Invents barometer and other

Em-

Returns to Twickenham.

instruments. Resumes his professional labours.

ployed by the Queen. Effort to secure a vacancy. M.A.

of Cambridge. Work on Elements of the law. Essex

appointed to command in Spain. The Essays. Sacred

Meditations. Colours of Good and Evil. Proposal of

marriage to Lady Hatton. Reading on Statute of Uses.

Essex solicits command in Ireland. Interruption of inti-

macy between Bacon and Essex. Bacon dissuades

Essex from accepting the command. Essex appointed

Lord Lieutenant. His rash conduct. Intercession by

Bacon with the Queen. Return of Essex. His impri-

sonment. Bacon's friendship. Private investigation in

Star Chamber. Bacon's objection to this. Apology for

Essex. Public proceeding against Essex. Bacon coun-

sel against Essex. Reasons for this. Trial of Essex.

His application to the Queen after the trial. Obloquy

of Bacon. Imprudent conduct of partizans of Essex.

Bacon's exertions with the Queen for Essex. Writes

letters for him. Impropriety of this. Essex liberated.

Monopoly of Sweet Wines. Essex's violence. Bacon's

interview with the Queen. Treason of Essex. Bacon's

difficult situation. Trial of Essex. His Execution.

Account of his treason. Death of the Queen. Bacon's

praise of the Queen.

Part II.

FROM THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH TO THE

DEATH OF BACON.

Chapter I.

From the accession of James till the publica-

tion of the Wisdom of the Ancients

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Bacon's prospects. Approach of the King. Parliament.
Visit to Eton. Letter to Saville. Education. Great-

ness of Britain. Extent of Territory. Compactness.
Martial valour. Riches. His parliamentary exertions.
Advancement of Learning. Decision. Dedication.
Objections from Divines. Politicians. Errors of learned
men. Study of Words. Government. Posthumous
fame. Analysis of science of Man. Exertions in active
life. Ireland. Scotland. Church Reform. Church
Controversies. Edification of the Church. Solicitor
General. Cogitata et Visa. Wisdom of the Ancients.

Chapter II.

From the publication of the Wisdom of the

Ancients to the publication of the Novum

Organum

Marshalsea. Charter House. Death of the Prince.

Essays. Prosecution of Lord Sanquhar. Confession

of Faith. Attorney General. Parliament of 1614.

Duelling. Undertakers. Benevolences. St. John.

Peacham. Consulting the Judges. Owen. Villiers.

Political advice to Villiers. Overbury. Somerset.

Disputes between King's Bench and Chancery. Privy

Counsellor. Resignation and Death of Lord Brackley.

Lord Keeper. His pecuniary loss. Presents to the

Monarch and Officers of State. To the Lord Keeper.

To Judges. Abolition in France of the Epices. King's

journey to Scotland. Takes his seat in Chancery. His

address. Jurisdiction. Patents. Delays. Expense.

Spanish match. Marriage of Sir John Villiers. Finance.

Civil List. Lord Chancellor. Wrenham. Dulwich.

Dutch merchants. Lord Suffolk. Buckingham receives

£20,000 for the place of Lord Treasurer. Bacon's

judicial exertions. Buckingham's interference. Slander

of Wraynham. Presents in the case of Egerton and

Egerton. In Aubrey and Bronker. From Grocers and

Apothecaries. Hody and Hody. Lord Clifford threatens

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to assassinate the Chancellor. Law Reporters. Ordi-
nances in Chancery. Judges, character of. Gardens,
Bacon's delight in. Lincoln's Inn Fields. Gorhambury.
Alienation Office. York
His philosophical house.

House. His sixtieth birth-day. Ben Jonson's poem.

Chapter III.

From the publication of the Novum Organum

to his retirement from active life

Resolution to publish Novum Organum. Literate

Experience. Division of Instauratio Magna. Division

of the Sciences. Novum Organum.
Our powers.

Defects of the Senses. Division of Idols. Idols of the

Tribe of the Market: of the Den: of the Theatre.

Destruction of Idols. Our motives for acquiring know-

ledge. Obstacles to acquiring knowledge. Want of

time. Want of means. Right road. Formation of

opinion. Affirmative table. Negative table. Table of

comparisons. Table of results. Instances, solitary,

travelling, journeying, constituent, patent, maxima,

frontier, singular, divorced, deviating, crucial. Diffe-

rences. Parliamentary proceedings. Charge of bribery.

Decision against donors. Presents advised by counsel.

Custom of receiving presents. Error of judging of

past by present times. Presents made by men of emi-

nence. Presents of furniture. Presents customary. No

influence on judgment. Particular charges. Fears of

the King and Buckingham. Advice of Williams. Inter-

view with the King. Meeting of Parliament. King's

speech. Letter to the Lords. Letter to the King.

Sentence. His silence. Letter from the Tower. Letter

to the King. Lambeth Library. His will. Silence of

friends. Tennison. Bushel. Williams, Lord Keeper.

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Imprisonment of Bacon. Liberation. Release of
fine. History of Henry VII. Greatness of states.
Familiar illustrations. His piety. Eton College. De
Augmentis. History of Life and Death. Importance of
knowledge of the body. Consumption. Vital spirit.
All bodies have a spirit. Flight. Death. Importance of
science of Animal Spirit. Bacon's works after his retire-
ment. Gondomar. D'Effiat. Sir Julius Cæsar. Selden.

Ben Jonson. Meautys. Bacon's pardon. Death of

James. Decline of Bacon's health. Apothegms. Psalms.

Confession of Faith. Prayers. Student's prayer.

Author's prayer. Chancellor's prayer. Prayers in the

Instauration in the De Augmentis-in the Novum

Organum in the Instauratio, third part-in the Minor

publications. Paradoxes. Letters. Scepticism, nature

of. Rawley's statement. Bacon's will. Cause of Bacon's

death. Bacon's last letter. Opening of Bacon's will.

Funeral. Monument. Meautys. Bacon's temperament.

Bacon's person.

His mind. Extent of views. Senses.

Imagination. Understanding. Temporary inability to
acquire knowledge. Particular studies. Memory.
Composition. Causes of Bacon's entering active life.
Bacon's entrance into active life. His motive for reform.
Reformer. Bacon as a Lawyer-Judge-Patron-
Statesman. Reform as Statesman and Lawyer-as
Statesman. Reform of law. His private life. Conver-
sation. Wit. Religious. Conclusion.