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INDEX. 



thority of iron over gold, v. 326 ; the 



reputation of their arms, v. 326. 

 Sylla, reformed the laws of Rome, v. 



356 ; his three singularities, v. 356 ; 



Cicero s attribute to him, v. 357 ; his 



friendship to Pompey, i. 89 ; his 



choice of a name, i. 137. 

 Sympathy of mind and body, ii. 157. 

 Sympathy and antipathy, secret virtue 



of, iv. 517, 524 ; of plants, iv. 228. 

 Sympathy, in different parts of the 



body, iv. 59 ; induration by, iv. 456. 

 Sympathy of men s spirits, iv. 534. 

 Syrens or pleasures, iii. 95. 

 Syrups, clarifying of, iv. 4. 



TACITUS, ii. 278 ; his observation on 

 Augustus Caesar, ii. 4 ; his observa 

 tion as to obscurity of learned men, 

 ii. 25 ; his account of Vibulenus the 

 actor, ii. 217; his wise opinion, ii. 

 134 ; his character of Nerva, ii. 65 ; 

 his exposition of the eastern prophecy 

 in Vespasian s time, i. 124 ; account 

 of Mucianus, i. 176; saying of, 

 changes, vii. 356. 



Tackling, a store of should be laid up 

 against time of need, vi. 430. 



Talbot, William, charge against, vi. 

 452 ; his offence, vi. 454. 



Talk, but a tinkling cymbal where there 

 is no love, i. 87. 



Taste, experiment touching the,iv. 358. 



Taxes and imports, several, one of the 

 internal points of separation with 

 Scotland, v. 31 ; considerations 

 touching them, v. 40. 



Taxes, people overlaid with, not va 

 liant, v. 101 ; levied by consent 

 abate men s courage less, v. 101. 



Teeth, on edge, iv. 90; snakes have 

 venemous, iv. 396 ; experiment 

 touching the tenderness of the, iv. 

 357 ; have sense, iv. 396 ; some 

 beast have no upper, iv. 396 ; expe 

 riment touching hard substances in 

 the bodies of living creatures and, iv. 

 394 ; marrow of, iv. 395. 



Telesius, touching cold, iv. 45. 



Tellus, representing base counsellors, 

 iii. 6. 



Tenison, Archbishop, his opinion of Sa- 

 pientia Veterum, iii. 6 ; his state 

 ment of the nature of the essays, 

 i. xvii ; his notice of the lives of the 

 Caesars, iii. 50 ; opinion of Playfair, 

 iii. 24, 31. 



Tensure, motion upon, iv. 6. 



Temperance, the virtue of prosperity, i. 

 16. 



Tenures, Low s case of, xiii. 269 ; not 

 regal only, vi. 29 ; no spur of honour, 

 vi. 29. 



Tenures and wards, speech on, vi. 26. 



Terebration of trees, iv. 222. 



Territory, greatness of too often as 

 cribed to largeness of, v. 313 ; large 

 countries often rather a burthen 

 than strength, v. 314 ; illustrated by 

 Alexander and the lloman empire, 

 v. 315 ; greatness of, when it adds 

 strength, v. 317. 



Tiberius, ii. 277, 181; iii. 27; his 

 death, i. 7 ; dissimulation attributed 

 to him by Livia, i. 17. 



Tiberius Caesar, his friendship for Se- 

 janus, i. 90 ; his prophecy of the em 

 pire to Galba, i. 124. 



Thales, as he looked on the stars, fell in 

 the water, saying thereon, i. 363 ; his 

 monopoly of olives, iv. 350. 



Themistocles, pertinent answer of, ii. 

 31 ; his saying respecting the diffe 

 rence between speech and thought, i. 

 92 ; his speech on being asked to 

 touch a lute, i. 98 ; made Xerxes 

 quit Greece by a false report, i. 196 ; 

 saying and reply of his, i. 356, 380, 

 392. 



Theodosius, saying of, vii. 251 ; his 

 answer to a suitor, i. 378. 



Theognes, his moral verses, xiii. 140. 



Thebes, invested by Phcebidas insidi 

 ously, v. 240 ; decrees on a war 

 even to the walls of Sparta, v. 241. 



Theology, natural, the contemplation of 

 God in his creatures, ii. 128. 



Theological tracts, vii. 1. 



Thomas, St., the largest heart of the 

 school divines, v. 250 ; his defini 

 tion of a just cause of war, v. 251 . 



Thorough lights in the world, ii. 115. 



Thorpe s case, observations upon, vii. 

 453. 



Thoughts, accord with inclination, i. 

 133 ; men who place their thoughts 

 without themselves not fortunate, i. 

 136. 



Thunder, the Grecians who first gave 

 the reason of it, condemned of im 

 piety, i. 315. 



Throne, supported by justice and 

 mercy, vi. 419. 



Thuanus, as to Pope Julius s coin, vi. 

 456. 



Ticinium, church at, in Italy, iv. 420. 



Tigranes, his speech respecting the 

 small number of the Roman army, i. 

 100. 



Tillage, encouragement of, vi. 434. 



