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INDEX TO THE LIFE. 



Church reform, Bacon s efforts to 

 promote, 140 ; see his tracts, 

 141. 



Church, Bacon s tracts upon the con 

 troversies of and the edification of, 

 141. 



Civil list, Bacon s attempt to reduce 

 the expenses of, 220. 



Clifton, Lord, his committal for threat 

 ening Bacon s life, 241 ; Bacon s 

 intercession for, see his letters to 

 Buckingham, note (6), 241. 



Cogitata et visa, a detached part of 

 the Novum Organum, 148 ; Sir T. 

 Bodley s opinion upon, 148. 



Coke, Sir Edward, Bacon s quarrel 

 with, see note, 143 ; Bacon s letter 

 to, upon the same subject, 143, 144 ; 

 his unfairness to Bacon, 145 ; Ba 

 con s reproof to, 145 ; his bitter 

 temper, and ill treatment of pri 

 soners, 145 ; see note (a), 1.55, and 

 note (c), 156, viz. of Sir W. Ra 

 leigh and Mrs. Turner ; his distaste 

 to philosophy, 147, see Novum Or 

 ganum ; Bacon s private conference 

 with, by order of the King, upon 

 the law of Peacham s case, 171 ; 

 his objection to a private conference 

 removed by Bacon, 172 ; his warmth 

 and haughtiness upon the dispute 

 between the Courts of King s Bench 

 and Chancery, 186 ; King James s 

 severe remarks upon, 186 ; his witty 

 and high-minded remark upon the 

 subject of church patronage, note, 

 199 ; his disgrace by Buckingham, 

 in consequence of refusing his alli 

 ance, 219; his application to be 

 restored to favour, and agreement to 

 Buckingham s marriage, 219. 



Coke, Sir Anthony, Bacon s father-in- 

 law, 1. 



Coleridge, his opinions upon the tem 

 perament of genius, and its adap 

 tability for contemplation rather than 

 action, note (b), 195. 

 College, Trinity, Bacon s admission 

 to, see Cambridge, 5 ; his magnifi 

 cent plan of a, 13, 14, 15. 

 Colours of Good and Evil, Bacon s 

 first work, published with the small 

 12mo. edition of Essays and Sacred 

 Meditations, 35. 



Committees to consider abuses, Bacon 

 sat upon twenty-nine, 107 ; for the 

 reform of abuses, 307. 

 Compactness and union, a requisite 

 to the greatness of a state, 116. 



Comparisons, table of, Bacon s mode 



of discovering truth, 287. 

 Compton, answer to the charge in the 



case of, 364. 



Conduct of the understanding in the 

 investigation of truth, 283. 



Conference, Bacon s, with King James 

 respecting the charge against him, 

 see extract from the journals of the 

 house of lords, 346. 



Confession of Bacon to the lords, an 

 swering the charges against him, 

 359. 



Constable, Sir J., Bacon s letter to, 

 dedicating the Essays to him, see 

 note, 153. 



Constituent instances, or separation of 

 complex into simple in the search 

 after a nature, 292. 



Contemplation and action, Bacon s 

 favourite theory upon the wisdom 

 of the union of, 61, 137. 



Contemplation, love of, extract from 

 Seneca upon the advantages and 

 comparative utility of, 193 ; the 

 union of, with action incompatible 

 with either the pursuits of the phi 

 losopher or politician, 194. 



Controversies of the church, Bacon s 

 tract upon, 141. 



Copulation, of the divisions of the art 

 of experimenting, 265. 



Counsel, the absurd identification of, 

 with his client, 53 ; the duty of a 

 judge to, 254. 



Court, the division of, during the reign 

 of Elizabeth, into the Leicester and 

 Cecil party, 25 ; its pedantry and 

 contempt for literature, 25. 



Court of Chancery. See Chancery. 



Court of King s Bench. See King s 

 Bench. 



Court of Chancery and Court of 

 King s Bench, dispute between, 

 respecting the jurisdiction of the 

 former, 186. 



Courts of justice, the wise constitution 

 of, 62. 



Credulity, hasty generalization the 

 parent of, 273. 



Cromwell, his taunt of Sir M. Hale 

 and his humble reply, 155. 



Crucial instances, 294. 



Custom, short extract from Bacon s 

 essay upon, 36. 



Customs, the gradual change of, and 

 the folly of, hasty censures of, acts 

 in obedience to, 173, 174. 



Cyphers, Bacon s work upon, 17. 



