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INDEX TO THE LIFE. 



266 ; a treatise upon the conduct of 

 the understanding in the discovery 

 of truth, the second part of Bacon s 

 intended great work, 267 ; division 

 of the work, 269 ; extract from, 

 upon the idols of the den, 274 ; ex 

 tract from, upon the proper motives 

 in the investigation of truth, 277 ; 

 style of, 297 ; various editions and 

 translations of, see note B B B at the 

 end ; attainment of the right road 

 to truth the object of, 282 ; extract 

 from, upon eradication of idols, 335. 



OPINION, tenacity in retaining the 

 parent of prejudice, 273 ; formation 

 of, facts the groundwork of, 283. 



Overbury, Sir Thomas, trial of Weston 

 for the murder of, 182 ; trial of the 

 Earl and Countess of Somerset for 

 the murder of, 184. 



Oxford, Gibbon s opinion of, see note 

 (a), 7. 



PALEY. extract from, upon the inde 

 pendency of a judge, 245. 



Pan, table of, 279. 



Parentage of Bacon, 1. 



Parliament, Bacon s first speech in, 

 upon the improvement of the law, 

 at. 32, 27 ; Bacon s speech upon 

 the delay of the subsidies, 27 ; Ba 

 con s eloquence in, 28 ; Bacon s 

 brilliant career in, 44 ; 1599, Ba 

 con s exertions and frequent speeches 

 in, 44 ; Bacon s first session elected 

 for St. Alban s and Ipswich, 106; 

 1605, Bacon s exertions in, and 

 frequent speeches, 119 ; 1614, the 

 question as to the eligibility of the 

 attorney-general to sit in, discussed, 

 148 ; disturbances in, in conse 

 quence of certain rumours respect 

 ing a confederacy to control the 

 House, 161 ; Bacon s exertions in, 

 155 ; Bacon s powerful speech in, 

 respecting the absurdity of the al 

 leged confederacy to control the 

 House, 161, see outline in note; 

 dissolution of, in consequence of 

 the King s failure to procure sup 

 plies, 1614, 163 ; 1620, summoning 

 of, advised by Bacon to procure be 

 nevolences, 302 ; King s address to, 

 see note A, 305 ; adjourned, in the 

 hope of defeating the popular dis 

 content, 327; 1621, meeting of, 

 and allusion to the King s interview 

 with Bacon, 348. 



Party, division of the court into the 

 Cecil and Leicester, 25 ; Leicester, 

 Bacon s union with, 26. 



Passions, query as to the enquiry into 

 the nature of, 114. 



Patent for Dulwich College, Bacon s 

 stay of, from the conviction that 

 education was the best charity, 222. 



Patent and latent instances or ob 

 servations of extremes in the search 

 after a nature, 292. 



Patents, extract from Bacon s address 

 to the bar upon his intended caution 

 with respect to, 214 ; Bacon s con 

 scientious stay of, uninfluenced by 

 the King s poverty and Bucking 

 ham s power, 222 ; rapacious, con 

 trived by Buckingham, 306 ; re 

 called by the King, 326. 



Patience, the propriety of, in a good 

 judge, 250 ; amiable of Sir M. Hale, 

 upon interruption, 254. 



Patron, Bacon s fitness as a, for the 

 office of Chancellor, from his opi 

 nions upon his various duties, see 

 note (a), 199 ; Bacon s advice to 

 Yilliers upon the duties of a, 199 ; 

 Paley s opinions upon the duty of a, 

 202 ; Bacon s high conduct as a, 

 see his appointment of an old clergy 

 man and of the judges, 199, 200. 



Patronage, church, Bacon s opinions 

 upon the duties of, see his advice to 

 Villiers, 199 ; Bacon s honorable, 

 of an old clergyman, see his letter, 

 199 ; of merit by Bacon and other 

 great men of various ages, from their 

 sympathy with intellect and their 

 consciousness of the miseries re 

 sulting from ignorance, 201, 202 ; 

 Paley s opinion upon the moral duty 

 of impartial, note, 202 ; Sir Edward 

 Coke and Lord Chancellor Wrottes- 

 ley s opinions upon the subject of, 

 199. 



Peachum, proceedings against, an old 

 clergyman of 70, for certain treason 

 able passages in a sermon found in 

 his study, 169 ; preliminary exa 

 mination by torture to discover his 

 intentions, 169 ; letters of Bacon 

 concerning, to the King, 169, 170; 

 private conference, by order of the 

 King, with the judges, respecting 

 the law of his case, 171 ; Cham 

 berlain s account of his case, see 

 note (b), 177. 



Pensions, Bacon s endeavour to cur 

 tail, note (c), 221. 



