INDEX TO THE ENGLISH WORKS.
ABDUCTION of women made a capital offence, iii. 226.
Abel and Cain, contemplation of ac- tion figured in, ii. 55. Abimelech, vi. 17.
Abjuration and exiles, cases of and proceedings therein, v. 101. Abner, murder of by Joab, not forgot- ten, vi. 203.
Absolution, vii. 81.
Abridgments of laws, opinion on the
use of them, v. 351.
Abuse of excommunication, vii. 89. Abuses in the penal laws, v. 365. Acceleration and clarification of liquors, iv. 150.
Accessaries to duels before the fact, vi. 122.
Accident assistance to eloquence, vi. 260.
Account, matters of, vii. 284. Achaians, comparison of the state of to a tortoise, by Titus Quiutius, v. 318.
Achelous, or battle, iii. 59. Acteon and Pentheus, or a curious man, iii. 29.
Action, the chief part of an orator, i. 37. Action and contemplation, union be- tween, ii. 50, 52; figured in Abel and Cain, ii. 55; and contemplation,
Actions, all men drawn into by plea-
sure, honour, and profit, v. 176. Active, force of quantity in the, vii. 203. Actium, battle of, decided the empire of the world, i. 107.
Actor, Vibulenus, his artifice, ii. 217. Adam's employment in Paradise, ii. 55. Adam, fall of, set forth by the fable of Pan, iii. 14.
Adamites, heresy of, vii. 142. Adjournment should be upon a day certain, vii. 331. Admiralty, against the, vii. 402. Admiralties and merchandizing, several,
one of the internal points of separa- tion with Scotland, v. 81. Admonished how to dispose of part of his riches, vii. 3; to imitate the Spaniards, the beaver, &c. vii. 303. Adoration the highest honour amongst the heathens, ii. 62.
Adrian, a learned prince, ii. 66. Adrian de Castello, the Pope's legate,
made Bishop of Hereford, iii. 231; his conspiracy against Leo from a prediction of an astrologer, iii. 232. Adrian VI. advice to him respecting Pasquil, i. 359.
Adrian, the bounty of his disposition, v. 354.
Adrian, the philosopher's answer who contended with him, i. 384. Advancement in life, ii. 269; of learn- ing, notice of, iii. 21; of learning, Bacon's observations on, vii. 111. Adversity, strength of, vii. 305; Essay of, i. 15.
Advertisement touching holy war, vii. 118; touching church controversies, vii. 28.
Advice upon importing foreign goods, vi. 443; to ministers, vi. 405; con- cerning Indian wealth, vi. 445. Adulteration of metals, vii. 198. Advocates, i. 181.
Eneas Sylvius, his saying of the chris- tion religion, i. 402. Esculapius and Circe, exposition of, credulity by fable of, ii. 160. Esop's fable of the two sons digging for gold, ii. 44.
Affections, effect upon the minds and spirits of men, iv. 504; their impe- diments to knowledge, i. 304; in- quiry touching, ii. 245. Affectation. No affectation in passion, i. 133; to use studies too much for ornament is affectation, i. 167. Affidavits before masters of chancery, vii. 289.
Agathocles, conduct to the captive Syracusans, i. 378.
Age and youth prejudiced, vii. 41. Age will not be defied, i. 110; essay on youth and, i. 142; heat in age ex- cellent for business, i. 143; Alonzo of Arragon's commendation of age, i. 372.
Agesilaus, excellent though deformed, i. 147; saying of his, i. 380; called home from Persia upon a war against Sparta by Athens and Thebes, v.315; his saying thereon, v. 315. Agricultural experiments, vii. 221. Agrippina, preference of empire, ii. 88. Agues, what wines best for, iv. 11; use of hartshorn in, iv. 359. Air, transmutation of into water, iv. 14, 48; diversity of infusions in, iv. 11; in water, cause of quick as- cent of, iv. 12; condensation of by cold, iv. 17; aptness to corrupt, iv. 427; commixture of with flame, iv. 18; effect of the inspissation of the, iv. 498; touching the nature of, iv. 469; flying of unequal bodies in the, iv. 417; experiment touching the congealing of, iv. 179. Air and water, experiments as to weight in, vii. 216.
Air, and sound, iv. 80.
Airs, experiment touching, v. 411. Albans, to the Lord St., from Bucking- ham, promising to move his majesty to take off the restraint upon his not coming within the verge of the court, xiii. 35.
Albans, the Lord St., to a friend, believing his own danger less than he found it, xiii. 45.
Albans, the Lord St., to the same hum- ble servant, employing him to do a good office with a great man, xiii. 46. Albans, from Lord St., praying that the King will let him die out of a cloud, and suffer his honours to be transmitted, xiii. 41.
Albans, from Lord St., to the King, thanking him for his liberty, xiii. 32. Albans, from Lord St., to the King, praying for a continuance of the King's kindness, xiii. 32.
Albans, Lord St., to a most dear friend, in whom he notes an entireness and impatient attention to do him service, xiii. 47.
Albans, Lord St., to the Lord Trea-
Albans, to the Lord St., from Bucking- ham, promising to supply his decayed cables, xiii. 39.
Albans, to the Lord St., from Buck-
ingham, touching his book, xiii. 40. Albans, to the Lord St., from Buck- ingham, thanking him for a parabien, xiii. 40.
Albans, to the Lord St., from Bucking- ham, touching his application to the King, xiii. 40.
Albans, to the Lord St., from the Bishop of Lincoln, upon the orations of Ci- cero, Demosthenes, and the works of his lordship, xiii. 41. Albans, to the Lord St., from the Marquis of Buckingham, expressing the King's willingness to see his book, but refusing to let him remain in London, xiii. 33.
Albans, to the Lord St., from Bucking- ham, xiii. 34.
Albans, to the Lord St., from Bucking-
ham, concerning York House, xiii. 34. Albert Durer, his mode of painting, i. 145; said that we are beholden to him for many of our articles of faith, i. 409.
Alchemists follow wrong principles to make gold, iv. 160; their philoso- phy, or the Grecians, all now re- ceived, i. 252; means used by, more monstrous than the end, ii. 147; errors of in forming science, ii. 49. Alchemy, white and red, vii. 202; advantages of to science, ii. 44. Alcibiades, of high spirit yet beautiful, i. 145; advice to Pericles, studying
how to give in his accounts, i. 358. Alcohol, a powder made of, iv. 390. Alexander, body of, found, iv. 408; Livy's saying of him, i. 268; his conquest of Persia, v. 315; Livy's judgment of him, v. 315; his opinion of the cause of Calisthenes' eloquence in his speeches on the Macedonians, v. 339, 360; melancholy in his lat- ter years, i. 63; his conduct at Ar- bela, i. 100; not just to deny credit to his acts, i. 322; his saying of Craterus and Hephæstion, i. 372; saying of Antipater, i. 373; his an- swer to Parmenio, i. 377, 386; cleanliness of, iv. 4; an instance of excellence in arms and learning, ii. 15; his admiration of Homer, ii. 71; education of, ii. 71; preferred learn-
ing to empire, i. 71; his observation relating to Diogenes, ii. 72; his wit in speeches, ii. 72; Cassander's subtle answer to, ii. 72; his distinc- tion between love of him and love of the king, ii. 74; answer to Parmenio's counsel, ii. 74; an instance of the conjunction between learning and military power, ii. 71.
Alien enemy, law respecting, v. 117. Alien friend, may have movable goods and personal actions, but not free- hold, or leasehold, or actions real or mixed, v. 117.
Alienations, office of compositions for, xiii. 364.
Aliment of man, ii. 159. Aliments, change of, iv. 44. Allegiance, cannot be applied to the law or kingdom, but to the person of the king, v. 144; must be uncon- ditional, vi. 461.
Alliance with Holland, vi. 431. Almonds, oil of, mixed with spirits of wine, vii. 222.
