Sepulchre, flies get durable in amber, ii. 24. Serjeants, care in making, ii. 379.
Small, trivial things, the consideration of not below the dignity of the human mind, ii. 559.
Sermones fideles, the title of the Latin edition of the Smell, preparations of artificial roses for, ii. 466. Essays, i. 5.
Serpent, meditations on the wisdom of, i. 67. Severus, his death, i. 12; his friendship for Plantianus, i. 34; his character, i. 48; saying of him, i. 113; Rome governed by, i. 165.
Seven wise men of Greece, anecdotes of them, i. 119.
Sewers, suit for the commission of, ii. 485.
Sexes, different in plants, ii. 81.
Sextus V., Pope, character of, ii. 212.
Sextus Quintus, a learned pope, who excelled in go- vernment, i. 165.
Shadows, experiment touching, ii. 121.
Shame causeth blushing, ii. 96.
Shaw, specimen of his translation of the Latin edition of the Essays, i. 6.
Shell, experiment touching the casting of, in some creatures, ii. 98.
Shellfish, touching, ii. 120.
Sheen Palace, burning of, i. 368.
Sheep, Cato's saying of, ii. 270; nature of, ii. 102. Sheriffs of counties, choice of, ii. 379; their attendance upon the judges a civility, and of use, ii. 379. Shipbuilding, art of, in England, ii. 383. Shot, the effect of, on powder, ii. 8. Showers, when they do good, ii. 87. Sextus Quintus, feigned tale of, i. 112.
Sibylla, burning two, doubled the price of the other book, i. 77.
Sickness, Dr. Johnson's opinion of the three things material in, i. 122.
Sicknesses, winter and summer, ii. 57.
Sight, experiment touching the, ii. 119; cause of dim- ness in the, ii. 91.
Sigismond, Prince of Transylvania, the revolt, from the Turks of Transylvania, Wallachia, and Molda- via under, ii. 156.
Silk, a likely commodity in new plantations, i. 41. Silver, weight of in water, ii. 464; and tin, mixture of, ii. 456; making, ii. 457; incorporates with cop- per, ii. 459; exportation of, ii. 283.
Simon, the priest, imprisoned for life, i. 325. Simnell, personates Edward Plantagenet, i. 320; is taken to Ireland, i. 321; his entry into Dublin as Edward VI., i. 321; crowned in Dublin, i. 323; taken prisoner in Newark, i. 325; made a scullion in the king's kitchen, i. 325.
Smells, touching sweet, ii. 112; corporeal substance of, ii. 112; experiment touching, ii. 58. Smith, Sir T., his accusation, ii. 341. Snakes have venomous teeth, ii. 101. Sneezing, experiment touching, ii. 90; Guinea pepper causes, ii. 127.
Snow, dissolves fastest upon the sea-coast, i. 102; se- cret warmth of, ii. 92.
Snows, effect of lying long, ii. 87.
Soccage, heir in, when he may reject the guardian ap- pointed by law, ii. 489.
Society, aversion to, is like a savage beast, i. 33; na- ture of, an impediment to knowledge, i. 95. Socrates, i. 188, 208, 210; excellent, though deformed, i. 49; full of ostentation, i. 57; his saying when pronounced by the oracle the wisest man of Greece, i. 120; his opinion of Heraclitus the obscure, i. 120; Cicero's complaint against, for separating philosophy and rhetoric, i. 201; Hippias's dispute with, on his sordid instances, i. 188; the accusation against, was under the basest of tyrants, i. 166; his ironical doubting to be avoided, i. 174; Anytus's accusation against, i. 164; Plato's comparison of, to gallipots, i. 168.
Soils, different for different trees, ii. 87; some put forth odorate herbs, ii. 128.
