INDEX. 



409 



Filum labyrinth!, i. 310; a rudiment 

 of the advancement of learning, i. 

 xxviii.; also of the Novum Organum, 

 i. xxviii.; 311. 



Filum medicinale, experiment touch 

 ing, iv. 38. 



Finances and receipts, one of the inter 

 nal points of separation with Scot- 

 laud, v. 31 J considerations touching 

 them, 39. 

 Fining metals, different modes of, vii. 



203. 



Fire, heat of, will vivify, iv. 365 ; in 

 vention of attributed to Prometheus, 

 iii. 72 ; different heats of, iv. 355 ; 

 and time, differing operation of, iv. 

 145. 



Fires, subterrany, iv. 179. 

 Fish, pulp of, more nourishing than 

 their flesh, iv. 30 ; touching shell 

 fish, iv. 473 ; the cold nature of, iv. 

 399 ; from the sea put into fresh 

 waters, iv. 371. 



Fitzherbert s Natura Brevium, a book 

 of good worth but not of the nature 

 of an institution, v. 350. 



Fitz Morris, an Irish rebel, armed and 

 sent to Ireland by Philip of Spain in 

 1579, v. 451. 



Fixation of bodies, experiment on the, 

 iv. 423 ; and volatility of metals, 

 vii. 208, 212. 



Flame, rise of water by means of, iv. 

 479 ; touching the continuance of, 

 iv. 181 ; commixture of with air, iv. 

 18 ; secret nature of, iv. 20 ; force 

 of in midst and sides, iv. 21 ; Vulcan 

 compared with, iv. 21. 



Flattery of great men by philosophers, 

 ii. 32 ; none like a man s self, i. 93, 

 173. 



Fatterers, description of, i. 173; the 

 greatest enemies of kings, i. 198. 



Fleas, how destroyed, iv. 364. 



Flemings, commercial treaty with, iii. 

 325. 



Flesh, venomous quality of man s, iv. 

 13 ; fat diffused in, iv. 352 ; edible 

 and not edible, iv. 465. 



Flies get a durable sepulchre in amber, 

 iv. 66. 



Flowers, experiment touching com 

 pound, iv. 226 ; sweeter in the air 

 than hand, i. 154 ; account of them, 

 i. 154. 



Fly on the wheel, /Esop s fable of the, 

 vi. 15. 



Flying in the air, iv. 478 ; of unequal 

 bodies in the air, iv. 417. 



Fluxes stayed by astringents, vii. 231. 



Foliambe, Mr. F. his case, letter con 

 cerning, from Buckingham to Lord 

 C. Bacon, vii. 443. 



Foliatanes, order of, put down by the 

 pope, iv. 29. 



Followers and friends, essay on, i. 162. 



Fomentation or bath receipt, vii. 237. 



Food, experiments touching the most 

 nourishing meats and drink, iv. 29. 



Forcing plants, mode of, vii. 221. 



Foreign merchandise, vi. 437. 



Foreign states, embassies to, vi. 425. 



Foreign wars, badness of, vi. 431. 



Forfeitures of the star-chamber, vi. 449. 



Forma pauperis, defending in, vii. 294. 



Formalists, their shifts to make super- 

 fices seem bulk, i. 85. 



Formation of features in youth, iv. 16. 



Forms the true object of knowledge, ii. 



136 ; of induction in logic defective, 

 ii. 179. 



Fortitude, the virtue of adversity, i. 16. 



Fortune, faber quisque fortunae suae, 

 censure of that saying, i. 339 ; rising 

 in, seldom amends the mind, i. 339 ; 

 essay on, i. 135 ; the two fortunate 

 properties, to have but little of the 

 fool and not too much of the honest, 

 i. 136 ; fortune to be honoured, i. 



137 ; of learned men, discredit to 

 learning from, ii. 23. 



Fourteenth year a kind of majority, vii. 

 310. 



Founders of states, first in honour, i. 

 178. 



Fox, trusted by Henry VII. i. 70; in 

 ferior, i. 164 ; a sure friend better help 

 than a man s own wit, i. 235 ; Bishop 

 of Exeter iii. 122. 



Fragile and tough bodies, iv. 451. 



France, state of, under Charles VIII. 

 iii. 200 ; divisions of, in the time of 

 Queen p:iizabeth, v. 404. 



Francis I. his opinion of a lie, vi. 120 ; 

 used to walk disguised, i. 368. 



Freedoms, several, an internal point of 

 separation with Scotland, v. 31 ; 

 considerations touching them, v. 40. 



French wiser than they seem, i. 85 ; 

 their peasants do not make good sol 

 diers, i. 102 ; disease, origin of, iv. 

 14 ; law of duels, vi. 115. 



Friar Bacon s head, vi. 263. 



Friars, observation of Machiavel on the 

 poverty of, ii. 24. 



Friend, how valued by honest minds, 

 vi. 246 ; danger of a false, vi. 403 ; 

 all great men want a true, vii. 298. 



Friends, Cosmus s saying of perfidious 

 friends, i. 15. 



