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... pieces , they shall be able to dis- charge two hundred bullets each hour . 31. A way how safely and speedily to make an approach to a castle or town - wall , and over the very ditch at noon - day . 32. How to compose an universal ...
... pieces , they shall be able to dis- charge two hundred bullets each hour . 31. A way how safely and speedily to make an approach to a castle or town - wall , and over the very ditch at noon - day . 32. How to compose an universal ...
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... Pieces of Leather , and lay some of it upon Brown Paper , warming it a little at the the pains in one night . I had this of them Fire ; then apply the same to the grief , and it will take away that have proved it often to be true . 24 ...
... Pieces of Leather , and lay some of it upon Brown Paper , warming it a little at the the pains in one night . I had this of them Fire ; then apply the same to the grief , and it will take away that have proved it often to be true . 24 ...
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... it makes them to swell and burst . 38. If the tender Horns of young Bucks , that are covered with a thin hairy skin , be cut in pieces , and then put into a new pot well covered , and set in an oven NOTABLE THINGS . 13.
... it makes them to swell and burst . 38. If the tender Horns of young Bucks , that are covered with a thin hairy skin , be cut in pieces , and then put into a new pot well covered , and set in an oven NOTABLE THINGS . 13.
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... pieces , of Hyssop and Pennyroyal , and also of scraped Liquorice , of each two handfuls ; seeth them all in a gallon of pure and fair water , until the water come to one bottle ; then strain it well , and keep in a clean vessel , close ...
... pieces , of Hyssop and Pennyroyal , and also of scraped Liquorice , of each two handfuls ; seeth them all in a gallon of pure and fair water , until the water come to one bottle ; then strain it well , and keep in a clean vessel , close ...
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... pieces , and stamp them both together , as small as may be ; then put thereto a quantity of Soot of a Chimney , and temper it with the Milk of a Cow that hath the hair of one colour ; then take the Urine of a Man that is fasting , and ...
... pieces , and stamp them both together , as small as may be ; then put thereto a quantity of Soot of a Chimney , and temper it with the Milk of a Cow that hath the hair of one colour ; then take the Urine of a Man that is fasting , and ...
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Ache Agrimony anoint anointed therewith Aqua Vitæ beat beaten Betony boil burning Child clean Cloves cold colour distil doth help drachm drank draught thereof drink Dropsy Dung earthen Electuary excellent Eyes fair Water fast fire Fistula Flowers followeth four ounces Galbanum glass Gout Grease grief grieved place half an ounce handful hath haue Head heal Herb Hispanus holes Honey Juice keep kill linen cloth Liquorice Malmsey meat medicine Mizaldus Mole morning mouth Mugwort night NOTABLE THINGS Nutmegs old written book ounces pain Party pieces pint Plantain plaster Pleurisy Powder put thereto quantity Quick Lime Quicksilver Radish Root Rose Water Salt secret Seed seeth Sickness sodden Sore spoonful stamp Stomach Stone strain Swoln Take therein thou three or four three ounces Tooth Turpentine unto Verjuice vessel Vinegar warm wash White Wine Whosoever Wind Woman Worms
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Página xvi - One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water, and a man that tends the work has but to turn two cocks; that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively ; the fire being tended and kept constant, which the selfsame person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Página xvi - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three...
Página 206 - Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations come and go? And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry.
Página xix - ... hindering, much less stopping, the other ; but unanimously and with harmony agreeing, they all augment and contribute strength unto the intended work and operation ; and, therefore, I call this a semi-omnipotent engine, and do intend that a model thereof be buried with me.
Página x - How, at a window, as far as eye can discover black from white, a man may hold discourse with his correspondent without noise made or notice taken ; being, according to...
Página 182 - ... they had a dirge of a quarter of an hour's length. That others would unite in laying hold of a straw with their bills, and so plunge down in society. Others again would form a large mass, by clinging together with their feet, and in that manner commit...
Página xix - An engine so contrived, that working the primum " mobile forward or backward, upward or downward, circularly " or corner-wise, to and fro, straight, upright or downright, " yet the pretended operation continueth, and advanceth[;] " none of the motions above-mentioned, hindering, much less " stopping the other ; but unanimously and with harmony " agreeing, they all augment and contribute strength unto " the intended work and operation : and therefore I call this " a semi-omnipotent engine, and do...
Página xi - How to make such false decks, as in a moment should kill and take prisoners as many as should board the ship, without blowing the decks up, or destroying them from being reducible, and in a quarter of an hour's time, should recover their former shape, and to be made fit for any employment without discovering the secret.
Página iii - A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655 to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice.
Página 208 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.