Book, Chapter

  1      1, Int  |              that the mind of man by Nature knoweth all things, and
  2      1, Int  |            restored: such a light of Nature I have observed in your
  3      1, Int  |             seem an impossibility in Nature for the same instrument
  4      1, Int  |            and branching itself into Nature’s order, full of facility
  5      1, Int  |              your Majesty’s gifts of Nature and the universality and
  6      1, I    |            not the pure knowledge of Nature and universality, a knowledge
  7      1, I    |            supreme or summary law of Nature (which he calleth “the work
  8      1, I    |             thereof, hath in it some nature of venom or malignity, and
  9      1, I    |         comprehend all the universal nature of things; for these limitations
 10      1, I    |              by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries
 11      1, I    |              reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then, indeed,
 12      1, I    |          that God worketh nothing in Nature but by second causes; and
 13      1, I    |             that the highest link of Nature’s chain must needs he tied
 14      1, II   |            politics, they be of this nature: that learning doth soften
 15      1, II   |             what things are in their nature demonstrative, and what
 16      1, II   |            as an action according to nature, as agreeable to health
 17      1, II   |              such a point of a man’s nature may make him give himself
 18      1, II   |       breedeth any such point in his nature.~(7) And that learning should
 19      1, III  |           their manners, or from the nature of their studies. For the
 20      1, III  |        Grecians; but they be of that nature as they are sometimes not
 21      1, III  |    observation or examination of the nature and customs of one person,
 22      1, III  |            did not.” And of the like nature was the answer which Aristippus
 23      1, IV   |         second which followeth is in nature worse than the former: for
 24      1, IV   |           like as many substances in nature which are solid do putrefy
 25      1, IV   |            little history, either of nature or time, did out of no great
 26      1, IV   |             so in the inquisition of nature, they ever left the oracle
 27      1, IV   |            appear to be of a diverse nature, the one seeming to proceed
 28      1, IV   |           well for the disclosing of nature as for the use of man’s
 29      1, V    |            of time do take after the nature and malice of the father.
 30      1, V    |            time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which
 31      1, V    |          Another error, of a diverse nature from all the former, is
 32      1, V    |            from the contemplation of nature, and the observations of
 33      1, V    |              several opinions of the nature of the soul, he found a
 34      1, VI   |       relation and correspondence in nature and corporal things to knowledge
 35      1, VI   |           them noteth a principle of nature, that putrefaction is more
 36      1, VI   |           showed His power to subdue nature by His miracles. And the
 37      1, VII  |            as in a discourse of this nature and brevity it is fit rather
 38      1, VII  |         necessities which arise from nature, which merit was lively
 39      1, VII  |            beast returned to his own nature; wherein is aptly described
 40      1, VII  |       wherein is aptly described the nature and condition of men, who
 41      1, VII  |           had set forth his books of nature, wherein he expostulateth
 42      1, VIII |          upon the universal frame of nature, the earth with men upon
 43      1, VIII |            mortality and corruptible nature of things, he will easily
 44      1, VIII |         investeth and crowneth man’s nature. We see the dignity of the
 45      1, VIII |              surpasseth all other in nature. For, shall the pleasures
 46      1, VIII |              in that whereunto man’s nature doth most aspire, which
 47      2, Int  |              also which are in their nature permanent and perpetual.
