tells tales, i. 84; admiration of an impediment to knowledge, i. 94; knowledge not to be sought in the obscurity of, but in the light of nature, ii. 547. Antipater, of all Alexander's lieutenants, wore no pur- ple, i. 113; his sayings of Demades, i. 114; Antisthenes' opinion what was most necessary, i. 120. Antitheta, examples of, i. 217.
Antoninus Pius, a learned prince, i. 178. Antonio, King, mortal enemy to the King of Spain, ii. 217; his retinue, therefore, free from all suspicion of conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth, ii. 217; yet suspected by some of her majesty's counsel, ii. 217. Antonio, Don, enterprise to settle him in the kingdom of Portugal failed, ii. 210.
Antonius, Marcus, transported by love, i. 18.
Antonius' mind weakened by the Egyptian soothsayer, ii. 129.
Ants, instinct of, ii. 93.
Armada, ill success of the Spanish, ii. 200; account of it, ii. 208.
Arms, the importance of to nations, i. 38; flourish in the youth of a state, i. 62; and learning, com- parison of in advancing men, i. 183.
Arragon, united with Castile, but not naturalized, ii. 155; its rebellion suppressed, and subsequent incor- poration with Castile, ii. 155.
Art, duty of to exalt nature, i. 208; of memory, visible images in the, ii. 131; the time extent of, ii. 572. Articulation of sounds, ii. 35.
Arts, military, flourish most while virtue grows, i. 205; liberal, flourish when virtue is in state, i. 205; volup tuary, flourish when virtue declines, i. 205; history of, deficient, i. 188.
Arts and methods, error of over-early reduction of science into, i. 173.
Antwerp, English merchants spoiled and put to their Arts, intellectual, are four, Invention, Judgment, Me- ransom at the sack of, ii. 260.
Anytus' accusation against Socrates, i. 164. Apelles, his mode of painting, i. 49. Ape's heart, what good for, ii. 134.
Aphorisms, iii. 427; the way of delivering ancient wisdom, iii. 222; the pith of sciences, i. 214; know- ledge when in, is in growth, i. 173.
Apollonius's judgment of Nero, ii. 277; reason for Nero's overthrow, delight in solitude, i. 34. Apollonius of Tyana, ii. 124.
Apophthegms, i. 107; account of, i. 9; loss of Cæsar's, i. 192.
Apothecaries, how they clarify syrups, ii. 8. Apology for the Earl of Essex, ii. 333. Apparel, vanity in should be avoided, ii. 386. Appendices to knowledge of the soul, i. 206; division of, divination, fascination, i. 206; of history, i.
Appetite, or will of man, i. 218.
Appius Claudius transported by love, i. 18. Arbela, the number of the Persians at, i. 36. Archidamus's answer to Philip of Macedon, i. 118. Arch-traitor Tyrone, the, ii. 349.
Arts and sciences, invention deficient, i. 207; their flourishing condition under the reign of King James, ii. 285.
Arts of judgment, i. 210.
Arundel and Surrey, Earl of, from Lord Bacon, men- tioning his being taken ill and staying at his house. iii. 91.
Ashton, Abdy, chaplain to the Earl of Essex, ii. 363. Assertion and proof, i. 214.
Astringents, a catalogue of different sorts, hot and cold, ii. 467; purgative, ii. 468.
Astrologers, means used by, more monstrous than the end, i. 199.
Astrologers' judgment that the King of France should be killed in a duel, i. 43. Astrology, Chaldean, i. 206. Astronomer, predictions of, i. 206.
Astronomical observations, admonition respecting, 1. 421; ii. 580.
Astronomy, theory of, i. 200; exemplified in the Book of Job, i. 175.
Atalanta and the golden ball, i. 174.
Archetype, the dignity of knowledge is to be sought in Atalanta, or gain, i. 304. the, i. 174.
Ardes, Spaniards beaten out of, ii. 200, 213. Arguments in law, iii. 267.
Aristippus, answers of his, i. 113, 117, 118, 121; answer as to the morigeration of learned men, i.
