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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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Education in Utopias, Issue 257

Gildo Massó - 1927 - 224 pages
...well-nigh formidable task. Caves and lakes for physical, chemical, and biological experiments;185 towers "for insulation, refrigeration, conservation, and...the view of divers meteors — as winds, rain, snow, hail";180 sanatoriums, including establishments for aerotherapeutics and hydrotherapy ;18T agricultural...
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The Rôle of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century

Martha Ornstein Bronfenbrenner - 1928 - 330 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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Popular Science Monthly, Volume 62

1903 - 618 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 Harvard Classics, Volume 3

1909 - 378 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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New World Metaphysics: Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American ...

Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 pages
...some of them more fine. . . . "We have high towers, the highest about half a mile in height. . . . We use these towers, according to their several heights and situations, for insolation, refrigerations, conversation, and for the view of divers meteors. . , . "We have great...
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Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man

Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 pages
...towers, the highest about half a mile in height, and some of them likewise set upon high mountains . . . for the view of divers meteors, as winds, rain, snow, hail and some of the fiery meteors also. . . . We have pools of which some do strain salt water out of fresh. . . . We have large and various...
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Early American Writing

Various - 1994 - 676 pages
...highest of them three Miles at least. And these Places we call the Upper Region; Accounting the Aire 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 diverse Meteors; As Winds, Rain, Snow,...
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Selected Philosophical Works

Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 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 solar radiation, refrigeration, conservation, and for the view of diverse meteorological phenomena,...
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The Major Works

Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 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,0 refrigeration, conservation; and for the view of divers meteors;0 as winds, rain, snow,...
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Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance England

Christopher Kendrick - 2004 - 400 pages
...comes to the fore in the later paragraphs. Early on, the favoured transitive terms are 'use' (as in 'we use these towers, according to their several heights and situations, for insolation, refrigeration, conservation,' etc. [481]) and, more often, simply 'make' or 'make by art'...
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