abstract it, i. 199; University lectures, advice to raise the pension of, out of the Sutton Estate, ii. 241; make men subtile, i. 35; a position in, that there is no proportion between somewhat and nothing, i. 77. Mathematic, the subject of it, quantity determined, i.
Matrimony, objections to our form of, ii. 426. Matter of divinity, i. 243.
Matter, a fixed sum of, i. 410; characters of, ii. 115; like a common strumpet, ii. 109; alteration of, ii. 114; quantity of, whether always measured by weight, ii. 560, 562; a table of the conjunction and expansion of, in tangible bodies, with a calculation of their ratios in different bodies, ii. 561; account of the experiments from which the table was made, ii. 561.
Matthew, Mr. Tobie, letters to, i. 277; letter to, con- cerning the Latin translation of his essays, i. 5. Matthews, Mr., letter to, with the book De Sapientia Veterum, i. 4.
Maturation, of drinks and fruits, ii. 48; of metals, ii. 49.
May dew, for medicine, ii. 106.
Men's natures and ends, i. 233. Men's minds, logical and mathematical, i. 236. Men's spirits, the general sympathy of, ii. 137. Menander of vain love, i. 227. Mercenaries not to be relied on, i. 37. Merchandises, king's right of impositions on, ii. 278; argument concerning impositions on, ii. 278. Merchandise, foreign, ii. 385; ever despised by the kings of this realm as ignoble, ii. 228; flourishes in the decline of a state, i. 62. Merchants, speeches on their petition respecting Spa- nish grievances, ii. 193; grants of, ii 279. Mercury, mixture of metals with, ii. 459. Mercury and sulphur, experiments on, ii. 53; and salt, history of, iii. 466.
Mercy, of despatch, ii. 487; its works are the distinc tion to find out hypocrites, i. 69; examples of, for comfort, ii. 380; the white robe of, ii. 319; to what extent honourable, ii. 384; in a king when cruelty, ii. 384; its variation, ii. 446.
Merick, Sir Gilly, left guard at Essex House, ii. 358; pays forty shillings to the players to act Richard the Second, ii. 365; evidence against, ii. 236.
Maximilian, assisted by Henry, i. 337; marries the Messages, speech on receiving the king's, ii. 276.
Duchess of Brittany, i. 337.
Maxims of the common laws, iii. 219. Maxims of the law, iii. 223-247.
Meats that induce satiety, ii. 46.
Metal, weight of, in water, ii. 464; drowning of the
base in the more precious, ii. 108; statues, ii. 456; string, ii. 456; bell, ii. 456.
Mechanic arts, the first device in, comes short, but Metals and vegetables, mixture of, ii. 447.
refined by time, i. 85; the study of, ii. 558. Mechanical operations, the chief root of, ii. 8.
Mechanical wisdom, story of Dædalus applied to, i. 300. Mechanical history assists natural philosophy, i. 188. Mechanics, history of, neglected, i. 188.
Medes painted their eyes, ii. 99.
Medical receipts, ii. 469.
Medical remains, ii. 466.
Medicinal property of pepper, ii. 14.
Medicinal earth, veins of, ii. 94. Medicinal history is deficient, i. 203. Medicinable, making herbs and fruits, ii. 69. Medicine, scammony a strong, ii. 9; its effect on cor- rupt bodies, ii. 343; change of, ii. 18; separate from philosophy, mere empirical practice, i. 201; its power on the mind, i. 202; deficiencies and want of reports, defective anatomy and hasty conclusions, i. 203; office of, i. 203; and music conjoined in Apollo,
Medicines, Celsus's observations on, i. 207; prepara- tions of, i. 205; different qualities of, ii. 13; experi ment touching purging, ii. 13; how purging ones lose their virtue, ii. 9; special simples for, ii. 91; that condense and relieve the spirits, ii. 99. Mediocrity of athletics, i. 205.
Metals and minerals, as to the union of, ii. 459; sepa- ration of, ii. 460.
Metals, variation of, into different shapes, bodies, and natures, ii. 460; touching the finer sort of base, ii. 116; incorporation, uses of, ii. 456; drowning of, ii. 457; which melt easiest, ii. 460; adulteration of, ii. 459; versions of, ii. 459; quenching of, in water, ii. 33; which contain different metals, ii. 460; ma- turation of, ii. 49; orient colour in dissolution of, ii. 49.
Metaphysic handleth that which supposeth in nature a reason and understanding, i. 196.
