INDEX TO THE LIFE. 



ABUSES, considered in the Commons 



in various committees, 106. 

 Address to the Lords by Bacon, 330, 



331,332. 



Advancement of Learning, Bacon s 

 tract upon duty in, 60 ; division of 

 the work, 125 ; passage from, on the 

 pleasure of knowledge, 379 ; see 

 Learning. 



Advantages, the several, of learning, 

 130. 



Affirmative table, Bacon s mode in the 

 search after truth, 285 ; Bacon s 

 plan of discovering truth, 269. 



Alienation office, posthumous tract by 

 Bacon upon, 43 ; valuable farm of, 

 granted to Bacon, 258. 



Alexander, story of, illustrative of the 

 paltriness of human affairs, 155. 



Ambition, Bacon and Burke s opinions 

 upon the nature of, and high honours, 

 195. 



Ambition, learning the destruction of, 

 common, 201 ; the paltriness and 

 selfishness of common, 201. 



Amendment of the law, Bacon s plan 

 for, 27. 



Analysis, of the distempers of learn 

 ing, see note, 131 ; of history, see 

 note, 133 ; of human philosophy, 

 see note, 134. 



Ancients, Wisdom of, Bacon s publica 

 tion, a species of parabolical poetry, 

 150 ; see Syren s extract from. 



Ancients, the high honours conferred 

 upon the authors of inventors, by, 

 note 193. 



Anecdotes of Bacon during the charge 

 of bribery, 329. 



Anthony Bacon, King James s regard 

 for, 109. 



Antipathy, medical, 275 ; of divines, 

 275; of politicians, 275; of sailors, 

 of lawyers, 275. 



Aphorisms, the favorite style of Bacon, 

 see Novurn Organum, and tract upon 

 universal justice, 123. 



Apology, Bacon s, characters of the 

 Queen and Essex as shown in, 45 ; 

 republication of Essex s, and his 

 trial for before the privy council, 66 ; 

 Essex s, Bacon s witty conversation 

 with Queen Elizabeth, showing her 



familiarity with the trial by torture, 

 note (c), 175. 



Apothecaries and grocers cause, answer 

 to charge of receiving presents, 367 ; 

 cause between, see Grocers. 



Aristotle, popularity of his philosophy 

 at Cambridge, 7 ; Bacon s aversion 

 to his philosophy, 8. 



Atlantis, see Bacon s magnificent plan 

 of a college in, 13, 14, 15. 



Atterbury, see extract from, upon the 

 contempt of censure in a judge, 247; 

 see independent conduct of Judge 

 Jenkins, 247. 



Attorney general, Bacon appointed, 

 1 54 ; Bacon s letters to the King and 

 Lord Salisbury respecting the ap 

 pointment of, see note (6), 154 ; 

 Bacon s fitness for the office, 154 ; 

 the eligibility of, to sit in parliament 

 discussed, 158. 



Aubrey, answer to the charge in the 

 case of, 364. 



Aubrey and Egerton charge Bacon 

 with bribery, 313. 



Aubrey and Bronker, presents to Ba 

 con by Counsel in the cause of and 

 decision against, 238 ; cause of, 

 absurd charge of bribery against 

 Bacon in, note (b), 238. 



Augmentis Scientiarum, Bacon s ob 

 servations upon cyphers in, 17. 



Autograph, Lord Bacon s, see note (c), 

 21. 



BACON, his tour to France and resi 

 dence in Poictiers, 17 ; his work 

 upon cyphers, 17 ; his meditations 

 upon the laws of sound and imagi 

 nation, see note 17; death of his 

 father, and its influence upon his 

 future life, 19; his aversion to the 

 study of law, the only road with 

 politics open to, 19; his letter to 

 Lord Burleigh, praying his recom 

 mendation to the Queen, see note 

 19 ; his letter to Lady Burleigh, 

 praying her influence with Lord 

 Burleigh to hasten his suit, see note 



20 ; his admission to (j ray s Inn, 



21 ; his perseverance in and works 

 upon the law, 21 ; his researches in 

 science not diverted by his prcfer&amp;gt;- 



