INDEX. 



439 



Scotland and England, union of, vii. 



174, 180. 

 Scotus, his answer to Charles the Bald, 



i. 375. 



Scribonianus, answer of his freedman 

 to the freedman of Claudius, i. 369. 

 Scripture, no deficiency in, ii. 316; 

 interpretation of, methodical and 

 solute, ii. 306 ; interpretation of, ii. 

 307. 



Scriptures, exhort us to study the om- 

 nipotency of God, ii. 61 ; medita 

 tions on, i. 220 ; do not restrain 

 science, i. 260, 316; honours the 

 name of the inventors of music and 

 works in metal, i. 317. 

 Scylla, fable of, an image of conten 

 tious learning, ii. 40 ; the fiction of 

 an emblem of the present philosophy, 

 i. 280. 

 Scylla and Icarus, or the middle way. 



iii. 82. 



Sea, lord admiral s right of determining 

 as to acts committed on the high, 

 vii. 358 ; the commandment of it 

 one of the points of true greatness in 

 a state, v. 313 ; different clearness 

 of the, iv. 354 ; importance of the 

 mastery of it, i. 107 ; great effects of 

 battles by, i. 107. 



Seafish put in fresh waters, iv. 371. 

 Seashore, wells on, iv. 1. 

 Seaweed, iv. 263. 



Sea or other water, colour of, iv. 473. 

 Seas, rolling and breaking of the, iv. 



476. 



Seals, one of the external points of se 

 paration with Scotland, v. 26. 

 Seasons, pestilential, iv. 189 ; prognos 

 tics of pestilential, iv. 358. 

 Secrecy, a great means of obtaining 



suits, i. 166. 



Secret properties, iv. 533. 

 Sects, the greatest vicissitude, i. 109 ; 

 the two properties of new sects to 

 supplant authority, to give license to 

 pleasures, i. 190 ; the three plan 

 tations, i. 190 ; diversities of, ii. 

 150; religious, effect of extirpating 

 by violence, iii. 50. 

 Sedition and troubles, essay of, i. 44. 

 Seed, what age is best, iv. 349 ; pro 

 ducing perfect plants without, iv. 

 262. 



Seeds, most, leave their husks, iv. 299. 

 Self, essay of wisdom for a man s self, 



i. 79. 

 Self-love maketh men unprofitable like 



the narcissus, iii. 6. 

 Self-revelation, ii. 279. 



Selden, John, to Lord Viscount St. 



Alban, vii. 465. 



Senators, advantages of learned, ii. 64. 

 Seneca, ii. 188, 222 ; vii. 113 ; Nero s 

 opinion of his style, i. 364 ; his say 

 ing of Caesar, i. 379 ; his saying of 

 death, i. 7 ; on prosperity and ad 

 versity, i. 15 ; his prophecy of Ame 

 rica, i. 124 ; why his fame lasts, i. 

 177; his saying on anger, i. 185 ; his 

 description of Caesar, v. 357 ; go 

 vernment of Rome by, ii. 17. 

 Senna, how windiness taken from, iv. 



11. 



Sense, Scaliger s sixth, iv. 361 ; ima 

 gination imitating the force of the, 

 iv. 420. 



Senses, reporters to the mind, ii. 9 ; 

 greatest of the pleasures of the, iv. 

 360 ; spiritual species which affect 

 the, iv. 503. 



Sentences, collection of, out of the Mi- 

 mi of Publius, i. 418 421 ; out of 

 some of Lord Bacon s writings, i. 

 422429. 



Sequela chartarum, i. 324. 

 Sequestration, where granted, vii. 279 ; 



of specific lands, vii. 280. 

 Separation, of bodies by weight, iv, 7 ; 



of metals and minerals, vii. 202, 

 Sepulchre, flies get durable in amber, 



iv. 66. 



Serjeants, care in making, vi. 415. 

 Sermones fideles, the title of the Latin 



edition of the Essays, i. xviii. 

 Serpent, meditations on the wisdom of, 



i. 205. 



Severus, his death, i. 7 ; his friendship 



for Plantianus, i. 90 ; his character, 



i. 142 ; saying of him, i. 372 ; Rome 



governed by, i. 17. 



Seven wise men of Greece, anecdotes 



of them, ii. 394. 

 Sewers, suit for the commission of, vii. 



294. 



Sexes, different in plants, iv. 283. 

 Sextus V. Pope, character of, v. 279. 

 Sextus Quintus, a learned pope, who 



excelled in government, ii. 17. 

 Shadows, experiment touching, iv. 475. 

 Shame causeth blushing, iv. 379. 

 Shaw, specimen of his translation of 

 the Latin edition of the Essays, i. 

 xxii. 

 Shell, experiment touching the casting 



of, in some creatures, iv. 386. 

 Shell fish, touching, iv. 473. 

 Sheen Palace, burning of, iii. 355. 

 Sheep, Cato s saying of, vi. 19 ; na 

 ture of, iv. 399. 