Metellus, Cæsar's noble answer to, i. 181. Methodical delivery, i. 214. Methusalem water, use of, ii. 467. Methods and arts, error of over-early reduction of knowledge into, i. 173. Metis, or counsel, i. 312.
Meverel, Dr., his answer to questions on variation of metals, ii. 461; his answers touching restitutions of metals and minerals, ii. 462; his answer to ques tions on separation of metals and minerals, ii. 460; his answers to questions concerning minerals and metals, ii. 459; his questions, ii. 458. Mezentius, his torment quoted, ii. 16.
Meditationes Sacra, first edition of, i. 6; Sacræ, i. 67. Microcosmus, ancient opinion that man was, i. 202. Medusa, i. 293.
Megrims, causes of, ii. 99.
Melancholy, wine for preserving the spirit against ad-
verse, ii. 466; drink to dissipate, ii. 9. Melioration of fruits, trees, and plants, ii. 62. Melocotone and peach, best from seed, ii. 64. Melting, gold easy metal for, ii. 108. Memnon, or a youth too forward, i. 297. Memory, i. 212; the art of, visible images in, ii. 131; how strengthened, ii. 133; men's desire of, i. 190; that cell in the mind filled by history, i. 192; and invention, divorce between, i. 186; history relates to the, i. 187.
Men, their dispositions, i. 224; savage desires of, i. 177; sweats of, ii. 8; union between all, ii. 443; the best books, ii. 486.
Midas, judge between Apollo and Pan, i. 183.
Military commanders, vainglory an essential point in, i. 57.
Military puissance, its three main parts, men, money, and confederates, ii. 213.
Military disposition, greatness too often ascribed to. ii. 195.
Military power, conjunction between learning and, i. 179, 180; learning promotes, i. 179. Military virtues promoted, i. 181 Military arts flourish most while virtue grows, 1. 205. Military greatness and excellence in learning united, i. 164, 165.
Milk, increasing of, in milch beasts, ii. 105; warm from the cow what good for, ii. 15; spirits of wine commixed with, ii. 465.
Mincing meat, when useful, ii. 15. Mind, a settled state of, in doubt, one of the principal supporters of man's life, i. 69; made light by dwell- ing upon the imagination of the thing to come, i. 69; passions of, affect the body, ii. 95; state of, in controversy, ii. 420; idols of the, make men churl- ish and mutinous, i. 166; the, endued with tender sense by learning, i. 168; its dispositions discovered by physiognomy, i. 201; commandment of the, over the body, i. 206; culture of, i. 223; regimen, of, i. 226; versatility of, i. 235; states of, i. 227; the senses are the reporters to the, i. 162; Solomon's observations on the, i. 162; defects of the, learning prevents the fixing of the, i. 182; learning makes the, gentle and generous to government, i. 166. Minds, learning softens men's, and makes them unapt for use of arms, i. 164.
Mollification of metals, ii. 461, 462. Monarchy, elective, not so free and absolute as an hereditary, ii. 202; without nobility a pure tyranny, i. 21.
Monastic life, the beginning was good, but brought into abuse after, i. 69; John the Baptist referred to as its author, i. 69.
Money, like muck, not good unless spread, i. 23. Monopolies, great means of riches, i. 42; care in ad- mitting, ii. 385.
Monsters, history of, imperfect, i. 188. Montacute, Viscount, sent to Philip of Spain, in 1560; the king's cold conduct to, ii. 259. Montagu, Sir H., made lord chief justice, afterwards Earl of Manchester, ii. 500. Montaigne's reason why giving the lie is such a dis- grace, i. 11.
Mind of man delights in generalities, i. 198; nature of, i. 161; knowledge respecting the faculties of, is of two kinds: 1. The understanding; 2. The will, i. 206. Mind of men, division of; 1. Origin; 2. Faculties, Moors, colouration of black and tawny, ii. 59. i. 205. Morality improved by learning, i. 182. Mind and body, action of, on each other, i. 202; power Moralists censured by religions, ii. 419. of medicines on the, i. 202.
Moon, the influences of, ii. 122; magnetical of heat, ii. 19; opinion that it is composed of solid matter, ii. 585. Moonbeams not hot, i. 100.
Mineral works, drowned, a speech touching the recovery of, ii. 463.
Minerals, imperfect ones, ii. 459; as to discovery of, ii. 463; of great value, ii. 384; questions touching, ii. 458.
