The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works

C.and J. Rivington, 1826

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OF	ix

Of the nature of appetite in the stomach	8

Of alterations which may be called majors	15

Of the finer sort of base metals	21

Of the dulcoration of fruits	25

Of the colour of the sea or other water	32

Of vinegar	39

Of the emission of spirits in vapour or exhalation odourlike	48

Of seeming wise	303

Of friendship	304

Of expence	310

29 Of the true greatness of kingdoms and estates	311

30 Of regimen of health	320

31 Of suspicion	321

Of discourse	322

Of plantations	324

Of the secret virtue of sympathy and antipathy	63

Of secret virtues and proprieties	74

Mr Bacon in praise of knowledge	118

Of emission of spiritual species which affect the senses	149

Filum Labyrinthi sive formula Inquisitionis 1 61	161

Sequela chartarum sive inquisitio legitima de calore et fri	171

PHYSIOLOGICAL REMAINS	180

Inquisitions touching the compounding of metals	187

Of the variation of metals into several shapes bodies	194

A speech concerning the recovering of drowned mineral	200

A catalogue of bodies attractive and not attractive together	208

Wine for the spirits	209

Of certain cements and quarries	216

His lordships usual receipt for the gout	217

A fragment of the colours of good and evil	223

ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL	241

Of death	247

Of adversity	254

Of envy	260

Of great place	266

Of boldness	269

Of goodness and goodness of nature	271

Of nobility	273

Of seditions and troubles	274

Of atheism	280

Of superstition	283

Of travel	284

Of empire	286

Of counsel	290

Of delays	295

Of wisdom for a mans self	299

Of innovations	300

Of dispatch	301

Of riches	326

Of prophecies	329

Of ambition	332

Of masques and triumphs	334

Of nature in men	335

39 Of custom and education	337

40 Of fortune	338

Of usury	340

Of youth and age	343

Of beauty	345

Of deformity	346

Of building	347

Of gardens	351

Of negotiating	356

Of followers and friends	358

Of suitors	359

Of studies	361

Of faction	362

Of ceremonies and respects	364

Of praise	365

Of anger	373

A collection of Apophthegms new and old	385

Ornamenta rationalia	447

Short notes for civil conversation	455

A confession of faith	465

A prayer or psalm	473

An advertisement touching the controversies of the Church	483

Certain considerations touching the better pacification	507

Circumstances in the government of bishops	513

Concerning the liturgy the ceremonies and subscription	519

Touching the abuse of excommunication	527

The translation of certain psalms into English verse	533

Términos y frases comunes

amongst ancient answered Aristotle atheism Augustus Cæsar beasts Bensalem better body brass Cæsar calcined cause Church Cicero cold colour cometh commixed conceit counsel divers divine doth drams earth effect envy Experiment solitary touching father fire flesh fruit give glass God's goeth gold grains hath heat heaven holy honour imagination invention iron kind king knowledge labour land less light likewise liquor living creatures lord maketh man's matter means metals mind mixture motion natural philosophy nature never observed oil of vitriol opinion ounce particular persons Plato Pompey putrefaction quicksilver religion rest saith seemeth shew silver smell Solomon's House speak speech spirit of wine spirits stone strong substance things thou thought tion Tirsan true unto usury vapour Vespasian virtue vitrification whereby wherein whereof wine wise wits words

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Página 105 - 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.‎

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Página 282 - Travel in the younger sort is a part of education ; in the elder a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.‎

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Página 306 - ... certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another, he tosseth his thoughts more easily, he marshalleth them more orderly, he seeth how they look when they are turned into words ; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.‎

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Página 264 - The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains ; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : " Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere.‎

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Página 281 - But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practise, in a reversed order.‎

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Página 243 - TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting.‎

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Página 305 - For there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.‎

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Página 268 - Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled : Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again ; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, " If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.‎

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Página 325 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it, sometimes, loseth or disturbeth the victory : of great riches, there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit.‎

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Página 344 - Therefore it is good to consider of deformity, not as a sign, which is more deceivable, but as a cause, which seldom faileth of the effect. Whosoever hath any thing fixed in his person that doth induce contempt, hath also a perpetual spur in himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn.‎

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Título	The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works Volumen2 de The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Francis Bacon
Autor	Francis Bacon
Editor	C.and J. Rivington, 1826

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