The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

584 INDEX.
278; one ot its uses to make clear things doubtful, Writ, of "ne exeat regnum," ii. 484.
ii. 278. Writs, of privilege, ii. 484; de rege inconsulto, ii. 514;
Wits sharpened by mathematics, i. 199. what pass under Lord Chancellor's hand, ii. 484;
Witch, power of, afar off, ii. 131. as to the return day of, ii. 484.
Witchcraft not punishable by death, ii. 291. Writing, i. 212; makes an exact man, i. 55.
Wives, i. 16; cruel examples of wives of kings, Wyrthington, Edward, Sir F. Bacon's commendation
i. 27. of him to be attorney-general for Ireland, ii. 191.
Womb, living creatures in the, ii. 101; duration of
creatures in the, ii. 102. XFxNOPaON, a great scholar and general, i. 164; an exWTomen, government by, ii. 442. ample of military greatness and learning, i. 181; his
Wonder, effect of, ii. 96. mode of feeding Persian children, ii. 53.
Wood, Thomas, his declaration, ii. 366. Ximenes, Cardinal, saying of his, i. 110.
Wood, shining in the dark, ii. 451; as to its growing
hard, ii. 462. YAWNING, takes off the power of hearing, ii. 44; exWoodville, Lord, sails to Brittany, i. 329; slain in periment touching, ii. 90.
battle, i. 332. Yelverton, Sir Henry, ii. 498; letter to, on a cause of,
Wool draweth watery vapour, ii. 20. tithes, ii. 522; notes of a speech of lord chancellor
Woollen bag, liquor loseth its fatness if strained in the case of, ii. 525; his cause, sentence in, ii.
through, ii. 7. 526; to Lord Keeper Bacon, ii. 503.
Words, i. 232; when few best remembered, ii. 478; Year-books, suggestion for the reformation of, ii. 232.
vain, i. 169. Yolk of eggs, very nourishing, ii. 15.
Works of God, show his omnipotency, but not his Young company, old men love, ii. 129.
image, i. 195. Youth, the tongue and joints in, pliant and supple, i.
Works, miscellaneous, ii. 445; Bacon's account of his, 46; beauty makes a dissolute, i. 49; grains of,
ii. 436. ii. 466.
Works of God and man, meditations on, i. 67. Youth and age, essay on, i. 48; difference of, iii. 511.
Worship of angels, i. 195.
Worship and belief, unity of, ii. 412. Zr.tnL's reason for shaving his beard, i. 120.
Wotton, Sir Henry, his saying of critics, i. 111. Zeno and Socrates, their controversies, i. 220.
aWounds, experiment touching, ii. 106; on the healing Zouch, Lord, his attainder, ii, 318.
of, ii. 89. Zutphen, ii. 423.
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