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... understood the apparent complication of causes , and the superaddition of properties not essential to things ; as light to heat , yellowness to gold , pellucidity to glass , & c . Shaw . • images of the mind ; that at length we PREFACE 7.
... understood the apparent complication of causes , and the superaddition of properties not essential to things ; as light to heat , yellowness to gold , pellucidity to glass , & c . Shaw . • images of the mind ; that at length we PREFACE 7.
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... heat , cold , & c . , which should be comprised in particular histories . The kind of experiments to be procured for our history are much more subtile and simple than the common ; abun- dance of them must be recovered from darkness ...
... heat , cold , & c . , which should be comprised in particular histories . The kind of experiments to be procured for our history are much more subtile and simple than the common ; abun- dance of them must be recovered from darkness ...
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... heat of contention is allayed , a good and wise historian may hence be furnished with matter for a more perfect history . As to the deficiencies in these three kinds of history , doubtless many particular transactions have been left ...
... heat of contention is allayed , a good and wise historian may hence be furnished with matter for a more perfect history . As to the deficiencies in these three kinds of history , doubtless many particular transactions have been left ...
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... ( in all climates ) undergoes no change , and beyond that limit , that the heat augments in proportion to the descunt . Ed . Pan's arms , or the ensigns he bears in his CHAP . XIII . ] THE FABLE OF FAX INTERPRETED . 103 NOVUM ORGANUM.
... ( in all climates ) undergoes no change , and beyond that limit , that the heat augments in proportion to the descunt . Ed . Pan's arms , or the ensigns he bears in his CHAP . XIII . ] THE FABLE OF FAX INTERPRETED . 103 NOVUM ORGANUM.
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... heat . And whilst an unlawful desire lies in the embryo , or unripened in the mind , which is its father , and here represented by Jupiter , it is cherished and concealed , especially in the interior part of the mind , corresponding to ...
... heat . And whilst an unlawful desire lies in the embryo , or unripened in the mind , which is its father , and here represented by Jupiter , it is cherished and concealed , especially in the interior part of the mind , corresponding to ...
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