INDEX. 



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excrescences of, iv. 253 ; why they 

 live longer than men, iv. 36 ; expe 

 riments on foreign, iv. 265 ; produ 

 cing of perfect without seed, iv. 262 ; 

 degenerating of, iv. 246 ; of making 

 them medicinable, iv. 236 ; several 

 figures of, iv. 270 ; earth not neces 

 sary to the sprouting of, iv. 298 ; 

 touching the principal differences of, 

 iv. 272 ; effect of wind upon, iv. 304 ; 

 growth of, helped by dust, iv. 346 ; 

 grafting of, iv. 208, 218 ; without 

 leaves, experiment touching, iv. 

 405 ; growth of, affected by the 

 moon, iv. 482 ; different sexes in, 

 iv. 283 ; transmutation of, iv. 246 ; 

 melioration of, iv. 209. 



Plants and animate bodies, difference 

 between, iv. 280. 



Plants and living creatures, affinities 

 and differences in, iv. 382. 



Plants and fruits, curiosities about, iv. 

 239. 



Plaster, growing as hard as marble, iv. 

 414. 



Plato s reverence for true division and 

 definition, i.290 ; advice to the peo 

 ple respecting Diogenes, i. 370 ; an 

 swer to Diogenes, i. 374 ; common 

 wealth, vi. 72 ; Protagoras, i. 86 ; 

 school character of, i. 322 ; saying 

 of custom, i. 390 ; saying of Socrates, 

 i, 392; opinion of ideas, ii. 136; 

 opinion of knowledge, ii. 4 ; opinion 

 of the action of the body and mind, 

 ii. 157 ; objection to the manners of 

 his country, ii. 27 ; commendation of 

 virtue, ii. 210 ; opinion of unity, ii. 

 139 ; observation on invention, ii. 

 177 ; error in mixing philosophy 

 with theology, ii. 49 ; comparison of 

 Socrates to gallipots, ii. 31. 



Plato, ii.185, 192; familiar with errors 

 in logic, ii. 179 ; compared rhetoric 

 to cookery, ii. 210. 



Plea, definite, vii. 285. 



Plea of outlawry, vii. 286. 



Pleas for discharging the suit, vii. 285. 



Pleas, common dispute in, whether it 

 can grant prohibition to stay suits in 

 chancery, vii. 403. 



Pleasure, arts of, ji. 169 ; saying of 

 the poets of, i. 229 ; of the affections 

 greater than of the senses ; of the in 

 tellect greater than of the affections, 

 i. 251. 



Pleasures of knowledge the greatest, ii. 

 85 ; of the affections and senses sur 

 passed by those of the intellect, ii. 

 85. 



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Plinius Secundus, why his fame lasts, 

 i. 176; his saying of praises of 

 others, i. 176. 



Pliny quoted as to metals, vii. 201. 



Plough, what the following of good for, 

 iv. 500. 



Plutarch, his saying respecting an un 

 worthy opinion of the gods, i. 57 ; 

 of the acts of Timoleon, i. 137, 244 ; 

 apophthegms draw much dregs, i. 

 348; saying of, 411. 



Plutus, the fable of, when sent from 

 Jupiter and when sent from Juno, i. 

 120. 



Plutus Timidus, v. 329. 



Pluralities, vii. 89. 



Plumage and pilosity, experiment 

 touching, iv. 353. 



Plowden, sketch of, life of in note, vii. 

 343. 



Pneumaticals in bodies, the two kinds 

 of, iv. 452. 



Poem, vii. 124. 



Poesy, a pleasure of imagination, ii. 

 175 ; refers to the imagination, ii. 

 119 ; relates to the imagination, ii. 

 101 ; is narrative, representative, 

 and allusive, ii. 120; no deficience 

 in, ii. 122 ; expresses the passions 

 and affections better than the works 

 of philosophers, ii. 123 ; heathen, 

 considered, ii. 123 ; divine, consi 

 dered, ii. 123 ; springs up without 

 formal seed, ii. 123. 



Poetry, Bacon s opinion of, iii. 3. 



Poets, allegory of the, as to knowledge, 

 ii. 13 ; make men witty, i. 168 ; their 

 picture of fame, i. 194 ; a lightness 

 in them to feign hope as a counter 

 poison of diseases, i. 210. 



Poison, cantharides fly, vi. 190. 



Poisons, mixing of, vi. 190. 



Poisoning, remarks on crime of, vi. 

 204. 



Poisonous plants, iv. 295. 



Poland, state of during the time of 

 Queen Elizabeth, v. 406. 



Pole, Michael de la, case of, vii. 

 452. 



Policies of state, an impediment to 

 knowledge, i. 308. 



Policy, an order in the government of 

 an estate, v. 1 ; books of, ii. 114. 



Politicians, unlearned, refer all things 

 to themselves, ii. 29 ; predictions of, 

 ii. 171 ; objections to learning by, 

 ii. 7 ; judged by events, ii. 160 ; in 

 tegrity of learned, ii. 29 ; their ob 

 jections to learning answered, ii. 

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