Aristotle, ii. 198, 210, 212, 219, 221, 224, 226, 227; school of, i. 90; put all his opinions upon his own authority, i. 99; full of ostentation, i. 57; goeth for the best author, i. 72; character of, i. 72; admired the invariableness of the heavens, i. 79; saith our ancestors were gross, i. 84; said that we are be- holden to him for many of our articles of faith, i. 123; remarks concerning the prolongation of life, ii. 16; opinion of the colours of feathers, ii. 7; advice in consumptions, ii. 16; framed new words in con- tradiction to ancient wisdom, i. 196; mentions the ancients only to confute them, i. 196; took the right course for glory in reproving the more ancient philosophers, i. 196; inquiry in physiognomy, i. 201; error in mixing philosophy with logic, i. 173; his sparing use of feigned matter in history, i. 172; observation on the power of the mind and reason, i. 206; emulation of, i. 216; followed the example of Alexander in conquering all opinions as the other all nations, i. 196; remarks on his system of natural philosophy, i. 427; his custom to prefer the obscure, ii. 581.
Atheism, learned men and times incline to, i. 163; superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind to, i. 164; learned times have inclined to, i. 162; caused by ignorant preachers, ii. 427; meditations upon, i. 6, 70; their disposition light, i. 71; Essay of, i. 24; never perturbs states, i. 25. Athens, poisoned capital offenders, ii. 85; their Sex- viri standing commissioners to watch the laws, ii. 231, 235.
Athletic, i. 205; philosophy relating to not inquired i. 205.
Atlantis, New, i. 255. Atlas, i. 210.
Atmosphere, artificial, in New Atlantis, i. 267. Atoms, equality or inequality of, i. 407. Attachment for not answering, ii. 481. Attemus, the start of in Epicurus, a frivolous shift, i. 71.
Attorney and solicitor-general should not be ignorant in things though unconnected with their profession, ii. 379. Attorney-general's place and commission, ii. 489. Attorney-general, abuse of to Mr. Bacon, ii. 497. Attraction, by similitude of substance, ii. 94; expen- ment touching, ii. 121; experimental remarks on, ii. 466; by similitude of substance, ii. 121. Attractive bodies, if in small quantues, ü 466; ob-
Audibles and visibles, consent and dissent between, Banishment, ii. 435. ii. 41; iii. 537, 539, 541, 542, 543.
Bankrupt, commission of, when granted, ii. 485.
Augustin, St. his comparison of nettles, ii. 476; com- Baptism, ii. 426. parison used by, ii. 267. Augustins, order of, ii. 406.
Augustus Cæsar, his saying of his two daughters and grandson, i. 121; his death, i. 12; policy attributed to him by Livia, i. 14; his friendship to Agrippa, i. 35; of a reposed nature, i. 48; of high spirit, yet beautiful, i. 49; sayings and letters of his, i. 113; character of, i. 401; in his youth affecting power. i. 401; in his middle age affecting dignity, i. 401, in age, ease and pleasure, i. 401; in his decline bent to memory and posterity, i. 401; treads the steps of Cæsar, but with deeper print, ii. 357; his peace- able government as highly esteemed as the victories of Julius Cæsar, ii. 246.
Auripigment and copper make red alchymy, ii. 459. Austria, Don John of, lost his reputation at Rimenant, ii. 207.
Authority of two kinds, ii. 130.
Authors should be consuls and not dictators, i. 172. Avellaneda, the Spanish admiral, sets upon the Enlish fleet, after the enterprise of Panama, ii. 212; comes off with loss, ii. 212; his boasting, ii. 212. Aviaries, i. 53.
Barbary, practice of getting fresh water in, ii. 7. Bark, as to the removal of from trees, ii. 86. Barkley, Sir Richard, Earl of Essex's keeper, ii. 354 Barley, experiments touching, ii. 85. Baronius, Cardinal, annals of, ii. 512. Barrels, sounds produced on full or empty, ii. 34. Barrow, a Brownist, his conduct, ii. 249. Barton, Eliz., named the maid of Kent, her treasor against Henry VIII., ii. 391.
