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of the Sutton estate, ii. 241; of athletic, little inves-
tigated, i. 205; its double scale, ascendent and de-
scendent, i. 195; superficial knowledge of, incline
the mind to atheism, i. 164; or divinity cannot be
searched too far, i. 164; natural, assisted by registry
of doubts, i. 200; natural, supported by mechanical
history, i. 188; natural, divided into three parts, i.
199; natural, prudence the operative part of, i. 199;
relates to the reason, i. 187; ought to reject vain
speculations, i. 174; divine, human, and natural, i.
193; primitive or summary, i. 193; universal de-
scription of, i. 194; described by negative, i. 194;
vain, St. Paul's admonition against, i. 163; its ad-
vantages to religion, i. 176; conclusion of, i. 239.
Philosophy and arms, instances of concurrence in, i.
164, 165.

Philosophy and universality, professions supplied from,
i. 185.

Phocion, obstinacy of, i. 165; his saying when ap-
plauded by the people, i. 109; his reply to a messen-
ger from Alexander with a present, i. 118.
Physic, a man's own observation of what he finds good
the best, i. 39; university lectures of, advice to raise
the pension of, out of the Sutton estate, ii. 241; un-
necessary in a well-dieted body, i. 165.
Physician, a wise, will consider if disease in patient be
incurable, ii. 17.

Physicians, predictions of, i. 206; contrarieties of, i.
39; advice respecting, i. 39; judged by events, i.
203; regimens recommended by, i. 202; duty of, to
mitigate the pain of death, i. 204; apply themselves
to studies out of their profession, i. 203; excellence
in, little encouraged, i. 203; why at times less suc-
cessful than quacks, i. 204.

Physiological remains, ii. 455.

Physical causes, knowledge of, i. 199; their search
neglected, i. 198.

Physic and metaphysic, i. 195.

Physic, handleth that which is in nature a being and
moving, i. 196; inherent in matter, and transitory,
i. 196; a middle term between natural history and
metaphysic, i. 196; three parts of, i. 196.
Physiognomy, i. 201; deficiency in, i. 201.
Piety of Queen Elizabeth, i. 398.

Pilate, his question of truth, i. 11.

Pindarus's saying, ii. 268.

Pisa, cause of its revolt from Florence, ii. 155.

ii. 234.

kingdoms, i. 41; what people you should plant with,
i. 41; the sinfullest thing to forsake a plantation,
i. 42.

Plantations and buildings necessary to reduce Ireland
to civility, ii. 188.

Plant, the sleeping, ii. 82.

Plants, sympathy and antipathy of, ii. 67; experiments
promiscuous touching, ii. 82; seasons in which they
come forth, ii. 77; rudiments and excrescences of,
ii. 74; why they live longer than men, ii. 16; expe-
riments on foreign, ii. 77; producing of perfect with-
out seed, ii. 76; degenerating of, ii. 72; of making
them medicinable, ii. 69; several figures of, ii. 78;
earth not necessary to the sprouting of, ii. 85; touch-
ing the principal differences of, ii. 79; effect of wind
upon, ii. 87; growth of, helped by dust, ii. 88;
grafting of, ii. 62, 64; without leaves, experiment
touching, ii. 103; growth of, affected by the moon,
ii. 123; different sexes in, ii. 81; transmutation of
ii. 72; melioration of, ii. 62.

Plants and animate bodies, difference between, ii. 81.
Plants and living creatures, affinities and differences
in, ii. 81.

Plants and fruits, curiosities about, ii. 70.
Plaster, growing as hard as marble, ii. 106.
Plato's reverence for true division and definition, i. 90;
advice to the people respecting Diogenes, i. 112;
answer to Diogenes, i. 114; commonwealth, ii. 286;
Protagoras, i. 33; school, character of, i. 99; saying
of custom, i. 118; saying of Socrates, i. 118; opi-
nion of ideas, i. 197; opinion of knowledge, i. 161;
opinion of the action of the body and mind, i. 202;
objection to the manners of his country, i. 167;
commendation of virtue, i. 216; opinion of unity, i.
197; observation on invention, i. 207; error in
mixing philosophy with theology, i. 173; compa-
rison of Socrates to gallipots, i. 168.

