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CONTENTS.
| 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-Gene ral. 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 to assassinate the Chancellor. Law reporters. Ordinances in Chancery. Judges, character of. Gardens, Bacon's delight in. Lincoln's Inn Fields, Gorhambury. His philosophical house. Alienation office. York house. His sixtieth birth-day. Ben Jonson's poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| 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 knowledge. 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. Differences. 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 eminence. Presents of furniture. Presents customary. No influence on judgment. Particular charges. Fears of the king and Buckingham. Advice of Williams. Interview 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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| CHAPTER IV. | ||
| From his Fall to his Death. | ||
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 retirement. Gondomar. D'Effiat. Sir Julius Cæsar. Selden. Ben Jonson. Mcantys. Bacon's pardon. Death of James. Decline of Bacon's health. Apophthegms. 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. Skepticism, 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. Conversation. Wit. Religious. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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