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1XDEX. 



Assertion and proof, ii. 204. 



Astringents, a catalogue of different 

 sorts, hot and cold, vii. 230 ; pur 

 gative, vii. 232. 



Astrologers, means used by, more mon 

 strous than the end, ii. 147. 



Astrologers judgment that the King 

 of France should be killed in a duel, 

 i. 124. 



Astrology, Chaldean, ii. 171. 



Astronomer, predictions of, ii. 171. 



Astronomy, theory of, ii. 151 ; exem 

 plified in the Book of Job, ii. 57. 



Atalanta and the golden ball, ii. 52. 



Atalanta, or gain, iii. 66. 



Atheism, learned men and times in 

 cline to, ii. 12 ; superficial know 

 ledge of philosophy incline the mind 



10, ii. 13 ; learned times have in 

 clined to, ii. 8 ; caused by ignorant 

 preachers, vii. 86 ; meditations upon, 

 i. xxiii. 215 ; their disposition light, 

 i. 217 ; Essay of, i. 53 ; never per 

 turbs states, i. 57. 



Athens, poisoned capital offenders, iv. 

 296 ; their Sexviri standing commis 

 sioners to watch the laws, v. 344, 357. 



Athletique, ii. 168 ; philosophy rela 

 ting to not inquired, ii. 168. 



Atlantes, new, ii. 323. 



Atlas, ii. 187. 



Atmosphere, artificial, in New Atlantes, 



11. 367. 



Attachment for not answering, vii. 278. 



Attemus, the start of in Epicurus, a 

 frivolous shift, i. 220. 



Attorney and solicitor general should 

 not be ignorant in things though un 

 connected with their profession, vi. 

 416. 



Attorney general s place and commis 

 sion, vii. 309. 



Attorney general, abuse of to Mr. Ba 

 con, vii. 338. 



Attraction, by similitude of substance, 

 iv. 3 7 1 ; experiment touching, iv. 478 ; 

 experimental remarks on, vii. 225 ; 

 by similitude of substance, iv. 477. 



Attractive bodies, if in small quantities, 

 vii. 225; observations on, vii. 225. 



Audibles and visibles, consent and dis 

 sent between, iv. 130. 



Augustin, St., his comparison of net 

 tles, vii. 261 ; comparison used by, 

 vi. 7. 



Augustins, order of, vii. 374. 



Augustus Caesar, his saying of his two 

 daughters and grandson, i. 402 ; his 

 death, i. 7 ; policy attributed to him 

 by Livia, i. 17 ; his friendship to 

 Agrippa, i. 89 ; of a reposed nature, 



i. 142 ; of high spirit, yet beautiful, 

 i. 145 ; sayings and letters of his, 

 i. 372 ; character of, iii. 489 ; in 

 his youth affecting power, iii. 490 ; 

 in his middle age affecting dignity, 

 iii. 490 ; in age, ease and pleasure, 

 iii. 490 ; in his decline bent to me 

 mory and posterity, iii. 490 ; treads 

 the steps of Caesar, but with deeper 

 print, v. 337 ; his peaceable govern 

 ment as highly esteemed as the vic 

 tories of Julius Caesar, v. 400. 



Auripigment and copper make red al 

 chemy, vii. 202. 



Austria, Don John of, lost his reputa 

 tion at Rimenant, v. 258. 



Authority of two kinds, iv. 510. 



Authors should be consuls and not 

 dictators, ii. 44. 



Avellaneda, the Spanish admiral, sets 

 upon the English fleet, after the en 

 terprise of Panama, v. 277 ; comes 

 off with loss, v. 277 ; his boasting, 

 v. 277. 



Aviaries, i. 160. 



Axe, in case of felony, whether to be 

 carried before the prisoner, vii. 410. 



BABYLON, the excellence of its situa 

 tion, v. 335 ; the city of estate in 

 Persia, v. 335 ; Alexander the Great 

 chose it for his seat, v. 335 ; after 

 wards Seleucus and his descendants, 

 v. 336 ; its greatness in the times of 

 the kings of Parthia, v. 336 ; of the 

 successors of Mahomet, v. 336 ; and 

 at this day Bagdad s greatness, v. 336. 



Bacon, Anthony, epistle dedicatorie of 

 the first edition of the Essays to him, 

 i. vi. 



Bacon, his value for the corrections 

 of unlearned men, iii. 22 ; love of 

 familiar illustration, iii. 29 ; died 

 9th April, 1626, v. ii. ; speech in the 

 house of Commons touching the ge 

 neral naturalization of the Scottish 

 nation, v. 47 ; the union of laws 

 with Scotland, v. 75 ; his argument. 

 in Caloin s case, the post nati of 

 Scotland, v. 106; account of his 

 works, vii. 116; opinion of the No- 

 vum Organum, vii. 115 ; to the 

 judges, vii. 409 ; observations on the 

 Advancement of Learning, vii. 115 ; 

 most inclined by nature to the study 

 of arts and sciences, vii. 253 ; his 

 sayings, i. 357, 363, 365, 401, 402, 

 412, 414, 415 ; thought it wisest to 

 keep way with antiquity, usque ad 

 aras, ii. 133 ; letter to the King 

 noting his History of Henry Vll. 



