and received of, i. 85; like water, never arises higher than the level from which it fell, i. 85; its end generally mistaken, i. 87; on the errors in the mind in the inquisition of, i. 91; Bacon's thoughts of, i. 96; generates pride, i. 162; is power, i. 182; of man like water, springing from below, descending from above, i. 193; divided into divinity and philo- sophy, i. 193; Plato's opinion of, i. 161; advantages of to its possessor, i. 182; insures immortality, i. 183; pleasures of the greatest, i. 183; not the quality of, that can swell the mind, i. 162; not like lines, i. 193; like branches of a tree, i. 193; desire of perfect, the cause of the fall of man, i. 175; dignity of, is to be sought in the archetype, i. 174; true, is wisdom, i. 174; uses of, i. 163; objections to advancement of, i. 162; praise of, in the Scriptures, i. 176; aspiring to the cause of the fall, i. 162; contemplation of God's creatures produceth, i. 163; delivery of, by aphorisms, i. 214; critical, i. 217; pedantical, i. 217; is pabulum animi, i. 207; as pyramids, whereof history is the basis, i. 197; is a representation of truth, i. 171; of ourselves, i. 233; Solomon's observations on the nature of, i. 163; when a cause of anxiety, i. 163; increases anxiety, Solomon says, i. 163; limits of, i. 163; humanizes men's minds, i. 181; improves private virtues, i. 181; removes temerity, levity, and inso- lency, i. 182; and vain admiration, i. 182; miti- gates the fear of death or adverse fortune, i. 182; tradition of, not ingenuous but magistral, i. 173; erroneous motives for the acquisition of, i. 174; error of too early reducing into method, i. 173; advantages of, i. 174; true end of, i. 174; civil, i. 228; of others, i. 232; advancement of, interrupted by being applied to professions, i. 174; improves morals, i. 182.
LABOUR encouraged by reward, i. 184. Labyrinth of Dædalus, i. 300. Labyrinthi filum, i. 96.
Lace, making it in England, ii. 384.
Lacedæmon, their niceness in admitting naturalization, ii. 224; its strength compared to a river, stronger at a distance, but weak at the fountain, ii. 224.
Lakes, artificial, i. 266.
Lamech, his boast of murder, ii. 298.
Land improved by draining, ii. 384; statute for aliena- tion of, i. 343.
Lands, how to improve, ii. 3S1; no such usury as from improving, ii. 387.
Lancaster, court of the duchy of, ii. 513.
Lancashire being backward in religion, Queen Eliza- beth erected four stipends for preachers therein, ii. 241.
Lantern of justice evidence, ii. 321. Lard, its use in removing warts, ii. 136. Lassitude, experiments touching, ii. 98. Latin, character of language, iii. 222.
Latimer's, Bishop, saying how to make the king rich, i. 108.
Latimer's case, notes upon Lord, ii. 528. Latter times prophesied by Daniel, i. 191. Laud's, Dr., saying about hypocrites, i. 122. Laughing, effect of, ii. 97.
Law tracts, iii. 219.
Law of revolt, ii. 364.
Law, i. 238; the king its life, i. 63; its life in the exe- cution, ii. 292; reaches every wrong or injury, ii. 507; the common law more worthy than the statute law, and the law of nature more worthy than them both, ii. 169; favours three things, life, liberty, and
dower, ii. 176; where a prince's title is by law he can never change the laws, for they create his title, ii. 181; as mixed as our language, ii. 230, 235; the objec- tions to our laws, ii. 230; university lectures, advice to raise the pension of out of the Sutton Estate, ii. 241; elements of the common, iii. 219; maxims of, iii. 219-247; use of the, iii. 247; arguments in, iii. 267; the civil, not to be neglected, ii. 380; the just use to be made of, ii. 486.
