The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1F. C. and J. Rivington, J. Cuthell, 1819 |
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Page 295
... strings with two strings , one an eight above another ; which make but as one sound . And every eighth note in ascent , as from eight to fifteen , from fifteen to twenty - two , and so in infinitum , are but scales of diapason . The ...
... strings with two strings , one an eight above another ; which make but as one sound . And every eighth note in ascent , as from eight to fifteen , from fifteen to twenty - two , and so in infinitum , are but scales of diapason . The ...
Page 297
... strings of a lute , there soundeth not the sound of the treble , nor any mixt sound , but only the sound of the base . 110. We have no music of quarter - notes ; and it may be they are not capable of harmony : for we see the half ...
... strings of a lute , there soundeth not the sound of the treble , nor any mixt sound , but only the sound of the base . 110. We have no music of quarter - notes ; and it may be they are not capable of harmony : for we see the half ...
Page 300
... string , where air is percussed by a hard and stiff body , and with a sharp loose : for if the string be not strained , it maketh no noise . But where the air is pent and straitned , there breath or other blowing , which carry but a ...
... string , where air is percussed by a hard and stiff body , and with a sharp loose : for if the string be not strained , it maketh no noise . But where the air is pent and straitned , there breath or other blowing , which carry but a ...
Page 303
... string , or the like , continueth melting some time after the percussion ; but ceaseth straitways , if the bell , or string , be touched and stayed : whereas , if it were the elision of the air that made the sound , it could not be that ...
... string , or the like , continueth melting some time after the percussion ; but ceaseth straitways , if the bell , or string , be touched and stayed : whereas , if it were the elision of the air that made the sound , it could not be that ...
Page 308
... strings is made or produced between the hand and the string , or the quill and the string , or the bow and the string , for those are but vehicula motus , passages to the crea- tion of the sound , the sound being produced between the string ...
... strings is made or produced between the hand and the string , or the quill and the string , or the bow and the string , for those are but vehicula motus , passages to the crea- tion of the sound , the sound being produced between the string ...
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Page 39 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 28 - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity:* for words are but the images of matter; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
Page 142 - For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.
Page 39 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife...
Page 27 - Execrabilis ista turba, quae non novit legem^] for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of necessity in chief price and request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the fittest and forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort.
Page 61 - Neither can any man marvel at the play of puppets, that goeth behind the curtain, and adviseth well of the motion. And for magnitude, as Alexander the Great, after that he was used to great armies, and the great conquests of the spacious provinces in Asia, when he received letters out of Greece, of some fights and services there, which were commonly for a passage or a fort or some walled town at the most, he said, " It seemed to him, that he was advertised of the battle of the frogs and the mice,...
Page 27 - Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator and Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods and imitation and the like. Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure all young men that were studious unto that delicate and polished kind of learning.
Page 9 - ... if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then indeed is he spoiled by vain philosophy...
Page 35 - Antiquity deserveth that reverence, that men should make a stand thereupon and discover what is the best way; but when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, "Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrograde, by a computation backward from ourselves.
Page 69 - The works touching books are two : first, libraries which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed...