Poft-horfes first fet up by Cyrus' Pourcontrel affumes any colour Page 476 Poverty obftinate 180 Practice cannot give affistance in dying 570 'Prince ought to be himself in the field how he ought to die should not be tricksters fhould be active and fober Praise accompanied with natural fweetnefs Praxea, a Roman lady, why the put herself to death Predeftination gives affurance to the Turks Pregnancy of women, its time Prefumption, natural and original disease of men men's inheritance what it is divided into two parts nurfing mother of talle opinions Pride dwells in the thought the ruin of men 'Princes, the qualities that are moft ufeful to them Principles not to be admitted without examination Pronunciation gives value to works, left to the efficacy of the voice 364 Protagoras, an ingenious faggot-maker ibid. 435 436 472 288 331 in vogue "Prophecying faculty 23 442 Protagorus, a great doubter 249, 297 Proximus's fuicide 35 his vain attempt to conform his life to his doctrine at a loss for words to represent their opinion more defenfible than the opinion of the Academics 319 269 231 why condemned by feveral nations Raimond of Sebonde tranflated by Montaigne 102 49 33 Ravishment in women confidered Reading of letters and tickets ought not to be deferred Reafon controller of all things a teft full of falfity true and effential, abides in the bofom of God 143, 144 Religion ought not to be received after human manners whether it be lawful to take arms against a king for it ibid. made the tool to ferve the moft unjuft paffions and ibid. government, what minds are best difpofed to them 236 what is the moft probable opinion concerning it the neceffity of one for the people according to Apollo's oracle 246 247 344 Religious zeal extravagant and unjust Remora, fish that ftops veffels 461 180 René, king of Sicily's picture Renown, prefent, to be preferred to that after death 443 604 Repentance of an elephant 197 Reputation accidental 402 fet at too high a price 406 Refemblance of children with their parents 299, 572, 577, &c. . Refolution, fudden, produced extraordinary actions 506 Revenge fought after to the danger of life 314 when of no effect 491 and punishments in another life, on what founded Rigour of miftreffes irkfome, but their facility more fo Robe, perfumed, refufed by Plato, accepted by Ariftippus 65, &c. grandeur 482 Romans, why they went to war 478 why they restored the kingdoms they conquered 484 whether preferable to the Greeks Ronfard, the French poet 531 453 Salic law, excluding women from the succession to the crown Page 89 Salona garrifon, its fidelity Salluft Salutations and congees humble and courteous Scava, the many strokes he received upon his buckler, in sustaining an attack Scare-fifh Schools interdicted to the Chriftians Sciences established by authority 553 112, 423 416 178 Scipio Emilianus, the first man among the Romans his confidence in his innocence high spirit reprimand of his foldiers in a fiege Scribonius's advice to his nephew to kill himself Seafons for all things 501, &c. 369 Scythian kings funerals Sea-hares poifon to man Sebonde's apology character of it 137 to 379 139, 140 και 493 12 309, 310, &c. Seed, how it becomes prolific divided, one for the body, and the other for the foul 424, &c. bearing the impreffions of the parents 313 578 Self-love indifcreet 64 and Paulina his wife, their loves and deaths 558, 559 to 562 525 369 the jufteft dividend of nature's favours Senfes, the beginning and end of human knowledge 448 uncertain and false in their operations often masters of our reason 363 the uncertainty of our judgment of their operation 362, 371, 374 Senfuality vicious and unreasonable 128 Sertorius, how he dislodged his enemy from an inacceffible poft 190 Sick at Babylon brought out of doors for the public advice Sickness not to be counterfeited Sight grofly deceives us Silkworms, how produced Page #56 35 Silvanus's fuicide Simplicity Sins, the confounding them, a dangerous thing what it is Sloth cenfured Society, it is beft to avoid its common offices Socrates, why reckoned the only wife man his foul and virtue his prayer his death his conftitutional vice compared himself to midwives Soldier made a coward by the cure of a disease ibid. horridly terrified by the preparations for his execution 130 his wife's mourning for him his perplexed notion of God rifled by the enemy, performs a brave exploit Soldiers, French, cenfured for dreffing for an attack as for a ball 96 mercenary Solon's tears for the death of his fon 97 496 552 347 Solyman I. what he thought of victories gained in the abfence of Sophronia canonifed for avoiding ravishment by fuicide Sovereign good, confifts in the tranquility of the foul and body according to fome, philofophers Soul inconftant and variable liable to be overthrown by its own weakness of man, according to the philofophers opinion fhocked by the fufferings of the body general, from whence the particular fouls are extracted capable of alteration its faculties disturbed by the contagion of a mad dog its union with the body fhifting their places from one body into another 133 Souls of the gods Page 273` from whence, when, and by whom produced 298, 300, &c. of the damned converted into devils 1 of the virtuous deified the most ignorant have fome fhining, faculty regular and ftrong of themfelves fit for the management of affairs Spanish peafant's fortitude Spargapizes's fuicide Spartans valour Sparrows neft demolished for their chattering a fecret Speaking has its failing Species, the fondness of all creatures for their own the pureft, capable of different conftructions Sperm denied to women 300 Speufippus's fuicide notion of the deity. Spittle, its quality Spurina his story. Stag chafed Spoils burnt for a facrifice to fome gods Stallion's revenge on a groom for making him leap his dam Stature of men looking towards heaven Stilpo, the philofopher, what haftened his end discharged by one dreaming he was lying with a wench 576 Sun, mourning for the death of Cæfar. Sun-worship, the most excufable Swallows judgment and kill in building their nefls |