Laws, the treatise de regulis juris most important to the health of the, ii. 232; good laws some bridle to bad princes, ii. 234; execution of the old, ii. 237, 286; English second to none, ii. 378; multiplicity of, evil, ii. 285; against usury, i. 333; against man- slaughter, i. 333; various improvements in, i. 333; their three natures, jura, leges, and mores, ii. 141; several laws are of the internal points of separation with Scotland, ii. 146; considerations touching them, and touching a digest of them, ii. 147; Sir Francis Bacon's speech in the House of Commons for the union of the laws of England and Scotland, ii. 158; a preparation towards the union of those laws, ii. 160; the division of jus publicum, ii. 161; the great organ by which the sovereign power moves, ii. 168; although the king is solutus legibus, his acts are limited by law, ii. 169; penal, during James I., ii. 306; work on, ii. 435.
Laws of England, i. 239; their dignity, i. 239; their defect, i. 239; civil, i. 239; how pressed, i. 238; how expounded, i. 238; proposal for amendment of, ii. 229; objections to, and answers to those ob- jections, ii. 230; offer of digest of, ii. 233. Laws written upon by philosophers or lawyers, not statesmen, ii. 238.
Lawyers, not judged by the issue of their causes, i. 203; not always the best statesmen, i. 164; not the best lawmakers, i. 238; write what is, not what ought to be, law, i. 238; fees of, ii. 474. Lawgivers are kings after their decease, ii. 230. Lea, Sir James, temper and gravity of, ii. 477. Learned men, discredit to learning from their errors, i. 166; are not slothful, i. 165; patriotism of, i. 168; objections to learning by, i. 162; morigeration of not disallowed, i. 169; negligence of, i. 168; sometimes fail in exact application, i. 168; poverty of, i. 166; meanness of their employment, i. 167; would impose ancient precepts, i. 167; should be rewarded, i. 185; works relating to, i. 185; should be countenanced, i. 185; influence of studies on the manners of, i. 167; in obscurity in states com, pared to Cassius and Brutus in the funeral of Junia- i. 167; errors in their studies, i. 169; have preferred their countries' good to their own interest, i. 168. Learned kings, &c., advantages of, i. 164, 165. Learning, will defend the mind against idleness, i. 166; pleasures of the greatest, i. 183; humanizes men's minds, i. 182; improves private virtues, i. 182; improves morals, i. 182; represses inconve niences between men, i. 177; its effects illustrated by the fable of Orpheus, i. 177; does not under- mine reverence of laws, i. 166; peccant humours of, i. 172; want of inquiry in unlaboured parts of, i. 186; division of, i. 187; objections of learned men to, i. 166; makes men more ready to agree than obey, i. 164; impediments to, i. 163; soft- ens men's minds, i. 164; enlarges military power, i. 179, 180; scriptural praise of, i. 176; ancient preserved by the Christian church, i. 176; relieves man's afflictions, i. 176; ministers greater strength than infirmity, i. 165; places of, i. 184; books of. i. 185; insures immortality, i. 183, uses of, i. 163;
contentious, i. 169, 170; unprofitable, i. 171; times most renowned for arms most admired for, i. 164; objections of politicians to, answered, i. 164; ad- vantages of, proficiency of, i. 174; teaches the use of distinctions and exceptions, i. 165; human proofs of the advantages of, i. 177; advantages of in kings, governors, and senators, i. 177; endues the nind with tender sense, i. 168; erroneous, and dif- ferent errors of, i. 169; advantages of, in princes and governors, i. 164, 165; takes away levity, te- merity, and insolency, i. 182; and vain admiration, i. 182; and mitigates the fear of death or adverse fortune, i. 182; flourishes in the middle of a state, i. 62; has its infancy, youth, strength, and old age, i. 62; why learning now has the curse of barrenness, i. 87; Antisthenes's opinion to unlearn what is naught was the most necessary thing, i. 120; of Eliza beth, i. 166; excellence of and propagation of, i. 162. Learning and arms, instances of concurrence in, i. 164, 165; comparison of, in advancing men, i. 183. Lead incorporates with copper, ii. 459; mixed with silver, ii. 108; salt of, with lead, ii. 460; weight of, in water, ii. 464.
Leaf of burrage, its virtue, ii. 9.
Leagues typified in the fable of Styx, i. 289. Leaves not so nourishing as roots, ii. 14.
Letters from Lord Bacon, continued. Cary, to Sir George, iii. 33. Cecil, to Sir Robert, ii. 187; iii. 9, 51, 54, 55, 61, 92, 93, 162, 192, 203, 206. Challoner, to Sir Thomas, iii. 37. Chancellor, to the Lord, iii. 23, 26, 35. Chancellor of Ireland, to the Lord, iii. 113. Chief Justice of Ireland, to the, iii. 114. Clifford, to Lady, iii. 118. Coke, to Sir Edward, ii. 485; iii. 34. Conway, to Mr. Secretary, iii. 148, 149 Cottington, to Sir Francis, iii. 148, 149. Cotton, to Sir Robert, iii. 165. Davis, to Sir J., iii. 38, 200. Devonshire, to the Earl of, ii. 333. Digby, to Lord, iii. 138. Dorset, to the Earl of, iii. 156. Effiat, to the Marquis of, iii. 65, 158. Egerton, to Sir Thomas, iii. 91, 207. Ely, to the Bishop of, iii. 30.
Essex, to the Earl of, iii. 3, 5, 6, 8, 51, 53, 55, 59, 61, 62, 200, 202, 203, 209, 210.
Falkland, to Henry Cary, Lord, iii. 142. Fenton, to Lord, iii. 104.
Feoffees of St. Aldat's, Oxon, to the, iii. 171. Foules, to Mr. David, iii. 9, 38.
Lecturers should be the ablest men, i. 185; inade- Friend, to a, iii. 189, 190.
quacy of rewards for, i. 185.
Fulgentio, to Father, iii. 64.
Lee, Sir Thomas, suffered for rebellion, ii. 350; his Fullerton, to Sir James, iii. 111. confession, ii. 365.
Lee, Sir John, notes upon the case of, ii. 527. Left side, experiment touching the, ii. 121.
Legacies, suits for, ii. 514.
Gondomar, to Count, iii. 170, 216, 217. Grevil, to Foulk, iii. 52.
Hickes, to Mr. Michael, iii. 162, 164, 165, 166. Howard, to Lord Henry, iii. 56.
Legal questions for the judges in the case of Earl and Jones, to Dr. Thomas, iii. 113.
Countess of Somerset, ii. 516.
Legends, their origin, i. 70.
Legs, how to form the calves of the, ii. 11. Leicester, Thomas, Earl of, his library, ii. 508. Lepanto, battle of, arrested the greatness of the Turk, i. 38.
Leprosy most contagious before maturity, i. 175. Lethe, the river, runs as well above ground as below, i. 60.
Letters, in business, when good, i. 53; relating to Chief Justice Coke, ii. 497.
Letters patent, exemplification of, ii. 485.
Letters from Lord Bacon.
Arundel, to the Earl of, iii. 91.
Bacon, to Sir Anthony, iii. 205, 210. Barnham, to Sir Francis, iii. 155.
Bodley, to Sir Thomas, iii. 27, 31, 198. Bristol, to the Earl of, iii. 79, 149. Buckhurst, to Lord, iii. 26. Buckingham, to the Countess of, iii. 146. Buckingham, to the Duke of, ii. 375, 504, 521, 525, 526; iii. 26, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 113, 115, 116, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 138, 140, 141, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 159, 167, 168, 169, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184, 185, 186, 187, 194.
Burghley, to Lady, iii. 161; to Lord, iii. 1, 2, 53, 161, 164.
Calvert, to the Secretary, iii. 125. Cambridge, to the Mayor of, iii. 168.
Keeper, to the Lord, iii. 105, 145, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196.
Kemp, to Robert, iii. 8, 201.
King, to the, ii. 233, 326, 328, 331, 488, 498, 499,
500, 501, 502, 510, 511, 512, 519, 524, 526, 527; iii. 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 32, 33, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 72, 76, 78, 82, 87, 93, 94, 95, 96, 100, 101, 125, 129, 131, 134, 136, 148, 152, 158, 177, 180, 183, 184, 198.
Kinloss, to the Lord, iii. 34.
Lea, to the Lord Treasurer, iii. 169. Lenox, to the Duke of, iii. 140.
Lords, to the, iii. 25, 137.
Lucy, to Sir Thomas, ini. 53.
Master of the Horse, to the, iii. 19.
