INDEX
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The 1860 six volume print set had the index for all six volumes at the end to volume six. This PG edition has the complete index for all volumes at the end of each volume.
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A.
A priori reasoning, [8] [9] [10] [20] [21] [59]
Abbt and abbot, difference between, [76]
Academy, character of its doctrines, [411]
Academy, French, (the), [2] [3] ; has been of no benefit to literature, [23] ; its treatment of Corneille and Voltaire, [23] [21] ; the scene of the fiercest animosities, [23]
Academy of the Floral Games, at Toulouse, [136] [137] ; Acting, Garrick's, quotation from Fielding illustrative of, i. 332; the true test of excellence in,[133]
Adam, Robert, court architect to George III., [11]
Addington, Henry, speaker of the House of Commons, [282] ; made First Lord of the Treasury, [282] ; his administration, [282] [281] ; coolness between him and Pitt, [285] [286] ; their quarrel, [287] ; his resignation, [290] [112] ; raised to the Peerage, [112] ; raised to the Peerage, [293]
Addison, Joseph, review of Miss Aikin's life of, [321] [122] ; his character, [323] [321] ; sketch of his father's life, [321] [325] ; his birth and early life, [325] [327] ; appointed to a scholarship in Magdalene College, Oxford, [327] ; his classical attainments, [327] [330] ; his Essay on the Evidences of Christianity, [330] ; his Latin poems, [331] [332] ; contributes a preface to Dryden's Georgies, [335] ; his intention to take orders frustrated. [335] ; sent by the government to the Continent, [333] ; his introduction to Boileau, [310] ; leaves Paris and proceeds to Venice, [311] [315] ; his residence in Italy, [315] [350] ; composes his Epistle to Montague (then Lord Halifax), [350] ; his prospects clouded by the death of William III., [351] ; becomes tutor to a young English traveller, [351] ; writes his Treatise on Medals, [351] ; repairs to Holland, [351] ; returns to England, [351] ; his cordial reception and introduction into the Kit Cat Club, [351] ; his pecuniary difficulties, [352] ; engaged by Godolphin to write a poem in honour of Marlborough's exploits, [351] [355] ; is appointed to a Commissionership, [355] ; merits of his "Campaign," [356] ; criticism of his Travels in Italy, [329] [359] ; his opera of Rosamond, [361] ; is made Undersecretary of State, and accompanies the Earl of Halifax to Hanover, [361] [302] ; his election to the House of Commons, [362] ; his failure as a speaker, [362] ; his popularity and talents for conversation, [365] [367] ; his timidity and constraint among strangers, [367] ; his favorite associates, [368] [371] ; becomes Chief Secretary for Ireland under Wharton, [371] ; origination of the Tatler, [373] [371] ; his characteristics as a writer, [373] [378] ; compared with Swift and Voltaire as a master of the art of ridicule, [377] [379] ; his pecuniary losses, [382] [383] ; loss of his Secretaryship, [382] ; resignation of his Fellowship, [383] ; encouragement and disappointment of his advances towards a great lad [383] ; returned to Parliament without a contest, [383] ; his Whig Examiner, [384] ; intercedes with the Tories on behalf of Ambrose Phillipps and Steele, [384] ; his discontinuance of the Tatler and commencement of the Spectator, [384] ; his part in the Spectator, [385] ; his commencement and discontinuance of the Guardian, [389] ; his Cato, [345] [390] [394] [365] [366] ; his intercourse with Pope, [394] [395] ; his concern for Steele, [396] ; begins a new series of the Spectator, [397] ; appointed secretary to the Lords Justices of the Council on the death of Queen Anne. [397] ; again appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, [399] ; his relations with Swift and Tickell, [399] [400] ; removed to the Board of Trade, [401] ; production of his Drummer, [401] ; his Freeholder, [402] ; his estrangement from Pope, [403] [404] ; his long courtship of the Countess Dowager of Warwick and union with her, [411] [412] ; takes up his abode at Holland House, [412] ; appointed Secretary of State bv Sunderland, [413] ; failure of his health, [413] [418] ; resigns his post, [413] ; receives a pension, [414] ; his estrangement from Steele and other friends, [414] [415] ; advocates the bill for limiting the number of Peers, [415] ; refutation of a calumny upon him, [417] ; intrusts his works to Tickell, and dedicates them to Greggs, [418] ; sends for Gay on his death-bed to ask his forgiveness, [418] [419] ; his death and funeral, [420] ; Tickell's eulogy on his death, [421] ; superb edition of his works, [421] ; his monument in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, [422] ; praised by Dryden, [369]
Addison, Dr. Lancelot, sketch of his life, [325] [325]
Adiaphorists, a sect of German Protestants, [7] [8]
Adultery, how represented by the Dramatists of the Restoration, [357]
Advancement of Learning, by Bacon, its publication, [383]
Æschines, his character, [193] [194]
Æschylus and the Greek Drama, [210] [229]
Afghanistan, the monarchy of, analogous to that of England in the 10th century, [29] ; bravery of its inhabitants, [23] ; the English the only army in India which could compete with them, [30] ; their devastation in India, [207]
Agricultural and manufacturing laborers, comparison of their condition, [145] [148]
Agitjari, the singer, [256]
Aiken, Miss, review of her Life of Addison, [321] [422]
Aix, its capture, [244]
Akenside, his epistle to Curio, [183]
Alcibiades, suspected of assisting at a mock celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries, [49]
Aldrich, Dean, [113]
Alexander the Great compared with Clive, [297]
Altieri, his greatness, [61] ; influence of Dante upon his style, [61] [62] ; comparison between him and Cowper, [350] ; his Rosmunda contrasted with Shakspere's Lady Macbeth, [175] ; influence of Plutarch and the writers of his school upon, i. 401. [401]
Allahabad, [27]
Allegories of Johnson and Addison, [252]
Allegory, difficulty of making it interesting, [252]
Allegro and Penseroso, [215]
Alphabetical writing, the greatest of human inventions, [453] ; comparative views of its value by Plato and Bacon, [453] [454]
America, acquisitions of the Catholic Church in, [300] ; its capabilities, [301]
American Colonies, British, war with them, [57] [59] ; act for imposing stamp duties upon them, [58] [65] ; their disaffection, [76] ; revival of the dispute with them, [105] ; progress of their resistance, [106]
Anabaptists, their origin, [12]
Anacharsis, reputed contriver of the potter's wheel, [438]
Analysis, critical not applicable with exactness to poetry, [325] ; but grows more accurate as criticism improves, [321]
Anaverdy Khan, governor of tlie Carnatic, [211]
Angria, his fortress of Gheriah reduced by Clive, [228]
Anne, Queen, her political and religious inclinations, [130] ; changes in her government in 1710, [130] ; relative estimation bv the Whigs and the Tories of her reign, [133] [140] ; state of parties at her accession, v. 352, [352] [353] ; dismisses the Whigs, [381] [382] ; change in the conduct of public affairs consequent on her death, [397] ; touches Johnson for the king's evil, [173] ; her cabinet during the Seven Years' War, [410]
Antijacobin Review, (the new), vi. 405; contrasted with the Antijacobin, [400] [407]
Antioch, Grecian eloquence at, [301]
Anytus, [420]
Apostolical succession, Mr. Gladstone claims it for the Church of England, [100] ; to 178. [178]
Apprentices, negro, in the West Indies, [307] [374] [370] [378] [383]
Aquinas, Thomas, [478]
Arab fable of the Great Pyramid, [347]
Arbuthnot's Satirical Works, [377]
Archimedes, his slight estimate of his inventions, [450]
Archytas, rebuked by Plato, [449]
Arcot, Nabob of, his relations with England, [211] [219] ; his claims recognized by the English, [213]
Areopagitiea, Milton's allusion to, [204]
Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Walpole's administration, [204]
Arimant, Dryden's, [357]
Ariosto, [60]
Aristophanes, [352] ; his clouds a true picture of the change in his countrymen's character, [383]
Aristotle, his authority impaired by the Reformation, [440] ; the most profound critic of antiquity, [140] [141] ; his doctrine in regard to poetry, [40] ; the superstructure of his treatise on poetry not equal to its plan, [140]
Arithmetic, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon, [448]
Arlington, Lord, his character, [30] ; his coldness for the Triple Alliance, [37] ; his impeachment, [50]
