Prelates, when powerful, dangerous fubjects, 68 Princes, bound only by neceffity, 240; compared to hea- Private revenge, 14 Privation of discontent, 53 Prolongation of life, 311 Prometheus, 53; tradition of, 304; inventor of fire, 309 Prophecy, Spanish fleet, 131 Profperity, 15 Proferpina, or Spirit, 326; fable of, relating to nature, 327 Providence, nature of, illuftrated by fable of Prometheus, 307 Pyrrha and Deucalion, 291 QUARRELS, wisdom of avoiding, 64 REBELLIONS, or the fable of Typhon, 234 Religion, true, unchangeable, 201; pillar of government, Religious differences diffolve friendships, 285; errors fhould Remedies of fedition, 51 Reftitution, 291 Revenge, public, 14; private, 14; wild justice, 13 Romans and Turks profpered by arms alone, 110 Rooms for fummer and winter, 160 SAFETY-valve for fedition, 53 Satire falt, not bitter, 119 Saturn fabled as matter, 269 Savages in colonies, how to be treated, 124 Schoolmen, 60 Scylla and Icarus, 319 Secrecy, virtue of, a confeffion, 18 Seditions, 49; materials of, 49; poverty and discontent- ment, 49; caufes of, 50; innovation in religion, 50; T Seditious tumult deftructive of philosophy, 268 Seeming Wife, 89 Self-love, inftances of, 84; or Narcissus, 237 Seneca, 5, 15; prophecy of, 129; on anger, 196 Shepherds of the people fhould calendar tempefts, 46 Single Life and Marriage, 23 Slaves, Spartan, 109; abolished by Chriftian law, 109 Solitude, faying of, 91 Solomon, his fayings of riches, 126 Soul, fhaken off mortality, 214 Spanish proverb of dispatch, 87; state, 108 Spartan ftate, 107; firm, while small, 107; ruined by ex- tenfion, 107 Speeches, sharp, by kings, danger of, 54; Sphynx, or Science, riddle of, 321 Statue of Man, 304 Study, fet hours for, 140 Styx, or neceffity, 241; or Leagues, 240 Suitor of Juno, or Bafenefs, 276 Superftition, caufes of, 67; evils of, 59 Sufpicions, 117; of suspicion, 116 Switzers, laft long as a people, 45 Sybilla's offer, 76 Sylla's friendship for Pompey, 93 Syrens, the, or Pleasures, 332; their habitation, 333 Tacitus, upon Fame, 47 Talking of atheism, 57 Tamerlane, envious, 27 Tempefts, greatest about the equinox, 46 Terror, ministers of, or Cyclops, 236 Thieves, not fit for plantations, 121 Themistocles, fayings of, 102 Things, but two conftant, 199 Tigillinus, fayings of, 81 Time, the greatest innovator, 86 Travel, 61; fcenes at fea and on fhore, 61; obfervations in travelling, 63 Tree of monarchy, 107 Troubles and Seditions, 46 True difpatch, 87 Truth, 1; beft obtained in counsel, when kings are filent, 77 Typhon, or the Rebel, 233 Tythonus, or Satiety, 275 UNITY in Religion, 7 Ulyffes and Sirens, 333 Ufurers, 145 Ufury, 145; must be permitted, 146; difcommodities of, Vefpafian, prophecy of, 129 Vefpafian's laying of Nero, 65 Vices of authority, four, 37 Viciffitude of things, 292 Viciffitudes in war, 203; chiefly in three things, 203; of Virgil's character of Italy, 106 Virgil, Battle of Actium, 294 Virtue, best plain fet, 153; walks not in the highway, 213 WAR, its finews not money, 104; War, or Perfeus, 258; Wars, of modern times, 112; ufual on the decay of an em- Wealth, of nations, 52; pillar of government, 49 Wisdom of the Ancients, 225; for a Man's Self, 83 YOUNG MEN, their faults, 151 Youth, 150; fitter for education than counsel, 151; pre- Zeal, or Diomed, 282 |