Matthew, to Mr. Tobie, iii. 10, 21, 31, 70, 71, 143,
149, 151, 152, 160, 168.
Maxey, to Mr., iii. 211.
May, to Sir Humphrey, iii. 135, 156, 158. Maynard and Hickes, to, iii. 163. Mayor, to the Lord, iii. 39. Meautys, to Thomas, Esq, iii. 143. Morison, to Dr., iii. 197.
Murray, to Mr., ii. 511; iii. 97, 197. Niece, to his, iii. 102.
Northampton, to the Earl of, iii. 27. Northumberland, to the Earl of, iii. 8, 16, 34, 38. Oxford, to the Earl of, iii. 154. Oxford, to the University of, iii. 211. Packington, to Lady, iii. 197.
Palatine of the Rhine, to the Count, iii. 161. Palmer, to Mr. Roger, iii. 157.
Petition intended for the House of Lords, iii. 137.
Cambridge, to the University of, iii. 50, 63, 64, 166; Pierce, to Mr., iii. 39.
to Trinity College, iii. 64.
Canterbury, to the Archbishop of, iii. 62.
Playfer, to Dr., iii. 27.
President, to the Lord, iii. 168.
Servant, to his, iii. 191.
Skinner, to Sir Vincent, iii. 35. Southampton, to the Earl of, iii. 38. Stanhope, to Sir John, iii. 51.
Treasurer, to the Lord, iii. 1, 9, 52, 142, 162, 163. Villiers, to Lord, iii. 73, 74, 75, 171.
Villiers, to Sir George, ii. 326, 328, 330, 518; iii. 12, 15, 19, 20, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 72, 97, 194, 199. Wake, to Mr. Isaac, ii. 115.
Weston, to Sir Richard, iii. 155. Williams, to Dr., iii. 64, 137, 145. Winchester, to the Bishop of, ii. 435. Wotton, to Sir Henry, iii. 522. York, to the Archbishop of, iii. 160. York, to the Lord President of, iii. 168.
Letters to Lord Bacon.
Bacon, from Sir Edmund, iii. 101. Bodley, from Sir Thomas, iii. 28. Buckingham, from the Duke of, ii. 54, 522, 523, 524, 525; iii. 102, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 138, 150, 171, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 182, 184, 185, 187, 188, 211. Burghley, from Lord, iii. 201.
Cambridge, from the University of, iii. 166, 167. Cecil, from Sir Robert, iii. 201. Coventry, from Sir Thomas, iii. 157. Englefyld, from Sir Francis, iii. 107.
Essex, from the Earl of, iii. 37, 196, 200, 202, 203,
204, 205, 209; to the queen, iii. 55.
Franklin, from Edward, iii. 169.
Friend, from some, iii. 105.
Grevil, from Foulke, iii. 204.
Keeper, from the Lord, iii. 147.
King, from the, ii. 502; iii. 50, 167. Lenox, from the Duke of, iii. 140. Martin, from Richard, iii. 100.
Matthew, from Mr. Tobie, iii. 97, 98, 99, 114, 118, 126, 127, 160.
Meautys, from Thomas, Esq., iii. 138, 140, 141, 142, 145, 146, 170.
Oxford, from the University of, iii. 65. Sackville, from Sir Edward, iii. 144. Selden, from John, Esq., ii. 530.
Villiers, from Sir George, ii. 498; iii. 101, 173. Williams, from Dr., iii. 137.
Yelverton, from Sir Henry, ii. 503, 528. Coke, Sir Edward, to the king, ii. 502. Council, to the, from the Earl of Essex, iii. 56. Council, privy, to the king. iii. 175.
Deodati, to, from Dr. Rawley, iii. 67.
Libel, observations on one published in 1592, ii. 242. Libels, when frequent the signs of troubles, i. 22; always favoured, ii. 413.
Liberators the third in honour, i. 58.
Liberty, motion of, what, ii. 8.
Licenses, good certificate required for granting, ii. 485. Lie, enormity of giving the, rose from opinion of Francis I., ii. 298; ancients did not consider it deep offence, ii. 298.