Base counsellors, represented by Tellus, i. 288. Basilisk killeth by aspect, ü. 127. Bass and treble strings, sounds of, ii. 33, 34. Bates, his plea on imports and exports, ii. 278. Bath, or fomentation, ii. 469; mineral, i. 205. Bathing, experiment touching, ii. 99; benefits and effects of, ii. 98; among the Romans, ii. 99. Beads, different sorts of, ii. 132. Bears grow fat by sleep, ii. 16.
Beauty, i. 205; helps towards, ii. 11; of Elizabeth, i 449; Essay on, i. 48.
Beaver, admonition to imitate the, ii. 487. Beerehaven yielded by the Spaniards at the treaty of Kinsale, ii. 212.
Axe, in case of felony, whether to be carried before the Bees, instinct of, ii. 93; humming of, what, ii. 33; prisoner, ii. 516.
BABYLON, the excellence of its situation, ii. 228; the city of estate in Persia, ii. 228; Alexander the Great chose it for his seat, ii. 228; afterwards Se- leucus and his descendants, ii. 228; its greatness in the times of the kings of Parthia, ii. 229; of the successors of Mahomet, ii. 229; and at this day, Bagdad's greatness, ii. 229.
Bacon, Anthony, epistle dedicatorie of the first edition of the Essays to him, i. 2. Bacon, his value for the corrections of unlearned men, i. 277; love of familiar illustration, i. 279; died 9th April, 1626, i. cxii; speech in the House of Com- mons touching the general naturalization of the Scottish nation, ii. 150; the union of laws with Scotland, ii. 158; his argument in Caloin's case, the post-nati of Scotland, ii. 166; account of his works, ii. 436; opinion of the Novum Organum, ii. 436; to the judges, ii. 515; observations on the advancement of learning, ii. 436; most inclined by nature to the study of arts and sciences, ii. 474; his sayings, i. 111, 121, 124; thought it wisest to keep way with antiquity, usque ad aras, i. 196; letter to the king noting his History of Henry VII., i. 275; life in Biographia Britannia, i. 272; notice of his Essays by Rawley, i. 275; his reasons for devoting himself to philosophy, ii. 549; iii. 534. Bacon, Sir Nicholas, answer to Queen Elizabeth re- specting the monopoly licenses, i. 107; the littleness of his house, i. 115; abused in a libel in 1592, ii. 263; his character, ii. 263.
Bacon, Friar, his head, ii. 338; tradition about, ii. 103. Bagg's case, Sir E. Coke's answer to the objections in, ii. 507.
Bagges's case, ii. 528.
Balaam's Ass, author discovered, ii. 510.
Balance of Europe kept by Henry VIII., Francis I., and Charles V., ii. 204.
Ballard, his confession showed that all priests were acquainted with the intended invasion of England, ii. 255.
Baltimore, in Ireland, yielded by the Spaniards by the treaty of Kinsale, ii. 212.
longevity of, ii. 93. Behaviour, i. 56.
Belief, of Bacon, ii. 407; what worketh, ii. 129; and worship, wants of, ii. 412.
Believing Christian, character of, ii. 410. Bell metal, ii. 456, 459.
Bells, motion of pressure upon, ii. 8; chiming of, ii. 32.
Beneficence of Elizabeth, ii. 446. Benefices, value of, how regulated, ii. 514. Bettenham, Mr., opinion of riches, i. 121. Bertram, a murderer and suicide, ii. 501. Bias, his advice to dissolute mariners praying in a tempest, i. 109; a precept of his, i. 117; his pre- cept, i. 237.
Bills, if too long, counsel to be fined for passing, ii. 482; for what counsel punishable, ii. 482. Biography, i. 282
Bion, saying of his, i. 109, 120. Birch's translation of Bacon's praise of Prince Henry,
Bird-witted children ought to be taught mathematics,
Birds, time of growth of, ii. 102; quickness of motion in, ii. 90; imitate sounds, ii. 39; the nature of, ii. 102; of paradise, feetless, ii. 269. Birth, acceleration of, ii. 53. Bishop by deputy, ii. 424. Bishop of Winchester, letter to, i. 276. Bishop Andrews, ii. 435.
