INDEX. 



435 



Pride, impediment to knowledge, i. 

 307. 



Primitive divination, ii. 171. 



Princes and governors, learned, advan 

 tages of, ii. 15 17. 



Princes, advantages of learned, ii. 23, 

 64 ; the most learned are the best, 

 ii. 6; conjunction between learned, 

 and the happiness of their people, ii. 

 6470. 



Prince of Wales, vi. 421. 



Prince Charles, dedication to, iii. 103. 



Principiation, or elements, vii. 203. 



Piiority of suit, as to granting an in 

 junction upon mere, vii. 247. 



Private good, ii. 228. 



Privy council, how to form a, vi. 

 425. 



Privilege, writs of, vii. 291. 



Probus did himself hurt by a speech, 

 i. 52. 



Proclamation, or king s entry, vii. 173 ; 

 or king s style, vii. 179. 



Procedendo, when granted, vii. 278. 



Proctor, Stephen, certificate touching 

 his projects relating to the penal 

 laws, v. 362. 



Profit, contempt of, vii. 152. 



Professions, universities dedicated to, 

 ii. 92 ; supplied from philosophy 

 and universality, ii. 93. 



Prometheus, or the state of man, iii. 

 68. 



Promotion of officers, vi. 430. 



Proofs, human, of advantage of learn 

 ing, ii. 62. 



Properties, secret, iv. 533. 



Prophecies, punishable by imprison 

 ment, vi. 95 ; essay on, i. 123. 



Propinquity, sympathy in, iv. 526. 



Proserpina, or the ethereal spirit of the 

 earth, iii. 90 ; or spirit, iii. 88 ; fa 

 ble of, quoted, iv. 62. 



Prosperity, minds puffed up by, soonest 

 dejected by adversity, vii. 305. 



Proteus, or matter, iii. 38. 



Proud men, all full of delays, v. 212. 



Provision for clergy, vii. 94. 



Providences, judgments, &c., history 

 of, ii. 117. 



Psalms, translation of, vii. 98. 



Public good, ii. 226. 



Pulp of fish more nourishing than their 

 flesh, iv. 30. 



Purgative astringents, vii. 232. 



Purge for opening the liver, vii. 226. 



Purging, preparations before, iv. 42. 



Purging medicines, how they lose their 

 virtue, iv. 10 ; experiment on, iv. 

 24. 



Purveyors, speech touching, vi. 3 ; 

 abuses of, vi. 7. 



Purveyance due to the king, vi. 448. 



Purification, of church, vii. 60. 



Pursuit, objects of, ii. 253. 



Puteoli, court of Vulcan, iv. 414. 



Putrefaction, most contagious before 

 maturity, ii. 57 ; generation by, iv. 

 485 ; of water, iv. 427 ; touching 

 the causes of, iv. 446 ; of bodies, pro 

 hibition of, iv. 406 ; creatures bred 

 of, iv. 363; preventing of, iv. 166; 

 inducing and accelerating of, iv. 163. 



Pygmalion s frenzy an emblem of vain 

 learning, ii. 37. 



Pythagoras, ii. 143 ; a looker on, ii. 

 234 ; philosophy of, iv. 487 ; his 

 parable, i.91 ; his speech to Cicero, 

 L 403. 



Pyrrhus teeth, undivided, iv. 396. 



Pyrrhus s answer to the congratulations 

 for his victory over the Romans, i. 

 391. 



QUARRIES, query as to, vii. 214 ; ex 

 periment touching, iv. 458. 



Queen Elizabeth, incensed at the book 

 of history of Henry IV. dedicated to 

 Essex, vi. 259 ; report of treasons 

 meditated by Doctor Lopez against, 

 v.289 ; first copy of a discourse touch- 

 ing the safety of her person, v. 286 ; 

 first fragments of a discourse touch 

 ing intelligence and the safety or the 

 queen s person, v.286; her service in 

 Ireland, considerations touching, v. 

 187 ; her message to the Earl of 

 Essex, vi. 334. 



Queen of Bohemia, letter to, iii. 19. 



Questions, legal, for the judges in So 

 merset s case, vii. 410 ; touching 

 minerals, vii. 196 ; of Meverel, vii. 

 196 ; on religious war, vii. 145. 



Quicksilver, nature and force of, iv. 19 ; 

 its property of mixing with metals, 

 vii. 200 ; metals swim upon, iv. 409. 



Quinces, how to keep them long, iv. 

 289. 



RABELAIS S saying after receiving ex 

 treme unction, i. 360. 



Raleigh, Sir Walter, anecdotes of, 

 apophthegm respecting, i. 349, 357, 

 407, 408, 410 ; letter concerning, 

 from Lord C. Bacon, to Marquis of 

 Buckingham, vii. 444 ; demeanour 

 and carriage of, vii. 444 ; letter to 

 the king touching proceedings against, 

 vii. 440 ; when beheaded, vii. 440 ; 

 his saying that the Spanish Armada 