Armies in the middle ages, how constituted, [282] [478] a powerful restraint on the regal power, [478] ; subsequent change in this respect, [479]
Arms, British, successes of, against the French in 1758, [244] [247]
Army, (the) control of, by Charles I., or by the Parliament, [489] ; its triumph over both, [497] ; danger of a standing army becoming an instrument of despotism, [487]
Arne, Dr., set to music Addison's opera of Rosamund, [361]
Arragon and Castile, their old institutions favorable to public liberty iii. 80. [80]
Arrian, [395]
Art of War, Machiavelli's, [306]
Arundel, Earl of, iii. [434]
Asia, Central, its people, [28]
Asiatic Society, commencement of its career under Warren Hastings, [98]
Assemblies, deliberative, [2] [40]
Assembly, National, the French, [46] [48] [68] [71] [443] [446]
Astronomy, comparative estimate of by Socrates and by Bacon, [452]
Athenian jurymen, stipend of, [33] ; note; police, name of, i. 34, [34] ; note; magistrates, name of, who took cognisance of offences against religion, i. 53, [139] ; note.; orators, essay on, [139] [157] ; oratory unequalled, [145] ; causes of its excellence, [145] ; its quality, [151] [153] [156]
Johnson's ignorance of Athenian character, [146] [418] ; intelligence of the populace, and its causes, [140] [149] ; books the least part of their education, [147] ; what it consisted in, [148] ; their knowledge necessarily defective, [148] ; and illogical from its conversational character, [149] ; eloquence, history of, [151] [153] ; when at its height, [153] [154] ; coincidence between their progress in the art of war and the art of oratory, [155] ; steps by which Athenian oratory approached to finished excellence extemporaneous with those by which its character sank, [153] ; causes of this phenomenon, [154] ; orators, in proportion as they became more expert, grew less respectable in general character, [155] ; their vast abilities, [151] ; statesmen, their decline and its causes, [155] ; ostracism, [182] ; comedies, impurity of, [182] [2] ; reprinted at the two Universities, [182] ; iii. 2. [2]
"Athenian Revels," Scenes from, [30] ; to: [54]
Athenians (the) grew more sceptical with the progress of their civilization, [383] ; the causes of their deficiencies in logical accuracy, [383] [384]
Johnson's opinion of them, [384] [418]
Athens, the most disreputable part of, i. 31, note ; favorite epithet of, i. 30, [30] ; note; her decline and its characteristics, [153] [154] Mr. Clifford's preference of Sparta over, [181] ; contrasted with Sparta, [185] [187] ; seditions in, [188] ; effect of slavery in, [181] ; her liturgic system, [190] ; period of minority in, [191] [192] ; influence of her genius upon the world, [200] [201]
Attainder, an act of, warrantable, [471]
Atterbury, Francis, life of, vi. [112] [131] ; his youth, [112] ; his defence of Luther, [113] ; appointed a royal chaplain, [113] ; his share in the controversy about the Letters of Phalaris, [115] [119] [110] ; prominent as a high-churchman, [119] [120] ; made Dean of Carlisle, [120] ; defends Sacheverell, [121] ; made Dean of Christ Church, [121] ; desires to proclaim James II., [122] ; joins the opposition, [123] ; refuses to declare for the Protestant succession, [123] ; corresponds with the Pretender, [123] [124] ; his private life, [124] [125] [129] ; reads the funeral service over the body of Addison, [124] [420] ; imprisoned for his part in the Jacobite conspiracy, [125] ; his trial and sentence, [120] [127] ; his exile, [128] [129] ; his favor with the Pretender, [129] [130] ; vindicates himself from the charge of having garbled Clarendon's history, [130] ; his death and burial, [131]
Attila, [300]
Attributes of God,subtle speculations touching them imply no high degree of intellectual culture, [303] [304] "
Aubrey, his charge of corruption against Bacon, [413]
Bacon's decision against him after his present, [430]
Augsburg, Confession of, its adoption in Sweden, [329]
Augustin, St., iv. 300. [300]
Attrungzebe, his policy, [205] [206]
Austen, Jane, notice of, [307] [308]
Austin, Sarah, her character as a translator, [299] [349]
Austria, success of her armies in the Catholic cause, [337]
Authors, their present position, [190] ; to: [197]
Avignon, the Papal Court transferred from Rome to, [312]
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B.