Soisson, Count, apophthegm of, i. 107. Soldiers, the fitness of every subject to make a soldier, a point of true greatness in a state, ii. 223. Sole government of bishops, error of, ii. 423. Solitude, saying respecting delight in, i. 33; magna
civitas, magna solitudo, i. 33; a miserable solitude to want true friends, i. 33. Solomon, said to have written a natural history, i. 82; natural history by, ii. 74; his saying respecting business, i. 56; his praising a just man losing his cause, i. 58; his novelty, i. 60; his parables, iii. 222 ; his observations on the mind of man, i. 162; an example of wisdom, i. 176; humility of, i. 176. Solomon's house, plan to erect one, as modelled in the New Atlantis, ii. 463.
Solon, his answer as to the best laws, i. 167; answers of his, i. 113, 118, 120, 125; his speech to Croesus, i. 37; his laws spoken of in grammar-schools, ii. 231, 234; had a spirit of reviver, though often op- pressed, often restored, ii. 234; his answer to Cro- sus's showing his riches, ii. 157, 225.
Simonides's reply when asked what he thought of Solution of metals, qualities of metals should be as- God, i. 120.
Simulation and dissimulation, essay of, i. 14. Single life, marriage and, essay of, i. 16.
Sirens, or pleasures, i. 312.
Sister of giants, or fame, i. 294.
Situation, a fit situation necessary for the greatness of a state, ii. 222, 228; excellent situation of Egypt, ii. 228; of Babylon, although the sovereignties alter, the seat of the monarch remains there, ii. 228; Alexander the Great chose Babylon for his seat, ii. 228; of Persia, ii. 229; of Constantinople, ii. 229.
Skin, experiments touching the casting of the, ii. 98. Skins, Chinese paint their, ii. 99. Skull, experiment touching, ii. 101. Sleep, experiment touching, ii. 100; cold preventeth, ii. 100; great nourishment to bodies, ii. 100; some noises help, ii. 100; nourishment of, ii. 16. Sleep all winter, touching creatures that, ii. 123. Sleeps, post-meridian, ii. 16.
Somerset, heads of the charge against Robert, Earl of, ii. 516; respecting Sir Francis Bacon's manage- ment in the case of his arraignment, ii. 516; letter to the king about, ii. 326; letter from Sir T. Over- bury, ii. 509; charge against, ii. 321; his case, questions for the judges in, ii. 516; questions for the king's council in, ii. 516; his business and charge, with his majesty's apostyles, ii. 517; his examination, letter to the king about, ii. 331. Somerset, Frances, Countess of, charge against, ii. 315; charge against, for poisoning Sir T. Overbu- ry, ii. 318.
Soothsayer, Egyptian, worked upon Antonius's mind, ii. 129.
its generation and the first percussion, iii. 535;| whether its form is any local and perceptible motion of the air, iii. 535; three experiments wherein sound is generated contrarily to the perceptible mo- tion of the air, iii. 536; is generated by percus- sions, iii. 536; air required for its generation, iii. 536; whether flame would suffice instead of air, iii. 536; lasting of, and its perishing, iii. 537; confusion and perturbations of sounds, iii. 537; compared with light, why many visibles seen at once do not confound one another, and many sounds heard at once do, iii. 537; of the variety of bodies yielding it, instruments producing it, iii. 540 ; species of sounds, iii. 540; circumstances regulating the pitch in various sonorous bodies, iii. 540; multiplication, majoration, diminution, and fraction of, iii. 540; time in which its generation, extinction, and transmission, are effected, iii. 543; less quick- ly transmitted than light, iii. 543; of its affinity with the motion of the air in which it is carried, iii. 543; aids and impediments of, stay of, iii. 538; diversity of mediums of, iii. 538; and hearing, history and first inquisition of, iii. 535; commu- nion of the air percussed with the ambient air and bodies, iii. 544; penetration of, iii. 538; whether heard under water, iii. 538; whether it can be generated except there be air between the percuss- ing and percussed body, iii. 538; carriage, direc- tion, and spreading of the area it fills, iii. 539; com- pared with light, the former may be conveyed in curved lines, iii. 539.
