CHAPTER II.

From the publication of the Wisdom of the An-
cients to the publication of the Novum Or-
ganum.

Marshalsea. Charter House. Death of the
Prince. Essays. Prosecution of Lord San-
quhar. Confession of Faith. Attorney-Gene-
ral. Parliament of 1614. Duelling. Under-
takers. Benevolences. St. John. Peacham.
Consulting the Judges., Owen. Villiers.
Political advice to Villiers. Overbury.
Somerset. Disputes between King's Bench
and Chancery. Privy counsellor. Resig-
nation and death of Lord Brackley. Lord
Keeper. His pecuniary loss. Presents to
the monarch and officers of state. To the
Lord Keeper. To Judges. Abolition in
France of the Epices. King's journey to
Scotland. Takes his seat in Chancery. His
address. Jurisdiction. Patents. Delays.
Expense. Spanish match. Marriage of Sir
John Villiers. Finance. Civil list. Lord
Chancellor. Wrenham. Dulwich. Dutch
merchants. Lord Suffolk. Buckingham
receives £20,000 for the place of Lord Trea-
surer. Bacon's judicial exertions. Buck-
ingham's interference. Slander of Wrayn-
ham. Presents in the case of Egerton and
lgerton. In Aubrey and Bronker. From
grocers and apothecaries. Hody and Hody.
Lord Clifford threatens to assassinate the
Chancellor. Law reporters. Ordinances in
Chancery. Judges, character of. Gardens,
Bacon's delight in. Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Gorhambury. His philosophical house.
Alienation office. York house. His sixti-
eth birth-day. Ben Jonson's poem........ lviii

CHAPTER III.

From the publication of the Novum Organum to
his retirement from active life.

Resolution to publish Novum Organum. Liter-
ate experience. Division of Instauratio
Magna. Division of the Sciences. Novum
Organum. Our powers. Defects of the
senses. Division of Idols. Idols of the
Tribe of the Market: of the Den: of the
Theatre. Destruction of Idols. Our mo-
uves for acquiring knowledge. Obstacles to
acquiring knowledge. Want of time. Want
of means. Right road. Formation of opi-
Affirmative table. Negative table.
Table of comparisons. Table of results. In-

nion.

stances, solitary, travelling, journeying, con-
stituent, patent, maxima, frontier, singular,
divorced, deviating, crucial. Differences.
Parliamentary proceedings. Charge of bri-
bery. Decision against donors. Presents
advised by counsel. Custom of receiving
presents. Error of judging of past by pre-
sent times. Presents made by men of emi-
nence. Presents of furniture. Presents
customary. No influence on judgment.
Particular charges. Fears of the king and
Buckingham. Advice of Williams. Inter-
view with the king. Meeting of Parliament.
King's speech. Letter to the Lords. Let-
ter to the king. Sentence. His silence..
Letter from the tower. Letter to the king
Lambeth library. His will. Silence of
friends. Tennison. Bushel. Williams,
Lord Keeper...

CHAPTER IV.

From his Fall to his Death.

Imprisonment of Bacon. Liberation. Re-
lease of fine. History of Henry VII. Great-
ness of states. Familiar illustrations. His
piety. Eton College. De Augmentis. His-
tory of Life and Death. Importance of
knowledge of the body. Consumption.
Vital spirit. All bodies have a spirit. Flight.
Death. Importance of science of animal
spirit. Bacon's works after his retirement.
Gondomar. D'Effiat. Sir Julius Cæsar.
Selden. Ben Jonson. Meautys. Bacon's
pardon. Death of James. Decline of Ba-
con's health. Apophthegms. Psalms. Con-
fession of faith. Prayers. Student's prayer.
Author's prayer. Chancellor's prayer. Pray-
ers in the Instauration-in the De Aug-
mentis in the Novum Organum-in the
Instauratio, third part-in the minor pub
lications. Paradoxes. Letters. Skepti-
cism, nature of. Rawley's statement. Ba-
con's will. Cause of Bacon's death. Ba-
con's last letter. Opening of Bacon's will.
Funeral. Monument. Meautys. Bacon's
temperament. Bacon's person. His mind.
Extent of views. Senses. Imagination.
Understanding. Temporary inability to ac-
quire knowledge. Particular. Studies. Me-
mory. Composition. Causes of Bacon's
entering active life. Bacon's entrance into
active life. His motive for reform. Re-
former. Bacon as a lawyer-Judge-Pa

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