Baber, founder of the Mogul empire, [202]
Bacon, Lady, mother of Lord Bacon, [349]
Bacon, Lord, review of Basil Montagu's new edition of the works of, [336] [495] ; his mother distinguished as a linguist, [349] ; his early years, [352] [355] ; his services refused by government, [355] [356] ; his admission at Gray's Inn, [357] ; his legal attainments, [358] ; sat in Parliament in [159]3, [359] ; part he took in politics, [360] ; his friendship with the Earl of Essex, [305] [372] ; examination of his conduct to Essex, [373] [384] ; influence of King James on his fortunes, [383] ; his servility to Lord Southampton, [384] ; influence his talents had with the public, [386] ; his distinction in Parliament and in the courts of law, [388] ; his literary and philosophical works, [388] ; his "Novum Organum," and the admiration it excited, [388] ; his work of reducing and recompiling the laws of England, [389] ; his tampering with the judges on the trial of Peacham, [389] [394] ; attaches himself to Buckingham, [390] ; his appointment as Lord Keeper, [399] ; his share in the vices of the administration, [400] ; his animosity towards Sir Edward Coke, [405] [407] ; his town and country residences, [408] [409] ; his titles of Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, report against him of the Committee on the Courts of Justice, [413] ; nature of the charges, [413] [414] ; overwhelming evidence to them, [414] [410] ; his admission of his guilt, [410] ; his sentence, [417] ; examination of Mr. Montagu's arguments in his defence, [417] [430] ; mode in which he spent the last years of his life, [431] [432] ; chief peculiarity of his philosophy, [435] [447] ; his views compared with those of Plato, [448] [455] ; to what his wide and durable fame is chiefly owing, [403] ; his frequent treatment of moral subjects, [407] ; his views as a theologian, [409] ; vulgar notion of him as inventor of the inductive method, [470] ; estimate of his analysis of that method, [471] [479] ; union of audacity and sobriety in his temper, [480] ; his amplitude of comprehension, [481] [482] ; his freedom from the spirit of controversy, [484] ; his eloquence, wit, and similitudes, [484] ; his disciplined imagination. [487] ; his boldness and originality, [488] ; unusual development in the order of his faculties, [489] ; his resemblance to the mind of Burke, [489] ; specimens of his two styles, [490] [491] ; value of his Essays, [491] ; his greatest performance the first book of the Novum Organum, [492] ; contemplation of his life, [492] [495] ; his reasoning upon the principle of heat, [90] ; his system generally as opposed to the schoolmen, [78] [79] [103] ; his objections to the system of education at the Universities, [445]
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his character, [342] [448]
Baconian philosophy, its chief peculiarity, [435] ; its essential spirit, [439] ; its method and object differed from the ancient, [448] ; comparative views of Bacon and Plato, [448] [159] ; its beneficent spirit, [455] [458] [403] ; its value compared with ancient philosophy, [459] [471]
Baillie, Gen., destruction of his detachment by Hyder Ali, [72]
Balance of power, interest of the Popes in preserving it, [338]
Banim, Mr., his defence of James II. as a supporter of toleration, [304]
Banking operations of Italy ill the [14] ; century, [270]
Baptists, (the) Bunyan's position among, [140] [147]
Bar (the) its degraded condition in the time of James II., [520]
Barbary, work on, by Rev. Dr. Addison, [325]
Barbarians, Mitford's preference of Greeks, [190]
Barcelona, capture of, by Peterborough, [110]
Barère, Bertrand, Memoirs of, reviewed, [423] [539] ; opinions of the editors as to his character, [424] ; his real character, [425] [427] [429] [407] ; has hitherto found no apologist, [420] ; compared with Danton and Robespierre, [420] ; his natural disposition, [427] ; character of his memoirs, [429] [430] ; their mendacity, [431] [430] [445] ; their literary value, [430] ; his birth and education, [430] [437] ; his marriage, [438] ; first visit to Paris, [439] ; his journal, [439] ; elected a representative of the Third Estate, [440] ; his character as a legislator, [441] ; his oratory, [442] [471] [472] ; his early political opinions, [442] ; draws a report on the Woods and Forests, [443] ; becomes more republican, [443] ; on the dissolution of the National Assembly he is made a judge, [440] ; chosen to the Convention, [449] ; belongs to the Girondists, [455] ; sides with the Mountain in condemnation of the king, [450] [457] ; was really a federalist, [400] ; continues with the Girondists, [401] ; appointed upon the Committee of Public Safety, [403] ; made its Secretary, [403] ; wavers