Lies, why men love them, i. 11; why it is such a dis- grace, i. 11; great effect of cross, i. 57; breed opi- nion, and opinion brings on substance, i. 57. Lieutenants, lord of counties, choice of, ii. 380. Life, prolongation of, Aristotle's remarks concerning, ii. 16; prolongation of, ii. 47; iii. 467; and death, history of, iii. 467; length and shortness of, in animals, iii. 475; in man, iii. 479; medicines for long, iii. 488; canons of the duration of, iii. 512.
Light, topics of inquiry concerning, i. 452; kindling of natural, i. 454; by refraction, ii. 402; moves quicker than sound, ii. 37.
Light and sound, the agreements and disagreements of the phenomena of, iii. 537, 539, 541, 542. Light of nature, i. 239.
Light on water like music, i. 194.
Limits of reason, i. 240.
Lincoln, Earl of, joins in Simnell's conspiracy, i. 322; his design upon the crown, i. 322; departs for Flanders, i. 323; slain at Newark, 325. Lincoln, case of the Bishop of, ii. 490. Lincostis, herb growing in the water, ii. 85. Liquefiable bodies, which are not, ii. 114. Liquids, separation of, by weight, appetite of, conti-
nuation in, ii. 10; effects of percussion on, ii. 8. Liquors, clarifying of, ii. 7; commixture of, ii. 465; preservation of in wells, ii. 57; alteration of in deep vaults, ii. 57; experiments touching the clari- fication of, ii. 47; operation of time upon, ii. 119; touching the compression of, ii. 119. Liquor and powders, incorporation of, ii. 46. Lisbon, expedition to, ii. 200.
Literary history, deficiency of i. 187; uses of, i. 187. Littleton's advice to the professors of the law, ii. 167; his book not of the nature of an institution, ii. 232. Littleton and Fitzherbert, peculiarities of their writ- ings, iii. 222.
Liturgy, i. 243; ii. 425.
Liver, a purge for opening the, ii. 466.
Livia settled Tiberius's succession by giving out that Augustus was recovering, i. 62; her speech to Au- gustus on being met by naked men, i. 113; impoi- soning figs on the tree, ii. 322.
Living creatures and plants, affinities and differences in, ii. 81.
Livius, Titus, his censure against Perseus's, King of Macedon, mode of carrying on war, ii. 216; his judgment of Alexander the Great, ii. 223.
Livy, his description of Cato Major, i. 46; of Scipio Africanus, i. 48; his remark in the case of Antiochus and the Ætolians, i. 57; his saying respecting Alex- ander, i. 84.
Essex, from the Earl of, to Mr. Anthony Bacon, iii. 3, 4. Loadstone, discovery of the uses of the, i. 188.
Gruter, Mr. Isaac, to Dr. Rawley, iii. 68, 69, 70. Maynwaring, Dr. Roger, to Dr. Rawley, iii. 66. Rawley, to Dr., from Mon. Deodate, iii. 67. Levant, their behaviour to princes a good moral, i. 168.
Lewis XI. of France, his mode of mixing with in- feriors, i. 294; saying of, i. 118; his closeness was his tormentor, i. 34; his intention to make a perfect law out of the civil law Roman, ii. 231, 235.
Logic, too early taught in universities, i. 186; con- sidereth things as in notion, i. 194; its difference from rhetoric, i. 216; induction by nature better than as described in logic, i. 208; does not invent sciences, i. 207; Alexander's reprehension of, and his use of, i. 180.
Logicians, induction of, errors of, i. 208. Long life, medicines for, iii. 488. Lopez, Dr., report of his treasonable design against
the queen's person, ii. 216; the means he had to poison the queen and to conceal his crime, ii. 217; a Portuguese and secretly a Jew, sworn physician of the household, ii. 217; gives intelligence to the King of Spain, ii. 217; his conduct with Andrada, ii. 218; assents to poison the queen, ii. 218; sends Andrada to Spain to contract about the reward, ii. 218; communicates with Ferrera thereon, ii. 219; his manner of corresponding, ii. 219; demands 50,000 crowns, ii. 219; asks the queen whether a deceiver might not be deceived, ii. 219; Ferrera discovered to have intelligence, ii. 219; Lopez called in question, ii. 220; denies his conferences, ii. 220; confronted by Ferrera, ii. 220; falsehood of his ex- cuses, ii. 220; justice of his condemnation, ii. 220; executed, ii. 220, [note.]
Love, vain, and divine, i. 227; Xenophon's opinion of, i. 227; without love faces but pictures, and talk a tinkling cymbal, i. 33; is goodness put in motion, i. 81; his attributes, i. 298.
Lovel, Viscount, his attainder, i. 318; his rebellion, i. 319; his flight to Flanders, i. 319; drowned near Newark, i. 325.
Low Countries, ii. 451; their state in the time of Queen Elizabeth, ii. 247; observation that the same weather in, returns every thirty-five years, i. 60. Low's case of tenures, iii. 276.
Lucius, Commodus Verus, a learned prince, i. 178. Lucretius's praise of knowledge, i. 183; his verse on Agamemnon's sacrificing his daughter, i. 13; makes his invectives against religion the burden of his other discourses, i. 70.
Lucky, some men are, ii. 129, 132.
Mahometans, propagation of religion of, ii. 314. Mahomet, ii. 439.
Maize, Indian, its use, ii. 467. Majoration of sounds, ii. 31. Majors, alterations which may be called, ii. 114. Maleficiating, experiment on, ii. 122. Male and female, differences between, ii. 117. Mallet's Life of Bacon, notice of wisdom of the ancients, i. 273.
Malmsey, what nitre good for when dissolved in, ii. 128.
Malt, experiments touching, ii. 86. Man, fall of, induced by desire of perfect knowledge, i. 175; knowledge of, i. 201; as an individual, i. 201; a member of society, i. 201; divided state of the body of, i. 202; the mind of, i. 202; faculties of, use and object of, i. 206; in society, i. 228; delights in generalities, i. 198; nature of mind of, i. 161; as an individual undivided state, i. 201; ancient opinion that man was microcosmus, i. 202; aliment of, i. 202; condition of, ii. 543.
Man's understanding, i. 187; knowledge like water, i. 193; flesh, venomous quality of, ii. 10; body, in- stances how it may be moulded, i. 105.
Man, Doctor, Ambassador of Queen Elizabeth, ill treated by Philip of Spain, ii. 260. Manlius, his protestation, ii. 364. Manna, gathering of, ii. 105.
Manners of learned men, objections to learning from the, answered, i. 167; less corrupted by vicious, than half evil, men, i. 175; of learned men, discredit to learning from, i. 166.
Manus Christi for the stomach, ii. 470.
Lucullus's answer to Pompey's remark on his rooms, i. Manufactures, sedentary manufactures contrary to a
50, 113; his saying of Pompey, i. 121.
Lumsden, Mr., charge against, ii. 307.
Lungs the most spongy part of the body, ii. 35.
military disposition, i. 38; advantage of ancient states, that they had slaves to do the manufactures, i. 38.
Marble, plaster growing as hard as, ii. 106.
Luson, Sir John, commands a body of pikemen against Marcasite of metals, ii. 460. the Earl of Essex, ii. 359.
Luther praised for awakening human learning, i. 98. Lycurgus, saying of his, i. 109, 119.
Lycurgus's answer to one who counselled him to dis- solve the kingdom, ii. 168; his laws spoken of by grammar scholars, ii. 231, 234; continued longest without alteration, ii. 234.
Marcellus, humour of, ii. 487.
March, a dry one portends a wholesome summer, ii. 110.
Marches, jurisdiction of the, iii. 285.
Margaret of Burgundy sets up a counterfeit Duke of York, i. 346.
Mariners, how furnished, ii. 383.
Lysimachus, remark on Lamia, power over Demetrius, Mariners' needle, i. 207. i. 118.
MACHIAVEL, i. 235, 236, 237; his saying of custom, i. 45; his opinion on the cause of the greatness of the Roman Empire, ii. 140; his saying touching the true sinews of war, ii. 157, 225; his saying on the Christian Faith, i. 21; on partial princes, i. 22; on the effects of the jealousy of sects, i. 60; his ob- servation on the poverty of friars, i. 166. Macrocephali esteemed, ii. 11.
