Nobility, evil of too great an increase of, 101. reserved living among, causeth penury of military force, 102. Pallas, exposition of the fable of her birth, 69. Parents, difference in affection of, 21. illiberality of, an harmful errour, 22. and Children, essay on, 21 to 23. Persecutions for religion, monstrous nature of, 18. Philosophy (natural) makes men deep, 168. (moral) makes men grave, 168. miscellaneous tracts upon, 249. Physic, not to be altogether avoided even in health, 110. Place (great) essay on, 33. Plantianus, friendship of Severus for, 90. Plantations, essay on, 115. Pliny, his witty remark on praising others for that wherein ourselves exult, 176. Poesy" vinum dæmonium," 4. Poets, the reading of makes men witty, 168. Politicians, the weaker sort great dissemblers, 17. Polycrates, his daughter's dream, 124. Pompey, Sylla's friendship for, 89. Poverty, a chief cause of sedition, 49. Powers intellectual, discourse concerning helps for, 339. Praise of knowledge, 251.' Predictions, see" prophecies." of astrology, dreams, &c. to be despised, 126. Princes, politic rules for, in the prevention of seditions, 52. often set their hearts upon toys, 62. difficulties with which they have to contend, 63. from their neighbours, 64. their wives, 65. their children, 65. the two great precepts for, 67. their prelates, 66. their merchants, 67. their commons, 67. their men of war, 67. their high value for friendship, 88. ought to beware of making themselves of a faction, 170. Privateness, man's virtue best seen in, 183. Probus, instance of the impolicy of uttering sharp speeches, 52. Prophecies, essay on, 123. Prosperity and adversity, speech of Seneca concerning, 15. Public good, private suits detrimental to, 164. Reading, maketh a full man, 168. Reason, light of, the last of God's creatures, 4. Regimen of health, essay on, 109. Religion, essay on, unity in, 8 to 13. evils of disunion in, 3, 9. nature of controversies in, 11. monstrous nature of persecutions for, 13. INDEX. Religion, the most politic men make profession of, 217. deep knowledge of philosophy bringeth men's minds to, 217. knowledge strengthens us in, 268. Reputation and honour, essay on, 177. Reservation, a degree of dissimulation, 18. public and private, 15. Rhetoric and logic enable men to contend, 169. Romans, their policy in naturalizing strangers, 103. their triumphs, 108. Roman empire, prophecy of, 123. Sabbath work of God is the illumination of the spirit, 4. Satirical vein, danger of, 114. 463 Savill (Sir Henry) letter to, touching helps for the intellectual powers, 337. Scriptures and the church, meditation on, 220. Scholars, drawing from their studies rules of judging, is the humour of, 167. the virtue of a confessor, 18. habit of both politic and moral, 19. Seditions and troubles, essay, on, 44. Sejanus, friendship of Tiberius for, 90. Self wisdom, essay on, 79. Self-policy of speaking but little of, 114. Seneca, his speech concerning prosperity and adversity, 15. Sense, the light of, the first of God's creatures, 4. pleasures of, less than pleasures of the affections, 251. Sequela Chartarum, sive inquisitio legitima de calore et frigore, 224. his friendship for Plantianus, 90. Simple men admire studies, 167. Simulation and dissimulation, essay on, 17 to 20. advantages of, 20. Single life and marriage, essay on, 23 to 25. Sovereignty attempered by nobility, 43. Spartans, their policy in naturalizing strangers, 103. Speech, see" discourse." discretion of, more than eloquence, 115. Speeches (long) obstacles to dispatch, 84. State, matters of, privileged from jest, 13. Studies, essay on, 167. Suitors, essay on, 164 to 167. Sumptuary laws, beneficial in prevention of seditions, 49. Superstition, essay on, 57. and atheism, the two opposite extremes from religion, 218. Suspicion, essay on, 111. Sylla, his friendship for Pompey, 89. Themistocles, his pertinent observation respecting speech and thought, 92. Tiberius, manner of his death, 7. dissimulation attributed to, 17. Tiberius, his friendship for Sejanus, 90. Trade, encouraging of, a means of preventing sedition, 49. Treasure, one of the four pillars of government, 47. of a state, not to be in too few hands, 50. Triumphs of the Romans, 108. and masques, essay on, 129. Troubles and seditions, essay on, 44. True greatness of kingdoms and estates, essay upon, 97 to 109. pleasures of, 5. of knowing, and truth of being, the same, 251. Turks, profession of arms among, 105. propagation of their law, always a pretence for war, 106. Unity in religion, essay on, 8 to 13. importance of, 10. means of procuring, 12. Unmarried, or childless men, the greatest works have been performed by, 23. essay on, 187. evils of, 138. uses of, 139. how it ought to be regulated, 140. Vain glory, essay on, 175 to 177. Valerius Terminus, of the interpretation of nature, 256. Vespasian, manner of his death, 7. Vicious men envious of the virtuous, 26. Vicissitude of things, 187 to 193. Virtue, praise, the reflection of, 173. called by the Stoics "Bonum Theatrale," 229. Wisdom for a man's self, essay on, 79. of the serpent and innocency of the dove, 205. Wit, necessary to those who confer little, 168. Young men, fitter for execution than counsel, 143. evil of over early ripeness in, 14t. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. Thomas White, Printer, |