INDEX 



ABEL, type of the contemplative 

 state, 38 



Abraham, 209 



Academic philosophers, why popular, 

 126 



Acatalepsy in philosophy, 126 



Accidents of words, an appendix to 

 grammar, 138 



Achilles, envied by Alexander, 48; 

 educated by Chiron, 84 



Active good better than passive, 159 



Adonis, Venus minion, 25 



Adrian, &quot; master of thirty legions,&quot; 

 22 ; a learned prince and great 

 inquirer, 45 



Advancement of Learning, compared 

 to the tuning of instruments 

 before a concert, 207 



jEschines sneer at Demosthenes, 13 



.flisculapius and Circe, fable of, no; 

 son of the sun, 112 



jEsop, fable of the cock, 60; fables 

 are parabolical poesy, 83 



Affections, inquiry respecting the, 

 171; insufficiently handled by the 

 ancients, ib.; best treated by 

 poets and historians, ib. 



Agesilaus, 54; speech to Pharna- 

 bazus, 17 



Agrippa, half a Christian, 46 



Agrippina, detestable choice of, 60; 

 stung Tiberius by a speech, 191 



Ahasuerus, his journals, 78 



Albertus Magnus, too credulous in 

 natural history, 29 



Alchemists depend on Vulcan, 65, 90 



Alchemy, 33 ; related to imagination, 

 29 



Alexander Borgia s saying respecting 

 the French expedition, 102 



Alexander the Great, Aristotle s 

 scholar, 9, 48; his expedition into 

 Asia, 32, 54; his estimate of learn 

 ing, 48 ; his letter to Aristotle, ib. ; 

 examples of his acuteness, 49 ; his 

 saying about Greek wars, 55 ; his 

 allowance to Aristotle, 65; the 

 journals of his house, 78; his 

 title of prczdo, 92 ; sends messen 

 gers to Dendamis, 210 



Alexander Severus, n, 47 



Anabaptists (of Munster), their evil 

 tenets, 158 



Analytics, their place in logic, 131 



Anatomy, top much neglected, 113 



Angels in a hierarchy, 37 ; our know 

 ledge limited, 89 ; fell by aspiring 

 to be like God in power, 177 



Annals of Tacitus, 78 



Anthropomorphites, heresy of, 133 



Antipater, 50; a bad ruler, ib. 



Antipodes, 12 



Antiquities are history defaced, 73; 

 of the world, 75 



Antiquity worshipped by some, 31 ; 

 not to be neglected, 91 



Antitheta, or theses argued pro and 

 con., 149 



Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, 3, 46 



Antoninus Pius, most learned, 46; 

 became half a Christian, 47; died 

 a peaceful death, 114 



Antonius over-reached by Mucianus, 

 191 



Anytus, accuser of Socrates, 9 



Aphorisms are knowledge in growth, 

 43; compared with methodical 

 writings, 142 



Apollo ruled over music and medi 

 cine, 110 



Apollonius, 45 



Apophthegms, Caesar s, 81; Solo 

 mon s, 182 



Apotheosis of the learned, 42 



Appendices to history, 81 



Arabian philosophers, 29 



Archimedes, 30 



Architecture illustrates man s per 

 sonal relation with society, 163 



Ariosto s conceit of posthumous 

 fame, 77 



Aristippis reply after having fallen 

 at Dionysius feet, 22 



Aristotle, 30, 33 ; Alexander s tutor, 

 9; dictator over the schoolmen, 

 26; not too credulous, 29; mixes 

 philosophy with logic, 33, 97; 

 helped in his inquiries by Alex 

 ander, 65; his De Miris Auscult., 

 70; on small things, 72; contra 

 dicts antiquity, 91; too fond of 

 final causes, 97; his Problemata a 



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