Index 



239 



Ezekiel on Pharaoh's arrogance, 187 



"Faber quisquefortunce suce," 187, 188 



Fabius Maximus would have carried 

 on his policy too long, 197 



Fable of Ixion, 12 ; of the giants, 84 

 of Jupiter attacked by the Gods 

 ib.; of the bringing up of Achilles 

 ib.; expounded, ib.; of the horse 

 leeches, 184; of the frogs, 202 

 invented as substitutes for histori- 

 cal examples, 280 



" Facta non verba,'' 183 



Faith, its objects, 219 



Fall of Man, 37, 177; of angels, ih. 



Fallacies, 131, 132 



Falsity in substance a great fault, 

 25 sqq. 



Fame, why created, 84 



Fantastical learning, 23 



Fascination, 119 



Fasting, retained under the Gospel, 

 108 



Felicity, what it is, determined by 

 Christianity, 158 



Final causes, their study misplaced 

 and misdirected, 96 



Fire, how generated in the West 

 Indies, 123 



Flattery, its grossness, 21; some 

 instances of it, 1-3, 61, 206, 208; 

 must be fine, if it is to succeed, 185 



Forms, essential, their discovery the 

 object of metaphysics, 94 



Forms of substances are infinite, 94 



Formulae, or set passages, fit for 

 different subjects in rhetoric, 150 



Fortune, good, hard to be borne 

 wisely, 170; men can fashion it, 

 187; may be too much despised, 

 %b.\ rules for making one's, 188 

 sqq.\ not an end worthy of man's 

 being, ib.; falls into some men's 

 laps, 202 



Fracastorius, 105 



Friends, caution in choosing, 184 



Frivolous learning, 23 



Fulfilments of prophecy, gradual, 80 



Fundamental truths, 213 



Galen and final causes, 97 



Gallus, 190 



Games, a part of civil life, 117 



Geometry, 99 



Germanicus and Drusus, 190 



Gestures stand instead of speech, 137 



Gilbert, on the magnet, 33; revived 



the views of Xenophanes, 105 

 God, His secret things not to be 



reached by the senses, 6; His 

 word and His work both to be 

 studied, 7; His power and wisdom, 

 36; His providence not impeached, 

 98; to be imitated in His goodness 

 and love, 177; His providence 

 controls and changes evil counsels, 

 204; demands one-tenth of our 

 substance, and one-seventh of our 

 time, ib.; sees all things clearly, 

 206 



Godliness ranks before fortune, 205 



Gold, the attempt to make it has 

 caused many inventions, 30 



Gonsalvo's speech to his soldiers, 158 



Good, nature of, 154; is either pri- 

 vate or relative, 156; active or 

 passive, 159 ; that of the mind and 

 that of the body are analogous, 178 



Good-nature and its contrary, 169 



Gordianus the younger, 11 



Government, carried on by acting 

 on men's affections, 172; moves 

 slowly, 179 ; a secret part of know- 

 ledge, 205 ; of the Church, 220 



Grammar, produced by the require- 

 ments of speech, 138 



Greece and Rome, exemplar states, 

 75 



Gregory, St., his hostility against 

 learning, 40; his prayers for 

 Trajan's soul, 45 



Guise, Henry, Duke of, his ambition, 

 51 



Habituation, discussed, 173; pre- 

 cepts for, 174 sqq. 



Hannibal thought little of Phormio's 

 views on war, 163 



Happiness, its nature, etc., deter- 

 mined by Christianity, 157 ; not to 

 be so pursued as to destroy mag- 

 nanimity, 162 



Heathenism has no fixed belief, 210; 

 is like an idol, soulless, 219 



Heliogabalus, 47 



Henry VII., reign of, 76 



Henry VIII., reign of, 76 



Hephaestion, Alexander's friend, 51 



Heraclitus, the profound, 7; his 

 censure of intellectualists, 33 



Hercules despised Adonis' image, 25 ; 

 his pillars, 61 



Heresies, 221 



Herillus, wherein he placed happi- 

 ness, 157 



Hermes Trismegistus, 3 



Hermogenes, the rhetorician, 24 



Herodicus and Aristotle, 158 