Sounds, water may be the medium of, ii. 107; passage and interception of, ii. 37; mixture of, ii. 38; ma- joration of, ii. 31; the motion of, ii. 36; how the figure through which sounds pass vary the, ii. 38; melioration of, ii. 39; spiritual and fine nature of, ii. 44; do not make impressions on air, ii. 44; the reflection of, ii. 40; generation and perishing of, ii. 44; antipathy or sympathy of, ii. 43; imitation of, ii. 39; causes of variation in, ii. 38; conserva- tion and dilatation of, ii. 28; nullity and entity of, ii. 26; exility and damps of, ii. 29; dilatation of, ii. 29; created without air, ii. 29; carriage of, to distance, ii. 32; quality and inequality of, ii. 32; communication of, ii. 32; loudness or softness of, ii. 32; go farthest in the forelines, ii. 36; the medium of, ii. 37; lasting and perishing of, ii. 36; in inanimate bodies, ii. 35; exterior and interior, ii. 34; in waters, ii. 33; different sorts of, ii. 24; strange secret in, ii. 35; and air, ii. 28; motion of, ii. 28; cause of, ii. 8; cold weather best for, ii. 39. Southampton, Earl of, his examination after his arraignment, ii. 373; confession of, ii. 352. Southern wind, healthfulness of the, ii. 106. Sovereignty, of the king's, ii. 276. Spalato, Archbishop, Bishop Andrews's opinion of him, i. 121.
Spaniards, il success of their encounters with the English, ii. 200, 207; their attacks upon England, ii. 206; where they once get in they will seldom be got out, an erroneous observation, ii. 200, 213; seem wiser than they are, i. 33; do not naturalize liberally, i. 37; proud, and therefore dilatory, ii. 195; their ill successes, ii. 200. Spain, alliance with, no security against its ambition, ii. 214; speech of a counsellor of state to the king of, ii. 214; Queen Elizabeth's subjects refuge in, and conspire against her person, ii. 215; report on the grievances of the merchants of, ii. 193; notes of a speech concerning a war with, ii. 199; considerations touching a war with, ii. 201; com-
parison of the state of England and Spain in 1588, ii. 212; king of, endeavours to alienate the King of Scotland from Queen Elizabeth, ii. 216; solicits an English nobleman to rise against her, ii. 216; endeavours to take her life by violence of poison, ii. 216.
Sparta, jealous of imparting naturalization to their confederates, ii. 155; the evil effects of it, ii. 155; the surprise of Thebes by Phoebidas drew a war to the walls of, ii. 202.
Spartan boys, their fortitude, i. 105. Spartans, of small despatch, i. 32; their dislike of naturalization the cause of their fall, i. 37; their state wholly framed for arms, i. 38; their forti- tude, i. 46.
Species, visible, experiment touching, ii. 102. Speculum regale, work touching the death of the king, ii. 510.
Speech, length and ornament of, to be read for persua- sion of multitudes, not for information of kings, ii. 142; must be either sweet or short, ii. 486; arts of, university lectures on, advice to raise the pension out of the Sutton Estate, ii. 241; in the Star Chamber against Sir H. Yelverton, ii. 525; on grievances of commons, ii. 272; to Sir William Jones, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, ii. 476; on taking place in chancery, ii. 471; to Justice Hut- ton, ii. 478; to Sir J. Denham, on his being made Baron of the Exchequer, ii. 477.
Speeches, hurt done to men by their, i. 24; long speeches not fit for despatch, i. 32; differences be- tween speech and thought, i. 34; of a man's self ought to be but seldom, i. 40; better to deal by speeches than letter, i. 53; the three forms of speaking which are the style of imposture, i. 70; notes of, on a war with Spain, ii. 199; on the nato- ralization of the Scotch, ii. 150; on the union of laws with Scotland, ii. 158; on the post-nati of Soot- land, ii. 166; drawn up for the Earl of Essex, ii. 533. Spencer, Hugh, his banishment, and the doctrine of the homage due to the crown then expressed, ii. 178.