 48      2, Int  |     proficience in the disclosing of nature, except there be some allowance
 49      2, Int  |         spials and intelligencers of nature to bring in their bills;
 50      2, Int  |           might compile a history of nature, much better do they deserve
 51      2, Int  |              that travail in arts of nature.~12. Another defect which
 52      2, Int  |              generals. And surely as nature createth brotherhood in
 53      2, I    |          many have done the works of Nature, and the state, civil and
 54      2, I    |             learning.~(3) History of Nature is of three sorts; of Nature
 55      2, I    |         Nature is of three sorts; of Nature in course, of Nature erring
 56      2, I    |              of Nature in course, of Nature erring or varying, and of
 57      2, I    |            erring or varying, and of Nature altered or wrought; that
 58      2, I    |           collection of the works of Nature which have a digression
 59      2, I    |        heteroclites or irregulars of Nature, well examined and described,
 60      2, I    |            now are, if an untruth in Nature be once on foot, what by
 61      2, I    |          because from the wonders of Nature is the nearest intelligence
 62      2, I    |            and, as it were, hounding Nature in her wanderings, to be
 63      2, I    |            the further disclosing of Nature. Neither ought a man to
 64      2, I    |         proved yourself to be of the nature of the sun, which passeth
 65      2, I    |         impertinent for the story of Nature.~(5) For history of Nature,
 66      2, I    |           Nature.~(5) For history of Nature, wrought or mechanical,
 67      2, I    |     Aristotle noteth well, “That the nature of everything is best seen
 68      2, I    |          that cause he inquireth the nature of a commonwealth, first
 69      2, I    |        cottage. Even so likewise the nature of this great city of the
 70      2, I    |            we see how that secret of Nature, of the turning of iron
 71      2, I    |           passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully in
 72      2, I    |              fully in the liberty of nature as in the trials and vexations
 73      2, II   |         action. For this is the true nature of a commentary (though
 74      2, II   |      deficience in them is but their nature. As for the corruptions
 75      2, II   |            and accidents of a meaner nature. For giving but a touch
 76      2, III  |  accomplishment; and, therefore, the nature of such a work ought to
 77      2, III  |             prophecies, being of the nature of their Author, with whom
 78      2, IV   |             pleasure join that which nature hath severed, and sever
 79      2, IV   |        severed, and sever that which nature hath joined, and so make
 80      2, IV   |             those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it,
 81      2, IV   |             than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because
 82      2, IV   |            and bow the mind unto the nature of things. And we see that
 83      2, IV   |           and congruities with man’s nature and pleasure, joined also
 84      2, IV   |             history is of actions in nature as they are (that is) past.
 85      2, V    |             informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine
 86      2, V    |             revelation. The light of nature consisteth in the notions
 87      2, V    |               or are circumferred to nature, or are reflected or reverted
 88      2, V    |            of God, the difference of nature and the use of man. But
 89      2, V    |            philosophy as they are in nature—the one in appearance, the
 90      2, V    |              as philosophers, and in nature, their inquiries must of
 91      2, V    |            reason why some things in nature are so common, and in so
 92      2, V    |            be certain participles in nature which are almost ambiguous
 93      2, V    |            deep silence touching the nature and operation of those common
 94      2, V    |            adjuncts of things, as in nature; and only a resuming and
 95      2, V    |         because in a writing of this nature I avoid all subtlety, my
 96      2, V    |            thus, that the quantum of nature is eternal? in natural theology
 97      2, V    |     principia—a rule in religion and nature, as well as in civil administration?
 98      2, V    |      principles and architectures of nature to the rules and policy
 99      2, V    |            but the same footsteps of nature, treading or printing upon
100      2, V    |           both for the disclosing of nature and the abridgment of art.~
101      2, VI   |        atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess
102      2, VI   |   superstitious, because no light of nature extendeth to declare the
103      2, VI   |              by the contemplation of nature to induce and enforce the
104      2, VI   |              of the contemplation of nature, or ground of human knowledges,
105      2, VI   |               Otherwise it is of the nature of angels and spirits, which
106      2, VI   |             out of the gradations of nature, is not restrained. So of
107      2, VI   |    contemplation or science of their nature, their power, their illusions,
108      2, VI   |              unlawful to inquire the nature of evil spirits, than to
109      2, VI   |              the force of poisons in nature, or the nature of sin and
110      2, VI   |            poisons in nature, or the nature of sin and vice in morality.
111      2, VII  |             said, “That the truth of nature lieth hid in certain deep
112      2, VII  |              that Vulcan is a second nature, and imitateth that dexterously
113      2, VII  |             and compendiously, which nature worketh by ambages and length
114      2, VII  |             as they have efficacy in nature, and not logically. It appeareth
115      2, VII  |              that which supposeth in nature only a being and moving;
116      2, VII  |           which supposeth further in nature a reason, understanding,
117      2, VII  |           parts, whereof two respect nature united or collected, the
118      2, VII  |              the third contemplateth nature diffused or distributed.
