CONTENTS. 



Ctjapter iv. 



From his Fall to his Death .... ccclxxviii 



Imprisonment of Bacon. Liberation. Release of 

 fine. History of Henry VII. Greatness of states. 

 Familiar illustrations. His piety. Eton College. De 

 Augmentis. History of Life and Death. Importance of 

 knowledge of the body. Consumption. Vital spirit. 

 All bodies have a spirit. Flight. Death. Importance of 

 science of Animal Spirit. Bacon s works after his retire 

 ment. Gondomar. D Effiat. Sir Julius Coesar. Selden. 

 Ben Jonson. Meautys. Bacon s pardon. Death of 

 James. Decline of Bacon s health. Apothegms. Psalms. 

 Confession of Faith. Prayers. Student s prayer. 

 Author s prayer. Chancellor s prayer. Prayers in the 

 Instauration in the De Augmentis in the Novum 

 Organum in the Iristauratio, third part in the Minor 

 publications. Paradoxes. Letters. Scepticism, nature 

 of. Rawley s statement. Bacon s will. Cause of Bacon s 

 death. Bacon s last letter. Opening of Bacon s will. 

 Funeral. Monument. Meautys. Bacon s temperament. 

 Bacon s person. His mind. Extent of views. Senses. 

 Imagination. Understanding. Temporary inability to 

 acquire knowledge. Particular studies. Memory. 

 Composition. Causes of Bacon s entering active life. 

 Bacon s entrance into active life. His motive for reform. 

 Reformer. Bacon as a Lawyer Judge Patron 

 Statesman. Reform as Statesman and Lawyer as 

 Statesman. Reform of law. His private life. Conver 

 sation. Wit. Religious. Conclusion. 



