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 worksF. C. and J. Rivington, 1819 - Philosophy |
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... silver should be turned to gold , or iron to cop- per : and this conversion is better called , for distinc- tion sake , transmutation . Experiment solitary touching alterations , which may be called majors . 839. THERE are also divers ...
... silver should be turned to gold , or iron to cop- per : and this conversion is better called , for distinc- tion sake , transmutation . Experiment solitary touching alterations , which may be called majors . 839. THERE are also divers ...
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... silver thread cannot be made without twisting . Experiment solitary touching other passions of mat- ter , and characters of bodies . 846. THE differences of impressible and not im- pressible ; figurable and not figurable ; mouldable and ...
... silver thread cannot be made without twisting . Experiment solitary touching other passions of mat- ter , and characters of bodies . 846. THE differences of impressible and not im- pressible ; figurable and not figurable ; mouldable and ...
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... silver . And that there was in India a kind of brass , which , being polished , could scarce be discerned from gold . This was in the natural ure but I am doubtful , whether men have sufficiently refined metals , which we count base ...
... silver . And that there was in India a kind of brass , which , being polished , could scarce be discerned from gold . This was in the natural ure but I am doubtful , whether men have sufficiently refined metals , which we count base ...
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... silver ; which gold afterwards they find to be whit- ened . There are also certain lakes and pits , such as that of Avernus , that poison birds , as is said , which fly over them , or men that stay too long about them . 919. THE vapour ...
... silver ; which gold afterwards they find to be whit- ened . There are also certain lakes and pits , such as that of Avernus , that poison birds , as is said , which fly over them , or men that stay too long about them . 919. THE vapour ...
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... silver : " for to us it is all one . And if you have any other 66 66 66 request to make , hide it not . For ye shall find , we " will not make your countenance to fall by the an- " swer ye shall receive . Only this I must tell you ...
... silver : " for to us it is all one . And if you have any other 66 66 66 request to make , hide it not . For ye shall find , we " will not make your countenance to fall by the an- " swer ye shall receive . Only this I must tell you ...
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Page 250 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 368 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Page 368 - For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 252 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 306 - All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived.
Page 107 - 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.
Page 309 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Page 263 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Page 309 - Roman name attaineth the true use and cause thereof, naming them " participes curarum;" for it is that which tieth the knot: and we see plainly that this hath been done, not by weak and passionate princes only, but by the wisest and most politic that ever reigned, who have oftentimes joined to themselves some of their servants, whom both themselves have called friends, and allowed others likewise to call them in the same manner, using the word which is received between private men.
Page 312 - For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self ; and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.