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" The likeliest trial is by snow and ice ; for as snow and ice, especially being holpen and their cold activated by nitre or salt, •will turn water into ice, and that in a few hours ; so it may be, it will turn wood or stiff clay into stone, in longer... "
Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and ... - Page 375
by Francis Bacon - 1857
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...A'CTIVATE. -va [from active."] To make active. This word is perhaps used only by the author alleged. As snow and ice, especially being holpen, and their cold activated by nitre or silt, will turn water into ice, and that in a few hours; so it may be, it will turn wood or stiff chy...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...surface of the earth, so near the beams of the ran, and the heavens. The likeliest trial is by raow ortune from that of their subjects and servants, cannot gather this fruit, except, to make themselves c tarn water into ice, and that in a few hours ; so it way be, it will turn wood or stiff clay into stone,...
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Theological Criticisms, Or, Hint of the Philosophy of Man and Nature: In Six ...

F. W. Adams - Belief and doubt - 1843 - 262 pages
...nrface of the earth, so near the beams of the sun aitvl the heavens. The likeliest trial is by enow ai>d ice; for as snow and ice, especially being holpen,...turn wood or stiff clay into stone, in longer time." How Tery different is this solution from the modern geological one, viz., that earth is formed by the...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Ed.; with a ...

Francis Bacon - 1844 - 610 pages
...will speak of them distinctly. 83. Foi indurations by cold, there be few trials of it; for we have no strong or intense cold here on the surface of the...therefore into a conserving pit of snow and ice, adding gome quantity of salt and nitre, a piece of wood, or a piece of tough clay, and let it lie a month...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1852 - 606 pages
...will speak of them distinctly. 83. For indurations by cold, there be few trials of it ; for we have no strong or intense cold here on the surface of the...pit of snow and ice, adding some quantity of salt and'nitre, a piece of wood, or a piece of tough clay, and let it lie a month or more. 84. Another trial...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...; for as snow and ice, especially being bolpen and their cold activated by nitre, or salt, will ton lunger time. Pat therefore into a conserving pit of snow and ice, adding some quantity of salt and...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes ..., Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 710 pages
...will speak of them distinctly. 83. For indurations by cold, there be few trials of it ; for we have no strong or intense cold here on the surface of the...will turn wood or stiff clay into stone, in longer tune. Put therefore into a conserving pit of snow and ice (adding some quantity of salt and nitre)...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1862 - 502 pages
...will speak of them distinctly. 83. For indurations by cold, there be few trials of it ; for we have no strong or intense cold here on the surface of the...ice (adding some quantity of salt and nitre) a piece ,,f wood, or a piece of tough clay, and let it lie a month or more. 84. Another trial is by metalline...
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The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1876 - 712 pages
...will speak of them distinctly. 83. For indurations by cold, there be few trials of it ; for we have no strong or intense cold here on the surface of the...Put therefore into a conserving pit of snow and ice (íídding some quantity of salt and nitre) a piece of wood, or a piece of tough clay, and let it lie...
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Shakespeare: A Lecture

Robert Green Ingersoll - Dramatists, English - 1895 - 94 pages
...will." Now and then the inventor of deduction reasons by analogy. He says : " As snow and iceholpen, and their cold activated by nitre or salt, will turn water into ice, so it may be it will turn wood or stiff clay into stone." Bacon seems to have been a believer in the...
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