119      2, VII  |             diffused or distributed. Nature is collected either into
120      2, VII  |            finem, the summary law of nature, we know not whether man’
121      2, VII  |         ordinary flexuous courses of nature. But latae undique sunt
122      2, VII  |    possibility of superinducing that nature upon any variety of matter;
123      2, VII  |         infinite essays or proofs of Nature, which they term fortune,
124      2, VII  |             God more admirable, when Nature intendeth one thing and
125      2, VIII |             it more agreeable to the nature of things, and to the light
126      2, VIII |            that that is causative in Nature of a number of effects;
127      2, VIII |             matter. For it being the nature of the mind of man (to the
128      2, VIII |              them. For many parts of Nature can neither be invented
129      2, VIII |             be more kinds of them as Nature grows further disclosed.
130      2, VIII |              science, or the part of Nature speculative.~(3) For natural
131      2, VIII |       alterations and innovations in Nature, either by the fortune and
132      2, VIII |            far differing in truth of Nature from such a knowledge as
133      2, VIII |      superinduce upon some metal the nature and form of gold by such
134      2, VIII |             that he that knoweth the nature of arefaction, the nature
135      2, VIII |            nature of arefaction, the nature of assimilation of nourishment
136      2, VIII |         being the works or fruits of Nature or art) which are now extant,
137      2, VIII |          omnia sylvae,”~the voice of Nature will consent, whether the
138      2, VIII |           touching the principles of nature, and the fundamental points
139      2, VIII |          touching the foundations of nature. Not for any exact truth
140      2, VIII |            glosses and opinions upon Nature, whereof it may be everyone
141      2, VIII |       directus, which is referred to nature, radius refractus, which
142      2, IX   |       philosophy in the continent of Nature. And generally let this
143      2, IX   |               and at large, of human nature to be fit to be emancipate
144      2, IX   |             his common and undivided nature; but chiefly in regard of
145      2, IX   |            of them a solid ground in Nature, and a profitable use in
146      2, IX   |           the inquiry touching human nature entire, as a just portion
147      2, X    |               of all other things in nature, most susceptible of remedy;
148      2, X    |              of all substances which nature hath produced, man’s body
149      2, X    |           and sweetness of life, and nature of hope, maketh men depend
150      2, X    |            approaches and avenues of nature, they may assume as much
151      2, X    |             a more open and manifest nature, I will enumerate and not
152      2, X    |            of many, some as in their nature incurable, and others as
153      2, X    |            steel, or the like; which nature, if it may be reduced to
154      2, X    |             vice to which he were by nature subject. It is order, pursuit,
155      2, X    |      application, which is mighty in nature; which although it require
156      2, X    |              either by an aptness of nature, which cannot be taught,
157      2, XI   |        inquireth of the substance or nature of the soul or mind, the
158      2, XI   |            soundly inquired, even in nature, than it hath been, yet
159      2, XI   |            the true knowledge of the nature and state of the soul must
160      2, XI   |          springeth from the internal nature of the soul is that which
161      2, XI   |             likewise be agreeable to nature that there should be some
162      2, XII  |            other impressions of like nature, which do paint and disguise
163      2, XII  |          power of the imagination in nature, and the manner of fortifying
164      2, XII  |             pabulum animi; so in the nature of men’s appetite to this
165      2, XIII |             art to perfect and exalt nature; but they contrariwise have
166      2, XIII |        wronged, abused, and traduced nature. For he that shall attentively
167      2, XIII |          that the mind of herself by nature doth manage and act an induction
168      2, XIII |              from them in subject of nature by syllogism—that is, by
169      2, XIII |             est; but the subtlety of nature and operations will not
170      2, XIII |          pair of shears.~(8) But the nature of the collection of this
171      2, XIV  |          spoken of interpretation of Nature.~(2) For the other judgment
172      2, XIV  |        excellently laboured. For the nature of man doth extremely covet
173      2, XIV  |          mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,
174      2, XIV  |       imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind, beholding them
175      2, XIV  |    superstition, namely, that to the nature of the mind of all men it
176      2, XIV  |         usually suppose and feign in nature a greater equality and uniformity
177      2, XIV  |             there are many things in Nature as it were monodica, sui
178      2, XIV  |             of man and the spirit of Nature.~(10) Let us consider again
179      2, XIV  |           every man’s own individual nature and custom in that feigned
180      2, XIV  |             are inseparable from our nature and condition of life; so
181      2, XV   |          writing hath two parts, the nature of the character and the
182      2, XVI  |      perceptible by the sense, is in nature competent to express cogitations.
