too finely, 520; of a marvellous use, 94.-
SCHOOL-masters, how ought to behave
themselves in teaching their scholars, ibid.-
SCHOOLS and classes, 106; interdicted to
the Christians, 417. -SCIPIO confidence
in a barbarian, 79; a great sleeper, 654.-
SCOFFER, 330.-SCRIBLERS imperti-
nent and foolish, 555; ought to be punish'd
as well as vagabonds and idle persons,
ibid.; sign of a disordered and licentious age,
ibid.-SCYTHIANS declining a battle, 42.
-SEA-hares poyson to man, 374.-SEA-
sick, why people are apt to vomit at sea, 523.
-SEAT of constancy, 402; of the soul, 340.-
SECONDS, in duels, 425.-SECRETS kept
after a full dose of liquor, 216; of princes,
troublesome burthen, 482.-SECTS divided,
one for the body and the other for the soul,
398; of different opinions, 350.-SECURITY
of a place, how known, 564.-SELF-homi-
cides ignominiously bury'd, 233; love indis-
creet, 237; murther, 130; SENECA'S diet
for a whole year, 646.-SENSES alter'd by
passions of the soul, 374; hinder one another,
375; incertain and false in their operations,
372; source of our knowledge, 369; often
command the soul, 373; masters of our
reason, 371; proper judges, 545; the begin-
ning and the end of human knowledge, 369;
justest dividends of nature's favour, 409;
utmost limit of our discovery, 369; uncer-
tain, alter everything they produce, 375.-
SENTENCES more criminal than crimes
themselves, 637.-SENTIMENTS of beasts
free and natural, 166.-SEPULTURE of
the Neorites, 622.-SERENITY of the air
promises health, 630.- SERVANTS, as
many enemies, 248; hanged for betraying
their master, 486.-SERVITUDE voluntary,
119.-SEVERITY enemy to education, 107;
of the colleges, 106.-SEVERUS spoke best
extempore, 37.-SHADES of the Persians,
573.-SHAME causes death, 22.-SHELLS
gathered by Scipio and Lælius childishly
trifling on the sea-shore, 664.-SHRINE of
St. Stephen, 118.-SICK persons, how ought
to behave themselves in time of their sick-
ness, 578.-SIEGE of Mexico, 533; of
Tamley raised by the bees, 295.-SIGHT
altered and its effects, 379. SIGN of
cruelty, 351; of miserable death, ibid.-
SIGNIFICATION of favour among the
Romans, 423.-SILENCE and modesty,
98; very profitable, to those that govern, 646.
-SILK out of fashion in France, 183;
worms, how produced, 324.-SIMILITUDE,
perfect, not to be found, 633.-SIMPLI-
CITY, 309.-SINS of complexion and pro-
fession, 495.-SIRE, what title, 200.-SIR-
NAME of great to princes, ibid.-SIR-
NAMES glorious among the ancients, ibid.
-SKELETON, 238. SKIN of a man
sufficient proof against weather, 284.-
SLANDER of known and avowed imper-
fections, 577.-SLAVE thrown from the
Tarpeian rock for his treason, 486.-SLEEP
disturbed to be the better relished, 666;
long not wholesome, 654; the image of death,
232; what it is, 345; without dreams and
sweet, 625.-SLINGS, 191.-SMELL good
and bad, 202; simple and natural, ibid.-
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when one sneezes, 523.-SNOW used to
cool wine, 195; storms in Armenia, 145.
-SOCIETY among beasts, 297; of bad
men unfortunate, 150.-SOCRATES, a de-
formed fellow, 629; his demon, 41; know-
ledge of, 493: opinion of concerning vio-
lence or wrong done, 545; pleading of,
625; soul of, 264; the master of masters, 641;
the only man worthy of bearing the title of a
wise man, 238; vertue of, 264.-SOLDIER
altered and cowed after the cure of a dis-
ease, 213; ought to be pliable to all variety
and inequality of life, 646; rifled by the
enemy, performs a brave exploit, 213.-
SOLDIERS first taught to handle their arms
with skill, 427.-SOLICITUDE about riches
smells of avarice, 561.-SOLITUDE has the
best pretence in those that have employed
their flourishing age in the world's service,153:
local, 501; of a Dean of St. Hilary of Poic-
tiers, 246; preferred to a troublesome and
foolish company, 582; sought after on ac-
count of devotion, 155; what is, ibid., 501.-
SOLON'S tears for the death of his son, 366.
