INDEX. 



437 



Requests, against the court of, vii. 403. 



Residence of clergy, examination of, 

 vii. 92. 



Residents, non, evils of, vii. 91. 



Restless nature of things in themselves, 

 iv. 424. 



Respects, essay on, and ceremonies, i. 

 171. 



Restitution, iii. 55 ; letter touching, 

 vii. 212. 



Restorative drink, on, vii. 228. 



Retreats, honourable, no ways inferior 

 to brave charges, v. 260. 



Retrenchment of delays in equity, vii. 

 245. 



Revealed religion, ii. 299. 



Revenge, memorable defence of the, 

 under Sir Richard Greenvil when 

 attacked by the Spanish fleet, v. 270 ; 

 essay of, i. 14. 



Revenue, grants of, vii. 250. 



Revenues of the crown must be pre 

 served, vi. 448. 



Revolt, the laws as to, vi. 358. 



Revocation of uses, case of, xiii. 280. 



Reward, amplitude of, encourages la 

 bour, ii. 90. 



Rhetoric, ii. 209 ; too early taught in 

 universities, ii. 96 ; tropes of, ii. 74 ; 

 imaginative reason the subject of, 

 ii. 175 ; compared by Plato to cook 

 ery, ii. 200 ; its sophisms, ii. 213. 



Rheum, breakfast a preservative against, 

 vii. 227. 



Rhubarb, its property, iv. 28 ; contrary 

 operations of, iv. 9. 



Richard III., enormities committed by, 

 iii. 106. 



Richardson s, Mr. Serjeant, excuse for 

 the place of Speaker not accepted by 

 the king, vi. 65 ; his reasons for re 

 fusing excuse, vi. 65. 



Riches, essay on, i. 119; the poet s 

 saying of, i. 229 ; Mr. Bettenham s 

 opinion of, i. 404 ; when treasure 

 adds greatness to a state, v. 327 ; 

 excess of, makes men slothful and 

 effeminate, v. 329 ; greatness too 

 often ascribed to, v. 313, 328 ; the 

 great, monarchies had their founda 

 tions in poverty, as Persia, Sparta, 

 Macedonia, Rome, Turkey, v. 71, 

 325. 



Rice should be cultivated in new plan 

 tations, i. 116. 

 Right side, experiment touching the, 



iv. 474. 



Rimenant, repulse of the Spaniards 

 under Don John of Austria, by the 

 states general, chiefly by the English 



and Scotch troops under Colonels 

 Norris and Stuart, v. 258. 



Riot at Essex house, vi. 335. 



Ripening of drink before time, iv. 353. 



Rivers, navigable, great help to trade, 

 vi. 445. 



Robe of mercy, the white, vi. 193. 



Roberts, Jack, his answer to his tailor, 

 i. 356 ; his saying respecting a mar 

 riage, i. 375. 



Rock rubies, the exudations of stone, iv. 

 3. 



Rolls, decrees drawn at the, vii. 282 ; 

 examination of court, vii. 284. 



Rome, practice of the church of, i. 179 ; 

 flourished most under learned go 

 vernors, ii. 17 ; the perfection of 

 government of, and learning contem 

 poraneous, ii. 22. 



Roman emperors titles, vi. 3. 



Roman law of homicide, vi. 116. 



Roman unguent, receipt for, vii. 239. 



Roman praetors, their conduct, vii. 244. 



Romans, the most open of any state to 

 receive strangers into their body, i. 

 103 ; granted the jus civitatis to fa 

 milies, cities, and sometimes nations, 

 i. 103 ; always foremost to assist 

 their confederates, i. 106; the only 

 states that were good commixtures, 

 v. 8 ; liberal of their naturalizations, 

 9, 10 ; which Machiavel judged to 

 be the cause of the growth of their 

 empire, v. 11 ; their four degrees of 

 freedom and naturalization, v. 12, 

 118 ; their union with the Latins, v. 

 64 ; after the social war their natu 

 ralization of the Latins, v. 64 ; na 

 turalization of the Latins and the 

 Gauls, and the reason for it, v. 319 ; 

 their empire received no diminution 

 in territory until Jovianus, v. 316 ; 

 shortly afterwards it became a car 

 cass for the birds of prey of the 

 world, v. 317 ; four of their kings 

 lawgivers, v. 356. 

 Romilly, Sir Samuel, what he said 



respecting improvement, v. [xxvi/J 

 Roory Owny, Mac, chief of the 



Omoores in Leinster, vi. 312. 

 Roots, more nourishing than leaves, 

 iv. 29 ; of trees, iv. 300 ; three cu 

 bits deep, iv. 349. 

 Roses, preparation of artificial for smell, 



vii. 228. 

 Roseleaves, preserving of colour and 



smell of, iv. 181. 

 Rosewater, virtue of, iv. 499. 

 Rubies, rock, are the exudations of 

 stone, iv. 3. 



