Bacon's Essays

PAGE

ESSAY OF

Innovations,

246

Judicature,

549

Kingdoms and Estates (the True Greatness of),

305

Knowledge (the Praise of),

574

Love,

100

Man's Self (Wisdom for a),

239

Marriage and Single Life, .
Masques and Triumphs,
Nature in Men,

Negotiating,

Nobility,

Parents and Children,

Plantations,

Praise,.

388

392

451

353

523

Prophecies,

377

Revenge,

Riches,

366

Seditions and Troubles,

139

Self (Wisdom for a Man's),

239

Simulation and Dissimulation,.

Single Life (Marriage and),

Studies,

472

Suitors,

469

Superstition,

169

Suspicion,

330

Things (Vicissitudes of),

564

Travel,

194

Truth,.

Unity in Religion,

Usury,.

Vicissitudes of Things,

Vain Glory,

Wisdom for a Man's Self,.

Wise (Seeming),

Youth and Age,

INDEX TO ANNOTATIONS.

Advocates, temptations of, 554.

Age, old, Aristotle's description of, 425; and youth, mental qualities
of, 429.

Althorp, Lord, anecdote of, 529.

Ambition, true end of, 108; not essentially evil, 386.

Anger, different modes of appeasing, 562; distinguished from hatred,
561.

Ants, mistake concerning, 240.

Approbation, love of, 532; distinct from love of admiration, 533.
Aristotle, 53, 55, 99, 242, 287, 347, 395, 406, 425, 561.

Associations, definite object in, 294, 402, 515.

Atheism, causes of, 163; credulity of, 157; of Pagan nations, 159.

Bacon, moral character of, 408.

Bending the wand, 394.

Benevolence, example of our Lord the rule for, 130; ill-directed, evils
of, 128; nature of, mistaken, 130.

Birth, noble, aphorism of Warburton respecting, 136; how estimated,
137.

Booker-his vocabulary of obsolete words in our Authorized Ver-
sion recommended, iii.

Books for children, 33, 119, 498; some, to be tasted, 509.

Bow, a backed, 271.

Brute-life, Turkish regard for, 131.

Cabinet-council, presidency of, 217.

Caution, defect of, in the cunning, 236.

Cavillers, difficulty of dealing with, xx., 461.

Celerity in decision and execution, importance of, illustrated, 219, 222,

256, 269, 272.

Celibacy of clergy, 87, 120.

Censure, equivalent to praise, 534.

Ceremonies, necessity of, 521; religious, multiplication of, 185.

Character, similarity of, in men of opposite parties, 517.

Children, books for, 33, 119, 498; employment of, as almoners, 400;
gratuitous disappointment of, 66; learning by rote, 489; choice
of a profession for, 82; precocious, 430.

Cingalese farmer, anecdote of, 496.

Clouds, fable of the, 121.

Colonies, ancient Greek, 365; penal, 356; provision for spiritual wants

of, 365.

Concession to intimidation, 154.

Condescension, spurious, 119.

Confidence, partial, evil of, 467.

Controversy, two kinds of, to be avoided, 46.

Conviction, openness to, 408.

Courage, false, 562.

Credit, undeserved, instances of, 543.

Cruelty, not inconsistent with natural benevolence, 132.

Cuckoo, the, fable of, 468.

Cumming not wisdom, 236; Churchill's description of, 238.

Curiosity, a pupil's importance of exciting, 489.

Custom, power of, 401.

Deference, mistakes concerning, 58, 394, 487, 531.

Deformities, original, 436

Differences, in doctrine and morals, whether designed, 33, 159; reli-

gious, not confined to speculative points, 34.

Difficulties in study, rule for, 491.

Dignity, moral, sense of, essential, 528.

Disciples, three applications of the term, 44.

Discipline and trial, 61.

Discussion, oral and written, compared, 453; cautions to be observed
in, 457.

Doubt, impatience of, 270; not inconsistent with a habit of faith, 337;
of persons, 331; of things, 334; remedy for, 341.

Education, like the grafting of a tree, 405, 406; Irish, Board of, 503.
Eiron and Bomolchus, 347.

Embarrassment, pecuniary, of the rich, 302.

Errors, vulgar, secondary, 57.

Etymology, abuse of, 228, 501.

Evils, escaped, underrating of, 146.

Examples, bad, 296.

Expect, ambiguity of the word, 303.

Expenditure, showy, 303.

Experience, not to be measured by age, 257, 426; and common sense,

276, 426.

Eye, the evil, 95.

Faculties, decay of, 430.

Fallacy of composition in the spendthrift's case, 304.

Faults, observing of, 295.

Feigning, power of, 77.

Flattery, domestic, 530.

Followers of their own footsteps, 250, 265.

Forgiveness, christian, mistakes concerning, 57, 394, 563; of real in-
juries, not the hardest, 54.

Forest, American, 475.

Fortune favours fools, 413.

Friendship, indispensable, 287; continuance of, in the future state,
288; uses of, 294, 297.

Frivolous, proper application of the term, 391.
Future state, the preparedness for, illustrated, 17.

Gardening, landscape-earliest writer on, 449.
Good-humour and good-nature, 131.

Graptomancy, 395.

Habit and custom, distinction between, 400; an opposite, formed by

the same thing, 405.

Helotism, 148.

History, study of, 395, 500, 507.

Horse-rashness, 265.

Ichneumon fly, 17.

Idols of the race, 396.

gnorance of our ignorance, 477.

Ill-used man, an, 414.

Inconsistency, imputation of, 518.

Indifference of the judgment and the will, 7, 401, 495.

Infallibility, a craving for, a cause of atheism, 163; pretension to,

unconnected with persecution, 39.

Ingenuity perverted, instances of, 503.

Jesting, profane, 161, 172.

Johnson, a parodox of, 407.

Judgment, private, 28.

Kite, fable of the, 207.

Knowledge, misapplication of, 501; its true end, 578.

Language, changes in, 259; technical, 48, 491.

Latitudinarianism, intolerance of, 176.

Life, recklessness of, 16; domestic, necessary to public men, 120.