Index 



2 39 



ful to the carnal mind, 121; 

 rational, 122; arts for attaining 

 thereto are four, 122 sqq. 



Laelius, 181 



Languages, their study revived at 

 the Reformation, 23; are vehicula 

 scientia, 40 



Laws of England, 207; hitherto 

 handled only by philosophers or 

 lawyers, not by statesmen, 206; 

 how to be treated, 207 ; of nature, 

 moral and positive, 219 



Lawyers write of law as it is, not as 

 it should be, 206 



Learned men, their manners not 

 necessarily rude, 17, 18; apt to 

 fix too high a standard, 18; their 

 follies, 22 sqq. ; to be cherished 

 in a state, 62 



Learning, flourishes best in company 

 with arms, 10 ; of use to statesmen, 

 ib.; does not cause sloth, 12; nor 

 lessen respect for law, 13; not 

 really discredited by learned 

 clowns, ib.; teaches men their 

 smallness.ig; its peccant humours, 

 31-36 ; pursued for mean ends, 34 ; 

 is acquired knowledge, 36; its 

 dignity, 36 sqq. ; cherished by the 

 Church, 40; helps faith, 41; seats 

 of, are faulty in several respects, 

 63 sqq. ; distribution of, 69 ; three 

 periods of, Greek, Roman, and 

 i6th-i7th century, 207; divine, 

 209 



Lectures, but ill provided for in 

 places of learning, 64 



Legends, too readily believed in the 

 Church, 28 



Leprosy, the law respecting, 38 



Letters, like ships, carry wealth 

 from age to age, 59; most useful 

 to teach wisdom of business, 186 



Levant, the, 20 



Lex Papia, 31 



Libraries, shrines of true saints, 63 



Life, how to be prolonged, 101 



Light, first created, 37 ; of nature, an 

 insufficient guide, 209, 210; used 

 in two senses, 210 



Liturgy or service, a part of 

 divinity, 220 



Livy, best of historians, 14; makes 

 but little of Alexander, 32; his 

 dictum on behaviour, 180; judg 

 ment on Cato the censor, 187, 197 



Lodestone, why does it attract iron ? 

 156; has only a limited power, ib. 



Logic (and Rhetoric) too early 

 studied at the universities, 66; 

 discusses things in notion, but 

 confusedly, 86; does not profess 

 to invent sciences, 123; the syllo 

 gism, what, 126; compared with 

 Rhetoric, 148 



Longanimity, 169 



Love, the bond of all virtues, 177 



Lucian, on the Stoic and the lap-dog, 

 21 ; his objection to the gods, who 

 begat no children in his day, 31 



Lucretius (quoted), 58 



Lully, Raymond, his false method, 

 145 



Luther awakened all antiquity to 

 help him, 23 



Lysander on the art of deceit, 203 



Machiavelli on the poverty of the 

 friars, 15; interprets the fable of 

 Achilles and Chiron, 84; on the 

 means of preserving governments, 

 87; writes what is valuable as a 

 warning, 165; on questions of 

 policy shuts his eyes to moral good 

 and evil, 175 ; his form and sub 

 ject of writing the best for civil 

 prudence, 186; his note on the 

 policy of Fabius Maximus, 197; 

 on money as the &quot; sinews of war,&quot; 

 200 ; his precept as to the disadvan 

 tage of virtue, etc., 203 

 Magic, Natural, 119; related to 

 imaginationrather than reason, 29; 

 has a noble aim, 30; Persian, what 

 it was, 86; its true sense, 90; 

 present degradation 100 

 Magnanimity, 169 



Mahomet s law regarding diet, 107; 

 interdicts all argument and use of 

 reason, 211 



Man, a microcosm, 88, 109 

 Manichasan heresy, 107 

 Manners (mores) in divinity, 219 

 Mariner s compass, 102, 122 

 Master of the sentences, 214 

 Mathematique, 98; handmaid to 



many sciences, 99 



Medicine, science of, apt to be too 

 empirical, 106; discussed, 109; 

 its uncertainty gives room for 

 imposture, no; analogous to 

 morality in order of its investiga 

 tions, 171 



Memorials, or history unfinished, 73 

 Memory, art of, 135 

 Menander on love, 177 

 Menenius Agrippa, fable of, 64 