-SORCERERS dreams, incorporated with
effects, 613.-SORROW called by the Ital-
ians malignity, 20; silences men, 21; strikes
men dumb and dead, ibid.-SOUL capable
of alteration, 345; colours things as she
pleases, 197; denied to men, 340; discovered
in all motion, 196; general, from whence the
particular souls are extracted, 343; is about
the heart, according to Chrysippus's opinion,
340; is inconstant and variable, 213; has
not settled limits, 32; looking upon things
several ways, 149; never struck with the
pain of the stone, as in other diseases, 653;
of men according to the philosophers opi-
nions, 340; ordered and regulated by Socra-
tes, 616; ought to be pure at prayer time,
204; ought to participate of the pleasures of
the body, 662; overthrown by its own weak-
ness, 219; tending towards death, according
to the philosophers, 345; the sole cause of
her condition, 175; variable into all sorts of
forms, 166. SOULS beautiful, 406; by
which men ought to be judged, 493; capable
of all things, 431; darted out by the dis-
courses or examples of others, ibid.; not
proper for low things, 586; faculties dis-
turbed by the contagion of a mad-dog, 345:
fit for solitude and retirement, 153; fit for
the management of affairs, 420; from whence,
when, and by whom produced, 343; heavy,
409; in old age subject to more troublesome
maladies than youth, 497; knowing in their
natural purity, 343; made gods, according to
Plutarch, 348; of inanimate things, 340; of
several stories, 500; of some excellent men,
312; regular and strong of themselves, 409.
shifting their places from one body into
another, 271; the most wretched has some
faculty, 406.-SOVEREIGN good of man
according to philosophers, 364; consists in
the tranquillity of the soul and body, 304.-
SPANISH body, 169; way of travelling, 573-
-SPEAKING discomposes sick and wound-
ed people, 649; has its failing, 329 ; fine, 112.
ought to take its tone from the ears of those
to whom 'tis directed, 649; SPECTACLES
profitable to society, 115.-SPEECH fit for
pleaders, 36; for preachers, 37; of men, 285:

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read, very absurd and mighty disadvanta-
geous, 566.-SPIRITS froward and pensive,
515. SPOILS burnt for a sacrifice to
some gods, 325.-SPORT of hand, ibid.-
STAG finding himself out of breath, sur-
renders himself to the hunters, 271.-
STATE of Rome, and its diverse forms,
564. STATES threatned with alteration
and ruin, 563.-STATURE of men looking
towards heaven, 301.- STILE of Sallust
and Cæsar, 397.-STOICK philosophy and
its effect, 305. - STOICKS did allow to
feed upon carcasses, 136; state of, 43.-
STONE, 653; in what favourable, ibid.;
ordinary in old men, especially men of
quality, 650; sharp disease, and much to
be feared, 460.-STORIES, 160.-STORY
of a magpye at Rome, 290; of the death of
Arria, wife of Cecinna Poetus, 452.-
STOVES decried, 644.-STRANGERS in
the French armies in the time of the civil
wars, 617.-STRATAGEMS in war, con-
trary to the eldest senators practice, 29.-
STRENGTH of men inferiour to that of
several other animals, 288.-STRUCTURE
of the Halcyon's nests, and the matter whereof
they are built, 299.-STUDY, a pleasant im-
ployment, 318; and its advantages, 97; fit
for an old man, 431.-SUBJECT of Mon-
taigne's writings, 414.-SUBJECTION real
and effectual, 181.-SUBSTANCE, mortal,
always changing, 377; real denied, ibid.-
SUBMISSION, mollifies the heart, 17.-
SUBTILTIES of logick are abuse, 105.
SUBTILTY, malicious of Thales's mule,
294.- SUBSTITUTIONS of males, 250.-
SUFFERING, first lesson taught by the
Mexicans, 650. SUIT of arms under
a religious habit, 168. - SUMMER more
incommodious than winter, 660. - SUN
appearing newly created, 534.-SUPER-
FLUITY superfluous, 581. - SUPERI-
ORITY and inferiority bound to a natural
contest, 537-SUSPICION breeds jealousy,
of breath, 202.-
SWIMMING of great use in war, 447.
-SWISS, stolidity of the, 267; women,
hardihood of the, 167.-S WOONS in agony
of death, from whence proceed, 234.
SWORDS the best weapons, 190.-TABLE
talk, 126.-TABLES distinguished by the
names of the guests, 86.-TACITUS, cha-
racter of, 553; history, 552.-TEACHERS,
how should be paid, 85.-TEETH, white,
despised, 300.-TEMERITY and presump-
tion of some philosophers, 304; in the under-
standing, 118; of censures, 255.-TEM-
PERANCE, 311; ought to be beloved for
itself, 497.-TEMPLES of Augustus, 332.-
TEMPTATIONS of the flesh powerful and
sharp, 612.-TERENCE, 257; comedies
of, 158.-TERROR panick, 47.-TESTI-
MONY of a good conscience, 491; of Adri-
anus Turnebus, 86.-THALES reproach'd
by a woman, 337.-THEFT, allow'd by
Lycurgus, why, 366.-THEOLOGY of Se-
bonde, 273; of former time, 588.-THERA-
MENES shoe, 613.-THIEF grown rich,
494.-THIEVERY odious to the Spartans,
442.-THRACIAN King, how distinguished
from his people, 176.-THRIFTS of the
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vanquishers, 424; Latin etymology, 423.-
TIBERIUS another man without than
within, 404; his trouble of conscience about
the religion of his time, 553.-TIME, a
moving thing, without permanency, 378;
ought to be managed, 668; present, none, 377;
the physician of our passions, 509.-TIMO-
LEON, deputed to cleanse Sicily of tyrants,
487; tears of, 149.-TIMON, manhater, 198.