Statement, legitimate mode of, iii. 534 Sphynx, or science, i. 309. Spiders, the poison of great, ii. 318; and flies get a sepulchre in amber, iv. 66.
Spirit, of wine, with water, ii. 465; concerning the mode of expansion of matter in, ii. 369; of the earth, i. 311; of man and of nature, how differing, i. 211.
Spirits, wine for the, ii. 466; bracelets to comfort, ü.
132; medicines that relieve the, ii. 99; transmission of, ii. 124; emission of, in vapour, ii. 126, flight of, upon odious objects, ii. 107; evacuation of, ti. 92; next to God, i. 175.
Sponge and water, weight of, ii. 464. Sponges, the growth of, ii. 94.
Spots of grease, how to take out, ii. 22. Sprat's notice of Bacon, i. 278. Springs, where generated, i. 10; their powerful qualities, ii. 462; on high hills the best, ii. 58. Sprouting of metals, ii. 461, 462.
St. John, Mr. Oliver, charge against, for slander, ii. 303.
St. Paul, speech of himself and his calling, i. 57; the use of his learning, i. 176; his admonition against vain philosophy, i. 163.
Stag, bone sometimes in the heart of a, ii. 101. Stage, allusion to the writers for, in Queen Elis- beth's time, ii. 307; beholden to love, i. Is Stanching of blood, experiment on, ii. 18
Stanford, Sir William, reports of, ii. 502.
Star Chamber, against levying damages, ii. 513; speech in the, ii. 475; decree again.st duels, ii. 300; forfeitures of the, ii. 388; its severity in suppressing force and fraud, ii. 253; formalities in, ii. 343. Star, what is meant by the opinion that it is the denser part of its own sphere, ii. 584. Stars, their beams have no heat, i. 100; old ones, not true that they are not subject to change, ii. 582; question respecting the substance of, ii. 585; whe- ther kept alive by sustentation, ii. 587; whether increased or lessened, generated, extinguished, ii. 587; whether, during long lapses of ages, stars are produced and decomposed, ii. 586; should be in- quired whether give light of themselves, or whether received from the sun, ii. 586; whether that be the true number of them which is visible, ii. 588; what are the real dimensions of each star, ii. 588; what data there are for determining them, ii. 588; true distances of, for determining, if possible, if not comparative should be ascertained, ii. 689. Statute, reading on the, iii. 295. Statesmen, government most prosperous under learn- ed, i. 165: the greatest have not only seemed but been religious, i. 70; those who ascribe all things to their own cunning have been counterfeit, i. 71. State of Europe, i. 282; maxims in, that all countries of new acquest till settled are rather matters of burden than strength, ii. 212; the just estimate of the power of a state subject to error, and that error subject to perilous consequences, ii. 222; greatness of, ii. 222, 228; (see Greatness;) con- tained in the two words, præmium and pœna, ii. 189.
States, embassies to foreign, ii. 382. Statue, metal, ii. 456.
Stature and growth, acceleration of, ii. 53. Statute of Carlisle, ii, 506.
Statutes, accumulation of, create uncertainty in law, ii. 231; the reformation of, consists of four parts, ii. 233; suggestion for the reform and recompiling of, ii. 233; for repeal of, touching Scotland whilst the kingdoms stood severed, ii. 233.
Stephen's remarks on the publication of the apoph- thegms, i. 10.
Stercoration, help of ground, ii. 79.
Studies, set hours proper for, not agreeable, i. 45; essay on, 55; their use, i. 55; they teach not their own use, i. 55.
Studies of learned men, discredit to learned from, i. 166 Study, mode of, adopted by Queen Elizabeth, i. 179. Stutting, experiment touching ii. 57. Style of the king, suggestions relating to, ii. 145. Style of religious controversy, ii. 413. Style of delivery, i. 214.
Style, not to be neglected in philosophy, i. 170. Styptic to stay fluxes, ii. 467. Styx, or league, i. 289; to swear by the sacrament of the ancients, i. 289.
