ANNOTATION. No better annotation can be given than in Bacon's own words,—' The mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge, is the greatest error of all the rest: For, men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession ;—but seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: As if there were sought in knowledge, a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terras for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale;—and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.'1 1 A dvancsment of Learning. INDEX TO ESSAYS. ES8AY OF PAGE Adversity .......... 70 Ambition .......... 410 Anger ........... 591 Atheism. . > 169 Beauty 459 Boldness .136 Building 463 Ceremonies and Respects . . . , . . 551 Children (Parents and) 92 Counsel 324 Cunning........... 241 Custom and Education 423 Death 15 Deformity .......... 461 Delays ........... 234 Discourse 368 Dispatch .......... 288 Dissimulation (Simulation and) 82 Education (Custom and) 423 Empire 215 Envy . 101 Expense 320 Faction 544 Fame (Fragment of an Essay on) 604 Followers and Friends 493 Fortune 437 Friendship 302 Gardens........... 468 Glory (Vain) 568 Goodness, and Goodness of Nature 139 Great Place . . . . . . . . . .116 Health (Eegimen of) 348 Honour and Reputation . . . . . . . -573 Innovations .......... 264 Judicature 582 Kingdoms and Estates (the True Greatness of) . . . 327 Knowledge (the Praise of) 608 Love 111 K.SSAV Of r.\r; Man's Self (Wisdom for a) .25 Marriage and Single Life ....... .9) Masques and Triumphs 41 < Nature in Men . 411 Negotiating 47- Nobility .14- 1'arents and Children .92 Plantations -377 Praise . . . -555 Prophecies 403 Pcvenge .59 Pieties 392 Seditions and Troubles 1 ^2 Self (Wisdom for a Man's) 257 Simulation and Dissimulation .82 Single Life (Marriage and) 96 Studies 501 Suitors 498 Superstition 1S 5 Suspicion • 3 54 Things (Vicissitudes of) 597 Travel 209 Truth . i Unity in Eeligion 23 Usury 442 Vicissitudes of Things 597 Vain Glory 5^8 Wisdom for a Man's Self 257 Wise (Seeming) 294 Youth and Age 445 GENERAL INDEX. Arsued, Bacon's use of the word, 301. Advocates, temptations of, 587. Age, old, Aristotle's description of, 451 ; and youth, mental qualities °f-455- Agreement, external, m religion, 57. Althorp, Lord, anecdote of, 562. Ambition, true end of, 120; not essentially evil, 412. Anger, different modes of appeasing, 594; distinguished from hatred, 593- . , Approbation, love of, 564; distinct from love of admiration, 565. Aristotle, 60, 62, no, 260, 309, 371, 420, 432, 451, 593. Arminians, the, 603. Associations, definite object in, 316, 428, 547. Atheism, causes of, 177; credulity of, 171 ; of Pagan nations, 173. Bacon, moral character of, 434. Bending the wand, 420. Benevolence, example of our Lord the rule for, 143; ill-directed, evils of, 141; nature of, mistaken, 144. recommended, iii. Carinet council, presidency of, 233. Candid men, 135. Caution, defect of, in the cunning, 254. Cavillers, difficulty of dealing with, xxi., 488. Celerity in decision and execution, importance of, illustrated, 235, 239. 274, 29°> 299- Coremonies, necessity of, 553; religious, multiplication of, 200. gratuitous disappointment of, 77; learning by rote, 520; choice of a profession for, 93; precocious, 456. Colonies, ancient Greek, 380; penal, 381; provision for spiritual wants of, 391. Crafty men, 255. * Credit, undeserved, instances of, 575. Cruelty, not inconsistent with natural benevolence, 145. Cunning not wisdom, 253; Churchill's description of, 256. Deference, mistakes concerning, 65, 420, 511, 565. Deformities, original, 462. Diet, remark concerning, 349. Differences in doctrine and morals, whether designed, 36, 173; reli- Difficulties in study, rule for, 521. Dignity, moral, sense of, essential, 561. Disciples, three applications of the term, 48. Discipline and trial, 77. Discussion, oral and written, compared, 479; cautions to be observed Doubt, impatience of, 291 ; not inconsistent with a habit of faith. Duelling, remarks respecting, 66. Economy, 14. Education, like the grafting of a tree, 431, 432; Irish Board of, 534. Egypt, prevalence of envy in, 107. Eiron and Bomolochus, 371. Embarrassment, pecuniary, of the rich, 324. England, freedom of, from ambition, 337. English, injustice done to the, 337. Errors, vulgar, secondary, 64. Erroneous notions, how to be dealt with, 485. Etymology, abuse of, 245, 533. Evils, escaped, underrating of, 159. Examples, bad, 318. Expect, ambiguity of the word, 325. Expediency, 6. Expenditure, showy, 323. |