The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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The masters of estates will eat their own labourers.  
(Of beating Beds to renew them.)  
Men will be seen so deeply ungrateful that they will turn upon that  
which has harboured them, for nothing at all; they will so load it  
with blows that a great part of its inside will come out of its  
place, and will be turned over and over in its body.  
(Of Things which are eaten and which first are killed.)  
Those who nourish them will be killed by them and afflicted by  
merciless deaths.  
(Of the Reflection of Walls of Cities in the Water of their  
Ditches.)  
The high walls of great cities will be seen up side down in their  
ditches.  
(Of Water, which flows turbid and mixed with Soil and Dust; and of  
Mist, which is mixed with the Air; and of Fire which is mixed with  
its own, and each with each.)  
All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling  
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