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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.

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.

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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.

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