Minerals and metals, union of, ii. 459; separation of, ii. 460.
Mines, all rich the king's, though in the soil of his sub- jects, ii. 228; damps in which kill, ii. 127; their hopes uncertain, i. 41.
Mines of Germany, vegetables grow in, ii. 76. Mining, speech on, ii. 463.
Minister, his deep responsibility in acts of preferment, ii. 378; who flatters his king a traitor, ii. 376. Ministers, advice for the choice of, i. 44. Minister and priests, ii. 426.
Ministry, preaching, ii. 427.
Mint, laws for correction of, i. 336; certificate relating to the, ii. 282.
Minos's laws, spoken of in grammar schools, ii. 231, 234; a pattern among the Grecians, ii. 234. Miracles, of our Saviour, related to the body, i. 203; meditations on, i. 67.
Miracles, every one a new creation, i. 67; wrought not for atheists, but idolaters, i. 194. Mirrors of the Romans, ii. 459.
Miscellaneous Tracts translated from the Latin, i. 406— 456; ii. 543-589; iii. 523–544.
Miscellaneous works, ii. 445.
Missions, church, ii. 437.
Misseltoe, ii. 75.
Misitheus, a pedant, Rome governed by, i. 165. Misprisions, as to law of, ii. 525.
Misprision of treason, ii. 162.
Mistio, its difference from compositio, ii. 140; its two conditions, time, and that the greater draw the less, ii. 141.
Mithridates's use of treacle, ii. 324. Mixing of metals dissolved, ii. 465. Mixed metals, ii. 458.
Mixed mathematics, i. 199.
Mixture, of vegetables and metals, ii. 459; of tin and copper, ii. 456; of silver and tin, ii. 456.
Modern history below mediocrity, i. 190. Moisture, qualification of heat by, ii. 90.
More, Sir Thomas, apophthegms of, i. 108, 109, 113. Moro, Christophero, counsellor of the King of Spain, corresponds with Ferrera on Lopez's plot to poison Queen Elizabeth, ii. 219. Mortification by cold, ii. 106.
Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, his character and death, i. 371; trusted by Henry VII, i. 29. Mortress, how to be made, ii. 15.
Moses, God's first pen, i. 175; wisdom of the cere- monial law of, i. 175; was seen in all Egyptian learning, i. 82, 98; fitter to be named for honour's sake to other lawgivers, than to be numbered among them, ii. 234.
Moss, what it is and where it grows, ii. 74. Moth, how bred, ii. 92.
Motion, remissness of the ancients in investigating, L. 408; the common division of, deficient, 1. 409; violent, i. 413; of liberty, what, ii. 8; of sounds, ii. 36; after the instant of death, ii. 59; upon tensure, ii. 8; of pressure upon bells, ii. 8; quickness of, in birds, ii. 90; of bodies, experiments touching the, ii. 8.
Motions which make no noise, ii. 26; by imitation, ii. 45.
Motives, erroneous, for the acquisition of knowledge, i. 174.
Mountains, why inhabited by Pan, i. 291. Mountjoye, Lord, dedication of the colours of good and evil to, i. 72; the colours of good and evil dedi. cated to, i. 7.
Mountjoye, Lord, Spaniards defeated in Ireland by, ii. 206, 211.
Mucianus, a disclosure of his own actions, i. 57; undid
Vitellius by a false fame, i. 62. Muck, different sorts, ii. 464. Mud, what it turns to, ii. 463. Mummies of Egypt, ii. 104.
Mummy, force of in stanching of blood, ii. 134. Murder and manslaughter, laws against, amended, & 333.
Murder of princes more than simple murder, .
Murray, letters to Mr. John, from Lord Bacon, i 511.
Muses, why the companions of Bacchus, i. 304. Mushrooms, what properties they contain, ii. 74. Music, its effects, i. 177; a quaver in, like light on
water, i. 194, in churches, ii. 426; quarter notes in, ii. 25; experiments touching, ii. 24; voluntary in voice only, ii. 33; effect of different sorts, ii. 26; on the water, ii. 30.
Music and medicine conjoined in Apollo, i. 203. Musical instrument played on by the rays of the sun, ii. 570.
Musicians, their precept to fall from discords to accords, i. 194.
Mysteries, danger of prying into, i. 295; their origin, i. 70; of God not to be drawn down to man's rea- son, but man raised to divine things, i. 195.
NAME of nations, though seemingly superficial, carries much impression, ii. 141; one of the external points of separation with Scotland, ii. 144. Names, ii. 454.
Naphtha, a bituminous mortar, ii. 462. Naples, disease of, its origin, ii. 10; the Spaniards in competition with the sea of Rome for Naples, ii. 201, 214.
Narcissus, his manner of relating to Claudius the marriage of Messalina and Silius, i. 30. Narcissus, the flower of, representing unprofitable self- love, i. 289.
Narrations, nurseries for history, i. 190. Natural divination, two sorts, i. 206.
perfect nature, i. 55; a little natural philosophy dis- poses to atheism, much to religion, i. 71, 83; Vale- rius Terminus of the interpretation of nature, i. 81. Nature, thoughts and observations concerning the interpretation of, i. 422-434; ii. 551; principles and origins of, according to the fables of Cupid and heaven, i. 435; only conquered, by obeying, i. 431; interpretation of, iii. 345, 371.
Nature of revelation, i. 241.
Natures of much heat not fit for action in youth, i. 284.
Naturalization of the Scotch, speech on, ii. 150; the four degrees of, ii. 169. Naturalization, states should be liberal of, i. 37; Ro- mans most so, i. 37.
Naval power advanced by King Henry VII., i. 336. Navigable rivers help to trade, ii. 258.
Navy the walls of our kingdom, ii. 254; considera- tions respecting, ii. 148.
Negative side, men fond of seeming wise find ease to be of the, i. 33.
Negligence of learned men, i. 168 Negotiating, essay on, i. 53.
Negotiation, i. 228; its wisdom, i. 229, 230, 231. Negotiations, foreign, with princes or states, ii. 382. Negroes, cause of blackness in, ii. 59. Nemesis, or vicissitudes, i. 302.
Neptune's temple, saying of Diagoras, i. 211.
Natural history, division of, i. 187; often fabulous, i. Nero, Apollonius's reason for his overthrow, ii. 277.
Natural light, kindling of, i. 454.
Nero's opinion of Seneca's style, i. 111; wish of a senator respecting his father, i. 111.
Natural magic, defective, i. 199; Paracelsus's school Nero and Nerva, difference between, ii. 277.
of, i. 206; its true sense, i. 195. Natural philosophy, book of Job pregnant with, i. 177; analogy between, and speculative philosophy, i. 199; divided into three parts, i. 199; concerning principles of, i. 194; assisted by registry of doubts, i. 200; concerning the soul or spirit, i. 194; prin- cipally assisted by mechanical history, i. 188; the least followed of all knowledge, i. 97; received great opposition from superstition, i. 97; gives an excel- lent defence against superstition and infidelity, i. 98 ; causes which have retarded its progress, i. 424; new systems of, i. 427.
Natural philosophy in Orpheus's Fable, i. 295. Natural prudence, experimental, philosophical, and magical, i. 199; operative part of natural philosophy, i. 199.
Natural theology, the contemplation of God in his creatures, i. 194.
Natural reason, Sarah's laughter an image of, i. 239.
Natural science and natural prudence, i. 195. Natural and Experimental History, preparation for, iii. 426; history, iii. 434.
Nerva and Trajan, King James I. compared to, ii.
Nerva, a learned prince, i. 177; Tacitus's character of, i. 177.
Netherlands, revolt of, from Philip of Spain, occa- sioned by his resolution to disannul their liberties and establish a martial government, ii. 259; received into Queen Elizabeth's protection, ii. 259.
Nettles, their roots and leaves, ii. 267; roots of, ii.
Nevil, Sir Henry, ambassador to France, ii. 354. Neville, privy to conspiracy of the Earl of Essex, ii. 363.
Neville's, John, Lord, case, ii. 528.
New Atlantis, i. 255; employment of fellows in, i. 269; ordinances, hymns, and services, i. 269; dedi- cation of, i. 255; Solomon's house in, i. 255, 262; end of foundation, i. 266; caves in, i. 266; towers in, i. 266; lakes in, i. 266; atmosphere artificial, i. 267; health chambers of, i. 267; orchards in, i. 267; parks for animals in, i. 267; pools in, i. 267; drinks and dispensations, i. 268; furnaces in, i. 268.
Nature, its quantum eternal, i. 194; her truth said to be hid in mines and caves, i. 195; experiment on the secret processes of, ii. 23; an order in the govern- ment of the world, ii. 138; its fundamental law, ii. 138; as considered by philosophers, i. 194. Nature and man, how differing in spirit, i. 211. Nature of man, what grateful and agreeable to the, Nimrod, the first conqueror, ii. 168. ii. 137.
New things, though they help by their utility, they trouble by their inconformity, i. 32; are like strangers, more admired and less favoured, i. 32. Newport, battle of, ii. 211; bravery of the English there, ii. 211.
Nature in men, essay on, i. 45 the modes of subduing nature, i. 45; runs either to herbs or weeds, i. 45; not to be trusted to unless corroborated by custom, i. 45; hot natures not ripe for action till after their meridian, i. 48; reposed natures earlier, i. 48; a' consent between body and mind, and where nature errs in one she ventures in the other, i. 49; studies VOL. III.-72
Nilus, water of, sweet, ii. 103.
Nisibis, arguments of those who opposed surrendering, on the retreat of the Roman army out of Persia, ii. 223.
Nisi prius judge supplied by commission, ii. 499. Nitre, its power and qualities, ii. 12, abundance of, in certain sea-shores, ii. 104; experiment touching, ii. 54.
Nobilities, several, one of the internal points of separa- tion with Scotland, ii. 146; considerations touching
them, ii. 147; suggestions to raise nobility among | Opinions of Pluto and Parmenides, i. 197; differ- the undertakers of the plantations in Ireland, ii. 185.
Nobility, essay of, i. 21; the multiplying of, in an over- proportion, brings a state to necessity, i. 23; de- pressed by Henry VII., which made his times full of troubles, i. 28; their too great increase hurts the peasant, i. 37; superfluity of, decreases military power, i. 336.
Noblemen, their hospitality conduces to martial great- ness, i. 37; better governors in new plantations than merchants, i. 41.
Noblemen's chaplains, new residence of, ii. 428. Noel, Henry, his opinion of courtiers, i. 121. Norfolk, Duke of, proved at his condemnation that the Duke of Alva and the Spanish ambassador plotted with him, ii. 260; his attainder, i. 318. Northampton, Earl of, an answer of his, i. 118. Northumberland, Earl of, slain by insurgents, i. 334. Notes, as to quarter notes in music, ii. 25. Norris, Colonel Sir John, repulses the Spaniards at Rimenant, ii. 207; memorable retreat of, to Gaunt, ii. 208.
Nottingham, Earl of, second invasion of Spain, and capture of Cadiz under Earls Essex and Notting- ham, ii. 210.
Nourishing, way of, iii. 478.
Novelty, love of, an impediment to knowledge, i. 95; though not rejected, should be suspected, i. 32. Novum Organum, iii. 343; Bacon's opinion of, ii. 436.
Numa, body found after death, ii. 104; his delight in solitude, i. 33.
OBJECTS of pursuit, i. 227.
Obligation and reward, necessary for the recovery of the hearts of the Irish, ii. 189; consideration of their nature, ii. 190.
Observations on a libel published in 1592, ii. 242. Ocampo, Alonso D., Spanish succours to Kinsale under his command, ii. 211; taken prisoner, ii. 212. Occhus, honey distilled from, ii. 82.
Odonnell and Tyrone's endeavour to rescue Kinsale, ii. 211.
Odour, nourishment of, ii. 128; effect of, upon Demo- critus, ii. 128.
Odours, impoisoning by, ii. 127; touching fetid and fragrant, ii. 112; transmission of, ii. 125.
Office of constables, iii. 315.
Office of compositions for alienations, iii. 319. Office of rhetoric, i. 216.
Officers of state, one of the internal points of sepa- ration with Scotland, ii. 146; considerations con- cerning them, ii. 146.
Officers, choice of, for the king's court, ii. 387. Ogle, Sir John, his eminent services at the battle of Newport, ii. 211.
Oil, different sorts mixed with metals when dissolved, ii. 465; mode of expansion of, ii. 569. Oil of almonds mixed with spirits of wine, ii. 465. Oil of sweet almonds nourishing, ii. 15. Ointments, preserving, ii. 466.
Old men love young company, ii. 129. Old age of ancient sophists, ii. 129. Olympian games, i. 205.
Omoores, Owny Mac Roory chief of the, ii. 351. Openers, medicines, ii. 468.
Opinion, private, more free, before others more reve- rend, i. 29; a master wheel, not long-lived without supported by worth, ii. 514.
ences of, touching principles of nature, i. 200, 201. Opium, how qualified, ii. 10.