Plato, i. 210, 211; familiar with errors in logic, i. 208;
compared rhetoric to cookery, i. 216; remarks on
his system of natural philosophy, i. 427; subjected
the world to his contemplations, i. 438.

Platonic school and Patricius, what they have said
concerning the heaven of heavens and pure space,
mere figments, ii. 580.

Plea, definite, ii. 482.

Plea of outlawry, ii. 483.

Pleas for discharging the suit, ii. 482.

Pisistratus, tyranny of, mollified by Solon's laws, Pleas, common, dispute in, whether it can grant prohi-

Pismire, the sluggard directed to the, ii. 387.
Pistachoes, excellent nourishment, ii. 15.
Pirates, war on, ii. 442; infestation of, ii. 475.

Pits, upon the sea-shore, return of saltness in, ii. 121.
Pit digging, for water, Cæsar's knowledge of, ii. 7.
Pity, effect of, ii. 96.

Pius Quintus, a learned pope who excelled in govern-
ment, i. 165; joy of, ii. 135.

Place, essay of great, i. 19.

bition to stay suits in chancery, ii. 514.
Pleasure, arts of, i. 205; saying of the poets of, i. 73;
of the affections greater than of the senses; of the
intellect greater than of the affections, i. 79.
Pleasures of knowledge the greatest, i. 183; of the
affections and senses surpassed by those of the in-
tellect, i. 183.

Plinius Secundus, why his fame lasts, i. 57; his say.
ing of praises of others, i. 57.
Pliny quoted as to metals, ii. 459.

Plague, in London, and many other parts of England, Plough, what the following of good for, ii. 127.
i. 370; as to receiving, ii. 126.

Plagues in Cairo, ii. 100.

Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, son of Clarence, impri-
soned, i. 316; involved in Perkin Warbeck's con-
spiracy, i. 370; his execution, i. 370.

Plantagenet, Elizabeth II., married to Henry VII., i.
319; crowned two years after, i. 325; her death,
i. 174.

Planting timber, ii. 384.

Planting hemp, ii. 384.
Plantations, considerations touching the, in Ireland, ii.
183, 185; essay on, i. 41; the children of former

Plutarch, his saying respecting an unworthy opinion
of the gods, i. 25; of the acts of Timoleon, i. 47,
77; apophthegms draw much dregs, i. 107; saying
of, i. 123.

Plutus, the fable of, when sent from Jupiter and when
sent from Juno, i. 42.
Plutus Timidus, ii. 227.
Pluralities, ii. 428.

Plumage and pilosity, experiment touching, ii. 89.
Plowden, sketch of life of in note, ii. 498.
Pneumaticals in bodies, the two kinds of, ii. 115.
Poem, ii. 438.

Poesy, a pleasure of imagination, i. 207; refers to the | Praise of Elizabeth, discourses in, ii. 445.
imagination, i. 192; relates to the imagination, i.
187; is narrative, representative, and allusive, i.
192; no deficience in, i. 193; expresses the pas-
sions and affections better than the works of philo-
sophers, i. 193; heathen, considered, i. 193; divine,
considered, i. 193; springs up without formal seed,
i. 193.

Poetry, Bacon's opinion of, i. 271.

Poets, allegory of the, as to knowledge, i. 164; make
men witty, i. 55; their picture of fame, i. 62; a
lightness in them to feign hope as a counter-poison
of diseases, i. 69.

Poison, cantharides fly, ii. 318.

Poisons, mixing of, ii. 318.

Poisoning, remarks on crime of, ii. 322.
Poisonous plants, ii. 84.

Poland, state of during the time of Queen Elizabeth,
ii. 248.

Pole, Michael de la, case of, ii. 527.

Policies of state, an impediment to knowledge, i. 95.
Policy, an order in the government of an estate, ii.
138; books of, i. 191.

Politicians, unlearned, refer all things to themselves,
i. 168; predictions of, i. 206; objections to learning
by, i. 162; judged by events, i. 203; integrity of
learned, i. 168; their objections to learning answered,
i. 164.

Political economy, ii. 385.

Polycrates, his daughter's dream, i. 43.

