He watched the effect that each picture produced on such untutored beholders, and derived profit from their remarks, while they would as soon have thought of instructing Nature herself as him who seemed to rival her.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is difficult to take an exact account of all the lands in a country which are under cultivation, with their natural or their acquired value; and it is still more impossible to estimate the entire personal property which is at the disposal of a nation, and which eludes the strictest analysis by the diversity and the number of shapes under which it may occur.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

50 Borough, Sir John, 423-424 Boston, W. Cecil appointed Recorder of, 32 Bothwell, Earl of, 179 , 180 , 193-196 Boulogne, 15 , 18 , 24 Bourne, Lincolnshire, birthplace of Lord Burghley, 6 , 8 Bowes, Robert, 378 Boxall, Dr., 206 , 223 , 224 Briant, Father, 367 Brille, capture of, 264-265 Briquemault, Condé’s envoy to Elizabeth, 136 Brisson, French envoy, 355 Brittany, Spaniards in, 444 , 447 , 465 , 466 , 473 Bromley, Lord Chancellor, 365 , 408 , 419 Brownists, 459 Bruce, Robert, 395 Buckhurst, Lord, 411 Buiz, Paul, 305 , 306 , 307 Burghley, Lady, 50 , 61 , 189 , 292 ; death of, 438 Burghley, Lord, birth of, 5 ; pedigree, 6 ; education, 8 ; at Cambridge, 9 ; first marriage, 10 ; his first recommendation to Henry VIII., 11 , 12 ; custos brevium , 14 ; Master of Requests to Somerset, 14 ; present at the battle of Pinkie, 16 ; secretary to Somerset, 16 ; grants to, 18 ; his attitude on the downfall of the Protector, 19-22 , 28-31 ; sent to the Tower, 22 ; appointed Secretary of State, 24 ; his character, 25 ; his attitude towards Northumberland’s foreign policy, 27 ; knighted, 31 ; Recorder of Boston, 32 ; his report upon the Emperor’s demand for help, 33 ; his care for English commerce, 35 ; illness of, in the last days of Edward VI., 37 ; grant of Combe Park, 37 ; made Chancellor of the Garter, 37 ; his attitude towards Queen Mary’s succession, 38-43 ; his justification to Mary, 40-46 ; grants to him during Edward’s reign, 47 ; splendour of his household, 47 ; his love of books, 48 ; patronage of learning, 49 ; his liveries, 50 ; conforms to Catholicism, 52 ; brings Pole to England, 55 ; accompanies him to Calais, 56 ; represents Lincolnshire in Parliament, 57 ; his action in favour of the Protestants, 58-59 ; his habits, 60 ; his devotion to his wife, 61 ; his connections with Princess Elizabeth, 62-63 ; his position on the succession of Elizabeth, 66-67 ; his first arrangements for Elizabeth’s government, 69 ; his foreign policy on the accession, 72-73 , 76-77 ; his action in passing the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity, 78 ; Spanish plan to bribe him, 79 ; his approaches to Spain, 81 ; his Scottish policy, 82 , 85 , 86 , 88 ; war with Scotland, 91-94 ; arranges the terms of peace in Edinburgh, 95-96 ; court intrigue against him, 99 ; checkmates Dudley, 103 , 105 ; the suggestion as to the Council of Trent, 107-109 ; proceedings against Catholics, 111 ; his counsel to Knox, 115 ; his attitude towards Mary Stuart, 116 ; his numerous activities, 117 ; against piracy, 118 ; his assertion of English right to trade, 119 ; distress at his son’s conduct, 120-125 ; his attitude towards the Huguenots, 128-129 , 132-133 ; his relations with the Bishop of Aquila, 130-131 , 136-138 ; distrust of the French, 142 ; his activity in defensive measures, 144 ; his interest in mineralogy, 144 ; appointed Master of the Court of Wards, 145 ; [501] his action as Chancellor of Cambridge University, 145-146 ; his character, 150 ; Dudley’s intrigues against him, 152-153 ; renewed approaches to Spain, 154-157 ; continued intrigues of Dudley, 158 , 160 , 164-165 ; his conditions for the Archduke’s match, 169 , 174 ; his distrust of Catholic interference in Scotland, 175 ; his support of Murray, 176-177 ; his connection with the murder of Rizzio, &c., 179-180 ; urges the Archduke’s match, 181-182 ; again approaches the Spaniards, 183 ; with the Queen at Oxford, 186 ; visited by the Queen at Burghley, 187 ; dispute with Leicester, 187 ; urges the Archduke’s match, 189 , 190 ; opposes the Netherlands revolt, 190 ; his reception of the news of Darnley’s murder, 192-194 , 197 ; again approaches Spain, 198 ; his attitude towards Murray, 201-202 ; again leans to the Protestants, 206-207 ; renewed severity towards Catholics, 210-212 ; letter from Mary Stuart to him, 216 ; his treatment of her, 218 ; aids the Huguenots, 221-222 ; his rebuke to De Spes, 228 ; Leicester’s plot against him, 231 ; magnanimous treatment of his enemies, 238 ; his despair, 248 ; visits Mary at Chatsworth, 248 ; made a peer, 254 ; his activities, 255 ; his mode of life, 255-256 ; Ridolfi plot and expulsion of De Spes, 256-263 ; execution of Norfolk, 268 ; entertains the French envoys, 269 ; urges the measures in Parliament against Mary, 271 ; serious illness of, 271 ; action after St. Bartholomew, 278-279 ; approaches Spain again, 280 ; negotiations with De Guaras, 280-283 ; suggests sending Mary to Scotland, 285-286 ; his conditions for the Alençon match, 289 ; religious anxieties, 290-291 ; his household, 292-293 ; interview with Mary at Buxton, 294 ; book against him, 294-295 ; renewed approaches to Spain, 296-305 ; his anger at the Flushing pirates, 305-306 ; visit to Buxton, 311-312 ; his moderating influence, 320-321 ; in semi-retirement, 327 ; his attitude towards the Alençon match, 330-335 ; his foreign policy as an alternative of the Alençon match, 336-340 ; efforts in favour of peace, 343-344 ; opposes the retention of Drake’s plunder, 346-348 ; approaches to France, 351-352 ; entertains the embassy, 352 ; details of the feast, 353 ; his review of the political situation, 353-354 ; his attitude towards Alençon, 363 ; renewed approach to Spain, 365 ; his treatment of the Jesuits, 367-368 ; fresh predominance of the Protestant party, 372-373 ; demands new Councillors of his party, 374 ; wishes to retire, 379-380 ; his attitude towards the Throgmorton plot, 384 ; his review of foreign policy, 385 ; his attitude towards the religious controversy, 387-390 ; his relations with Dr. Parry, 391-392 ; slandered by the Leicester party, 393 ; his kindness to Mary Stuart, 394 ; his relations with Leicester in the Netherlands, 396-401 ; his conduct towards Mary Stuart after the Babington plot, 404-409 ; fresh approach to Spain, 411-412 ; intrigues against him, 416 ; his conduct towards Davison, 417-422 ; his attitude towards Drake’s Cadiz expedition, 424-426 ; negotiations for peace with Spain, 425 , 427-428 , 429-432 ; organises the defence of England, 429 , 432-434 ; visits the camp at Tilbury, 433 ; his troop of soldiers, 433 note ; his share in the Lisbon expedition, 436-438 ; death of his wife and his meditations thereon, 438-439 ; [502] change of policy, 440-442 ; opposition of Essex, 445-446 , 450 ; Spenser’s accusation of jealousy, 454 ; grant of Rockingham Forest, 455 ; his devotion to duty, 455 ; persistent attacks upon him, 456-457 ; his influence on the religious controversy, 459 ; his son to succeed him, 463-464 ; his cautious influence on the war-party, 465-466 ; his attitude in the Lopez plot, 468-470 ; description of him by Standen, 471 ; by Sir Michael Hicks, 472 ; renewed distrust of the French, 473 ; a scheme of national defence, 474 ; continued illness, 475 ; ill-disposed towards France, 477 ; Essex’s attempt to force his hands, 478-479 ; his disagreement with the Queen, 479 ; his attitude towards Essex’s attempt to relieve Calais, 480 ; towards “the islands voyage,” 484-486 ; his negotiations with De Maisse, 490-491 ; strives for peace with Spain to the last, 494-495 ; results of his national policy, 494 ; funeral, 496 ; appreciation of his character, 497-498 Burghley, Lord, his diary, 5 , 22 , 24 , 37 , 55 , 59 , 61 , 83 , 185 , 187 , 194 , 272 , 432 , 439 Burghley House, 47 , 188-189 , 327 Cadiz, Drake’s attack upon, 423-424 Calais, loss of, 64 , 72-73 , 75-76 Calais, restitution of, claimed, 198 , 208 , 369 , 478 Calais, capture of, by the Spaniards, 479-480 Cambridge University, 9 , 15 , 145-146 , 290 Campion, Father, 367 Cannon Row, Burghley’s house at, 31 , 60 , 66 , 120 , 256 Carbery Hill, 196 Carew, Arthur, 228 Carew, Sir Peter, 95 Carrack, the great ( Madre de Dios ), 452-453 Cartwright, leader of the Puritans, 290 Castelnau de la Mauvissière, 175 , 277 , 341-343 Cateau-Cambresis, peace of, 76 , 80 Catharine de Medici, 10 , 92 , 128 , 133 , 142 , 154 , 157 , 166 , 213 , 221-222 , 251 , 266 , 273 , 297 , 326 , 341 , 369 , 384 , 413 Catharine of Aragon, 3 , 4 , 7 Catholic plots against Elizabeth and Burghley, 225 , 244 , 256-259 , 270 , 317 , 364-366 , 371 , 376 , 383-384 , 389 , 390-392 , 402-405 , 422 , 450 , 456 , 470 Cavalcanti, Guido, 73 , 75 , 232 , 251 , 267 Cave, Sir Ambrose, 71 Cecil, David, grandfather of Burghley, 7 Cecil, Mrs., 293 , 427 Cecil, Richard, Burghley’s great-grandfather, 6 Cecil, Richard, Burghley’s father, 7 , 8 , 37 Cecil, Sir Robert, 433 , 437-438 , 445 , 450 , 453-454 , 454 note , 457-458 , 461-464 , 466-470 , 475 , 479-480 , 482-483 , 486 ; his mission to France, 491-493 Cecil, Thomas, birth of, 10 ; his journey to Paris, 120-122 ; his bad conduct, 122-125 , 327 , 336 , 433 ; quarrel with his brother, 454 Cecil (or Burghley) House, in the Strand, 269 ; grand banquet at, to the French envoys, 352-353 , 411 , 442 , 476 ; Burghley’s last days there, 494-495 Chark, a preacher at Cambridge, 291 Charles V., 3 , 4 , 13 , 27 , 32 , 33 , 53 Charles IX., King of France, 157 , 166-168 , 188 , 205 , 250 , 273 , 297 ; death of, 298 Chartres, Vidame of, 73 , 133 , 137 , 251 , 279 Chastelard, 143 Chateauneuf de l’Aubespine, French Ambassador, 407 , 413 , 416 [503] Chatillon, Cardinal, 221 , 244 , 251 Cheke, Mary, marriage with W. Cecil, 10 ; her death, 11 Cheke, Sir John, 9 ; appointed tutor to Edward VI., 12 , 14 , 31 , 32 , 38 , 45 ; exiled, 51 ; lured to England, conforms and dies, 58 Chester, Colonel, 301 , 302 , 307 Clerivault, a messenger of Mary Stuart, 194 Clinton, Lord Admiral, 31 , 47 , 66 , 99 , 269 , 327 , 365 Cobham, Lord, 16 , 60 , 208 , 221 , 258 Cobham, Sir Henry, sent to Spain, 302 ; sent to France, 381 Cobham, Thomas, 258 Coinage, Burghley’s care of, 28 , 117 Coligny, 106 , 110 , 133 , 136 , 183 , 206 , 221 , 242 , 270 Combe Park granted to Cecil, 37 Commerce, Burghley’s care of, 35 , 118 , 151 , 183 , 211 , 283 , 338 , 345 Commercial war with Spain, 151-153 , 158 , 227 , 280-283 Condé, Prince of, 127-128 , 133 , 136 , 154 , 157 , 204 , 221 , 225 ; killed, 242 Condé, Prince of, the younger, 278 , 297 , 342-343 Cooke, Sir Anthony, W. Cecil’s father-in-law, 12 , 14 ; exiled by Mary, 51 , 58 , 61 Cooke, Mildred, married to W. Cecil, 12 Cornwall, Spaniards land in, 474 Courtney, Earl of Devonshire, 50-51 Courtney, Sir William, 59 Cranmer, 14 , 19-21 , 32 , 53 , 57 Creighton, Father, 366 , 389 Crofts, Sir James, 347 , 365 , 372 , 374 , 424 , 430-431 , 444 Curll, Mary Stuart’s secretary, 404 Dacre, Lord, 234 Dale, Dr., English Ambassador in France, 290 Danett, Thomas, sent to Vienna, 188-189 Darcy, Lord, 240 Darcy, Sir Thomas, 14 Darnley, 93 , 130 , 144 , 161 , 163 , 171-72 , 173 , 179-180 , 181-182 , 192-193 D’Aubigny (Lennox), 341 , 354 , 364-366 , 371 , 376 Davison, William, 378 , 399 ; his connection with the execution of Mary Stuart, 417-422 ; Essex proposes him for Secretary of State, 445 De Cossé, Marshal, 298 , 303 De Maineville, Guisan envoy to Scotland, 376-377 De Maisse, Henry IV.’s envoy to Elizabeth, proposes peace with Spain, 489-491 Deeping granted to Cecil, 47 Dering, Edward, Lecturer at St. Paul’s, 291 Doughty, Lord Burghley’s agent with Drake, 346-347 Douglas, Archibald, 414 Drake, Sir Francis, his voyage round the world, 346-348 ; the question of his plunder, 358 , 365 ; his expeditions to aid Don Antonio, &c., 361 , 422 , 436-438 ; his expedition to Santo Domingo, &c., 395-396 , 402 ; his attack upon Cadiz, 423-425 ; urges reprisals against Spain, 465 ; his last expedition, 470 , 474-475 Dreux, battle of, 135 Drury, Sir William, 215 , 295 , 300 Drury, Thomas, 19 Dudley, Guildford, 38 Dudley, Lady Robert, 101 Dudley, Lord Robert.
— from The Great Lord Burghley: A study in Elizabethan statecraft by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

| +————————+——————————————+ It is evident that every primitive people uses as money those articles upon which they set the highest value—as cattle, jewels, slaves, salt, musket-balls, pins, snuff, whiskey, cotton shirts, leather, axes, and hammers; or those articles for which there was a foreign demand, and which they could trade off to the merchants for articles of necessity—as tea, silk, codfish, coonskins, cocoa-nuts, and tobacco.
— from Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly

A vast number of fresh facts are presented; a great array of old ones are marshalled in due order; the phenomena are traced as they appear throughout the whole animal kingdom, and historians and travellers are adduced in evidence to elucidate problems physical and metaphysical.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

The cabin was warm, and they had enough to eat, principally pemmican, and fish caught in nets set under the ice in the rivers.
— from South from Hudson Bay: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys by Ethel C. (Ethel Claire) Brill

Giving due praise to the speeches of Bright and Beesly, and commenting on press assertions that "the extraordinary numbers there were only brought together by their curiosity to hear Mr. Bright," Henry Adams continued: "That this was not the case [V2:pg 293] must have been evident to every person present.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

Our apothecaries will find it to their advantage in the end, to employ persons possessing sufficient knowledge to enable them to detect adulterations in drugs, and not only that, but to be able to prepare the most difficult articles.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York

Of one thing, however, I feel certain, and that is that they who are [Pg 226] now the most eager to overturn everything to effect present purposes, will be made to repent of it bitterly, either in their own persons, or in those of their descendants."
— from The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

John Stuart Mill suggests that “ personifying ” would be a much better term than “ theological ” to designate the earliest efforts to explain physical phenomena.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong