246 The Advancement of Learning 



Time, the author of authors, 30; 

 devours his children, 31; as a 

 river, sinks things weighty, and 

 carries down what is light and 

 worthless, 32 



Timotheus, the Athenian, 187 



Topics, not deficiently handled, 129; 

 of two sorts, ib. ; the " particular " 

 ones commended, 129 



Tradition of knowledge, faulty, and 

 a hindrance to learning, 34; art 

 of, 136 



Trajan, though not learned, a patron 

 of learning, 44; nicknamed " wall- 

 flower " by Constantine, 49; how 

 praised by Pliny, 176 



Travels, much multiplied of late, 79 



Treacle, 115 



Tribonium, 215 



Trisagion of knowledge, 96 



Triumvirs, the, sold their friends to 

 one another, 203 



Trust and distrust slowly, if you will 

 make your fortune, 190 



Truth of being and of knowing are 

 one, 27; demands much severity 

 of investigation, 103, 104 



Tudor period of history, 75, 76 



Tumblers and rope-dancers can do 

 with the body what " memoria 

 tcchnica " enables men to do with 

 their minds, 136 



Turpilianus destroyed through Tigel- 

 linus' intrigues, 192 



Ulysses* judgment, 60 



Union of England and Scotland, 76 



Universal propositions in sciences, 



144 

 Universities to be cherished, 62; 



teach logic and rhetoric to minds 



not stored with subject-matter, 66; 



their exercises faulty, 67 

 Untruth in learning, 28 

 Urbanity too much considered, 180 



Valentine, Duke (Caesar Borgia), ip4 

 Valour, false, lies in the eyes of its 



beholders, 13 

 Varro, best of antiquaries, 14 

 Velleius, the epicvu-ean, 34; his 



question as to the ordering of stars 



by God, inconsistent with his 



principles, 133 



Verus, yElius (so. Ceionius Com- 



modus), patron of Martial, 46; 



L. Commodus (sc. Aurelius), a 



learned prince, ib. 

 Vibulenus, 152 

 Virgil prejudiced against learning, 9; 



best of poets, 14; quoted, 56; 



lines on Augustus, 57; got great 



glory by singing of humble 



matters, 154 

 Virtue, not to be undervalued, 196; 



is rewarded, 204 

 Visions, prophetic, 119 

 Visitors of colleges, etc., neglectful, 



65 

 Vitality, how to be increased, loi 

 Voluptuary arts floiurish most in a 



decaying state, 117 

 Vulcan, god of alchemists, 65, 90 



Whiteness, the causes of, 95 



Wisdom, an attribute of God, 36; 

 three kinds of, in civil life, 179, 

 181; true, compared with verbal, 

 185; prudence, best drawn from 

 history, 186; helps much towards 

 self- advancement, 187 



Witchcraft, the height of idolatry, 

 221 



Women judge by fortune rather than 

 excellence, 184 



Wonder, seed of knowledge, is broken 

 knowledge, 5 



Word of God, the, 209 



Words, images of matter, 24 ; tokens 

 of current notions of things, 126, 

 138; apt to impose on us, 134; of 

 others, not to be unnoted, if you 

 will build your fortune, 191 



World, the, wrongly judged to be an 

 image of God, 88 



Writing, art of, 135 



Xenophon, a general and scholar, 

 9, 54; adorned philosophy with 

 eloquence, 25 ; on the good effects 

 of love, 177 



Young men not fit auditors of ques- 

 tions of morals or policy, till their 

 good habits are formed, 174 



Zeno, 157 



