turpentine, and the like, owing to
2780 1, XXX | beast —~Simia quam similis turpissima bestia nobis;~likewise the
2781 1, XLIII | Instances I will put in the twentieth place Dissecting Instances,
2782 1, XLIX | Instances I will put in the twenty-fifth place intimating instances,
2783 1, XL | of matter, would require twenty-one times the space occupied
2784 1, XLVI | Instances I will put in the twenty-second place Instances of the Course,
2785 1, LI | Instances I will put in the twenty-seventh and last place Instances
2786 1, L | Instances I will put in the twenty-sixth place Polychrest Instances,
2787 1, XLVII | Instances I will put in the twenty-third place Instances of Quantity,
2788 1, XLVIII | they hollow out an alder twig or some such thing and stuff
2789 1, XL | true in nature than the twin propositions that "nothing
2790 1, XLVI | suddenly and (as we say) in the twinkling of an eye, are found to
2791 1, XXIII | such instances are always twofold, or rather it is one instance
2792 1, XCIX | endured evils, quellers of tyrannies, and the like) they decreed
2793 1, XXVII | ground, which two things are ultimities and extremes; that is to
2794 1, XXXIV | otherwise call Instances of Ultimity or Limit. For such instances
2795 1, XII | to a fiery red, even if unaccompanied by flame, is always hot;
2796 1, LXXI | most part (as Dionysius not unaptly rallied Plato) "the talk
2797 1, XXXI | passage to new works hitherto unattempted. For if from an attentive
2798 1, XXXVI | is so balanced as to be uncertain to which of two or more
2799 Pre | ancient sophists, or from uncertainty and fluctuation of mind,
2800 1, XCIX | a vacuum and that of the unchangeableness of matter (both false assumptions);
2801 1, XCIX | judgment can be passed on uncommon or remarkable things, much
2802 1, XLVIII | connection be so, I am still undecided. For I am not prepared to
2803 1, LXI | but places all wits and understandings nearly on a level. For as
2804 1, XC | liberty of judgment, they must undertake the task all by themselves;
2805 1, XCIX | in it, certainly if a man undertakes by steadiness of hand and
2806 Pre | ancients remains untouched and undiminished, while I may carry out my
2807 1, XLVIII | in rowing, of air in the undulations of winds, of a spring in
2808 1, XLVIII | and yet are not altogether uneasy, keep forever trembling
2809 1, XXXIX | really even, although the unevenness is so minute that it cannot
2810 1, LXXVII | therefore, is one of the most unfavorable. And so much for this point;
2811 1, XLVIII | than in air, owing to the unfitness and unreadiness of those
2812 1, XLVIII | clearly capable of folding and unfolding itself in space, within
2813 1, XCII | they think this comes of an ungoverned and unripened mind, and
2814 1, XCIX | nothing) are unknown and unhandled. For seeing that every natural
2815 1, XCII | fully to feel and know the unhappiness of their own condition)
2816 1, XCIX | such is the infelicity and unhappy disposition of the human
2817 1, XCVII | Now if anyone of ripe age, unimpaired senses, and well-purged
2818 1, XCII | preparation to give hope is no unimportant part. For without it the
2819 1, LXVI | they come to potential and uninformed matter, nor on the other
2820 1, LXXII | pronounced by them to be uninhabitable; and the travels of Democritus,
2821 1, LXXXIX | first proposed to men's then uninitiated ears the natural causes
2822 1, XXXI | familiar, but in nature almost unique — so also must we do with
2823 1, XLVIII | chord of another sound a unison, and the like. I suspect
2824 1, XCIX | antiquity.~And as for the universality of the censure, certainly
2825 1, LXIV | understanding to leap or fly to universals and principles of things,
2826 1, XCVIII | say, and something like an unjust complaint, seeing that Aristotle,
2827 Pre | this there would be nothing unlawful or new (for if there be
2828 1, LXXXIX | religion, especially with the unlearned. But these two last fears
2829 1, XLV | nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them
2830 1, XCVI | natural philosophy pure and unmixed, better things are to be
2831 1, LX | as there are things left unnamed through lack of observation,
2832 Pre | in a manner not harsh or unpleasant. It is but reasonable, however (
2833 1, XCIX | such speculative and withal unprofitable matters. My purpose, on
2834 1, XCIX | seem to be curiously and unprofitably subtle. Upon this point,
2835 1, LXXVIII | growth of the sciences, were unprosperous. For neither the Arabians
2836 1, XCIX | find, yet upon the whole it unquestionably falls out the other way.
