INDEX TO THE LIFE. 



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Perpetuities, the celebrated case of, 

 argued by Bacon, 1599, at. 39, 43. 

 Philosopher, minute, extract from, 

 upon the merits of a life devoted to 

 the impartial search after truth, see 

 note, 193, 194 ; in his study com 

 pared to a judge upon the bench, 

 269. 



Philosophy, history, natural and ex 

 perimental, the groundwork of a 

 sound, 261 ; of Aristotle, popu 

 larity of, in the time of Bacon, at 

 Cambridge, 7 ; Bacon s contempt 

 of Aristotle s, 8 ; the pursuit of, 

 Bacon s ultimate object, 25, 26 ; 

 Bacon s opinion of the proper style 

 of, 124; natural, human, divine, 

 investigation of, in Bacon s Ad 

 vancement of Learning, 2 book, 133 ; 

 the superior utility and advantages of 

 a life of, as compared with other 

 pursuits, see note (d) 193, 194 ; 

 signs of false, 280 ; causes of the 

 errors of, 280 ; of Pythagoras, 

 founded upon superstition, 283. 

 Physicians, antipathy of, to improve 

 ment, see Hunter, note (a) 275. 

 Plan of a college, Bacon s magnifi 

 cent, 13, 14, 15. 

 Paulet, Sir Amias, Bacon s tour to 



France under the care of, 16. 

 Pleasures, extract from Bacon upon, 



150. 



Plutarch, extract from, upon the cus 

 tom of receiving presents from the 

 suitors at Athens, by authority of 

 law, 207. 

 Poetry, parabolical, Bacon s wisdom 



of the ancients a species of, 149. 

 Politician, speculations in the field of 

 contemplation frequently injurious 

 to the efforts of, 195 ; union of con 

 templation and action in the cha 

 racter of a, incompatible, 195; the 

 selfishness of the mere, 201 ; Ba 

 con s sacrifice as a judge to his 

 feelings as a, note (d) 223; the 

 character of, irreconcileable with 

 that of the impartial judge, 225. 

 Politicians, objections of, to learning, 

 127 ; antipathy of, to improvement, 

 275. 



Politics, Bacon s exertions in the field 

 of, 155 ; Burke s opinion upon the 

 impropriety of a judge s being con 

 nected with, 243, see note, Hale s 

 life, 244. 



Popular discontent, 102. 

 Portrait of Bacon, 17. 



Powder of sympathy, Kenelm Digby, 



284. 



Power, the tendency of, to deprave 

 ordinary minds, 155; its effect upon 

 a great mind, see instance, Sir M. 

 Hale, 155 ; worldly, contemptible 

 as compared to the advancement of 

 knowledge, 192. 



Prejudice, removal of, first division of 

 Bacon s Novum Organum, 269 ; 

 tenacity in retaining opinion the 

 parent of, 273. 



Prerogative instances, by which nature 

 sought may be most easily disco 

 vered, 290. 



Presents, the salary of chancellor 

 composed partly of, from the suitors, 

 202 ; custom of receiving, common 

 in the age of Bacon and his pre 

 decessors, 203, see note (c) ; letter to 

 Lord Burleigh from the Bishop of 

 Durham, 203, and note (a) 204, 

 extract from a manuscript in the 

 reign of Henry VI. ; by Bacon to 

 the Queen, according to custom 

 upon his application for the soli- 

 citorship, 203 ; anecdotes of Bacon 

 respecting his rejection of, note (6) 

 205 ; Sir T. More s inflexibility to, 

 note (b) 205 ; to the chancellor, the 

 custom common in the reign of 

 Henry VI., note (a) 204; the cus 

 tom of receiving from the suitors 

 common in all nations approaching 

 civilization, 206, see passage in Plu 

 tarch, Homer, Montesquieu, 206, 

 207 ; abolition of the custom of re 

 ceiving, by the Chancellor d 1 Ho- 

 pital in France, 206 ; to Bacon, 

 from the suitors, immediately upon 

 his appointment to the great seal, 

 209 ; to Bacon, according to cus 

 tom by the suitor s counsel, see 

 Wraynham s, Egerton s, Awbrey s, 

 Hody s, and the apothecaries causes, 

 237, 238, 239 ; advised by counsel, 

 316; custom to receive, 317; com 

 mon to all civilized governments, 

 318 ; to Lord Bacon, upon accept 

 ing the great seal, 319 ; notes as 

 to, 318, 319 ; furniture, &c. given 

 openly in the time of Bacon, 334 ; 

 given after judgment, 335. 

 Prisoners, Sir E. Coke s brutal treat 

 ment of, 145 ; Bacon s mildness to, 

 153. 



Privy Council, Essex s trial before, 

 upon the republication of his apo 

 logy, 66. 



