nature of, 129.

States of the mind, 251.

Statesmen, government most prosperous under learned, 17.
Strength of body, 168.

Style, its importance, 201.

for assent or investigation, 202.
concealed and open, 203.

by assertion or interrogation, 204.
according to the subject matter, 205.
according to new or old knowledge, 205.
by Analysis or Syntasis, 206.
as to propositions, 206.

Suffering, virtues and vices of, 242.
Suggestion in speaking, 185.

Superficial learning, coxcombry of, 80.
Superstitions, 103.

Supreme good, disputes respecting, 221.
Swiftness, 168.

Syllogysm, insufficiency of, 181.

judgment by, 186.

Sympathy between mind and body, 156.

between good of body and good of mind, 255.

Tacitus, his observation respecting Augustus Cæsar, 4.
his character of Nerva, 65.

Terms of Argument, necessity for strict definition of, 193.
Themistocles, pertinent answer of, 31.

Theology, 299, to 316.

Time, its resemblance to a stream, 48.

Times, history of, 109.

ancient and modern, 109.

Tongues, vehicula scientiæ, 59.

Tradition, 196 to 200.

method in, 201.

errours in delivery of, 202.

magistral, and not ingenuous, 50.

Trajan, a learned prince, 65.

honour attributed to, by Plinius Secundus, 253.

Truth and Falsehood, connection between, 44.

Understanding, division of learning among the three parts of, 100.
Understanding, 175.

Unity, Assent to, 139.

Universities, their use, 91.

too generally dedicated to professions, 92.
necessity of lectures in, 94.

want of experiments in, 95.

defects in the system of, 96.

want of mutual intelligence between, 98.

want of enquiry in, as to what knowledge is laboured and what

Virgil, erroneous distinction by, as to government and the liberal arts, 15.-
Virtue, knowledge of evil necessary to protection of, 237.

relates to society, 233.

description, without love of, is as a shadow, 239.

more potent in clearing doubts, than attaining ends, 231.

consists in habit, 248.

different sorts of, seldom united, 256.

aspirers to elegance of manners, seldom aim at, 258.

commendations of, 280.

rewarded in itself, 291.

Wealth, when to be sought, 287.
Will of man, 219.

Wisdom, true knowledge consists in, 53.

and power, difference between exemplified in the creation, 54.
Words, false appearances in, pervert the judgment, 192.

images of cogitations, 196.

how far to be relied on, 273.

Xenophon, an example of excellence in learning and arms, 15.
his retreat with the ten thousand, 79.