SERVANTS BOTH TRIBUTE OF DUTY AND PRESENTS OF AFFECTION,'IS, WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GRACIOUS PERMISSION, MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY

HIS MAJESTY'S

FAITHFUL SUBJECT

AND OBLIGED SERVANT

BASIL MONTAGU.

THE TABLE OF CONTENTS.

23

Essays.

PAGE

1. Truth

3

2. Death

6

3. Unity in Religion

8

4. Revenge

14

15

5. Adversity

6. Simulation and Dissimulation

17

7. Parents and Children

21

8. Marriage and Single Life

9. Envy

25

10. Love

31

11. Great Place

33

12. Boldness

33

13. Goodness, and Goodness of Nature

40

14. Nobility

43

15. Seditions and Troubles

44

16. Atheism

53

17. Superstition

57

18. Travel

59

19. Empire

62

20. Counsel

68

21. Delays

73

22. Cunning

75

23. Wisdom for a Man's self

79

24. Innovations

81

25. Dispatch

83

26. Seeming Wise

85

27. Friendship

87

28. Expense

96

29. The True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates - 97

30. Regiment of Health

- 109

31. Suspicion

- 111

32. Discourse

. 113

33. Plantations

- 115

34. Riches

• 119

ESSAYS.

35. Prophecies

36. Ambition

37. Masks and Triumphs

38. Nature in Men

39. Custom and Education

40. Fortune

41. Usury

42. Youth and Age

43. Beauty

44. Deformity

45. Building

46. Gardens

47. Negociating

48. Followers and Friends

49. Suitors

-50. Studies

51. Faction

52. Ceremonies and Respects

53. Praise

54. Vain Glory

55. Honour and Reputation

56. Judicature

57. Anger

58. Vicissitude of Things

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127

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131

133

135

137
142

· 144
- 146

- 147

- 152

- 163

- 162

- 164

- 167

- 169

- 171

- 174

- 173

- 177

- 179

- 184

- 187

APPENDIX TO ESSAYS.

A Fragment of an Essay of Fame

Of a King

194

- 196

MEDITATIONES SACRÆ,

The Works of God and Man

203

The Miracles of our Saviour

- 203

The Innocency of the Dove, and the Wisdom of the

Serpent

- 205

The Exaltation of Charity

- 206

The Moderation of Cares

- 207

Earthly Hope

- 208

Hypocrites

- 211

Impostors

. 213

The several kinds of Imposture

- 214

Atheism

. 215

Heresies

- 217

The Church and the Scripture

- 220

OF THE COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL

- 221

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PAGE

VISCELLANEOUS TRACTS UPON HUMAN PHILOSOPHY.

Mr. Bacon in Praise of Knowledge

- 251

Valerius Terminus, of the Interpretation of Nature 256

Filum Labyrinthi, Sive Formula, Inquisitiones

ad Filos

· 312

Sequela Chartarum; sive Inquisitio Legitima de

Calore et Frigore

324

A Letter and Discourse to Sir Henry Savill, touch-

ing Helps for the Intellectual Powers • 337

APOPHTHEGMES

- 347

OBSAMENTA RATIONALIA

. 418

COLLECTION OF SENTENCES

- 427

NOTES FOR CONVERSATION

- 430

ESSAY ON Death

432