 Experiment solitary touching the prognostics of hard winters. 737. IT is an observation amongst country people, that years of store of haws and hips do commonly portend cold winters ; and they ascribe it to God's providence, that, as the Scripture saith,...  The Works - Page 572de Francis Bacon - 1859Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Francis Bacon - 1824
...hard winters. 737. IT is an observation amongst country people, that years of store of haws and hips do commonly portend cold winters ; and they ascribe...summer precedent ; which putteth forth those fruits, aud must needs leave great quantity of cold vapours not dissipated; which causeth the cold of the winter... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 832 pages
...hard winters. 737. It is an observation amongst country people, that years of store of haws and hips do commonly portend cold winters ; and they ascribe...providence, that, as the Scripture saith, reacheth NATURAL HISTORY. 167 even to the falling of a sparrow ; and much more is like to reach to the preservation... | |
 | George Johnston, George Tate - 1853 - 336 pages
...the contrary. " It is an observation amongst countrey people, that years of store of Hawes and Hips do commonly portend cold winters ; and they ascribe...like to reach to the preservation of birds in such season."—BACON. ' T were cruel to eradicate such a belief. 11. Pyrus ma1ns. Don's Gard. Diet. ii.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854
...hard winters. 737. It is an observation amongst country people, that years of store of haws and hips do commonly portend cold winters ; and they ascribe...to God's providence, that, as the Scripture saith, rcacheth 1GG NATURAL HISTORY. 167 even to the falling of a sparrow ; and much more is like to reach... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859
...hard winters. 737. It is an observation amongst country people, that years of store of haws and hips do commonly portend cold winters; and they ascribe...much more is like to reach to the preservation of hirds in such seasons. The natural cause also may be the want of heat, and abundance of moisture, in... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 601 pages
...it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all."i For the rest, it may be left, with Bacon, to " God's providence, that (as the Scripture saith) reacheth even to the falling of a sparrow." * The mind is the man. His power of thought, and the doings of his thought are himself. His material... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887
...and constitution of the air, to diseases of putrefaction. And the same prognostic (as hath been sai<l before) holdeth, if you find worms in oak-apples :...ascribe it to God's providence, that (as the Scripture &aith) reacheth even to the falling of a sparrow ; and much more is like to reach to the preservation... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1887 - 998 pages
...friend?4 Bacon says: There is an observation among country people, that years of store of haws and hips do commonly portend cold winters; and they ascribe...saith, reacheth even to the falling of a sparrow* Shakespeare says: There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.* And again: He that doth the... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 998 pages
...friend?4 Bacon says: There is an observation among country people, that years of store of haws and hips do commonly portend cold winters; and they ascribe...that, as the Scripture saith, reacheth even to the Jailing of a sparrow? Shakespeare says: There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.* And... | |
 | William Francis C. Wigston - 1891 - 436 pages
...act ii. sc. 2.) " It is an observation amongst country people, that years of store of Haws and Hips do commonly ' portend cold winters, and they ascribe...saith) reacheth even to the falling of a sparrow" ("Sylva Sylvarum," Exp. 737). Hamlet. Not a whit, we defy augury : there's a special providence in... | |
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