 | Mary Frederica Sophia Hervey - 1921 - 658 หน้า
...who lost his life by trying an experiment about the burning of the mountain Vesuvius. For I was also desirous to try an experiment or two, touching the...Highgate) I was taken with such a fit of casting as I know not whether it were stone, or some surfeit, or cold, or indeed a touch of them all three. But... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 1996 - 598 หน้า
.../ am curious to see what happens in the next world to those who die unshriven." — Perugino "I was desirous to try an experiment or two touching the conservation and induration of bodies." — Bacon are only two typical examples out of hundreds. And, above all, there is the eighteenth century,... | |
 | Philip Ball - 2005 - 221 หน้า
...must be said, are best left alone. 'I was desirous', Francis Bacon wrote from his sickbed in 1626, 'to try an experiment or two touching the conservation and induration of bodies; as for the experiment it succeeded excellently well.' An ailing old man of sixtyfive, Bacon bought a chicken from a woman... | |
 | Mary Frederica Sophia Hervey - 1921 - 662 หน้า
...who lost his life by trying an experiment about the burning of the mountain Vesuvius. For I was also desirous to try an experiment or two, touching the...Highgate) I was taken with such a fit of casting as I know not whether it were stone, or some surfeit, or cold, or indeed a touch of them all three. But... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 606 หน้า
...405 lost his life by trying an experiment about the burning of the mountain Vesuvius. For I also was desirous to try an experiment or two touching the conservation and induration of bodies. For the experiment itself, it succeeded remarkably well ; but in the journey between Highgate and London... | |
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Vesuvius. For I was also desirous to try an experiment or two, touching the conservation and induration of bodies. As for the experiment itself, it succeeded excellently well... 