Suarez, his treasonable letter, ii. 390. Sublimation of metals, ii. 461, 462. Subsidies, statutes of, ii. 280. Subsidy, speech on the motion of a, ii. 286. Substances, hard ones in the bodies of living creatures, ji. 100.
Subdivision of labours, its produce on the mind, i. 86. Subordinate magistrates, ii. 293. Succession to the crown, instances where they were not declared, ii. 251. Succession, hereditary, ii. 424. Suckling, Sir John, ii. 526. Suffocations, the most dangerous diseases in the body, and also in the mind, i. 33. Sugar, where found, ii. 82; experiment touching, ii. 116; with oil of almonds, ii. 466. Suggestion and preparation, i. 209. Suit, demurrers for discharging the, ii. 482; pleas for discharging, ii. 482.
Suitors, to a minister, advice how to behave towards, ii. 376; essay on, i. 54; different motives for under- taking suits, i. 54; in the courts of chancery, ii. 472. Suits, what sort of, dismissed, ii. 480; injunctions for stay of, ii. 482; commission of, advice to the king for reviving, ii. 520; on commissions for charitable uses, ii. 485.
Sulphur, salt, and mercury, separation of, ii. 460. Sulphur and mercury, experiments on, ii. 53; and salt, history of, iii. 466.
Sulpitius Galba's persuasions for the Romans to war with the late Philip, King of Macedon, ii. 204. Summer, great droughts in, ii. 109. Summary philosophy, its principles, i. 196.
Steward, Dr., letter concerning, from Buckingham to Sun, magnetical of moisture, ii. 19; hotter when be-
Lord Chancellor Bacon, ii. 525.
Stillicides of water, ii. 10.
Stillatories, compression of vapours in, ii. 10. Stilpo, saying of him, i. 120.
Stoborus's apophthegms draw much dregs, i. 107. Stoics, their bravery in seeking to extinguish anger, ii. 59.
Stomach, the nature of appetite in the, ii. 112; a secret for the, ii. 472; a manus Christi, for the, ii. 470.
Stone, in man's body, ii. 463; in a toad's head, ii. 463; elder flowers proper for the, ii. 91; herbs which grow out of. ii. 76; receipt for cure of, ii. 470; weight of, in water, ii. 464; exudation of some are diamonds, ii. 7.
Stores of tackling, laying up, ii. 383. Straining water, duference where the water rises or falls, ii. 7.
Strawberries, how to accelerate the growth of, ii. 60. String-metal, ii. 456.
Strings, sounds of different, ii. 32; tones of different sizes of, ii. 33.
Strumpet, matter is like a common, ii. 109.
tween clouds than in the open sky, i. 100; pheno mena in the year 790, and after the death of Julius Cæsar, ii. 582.
Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon, their relative situations doubted by the ancients, ii. 579. Sunbeams, heat by reflection, i. 101; collection of, multiplies heat, i. 101; their effect, i. 101. Superfotation, how it comes, ii. 75. Superficial learning, conceit of, i. 182. Supernatation of bodies, ii. 107. Superflexion of echoes, ii. 107. Superstition, its effect, i. 46; as powerful as custom, i. 46; great opponent to natural philosophy, i. 97: essay of, i. 25.
Superstitions and natural causes, i. 188. Superstitious divination, i. 206. Suplicavit, upon what granted, ii. 484. Supply, speech concerning the king's, ii. 281. Surplice, ii. 426.
Susa, the winter parlour of the King of Persia, 11. 228. Suspicion, essay on, i. 40; ignorance, its cause, i. 40. Sutton, Mr., advice to the king touching his estate de-
vised for founding the Charter House, ii. 239; his hospital, ii. 463
Sweat, experiments touching, ii. 95; putrefied smell of, Thales, as he looked on the stars, fell in the water, ii. 126; use of restraining, ii. 16.
Sweating sickness, i. 317.
saying thereon, i. 111; his theory that water is the prime element. i. 438; his monopoly of olives, 1. 89.
