The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

GENERAL INDEX.
ABDUCTION of women made a capital offence, i. 333. Advice upon importing foreign goods, ii. 386; toi
Abel and Cain, contemplation of action figured in, ministers, ii. 376; concerning Indian wealth, ii. 387
i. 175. Adulteration of metals, ii. 459.
Abimelech, ii. 270. Advocates, i. 58.
Abjuration and exiles, cases of and proceedings therein, AEneas Sylvius, his saying of the Christian religion,
ii. 165. i. 121.
Abner, murder of by Jacob, not forgotten, ii. 322. 2Esculapius and Circe, exposition of, credulity by fable
Absolution, ii. 426. of, i. 203.
Abridgments of laws, opinion on the use of them,.Asop's fable of the two sons digging for gold, i. 172.
ii. 233. Affections, effect upon the minds and spirits of men,
Abuse of excommunication, ii. 428. ii. 129; their impediments to knowledge. i. 94:
Abuses in the penal laws, ii. 237. inquiry touching, i. 225.
Acceleration and clarification of liquors, ii. 47. Affectation. No affectation in passion, i. 45; to use
Accessaries to duels before the fact, ii. 299. studies too much for ornament is affectation, i. 55.
Accident assistance to eloquence, ii. 337. Affidavits before masters of chancery, ii. 483.
Account, matters of, ii. 482. Affluence. Greatness too often ascribed lo affluence
Achaians, comparison of the state of to a tortoise, by of commodities, ii. 222.
Titus Quintius, ii. 224. Agathocles, conduct to the captive Syracusans, i. 114.
Achelous, or battle, i. 302. Age and youth prejudiced, vii. 41.
Actreon and Pentheus, or a curious man, i. 294. Age will not be defied, i. 39; essay on youth and, i.
Action, the chief part of an orator, i. 23. 48; heat in age excellent for business, i. 48; AlonAction and contemplation, union between, i. 173, 174; zo of Arragon's commendation of age, i. 113.
figured in Abel and Cain, i. 175; and contempla- Agesilaus, excellent though deformed, i. 49; saying of
tion, i. 220. his, i. 115; called home from Persia upon a war
Actions, all men drawn into by pleasure, honour, and against Sparta by Athens and Thebes, ii. 223; his
profit, ii. 185. saying thereon, ii. 223.
Active, force of quantity in the, ii. 460. Agricultural experiments, ii. 464.
Actium, battle of, decided the empire of the world, Agrippina, preference of empire, i. 183.
i. 38. Agues, what wines best for, ii. 10; use of hartshorn
Actor, Vibulenus, his artifice, i. 218. in, ii. 91.
Adam's employment in Paradise, i. 175. Air, transmutation of into water, ii. 10, 19; diversity
Adam, fall of, set forth by the fable of Pan, i. 290. of infusions in, ii. 9; in water, cause of quick asAdamites, heresy of, ii. 443. cent of, ii. 10; condensation of by cold, ii. 11,
Adjournment should be to a day certain, ii. 495. aptness to corrupt, ii. 109; commixture of with
Admiralty, against the, ii. 495. flame, ii. 11; effect of the inspissation of the, ii.
Admiralties and merchandising several, one of the 127; touching the nature of, ii. 119; flying of
internal points of separation with Scotland, ii. 160. unequal bodies in the, ii. 107; experiment touching
Admonished how to dispose of part of his riches, ii. the congealing of, ii. 54; the theory of Anaximenes,
487; to imitate the Spaniards, the beaver, &c., ii. i. 439.
487. Air and water, experiments as to weight in, ii. 463.
Adoration the highest honour amongst the heathens, Air and sound, ii. 28.
i. 177. Airs, experiment touching, ii. 249.
Adrian, a learned prince, i. 178. Albans, to the Lord St., from Buckingham, promising
Adrian de Castello, the pope's legate, made Bishop of to move his majesty to take off the restraint upon
Hereford, i. 335; his conspiracy against Leo from a his not coming within the verge of the court, iii.
prediction of an astrologer, i. 335. 185.
Adrian VI., advice to him respecting Pasquil, i. 109. Albans, the Lord St., to a friend, believing his own
Adrian, the bounty of his disposition, ii. 234. danger less than he found it, iii. 190.
Adrian, the philosopher's answer who contended with Albans, the Lord St., to the same humble servant, em
with him, i. 116. ploying him to do a good office with a great man,
Advancement in life. i. 231; of learning, notice of, iii. 190.
i. 292; of learning, Bacon's observations on, ii. Albans, from Lord St., praying that the king will tId
435. him die out of a cloud and suffer his honours to be
Adversity, strength of, ii. 488; Essay of, i. 14. transmitted, iii. 188.
Advertisement touching holy war, ii. 436; touching Albans, from Lord St., to the king, thanking him fo.
church controversies, ii. 411,. his liberty, iii. 184.
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