Epicurus' opinion of atoms, 300 Ericthonius, or Imposture, 309 Examples of unfortunate kings, 71; of friendship, 99 FABLE of Atalanta, 321; of Prometheus, 323; of Proteus, Fame, Fragment of Essay on, 221; pedigree of, 50; the Favourites, how bridled, 143; less dangerous if mean than Fear of death, 5 Fiction, love of, I Flowers and trees for each month, 172 Followers, 183; coftly, not to be liked, nor factious, 183; Forgiveness, glory of, 14 Fortune, 152; in a man's own power, 152; blind not in- Fountains of two forts, 178 Frankness, quality of the ablest men, 19 Friend, ufe of, 105 Friends, 183 Friendship redoubleth joys, 101; halves forrow, 101; health- GAMES of Prometheus, 337 Garden, description of, 175; for each month, 172; divided Gardening, the pureft of pleasures, 172 Gellius, faying of, 95 Glory of forgiveness, 14 Goodness, inclination to, imprinted in man's nature, 44; or Government, of colonies, 131; pillars of, religion, justice, Grea, or Intrigue, 277 Great place, 36 Greek philofophy investigates material principles, 299 HABITS beft overcome at once, 148 Harp of David, 17 Heath, 179 Heaven, or Beginnings, 287 Helen, preferred to Juno and Pallas, riches and wisdom, 35 Henry VII. only two counsellors, 78; fufpicious, 124 Herbs for plantations, 129 Hippomenes challenged by Atalanta, 321 Honour hath three things, 144 Hope, importance of, in government, 57; to be entertained Houses, ufe preferred to uniformity in, 166; choice of ground Icarus, 306 Illicit arts, 308 Impofture, or Erichonius, 309 Indians, cuftom of, 150 Injudicious free-speakers, 252 Innovations, 90 Infolent fuccefs exposed to envy, 31 Iphicrates, his address to the Lacedemonians, 261 JESTS, things privileged from, 126 Judges, office of, with reference to the fuitors, 204; with Judicature, 203 Jupiter lamed by Typhon, 253; married Metis, or Counsel, 76 Juftice, pillar of government, 52 KINGS, endangered by kindred and prelates, 71, 73; hearts Kingdoms, their true Greatness, 108 LEAGUES, or Styx, 259 Letters, when good, 181 Lewis XI. of France, his favourites, 279 Libels, 50; open and audacious, fign of troubles, 50 Love, martial men given to, 36; wanton, corrupteth, 36; Low Countries, recurrence of weather in, 214 Machiavel, 213 Machiavel, of custom, 149; of the Christian faith, 45; opi- Mahomet's boldness, 42 Man, statue of, 323; the centre of the universe, 327 Manufacturers, fit for plantations, 129 Marriage and fingle life, 25 Married men, best subjects, 26; best soldiers, 26; give host- age to fortune, 25 Mafques and triumphs, 145 Maffacre, in France, 13 Matter, force may change but cannot annihilate, 292 Meals, cheerfulness at, 122 Mediocrity in morals, 338 Memnon, or a youth too forward, 293; fable of, explained, 294 Mercenaries, not to be depended upon, 112 Merchants, vena porta, 73; wealth of a state, 74; impolicy Metis, or Counsel, 350; relating to governments, 350 Military men, importance of, 58 Minifters, choice of, 144 Minos, 308 Mifanthropi worse than Timon, 46 Monarchy, tree of, 114 Moral and civil philofophy, fabled by the fongs of Orpheus, Mountebanks of the body politic, 42 Narciffus, or felf-love, 257 National greatness beft promoted by arms, 116 Nature, 147 Nature and Art, allegory of conflict between, 322; not to be overtasked, 147; or Pan, 262 Neceffity, the ruler of princes, 260 Negociation, better by speech than letter, 181 Negociator, how to choose, 182 Nemefis, or the viciffitude of things, 311; vengeance or re- Nero, Commodus, characters of, 69 New fects in religion, when dangerous, 215 Nobility, monarchy without it a tyranny, 47; numerous, Nobles and people, discontent of, 56 ODOURS, 146 Edipus, 340 Old men envious, 29 Order, life of despatch, 93 Ordnance, ufe of, in China 2000 years fince, 218 Orpheus, or philofophy, 283; fongs of, indicate moral or Otho, 6 Over early ripeness in youth, 162 PAINTING, imagination better than reality in, 164 Pallas, 56 Pan, or Nature, 262; god of huntsmen and shepherds, 263; Pandora's Box, 325 Parables, preceded philofophical reasoning, 248 Parents, their joys, 22; their forrows, 22; their partiality, Paffions, or Dionyfus, 316; to be avoided in age, 122 Pentheus, or perplexed judgement, 283 People fit for colonies, 129; overtaxed not fit for empire, 112 Perfians in Arbela, 110 Perfonal negociation, when good, 181 Philofophy deftroyed by feditious tumult, 287; or Orpheus, Phyfic and diet, 122 Phyficians, how to choose, 123 Pilate, 1 Pillars of government, 52 Place, fheweth the man, 40; rifing into, laborious, standing Placemen, thrice fervants, to the king, to the state, and to Plantations, 128 Plants yielding the most perfume, 174 Pleasure, allegorical reprefentation of, 295; in recurring to youthful days, 295 Pluto's helmet, 82 Political difcontent, how estimated, 53 Poverty, caufe of fedition, 52 Powder plot, 13 Power to do good, lawful end of aspiring, 38 Preface to Wisdom of the Ancients, 243 Prelates, when powerful, dangerous fubjects, 73 Prevention of difcontent, 57 Pride, flattered by abjectness in the fuitor, 296 Princes, bound only by neceffity, 260; compared to hea- venly bodies, 74 Private revenge, 16 |