Sweats, of different men, ii. 8; cold often mortal, ii. 95. Thebes, invested by Phœbidas insidiously, ii. 202; de- Swelling and dilatation in boiling, ii. 118.
Swisses, first ruined the Duke of Burgundy, ii. 157, 226; the ruin of Louis XII.; affairs in Italy in re- venge of a scorn put upon them by him, ii. 157— 226; in them the authority of iron over gold, ii. 226; the reputation of their arms, ii. 226. Sylla, reformed the laws of Rome, ii. 234; his three singularities, ii. 234; Cicero's attribute to him, ii. 234; his friendship to Pompey, i. 34; his choice of a name, i. 46.
Sympathy of mind and body, i. 202.
Sympathy and antipathy, secret virtue of, ii. 132, 134; of plants, ii. 67; of things, iii. 465.
Sympathy, in different parts of the body, ii. 22; in- duration by, ii. 116.
Sympathy of men's spirits, ii. 137. Syrups, clarifying of, ii. 8.
System, whether there be different centres around the, theories of Tycho and Galileo, ii. 580; may exist consistently with opinions that the earth revolves, and that planets are solid, ii. 576.
TACITUS, i. 233; his observation on Augustus Cæsar, i. 161; his observation as to the obscurity of learned men, i. 167; his account of Vibulenus the actor, i. 218; his wise opinion, i. 196; his character of Ner- va, i. 177; his exposition of the eastern prophecy in Vespasian's time, i. 43; account of Musianus, i. 57; saying of, changes, ii. 501; his works breathe more living observation of manners than those of Aristotle and Plato, ii. 549.
Tackling, a store of, should be laid up against time of need, ii. 383.
Talbot, William, charge against, ii. 389; his offence, ii. 389.
Talk, but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love, i. 33. Taste, experiment touching the, ii. 91.
Taxes and imports, several, one of the internal points of separation with Scotland, ii. 146; considerations touching them, ii. 148.
Taxes, people overlaid with, not valiant, ii. 165; levied by consent, abate men's courage less, ii. 165. Teeth, on edge, ii. 30; snakes have venomous, ii. 101; experiment touching the tenderness of the, ii. 91; have sense, ii. 101; some beasts have no upper, ii. 101; experiment touching hard substances in the bodies of living creatures and, ii. 100; marrow of, ii. 101.
Telesius, touching cold, ii. 19; opinion of, concerning light in air, ii. 584; philosophy of, i. 435. Tellus, representing base counsellors, i. 288. Tenison, Archbishop, his opinion of Sapientia Vete- rum, i. 272; his statement of the nature of the es- says, i. 5; his notice of the lives of the Cæsars, i. 284; opinion of Playfer, i. 277, 279.
Tensure, motion upon, ii. 8.
Temperance, the virtue of prosperity, i. 14.
crees on a war even to the walls of Sparta, ii. 202. Themistocles, pertinent answer of, i. 168; his saying respecting the difference between speech and thought, i. 34; his speech on being asked to touch a lute, i. 36; made Xerxes quit Greece by a false report, i. 62; saying and reply of his, i. 109, 115, 118. Theodosius, saying of, ii. 473; his answer to a suitor, i. 114.
Theogenes, his moral verses, iii. 222.
Theology, natural, the contemplation of God in his creatures, i. 194.
Theological tracts, ii. 405. Theories and common notions to be done away with, opinions, i. 433; universal, the invention of, by per- sons ignorant of particulars, ii. 548; of astronomers, the object of the, ii. 575.
Thomas, St., the largest heart of the school divines, ii. 205; his definition of a just cause of war, ii. 205. Thorough lights in the world, i. 191. Thorpe's case, observations upon, ii. 527. Thoughts accord with inclination, i. 45; men who
place their thoughts without themselves not fortu- nate, i. 46; on the nature of things, i. 406. Thunder, the Grecians, who first gave the reason of it, condemned of impiety, i. 97.