2837 1, XLVIII | The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest,
2838 1, XLVIII | owing to the unfitness and unreadiness of those bodies to receive
2839 1, XLIV | their own creation after an unreal and scenic fashion. Nor
2840 1, XCII | comes of an ungoverned and unripened mind, and that such attempts
2841 1, XCIX | from what has been left unsaid, that there is hope enough
2842 1, XXXIX | colors and motions before unseen, are not without astonishment
2843 1, XC | is distrusted, because it unsettles what is established; these
2844 1, XLVIII | philosophy. But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher
2845 1, L | and force. Which makes the unskillfulness of some alchemists of the
2846 1, XLVIII | not the less though it be unsuccessful. But the real state of the
2847 1, XCIX | difficult and perverse and unsuitable to the nature of the body
2848 1, XLVIII | the air, which is quite untrue. For the resonance is not
2849 1, LXV | important, because from this unwholesome mixture of things human
2850 1, XCIV | government that had been unwisely administered. "That which
2851 1, XCIX | rejected her petition as an unworthy thing and beneath his dignity,
2852 1, XXXVI | which such vast masses are upheaved, such great weights discharged,
2853 1, XLVI | buildings, and the like are upset and thrown into the air
2854 1, LXVII | the beginning and am ever urging, the human senses and understanding,
2855 1, XXXIX | glasses. And here (as is usual in things new and wonderful)
2856 1, XCIX | passes till it comes to the utterance of articulate sounds. For
2857 1, XCIX | end in view. Had they been uttered earlier, they might have
2858 1, XLVIII | thousand times as much of vacuity as there is in gold. which
2859 1, XXIX | Instances, that is, errors, vagaries, and prodigies of nature,
2860 1, LXXXVIII| perfect, and for the miserable vainglory of making it believed that
2861 1, LXXV | of all testimony the most valid). I mean the confession
2862 1, XXVIII | must be regarded as most valuable, because they sharpen and
2863 1, XLVI | and the apparent afterward vanished entirely when I came to
2864 1, XCIX | away the nature infallibly vanishes. Therefore it is always
2865 1, XVI | bottom, all light opinions vanishing into smoke, a form affirmative,
2866 1, XXII | black in marble, and the variegation of color in flowers of the
2867 1, LXXIV | what is founded on opinion varies but increases not. If therefore
2868 1, XL | of dense and rare, though variously and promiscuously used,
2869 1, XCIX | purified and clarified in the vat. And therefore it is no
2870 1, XXIII | understood to be merely the vehicle that carries the form. This
2871 1, XCIX | unstable causes, and merely vehicles, or causes which convey
2872 1, XXVIII | elephant among quadrupeds; the venereal sense among kinds of touch;
2873 1, L | spirits contained in the ventricles of the brain; and these
2874 1, XLV | being assured by a person of veracity that he himself under an
2875 1, L | and it is the same with verdigris and ceruse; crystal is produced
2876 1, LX | liquids, without any due verification.~There are, however, in
2877 1, XLI | another in vinegar, another in verjuice, and quite another in milk
2878 1, XXVII | branch but a root. And vice versa, if earth be placed at the
2879 1, XI | dracunculus, nasturtium vetus, etc., although not warm
2880 1, XCVIII | themselves more readily under the vexations of art than when they go
2881 1, XLVIII | original percussion and the vibration of the body thence produced,
2882 1, XXVII | a branch but a root. And vice versa, if earth be placed
2883 1, LXIX | LXIX~But vicious demonstrations are as the
2884 1, XCIX | risings according to the vicissitude of things and course of
2885 1, XCIX | and such as neither the vicissitudes of nature, nor industry
2886 1, XX | hurried and with violence.~Viewed with reference to operation
2887 1, XCIX | sense agreeable to my own views. Thus, let the investigation
2888 1, XL | adulterated, the better from the viler sort, should be referred
2889 1, XI | especially in winter.~13. All villous substances, as wool, skins
2890 1, XLVIII | which sows wheat and plants vines — for that it is, a definition