183      2, XVI  |              examining the power and nature of words, as they are the
184      2, XVI  |           are many, according to the nature or rule of the infolding,
185      2, XVII |         Neither is the method or the nature of the tradition material
186      2, XVIII|         Neither is the method or the nature of the tradition material
187      2, XIX  |         other considerations of this nature, things but of mean appearance,
188      2, XIX  |             things which are next in nature, and those things which
189      2, XIX  |            sort together things of a nature, as treaties, instructions, &
190      2, XIX  |          follow the divisions of the nature of things; whereas if myself
191      2, XX   |              man by habit and not by nature, or the distinguishing that
192      2, XX   |               the one describing the nature of good, the other prescribing
193      2, XX   |             touching the platform or nature of good considereth it either
194      2, XX   |            higher elevation of man’s nature than was (for we see in
195      2, XX   |             labours. Wherein for the nature of good positive or simple,
196      2, XX   |              commended them to man’s nature and spirit with great quickness
197      2, XX   |              degrees and comparative nature of good, they have also
198      2, XX   |              they had consulted with nature, they had made their doctrines
199      2, XX   |        formed in everything a double nature of good—the one, as everything
200      2, XX   |      divulsion in the continuance of nature, they will move upwards
201      2, XX   |            to the world. This double nature of good, and the comparative
202      2, XX   |               who gave those laws of nature to inanimate creatures that
203      2, XX   |            the mind, making no fixed nature of good and evil, esteeming
204      2, XX   |              a more continual joy to nature than all the provision which
205      2, XXI  |              be the worthier; for in nature the heavens, which are the
206      2, XXI  |          embraceth the form of human nature, whereof we are members
207      2, XXI  |    assumption to divine or angelical nature is the perfection of his
208      2, XXI  |              the mean to exalt their nature, they are in a perpetual
209      2, XXI  |      controverted; but whether man’s nature may not be capable of both
210      2, XXI  |        fearful and cautious than the nature of things requireth. So
211      2, XXI  |          please the reader more than nature beareth; and chiefly well
212      2, XXI  |            as God did by the laws of nature; and ought as rarely to
213      2, XXII |           cannot command neither the nature of the earth nor the seasons
214      2, XXII |       without our command: points of Nature, and points of fortune.
215      2, XXII |            in matter of more serious nature (and supposing it still
216      2, XXII |          properly which we call good nature or ill nature, benignity
217      2, XXII |              call good nature or ill nature, benignity or malignity;
218      2, XXII |             are those impressions of Nature, which are imposed upon
219      2, XXII |           said, that the mind in the nature thereof would be temperate
220      2, XXII |          should generally handle the nature of light can be said to
221      2, XXII |            can be said to handle the nature of colours; for pleasure
222      2, XXII |           which in a subject of this nature are but curiosities), than
223      2, XXII |    particular writings of an elegant nature, touching some of the affections:
224      2, XXII |              things which consist by Nature, nothing can be changed
225      2, XXII |            be true in things wherein Nature is peremptory (the reason
226      2, XXII |          otherwise in things wherein Nature admitteth a latitude. For
227      2, XXII |             too high, in a diffident nature you discourage, in a confident
228      2, XXII |           discourage, in a confident nature you breed an opinion of
229      2, XXII |             that whereunto we are by nature inclined; like unto the
230      2, XXII |            doth prove indeed another nature; but, being governed by
231      2, XXII |         commonly prove but an ape of Nature, and bringeth forth that
232      2, XXII |           indeed is like the work of nature; whereas the other course
233      2, XXII |            it. But contrariwise when nature makes a flower or living
234      2, XXII |          only an imitation of divine nature, but a pattern of it. But
235      2, XXII |     excellences, though they advance nature, yet they are subject to
236      2, XXII |         first platform of the divine nature itself, the heathen religion
237      2, XXIII|        observation of causes of like nature. For so we see in the book
