INDEX TO THE LIFE. 



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Filum Labyrinth!, see Novum Orga- 

 num, Index. 



Fisher and Wrenham, Bacon s de 

 fence against the charge in, the 

 money being received after the de 

 cree, 362. 



Formation of opinion, fact the ground 

 work of, 283. 



Foster, J. his hasty censure upon Ba 

 con s conduct respecting Peacham s 

 case, 173 ; the justice of posterity 

 to, as compared with his hasty cen 

 sure of Bacon, 173. 



France, Bacon s tour to, under the 

 care of Sir Amias Paulet, 16; the 

 custom of receiving presents from 

 the suitors abolished by the Chan 

 cellor de I liupital in, 206 ; epices, 

 the origin of presents to the judges 

 in, 207 ; the custom of openly soli 

 citing the judges by the suitors, com 

 mon in, 209; custom of receiving 

 presents by judges in, 318. 



Friendship of Bacon to Essex, 51, 59 ; 

 Bacon s opinions upon, 88. 



Frontier instances, or observation of 

 such as are composed of two species, 

 293. 



Fuller, his opinion of the propriety of 

 gravity in a judge, note, 144. 



GENERALIZATION, hasty, the parent 

 of credulity, 273. 



Genius, Bacon s early indication of, 

 3 ; the peculiar temperament of, un 

 fit for action, note (6), 195. 



Gibbon, his disappointment with Ox 

 ford, 7. 



Gold, exportation of, by the Dutch 

 merchants, and Bacon s just con 

 duct respecting, 226. 



Gondornar, table of, upon the evils of 

 retirement from active life, 122 ; his 

 treaty of marriage with James, and 

 Bacon s wise counsels against, 218 ; 

 his character, 218. 



Government, the several requisites to, 

 strength of, 119; the absurdity of 

 supposing, dependent upon territory 

 and riches alone, 115, 117 ; extract 

 from Bacon s essay upon, 131. 



Gray s Inn, Bacon s admission to, 21 ; 

 Bacon s popularity with the society 

 of, 22 ; Bacon s improvement of, 

 23 ; Bacon s promotion to the bench 

 by the Society of, zet. 26, 23 ; Ba 

 con s letter to the Lord Treasurer 

 of, to be called to the bar, see note 

 (), 23. 



Greatness, of Britain, Bacon s work 

 upon, 114 ; of a state not dependent 

 upon extent of territory or riches, 

 1 15, 1 1 7 ; humility of true, see anec 

 dote of Napoleon, note (/&amp;gt;), 201. 



Great place, extract from Bacon s es 

 say upon, 191. 



Great seals delivered to Williams, 

 Racket s account of, 376. 



Greece, custom of receiving presents 

 in, by judges, 318. 



Grocers and apothecaries, presents by 

 the parties according to custom to 

 Bacon in a cause between, 238 ; 

 absurd charge of bribery against Ba 

 con in a cause between, see note(c), 

 238. 



HACKET, Bishop of Lichfield, Bacon s 

 friend and translator of his essays, 

 39 ; his Life of Williams, extract 

 from, upon the abstruseness of the 

 English law, and the nice distinc 

 tions between law and equity, 197 ; 

 his account of the humility of Arch 

 bishop Williams when taking his 

 seat as Lord Keeper, 213. 



Hale, Sir M., his humility and reply 

 to Cromwell, 155 ; his studious con 

 cealment of his j udicial opinions, 171, 

 253 ; his condemnation of a mother 

 and daughter for witchcraft as illus 

 trative of the gradual progress of 

 truth, and defensive of Bacon 174 ; 

 his avoidance of politics, 244 ; his 

 regulation of his passions as a judge, 

 245 ; his boldness as a judge, see his 

 sentence upon a soldier, 248 ; his in 

 difference to censure, 248 ; his gene 

 rosity, note (c), 249 ; the propriety 

 of his conduct to witnesses and pri 

 soners, 250 ; his amiable patience 

 upon interruption, 254 ; his im 

 partiality to counsel, 253. 



Hansbye, answer to the charge partly 

 admitting it, 364. 



Happiness resulting from learning, 130. 



Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, see an 

 ecdote of his private justice in note 

 (e), 249. 



Hatton, Lady, Bacon s proposal of 

 marriage to, 42. See note 3 N at 

 the end; letter of Essex s to her 

 friends respecting Bacon s proposals 

 to, 42. 



Hargrave, his opinion of Bacon s legal 

 powers, 44. 



Hawkins, Sir J., his remarks upon 

 Bacon s musical knowledge, 44. 