Mecenas, his advice to Augustus Cæsar about the marriage of his daughter Julia, i. 34. Magic, Persian, i. 194; Persian, the secret literature of the kings, ii. 138; natural, is defective, i. 199; ceremonial, i. 206.
Magicians, means used by, more monstrous than the end, i. 199.
Magistrates, of subordinate, ii. 293.
Magistrates, considerations touching the recusant ma- gistrates of the towns of Ireland, ii. 191; advice not to tender the oath of supremacy to them, ii. 191. Magnificence, a regal virtue, i. 63. Magnanimity, its nature, ii. 445.
Magnetical, sun and moon of what, ii. 19.
Marius Caius, his conduct to the Cadurcians and de- fence of it, i. 121.
Marriage and high life, Essay of, i. 16. Marrow more nourishing than fat, ii. 14. Marseilles, Spaniards had it and left it, ii. 213. Mart, letters of, against the Spaniards desired by the English merchants, ii. 195; considerations thereon, ii. 196.
Martial law, useful in plantations, i. 41 Martial men given to love, i. 19. Mascardus de interpretatione statutorum, ii. 528. Mason, Mr., witty answer of his, i. 111. Masques and triumphs, essay on, i. 44. Masques, when to be given at court, ii. 388. Master of chancery taking affidavits, ii. 483. Masters of the chancery, ii. 472.
Masters, reference to, ii. 482; certifying state of cause, ii. 482.
Marvels, history of, deficient, i. 187; uses of, i. 188. Mathematical and logical part of men's minds, i. 236. Mathematical house, i. 269. Mathematics, no deficience reported, i. 199; pure, i. 199; sharpen the dull wit, i. 199; if wandering, fix the mind, i. 199; if too coherent in the sense,
abstract it, i. 199; University lectures, advice to raise the pension of, out of the Sutton Estate, ii. 241; make men subtile, i. 35; a position in, that there is no proportion between somewhat and nothing, i. 77. Mathematic, the subject of it, quantity determined, i.
Matrimony, oojections to our form of, ii. 426. Matter of divinity, i. 243.
Matter, a fixed sum of, i. 410; characters of, ii. 115; like a common strumpet, ii. 109; alteration of, ii. 114; quantity of, whether always measured by weight, ii. 560, 562; a table of the conjunction and expansion of, in tangible bodies, with a calculation of their ratios in different bodies, ii. 561; account of the experiments from which the table was made, ii. 561.
Matthew, Mr. Tobie, letters to, i. 277; letter to, con- cerning the Latin translation of his essays, i. 5. Matthews, Mr., letter to, with the book De Sapientia Veterum, i. 4.
Maturation, of drinks and fruits, ii. 48; of metals, ii. 49.
May dew, for medicine, ii. 106.
Men's natures and ends, i. 233. Men's minds, logical and mathematical, i. 236. Men's spirits, the general sympathy of, ii. 137. Menander of vain love, i. 227. Mercenaries not to be relied on, i. 37. Merchandises, king's right of impositions on, ii. 278; argument concerning impositions on, ii. 278. Merchandise, foreign, ii. 385; ever despised by the kings of this realm as ignoble, ii. 228; flourishes in the decline of a state, i. 62. Merchants, speeches on their petition respecting Spa- nish grievances, ii. 193; grants of, ii. 279. Mercury, mixture of metals with, ii. 459. Mercury and sulphur, experiments on, ii. 53; and salt, history of, iii. 466.
Mercy, of despatch, ii. 487; its works are the distinc- tion to find out hypocrites, i. 69; examples of, for comfort, ii. 380; the white robe of, ii. 319; to what extent honourable, ii. 384; in a king when cruelty, ii. 384; its variation, ii. 446.
Merick, Sir Gilly, left guard at Essex House, ii. 358; pays forty shillings to the players to act Richard the Second, ii. 365; evidence against, ii. 236,
Maximilian, assisted by Henry, i. 337; marries the Messages, speech on receiving the king's, ii. 276.
Duchess of Brittany, i. 337.
Maxims of the common laws, iii. 219. Maxims of the law, iii. 223-247.
