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INDEX. 



Sheriffs of counties, choice of, vii. 417; 

 their attendance upon the judges a 

 civility, and of use, vi. 415. 



Ship building, art of, in England, vi. 

 430. 



Shot, the effect of, on powder, iv. 6. 



Showers, when they do good, iv. 345. 



Sixtus Quintus, feigned tale of, i. 366. 



Sibylla, burning two doubled the price 

 of the other book, i. 245. 



Sickness, Dr. Johnson s opinion of the 

 three things material in, i. 407. 



Sicknesses, winter and summer, iv. 189. 



Sight, experiment touching the, iv. 

 470 ; cause of dimness in the, iv. 

 360. 



Sigismond, Prince of Transylvania, 

 the revolt, from the Turks of Tran 

 sylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia 

 under, v. 66. 



Silk, a likely commodity in new plan 

 tations, i. 117. 



Silver, weight of, in water, vii. 219 ; 

 and tin, mixture of, vii. 191 ; mak 

 ing, v. 193 ; incorporates with cop 

 per, vii. 201 ; exportation of, vi. 61. 



Simon, the priest, imprisoned for life, 

 iii. 195. 



Simnell, personates Edward Planta- 

 genet, iii. 127 ; is taken to Ireland, 

 iii. 180; his entry into Dublin as 

 Edward VI., iii. 181 ; crowned in 

 Dublin, iii. 189 ; taken prisoner in 

 Newark, iii. 194; made a scullion 

 in the king s kitchen, iii. 195. 



Simonides s reply when asked what he 

 thought of God, i. 399. 



Simulation and dissimulation, essay of, 

 i. 17. 



Single life, marriage and, essay of, i. 

 23. 



Sister of giants or fame^, iii. 28. 



Situation, a fit situation necessary for 

 the greatness of a state, v. 313, 333 ; 

 excellent situation of Egypt, v. 334 ; 

 of Babylon, although the sovereign 

 ties alter, the seat of the monarch 

 remains there, v. 335 ; Alexander 

 the Great chose Babylon for his seat 

 v. 335 ; of Persia, v. 336; of Con 

 stantinople, v. 336. 



Skin, experiments touching the casting 

 of the, iv. 386. 



Skins, Chinese paint their, iv. 390. 



Skull, experiment touching, iv. 395. 



Slave trade, the beginning of Clarkson s 

 work on, v. [ix.] 



Sleep, experiment touching, iv. 393 ; 

 cold preventeth, iv. 393; great nou 

 rishment to bodies, iv. 394 ; some 



noises help, iv. 393 ; nourishment 

 of, iv. 35. 



Sleep all winter, touching creatures 

 that, iv. 484. 



Sleeps, postmeridian, iv. 36. 



Smell, preparations of artificial roses 

 for, vii. 228. 



Smells, touching sweet, iv. 438 ; cor 

 poreal substance of, iv. 439 ; expe 

 riment touching, iv. 192. 



Smith, Sir T. his accusation, vi. 274. 



Snakes have venomous teeth, iv. 396. 



Sneezing, experiment touching, iv. 357 ; 

 Guinea pepper causes, iv. 499. 



Snow, dissolves fastest upon the sea 

 coast, i. 331 ; secret warmth of, iv. 

 364. 



Snows, effect of lying long, iv. 345. 



Soccage, heir in, when he may reject the 

 guardian appointed by law, vii. 310. 



Society, aversion to, is like a savage 

 beast, i. 87 ; nature of, an impedi 

 ment to knowledge, i. 308. 



Socrates, ii. 105, 181, 188 ; excellent, 

 though deformed, i. 147; full of os 

 tentation, i. 176 ; his saying when 

 pronounced by the oracle the wisest 

 man of Greece, i. 400 ; his opinion 

 of Heraclitus the obscure, i. 401 ; 

 Cicero s complaint against, for sepa 

 rating philosophy and rhetoric, ii. 

 153 ; Hippias s dispute with, on his 

 sordid instances, ii. 104; the accu 

 sation against, was under the basest 

 of tyrants, ii. 22 ; his ironical doubt 

 ing to be avoided, ii. 50 ; Anytus s 

 accusation against, ii. 15 ; Plato s 

 comparison of, to gallipots, ii. 31. 



Soils, different for different trees, iv. 

 303 ; some p\it forth odorate herbs, 

 iv. 503. 



Soisson, Count, apophthegm of, i. 349. 



Soldiers, the fitness of every subject to 

 make a soldier, a point of true great 

 ness in a state, v. 313. 



Sole government of bishops, error of, 

 vii. 71. 



Solitude, saying respecting delight in, 

 i. 87 ; magna civitas, magna soli- 

 tudo, i. 87 ; a miserable solitude to 

 want true friends, i. 87. 



Solomon, said to have written a natural 

 history, i. 260 ; natural history by, 

 iv. 253 ; his saying respecting busi 

 ness, i. 172 ; his praising a just man 

 losing his cause, i. 180 ; his novelty, 

 i. 187; his parables, xiii. 140; his 

 observations on the mind of man, ii. 

 9 ; an example of wisdom, ii. 58 ; 

 humility of, ii. 58. 