Bishops, government of, ii. 423; err in resisting re- form, ii. 417; virtues of, ii. 415; translation of, ii. 492; government, sole error of, ii. 423. Blackwater, defeat of the English by the Irish rebels at, ii. 211.
Bladder and water, weight of, ii. 464.
Blood, stanching of, ii. 18; insects without, ii. 93; saltness of, ii. 85; commixture of, ii. 465. Blows and bruises, experiments on, ii. 119 Blunt, Sir C. instigator of treasons, ii. 352; wounded in an encounter between Sir. J. Luson and the Earl of Essex, ii. 359; confession of, ii. 364; first con- fession of, ii. 369; confession of, ii. 372; speech of,
at his death, ii. 373; asks forgiveness of Raleigh, | Brittle and tough metals, ii. 461. ii. 373.
Bodies, the division of, i. 406; straining one through another, ii. 7; separations of, by weight, ii. 8; expe- riments on the motion of upon their pressure, ii. 8; contraction of in bulk, by mixture of liquid with solid, ii. 13; imperfectly mixed, ii. 113; induration of, ii. 20, 21; appetite in union of, ii. 45; burials or infusions of in the earth, ii. 56; effect of winds on men's, ii. 57; which do not draw, ii. 466; that are borne up by water, ii. 104; conservation of, ii. 104; of Alexander and Numa found after their death, ii. 104; experiment touching the supernatation of, ii. 107; preservation of, ii. 108; touching the fixation of, ii. 108; insensible perception in, ii. 109; touch- ing hard and soft, ii. 115; liquifiable, ii. 114; con- cretions and dissolutions of, ii. 115; pneumaticals in, ii. 115; characters of, ii. 115; ductile and tensile, ii. 115; fragile and tough, ii. 114; different ones which draw, ii. 466; distinction of, ii. 560. Body, commandment of the mind over the, i. 206; power of the imagination on the, i. 202; good of, health, beauty, strength, pleasure, i. 202; exercise of the, ii. 46; paintings of the, ii. 99; how to be regulated before the use of purgatives, ii. 18; expe- riments touching the postures of the, ii. 99; impres- sions on by passions of the mind, ii. 95; against the waste of by heat, ii. 467; of body, affected by, ii. 586.
Body and mind, action of on each other, i. 202. Boiling, swelling, and dilatation in, ii. 118. Boldness, Essay of, i. 20.
Bona Notabilia, ii. 514.
Bones, experiments touching, ii. 100. Bonham, Dr. his case, ii. 528.
Bonham's case, answers of Lord Coke to objections in, ii. 506.
Boniface VIII., Philip the Fair's treatment of, ii. 390. Books, distinction in their use, i. 55; good ones true friends, ii. 488; friend always to be found in good books, ii. 488; of policy, i. 191; dedications to, i. 169.
Border court, proposal for establishing, ii. 143. Borgia, Alexander, saying of the French, i. 200. Bounty, a regal virtue, i. 63.
Bow, the Parthians', ii. 288.
Bracelets, to comfort spirits, ii. 132, 133.
Brain, dried and strengthened by perfumes, ii. 127. Brand, Sebastian, famous book of, ii. 508.
Brass, weight of in water, ii. 464; what made of, ii. 459; and iron, union of, ii. 456. Bravery stands upon comparison, i. 57.
Breakfast preservative against gout and rheums, ii. 466. Breeding cattle, ii. 384.
Brehon laws, one of the roots of the troubles in Ire- land, ii. 190.
Bromley, Mr. Solicitor, his answer to Justice Catline, i. 110.
Bromley's report, ii. 501.
Broth, how to make nourishing, ii. 14. Brown, Dr., his answer to Sir E. Dyer's narration of Kelly's making gold, i. 122.
Brownists, dissensions in the church created by them, ii. 249; account of them, ii. 249. Bruises and blows, experiments on, ii. 119. Bubbles, forms of, ii. 10.