2891 1, XIII | Leonis, Cauda Leonis, Spica Virginis, Sirius and Canicula, than
2892 1, XCIX | of nature's workshop, and virtually includes and draws after
2893 1, XII | some bright and lighted viscous substance, than to be of
2894 1, XXXV | the nature in question be visibility. It appears to be a very
2895 1, XLI | observe the whole process of vivification and organization, and see
2896 1, XLIII | report of a cannon drowns the voice; a strong scent overpowers
2897 1, XL | noted down the weights and volumes of all the metals, the principal
2898 1, XCIX | or again, concerning the voluntary motion of animals from the
2899 1, XII | of the stomach, producing vomiting. And it was observed by
2900 1, LXXVII | where there is right of vote). For nothing pleases the
2901 1, XCIX | word, we must pass from Vulcan to Minerva if we intend
2902 1, XXVI | species: that things which are waited for and raise the attention
2903 1, LII | as I said above, without waiting for the particular investigation
2904 1, XCIX | infinite in enabling us to walk, to ply our arts, to read,
2905 1, XXVI | seeking, we seek and toil and wander here and there, as if in
2906 1, XVI | hitherto adopted are but wanderings, not being abstracted and
2907 1, XCIX | For experience, when it wanders in its own track, is, as
2908 1, LXXXV | of man than to feel his wants; not considering that the
2909 1, XXXI | had been thinking of the war engines and battering-rams
2910 1, XCIX | literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation;
2911 1, XII | compressed, or manifestly warmed by the sun, fire, or some
2912 1, XXXV | dead with cold, by slightly warming them at a fire. So that
2913 1, XVII | forms, I cannot too often warn and admonish men against
2914 1, XXXVI | leaves one side when it washes the other; or else by a
2915 1, XLVIII | another, and that infinity is wasting away and tending to become
2916 1, XLI | therefore be set a sort of night watch over nature, as showing
2917 1, XLVIII | by predominancy, as in watering pots with holes in them,
2918 1, XCIX | First gave the seed whence waving harvests grow,~And re-created
2919 1, XL | interposition of a medium which will weaken without annihilating the
2920 1, XLIII | even, though considerably weakened, through the holes and pores
2921 1, LXVII | former subdues, the latter weakens the understanding. For the
2922 1, XIII | diligently examined. The weakest heat of all, I think, is
2923 1, LXXXIX | well-nigh closed. Some are weakly afraid lest a deeper search
2924 1, XX | so after a little while wearies of experiment. But this
2925 1, XCIX | and down of birds; but a web woven by a tiny worm, and
2926 1, LXXXV | to laugh over them or to weep. For the alchemist nurses
2927 1, LXXVIII | those so many ages, if you weigh the case truly, shrink into
2928 1, LXVI | can do but little for the welfare of mankind.~
2929 1, XLVIII | but as may conduce to the well-being of the commanding part;
2930 1, LX | especially of lowest species and well-deduced (for the notion of chalk
2931 1, LXXII | even by hearsay or any well-founded rumor; nay, a multitude
2932 1, XCVII | unimpaired senses, and well-purged mind, apply himself anew
2933 1, L | by letting them down into wells; by burying them in quicksilver
2934 1, LXXVIII | is to say, the nations of Western Europe. And to each of these
2935 1, LX | clings to another body and wets it; and that which is easily
2936 1, XXIII | white when dry, but when wetted (that is, when air is excluded
2937 1, XLVIII | restrains the several parts of whatsoever sort, so long the homogeneous
2938 1, XLVIII | denned as that which sows wheat and plants vines — for that
2939 1, XXXIX | descry those small stars wheeling as in a dance round the
2940 | whenever
2941 1, LXVI | the quiescent principles, wherefrom, and not the moving principles,
2942 1, LXVIII | into the kingdom of heaven, whereinto none may enter except as
2943 1, XL | ready to follow, so that wheresoever the spirit leads they go
2944 1, XLIII | definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men
2945 1, XCII | induce any alacrity or to whet their industry in making
2946 1, LXXV | hopeful spirit might be whetted and incited to go on farther.