Opportunity, necessity of, ii. 485; should be taken advantage of, ii. 185.
Orange, Prince of, hurt by the Spanish boy, ii. 18. Orchards, i. 267; planting of, ii. 384. Order the life of despatch, i. 32. Order for confirming report, ii. 482. Orders, invalid if granted by abuse, ii. 481; copies of, to be kept by register, ii. 481; the lord chancellor's, ii. 474; holy examinations for, ii. 427; to be set down by register as pronounced by lord chancellor, ii. 481; made, not altered on petition, though they may be stayed, ü. 484.
Ordinances in chancery, ii. 479.
Ore, degrees of richness how known, ii. 460. Ormus taken from Spain by the Persians, ii. 201,
Ornamenta Rationalia, account of, i. 10.
Otho having slain himself, pity provoked his followers to die, i. 12.
Orpheus, the allegory of his harp explained, ii. 184. Orpheus, or the sirens, i. 313. Orpheus, or philosophy, i. 295.
Orrice root, experiment touching the, ii. 119. Ostend, valour of the English at, ii. 212. Ostrich ran with her head off, ii. 59. Outlawry, plea of, ii. 483.
Overbury, Sir T., poisoned in the Tower, ii. 509; mur- der of, 1613, ii. 316.
Owen, Mr., charge against for high treason, ii. 313; sup- plement to Sir Francis Bacon's speech in the King's Bench against, ii. 512; his case, ii. 514. Oxidrakes, in India, ordnance known in that city, i. 61.
Oysters, Colchester, fattened by fresh water, ii. 94.
Pan, or nature, i. 289; his beard and hair depicting beams or influence of celestial bodies, i. 290; his horns depicting a pyramid, i. 290; his ensigns de- noting harmony and empire, 291.
Pan's marriage with Echo, i. 292. Pan, his cloak representing the stars, i. 291; his hunting describing progression, i. 291; his wrestling with Cupid, i. 292; his catching Typhon in a net, nature overcoming the elements, i. 292; his finding Ceres, depicting inventions the work of chance, i. 292.
Pantomimi imitate the voice, ii. 40.
Panama, the land enterprise of, ill measured, it. 212. Papists, more knotted in dependence towards Spain and among themselves, ii. 206; the true reason of the severe laws against, ii. 206.
Paper, experiment on chambletting of, ii. 100.
Parables, use of, i. 272.
Parable of Jotham, ii. 270; the gates of sleep, i. 228. Paracelsus, his school of natural magic, i. 206; on mercury and sulphur, ii. 53.
penal laws, that the execution of them cannot be borne, ii. 236; during the reign of James I., ii. 306. Penance of certain monks in Russia, i. 46. Penelope's web, ii. 474.
Paradise, man's work in was contemplation, i. 175; Pensile, whether solid globe can remain so, ii. 586. birds of, feetless, ii. 269. Pentheus, his misery from presumption, i. 295.
Paradoxes, represented by the fable of Echo, i. 292; People not competent judges, ii. 420. Christian, ii. 410.
Pardons, revision of grants of, ii. 473. Parents and children, essay of, i. 15.
Paris, his judgment for beauty before wisdom, i. 183. Paris, valour of the English at the suburbs of, ii. 212. Parisatis poisoning one side of a knife, ii. 322. Parks for animals, i. 267.
Parliament, the perfection of monarchy, ii. 285; mode of marshaling business in, ii. 286; of the United Kingdom, four considerations of, ii. 146; how to be looked on, ii. 270; when controlled by the common law, ii. 506; liberty of, ii. 276. Parliaments, use of, ii. 380; several, one of the inter- nal points of separation with Scotland, ii. 146. Parma, Duke of, assists Don John of Austria, at Ri- menant, ii. 207; a strong army ready under his conduct to join the Spanish Armada, ii. 208; alle- gation that he delayed coming to join the Armada, a pretence of the Spaniards, ii. 209; the assailant at the battle of Newport, ii. 211.
Parmenides, his opinions of unity, i. 197; the philo- sophy of, i. 435.
Parmenides' tenet concerning cold, ii. 19. Parrots imitate sounds, ii. 40.
Parry, a cunning traitor, the evasion he had prepared for his treason, ii. 217.
Particular objects, their investigation not an endless task, as that of opinions and disputes is, ii. 559. Particular histories, catalogue of, iii. 431. Partitions of knowledge, rule in the, i. 201. Passion, fable of Dionysius, i. 303; no affectation in, i. 45.
Passions of the mind, impressions they make on the body, ii. 95.
Passive good, i. 221.
Passive, resistance in quantity of, ii. 460.
Patents, letter to the king from Lord Chancellor Bacon touching, ii. 527.
Pater Patriæ, ii. 266.
Patrimony of the church, ii. 378. Patience, i. 205.
Pawlet's, Sir Amyas, saying respecting haste, i. 112. Peace, among nations an empty name, ii. 204; effect of, in fruitful kingdoms, ii. 184; disposition to, ii. 382; King Henry VII. said, when Christ came, peace was sung; when he died, it was bequeathed, i. 381.
Peacham, Edmund, matters relating to his trial, ii. 511; his case, ii. 514.
Peacock's examinations, letter to the king concerning, from F. Verulam, canc., ii. 505. Peccant humours of learning, i. 172. Pedantical knowledge, i. 218.
Peers, names of who found the Earl of Essex guilty, ii. 363; house of, power of judicature of the, ii. 380. Pegasus, i. 293.
Pellæ, answer of a Lacedæmonian taken at, to an Athenian, i. 108.
Pellet, expulsion of the, ii. 11. Peloponnesian war, its cause the fear of the Lacedæ- monians, and the greatness of the Athenians, ii. 203. Penal laws, the number of them, ii. 230; certificate touching the projects of Stephen Proctor relating to, ii. 236; the people so ensnared in a multitude of
People, offences which concern the, and are capital,
ii. 292; offences which concern, not capital, ii. 293; the voice of the, ii. 486,
Pepper, its medicinal property, ii. 14. Percussion, experiments touching, ii. 103; effect of, upon liquids, ii. 8; quickness of, the cause of sound, ii. 33.
Percussions creating tones, ii. 24. Percolation, experiments in, ii. 7. Perkin Warbeck, personates the Duke of York, i. 346; his birth and education, i. 347; conspiracy in his favour, i. 349; his address to the King of Scotland, i. 357; his insurrection in Cornwall, i. 365; accepts Henry's mercy, i. 367; his confession, i. 367; con- spiracy in the Tower in favour of, i. 369; his exe- cution at Tyburn, i. 370. Perfect history, i. 189. Persian magic, i. 194.
Persians take Ormus, ii. 201, 214; their empire a proof that multitudes of provinces are matters of burden rather than of strength, illustrated by the conquest of Alexander the Great, ii. 223. Persia, its three great revolutions, ii. 229. Perseus, or war, i. 292.
Perseus, King of Macedon, Livy's censure against his mode of carrying on war, ii. 216. Persecution, end of, ii. 415.
Perfection, the last part of business, i. 32; bred by the practice being harder than the use, i. 45. Perfumes, use of, ii. 127.
Peripatetics' doctrine of fire, ii. 12.
Perjury, wilful and corrupt, punishable, ii. 290 Pestilential years, experiments touching, ii. 99. Petit treason, cases of, ii. 162; punishment of, ii. 163. Petitions, desire of the lords at a conference that the commons should consider of the inconveniences of entertaining petitions concerning private injuries, ii. 196; reasons and precedents against their receiving them, ii. 197; what not granted by, ii. 484; what granted by, ii. 485; what may be stayed by, ii. 484. Pewter, what made of, ii. 459.
Philip, King of Castile, driven on the English coast, i. 378; his interview with King Henry, i. 378. Philip of Macedon, saying of his, i. 113; his dream, i. 43; replies made to him, i. 116; comparison of him to Philip of Spain, ii. 255.
Philip the Fair, his conduct to Boniface the VIIIth, ii.
Philip of Spain, the points whereon he grounded his plots, ii. 256; his conduct on Queen Elizabeth's accession, ii. 258.
Philocrates, a wine-drinker, i. 228. Philosophers, how they have considered nature, i. 194; quantity, i. 194; similitude, i. 194; diversity, i. 194; force of union, i. 194; why some things in mass, i. 194; why some so rare, i. 194; some pioneers and some smiths, i. 195; flattery of great men by, i. 169; Greek, i. 172.
Philosophia prima, i. 193; men have abandoned, i. 173. Philosophies, of most vigour at first, i. 85. Philosophy and religion, remedies against the sirens, i. 313; of commixed, prejudicial to both, i. 195. Philosophy, human, miscellaneous tracts upon, 1. 79; university lectures, advice to raise the pension of, eut
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