Buckhurst, Lord Steward, in commission at the trial of Earl of Essex, ii. 360. Buckingham, Bacon's letters to noticing his history of Henry VII., i. 274, 275; letter to the Earl of, from Lord Coke, ii. 507; letter from, to the Lord Chan- cellor, ii. 423; letter to, from Lord C. Bacon, touch- ing Sir W. Raleigh, ii. 525; letter from, to the Lord C. Bacon, touching Sir F. Englefyld's case, ii. 524 ; to Lord C. Bacon, touching Mr. F. Foliambe's case, ii. 524; letter to the Lord C. Bacon from, touching Mr. Hansbye's case, ii. 523; letter from, to Lord C. Bacon, touching Dr. Steward, ii. 525; letter from Sir. F. Bacon to the king, touching his majesty's defence of, ii. 519; letter to the Earl of, touching the commendams, ii. 521; letters from, to the Lord Keeper, ii. 521.
Buckingham, Duke of, dedication of essays to, i. 1. Building, in the new plantations in Ireland, not to be
sparsim but in towns, ii. 186; observations on, ii. 190; essay on, i. 49; men build stately sooner than garden finely, i. 51.
Bullen, Queen Anne, message to the king when led to execution, i. 108.
Burchew wounds a gentleman instead of Sir Christo- pher Hatton, ii. 263.
Burghley declares the Earl of Essex traitor, which causes a diminution of his troop, ii. 358. Burials in earth, experiment on, ii. 56. Burleigh, Lord, attacked in a libel published in 1592, ii. 243; observations thereon, ii. 244; never sued any man, raised any rent, or put out any tenant, ii. 262.
Burning-glasses, ii. 27.
Burrage, leaf of, its virtue, ii. 9.
Business, affected despatch most dangerous to it, i. 32; time is its measure, i. 32; its three parts, i. 32; an absurd man better for than an over-formal man, i. 33; set straight by good counsel, i. 35; character and errors of young men in, i. 48; of old men in, i. 48; choice of men in, i. 53; to be too full of respects is a loss in business, i. 56; in courts it is an easier matter to give satisfaction, than to do the business, i. 87; first prepared, ripened by degrees, ii. 489; like ways, and why, i. 121.
Brest, Spaniards get footing at, and expelled from, ii. CABINET of knowledge, i. 218. 200, 213.
Bresquet, the jester's answer to Francis I., i. 118. Brewing, speculation of, in Turkey, ii. 95. Briareus, fable of, i. 23.
Bribe accepted by Lord C. Bacon in Mr. Hansbye's cause, ii. 523; lord chancellor accepts, in the cause of Sir R. Egerton, ii. 522.
Brimstone and quicksilver, where found, ii. 460. Britain, ii. 454; discourse on the true greatness of, ii.
222; great strength at sea, one of the principal dowries of, i. 39.
Brittany, valour of the English at some encounters in, ii. 212.
Cadiz taken by the Earls of Essex and Nottingham, ii. 210.
Cairo, plagues in, ii. 100. Cain, his envy towards Abel, i. 17.
Cain and Abel, contemplation and action figured in, i. 175.
Calais, Spaniards beaten out of, ii. 200, 213; kept by us one hundred years after we lost the rest of France, why so long kept, and why taken, ii. 224 ; overtures of peace broken off upon the article of the restitution of Calais, ii. 258; in the possession of Spaniards, ii. 287.
Calanus, the Indian, his advice to Alexander, ii. 228 | Calcination of metals, ii. 460, 461.
Calendar of things not invented, i. 200; supposed im- possibilities, i. 200; discoveries leading to inven- tions, i. 200; popular errors, i. 200; of inventions now extant, i. 200.
Callisthenes's praise and dispraise of the Macedonian nation, ii. 229, 235; mode of becoming famous, i. 115.
Calore et Frigore, De, the rudiment of the affirmative table in the Novum Organum, i. 9.
Calves of the legs, how to form, ii. 11.
Calvin's case, Sir F. Bacon's argument in it, ii. 166. Canals, making profitable, ii. 384.
Candles, how to make them last, ii. 56. Cane, the properties of, ii. 86.
Cannibalism, ii. 443.
Cannibals in the West Indies, ii. 10.
