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" Vesuvius. For I was also desirous to try an experiment or two, touching the conservation and induration of bodies. As for the experiment itself, it succeeded excellently well... "
The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay - Page 136
by Francis Bacon - 1838
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The Life, Correspondence & Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel

Mary Frederica Sophia Hervey - 1921 - 658 pages
...who lost his life by trying an experiment about the burning of the mountain Vesuvius. For I was also desirous to try an experiment or two, touching the...Highgate) I was taken with such a fit of casting as I know not whether it were stone, or some surfeit, or cold, or indeed a touch of them all three. But...
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The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose. 1939-1948

Wystan Hugh Auden - 1996 - 598 pages
.../ am curious to see what happens in the next world to those who die unshriven." — Perugino "I was desirous to try an experiment or two touching the conservation and induration of bodies." — Bacon are only two typical examples out of hundreds. And, above all, there is the eighteenth century,...
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Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry

Philip Ball - 2005 - 221 pages
...must be said, are best left alone. 'I was desirous', Francis Bacon wrote from his sickbed in 1626, 'to try an experiment or two touching the conservation and induration of bodies; as for the experiment it succeeded excellently well.' An ailing old man of sixtyfive, Bacon bought a chicken from a woman...
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The Life Correspondence, Collections of Thomas Howard Earl of Arundel

Mary F. S. Hervey - 1921 - 664 pages
...who lost his life by trying an experiment about the burning of the mountain Vesuvius. For I was also desirous to try an experiment or two, touching the...Highgate) I was taken with such a fit of casting as I know not whether it were stone, or some surfeit, or cold, or indeed a touch of them all three. But...
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Old and new London: a narrative of its history, its people and its places ...

George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 606 pages
...405 lost his life by trying an experiment about the burning of the mountain Vesuvius. For I also was desirous to try an experiment or two touching the conservation and induration of bodies. For the experiment itself, it succeeded remarkably well ; but in the journey between Highgate and London...
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