INDEX TO THE LIFE. 



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editions of, 38, 41 ; translations of, 



39 ; spurious posthumous, 41 ; Du- 

 gald Stewart s opinion of Bacon s, 



40 ; extracts from, 35, 38. 

 Essex, Bacon s affection for, 25 ; cha 

 racter of, 25 ; his earnest solicita 

 tion, for Bacon s appointment as 

 solicitor, with the Queen, 31 ; his 

 letter to Lord Keeper Puckering, 

 upon his opposition to Bacon res 

 pecting the solicitorship, 31 ; letter 

 from, at Plymouth, to the Court, 

 in behalf of Bacon, 36 ; cha 

 racter of, as shown in Bacon s apo 

 logy, 45 ; letter from, to Lady Hat- 

 ton s friends in favour of Bacon s 

 proposals of marriage, 42 ; his re 

 turn from Ireland, and the Queen s 

 reception of him, 50 ; his confine 

 ment to his chamber by order of the 

 Queen, 51 ; his committal to York 

 House, 51 ; Bacon s advice to, in 

 his confinement, 53 ; Bacon s steady 

 friendship to, 51, 59; private pro 

 ceedings against, by declaration in 

 Star Chamber, 54 ; his removal to 

 his own house in custody of Sir 

 Richard Barkley, 55 ; public pro 

 ceedings against, see Star Chamber ; 

 Bacon chosen counsel against, 59 ; 

 his trial before the privy council, 

 upon the republication of his apo 

 logy, anno 1600, see note 4 C at the 

 end, for a full account, 66 ; Bacon 

 chosen counsel against and his secret 

 friendliness to, 67, 68 ; his artful 

 and submissive conduct upon his 

 trial, 68 ; his sentence and impri 

 sonment in his own house, 69 ; the 

 Queen s affections for, 70 ; the in 

 judicious conduct of his partizans 

 respecting his creation of knights in 

 Ireland, 75 ; his submissive reply to 

 the Queen s letter upon the creation 

 of knights in Ireland, 76; his par 

 tial liberation by the Queen s order, 

 76 ; his entreaty to retire to Read 

 ing, 76; his submissive letters to 

 the Queen, see notes, 77, 78 ; his 

 restoration to liberty by the Queen, 

 with an order not to approach the 

 court, 82 ; his fawning letter to the 

 Queen for the renewal of the patent 

 for sweet wines, 83 ; his violence 

 and satirical remarks upon the 

 Queen, in consequence of the re 

 fusal of his suit, 85 ; the Queen s 

 total alienation from, in consequence, 

 and displeasure with Bacon upon 



his attempt to reconcile her to, 85, 

 86 ; his treasonable correspondence 

 with Ireland, and conspiracy to 

 seize the Queen, 87 ; his seizure of 

 the Queen s deputation of the offi 

 cers of state, and open rebellion, 88 ; 

 his seizure and committal to the 

 Tower, 88 ; Bacon s alienation from, 

 in consequence of his treachery to 

 the Queen, 89 ; his trial with the Earl 

 of Southampton, see note 4 E at the 

 end, for an account of the trial, 90 ; 

 his treachery to Bacon as to the 

 letters composed for him to the 

 Queen, 91 ; Bacon s attempts to 

 obtain a remission of the sentence 

 upon, 92 ; his execution, 92 ; the 

 effect of his conduct upon the 

 Queen, 94. 



Evidence, the modern law of, with 

 respect to interest, illustrative of the 

 injustice of hasty censure, 174. 

 Examination of witnesses against Ba 

 con, 323. 

 Exclusion of irrelevants in search after 



a nature, 290. 

 Exclusions, table of Bacon s mode of 



discovering, 288. 



Experience, literate, Bacon s comple 

 tion of the tract upon, one of the 

 divisions of the Art of Invention, 

 261 ; production, inversion, trans 

 lation, variation, &c., divisions of 

 the Art of Experimenting, 263, 264, 

 265. 



Extract of a letter from Digby to Fer- 

 mat describing Bacon s indifference 

 to the charge of bribery, 314 ; from 

 Novum Organum, as to idols, 335 ; 

 from Bacon, his simple and beau 

 tiful illustrations, 123. 

 Extremes, observations of nature sought 

 in, 293. 



FACTS, consideration of, upon both 

 sides, second division of Novum 

 Organum, see affirmative and nega 

 tive table, 269 ; mode of presenting 

 to the senses, third division of the 

 Novum Organum, 270 ; the basis 

 of sound reasoning, 283 ; collection 

 of, the first step in the discovery of 

 truth, 283 ; see affirmative and ne 

 gative table, 269. 



Fame, Burke s contempt for, the com 

 mon notion of, note (a), 195. 



Father, the high character of Bacon s, 

 1 ; death of Bacon s, its influence 

 upon his future life, 19. 



