The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the AuthorParry & McMillan, 1859 - 455 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página iii
... sounds 29 Of loudness and softness of sounds 32 Of helping or altering the shape of the body . 11 Of communication of sounds ....... 32 Of condensing of air , to yield weight or nour- Of equality and inequality of sounds .. 32 ishment ...
... sounds 29 Of loudness and softness of sounds 32 Of helping or altering the shape of the body . 11 Of communication of sounds ....... 32 Of condensing of air , to yield weight or nour- Of equality and inequality of sounds .. 32 ishment ...
Página v
... sounds Of the flight of the spirits upon odious ob- ... 107 Of drunkenness ... 97 jects 107 Of the hurt or help of wine , taken moderately 98 Of caterpillars ..... 98 Of the flies cantharides 98 Of the super - reflection of echoes ...
... sounds Of the flight of the spirits upon odious ob- ... 107 Of drunkenness ... 97 jects 107 Of the hurt or help of wine , taken moderately 98 Of caterpillars ..... 98 Of the flies cantharides 98 Of the super - reflection of echoes ...
Página 3
... after his father's death . See also Art . 151 , when in Trinity College meditating upon the nature of sound . See also Art . 140 , 148 , 218 . Passing from these objections to the uses of natural history EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... after his father's death . See also Art . 151 , when in Trinity College meditating upon the nature of sound . See also Art . 140 , 148 , 218 . Passing from these objections to the uses of natural history EDITOR'S PREFACE .
Página 8
... sound ceaseth : and so the sound of a virginal string , as soon as the quill of the jack falleth from it , stoppeth . For Experiments in consort , touching motion of bodies these sounds are produced by the subtile percus- upon their ...
... sound ceaseth : and so the sound of a virginal string , as soon as the quill of the jack falleth from it , stoppeth . For Experiments in consort , touching motion of bodies these sounds are produced by the subtile percus- upon their ...
Página 24
... sounds are either musical sounds , which we call tones ; whereunto there may be a harmony ; which sounds are ever ... sound is not created between the bow or " plectrum " and the string ; but between the string and the air ; no more ...
... sounds are either musical sounds , which we call tones ; whereunto there may be a harmony ; which sounds are ever ... sound is not created between the bow or " plectrum " and the string ; but between the string and the air ; no more ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Ed.; with a ... Francis Bacon Visualização integral - 1844 |
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2 Francis Bacon Visualização integral - 1841 |
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2 Francis Bacon,Basil Montagu Visualização integral - 1825 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
amongst ancient appeareth better birds blood body body percussed boughs cause chiefly cold colour cometh consort touching court degree divers doth doubt draw Earl Earl of Essex earth echo effect England especially Essex Experiment solitary touching Experiments in consort farther fire flame flesh flowers fruit giveth glass goeth greater ground groweth hath heat herbs honour humours Ireland juice justice kind king King of Spain king's kingdom leaves less likewise liquor living creatures lord lordship Low Countries lute majesty majesty's maketh matter means ment moisture motion nature never nitre noise nourishment offence opinion parliament percussion person plants princes putrefaction realm reason root saith seed seemeth sound Spain speak speech spirit of wine spirits string subjects sweet things tion trees trial true unto vapour verjuice vessel virtue voice whereby wherein whereof wind wine wood
Passagens conhecidas
Página 2 - Another error, of a diverse nature from all the former, is the over early and peremptory reduction of knowledge into arts and methods ; from which time commonly sciences receive small or no augmentation. But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth ; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated, and accommodated for use...
Página 348 - A DECLARATION OF THE PRACTICES AND TREASONS, ATTEMPTED AND COMMITTED BY ROBERT LATE EARL OF ESSEX AND HIS COMPLICES...
Página 400 - 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 ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Página 441 - Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
Página 394 - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of Philosophy may incline the mind of Man to Atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to Religion. For in the entrance of Philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of Man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause...
Página 406 - ... seat, acknowledging that, by the breach of all thy holy laws and commandments, we are become wild olive hranches, strangers to thy covenant of grace; we have defaced in ourselves thy sacred image imprinted in us by creation ; we have sinned against heaven and before thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy children. O admit us into the place even of hired servants. Lord, thou hast formed us in our mothers...
Página 406 - THOU, O Father ! who gavest the Visible Light as the first-born of thy Creatures, and didst pour into man the Intellectual Light as the top and consummation of thy workmanship, be pleased to protect and govern this work, which coming from thy Goodness returneth to thy Glory.
Página 340 - I know at chess a pawn before the king is ever much played upon : a great many love me not, because they think I have been against my lord of Essex ; and you love me not, because you know I have been for him : yet will I never repent me that I have dealt in simplicity of heart towards you both, without respect of cautions to myself, and therefore vivus vidensque pereo.
Página 337 - And another time, when the queen would not be persuaded that it was his writing whose name was to it, but that it had some more mischievous author; and said with great indignation, That she would have him racked to produce his author...
Página 377 - ... that it is dangerous to give the least ear to such innovators, but it is desperate to be misled by them : But to settle your judgment, mark but the admonition of the wisest of men, King Solomon, Prov.