Polyphemus's courtesy, ii. 205.

Pomegranates, their use, ii. 467.

Pompey, an answer of his, i. 114.

Praise of knowledge, i. 174; a rudiment both of the
advancement of learning and of the Novum Orga-
num, i. 7, 79.
Praise, essay on, i. 56.
Praise of the king, i. 161.
Prayers, by Bacon, ii. 405.

Preachers, mode of educating, ii. 417; evils of igno-
rant, ii. 427.

Preaching, observations on, ii. 419; ministry, ii. 427;
education for, ii. 427.

Precepts, i. 236; vicious, i. 237; four, for health, ii.
469.

Precipitation of metals, ii. 461, 462.

Precedents, sometimes satisfy more than statutes, ii.
179; importance of knowing, ii. 478.

Precursors; or anticipations of the second philosophy,
iii. 521.

Predictions of politicians, i. 206; of astronomers, i.
206; of physicians, i. 206; to be despised, for the
spreading of them is mischievous, i. 43.
Preface, by Lord Bacon, i. 285.
Prefaces, great waste of time, i. 32; preoccupation of
mind requires preface, i. 32; too many before the
matter is wearisome; none at all is blunt, i. 41.
Preferment, upon what principle to be made; ii. 378;
caution to be used in, ii. 379.
Prejudice and ignorance, ii. 415.

Prelates, their contests with their kings, i. 27.
Præmunire, ii. 489; cases of, ii. 164; punishment,
trial, and proceedings in, ii. 165; for suits in the
chancery, ii. 514.

Prenotion and emblem, i. 212.

Pompeius Magnus, memorable speech of, i. 219; his Preparation, the first part of business, i. 32.

wisdom, i. 229, 234.

Pont-Charenton echo, ii. 41.

Poor, observations concerning their relief from hospi-
tals, ii. 240.

Pope of Rome, cartels of, ii. 389.

Pope Clement, Charles V. treatment of, ii. 390.
Popes, the most learned friars have ascended to be,
i. 165.

Popham's, the speaker, answer to Queen Elizabeth,
i. 111.

Population, greatness too often ascribed to, ii. 222;
more tokens of surcharge of people than of want
and depopulation, ii. 253; true greatness consists
essentially in, ii. 222.

Popularity, delight in, ii. 137.
Porches of death, iii. 508.

Preparation and suggestion, i. 209.
Prerogative, Sir E. Coke's letter concerning, ii. 507;
defying of, ii. 508; danger to his majesty's, ii. 492;
turbulent bearing of Lord Coke concerning parts of
his majesty's, ii. 500; cases of the king's in Parlia-
ment, ii. 165; in war and peace, ii. 165; in matters
of money, ii. 166; of trade and traffic, ii. 166; in
the persons of his subjects, ii. 166; of the king
revealed by law, ii. 294; the king's, what, ii. 478;
first part of the law, ii. 450.

Prescripts in use, too compendious to attain their end,
i. 205.

Priest and minister, ii. 426.

Pressure, motion of bodies upon their, ii. 8.
Preserving ointments, ii. 466.

Preservation of bodies, experiment on the, ii. 108.

Portugal, state of, in time of Queen Elizabeth, ii. 248. Pretors, Roman, their conduct, ii. 471.
Possibility, nature of, ii. 440.

Pride, impediment to knowledge, i. 95.

Postils of his majesty in Earl Somerset's business and Primitive divination, i. 206.
charge, ii, 517.

Post-meridian sleeps, ii. 16.

Post-nati of Scotland, argument respecting, ii. 166.
Postures of the body, ii. 99.

Pot-metal, ii. 459.

Poundage, hardship of, ii. 267.

Poverty of friars, Machiavel's observation on, i. 166.
Powder, the effect of the shot upon, ii. 8; as to sup-
ply of, ii. 383; white, dangerous, ii. 27.
Powders and liquors, incorporation of, ii. 46.
Powers, intellectual, discourse concerning, i. 104.
Power to do good, the lawful end of aspiring, i. 19;
knowledge is, i. 182.

Power and wisdom, difference between, apparent in
the creation, i. 174.

Poynings, Sir Edward, sent to invest Sluice, i. 343;
his commission to Ireland, i. 353; his memorable
law, i. 354.

Princes and governors, learned, advantages of, i. 164,
165.

Princes, advantages of learned, i. 166, 177; the most
learned are the best, i. 162; conjunction between
learned, and the happiness of their people, i. 177,
179.

Prince of Wales, ii. 381.

Prince Charles, dedication to, i. 314.
Principiation, or elements, ii. 460.

Priority of suit, as to granting an injunction upon
mere, ii. 472.

Private good, i. 221.

Privy council, how to form a, ii. 381.
Privilege, writs of, ii. 484.

Probus did himself hurt by a speech, i. 24.
Proclamation, or king's entry, ii. 451; or king's style,
ii. 453.

Procedendo, when granted. ii. 480.

Proctor, Stephen, certificate touching his projects re-
lating to the penal laws, ii. 236.
Profit, contempt of, ii. 446.

Professions, universities dedicated to, i. 185; supplied
from philosophy and universality, i. 185.
Prometheus, or the state of man, i. 305.
Promotion of officers, ii. 383.

Proofs, human, of advantage of learning, i. 302.
Properties, secret, ii. 136.

Prophecies, punishable by imprisonment, ii. 292; es-
say on, i. 43.

Propinquity, sympathy in, ii. 134.

Proserpina, or the ethereal spirit of the earth, i. 311;
or spirit, i. 310; fable of, quoted, ii. 23.
Prosperity, minds puffed up by, soonest dejected by
adversity, ii. 488.

Proteus, or matter, i. 297.

Proud men, all full of delays, ii. 195.
Provision for clergy, ii. 429.

Providences, judgments, &c., history of, i. 192.
Psalms, translation of, ii. 431.
Public good, i. 220.

Pulp of fish more nourishing than their flesh, ii. 14.
Purgative astringents, ii. 468.

Purge for opening the liver, ii. 466.
Purging, preparations before, ii. 18.

Purging medicines, how they lose their virtue, ii. 9;
experiment on, ii. 13.

Purveyors, speech touching, ii. 266; abuses of, ii. 267.
Purveyance due to the king, ii. 388.
Purification, of church, ii. 420.
Pursuit, objects of, i. 227.

Puteoli, court of Vulcan, ii. 106.

Putrefaction, most contagious before maturity, i. 175;
generation by, ii. 123; of water, ii. 109; touching
the causes of, ii. 113; of bodies, prohibition of, ii.
104; creatures bred of, ii. 92; preventing of, ii. 51;
inducing and accelerating of, ii. 50.

Pygmalion's frenzy an emblem of vain learning, i. 170.
Pythagoras, i. 198; a looker on, i. 222; philosophy
of, ii. 124; his parable, i. 34; his speech to Cicero,
i. 121.

Pyrrhus's teeth, undivided, ii. 101.

Lord C. Bacon, to Marquis of Buckingham, ii. 525;
demeanour and carriage of, ii. 525; letter to the
king touching proceedings against, ii. 524; when
beheaded, ii. 524; his saying that the Spanish Ar
mada was driven away with squibs, ii. 200, 209.
Rain, scarcity of, in Egypt, ii. 103.

Rains and dews, how produced, ii. 10, 20.
Rainbow, sweetness of odour from the, ii. 112.
Rainsford, Sir John, his prayer to Queen Elizabeth to
set free the four evangelists, with the queen's an-
swer, i. 107.

Ramus, his rules, i. 215.

Ratcliffe, Richard, his attainder, i. 318.

Raveline, valour of the English at the, ii. 212.
Rawley's life of Bacon, notice of his great fame abroad,

i. 275.

Rawley's dedication of New Atlantis, i. 255.
Reading makes a full man, i. 55.

Reading on the statute of uses, iii. 295.

Reason, philosophy relates to the, i. 187; its limits, i.
239; the key of arts, i. 207; governs the imagina-
tion, i. 206; preserved against melancholy by wine,
ii. 466.
Rebellion, her majesty's directions thereupon judicial
and sound, ii. 562; of Lord Lovel and the two Staf-
fords, i. 319.

Rebellions during Queen Elizabeth in England and
Ireland, ii. 285.

Receipts and finances, one of the internal points of
separation with Scotland, ii. 146; considerations
touching them, ii. 148.

Receipts, for cooking capons, ii. 15; medical, of Lord
Bacon, ii. 469.

Recipes for preserving health, ii. 468.
Recognisance, as to filing, ii. 484.
Recreation, games of, i. 205.
Recusants, harbouring, punishable, ii. 290.
Redargution, i. 210.

Reduction of metals, modes of, ii. 462.
Reference to masters, ii. 482.
Refining ore from dross, ii. 460.

Reform, ii. 415, 417; necessity for, ii. 421; of church,
ii. 421; bishops err in resisting, ii. 417.

Pyrrhus's answer to the congratulations for his victory Reformer, true spirit of, ii. 421.
over the Romans, i. 118.

QUARRIES, query as to, ii. 463; experiment touching,
ii. 116.
Queen Elizabeth, incensed at the book of History of
Henry IV. dedicated to Essex, ii. 337; report of
treasons meditated by Doctor Lopez against, ii. 216;
first copy of a discourse touching the safety of her
person, ii. 214; first fragments of a discourse touch-
ing intelligence and the safety of the queen's person,
ii. 214; her service in Ireland, considerations touch-
ing, ii. 188; her message to the Earl of Essex,
ii. 357.

Queen of Bohemia, letter to, i. 276.

Questions, legal, for the judges in Somerset's case, ii.

516; touching minerals, ii. 458; of Meverel, ii. 458;
on religious war, 444.

Quicksilver, nature and force of, ii. 12; its property of
mixing with metals, ii. 459; metals swim upon,
ii. 104.

Quiescence, seeming, i. 411.

Quinces, how to keep them long, ii. 83.

RABELAIS's saying after receiving extreme unction,
i. 110.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, anecdotes of, apophthegm respect-
ing, i. 107, 109, 122, 123; letter concerning, from

Reformation of fees, ii. 278; of abuses, ii. 267.
Rege inconsulto, case of, ii. 513; writs of, ii. 514.
Regimen of health, essay on, i. 39; of the body, i. 202.
Registry of doubts, i. 200; uses of, i. 200.
Register to keep copies of all orders, ii. 481.
Registers, directions to, in drawing up decrees, ii. 482;
to be sworn, ii. 481.

Rejection of natures from the form of heat, iii. 384.
Religion, unity in, essay of, i. 12; pure religion, is to
visit orphans and widows, i. 69; why religion should
protect knowledge, i. 83; many stops in its state to
the course of invention, i. 99; the most sovereign
medicine to alter the will, i. 105; impediment of the
heathen and superstition to knowledge, i. 95; of
the Turkish, i. 95; alteration of, by Elizabeth, ii.
245; advice upon, by whom, ii. 377; anabaptist, i
314; propagation of the Mohammedan, ii. 314; de-
fensive wars for, are just, ii. 202; propositions for a
college for controversies in, ii. 241; its three deck
nations, i. 244; revealed, i. 239; advantage of phi-
losophy to, i. 176; necessary for the recovery of the
hearts of the Irish people, ii. 189; toleration recom
mended, ii. 189; opinion that time will facilitate re-
formation of, in Ireland, ii. 191; of Turks, n. 438;
encouragement of, ii. 476.

Religion and philosophy prejudiced by being commixed
together, i. 195.

Religious censure, moralists', ii. 418.
Religious controversy, errors in, ii. 414; style of,
ii. 413.

Religious war, questions in, ii. 444.

Religious sects, effects of extirpating by violence set
forth in the fable of Diomedes, i. 300.
Remembrances of the king's declaration touching Lord
Coke, ii. 500; for the king, before his going into
Scotland, ii. 537.

Remedies against the sirens, i. 313.

Remains, physiological, ii. 455.

Report of the Spanish grievances, ii. 193; of Lopez's
treason, ii. 194; order for confirmed, ii. 482.
Reports, Coke's faults in, not his own, ii. 499; letter
to the king touching a retractation by Lord Coke of
some parts of his, ii. 498.

Reporters, advice to appoint sound lawyers to be, ii.