between the Girondists and the Mountain, [404] ; joins with the Mountain, [405] ; remains upon the Committee of Public Safety, [460] ; his relation to the Mountain, [400]-408; takes the initiative against the Girondists, [408] [409] ; moves the execution of Marie Antoinette, [409] ; speaks against the Girondists, [434] [435] [474] ; one of the Committee of Safety, [475] ; his part (luring the Reign of Terror. [482] [485] [487] ; his cruelties, 485, [480] ; life's pleasantries, [487] [488] ; his proposition to murder English prisoners, [490] [492] ; his murders, [495] [497] ; his part in the quarrels of the Committee, [497] [590] ; moves that Robespierre be put to death, [499] [500] ; cries raised against him, [504] ; a committee appointed to examine into his conduct, [505] ; his defence, [505] [50] ; condemned to imprisonment, [507] ; his journey to Orleans and confinement there, [507]509; removed to Saintes, [510] ; his escape, [510] ; elected a member of the Council of Five Hundred, [511] ; indignation of the members and annulling of the election, [511] [512] ; writes a work on the Liberty of the Seas. [512] ; threatened by the mob, [512] [513] ; his relations with Napoleon, [514] [518] [521] [527] ; a journalist and pamphleteer, [523] [524] ; his literary style, [525] ; his degradation, [527] ; his treachery, [528] ; becomes a royalist, [529] ; elected to the Chamber of Representatives, [529] ; banished from France, [531] ; his return, [531] ; involved in lawsuits with his family, [531] ; pensioned, [532] ; his death, [532] ; his character, [534] [535] [537] [539] ; his ignorance of England and her his, [530] ; his religious hypocrisy,
Baretti, his admiration for Miss Burney, [271]
Barilion, M. his pithy words on the new council proposed by Temple, [7] [70]
Barlow, Bishop, [370]
Barrington, Lord, [13]
Harwell, Mr., [35] ; his support of Hastings, [40] [54] [55] [2]
Baltic, Burke's declamations on its capture, [113]
Bathos, perfect instance of, to be found in Petrarch's 5th sonnet, [93]
Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies, Addison's, [331]
Bavaria, its contest between Protestantism and Catholicism, [326]
Baxter's testimony to Hampden's excellence, [430]
Bayle, Peter, [300]
Beatrice, Dante's, [1]
Beanclerk, Topliam, [204]
Beaumarchais, his suit before the parliament of Paris, [430] [431]
Beckford, Alderman, [90]
Bedford, Duke of, [11] ; his views of the policy of Chatham, [20] [41] ; presents remonstrance to George II [71]
Bedford, Earl of. invited by Charles I. to form an administration, [472]
Bedfords (the), [11] ; parallel between them and the Buckinghams, [73] ; their opposition to the Buckingham ministry on the Stamp Act, [79] ; their willingness to break with Grenville on Chatham's accession to office, [89] ; deserted Grenville and admitted to office, [110]
Bedford House assailed by a rabble, [70]
Begums of Oude, their domains and treasures, [80] ; disturbances in Oude imputed to them, [87] ; their protestations, [88] ; their spoliation charged against Hastings, [121]
Belgium, its contest between Protestantism and Catholicism, [326] [330]
Belial, [355]
Bell, Peter, Byron's spleen against, [353]
Bellasys, the English general, [107]
Bellingham, his malevolence, [309]
Belphegor (the), of Machiavelli, [299]
Benares, its grandeur, [74] ; its annexation to the British dominions, [84]
"Benefits of the death of Christ," [325]
Benevolences, Oliver St. John's opposition to, and Bacon's support of, [389]
Bengal, its resources, [228]
Bentham and Dumont, [38] [40] [153]
Bentham and his system, [53] [54] [59] 80, [87] [91] [115] 116, [121] [122] ; his language on the French revolution, [204] ; his greatness, [38] [40]
Bentinck, Lord William, his memory cherished by the Hindoos, [298]
Bentivoglio, Cardinal, on the state of religion in England in the [16]th century, [25]
Bentley, Richard, his quarrel with Boyle, and remarks on Temple's Essay on the Letters of Phalaris, [109] [111] [115] [119] ; his edition of Milton, [111] ; his notes on Horace, [111] ; his reconciliation with Boyle and Atterbury, [113] ; his apothegm about criticism, [119] [212]
Berar, occupied by the Bonslas, [59]
Berwick, Duke of, held the Allies in check, [109] ; his retreat before Galway, [119]
Bible (the), English, its literary style, [348]
Bickell, R. Rev., his work on Slavery in the West Indies, [330]
Bickerstaff, Isaac, astrologer, [374]
Billaud, [405] [475] [498] [499] [501] [504] [506] [508] [510]
Biographia Britannica, refutation of a calumny on Addison in, [417]
Biography, writers of contrasted with historians, [423] ; tenure by which they are bound to their subject, [103]
Bishops, claims of those of the Church of England to apostolical succession, [160]-174.
