ovum Organum," and the admiration it excited, 403.
His work of reducing and recompiling the laws of England, 403.
His tampering with the judges on the trial of Peacham, 404-408.
Attaches himself to Buckingham, 410.
His appointment as Lord Keeper, 413.
His share in the vices of the administration, 414.
His animosity towards Sir Edward Coke, 419.
His town and country residences, 420, 421.
His titles of Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, 421, 422.
Report against him of the Committee on the Courts of Justice, 424.
Nature of the charges, 425.
Overwhelming evidence to them, 426, 427.
His admission of his guilt, 427.
His sentence, 428.
Examination of Mr. Montagu's arguments in his defence, 429-440.
Mode in which he spent the last years of his life, 441, 442.
His death, 443.
Chief peculiarity of his philosophy, 444-455.
His views compared with those of Plato, 456-465.
To what his wide and durable fame is chiefly owing, 469.
His frequent treatment of moral subjects, 472.
His views as a theologian, 474.
Vulgar notion of him as inventor of the inductive method, 475.
Estimate of his analysis of that method, 475-484.
Union of audacity and sobriety in his temper, 484.
His amplitude of comprehension, 485.
His freedom from the spirit of controversy, 487.
His eloquence, wit, and similitudes, 487, 488.
His disciplined imagination, 490.
His boldness and originality, 491.
Unusual order in the development of his faculties, 492.
Specimens of his two styles, 493.
Value of his Essays, 494.
His greatest performance the first book of the Novum Organum, 495.
Contemplation of his life, 496, 497.

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, ii. 362-368.
Character of the class of statesmen to which he belonged, 363.
Classical acquirements of his wife, 368.

Baconian philosophy, its chief peculiarity, ii. 444.
Its essential spirit, 448.
Its method and object, 455, 456.
Comparative views of Bacon and Plato, 456-465.
Its beneficent spirit, 462, 465, 468, 469.
Its value compared with ancient philosophy, 465-478.

Banim, Mr., defends James II. as a supporter of toleration, ii. 330.

Barcelona, captured by Peterborough, ii. 161-164.

Barere, Bertrand, Memoires de, reviewed, iii. 487-590.
Approached nearest to the idea of universal depravity, 489.
His natural disposition, 490.