232.

Reputation, essay on honour and, i. 57.

Requests, against the court of, ii. 514.

Residence of clergy, examination of, ii. 428.
Residents, non, evils of, ii. 428.

Restless nature of things in themselves, ii. 108.
Respects, essay on, and ceremonies, i. 56.
Restitution, i. 301; letter touching, ii. 462.
Restorative drink, on, ii. 467.

Retreats, honourable, no ways inferior to brave charges,
ii. 208.

Retrenchment of delays in equity, ii. 471.
Revealed religion, i. 239.

Revenge, memorable defence of the, under Sir Richard
Greenvil, when attacked by the Spanish fleet, ii.
210; essay of, i. 14.

Revenue, grants of, ii. 473.

Revenues of the crown must be preserved, ii. 388.
Revolt, the laws as to, ii. 364.

Revocation of uses, case of, iii. 280.

Reward, amplitude of, encourages labour, i. 184.
Rhetoric, i. 215; too early taught in universities, i.

Rome, practice of the church of, i. 58; flourished most
under learned governors, i. 165; the perfection of
government of, and learning contemporaneous, i. 166.
Roman emperors' titles, ii. 266.
Roman law of homicide, ii. 297.
Roman unguent, receipt for, ii. 469.
Roman prætors, their conduct, ii. 471.
Romans, the most open of any state to receive strangers
into their body, i. 37; granted the jus civitatis to
families, cities, and sometimes nations, i. 37; always
foremost to assist their confederates, i. 38; the only
states that were good commixtures, ii. 140; liberal
of their naturalizations, ii. 140; which Machiavel
judged to be the cause of the growth of their em-
pire, ii. 140; their four degrees of freedom and na-
turalization, ii. 141, 170; their union with the La-
tins, ii. 155; after the social war their naturalization
of the Latins, ii. 155; naturalization of the Latins
and the Gauls, and the reason for it, ii. 224; their
empire received no diminution in territory until
Jovinianus, ii. 223; shortly afterwards it became a
carcass for the birds of prey of the world, ii. 223;
four of their kings lawgivers, ii. 234.

Roory, Owny Mac, Chief of the Omoores in Leinster,
ii. 351.

Roots, more nourishing than leaves, ii. 14; of trees, ii.
86; three cubits deep, ii. 88.

Roses, preparation of artificial for smell, ii. 466.
Rose-leaves, preserving of colour and smell of, ii. 55.
Rose-water, virtue of, ii. 127.

Rubies, rock, are the exudations of stone, ii. 7.
Rules for a chancellor, ii. 471.

Rules and maxims of the common laws, iii. 219.
Rust, turning metals to, ii. 460, 461.
Rustics, why Pan the god of, i. 291.
Rutland, examination of Roger, Earl of, ii. 371.

SABBATH, the, i. 175.

Sabines, their mixture with the Romans, ii. 140.
186; tropes of, i. 180; imaginative reason the sub-Sabinian, the successor of Gregory, persecuted his
ject of, i. 207; compared by Plato to cookery, i.
216; its sophisms, i. 217.

Rheum, breakfast a preservative against, ii. 466.
Rhubarb, its property, ii. 14; contrary operations of,
ii. 9.

Richard III., enormities committed by, i. 314.
Richardson's, Mr. Serjeant, excuse for the place of
speaker not accepted by the king, ii. 284; his rea-
sons for refusing the excuse, ii. 284.
Riches, essay on, i. 42; the poet's saying of, i. 73;
Mr. Bettenham's opinion of, i. 121; when treasure
adds greatness to a state, ii. 226; excess of, makes
men slothful and effeminate, ii. 227; greatness too
often ascribed to, ii. 222, 226; the great monarchies
had their foundations in poverty, as Persia, Sparta,
Macedonia, Rome, Turkey, ii. 157, 226.
Rice should be cultivated in new plantations, i. 41.
Right side, experiment touching the, ii. 121.
Rimenant, repulse of the Spaniards under Don John
of Austria, by the states-general, chiefly by the
English and Scotch troops under Colonels Norris
and Stuart, ii. 207.

Riot at Essex House, ii. 357.