Capital offence to conspire the death of a counsellor of state, law contrived by the chancellor, ii. 333.
his saying of Sylla, i. 115; his reply when saluted king, i. 117; his conduct to Metellus the tribune, i. 120; a remark of his in his book against Cato, i. 121; did greater things than the wits feigned King Arthur or Huon, of Bordeaux, to have done, i. 88; did himself hurt by a speech, i. 24; his friend- ship for Decimus Brutus, i. 35; his speech to the pilot in the tempest, i. 46; took Pompey unprovided, by giving out that his soldiers loved him not, i. 62; his saying of Pompey, i. 31; of Piso, wrote a col- lection of apophthegms, now lost, i. 107; know. ledge of getting water upon the sea-coast, ii. 7; imi- tation of Sylla, only in reforming the laws, ii. 234; witty saying of, i. 110; lovers of, i. 300.
Cæsar, Augustus, his dissimulation, i. 235. Cæsar Borgia's treachery to the lords at Cinigaglia, and Pope Alexander's remark on it, i. 108. Cesars, Lives of, i. 284, 401.
Capital offenders, how the Athenians punished by poi- Cecil charges Bacon of ill will to the Earl of Essex, son, i. 85.
Captains, promotion of, ii. 383.
Cardamon, or water-cresses, ii. 53.
Cardan, saying of, ii. 488.
Cardinal, meaning of, ii. 423.
Cards and dice, when to be used, ii. 388.
Cares, meditation on the moderation of, i. 68.
Carew, Sir George, i. 283; President of Munster, ii. 211. Carlisle, state of, ii. 506.
Carneades, Cato's conceit of the eloquence of, i. 164. Carvajall, Francis, sayings of his, i. 116. Cartels of the Pope of Rome, ii. 389. Carthagena, taking of, by Drake, ii. 208.
Case, Low's, of tenures, iii. 276; of revocation of uses, iii. 280; of impeachment of waste, iii. 268. Cassander's subtle answer to Alexander, i. 180. Cassandra, i. 287.
Cassius, a witty answer of his to an astrologer, i. 114. Cassytas, an herb growing in Syria, ii. 87. Castlehaven yielded to the Spaniards at the treaty of Kinsale, ii. 212.
Catalogue of particular histories, iii. 431. Catesby, his attainder, i. 318.
Caterpillars, experiments touching, ii. 98.
Catharine of Spain married to Prince Arthur, i. 373. Catholics, ii. 450.
Cato, Major, Livy's description of him, i. 46; saying of, i. 116.
Cato's conceit of the eloquence of Carneades, i. 164; punishment of, for his blasphemy against learning, i. 166; satire of the Romans, i. 228; his foresight, i. 287; his saying of sheep, ii. 270.
Cato the elder, his saying of the Romans, i. 109; on his having no statue, i. 120; saying of, i. 121. Categories, i. 210.
Cattle, breeding of, profitable, ii. 384.
Cause and effect, iii. 525.
Causes, physical, knowledge of, new, i. 199. Cantharides flies, experiments on, ii. 98; fly poison, ii. 318.
Caves, in Solomon's house, i. 266. Cæsar, (Julius,) i. 401; an instance of military great- ness and learning, i. 164; wit in his speeches, i. 181; noble answer to Metellus, i. 181; Apophthegms, loss of, i. 192; excellence of his learning declared in his writings, i. 180; an instance of conjunction of mili- tary excellence and learning, i. 180; ambition, i. 235; his contempt of Cato, i. 236; saying of, i. 231; raised no buildings, i. 401; enacted no laws, i. 401; avoided envy by avoiding pomp, i. 402; well read in bistory, expert in rhetoric, i. 403; by his address to his mutinous army appeased their sedition, i. 115;
Cecil, Sir Edward, his eminent service at the battle of Newport, ii. 211.
Cecil, Sir Robert, his ability, ii. 264. Cecile, Duchess of York, i. 355. Celestial hierarchy, degree of, i. 175. Celsus's observation on medicines, i. 207; his precept for health, i. 39; remark on the causes of uses, i. 87. Cements, experiments touching, ü. 116, Ceremonial laws respecting meats, i. 202. Ceremonial magic, i. 206.
Ceremonies and respects, essay on, i. 56.