Throne, supported by justice and mercy, ii. 380. Thuanus, as to Pope Julius's coin, ii. 390. Tiberius, i. 208, 233, 294; his death, i. 12; dissimu- lation attributed to him by Livia, i. 14. Tiberius Cæsar, his friendship for Sejanus, i. 34; his prophecy of the empire to Galba, i. 43. Ticinum, church at, in Italy, ii. 107. Tigranes, his speech respecting the small number of the Roman army, i. 36.
Tillage, encouragement of, ii. 384. Titillation, experiment touching, ii. 103. Timber, how to try, ii. 87; as to the planting of, ii. 384. Timber trees, touching the growth of, ii. 66. Time, its operation in promoting discovery and inven- tion, i. 431; masculine birth of, i. 223. Time seems to resemble a stream, i. 173. Time, Grecian orators' saying concerning, ii. 292; con- trary operation of on fruits and liquors, ii. 119; the greatest innovator, i. 32; innovateth quietly, i. 32; the measure of business, i. 32; iterating often the state of the question a gain of, i. 32; like a river, i 85, 99.
Time and heat, like operations of, ii. 45. Time and fire, differing operations of, ii. 45. Times, the present are the ancient, i. 172; îñ. 358; will facilitate reformation of religion in Ireland, ii. 191.
Timoleon, Plutarch's saying of his fortunes, i. 47, 77. Timotheus's denial of fortune's aid, i. 46. Tin, the ancient alloy of gold, ii. 459. Tin and copper, mixture of, ii. 456. Tin and silver, mixture of, ii. 456. Tincture of metals, how, ii. 460, 461.
Tenures, Low's case of, iii. 276; not regal only, ii. Tinoco, Manuel Louis, sworn to secrecy, and charged 274; no spur of honour, ii. 274.
Tenures and wards, speech on, ii. 273. Terebration of trees, ii. 65.
Territory, greatness too often ascribed to largeness of, 11. 222; large countries often rather a burden than strength, ii. 223; illustrated by Alexander and the Roman empire, ii. 223; greatness of, when it adds strength, ii, 224
to confer with Lopez and Ferrera respecting the po soning of Queen Elizabeth, ii. 218; confers with Ferrera, ii. 218; sent back with a short answer by Lopez, ii. 219; sends letters by the name of De Thores to Lopez, ii. 219; comes over with a resalg. tion from Spain, ii. 220; his letters from De Paeties to Ferrera won from him, in which mention WAS made of the queen's death, ii. 220; his confession,
Titus Livius, observation of, on the poverty in the Ro- Tyrants, different sorts of, ii. 391.
Tyrone, the arch-traitor, ii. 349.
ULCERS, judgment of the cure of, ii. 106.
Toad's head, stone in, ii. 133; stone engendered in, Tyrone and Odonnell's endeavour to rescue Kinsale, ii. 463. Tobacco, uses of, ii. 127; melioration of, ii. 117. Toleration warrantable by religion, and necessary to recover the hearts of the Irish, ii. 189. Tones, different sorts of, ii. 24; bass and treble, experi- ment on, ii. 33; proportions of, ii. 34; as to pro- ducing sleep by, ii. 26.
Tongue, experiment touching the, ii. 91. Tongues, vehicula scientiæ, i. 176. Touching Lady Vernon's case, ii. 523.
Tough and fragile bodies, ii. 114.
Tough and brittle metals, ii. 461.
Torture, of the laws the worst, i. 58.
Tournays not lawful without the king's license, ii. 302. Tournies, their glories chiefly in the chariots, i. 45. Towers in Solomon's house, i. 266.
Ulster, suggestion to add the earldom of to the Prince of Wales's titles, ii. 185.
Ulysses, i. 313; his constancy, i. 16; his preference of custom before excellency, i. 184. Undertakers, different sorts of, ii. 269; speech on, ii. 13.
Understanding, the, produces decrees, i. 206; division
of, 1. Invention, 2. Judgment, 3. Memory, 4. Tradi- tion, ii. 207; division of learning among the three parts of the, i. 187; the, is the highest part of the mind, i. 182.