Ripening of drink before time, ii. 89.

Rivers, navigable, great help to trade, ii. 387.

memory for his injustice to heathen antiquity, i.

98.

Sacrifice. No sacrifice without salt, a positive precept
of the old law, ii. 239; its moral, ii. 239.
Saffron, the preparing of, ii. 466; a few grains will
tincture a tun of water, i. 89.

Saffron flowers, distilled, good for, ii. 128.
Saggi Morali, the Italian title of the essays, i. 5.
Salamander, touching the, ii. 118.
Salique law, saying respecting, i. 117.
Salisbury, Owen, notorious robber, ii. 336.
Sal, as to its separation from metal, ii. 460.
Salt, history of, iii. 466.

Salt of lead, or sulphur, mixing of, ii. 460.
Salt water, experiments on, ii. 7; dulcoration of, ii.

121.

Samuel sought David in the field, i. 208.
Sanctuary, the privileges of, i. 326.
Sand, of the nature of glass, ii. 105; better than earth
for straining water, ii. 7; liquor leaveth its saltness
if strained through, ii. 7; differences between earth
and, ii. 7.

Sandys, Lord William, confession of, ii. 371; his opi-
nion of Sapientia Veterum, i. 272.

San, Josepho, invades Ireland with Spanish forces in
1580, ii. 260.

Roberts, Jack, his answer to his tailor, i. 109; his Sanquhar, Lord, charge against, on his arraignment, il

Robe of mercy, the white, ii. 319.

saying respecting a marriage, i. 114.

Rock rubies, the exudation of stone, ii. 7.

311.

Sap of trees, ii. 87.

Tenison, i. 272.

Rolls, decrees drawn at the, ii. 482; examination of Sapientia Veterum, opinions upon, by Sandys and
court, ii. 484.

Sarah's laughter an image of natural reason, i. 239.
Satiety, meats that induce, ii. 46.
Saturn, i. 296; ii. 579.

Savil's, Mr., opinion respecting poets, i. 111.

Savil, Sir Henry, letter to, i. 104; answer to Coranus,
i. 117.

Savoy, state of during the time of Queen Elizabeth,
ii. 248.

Savages, the proper conduct towards them in planta-
tions, i. 41.

Saviour's (our) first show of his power, i. 176.
Scale, nature of notes of, ii. 25.

Scaling ladder of the intellect, iii. 519.

Scaliger's sixth sense, ii. 91.

Scammony, strong medicine, ii. 9.

Scandal, charge against Sir J. Wentworth for, ii.
307.

Scarlet, touching the dye of, ii. 122.

Scent of dogs almost a sense by itself, ii. 92.
Schoolmen. Cymini sectores, i. 55; the origin of
their cobwebs, i. 70; incorporated Aristotle's philo-
sophy into the Christian religion, i. 97; saying
of them by the bishops at the council at Trent, i.

122.

Schools, too many grammar, ii. 241.
Science, authors in, ought to be consuls, and not
dictators, i. 172; error of over-early reducing into
methods and arts, i. 173; badges of false, i. 170;
the strength of, is in the union of its parts, i.

171.

Sciences, want of invention in professors of, i. 174;
errors in the formation of, i. 173; confederacy of,
with the imagination, i. 172; imaginary, i. 199;
growth of, checked by dedication of colleges to pro-
fessions, i. 185.

Sciences and arts, invention in, deficient, i. 207.
Scientific efforts, on the combination and succession
of, ii. 557.

Scipio Africanus, Livy's saying of him, i. 48.
Scire facias, when awarded, ii. 484.
Scotchmen, the statute for voiding them out of Eng-
land, i. 343; speech on the naturalization of, ii.

150.

Scotch skinck, how made, ii. 14.
Scotland, its state during Queen Elizabeth, ii. 248;
as to union with, ii. 383; truce with, i. 326; Perkin
Warbeck's reception in, i. 356; king of, ravages
Northumberland, i. 358; preparations for a war
with, i. 361; peace with, i. 364; suggestion of
courts for the borders of, ii. 143; the points wherein
the nations were united, ii. 143; external points
of separation with, ii. 144; internal points of sepa-
ration with, ii. 146; commissioner's certificate of
union with, ii. 149; argument respecting the post-
nati of, ii. 166; discourse of the happy union with,
ii. 138; considerations touching the union of Eng-
land and, ii. 143.

