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version of air into, iv. 14 ; that it 

 may be the medium of sounds, iv. 

 418 j Methusalem s use of, vii. 229 ; 

 a great nourisher,iv. 302 ; Pindarus s 

 true parable, the best thing is water, 

 v. 356 ; goodness and choice of, iv. 

 193 ; Caesar s knowledge of digging 

 for, iv. 1. 



Water-cresses, friendly to life, iv. 174. 



Waters, colour of different, iv. 473 ; 

 metalline, iv. 53 ; sounds in, iv. 98. 



Watery vapours, drawn by wool and 

 cloves, iv. 49. 



Wax, mixture of dissolved, vii. 224. 



Weapons, vicissitudes in, i. 192. 



Weather-glass, contracting of air in the, 

 iv. 14. 



Weather, prognostics and signs of, iv. 

 350. 



Wedlock hinders men from great de 

 signs, iii. 35. 



Weeks, Jack, saying of his, i. 417. 



W eight, experiment touching, iv. 416 ; 

 separation of liquids by, iv. 7 ; air 

 and water, experiments made about, 

 vii. 220 ; separation of bodies by, iv. 

 7 ; increase of, in earth, iv. 392. 



Weights of bodies in water, uses to 

 which the knowledge of, applied, vii. 

 210 ; in water, experiments on, vii. 

 219. 



Welch judges, vi. 416. 



Wells on the sea shore, iv. 1. 



Wens and corns, how removed, iv. 531. 



Wentworth, Sir John, charge against, 

 for scandal, vi. 153. 



West Indies, cannibals in the, iv. 14. 



Weston, confession of, vi. 189. 



Whelps, time they are in the womb, iv. 

 400. 



Whey, mixture of, with oil of vitriol, 

 vii. 224. 



Whispering, interior sound, iv. 105. 



Whispering wall at Gloucester, iv. 

 89. 



Whitehead s answer to Queen Eliza 

 beth, i. 408. 



Whitelock, Mr., pardoned, vii. 386; 

 charge against, vii. 381. 



Whiteness, i. 6 ; directions to produce 

 it, i. 285 ; in snow or froth, how 

 formed, ii. 137 ; 



Wildfire, materials of, iv. 414. 



Wilford, Ralph, personates the Earl of 

 Warwick, iii. 363. 



Willymott, Dr., specimen of his trans 

 lation of the Latin edition of the 

 Essays, i. xxi. 



Winch, Sir Humphrey, vii. 264. 



Will of man, ii. 219 ; produces actions, 

 VOL. XIII. 



ii. 174 ; obedient, and admits medi 

 cines to alter it, i. 342. 



Winchester, Bishop of, Lord Bacon s 

 letter to, concerning his Essays, i. 

 xv. 



Wind, the healthfulness of the southern, 

 iv. 415 ; gathering of, for freshness, 

 iv. 410 : effect of, on plants, iv. 

 304. 



Wind furnace, its use in separating 

 metals, vii. 204. 



Winds, effect of, on men s bodies, iv. 

 189. 



Windsor, the alms knights of, opinion 

 of their institution, v. 378. 



Wine, experiment touching the correct 

 ing of, iv. 413 ; separates from wa 

 ter if strained through ivywood, iv. 

 3 ; spirits of, mixed with water, viii. 

 221 ; help or hurt of, moderately 

 used, iv. 384 ; for the spirits, vii. 

 227 ; against adverse melancholy, 

 vii. 227. 



W T ings of Icarus, vi. 251. 



Winter, touching creatures who sleep 

 all, iv. 484 ; effect on attractive pro 

 perties of different bodies, vii. 225. 



Winters, prognostics of hard, iv. 389. 



Wisdom and power, difference between, 

 apparent in the creation, ii. 54. 



Wisdom, an example of, ii. 58 ; divine, 

 ii. 53 ; true knowledge is, ii. 53. 



Wisdom of the ancients, vii. 2, 40 ; ii. 

 53 ; translation of, by Sir A. Gorges, 

 iii. 8 ; notice of, in Biographia Bri- 

 tannica, iii. 7. 



Wise, essay of seeming, i. 85 ; persons 

 that do little things very solemnly, i. 

 85 ; wise men ascribe their virtues to 

 fortune, i. 137 ; use studies, i. 167 ; 

 make more opportunities than they 

 find, i. 172. 



Wit, impediments in, may be wrought 

 out by fit studies, i. 148 ; its better 

 use, to make doubts clear, vi. 43 ; 

 one of its uses to make clear things 

 doubtful, vi. 43. 



Wits sharpened by mathematics, ii. 

 145. 



Witch, power of, afar off, iv. 512. 



Witchcraft not punishable by death, 

 vi. 91. 



Wives, i. 24 ; cruel examples of wives 

 of kings, i. 65. 



Womb, living creatures in the, iv. 398 ; 

 duration of creatures in the, iv. 400. 



Women, government by, vii. 141. 



Wonder, effect of, iv. 380. 



Wood, Thomas, his declaration, vi. 

 366. 



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