2947 1, XL | quantity of butter, curd, whey, etc., is contained in milk.
2948 1, XCIX | answer the end equally well whichever way they turn out; for they
2949 1, XXVI | trying to repeat it between whiles, and when memory failed,
2950 1, LXXXII | mist of tradition, or the whirl and eddy of argument, or
2951 1, LXXXV | tradition and auricular whispers), or else that in his manipulations
2952 1, XXXVI | iron that has been heated white-hot be, while cooling, laid
2953 1, XI | put into it hardens and whitens almost as if it were boiled,
2954 1, L | syrups are clarified with the whites of eggs that the coarser
2955 | whither
2956 1, XCIX | without doubt both a more wholesome and a more noble thing than
2957 1, XCIX | boundaries of things. But whosoever is acquainted with forms
2958 1, XIII | when tinder, or the burning wick of a candle or lamp, or
2959 1, XCIX | sciences to purposes of wickedness, luxury, and the like, be
2960 1, XCIX | particulars it confirm that wideness and largeness as by a collateral
2961 1, L | and one that narrows and widens in turn, and the like. For
2962 1, LXXVII | if it had been a real and widespread consent, still so little
2963 1, XCIX | province of Europe, and in the wildest and most barbarous districts
2964 1, XIII | Greek fire (commonly called wildfire), and its different kinds,
2965 1, XVII | XVII~Nor is there less of willfulness and wandering in the construction
2966 1, LXI | understanding may the more willingly submit to its purgation
2967 1, XXXVI | for the third body, the willow charcoal, does no more than
2968 1, XCIX | and minute, can neither win the kingdom of nature nor
2969 1, LI | nature accomplishes by many windings, is a point on which I have
2970 1, L | condensed on the inside of windowpanes toward morning after a night'
2971 1, XXXVI | the generation of these windy flames, or fiery winds as
2972 1, XXVIII | XXVIII~For the winning of assent, indeed, anticipations
2973 1, XII | insomuch that the Dutch who wintered in Nova Zembla and expected
2974 1, XXXVI | a machine made with iron wires to represent it.~The following
2975 1, LXXIII | And Celsus ingenuously and wisely owns as much when he tells
2976 1, XLIX | or chart of things to be wished for. For to form judicious
2977 Pre | then that I am far from wishing to interfere with the philosophy
2978 1, XIII | that adventitious heat, withdraw and contract itself to the
2979 1, XXXII | understanding. For whatever withdraws the understanding from the
2980 1, XCII | and flourish, at another wither and decay, yet in such sort
2981 1, LXVII | philosophy manifest in giving or withholding assent, because intemperance
2982 Pre | to which experience bears witness; let him correct by seasonable
2983 1, XCIX | the answer of the poor woman to the haughty prince who
2984 1, LXXXV | you will easily cease from wondering, and on the contrary will
2985 1, XCVII | born, that in after ages wonders might be told of us," as
2986 1, XXXI | transverse threads, as silk, woolen or linen cloth, and the
2987 1, LXXXV | and religions also, have worked or played. These therefore
2988 1, XCVIII | disposition and the secret workings of his mind and affections
2989 1, LXXXI | occasionally happens that some workman of acuter wit and covetous
2990 1, XXXI | like pieces of nature's workmanship. For it is neither brittle
2991 1, XCIX | luster of his name and the worship of mankind, yet he took
2992 1, XCIX | contemplation of truth is a thing worthier and loftier than all utility
2993 1, XI | tongue, or on any part when wounded and laid bare of the skin,
2994 1, XXXIX | liquors, urine, blood, wounds, etc., could be distinguished,
2995 1, XL | intangible spirit which it wraps and clothes as with a garment.
2996 1, L | eggs, in which there are no wrinkles or inequalities. It is true,
2997 1, XL | the rents, contractions, wrinklings, and shrivelings in the
2998 1, LXXXIX | transferring what is said in Holy Writ against those who pry into
2999 1, LXXXVII | sometimes been injured and wronged by fables. Meanwhile it
3000 1, LXXXIX | limits of sober-mindedness, wrongfully wresting and transferring
3001 1, XC | XC~Again, in the customs and