Certiorari can only be once in the same cause, ii. 484; causes removed by special, ii. 480. Chaldean astrology, i. 206. Chambletting of paper, ii. 100. Chamaepytis, what good for, ii. 136. Chamelions, experiment touching, ii. 54.
Chancellor, Sir Francis Bacon, when made, i, 522; rules for a, ii. 471; his jurisdiction as to writs, ii. 434; excess of jurisdiction of, ii. 472; contrivance of a law to protect the, i. 333; lord deputy, i. 424; Bacon to Marquis of Buckingham, touching Sir H. Yelverton's sentence, ii. 526.
Chancery, master's reports in, ii. 472; court, defects in the practice of the, ii. 472; court, regulations for practice in the, ii. 472; ordinances in, ii. 479; Lord Bacon's speech on taking his place in, ii. 471; not restrained by premunire, ii. 490; decrees after judg- ment, ii. 514.
Change, desire of, and restless nature of things in themselves, ii. 108.
Chanteries, stat. 1 E. vi. c. 14, ii. 506.
Chaplains of noblemen non-residents, ii. 429. Character of Julius Cæsar, i. 401; of believing Chris- tians, ii. 410.
Charcoal, vapour of, ii. 129.
Charges, judicial, ii. 471; judicial, upon the commis- sion for the verge, ii. 289.
Chariots, invention of, attributed to Ericthonius, i. 301. Charitable uses, suits for, ii. 485. Charity, on the exaltation of, i. 68; what is the height of charity, i. 68. Charles VIII., i. 326; state of France under, i. 326; embassy to King Henry, i. 326: invades Brittany, i. 328; marries the Duchess of Brittany, i. 341; supports Pekin Warbeck, i. 348; his death, i. 369. Charles, Prince of Castile, marriage with the Princess Mary, i. 381.
Charles, an imperial name, ii. 201; considerations touching a war with Spain, inscribed to Prince Charles, ii. 201.
Charles IX. of France, edict against duels, ii. 297. Charles V., melancholy in his latter years, i. 27; his rigour to Pope Clement, ii. 390; forced from Is- burgh, ii. 200, 213.
Charles the Hardy, his closeness, i. 35. Charter-house, advice to the king concerning, ii. 239. Children, essay of parents and, i. 15.
Chilon's remark of kings, friends, and favourites, i. 114; of men and gold, i. 120.
China, ordnance used in, 2000 years, i. 61. Chineses paint their skins, ii. 99; mad for making sil- ver, ii. 49.
Christian, believing, characters of, ii. 410; paradoxes, ii. 410; religion, Eneas Sylvius's praise of the honesty thereof, i. 121; church, the, preserved the relics of heathen learning, i. 176.
Christianity, injurious effect of Julianus's edict against, i. 176; consolation of, ii. 435; war to disseminate, .440; affection of, ii. 413; the lawyers its most violent opponents, ii. 443. Chuets, when used, ii. 15.
Church, its government, i. 244; history, prophecy, and providence, i. 191; music, ii. 426; controversy, five errors in, ii. 414; controversies, ii. 411; pacification, considerations on, ii. 420; contempt of, punishable, ii. 290; reform, ii. 421; fear of the subversion of, a just ground for war with Spain, ii. 200, 202, 206; its condition is to be ever under trials, ii. 249; its two trials, persecution and contention, ii. 249; mis- sions, ii. 437; meditations on the church and the Scriptures, i. 71; preserved the books of philosophy and heathen learning, i. 98.
Chymists, principles where, ii. 460.
Cicero, i. 209, 229; was resolute, i. 165; error in form- ing sciences, i. 173; his idea of a perfect orator, i. 237; complaint against Socrates for separating phi- losophy and rhetoric, i. 201; complaint of the school of Socrates, i. 85; his evidence against Clodius dis- believed, and his reply to Clodius, upbraidings on that account, i. 108; his answer to Decius Brutus, i. 302; his speech on the law against bribery, i. 118; of Rabirius Posthumous, i. 42; of Hortensius, i. 48; his fame lasted because joined with vanity in himself, i. 57; his proof that the academic was the best sect, i. 73; a saying of his to Cæsar, i. 77; answer respecting an old lady who affected youth, i. 109; other answers of, i. 111; reason for the power of the Romans, i. 25; ii. 435; of faction, ii. 476. Cineas, his questions and advice to Pyrrhus respecting his intended conquests, i. 118. Cinnamon and cassia, ii. 83. Ciphers, i. 213.
