236 



Bacon 



Darius, 48 



De Petitione Consulates of Quintus 

 Cicero, the one work on business 

 written among the ancients, 182 



Death, preparation for, 162 



Dedications of books, 21 



Deeds of men not to be trusted, 190 



Defects of character, 196 



Definitions, necessary, 134 



Democritus, 30, 103; of the truth 

 of Nature, 90 ; said that there was 

 no ruling mind in the universe, 97 ; 

 his philosophy, ib.\ based his 

 philosophy on numbers, 98 ; taxed 

 by Aristotle, 143 



Demosthenes, his reply to yEschines, 

 13; counsel to the Athenians, 18; 

 prepared beforehand prefaces for 

 his orations, 128; his examples of 

 eloquence, 146; cares more for 

 eloquence than for praise, 154; 

 rallied by Philocrates, 178; 

 exhorts men to govern circum 

 stances, 198 



Dendamis the Indian, 210 



Diagoras the atheist, his wise reply, 



.133 



Diascordium, 115 



Differences, the object of meta 

 physics, 94 

 Diogenes, his defence of philosophers, 



22 ; interview with Alexander, 49 ; 



on self-restraint, 158 

 Dionysius had his ears in his feet, 22 ; 



speech about philosophy, 27 

 Dionysius the Areopagite, 37 

 Direction (or guidance), the chief 



help to learning, 61 

 Divination, 118 



Divines have objected to learning, 4 

 Divinity, briefly discussed, 209; 



two chief parts, 213; four main 



branches thereof, 219 

 Domitian s dream, 44 

 Donius, 105 

 Doubt and suspension of judgment 



wholesome, 34; should always 



be registered, 102 

 Dreams, exposition of, the only true 



part oiprcenotion, 107 

 Drusus, commended by Tiberius, 190 

 Du-Bartas on flattery, 21 

 Duty, the good of man as regards 



society, 163 



Eccentrics and epicycles, 104 

 Ecclesiastical History, too credulous, 



28; a great teacher, 70; its 



divisions, 80 



Eden, man s labour in, 37 



Education, honourable and import 

 ant, 16; of youth, affects the 

 character, 152 



Egypt, a most learned land, 38; 

 why so few human figures in her 

 temples, 123 



Egyptian priest s judgment on the 

 Greeks, 38; hieroglyphics, 137 



Elenchs, a method of judgment, 198 ; 

 can be used to guard against 

 metaphorical ambiguities, 131 



Elizabeth, Queen, and King James I., 

 are Castor and Pollux, 15 ; a most 

 learned princess, 47; the glories 

 and dangers of her reign, 48 ; her 

 good government seen in its last 

 ing effects, 6 1 ; her masculine rule, 

 76 



Elogies, barren, 77 



Eloquence, desired above sense, 24; 

 not to be condemned, 25; based 

 on imagination, 121 



Emblem, one of the foundations on 

 which memory rests, 136 



Empedocles, 103 



Empirics, in physic, 10; in state 

 craft, ib. 



England, history of, during Tudor 

 period, 75, 76 



Enoch, the first contemplative 

 person, endowed the Church with 

 prophecy, 157 



Enquiry, power of wise, is the half of 

 knowledge, 129 



Epaminondas, general and scholar, 9 



Epictetus philosophy censured, 158 ; 

 his precept on self-government, 



193 



Epicurus, his manner of death, 114; 

 thought the gods to be of human 

 shape, 133; wherein his school 

 placed happiness, 157; held that 

 virtue had much to do with it, 161 



Epitomes, the moths of history, 74 



Erasmus colloquy of Juvenis and 

 Echo, 24 



Essays are ruminated history, 78 



Ethics, how divided, 154 



Euclid, 30; his propositions seem 

 strange till proven, 32 



Euthanasia, much desired, 114 



Evil, knowledge of, necessary, 165 ; 

 arts, precepts of, 203 



Exercises at the Universities very 

 defective, 66 



Experimental philosophy, 100 



Exstatic visions, etc., 119 



Extremes to be avoided, 31 