Black Hole of Calcutta described, [233] [234] ; retribution of the English for its horrors, [235] [239] [242] [245]
Blackmore, Sir Richard, his attainments in the ancient languages, [331]
Blackstone, [334]
Blasphemous publications, policy of Government in respect to, [171]
Blenheim, battle of, [354] Addison employed to write a poem in its honor, [355]
Blois, Addison's retirement to, [339]
"Bloombury Gang," the denomination of the Bedfords, [11]
Bodley, Sir Thomas, founder of the Bodleian Library, [388] [433]
Bohemia, influence of the doctrines of Wickliffe in, [313]
Boileau, Addison's intercourse with, [340] [341] ; his opinion of modern Latin, [341] ; his literary qualities, [343] ; his resemblance to Dryden, [373]
Bolingbroke, Lord, the liberal patron of literature, [400] ; proposed to strengthen the royal prerogative, [171] ; his jest on the occasion of the tirst representation of Cato, [392] Pope's perfidy towards him, [408] ; his remedy for the disease of the state, [23] [24]
Bombast, Dryden's, [361] [362] Shakspeare's, [361]
Bombay, its affairs thrown into confusion by the new council at Calcutta, [40]
Book of the Church, Southey's, [137]
Books, puffing of, [192] [198]
Booth played the hero in Addison's Cato on its tirst representation, [392]
Borgia, Cæsar, [301]
Boroughs, rotten, the abolition of, a necessary reform in the time of George I., [180]
Boswell, James, his character, [391] [397] [204] [205]
Boswell's Life of Johnson, by Crocker, review of, [368] [426] ; character of the work, [387]
Boswellism, [265]
Bourbon, the House of, their vicissitudes in Spain, [106] [130]
Bourne, Vincent, [5] [342] ; his Latin verses in celebration of Addison's restoration to health, [413]
Boyd, his translation of Dante, [78]
Boyer, President, [390]-392.
Boyle, Charles, his nominal editorship of the Letters of Phalaris, [108] [113] [119] ; his book on Greek history and philology, v.331.
Boyle, Rt. Hon. Henry, [355]
"Boys" (the) in opposition to Sir R. Walpole, [176]
Bracegirdle, Mis., her celebrity as an actress, [407] ; her intimacy with Congreve, [407]
Brahmins, [306]
"Breakneck Steps," Fleet Street, [157] ; note.