-TISSICK, 617.-TITLE of books, 162.-
TORMENT practised by the Emperor
Meckmed, 430.-TRAITOR looked upon as
an execrable fellow, even by those that have
employed him, 485; severely punished by
the Duke of Russia, for having betrayed
into his nand the King of Poland, ibid.-
TRAVELS, when useful and instructive,
575.-TRAVELLING, very instructive to
youth, 97.- TREACHERY preferred to
honesty, 484; punished by the Romans, 485;
rejected by Tiberius, 479; revenged upon
those that were employed about it, 485;
wherein it ought only to be excused, ibid.-
TREATISE of Brutus, written upon vertue,
259.-TREATY of Bretigny, 421.-TREES
buried in winter, 186.-TROUBLE, 653; in
abundance, 581.-TRUTH banish'd, the first
cause of the corruption of manners, 415; is
one, and simple in her ways, 483; is not to
be judg'd by the testimony of others, 316;
of the church can't be shaken by the vices of
her ministers, 437; the fundamental part of
vertue, 403.-TURKS make themselves
scars in honour of their mistresses, 168.-
TUTOR, 94.-TYRANTS, 178; make their
anger felt by lingering deaths, 429.
UGLINESS of several sorts, 629.-UM-
BRELLAS of Italy, 573.- UNCER-
TAINTY and immutability of human things,
47.-UNDERSTANDING limited, 351; of
several sorts, 201.-UNION of the soul with
the body, 398, 522.-UNLIKENESS af-
fected by nature. 633.-UNSAYING autho-
ritatively extracted infamous, 663.-USE of
ill means to a good, end, 421; of the under-
standing, 164. USURPATION of sove-
raign authority taken by men over women,
from whence proceeds, 251.-UTILITIES
proper to men lost, to accommodate them-
selves the common opinions,561.-UTILITY,
private, not to be preferred before faith given,
487.
VALENTINIAN enemy to all knowledge,
309.-VALOUR extream in its kind, 214;
military, 522; of Cæsar, 448; of Socrates,
664; of the citizens of Sparta, 239; of three
French gentlemen, 17; ought to be desir'd
for itself, not for a show, 388; perfected with
anger, 356; philosophical, 240; preferred to
genealogical nobility, 516; the highest degree
of vertue, ibid. ; its etymology, ibid.; of a
man consists in the heart, 137.-VALUA-
TION of one's self, 239. VANITY
nursing-mother of false opinions, 395; VA-
RIETY and vanity of opinions, 319; of
actions in Augustus, 212; pleasing, 581.-
VAULTING, a miracle in, 218.-VER-
MILION and Cerus, 373.-VERITY, cir-
cumscribed and limited, 642.-VERTUE
accompanied with irregular agitations. 357;
aims at pleasure, 49; can't be exercised with-
out some difficulty, 264; follow'd for her self-

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215; embraced with too violent desire be
comes vicious, 128; enemy to anxiety and
sorrow, 104; great benefit of, 50; greedy of
danger, 165; enabled by difficulties, ibid.;
her necessary objects, 265; is more great
and active than to be drawn to the rules of
reason, 264 is pleasant and gay, 514;
military, 436; never stops, 222; never
turns her back to accidents, ibid.; of Me-
tellus against Saturninus, 264; of the load-
stone, 147; ought to be coveted for her self,
386; rejoices good nature, 491; royal, wherein
consists, 527; satisfied with herself, 152;
scholastick, unfit for the management of
publick affairs, 585; shines bright by the
conflict of contrary appetites, 265; taught
by the Persians as letters by other nations,
88; the nursing-mother of all human plea-
sure, 104; the particular mark of Christian
religion, 275; true and sincere, out of em-
ployment in the world's service in a sick
time, 586; turn'd into habit in Cato and
Socrates, 266; what is, according to Mem-
non, 637.-VERTUES medicinal, in what
consist, 472. VESSEL, rich, purposely
broken by king Cotys; why, 600.-VICES
all alike, as they are vices, 215; condemned
by reason and nature, 491; derive their
propensity from infancy, 63; leave repent-
ance in the soul, 491; necessary in all
governments, 480; not subject to con-
tradiction, 492; of kings authorized by their
subjects, 538; of men, 302; punish'd by
the divine justice after death, 346.-VIC-
TORIES fairly gotten, 137; obtained against
the Indians, 531.-VICTORY, in what it
consists, 137 not allowed to him that
asked for a dead body, 24; obtained by
the Lacedæmonians flying, 42. — VIGI-
LANCY and activity ought to be recom-
mended to youth, 654. - VIOLENCE of
desires hinders the execution of under-
takings, 596.-VIRGIL his Georgicks, 256.