Unguent, Roman, receipt for, ii. 469. Unison and diapason, ii. 25.
Tracts, relating to, ii. 496; relating to commendams, Union with Scotland, discourses on the, ii. 138; articles
Trade, home and foreign, ii. 384; conjectures for the good of, ii. 386.
Tradition, magistral, and not ingenuous, i. 173.
Tragacanth gum, dissolution of, ii. 465.
and considerations touching, ii. 142; certificate or return of the commissioners of, ii. 149; Sir Francis Bacon's speech, in the House of Commons, concern- ing the general naturalization of the Scottish nation, ii. 150; touching the union of laws with Scotland, ii. 158; preparation towards, ii. 160.
Trajan, sayings of his, i. 113, 114; name given him Union, discourse of the happy, between England and by Constantine, i. 113.
Translation of psalms, ii. 431.
Transmutation of metals, ii. 461, 462.
Transmutation of air into water, ii. 10.
Tranquillity of Elizabeth, ii. 445.
Travel, essay of, i. 26.
Treacle, use of, by Mithridates, ii. 324.
Treason, statute of, 25 Edward III., ii. 313; concern- ing high, ii. 291; punishment, trial, and proceedings in cases of, ii. 162; cases of misprision of, ii. 162; of petit, ii. 162; charge against Mr. Owen for, ii. 313. Treasons, stat. of 25 Edward III., ii. 512. 'Treasure of the crown of England, ii. 228. Treasure, greatness too often ascribed to, ii. 222, 225; adds greatness to a state when accompanied with valour, when it is rather in mediocrity than abun- dance, ii. 226; when it is the greatest strength to the state, ii. 227.
Treble and bass strings, sounds of, ii. 33. Trees, different soils for, ii. 87; gum is the juice straining through, ii. 7; melioration of, ii. 62; pro- cevity and dwarting of, ii. 73.
Trees and herbs, experiment touching the lasting of, ii. 78.
Trial, the arrest of the ship so named in Sicily by the Spaniards, ii. 196.
Triumph, among the Romans, a noble institution, i.
38; essay on masques and, i. 44.
Troubles and sedition, essay of, i. 22.
Trumpet, metal, ii. 456.
Scotland, ii. 138; certain articles touching, collected and dispersed for his majesty's better service, ii. 142 Union of England and Scotland, ii. 452, 454; with Scotland, ii. 383.
Union between all men, ii. 443.
Union, of flint and iron, ii. 455; of brass and iron, ii, 456; force of, ii. 22.
Unity of belief and worship, ii. 412. Universities, their orders and customs contrary to science, i. 98; studies there confixed to certain au- thors, i. 98; prejudiced, ii. 415; defect of, the sys- tems in, i. 186; logic and rhetoric too early taught in, i. 186; dedications of, to professions, only injuri- ous to states, i. 185; uses and defects of, i. 184; dedicated to professions, i. 185; want of experiments in, i. 186; neglect in governors of, of consultation and of superiors of visitation, i. 186; want of in- quiries into unlaboured parts of learning, i. 186; amendment of defects of, i. 186, 187; want of mu- tual intelligence between, i. 186. Universality, men have abandoned, i. 173. Urban the Second, Pope, to Godfrey, ii. 315. Urbin, Duke of, the injustice of his wat against the pope did not destroy his right to recover Urbin, ii. 203.
Usages, in the time of their beginning ought to be con- sidered, i. 186.
Use of the law, iii. 247.
Uses, reading on the statute of, iii. 295; cases of revo- cation of, iii. 280.
Truth, essay of, i. 11; Democritus's opinion of, i. 122; Uses of incorporation of metals, ii. 456. force of, i. 182.
Turkish emperor's censure of duels, ii. 298.
Turks, their cause of war, i. 38; their religion an im-
Usury, laws against, i. 333; the most certain, though one of the worst means of gain, i. 42; ploughs on Sundays, i. 42, 47; essay on, i. 47; is a concessum
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