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Page 400 - The end of our Foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Page 404 - By art likewise we make them greater or taller than their kind is, and contrariwise dwarf them and stay their growth ; we make them more fruitful and bearing than their kind is, and contrariwise barren and not generative.
Page 406 - We have some meats also, and breads and drinks, which taken by men enable them to fast long after; and some other that used make the very flesh of men's bodies sensibly more hard and tough, and their strength far greater than otherwise it would be.
Page 412 - We have three that draw the experiments of the former four into titles and tables, to give the better light for the drawing of observations and axioms cut of them. These we call Compilers. We have three that bend themselves, looking into the experiments of their fellows, and cast about how to draw out of them things of use and practice for man's life and knowledge...
Page 412 - For the several employments and offices of our fellows we have twelve that sail into foreign countries under the names of other nations (for our own we conceal), who bring us the books, and abstracts, and patterns of experiments of all other parts. These we call merchants of light. We have three that collect the experiments which are in all books. These we call depredators.
Page 391 - But the grapes are daintily enamelled; and if the males of the family be the greater number, the grapes are enamelled purple, with a little sun set on the top; if the females, then they are enamelled into a greenish yellow, with a crescent on the top. The grapes are in number as many as there are descendants of the family.
Page 409 - We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds, and lesser slides of sounds.
Page 404 - We have also particular pools where we make trials upon fishes as we have said before of beasts and birds. We have also places for breed and generation of those kinds of worms and flies which are of special use; such as are with you your silkworms and bees.
Page 413 - For our ordinances and rites, we have two very long and fair galleries: in one of these we place patterns and samples of all manner of the more rare and excellent inventions; in the other we place the statues of all principal inventors.
Page 398 - Peru colour. There was also a sun of gold, radiant upon the top, in the midst; and on the top before, a small cherub of gold, with wings displayed.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 5 Works of Francis Bacon, Douglas Denon Heath |
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| Editors | James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath |
| Publisher | Brown and Taggard, 1862 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 11 Apr 2006 |
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