244 The Advancement of Learning 



Preaching, fostered by the Reforma- 

 tion, 24 



Predicaments, their use, 132 



Prediction and prenotion, arts refer- 

 ring to the connection between 

 body and mind, 106 



Prenotion, foundation to the art of 

 memory, 136 



Priesthood, of weight in empire, 58 



Princes, best seen into by watching 

 their natures, 192 



Proclus and the Platonists, 33 



Prometheus, his inventions, 123 



Protnus and condus in Roman house- 

 keeping, 159 



Prophecy, is divine history, 69, 80 



Proteus, 73 



Proverb (Spanish), 191 ; (Italian), 192 



Providence, history of, 80 



Proxenus, Xenophon's friend, 54 



Pygmalion's frenzy, 25 



Pythagoras based his philosophy on 

 numbers, 98; his praise of a con- 

 templative life, 157 



Pythagorean superstitions as to diet, 

 etc., 107 



Quickness of dispatch most useful 



for rising in the world, 183 

 Quirites, 52 



Rabbins, their labours in the law, 38 ; 



their interpretations to be re- 

 strained, 217 

 " Ragioni di stalo" 11 

 Ramus did well in reviving the rules 



of propositions, 144 

 Raven, the, his instinct, 124 

 Raymond, Lully, his false method, 



145 

 Readerships in sciences, 64 

 Reason, subordinate to divine truth, 



89 ; not yet enough enquired into, 



212 

 Reduction in logic, of two kinds, 



ostensive and ad absurdum, 130 

 Reformation, the, awakened learning 



and a classical style, 23, 41 

 Registers, 73 

 Religion, 107 



Remedies, much confused, 115 

 Republics, stirred by any wind, 171 

 Revelation, 209, 210 

 Reverence, a hindrance to learning, 



33 

 Rewards, a help to learning, 61 

 Rhetoric, 66; separated from philo- 

 sophy by Socrates, 106; engaged 

 on imaginative reason, 121; re- 



quires store of places (or topics), 

 128; discussed at length, 146; 

 defined, ib.; despised by Plato, 

 ib.] helps to keep the passions in 

 order, 148; compared with logic, 

 ib.; Aristotle's treatise thereon 

 discusses the affections, 171 



Rhetorical surprises, 87 



Romans, the, were professors of a 

 wisdom of business, 181; their 

 wisest men used to walk in the 

 forum giving advice to their fel- 

 low citizens, ib. 



Rome and Greece, the two exemplar 

 states, 75; under the six kings she 

 prepared ifor her greatness, 151 



Romulus, 75 



Sal lust, on royal fancies, 170; 

 censiu-es Pompey's reserved and 

 dark ways, 199 



Samuel, 125 



Saracens, foes to learning, 41 



Sarah, an image of natiaral reason, 

 209 



Saturn, planet of rest, 35 



Saviour, our, the great physician, 

 112; commends rhetorical prepa- 

 ration, 128 



Sayings, or brief speeches, appen- 

 dices to history, 81 



Scale or ladder of knowledge, 91 



Sceptic philosophers had good 

 grounds for becoming such, 126 



Schoolmasters held in little honour, 

 16 



Schoolmen, rudeness of their style, 

 24; held in contempt, ib.; their 

 degenerate or " vermiculate " 

 learning, 26; their useless sub- 

 tilty, ib.; drew from their own 

 minds, not from nature, 27; their 

 voluminous writings, 214 



Scornful, the, will not receive 

 correction, 185 



Scotland, history of, ill handled, 75 



Scriptures, the, a well of life, 214; 

 how interpreted, ib.; plentifully 

 expounded in England, 218 



Sculptor, the, compared with Nature, 

 176 



Scylla, a type of scholastic learning, 

 27 



Self-advancement, rules for, 188 sqq. 



Seneca governed wisely during 

 Nero's minority, 11, 19; on weak- 

 ness of character, 13; adorned 

 philosophy with eloquence, 25; 

 his subtilty of mind, 26; com- 