-VOICE of divers tones and uses, 649;
of the rabble contemn'd, 389; strained before
meals wholesome, 657; the flower of beauty,
501.-WALK required in a place of retire-
ment, 504.-WAR, 29, 294; monstrous, 617.
-WARLIKE women, 67.-WARS abroad
more supportable than civil ones, 421; betwixt
bees, 294; of men against the gods, 334;
proclaimed by the tolling of a bell, 30.-
WATER of the river Choaspes, beverage of
the Persian kings, 573.-WATER, how used
by the ancients, 195.-WATERMEN, fares
of, ibid.-WAY of speaking capable of various
interpretations, 367; of the Athenians, Lace-
dæmonians, and Cretans, 112.-WAYS to go
out of this life, 221.-WEALTH hoarded up
to maintain the paternal authority in an old
age, 244.-WEAPONS formerly used in
war, 190.- WEEPING of beasts, 297.-
WICKED men can't hide themselves, 230;
pick'd out and put together in a city built
for that purpose by King Philip, 562;
punish'd, 424.-WILL, our, the effects there-
of always in our power, 31.-WILLS the
more obstinate for being oppos'd, 383.-
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145; dash'd, 196; with water, of Cranius's
invention, 660; forbidden to children, 218;
hurtful to sick people, 648; prescrib'd for
the sick Spartans, 475; pure, contrary to
old age, 219; the best, 558; theological
and sorbonical, 185; vertue and propriety,
219.-WISDOM accompanied with trouble,
308; acquiescency of, 22; and brutality,
201; commits itself to the conduct of
chance, 548; human, never arrives at her
prescribed duty, 584; worthless without
communion, 582; of the world, folly with
God, 280; only belongs to the Divinity, ibid.;
principal office of, 216: indicated by chear-
fulness, 103; what it is, 220.-WISE men,
country of, 101; necessary to help us out of
the world, 576; ought to do nothing but for
themselves, 198; work by all the vertues
together, 268. WITCH-mark, 612.-
WITCHES, 611.-WITNESS among the
Romans, 610.-WITS of several degrees,
176.-WIVES voluntarily exposing their life,
to encourage their husbands, 226.-WOMAN,
blind, cured by Vespasian, 554; unreason-
able, 250.-WOMEN, addicted to
their husbands, 248; and children excluded
from enquiring into the laws, 207; buried
alive with the corpse of their husbands, 164,
433; made use of by ladies, for a footstool,
287; mask'd and painted, 198; obstinate,
443; of vertue and honour, 241; seeking
after death to avoid the cruelty of tyrants,
224; uncapable of a perfect love, 121.-
WORDS affected, 111; finally spoken, 110;
moderating the temerity of propositions,
611; obliging, 161.-WORLD, a looking-
glass and a book, 101; a sacred temple, 278.
discovered, 630; in a perpetual motion, 489
is a school of inquisition, 543; unwilling to
be cured, 563; why created, 341; without
law or magistrate, 309.-WREN and croco
dile, 298.-WRESTLING condemn'd by
Philopomen, why, 527.-WRITING of Co-
drus, condemn'd to the fire, 253; to be pre-
ferr'd to bodily children, ibid.; WRITINGS,
life long or short, according to the favour of
fortune, 391; of Antiochus corrected by him-
self in his more mature age, 567; of Hera-
clitus, 636.-WRONG done to the divine
greatness, 327.

XENOCRATES his Gods, 322.-XENO
PHON, relieved and saved in the Delian
battle, 664; reporting Socrates his doctrine,
322.-XERXES considering his forces, was
sized with joy and sorrow, 149; environed
with all human delights, makes a silly pro-
posal, 662.

YEAR cut ten days shorter, 607.-YOUNG
men given to filching, 243.-YOUTH must
be accustomed to labour, 97.
ZAMOLXIS, the god of the Getes, 325.-ZEAL
arm'd against Pagan books, 416; falsely
named, 482; governed with moderation and
prudence, 207; immoderate, 128; of the
Jews to their belief, 163.-ZELEUCUSS
laws against woman's sumptuousness, 183-
ZENO, disciples of, 112; his oath, 521; re
presenting the motion of his imagination,
313.-ZENOPHANES his gods, 322.