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con s letter to, to be called to the 

 Bar, see note (a), 23. 



Lords, dissatisfaction of, upon Bacon s 

 letter of submission, 354 ; the par 

 ticular charges against Bacon sent to 

 him by, and answers ordered, note (a), 

 355 ; Bacon s confession and hum 

 ble submission to, answering the 

 charges against him, 359 ; pass sen 

 tence upon Bacon, 372. 



Lumsden, Mr., trial of, see Hollis, 

 Sir J. 



MADDOX S account of presents to 

 judges in the reign of King John, 

 318. 



Manchester, Earl of, his observations 

 to Bacon after his fall, 329. 



Markham, Mr., Bacon s prosecution 

 of, in the Star Chamber, for sending 

 a challenge to Lord Darcy, 189. 



Market, idols of, warping the mind in 

 the search after truth, 274. 



Marriage, Bacon s unsuccessful pro 

 posals of, to Lady Hatton, 42, see 

 note 3 N at the end ; letter from 

 Essex to Lady Hatton s friends, in 

 favour of Bacon s proposals of, 42, 

 see note 3 N at the end ; King James 

 treaty of, with the wily Gondomar, 

 and Bacon s wise counsels against, 

 218; of Buckingham with the 

 daughter of Sir Edward Coke, 219. 



Martial valour, see valour. 



Maxima et minima, or extremes in 

 nature sought, 293. 



Minima et maxima, or extremes in 

 nature sought, 293. 



Meautys, Sir Thomas, his speech to 

 the House in favor of Bacon, see 

 note B, 325. 



Medical antipathy, see Hunter, note 

 (a) 275. 



Meditationes sacraa, first published 

 with the small 12mo. edition of es 

 says, 35 ; partly incorporated into 

 the subsequent editions of the essays 

 andtheAdvancementofLearning,41. 



Merchants, Dutch, Bacon s just con 

 duct upon the writs issued against, 

 for exporting gold, 226. 



Method, Bacon s aversion to, 124. 



Minute philosopher, see Philosopher. 



Michell and Mompesson, impeach 

 ment of, 308. 



Moderns, their superior advantages in 

 the discovery of truth, 136. 



Mompesson, Sir Giles, and Michell, 

 308 ; judgment against, 326. 



Monk, Bacon s defence against the 

 charge of bribery in, the money 

 being received after the decree, 

 361. 



Mountague, answer to the charge of, 

 364. 



Montesquieu, extract from, upon the 

 origin of the custom of presents to 

 the judges in France, 207. 



More, Sir Thomas, anecdote of, by 

 Bacon, upon his inflexibility to 

 bribery, 205 ; refusal of presents, 

 318. 



Mother, the great learning of Bacon s, 

 see note (a) 2. 



Motives in the search after truth, 277. 



Music, Bacon s acquaintance with the 

 principles of, 44. 



NAPOLEON, anecdote of, illustrating 

 the humility of true greatness, note 

 (/;), 201. 



Narrative, Bacon s, of the proceedings 

 against Essex before the Privy 

 Council, 71. 



Natural History, Bacon s observations 

 upon music in his, 44. 



Nature, Bacon s early enquiries into 

 the laws of, 9. 



Nature of the work, [see note (a), ar 

 rangement, 121], 120; style of, 

 121. 



Nature in motion, observation of, in 

 search after a cause, 290. 



Negative table, Bacon s plan of dis 

 covering truth, 269 ; Bacon s mode 

 in the search after truth, 286. 



New Atlantis, extract from, upon the 

 comparative merits of the statesman, 

 hero, and philosopher, engaged in 

 the impartial investigation of truth, 

 note, 193, 194. 



Novum Organum, Bacon s early de 

 sign of, 9 ; Bacon s doctrine in, 

 upon the discovery of truth, 62; 

 Bacon s perseverance in, during his 

 political and professional duties, 

 148 ; Temporis partus maximus 

 Filum Labyrinthi Cogitata et visa 

 detached parts of, collected and 

 arranged by Bacon when a youth, 

 148 ; Sir Edward Coke s comment 

 upon, 147 ; Bacon s abandonment 

 of the completion of, according to 

 his original design, 260 ; impressive 

 opening of, 265 ; outline of Bacon s 

 intended great work in, (see Divi 

 sion, 267), 266 ; preliminary review 

 in, of the barren state of learning, 