Meats that induce satiety, ii. 46.
Metal, weight of, in water, ii. 464; drowning of the base in the more precious, ii. 108; statues, ii. 456; string, ii. 456; bell, ii. 456.
Mechanic arts, the first device in, comes short, but Metals and vegetables, mixture of, ii. 447.
refined by time, i. 85; the study of, ii. 558. Mechanical operations, the chief root of, ii. 8.
Mechanical wisdom, story of Dædalus applied to, i. 300. Mechanical history assists natural philosophy, i. 188. Mechanics, history of, neglected, i. 188.
Medical receipts, ii. 469.
Medes painted their eyes, ii. 99.
Medicinal property of pepper, ii. 14.
Medicinal earth, veins of, ii. 94.
Medical remains, ii. 466.
Medicinal history is deficient, i. 203. Medicinable, making herbs and fruits, ii. 69. Medicine, scammony a strong, ii. 9; its effect on cor- rupt bodies, ii. 343; change of, ii. 18; separate from philosophy, mere empirical practice, i. 201; its power on the mind, i. 202; deficiencies and want of reports, defective anatomy and hasty conclusions, i. 203; office of, i. 203; and music conjoined in Apollo, i. 203.
Medicines, Celsus's observations on, i. 207; prepara- tions of, i. 205; different qualities of, ii. 13; experi- ment touching purging, ii. 13; how purging ones lose their virtue, ii. 9; special simples for, ii. 91; that condense and relieve the spirits, ii. 99. Mediocrity of athletics, i. 205.
Metals and minerals, as to the union of, ii. 459; sepa- ration of, ii. 460.
| Metals, variation of, into different shapes, bodies, and natures, ii. 460; touching the finer sort of base, ii. 116; incorporation, uses of, ii. 456; drowning of, ii. 457; which melt easiest, ii. 460; adulteration of, ii. 459; versions of, ii. 459; quenching of, in water, ii. 33; which contain different metals, ii. 460; ma- turation of, ii. 49; orient colour in dissolution of, ii. 49.
Metaphysic handleth that which supposeth in nature a reason and understanding, i. 196. Metellus, Cæsar's noble answer to, i. 181. Methodical delivery, i. 214. Methusalem water, use of, ii. 467. Methods and arts, error of over-early reduction of knowledge into, i. 173. Metis, or counsel, i. 312. Meverel, Dr., his answer to questions on variation of metals, ii. 461; his answers touching restitutions of metals and minerals, ii. 462; his answer to ques- tions on separation of metals and minerals, ii. 460; his answers to questions concerning minerals and metals, ii. 459; his questions, ii. 458. Mezentius, his torment quoted, ii. 16.
Meditationes Sacræ, first edition of, i. 6; Sacræ, i. 67. Microcosmus, ancient opinion that man was, i. 202. Medusa, i. 293.
Megrims, causes of, ii. 99.
Melancholy, wine for preserving the spirit against ad- verse, ii. 466; drink to dissipate, ii. 9. Melioration of fruits, trees, and plants, ii. 62. Melocotone and peach, best from seed, ii. 64. Melting, gold easy metal for, ii. 108. Memnon, or a youth too forward, i. 297. Memory, i. 212; the art of, visible images in, ii. 131; how strengthened, ii. 133; men's desire of, i. 190; that cell in the mind filled by history, i. 192; and invention, divorce between, i. 186; history relates to the, i. 187.
Men, their dispositions, i. 224; savage desires of, i. 177; sweats of, ii. 8; union between all, ii. 443; the best books, ii. 486.
Midas, judge between Apollo and Pan, i. 183. Military commanders, vainglory an essential point in, i. 57.
Military puissance, its three main parts, men, money, and confederates, ii. 213.
Military disposition, greatness too often ascribed to. ii. 195.
Military power, conjunction between learning and, i. 179, 180; learning promotes, i. 179. Military virtues promoted, i. 181 Military arts flourish most while virtue grows, 1. 205. Military greatness and excellence in learning united. i. 164, 165.
Milk, increasing of, in milch beasts, ii. 105; warm from the cow what good for, ii. 15; spirits of wine commixed with, ii. 465.
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