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INDEX. 



pedantical, ii. 214; is pabulum ani- 

 mi, ii. 175 ; as pyramids, whereof 

 history is the basis, ii. 138 ; is a 

 representation of truth, ii. 41 ; of 

 ourselves, ii. 276 ; Solomon s obser 

 vations on the nature of, ii. 10 ; 

 when a cause of anxiety, ii. 11 ; in 

 creases anxiety, Solomon says, ii. 

 10; limits of, ii. 10; humanizes 

 men s minds, ii. 80 ; improves pri 

 vate virtues, ii. 80 ; removes teme 

 rity, levity, and insolency, ii. 80 ; 

 and vain admiration, ii. 81 ; miti 

 gates the fear of death or adverse 

 fortune, ii. 81 ; tradition of, not 

 ingenuous but magistral, ii. 50 ; 

 erroneous motives for the acquisition 

 of, ii. 51 ; error of too early reducing, 

 into method, ii. 48 ; advantages of, 

 ii. 53 ; true end of, ii. 51 ; civil, ii. 

 256 ; of others, ii. 271 ; advance 

 ment of, interrupted by being applied 

 to professions, ii. 52 ; improves mo 

 rals, ii. 81. 



LABOUR encouraged by reward, ii. 90. 

 Labyrinth of Deedalus, iii. 58. 

 Labyrinth! filurn, i. 311. 

 Lace, making it in England, vi. 436. 

 Lacedaemon, their niceness in admitting 



naturalization, v. 319 ; its strength 



compared to a river, stronger at a 



distance, but weak at the fountain, v. 



320. 



LaV.es, artificial, ii. 366. 

 Lamech, his boast of murder, vi. 117. 

 Land improved by draining, vi. 434 ; 



statute for alienation of, iii. 262. 

 Lands, how to improve, vi. 434 ; no 



such usury as from improving, vi. 



445. 

 Lancaster, court of the duchy of, vii. 



402. 

 Lancashire being backward in religion, 



Queen Elizabeth erected four stipends 



for preachers therein, v. 382. 

 Lanthorn of justice evidence, vi. 202. 

 Lard, its use in removing warts, iv. 530. 

 Lassitude, experiments touching, iv. 



386. 



Latin, character of language, xm. 140. 

 Latimer s, Bishop, saying how to make 



the king rich, i. 352. 

 Latimer s case, notes upon Lord, vii. 



455. 

 Latter times prophesied by Daniel, ii. 



116. 

 Laud s, Dr., saying about Hypocrites, i. 



408. 

 Laughing, effect of, iv. 380. 



Law tracts, xiii. 129. 

 Law of revolt, vi. 358. 

 Law, ii. 295 ; the king its life, i. 197 ; 

 its life in the execution, vi. 96 ; 

 reaches every wrong or injury, vii. 

 377 ; the common law more worthy 

 than the statute law, and the law of 

 nature more worthy than them both, 

 v. 116; favours three things, life, 

 liberty, and dower, v. 141 ; where a 

 prince s title is by law he can never 

 change the laws, for they create 

 his title, v. 163 ; as mixed as our 

 language, v. 339, 359 ; the objec 

 tions to our laws, v. 341 ; university 

 lectures, advice to raise the pen 

 sion of out of the Sutton Estate, 

 v. 381 ; elements of the common, 

 xiii. 131; maxims of, xiii. 131 199 ; 

 use of the, xiii. 201 ; arguments in, 

 xiii. 249 ; the civil, not to be neg 

 lected, vi 421 ; the just use to be 

 made of, vii. 299. 



Laws, the treatise de regulis juris most 

 important to the health of the, v. 

 350 ; good laws some bridle to bad 

 princes, v. 354 ; execution of the 

 old, vi. 6, 72 ; English second to 

 none, vi. 412; multiplicity of evil, 

 vi. 71; against usury, iii. 227; 

 against manslaughter, iii. 226; va 

 rious improvements in, iii. 226 ; 

 their three natures, jura, leges, and 

 mores, v. 12 ; several laws are of 

 the internal points of separation 

 with Scotand, v. 31 ; considerations 

 touching them, and touching a di 

 gest of them, v. 35 ; Sir Francis 

 Bacon s speech in the house of com 

 mons for the union of the laws of 

 England and Scotland, v. 74 ; a pre 

 paration towards the union of those 

 laws, v. 83 ; the division of jus pub- 

 licum, v. 85; the great organ by 

 which the sovereign power moves, 

 v. 114 ; although the king is solu- 

 tus legibus, his acts are limited by 

 law, v. 114 ; penal, during James 1. 

 vi. 149 ; work on, vii. 11. 

 Laws of England, ii. 297 ; their dig 

 nity, ii. 297 ; their defect, ii. 297 ; 

 civil, ii. 297 ; how pressed, ii. 296 ; 

 how expounded, ii. 296 ; proposal 

 for amendment of, v. 337 ; objec 

 tions to, and answers to those objec 

 tions, v. 341 ; offer of digest of, v. 353. 

 Laws written upon by philosophers or 



lawyers not statesmen, v. 295. 

 Lawyers, not judged by the issue of 

 their causes, ii. 159 ; not always the 