Scotland and England, union of, ii. 452, 454.
Scotus, his answer to Charles the Bald, i. 114.
Scribonianus, answer of his freedman to the freedman
of Claudius, i. 112.

Scripture, no deficiency in, i. 244; interpretation of,
methodical and solute, i. 241; interpretation of, i.
241.

Scriptures exhort us to study the omnipotency of
God, i. 176; meditations on, i. 71; do not restrain
science, i. 82, 98; honour the name of the invent-
ors of music and works in metal, i. 98.
Scylla, fable of, an image of contentious learning, i.
171; the fiction of an emblem of the present phi-
losophy, i. 87.

Scylla and Icarus, or the middle way, i. 309.
Sea, lord admiral's right of determining as to acts com.
mitted on the high, ii. 502; the commandment of
it one of the points of true greatness in a state, ii.
223; different clearness of the, ii. 90; importance
of the mastery of it, i. 38; great effects of battles
by, i. 38; ebb and flow of, iii. 523; motions of, are
only five, iii. 523; the great six-hours diurnal mo-
tion principally treated, iii. 523; motions of cur-
rents do not contradict the notion of a natural and
catholic motion of the sea, iii. 523; grand diurnal
motion not one of elevation or depression, iii. 524;
elevated all over the world at equinoxes, and at the
new and full moon, iii. 524; objections to the opi-
nion that the diurnal motion is a progressive one,
from the fact that in some places wells have simul-
taneous motions with the sea, and from the fact that
waters are raised and depressed simultaneously on
the shore of Europe and Florida, considered, iii
524, 525; ebb and flow of, from what cause it
arises, iii. 525; whence arises the reciprocal action
of tides once in six hours, iii. 528; explanation of
the difference of tides connected with the moon's
motion, iii. 529.

Sea-fish put in fresh waters, ii. 94.
Sea-shore, wells on, ii. 7.
Sea-weed, ii. 76.

Sea or other water, colour of, ii. 120.
Seas, rolling and breaking of the, ii. 121.
Seals, one of the external points of separation with
Scotland, ii. 144.

Seasons, pestilential, ii. 57; prognostics of pestilential,
ii. 91.

Secrecy, a great means of obtaining suits, i. 54.
Secret properties, ii. 136.

Sects, the greatest vicissitude, i. 39; the two properties
of new sects to supplant authority, to give license
to pleasures, i. 61; the three plantations, i. 61; di-
versities of, i. 200; religious, effect of extirpating
by violence, i. 300.

Sedition and troubles, essay of, i. 22.
Seed, what age is best, ii. 88; producing perfect
plants without, ii. 76.

Seeds, most, leave their husks, ii. 86.

Self, essay of wisdom for a man's self, i. 31.
Self-love maketh men unprofitable like the narcissus,
i. 288.

Self-revelation, i. 234.

Selden, John, to Lord Viscount St. Alban, ii. 530.
Senators, advantages of learned, i. 177.
Seneca, i. 210, 219; ii. 435; Nero's opinion of his
style, i. 111; his saying of Cæsar, i. 115; his saying
of death, i. 12; on prosperity and adversity, & 14;
his prophecy of America, i. 43; why his fame lasts,
i. 57; his saying on anger, i. 59; his description of
Cæsar, ii. 234; government of Rome by, i. 165.
Senna, how windiness taken from, ii. 10.
Sense, Scaliger's sixth, ii. 91; imagination imitating
the force of the, ii. 107.

Senses, reporters to the mind, i. 162; greatest of the
pleasures of the, ii. 91; spiritual species which af
fect the, ii. 128.

Sentences, collection of, out of the Mimi of Publius, i.
127, 128; out of some of Lord Bacon's writings, 1.
129-131.

Sentient bodies, harmony of, with insentient, L. 412.
Sequela chartarum, i. 100.

Sequestration, where granted, ii. 481; of specific
lands, ii. 481.

Separation of bodies by weight, ii. 8; of metals
minerals, ii. 460.

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