Circular motion, eternity cannot be predicated from, ii. 581,583.
Circuit judges' stay upon, ii. 379.
Circe and Æsculapius, exposition of credulity by fable of, i. 203.
Cistertians, order of, ii. 506.
Civet, the strength of its perfume, i. 89.
Civil law not to be neglected, ii. 380; history by Ba- con, i. 273; discipline, i. 169; history, i. 189, 190; knowledge, i. 228.
Clarification, experiment touching, ii. 103.
Clarified hippocras, how, ii. 8.
Clarifying water, syrups, &c., ii. 8.
Clay countries, ii. 462.
Cleanliness of Alexander, ii. 8.
Clearchus, his answer to Falinus, i. 108.
Clearing by degrees better than clearing at once, i. 36. Clemency of Elizabeth, ii. 446.
Clerks, convict, to be burned in the hand, i. 333; of council, choice in, ii. 381.
Clifford, Sir Conyers, disaster of, ii. 351. Clifford impeaches the lord chamberlain, i. 352. Clifford, Sir Robert, joins in Perkin Warbeck's conspi- racy, i. 349; won over to the king, i. 350. Clinias, in Plato, his opinion of war, ii. 204. Clodius's acquittal, and Catullus's question to his jury, i. 108.
Cloth manufactory, laws regarding, i. 376. Cloves, power of on water, ii. 20. Clouds mitigate the heat of the sun, i. 100. Calum's exposition of fable, i. 296. Cœlum, or beginnings, i. 296. Coffee, effects of, ii. 99. Cogitation, words the image of, i. 212. Coin of Pope Julius, ii. 390. Coins, one of the external points of separation with Scotland, ii. 144.
Coke, expostulation to Lord Chief Justice, ii. 485; book- wise, but comparatively ignorant of men, ii. 486; admission of his great legal knowledge, ii. 486, 487; his faults in pleading shown, ii. 486; his faults ex- posed, ii. 486; his too much love of money, ii. 486; advice to as to charity, ii. 486; plainly told how he got his money, ii. 487; defence of judges, letter to the king concerning commendams, ii. 495; his sin- gleness of conduct in the case of commendams, ii. 496; abuse offered to Mr. F. Bacon in the Exche- quer, ii. 497; reasons for promoting to Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, ii. 497; Reports, cha- racter of them, ii. 230; obligation of the law to, ii. 230; censure of his Reports, ii. 498; commanded to forbear sitting at Westminster, ii. 498; seques- tered from the table of the circuits, ii. 499; Reports, expurging of, ii. 499; his behaviour in church affairs, ii. 500; not changed by being made one of the king's council, ii. 500; his corrections in his Reports scorn rather than satisfaction to the king, ii. 500; justification of his Reports, ii. 500; removed from King's Bench, ii. 500; answers to objections taken to parts of his Reports, ii. 506; saying of, i. 115; his opinion of Lord Bacon's Instauratio Magna, ii. 508; a paper on laws designed against, ii. 513; Sir Francis Bacon confesses he was sometimes too sharp to Sir Edward, ii. 520; questions demanded touching the Reports of, by the king's command- ment, ii. 528; answers to questions put upon his reported cases, ii. 529, 530; Reports, faults in, the acts of courts, ii. 499.
Cold, effects of, i. 102, 103; condensation of air, by ii. 10; cause of taking, ii. 14; prohibits putrefaction ii. 51; on the production of, ii. 18; the sun mag. netical of, ii. 19; causes of, ii. 19; mortification by ii. 106.
Colleges and schools to be encouraged, ii. 378. Colic, cure for the, ii. 133.
Coligni, Admiral, his advice to Charles IX. to wa against Flanders, ii. 205.
Colonies, how to be formed, ii. 385; management of, ii. 385; what first to be done in, ii. 385; how to be governed, ii. 385; customs and rents' to the king from, ii. 386; how to choose for, ii. 385.
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