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INDEX. 



Friendship, Essay on, i. 87 ; without 

 friends the world is a wilderness, i. 

 87 ; principal fruit of, the discharge 

 of the heart, i. 88 ; no receipt openeth 

 the heart but a true friend, i. 88 ; 

 communication to a friend redoubles 

 joys and halves griefs, i. 91 ; health 

 ful for the understanding, i. 92 ; a 

 friend s liberty the best remedy 

 against flattery, i. 93 ; the last fruit 

 of, is aid, i. 95 ; many things which 

 a man cannot do himself may be 

 done by a friend, i. 95; Essay on 

 Followers and Friends, i. 162 ; little 

 friendship in the world, and that 

 between superior and inferior,!. 164. 



Friendships, bond of counsel in, ii. 30. 



Frosberg, the German, his threats, vi. 

 457. 



Fruits, some, sweet before ripe, iv. 296 ; 

 and plants, curiosities about, iv. 239 ; 

 maturation of, iv. 154 ; how to keep, 

 iv. 290; melioration of, iv. 209; 

 experiment touching compound, iv. 

 226 ; exossation of, iv. 461 ; dulco- 

 ration of, iv. 464 ; operation of time 

 upon, iv. 466. 



Fruitful, upon making vines more, iv. 23. 



Fruitfulness of soil, greatness too often 

 ascribed to, v. 313. 



Fuel, cheap experiment touching, iv. 

 410 ; that consumeth little, iv. 409. 



Fuentes, Count de, Andrada sent over 

 to him, by Lopez, about a reward for 

 poisoning Queen Elizabeth, v. 297 ; 

 sends for Tinoco, to confer with An 

 drada, and to pass to Lopez and to 

 Ferrera, v. 297. 



Fulgentio, Father, Lord Bacon s letter 

 to, with some account of his writings, 

 i. xix. 



Furnace, wind, to separate the metal, 

 vii. 204. 



GABATO, Sebastian, his voyage to 

 America, iii. 357. 



Galba, his death, i. 7 ; Tacitus s say 

 ing of him, i. 37 ; undid himself by 

 a speech, i. 52. 



Galen, ii. 141 ; full of ostentation, 

 i. 176. 



Galletyle, vii. 194. 



Games, Olympian, ii. 169 ; of recrea 

 tion, ii. 169 ; of Prometheus, iii. 81. 



Gardens, when profitable, vi. 435 ; 

 essay on, i. 152 ; the purest of plea 

 sures, i. 1 52 ; plan of for all months, 

 i. 153, 154 ; royal, ought not to be 

 under thirty acres, i. 155 ; apt divi 

 sion for them, i. 155. 



Gardiner s, Bishop, saying that he 

 would be a bishop one hundred 

 years after his death, v. 341 ; say 

 ing of the Protestants, i. 353. 



G ardiner, Sir Robert, praise of, vii. 263 . 



Garlick, preparation of, vii. 228. 



Garrisons on the borders of Scotland, 

 suggestions as to the removal of, 

 v. 20. 



Gaunt, retreat of, v. 260. 



Gellius, A., his saying of those who 

 are constantly making distinctions, 

 i. 86. 



Generalities, empty and barren, ii. 205. 



Generation of living creatures in the 

 womb, iv. 398. 



Generation by copulation, iv. 485. 



Germination, experiments touching the 

 acceleration of, iv. 200 ; retardation 

 of, iv. 206. 



Germany, state of during the time of 

 Queen Elizabeth, v. 407. 



Ghent, vii. 171. 



Giddiness, causes of, iv. 388. 



Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, vi. 185. 



Glass, rusted by women looking upon 

 it, iv. 499 ; experiments on, vii. 

 193 ; materials of, iv. 406 ; sand of 

 the nature of, iv. 412 ; as to metals 

 incorporating with, vii. 202. 



Glasses, musical, iv. 4, 102 ; for burn 

 ing powder, iv. 79. 



Globes, appearance of at a distance, 

 iv. 475. 



Glorious men, their character, i. 177. 



Glory, essay on vain, i. 175 ; the spur 

 of virtue, i. 230. 



Glowworm, experiment touching the, 

 iv. 375. 



God, the sparkle of our creation light, 

 whereby men acknowledge a Deity 

 still burns within Atheists, i. 215 ; 

 the will of God revealed by the 

 scriptures and by the creatures, 

 i. 218 ; is only self-like, i. 258 ; all 

 knowledge, especially natural philo 

 sophy, tends to magnify his glory, 

 i. 318. 



Godfrey s case, vii. 458464. 



Gold, making of, vii. 193 ; most flexi 

 ble and tensible, heaviest and closest 

 of metals, iv. 162 ; experiment on 

 making of, iv. 159 ; will incorporate 

 with silver and other metals, vii. 200; 

 the nature of, iv. 163 ; will not in 

 corporate with iron, vii. 200 ; melt- 

 eth easily, iv. 423. 



Gold and silver, disproportion in price 

 of, vi. 60. 



Good, active, ii. 228 ; passive, ii. 229. 



