The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

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Proctor, Stephen, certificate touching his projects re- Lord C. Bacon, to Marquis of Buckingham, ii. 525;
lating to the penal laws, ii. 236. demeanour and carriage of, ii. 525; letter to the
Profit, contempt of, ii. 446. king touching proceedings against, ii. 524; when
Professions, universities dedicated to, i. 185; supplied beheaded, ii. 524; his saying that the Spanish Ar
from philosophy and universality, i. 185. mada was driven away with squibs, ii. 200, 209.
Prometheus, or the state of man, i. 305. Rain, scarcity of, in Egypt, ii. 103.
Promotion of officers, ii. 383. Rains and dews, how produced, ii. 10, 20.
Proofs, human, of advantage of learning, i. 302. Rainbow, sweetness of odour from the, ii. 1 12.
Properties, secret, ii. 136. Rainsford, Sir John, his prayer to Queen Eiizabeth to
Prophecies, punishable by imprisonment, ii. 292; es- set free the four evangelists, with the queen's ansay on, i. 43. swer, i. 107.
Propinquity, sympathy in, ii. 134. Ramus, his rules, i. 215.
Proserpina, or the ethereal spirit of the earth, i. 311; Ratcliffe, Richard, his attainder, i. 318.
or spirit, i. 310; fable of, quoted, ii. 23. Raveline, valour of the English at the, ii. 212.
Prosperity, minds puffed up by, soonest dejected by Rawley's life of Bacon, notice of his great fame abroad,
adversity, ii. 488. i. 275.
Proteus, or matter, i. 297. Rawley's dedication of New Atlantis, i. 255.
Proud men, all full of delays, ii. 195. Reading makes a full man, i. 55.
Provision for clergy, ii. 429. Reading on the statute of uses, iii. 295.
Providences, judgments, &c., history of, i. 192. Reason, philosophy relates to the, i. 187; its limnits, i.
Psalms, translation of, ii. 431. 239; the key of arts, i. 207; governs the imaginaPublic good, i. 220. tion, i. 206; preserved against melancholy by wine,
Pulp of fish more nourishing than their flesh, ii. 14. ii. 466.
Purgative astringents, ii. 468. Rebellion, her majesty's directions thereupon judicial
Purge for opening the liver, ii. 466. and sound, ii. 562; of Lord Lovel and the two StafPurging, preparations before, ii. 18. fords, i. 319.
Purging medicines, how they lose their virtue, ii. 9; Rebellions during Queen Elizabeth in England and
experiment on, ii. 13. Ireland, ii. 285.
Purveyors, speech touching, ii. 266; abuses of, ii. 267. Receipts and finances, one of the internal points of
Purveyance due to the king, ii. 388. separation with Scotland, ii. 146; considerations
Purification, of church, ii. 420. touching them, ii. 148.
Pursuit, objects of, i. 227. Receipts, for cooking capons, ii. 15; medical, of Lord
Puteoli, court of Vulcan, ii. 106. Bacon, ii. 469.
Putrefaction, most contagious before maturity, i. 175; Recipes for preserving health, ii. 468.
generation by, ii. 123; of water, ii. 109; touching Recognisance, as to filing, ii. 484.
the causes of, ii. 113; of bodies, prohibition of, ii. Recreation, games of, i. 205.
104; creatures bred of, ii. 92; preventing of, ii. 51; Recusants, harbouring, punishable, ii. 290.
inducing and accelerating of, ii. 50. Redargution, i. 210.
Pygmalion's frenzy an emblem of vain learning, i. 170. Reduction of metals, modes of, ii. 462.
Pythagoras, i. 198; a looker on, i. 222; philosophy Reference to masters, ii. 482.
of, ii. 124; his parable, i. 34; his speech to Cicero, Refining ore from dross, ii. 460.
i. 121. Reform, ii. 415, 417; necessity for, ii. 421; of church,
Pyrrhus's teeth, undivided, ii. 101. ii. 421; bishop: err in resisting, ii. 417.
Pvrrhus's answer to the congratulations for his victory Reformer, true spirit of, ii. 421.
over the Romans, i. 118. Reformation of fees, ii. 273; of abuses, ii. 267.
Rege inconsulto, case of, ii. 513; writs of, ii. 514.
QUARRIEs, query as to, ii. 463; experiment touching, Regimen of health, essay on, i. 39; of the body, i. 202.
ii. 116. Registry of doubts, i. 200; uses of, i. 200.
Queen Elizabeth, incensed at the book of History of Register to keep copies of all orders, ii. 481.
Henry IV. dedicated to Essex, ii. 337; report of Registers, directions to, in drawing up decrees, ii. 482;
treasons meditated by Doctor Lopez against, ii. 216; to be sworn, ii. 481.
first copy of a discourse touching the safety of her Rejection of natures from the form of heat, iii. 384.
person, ii. 214; first fragments of a discourse touch- Religion, unity in, essay of, i. 12; pure religion, is to
ing intelligence and the safety of the queen's person, visit orphans and widows, i. 69; why religion should
ii. 214; her service in Ireland, considerations touch- protect knowledge, i. 83; many stops ill its state to
ing, ii. 188; her message to the Earl of Essex, the course of invention, i. 99; the most sovereign
ii. 357. medicine to alter the will, i. 105; impediment of the
Queen of Bohemia, letter to, i. 276. heathen and superstition to knowledge, i. 95; of
Questions, legal, for the judges in Somerset's case, ii. the Turkish, i. 95; alteration of, by Elizabeth, ii.
516; touching minerals, ii. 458; of Meverel, ii. 458; 245; advice upon, by whom, ii. 377; anabaptist, ii.
on religious war, 444. 314; propagation of the Mohammedan, ii. 314; deQuicksilver, nature and force of, ii. 12; its property of fensive wars for, are just, ii. 202; propositions for a
mixing with metals, ii. 459; metals swim upon, college for controversies in, ii. 241; its three decliii. 104. nations, i. 244; revealed, i. 239; advantage of phiQuiescence, seeming, i. 411. losophy to, i. 176; necessary for the recovery of the
Quinces, how to keep them long, ii. 83. hearts of the Irish people, ii. 189; toleration reconmmended, ii. 189; opinion that time will facilitate reRABEAxIs's saying after receiving extreme unction, formation of, in Ireland, ii. 191; of Turks, ii. 438;
i. 1 10. encouragement of, ii. 476.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, anecdotes of, apophthegm respect- Religion and philosophy prejudiced by being commixed
inm, i. 107, 109, 122, 123; letter concerning, from together, i. 195.