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" We have high towers; the highest about half a mile in height; and some of them likewise set upon high mountains ; so that the vantage of the hill with the tower is in the highest of them three miles at least. And these places we call the Upper Region:... "
Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New ... - Page 203
by Plutarch - 1890 - 284 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Miscellaneous writings in philosophy, morality ...

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 292 pages
...in the highest of them three miles at least. And these places we call the upper region ; accounting the air between the high places and the low, as a...according to .their several heights and situations, for insolation, refrigeration, conservation, and for the view of divers meteors ; as winds, rain, snow,...
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The works of Francis Bacon, Volume 2

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...the highest of them three " miles at least. And these places we call the upper '' region : accounting the air between the high places " and the low, as...these " towers, according to their several heights and situa" tions, for insolation, refrigeration, conservation, and " for the view of divers meteors; as...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...the highest of them three " miles at least. And these places we call the upper " region : accounting the air between the high places " and the low, as...these " towers, according to their several heights and si" tuations, for insolation, refrigeration, conservation, " and for the view of divers meteors ; as...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...hill with the tower is in the highest of them three miles at least. And these places we call the upper region. We use these towers, according to their several heights and situations, for insolation, refrigeration, conservation, and for the view of divers meteors, as winds, rain, snow,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...the highest of them three " miles at least. And these places we call the upper " region : accounting the air between the high places " and the low, as...these " towers, according to their several heights and si" tuations, for insolation, refrigeration, conservation, " and for the view of divers meteors ; as...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...hill with the lower is in the highest of them three miles at least. And these places we call the upper region. We use these towers, according to their several heights and situations, for insolation, refrigeration, conservation, and for tlie view of divers meteors, as winds, rain, snow,...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...in the highest of them three miles at least. And these places we call the upper region ; accounting the air between the high places and the low, as a...according to their several heights and situations, for insolation, refrigeration, conservation, and for the view of divers meteors ; as winds, rain, snow,...
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Utopia; Or, the Happy Republic: A Philosophical Romance

Saint Thomas More - 1845 - 356 pages
...the highest of them, three miles at least. And these places we call ' the upper region,' accounting the air between the high places and the low as a '...these towers, according to their several heights and "seem strange;" but nevertheless overcame his repugnance to the strangeness, for the purpose of exhibiting...
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Utopia: or, The happy republic. To which is added, The new Atlantis, by lord ...

Thomas More (st.) - 1845 - 358 pages
...the highest of them, three miles at least. And these places we call ' the upper region,' accounting the air between the high places and the low as a '...these towers, according to their several heights and " seem strange;" but nevertheless overcame his repugnance to the strangeness, for the purpose of exhibiting...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...in the highest of them, three miles at least ; and these places we call the upper region, accounting the air between the high places and the low as a middle...according to their several heights and situations, for insolation, refrigeration, conservation, and for the view of divers meteors, as wintis, rain, snow,...
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