The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

INDEX. 557
Faculties of man, i. 56. Flammock, Thomas, excites an insurrection in CornFavourites, the best remedy against ambitious men, i. wall, i. 360; defeated rd executed, i. 363.
44; of kings chosen for their simplicity, i. 294. Flattery of great men by phiilosophers, i. 169; none
Fear of death mitigated by learning, i. 182; cause of like a man's self, i. 35, 56.
the effect of, ii. 14; its use, i. 68; the civilian's de- Flatterers, description of, i. 56; the greatest enemies
finition of a legal fear, ii. 203; instances of wars of kings, i. 63.
on account of the fear of the growing greatness of Fleas, how destroyed, ii. 92.
nations, ii. 203. Flemings, commercial treaty with, i. 360.
Fears, Virgil's opinion of the calses and conquests of Flesh, venomous quality of man's, ii. 10; fat diffused
all fears, i. 182. in, ii. 89; edible and not edible, ii. 118.
Feathers, experiment touching the producing of, ii. 22; Flies get a durable sepulchre in amber, ii. 24.
colours of, Aristotle's opinion on the, ii. 7; what Flowers, experiment touching compound, ii. 66:
causes in birds, ii. 7; altering the colour of, ii. 116. sweeter in the air than hand, i. 51; account of them,
Features, helps towards good in youth, ii. 11. i. 51.
Fees, reformation of, ii. 275; exacted put down, ii. Fly on the wheel, Lasop's fable of the, ii. 269.
276; of lawyers, ii. 474. Flying in the air, ii. 122; of unequal bodies in the
Felicity breeds confidence and reputation, i. 46. air, ii. 107.
Felicities, of Elizabeth, by Bacon, i. 284. Fluxes stayed by astringents, ii. 467.
Felons, employment proposed for, ii. 463. Foliambe, Mr. F. his case, letter concerning, from
Felony, cases of, ii. 163; the punishment, trial, and Buckingham to Lord C. Bacon, ii. 524.
proceedings in, ii. 164; ditto of felonia de se, ii. 164. Foliatanes, order of, put down by the pope, ii. 14.
Female and male, differences between, ii. 117. Followers and friends, essay on, i. 53.
Feodaries, vexations of people by, ii. 275. Fomentation or bath receipt, ii. 469.
Ferrera, Stephano de Gama, a Portuguese adherent to Food, experiments touching the most nourishing meats
Don Antonio, secretly won to the service of the and drinks, ii. 14.
King of Spain, ii. 218; Louis Tinoco appointed to Forcing plants, mode of, ii. 464.
confer with him on the reward to be given to Lopez Foreign merchandise, ii. 385.
to poison Queen Elizabeth, ii. 218; Lopez commu- Foreign states, embassies to, ii. 382.
nicates with him, signs Lopez, letters to the Count Foreign wars, badness of, ii. 383.
de Fuentes, writes several other letters, ii. 219; dis- Forfeitures of the Star Chamber, ii. 388.
covered to have intelligence with the enemy, ii. 219; Forma pauperis, defending in, ii. 485.
committed to prison, ii. 219; his note to Lopez in- Formalists, their shifts to make superfices seem bulk,
tercepted, ii. 220; his confession, ii. 220; confronts i. 33.
Lopez, ii. 220. Formation of features in youth, ii. 11.
Ferrers, Lord, his attainder, i. 318. Forms the true object of knowledge, i. 197; of inducFcetus, nourishment of, ii. 22. tion in logic defective, i. 208.
Fiat, Marquis, Lord Bacon's letter to him, with copy Fortitude, the virtue of adversity, i. 14.
of essays, edit. 1625, i. 5, n. Fortune, faber quisque fortunre sue, censure of that
Figs impoisoned on the tree by Livia, ii. 322. saying, i. 104; rising in, seldom amends the mind,
Figures, experiment touching the figures of plants, i. 104; essay on, i. 46; the two fortunate properii. 78. ties, to have but little of the fool and not too much
Filum lahyrinthi, i. 96; a rudiment of the advance- of the honest, i. 46; fortune to be honoured, i. 46;
ment of learning, i. 8; also of the Novum Organum, of learned men, discredit to learning from, i. 166.
i. 96. Fourteenth year a kind of majority, ii. 489.
Filum medicinale, experiment touching, ii. 17. Founders of states, first in honour, i. 58.
Finances and receipts, one of the internal points of Fox, trusted by Henry VII. i. 29; inferior, i. 54; a
separation with Scotland, ii. 146; considerations sure friend better help than a man's own wit, i. 75;
touching them, ii. 148. Bishop of Exeter, i. 319.
Fining metals, different modes of, ii. 460. Fragile and tough bodies, ii. 114.
Fire, heat of, will vivify, ii. 93; invention of attributed France, state of, under Charles VIII., i. 326; divisions
to Prometheus, i. 306; different heats of, ii. 90; and of, in the time of Queen Elizabeth, ii. 247.
time, differing operation of, ii. 45. Francis I., his opinion of a lie, ii. 298; used to walk
Fire-arms, cause of motion in, i. 414. disguised, i. 112.
Fires, subterrany, ii. 54. Freedoms, several, an internal point of separation with
Firmament, theory of, i. 416. Scotland, ii. 146; considerations touching them,
Fish, pulp of, more nourishing than their flesh, ii. 14; ii. 148.
touching shell-fish, ii. 120; the cold nature of, ii. French wiser than they seem, i. 33; their peasants (ldo
102; from the sea put into fresh waters, ii. 94. not make good soldiers, i. 37; disease; origin of, ii.
Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium, a book of good worth, 107; law of duels, ii. 297.
but not of the nature of an institution, ii. 232. Friar Bacon's head, ii. 338.
Fitz Morrice, an Irish rebel, armed and sent to Ireland Friars, observation of Machiavel on the poverty of,
by Philip of Spain in 1579, ii. 260. i. 166.
Fixation of bodies, experiment on the, ii. 108; and Friend, how valued by honest minds, ii. 333; danger
volatility of metals, ii. 461, 462. of a false, ii. 376; all great men want a true,
Flame, rise of water by means of, ii. 122; touching the ii. 486.
continuance of, ii. 55; commixture of with air, ii. Friends, Coqmus's saying of perfidious friends, i. 14.
11; secret nature of, ii. 12; force of in midst and Friendship, Essay on, i. 33; without friends the world
sides, ii. 12; Vulcan compared with, ii. 12; differ- is a wilderness, i. 33; principal fruit of, the discharge
ence between terrestrial and celestial, ii. 569; expan- of the heart, i. 33; *no receipt openeth the heart but
sion of the body of, may be estimated by probable a true friend, i. 33; communication to a friend
conie-ture, ii. 570. redoubles joys and halves griefs, i. 34; healthful for
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