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Pleasures, can fhew themselves conftant and invincible, and are able to fupport their own virtuous inclination, against all heady and forcible Perfuafions whatsoever; as by the Example of Ulysses, that fo peremptorily interdicted all peftilent Counfel, and Flatteries of his Companions, as the most dangerous and pernicious Poisons to captivate the Mind. But of all other Remedies in this Cafe, that of Orpheus is moft Predominant: For they that chaunt and refound the Praises of the Gods, confound and diffipate the Voices and Incantations of the Syrens; for Divine Meditations do not only in Power fubdue all fenfual Pleasures; but also far exceed them in Swiftness and Delight.

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CHELOUS, warlike expeditions, fabled by, 296; or

A Battle, 295

Acteon, 262

Acting in fong, 136

Adrian, an envious man, 27

Adverfity, 15

Age, 150; how to be treated, 114; not to be defied, 114
Aged men, their faults, 151

Agefilaus, envious, 27

Albert Durer, 153

Allegory of the contest between art and nature, 303
Ambition, 133

Anger, 196; how it may be calmed and tempered, 197;
caufes and motives of, 197; how to raise or appeafe in
another, 198; in bitterness of words, or revealing of fe-
crets, to be especially avoided, 198; remedies againit, 198
Apelles, 153

Appendix to Effays, 207

Ardent natures not early ripe for action, 150

Argus, 77

Arms, flourish in the youth of a ftate, 205; to be most stu-
died for national greatness, 109

Art and Nature, allegory of conteft between, 303

Art of converfation, 118

Atalanta, or gain, 302

Atheism, 55; evils of, 57; talking of, 55

Atheist, contemplative, rare, 57

Auguftus Cæfar's emblem of the Sphynx, 325

Authority, vices of, four, 37

Aviaries, 170

Bacchus, (called Dionyfius) his car, 298; or Paffion, 297

Bachelors, or childlefs, are beft public men, 23; from par-
fimony, 23; from a defire to be rich, 23; from difregard
of future times, 23; are best friends, 24; are best fer-
vants, 24; best masters, 24; best churchmen, 24; are
worft fubjects, 24

Bafenefs, or Suitor of Juno, 276

Battle, 295

Beauty, beft part of, a picture cannot exprefs, 153

Boldness, advantages of, 39; child of ignorance and base-
nefs, 39; fucceeds in states, 39; is blind, 41; good in
foldiers and fervants, 41; ill keeper of promifes, 40; of
Mahomet, 40

Books, speak plain, when courtiers fear, 75
Briareus, 53, 77

Building, 156

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Cheerfulness at meals, 115

Children, pinched in allowance, are made base and full of
fhifts, 22; and parents, 21; and wife, difcipline of hu-
manity, 24

Cicero, his faying of Pofthumus, 126; remarks on Cato, 233,
faying of, 89

Clergy, overgrown evils of, 51

Colours for candlelight, 136

Comets, 201

Commiffions, ftanding, commended, 75

Committees best compofed of indifferent persons, 75
Contemplative atheist rare, 57

Converfation, art of, 120

Cofmus, duke of Florence, 14

Counsel, inconveniences of, 72; revealing affairs, 72; weak-
ening authority, 72; unfaithful or unwife, 72; cabinet,
when and why introduced, 73; the highest confidence,
70; fafety in, 71; Solomon's fayings of, 71

Counsellor of kings, skilful in his business, not in his nature,

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Cupid, allegorical blindness of, 281; his four attributes,
281; or Atom, 281

Cunning, crooked wisdom, 78; precepts of, 78; practised
by diverfion, by surprise, by haste, 79

Custom, 140; force of, 142; ftronger than nature or bonds,
140; tyranny of, 141

Cyclops, or minifters of terror, 236

Dedalus, or Mechanick, 286
Dancing to mufic, 136

Dangers beft met half way, 77

David's harp, 16

Death, early, of men of genius, 274; effay on, 212; a small
evil, 212; fear of, 4; gracious to the miserable, 216
Decay of an empire may bring wars, 203

Deformed men envious, 27; perfons bold, 155; without
natural affection, 154

Deformity, 154

Delays, 76

Deluge and earthquake, 199

Democritus, 311; his opinion, 269, 280
Demofthenes' opinion of an orator, 39

Deucalion, or Restitution, 291

Diet and phyfic, 115

Diomed, fable of, explained, 283; or zeal, 282

Difcipline of humanity, wife and children, 24

Difcontent, cause of fedition, 49; prevention of, 53; poli-

tical enlargement of, 50; when dangerous, 50

Difcourfe, its faults and merits, 118

Discovery of a man's felf, 19

Difpatch affected, 87

Diffimulation and Simulation, 16

Divination, or Cassandra, 231

Divine nature of goodness, 44

Domitian, dream of, 130

EARTH, or the common people, 261
Education, 140; but early custom, 142
Elizabeth, prophecy concerning, 131
Empire, 64

Empedocles, 311

Endymion, or the Favourite, 259

Envy, an evil eye, 25; quality of the vicious, 26; of the

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