The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volumen1W. Ball, 1838 |
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... 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 straitened , 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 straitened , there breath or other blowing , which carry but a ...
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... string , or the like , continueth melting some time after the percussion ; but ceaseth straightways , 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 straightways , 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 ...
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... 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 creation of the sound , the sound being pro- duced 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 creation of the sound , the sound being pro- duced between the string ...
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... strings , if you stop a string high , whereby it hath less scope to tremble , the sound is more treble , but yet more dead . 157. Take two saucers , and strike the edge of the one against the bottom of the other , within a pail of water ...
... strings , if you stop a string high , whereby it hath less scope to tremble , the sound is more treble , but yet more dead . 157. Take two saucers , and strike the edge of the one against the bottom of the other , within a pail of water ...
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... string , though softly strucken , giveth the greater sound ; but a treble string , if hard strucken , will be heard much farther off . And the cause is , for that the base string striketh more air , and the treble less air , but with a ...
... string , though softly strucken , giveth the greater sound ; but a treble string , if hard strucken , will be heard much farther off . And the cause is , for that the base string striketh more air , and the treble less air , but with a ...
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Página 299 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 10 - ... if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Página 286 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing, to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Página 279 - For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast ; but it is most untrue that it should have any character at all of the divine nature ; except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation...
Página 281 - ... 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.
Página 262 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Página 294 - 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; therefore, all deformed persons are extreme bold; first, as in their own defence, as being exposed to scorn, but in process of time by a general habit. Also it stirreth in them industry, and especially of this kind, to watch and observe the weakness of others, that they may have somewhat, to repay.
Página 271 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran', than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Página xxvii - My conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or honours ; but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Página 280 - A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body, and it is not much otherwise in the mind; you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen...