The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volume 1Baynes and son, 1824 |
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... tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do , it is not any thing you can do to the boughs , but it is the stirring of the earth , and putting new mould about the roots , that must work it . Neither is it to be forgotten , that ' this ...
... tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do , it is not any thing you can do to the boughs , but it is the stirring of the earth , and putting new mould about the roots , that must work it . Neither is it to be forgotten , that ' this ...
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... tree , that meet in a stem , which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and con- tinuance , before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs : therefore it is good , be- fore we enter into the former ...
... tree , that meet in a stem , which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and con- tinuance , before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs : therefore it is good , be- fore we enter into the former ...
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... trees are for protecting of the fruit ; or that the clouds are for watering of the earth ; or that the solidness of the earth is for the station and man- sion of living creatures , and the like , is well inquired and collected in ...
... trees are for protecting of the fruit ; or that the clouds are for watering of the earth ; or that the solidness of the earth is for the station and man- sion of living creatures , and the like , is well inquired and collected in ...
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... tree , where she espied water , that the water might rise so as she might come to it ? Who taught the bee to sail through such a vast sea of air , and to find the way from a field in flower , a great way off , to her hive ? Who taught ...
... tree , where she espied water , that the water might rise so as she might come to it ? Who taught the bee to sail through such a vast sea of air , and to find the way from a field in flower , a great way off , to her hive ? Who taught ...
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... tree of heaven , whereupon the conversion is accomplished ; so assuredly men have a desire to have an Atlas or axle - tree within , to keep them from fluctuation , which is like to a perpetual peril of falling ; therefore men did hasten ...
... tree of heaven , whereupon the conversion is accomplished ; so assuredly men have a desire to have an Atlas or axle - tree within , to keep them from fluctuation , which is like to a perpetual peril of falling ; therefore men did hasten ...
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