238      2, XXIII|              deep which hath show of nature, liberty, and simplicity.~
239      2, XXIII|            when they return to their nature they are another. These
240      2, XXIII| consideration of their magnitude and nature: Fraus sibi in parvis fidem
241      2, XXIII|           again we see how false the nature of some deeds are, in that
242      2, XXIII|            the constitution of their nature sorteth with the general
243      2, XXIII|      Secondly, to consider how their nature sorteth with professions
244      2, XXIII|             composition of their own nature; as we may see in Caesar,
245      2, XXIII|            goodness, and facility of nature; but show some sparkles
246      2, XXIII|          felicity. But in some it is nature to be somewhat vicious and
247      2, XXIII|             conceit that is almost a nature, which is, that men can
248      2, XXIII|            to his old bias, when the nature of the war was altered and
249      2, XXIII|              knowledge is to imitate nature, which doth nothing in vain;
250      2, XXIII|         fortune hath somewhat of the nature of a woman, that if she
251      2, XXIII|            another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice
252      2, XXIII|          having begun a work of this nature in aphorisms, to propound
253      2, XXIII|        observation of causes of like nature. For so we see in the book
254      2, XXIII|              deep which hath show of nature, liberty, and simplicity.~
255      2, XXIII|            when they return to their nature they are another. These
256      2, XXIII| consideration of their magnitude and nature: Fraus sibi in parvis fidem
257      2, XXIII|           again we see how false the nature of some deeds are, in that
258      2, XXIII|            the constitution of their nature sorteth with the general
259      2, XXIII|      Secondly, to consider how their nature sorteth with professions
260      2, XXIII|             composition of their own nature; as we may see in Caesar,
261      2, XXIII|            goodness, and facility of nature; but show some sparkles
262      2, XXIII|          felicity. But in some it is nature to be somewhat vicious and
263      2, XXIII|             conceit that is almost a nature, which is, that men can
264      2, XXIII|            to his old bias, when the nature of the war was altered and
265      2, XXIII|              knowledge is to imitate nature, which doth nothing in vain;
266      2, XXIII|         fortune hath somewhat of the nature of a woman, that if she
267      2, XXIII|            another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice
268      2, XXIII|          having begun a work of this nature in aphorisms, to propound
269      2, XXV  |            and not upon the light of nature: for it is written, Caeli
270      2, XXV  |            voice beyond the light of nature. So we see the heathen poets,
271      2, XXV  |            opposite and malignant to nature: Et quod natura remittit,
272      2, XXV  |    perfection whereunto the light of nature cannot aspire: how then
273      2, XXV  |              by the light and law of nature, some notions and conceits
274      2, XXV  |           Thus, because the light of nature is used in two several senses:
275      2, XXV  |             our better direction. In nature this holdeth not; for both
276      2, XXV  |          both of greater and smaller nature, namely, wherein there are
277      2, XXV  |        informed or revealed, and the nature of the information or revelation;
278      2, XXV  |           have now last handled. The nature of the information consisteth
279      2, XXV  |              you conclude; and as in nature, the more you remove yourself
280      2, XXV  |            perfection of the laws of nature, the secrets of the heart
281      2, XXV  |            aliment is that which the nature of man can perfectly alter
282      2, XXV  |         which is partly converted by nature, and partly converteth nature;
283      2, XXV  |        nature, and partly converteth nature; and poison is that which
284      2, XXV  |            which worketh wholly upon nature, without that nature can
285      2, XXV  |            upon nature, without that nature can in any part work upon
286      2, XXV  |            not to express matters of nature in the Scriptures, otherwise
287      2, XXV  |     illustration sake, borrowed from nature or history according to
288      2, XXV  |       containeth the doctrine of the nature of God, of the attributes
289      2, XXV  |             of the works of God. The nature of God consisteth of three
290      2, XXV  |             thereof, into the law of nature, the law moral, and the
291      2, XXV  |            us that they are all of a nature, when there is once a receding