Breda, treaty of, [34]
Bribery, foreign, in the time of Charles II., [525]
Brihuega, siege of, [128]
"Broad Bottom Administration" (the), [220]
Brothers, his prophecies as a test of faith, [305] [306]
Brown, Launcelot, [284]
Brown's Estimate, [233]
Bruce, his appearance at Mr. Burney's concerts, [257]
Brunswick, the House of, [14]
Brussels, its importance as the seat of a vice-regal Court, [34]
Bridges, Sir Egerton, [303]
Buchanan, character of his writings, [447]
Buckhurst, [353]
Buckingham, Duke of, the "Steenie" of James [1] , [44] Bacon's early discernment of his influence, [330] [337] ; his expedition to Spain, 308; his return for Bacon's patronage, [333] ; his corruption, [402] ; his character and position, [402] [408] ; his marriage, [411] [412] ; his visit to Bacon, and report of his condition, [414]
Buckingham, Duke of, one of the Cabal ministry, [374] ; his fondness for Wycherley, [374] ; anecdote of, [374]
Budgell Eustace, one of Addison's friends, [308] [303] [371]
Bunyan, John, Life of, [132] [150] [252] [204] ; his birth and early life, [132] ; mistakes of his biographers in regard to his moral character, [133] [134] ; enlists in the Parliamentary army, [135] ; his marriage, [135] ; his religious experiences, [130]-138; begins to preach, [133] ; his imprisonment, [133] [141] ; his early writings, [141] [142] ; his liberation and gratitude to Charles II., [142] [143] ; his Pilgrim's Progress, [143] [140] ; the product of an uneducated genius, [57] [343] ; his subsequent writings, [14] ; his position among the Baptists, [140] [147] ; his second persecution, and the overtures made to him, [147] [148] ; his death and burial-place, [148] ; his fame, [14] [143] ; his imitators, [143] [150] ; his style, [200] ; his religious enthusiasm and imagery, [333] Southey's edition of his Pilgrim's Progress reviewed, [253] [207] ; peculiarities of the work, [200] ; not a perfect allegory, [257] [258] ; its publication, and the number of its editions, [145] [140]
Buonaparte. See Napoleon.
Burgoyne, Gen., chairman of the committee of inquiry on Lord Clive, [232]
Burgundy, Louis, Duke of, grandson of Louis XIV., iii. 02, 03.
Burke, Edmund, his characteristics, [133] ; his opinion of the war with Spain on the question of maritime right, [210] ; resembles Bacon, [483] ; effect of his speeches on the House of Commons, [118] ; not the author of the Letters of Junius, [37] ; his charges against Hastings, [104] [137] ; his kindness to Alisa Burney, [288] ; her incivility to him at Hastings' trial, [28] ; his early political career, [75] ; his first speech in the House of Commons, [82] ; his opposition to Chatham's measures relating to India, [30] ; his defence of his party against Grenville's attacks, [102] ; his feeling towards Chatham, [103] ; his treatise on "The Sublime," [142] ; his character of the French Republic, [402] ; his views of the French and American revolutions, [51] [208] ; his admiration of Pitt's maiden speech, [233] ; his opposition to Fox's India bill, [245] ; in the opposition to Pitt, [247] [243] ; deserts Fox, [273]
Burleigh and his Times, review of Lev. Dr. Xarea's, [1] [30] ; his early life and character, [3] [10] ; his death, [10] ; importance of the times in which he lived, [10] ; the great stain on his character, [31] ; character of the class of statesmen he belonged to, [343] ; his conduct towards Bacon, [355] [305] ; his apology for having resorted to torture, [333] Bacon's letter to him upon the department of knowledge he had chosen, [483]
Burnet, Bishop, [114]
Burney, Dr., his social position, [251] [255] ; his conduct relative to his daughter's first publication. [207] ; his daughter's engagement at Court, [281]
Burney, Frances. See D'Arblay, Madame.
Burns, Robert, [201]
Bussy, his eminent merit and conduct in India, [222]
Bute, Earl of, his character and education, [13] [20] ; appointed Secretary of State, [24] ; opposes the proposal of war with Spain on account of the family compact, [30] ; his unpopularity on Chatham's resignation, [31] ; becomes Prime Minister, [30] ; his first speech in the House of Lords, [33] ; induces the retirement of the Duke of Newcastle, [35] ; becomes first Lord of the Treasury, [35] ; his foreign and domestic policy, [37] [52] ; his resignation, [52] ; continues to advise the King privately, [57] [70] [79] ; pensions Johnson, [198] [199]
Butler, [350] Addison not inferior to him in wit, [375]
Byng, Admiral, his failure at Minorca. [232] ; his trial, [236] ; opinion of his conduct, [236] Chatham's defence of him, [237]
Byron, Lord, his epistolary style, [325] ; his character, [326] [327] ; his early life, [327] ; his quarrel with, and separation from, his wife, [329]331; his expatriation, [332] ; decline of his intellectual powers, [333] ; his attachment to Italy and Greece, [335] ; his sickness and death, [336] ; general grief for his fate, [336] ; remarks on his poetry, [336] ; his admiration of the Hope school of poetry, [337] : his opinion of Wordsworth and Coleridge, [352] ; of Deter Bell, [353] ; his estimate of the poetry of the [18]th and [19]th centuries, [353] ; his sensitiveness to criticism, [354] ; the interpreter between Wordsworth and the multitude, [356] ; the founder of an exoteric Lake, school, [356] ; remarks on his dramatic works, [357] [363] ; his egotism, [365] ; cause of his influence, [336] [337]
C.