Alonzo of Arragon, saying about books, i. 374.
Alphonso the Wise compiled the digest of the laws of Spain, v. 358. Alteration of religion by Elizabeth, vii.
Alterations which may be called ma- jors, iv. 449.
Altham, Baron, reverend judge, vii. 267. Alva, Duke of, general arrest made by him of Englishmen, v. 450; a chief instrument in the rebellion in the north of England, v. 450. Amalgamatizing metals, vii. 207, 210. Amazons, vii. 141.
Amber, flies get a durable sepulchre in, iv. 66.
Ambition, Essay on, i. 127; of man, God's first judgment on the, ii. 56. Amiens, Spaniards beaten out of, v. 233, 280.
Anabaptists, vii. 140; revived the opi- nion of Henkus, ii. 226; religion of,
Anacharsis, saying of his, i. 400. Analysis. See Notes by the Editor, ii. 382-408.
Anatomy, much deficient, ii. 163. Anaxagoras, his precept concerning truth, i. 261; his remark upon the Athenians who had condemned him to death, i. 386.
Ancient history only fragments, ii. 109. Ancients, inventors consecrated by the,
ii. 178; honours of the, to eminent
men, ii. 62; consecrated inventors of arts amongst the gods, ii. 62; hoped to prolong life by medicine, iii. 75; wisdom of the, iii. 2-40; took up experiments on credit, iv. 23. Andrada, Manuel, a Portuguese, re- volted from Don Antonio to the King of Spain, v. 295; advertises Men- doza that he had won Dr. Lopez to the King of Spain's service, v. 296; Lopez's secret conference with him, v. 296; got out of prison by Lopez, v. 296; brings Lopez a jewel from the King of Spain, v. 296; moves Lopez to poison Queen Elizabeth, v. 297; goes to Calais and writes to the Count de Fuentes, v. 298. Andrews, Bishop, vii. 112. Angels, worship of, ii. 130. Anger, Essay on, i. 184; causes of, i. 185; makes dull men witty, but keeps them poor, i. 412; effects of, iv. 378.
Animate bodies and plants, difference between, iv. 280.
Annals and journals, their use, ii. 113. Annihilation, impossibility of, iv. 65. Anointing, experiment touching, iv.
Answers, if insufficient, defendant to pay costs, vii. 286; to bills in Chan- cery, vii. 286.
Ant, its character, i. 71. Antalcidas, his answer to an Athenian, i. 386.
Ante nati and post nati of Scotland, v. 23, 24, 60, 79, 82. Antigonus, answer and sayings of, i. 377, 386.
Anti-masques, their composition, i. 130. Antimony, as to dissolving, vii. 205. Antinomiæ, contrary cases to be noted
in reducing the common law, v. 348. Antiochia, wholesome air of, iv. 503. Antiochus, his incitement to Prusias to war against the Romans, v. 246. Antipathy and sympathy of men's spi- rits, iv. 534; secret virtue of, iv. 517, 534.
Antiquity, overweening affection for, ii. 46; like Fame, head muffled, ii. 109; Lord Clarendon's essay on the respect due to, v. [xvii.]; law of, vii. 64; the uttermost, is like fame, that muffles her head and tells tales, i. 268; admiration of an im- pediment to knowledge, i. 306. Antipater, of all Alexander's lieute- nants, wore no purple, i. 373; his sayings of Denades, i. 375.
Antisthenes' opinion what was most necessary, i. 401. Antitheta, examples of, ii. 214. Antoninus Pius, a learned prince, ii. 67. Antonio, King, mortal enemy to the
King of Spain, v. 293; his retinue, therefore, free from all suspicion of conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth, v. 293; yet suspected by some of her majesty's counsel, v. 294. Antonio, Don, enterprise to settle him in the kingdom of Portugal failed, v. 268.
Antonius, Marcus, transported by love, i. 31.
Antonius' mind weakened by the Egyp-
tian soothsayer, iv. 504. Ants, instinct of, iv. 367. Antwerp, English merchants spoiled and put to their ransom at the sack of, v. 449.
Anytus' accusation against Socrates, ii. 15.
Apelles, his mode of painting, i. 145. Ape's heart, what good for, iv. 523. Aphorisms, the way of delivering an- cient wisdom, xiii. 140; the pith of sciences, ii. 203; knowledge when in, is in growth, ii. 48. Apollonius's judgment of Nero, vi. 40; reason for Nero's overthrow, delight in solitude, i. 87. Apollonius of Tyana, iv. 487. Apophthegms, i. 348; account of, i.
xxxiii.; loss of Cæsar's, ii. 119. Apothecaries, how they clarify syrups,
Apology for the earl of Essex, vi. 245. Apparel, vanity in should be avoided, vi. 444.
Appendices to knowledge of the soul,
ii. 170; division of, divination, fas- cination, ii. 171; of history, ii. 118. Appetite, or will of man, ii. 219. Appius Claudius transported by love, i. 31.
Arbela, the number of the Persians at, i. 100.
Archidamus's answer to Philip of Ma- cedon, i. 391.
Arch traitor Tyrone, the, vi. 304. Archetype, the dignity of knowledge is to be sought in the, ii. 53. Ardes, Spaniards beaten out of, v. 233, 280.
Arguments in law, xiii. 239. Aristippus, answers of his, i. 370, 372,
389, 390, 404; answer as to the morigeration of learned men, ii. 33. Aristotle, ii. 141, 187, 188, 193, 196,
221, 230, 242, 248, 249, 253; school
of, i. 290; put all his opinions upon his own authority, i. 320; full of ostentation, i. 176; goeth for the best author, i. 223; character of, i. 224; admired the invariableness of the heavens, i. 253; saith our ancestors were gross, i. 269; re- marks concerning the prolongation of life, iv. 36; opinion of the co- lours of feathers, iv. 3; advice in consumptions, iv. 34; framed new words in contradiction to ancient wisdom, ii. 132; mentions the an- cients only to confute them, ii. 132; took the right course for glory in re- proving the more ancient philoso- phers, ii. 132; inquiry in physiog- nomy, ii. 155; error in mixing phi- losophy with logic, ii. 49; his sparing use of feigned matter in history, ii. 43; observation on the power of the mind and reason, ii. 174; emulation of, ii. 209; followed the example of Alexander in conquering all opinions as the other all nations, ii. 133. Armada, ill success of the Spanish, v. 231; account of it, v. 262, 263. Arms, the importance of to nations, i. 104, 105; flourish in the youth of a state, i. 193; and learning, comparison of in advancing men, ii. 84.
Arragon, united with Castile, but not naturalized, v. 66; its rebellion sup- pressed, and subsequent incorpora- tion with Castile, v. 65. Arthur, King, ii. 146. Art, duty of to exalt nature, ii. 179; of
memory, visible images in the, iv, 515. Articulation of sounds, iv. 106. Arts, military, flourish most while vir-
tue grows, ii. 169; liberal, flourish when virtue is in state, ii. 169; voluptuary, flourish when virtue de- clines, ii. 169; history of, deficient, ii. 102.
Arts and methods, error of over early reduction of science into, ii. 48. Arts, intellectual, are four, Invention, Judgment, Memory, Tradition, ii. 176.
Arts and sciences, invention deficient, ii. 176; their flourishing condition
under the reign of King James, vi.69. Arts of judgment, ii. 186. Arundel and Surrey, Earl of, from Lord Bacon, mentioning his being taken ill and staying at his house, xii. 274.
Ashton, Abdy, chaplain to the Earl of Essex, vi. 355,
Assertion and proof, ii. 204. Astringents, a catalogue of different sorts, hot and cold, vii. 230; pur- gative, vii. 232.
Astrologers, means used by, more mon- strous than the end, ii. 147. Astrologers' judgment that the King of France should be killed in a duel, i. 124.
Astrology, Chaldean, ii. 171. Astronomer, predictions of, ii. 171. Astronomy, theory of, ii. 151; exem- plified in the Book of Job, ii. 57. Atalanta and the golden ball, ii. 52. Atalanta, or gain, iii. 66. Atheism, learned men and times in- cline to, ii. 12; superficial know- ledge of philosophy incline the mind to, ii. 13; learned times have in- clined to, ii. 8; caused by ignorant preachers, vii. 86; meditations upon, i. xxiii. 215; their disposition light, i. 217; Essay of, i. 53; never per- turbs states, i. 57.
Athens, poisoned capital offenders, iv. 296; their Sexviri standing commis- sioners to watch the laws, v.344, 357. Athletique, ii. 168; philosophy rela- ting to not inquired, ii. 163. Atlantes, new, ii. 323. Atlas, ii. 187.
Atmosphere, artificial, in New Atlantes, ii. 367.
Attachment for not answering, vii. 278. Attemus, the start of in Epicurus, a frivolous shift, i. 220.
Attorney and solicitor general should not be ignorant in things though un- connected with their profession, vi.
Attorney general's place and commis- sion, vii. 309.
Attorney general, abuse of to Mr. Ba- con, vii. 338.
Attraction, by similitude of substance, iv. 371; experiment touching, iv. 478; experimental remarks on, vii. 225; by similitude of substance, iv. 477. Attractive bodies, if in small quantities,
vii. 225; observations on, vii. 225. Audibles and visibles, consent and dis-
sent between, iv. 130. Augustin, St., his comparison of net- tles, vii. 261; comparison used by, vi. 7.
Augustins, order of, vii. 374. Augustus Cæsar, his saying of his two daughters and grandson, i. 402; his death, i. 7; policy attributed to him by Livia, i. 17; his friendship to Agrippa, i. 89; of a reposed nature,
i. 142; of high spirit, yet beautiful, i. 145; sayings and letters of his, i. 372; character of, iii. 489; in his youth affecting power, iii. 490; in his middle age affecting dignity, iii. 490; in age, ease and pleasure, iii. 490; in his decline bent to me- mory and posterity, iii. 490; treads the steps of Cæsar, but with deeper print, v. 337; his peaceable govern- ment as highly esteemed as the vic- tories of Julius Cæsar, v. 400. Auripigment and copper make red al- chemy, vii. 202.
Austria, Don John of, lost his reputa- tion at Rimenant, v. 258. Authority of two kinds, iv. 510. Authors should be consuls and not dictators, ii. 44.
Avellaneda, the Spanish admiral, sets upon the English fleet, after the en- terprise of Panama, v. 277; comes off with loss, v. 277; his boasting, v. 277. Aviaries, i. 160.
Axe, in case of felony, whether to be carried before the prisoner, vii. 410.
BABYLON, the excellence of its situa- tion, v. 335; the city of estate in Persia, v. 335; Alexander the Great chose 'it for his seat, v. 335; after- wards Seleucus and his descendants, v. 336; its greatness in the times of the kings of Parthia, v. 336; of the successors of Mahomet, v. 336; and at this day Bagdad's greatness, v.336. Bacon, Anthony, epistle dedicatorie of the first edition of the Essays to him, i. vi.
Bacon, his value for the corrections of unlearned men, iii. 22; love of familiar illustration, iii. 29; died 9th April, 1626, v.ii.; speech in the house of Commons touching the ge- neral naturalization of the Scottish nation, v. 47; the union of laws with Scotland, v. 75; his argument in Caloin's case, the post nati of Scotland, v. 106; account of his works, vii. 116; opinion of the No- vum Organum, vii. 115; to the judges, vii. 409; observations on the Advancement of Learning, vii. 115; most inclined by nature to the study of arts and sciences, vii. 253; his sayings, i. 357, 363, 365, 401, 402, 412, 414, 415; thought it wisest to keep way with antiquity, usque ad aras, ii. 133; letter to the King noting his History of Henry VII.
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