I glory was his The defire of motive of writing against phy. fic. I do not say, but, fome day or other, I may be such a fool as to commit my life and health to the mercy and government of phyficians. I may fall into fuch frenzy: I dare not be refponfible for my future conftancy but then, if any one afk me, " how I do?" I may also answer as Pericles did, "you may judge by "this," fhewing my hand clutched up with fix drachms. of opium: it will be a very evident fign of a violent fickness; and my judgment will be very much unhinged. If once fear and impatience get fuch an advantage over me, it may very well be concluded, that there is a dreadful fever in my mind. have taken the pains to plead this caufe, which I do not very much understand, a little to back and fupport the natural averfion to drugs, and the practice of phyfic, which I have derived from my ancestors, to the end it may not be a mere ftupid and temerarious averfion, but have a little more form; and alfo, that they who shall see me fo firm against the exhortations and menaces that will be given me, when my infirmities are at the worst, may not think it is mere obftinacy in me; or left any one be fo ill-natured, as to judge it to be from a view to glory. For it would be a ftrange fort of ambition to feek to gain honour by an action that my gardener, or my groom, can perform as well as I. Certainly, I have not a heart fo puffed up, and fo windy, that I fhould exchange fo folid a pleasure as florid health, and a good plight, for an airy, fpiritual, and imaginary pleasure. Glory, even that of the four fons of Aymon, is too dear bought by a man of my humour, if it coft him three fmart fits of the stone. Give me health, in God's name! Such as love our phyfic, may also have good, great, and convincing confiderations: I do not hate whimfies contrary to my own. I am so far from being angry to fee a difference betwixt mine and other men's judgments, and fo far from rendering myself unsociable with men, for being of of another sense and party than mine, that, on the contrary, (the moft general courfe, that nature has followed, being variety, and more in fouls than bodies, forafmuch as they are of a more fupple substance, and more fufceptible of forms) I find it much more rare to see our humours and defigns agree: and there never were, in the world, two opinions more alike, than two hairs, or two grains: their most univerfal quality is diverfity. A COM INDE DE X OF THE MOST REMARKABLE MATTERS CONTAINED IN THE SECOND BOOK. A. BSURDITIES, what is the greatest A Abydean's rafh death Accidents more intolerable than death Actions, good, to be judged of by the intention external, no fure index of the mind Admire nothing Adoration Page 36t 39 23 7 10 423 342 247 337 326 of wives, towards their husbands, till they have loft them 554 loyal and vehement, of a wife towards her husband Agefilaus canonized by the Thracians 334 Agis, king of Sparta's anfwer to an ambassador from Abdera muleted by the Ephori, for infinuating himself into the hearts of the people 273 531 160 136 inconftancy 4 Agrippian's living without offenfive arms Albucella's fuicide 395 383 Alcibiades's character Alcimus's armour Alexander's valour defective facrifice to Thetis excellent aboye all other kings and emperors Alexander the tyrant, of Pheres, why he would not fee tragedies 490 Alexia, two extraordinary events at the fiege of it VOL. II. Rr 549 Alina Almanacks lyars Alva, duke, compared to the conftable of Montmorency Amadis des Gaules defpifed Ambition, its power Page 446 453 102 9 more untameable than love 535 432 540 569 Ambraciota's fuicide out of impatience to enjoy the life to come 40 Ameftris, wife of Xerxes, cruelly pious Amiot's language commended 259 43 Anaxagoras, the first philofopher who owned an infinite Creator 249 Anaxarchus pounded in a stone mortar Ancients good fellows 21 15 ufed to go open-breafted Andrew's, St. cross 163 335 Androdus of Dacia's grateful treatment by a lion tranfports men from their judgment 193 516 517, 518 520 522 how it ought to be managed in families arms valour Anguian, M. de, makes two attempts on his own life Animals free agents 523 525 31 167 taken care of by men 170 ftronger than men 171 Antinous's advice, to the befieged in Paffaro, to kill themselves Antiochus ftopped in his conquefts by a letter from the Roman fenate 484 Antipater's menace of the Lacedæmonians 24 Antifthenes's answer to the question, what was the best thing to 537 32 Appetite contemns what it has in poffeffion Appetites fpringing from love the most violent, why refiding in the foul uncapable of fociety 126 16 179 186 275 47, 48 352 374 375 391 533 534 192 124 12 Arce Arcefilaus, what haftened his end Page 19 his answer to a reproach that his scholars left his for Epi rus's fchool 118 212 439 Archias, tyrant of Thebes, killed by a plot, for delaying to open a letter 45 520 104 216 126 347 when born Ariftippus's opinions in favour of pleasure and riches acceptance of the perfumed robe from Plato Ariftippus, why he fuffered Dionyfius the tyrant to fpit in his face ib. his anfwer to Diogenes, who reproached him for not being content to live on cabbage rather than follow the court ib. his gain by philofophy Ariftotle's filly compliment on man principles opinion about the principle of natural things Armies, montrous, of no great effect Armour of the Parthians of the French 437 211 237, 292, 33L 287 492 550 94, 98 defpifed of the French more burdenfome than defenfive of the Medes of the Roman infantry, and their military difcipline very heavy 96 97 98 Arms, natural, of men Arrests of parliament Arria's fuicide to encourage her husband's Art, liberal, defpifed 164 241 556 239 Artaxerxes, how he mollified the rigour of fome Perfian laws Arts taught to men by other animals Aruntius Lucius's fuicide 132 174 35 Affaffins think they merit heaven 513 Aftapa, in Spain, the rafh death of the citizens 39 Ataraxy of the Pyrrhonians 231, 342 Atheism, what it is 147, 148 Atheists reduced to acknowledge the Divine Power by force or by Atticus Pomponius's death by refolute abftinence from food 385, 388 Augury the most certain way of prediction Auguftus's inconftancy uncenfured by the boldeft critics 338 295 13 Rr 2 |