Cabal (the), their proceedings and designs, [46] [54] [59]
Cabinets, in modern times, [65] [235]
Cadiz, exploit of Essex at the siege of, [107] [367] ; its pillage by the English expedition in [170] [108]
Cæsar Borgia, [307]
Cæsar, Claudius, resemblance of James I. to, [440]
Cæsar compared with Cromwell, [504] ; his Commentaries an incomparable model for military despatches, [404]
Cæsars (the), parallel between them and the Tudors, not applicable, [21]
Calcutta, its position on the Hoogley, [230] ; scene of the Black Hole of, [232] [233] ; resentment of the English at its fall, [235] ; again threatened by Surajah Dow lab, [239] ; revival of its prosperity, [251] ; its sufferings during the famine, [285] ; its capture, [8] ; its suburbs infested by robbers, [41] ; its festivities on Hastings's marriage, [56]
Callicles, [41] ; note.
Calvinism, moderation of Bunyan's, [263] ; held by the Church of England at the end of the [16] ; century, [175] ; many of its doctrines contained in the Paulieian theology, [309]
Cambon, [455]
Cambridge, University of, favored by George I. and George II., [36] [37] ; its superiority to Oxford in intellectual activity, [344] ; disturbances produced in, by the Civil War, [15]
Cambyses, story of his punishment of the corrupt judge, [423]
Camilla, Madame D'Arblay's, [314]
Campaign (the), by Addison, [355]
Canada, subjugation of, by the British in [176] [244]
Canning, Mr., [45] [46] [286] [411] [414] [419]
Cape Breton, reduction of, [244]
Carafla, Gian Pietro, afterwards Pope Paul, IV. his zeal and devotion, [318] [324]
Carlisle, Lady, [478]
Carmagnoles, Bariere's, [471] [472] [490] [491] [498] [499] [502] [505] [529]
Carnatic, (the), its resources, [211] [212] ; its invasion by Hvder Ali, [71] [72]
Carnot, Hippolyte, his memoirs of Barrere reviewed, [423] [539] ; failed to notice the falsehoods of his author, [430] [431] [435] [557] ; his charitableness to him, [445] [485] ; defends his proposition for murdering prisoners, [490] ; blinded by party spirit, [523] ; defends the Jacobin administration, [534] ; his general characteristics, [53] [539]
Carrier, [404]
Carteret, Lord, his ascendency at the fall of Walpole, [184] Sir Horatio Walpole's stories about him, [187] ; his detection from Sir Robert Walpole, [202] ; succeeds Walpole, [210] ; his character as a statesman, [218] [220]
Carthagena, surrender of the arsenal and ship of, to the Allies, [111]
Cary's translation of Dante, [68] [78] [70]
Casiua (the), of Ilautus, [298]
Castile. Admiral of, [100]
Castile and Arragon, their old institutions favorable to public liberty, [86]
Castilians, their character in the [16]th century, [81] ; their conduct in the war of the Succession, [121] ; attachment to the faith of their ancestors, [316]
Castracani, Castruccio, Life of, by Machiavelli, [317]
Cathedral, Lincoln, painted window in, [428]
Catholic Association, attempt of the Tories to put it down, [413]
Catholic Church. See Church of Home.
Catholicism, causes of its success, [301] [307] 318, [331] [336] ; the most poetical of all religions, [65]
Catholics, Roman, Pitt's policy respecting, [280] [281]
Catholics and dews, the same reasoning employed against both, [312]
Catholics and Protestants, their relative numbers in the [16]th century, [26]
Catholic Queen (a), precautions against, [487]
Catholic Question (the), [413] [410]
Catiline, his conspiracy doubted, [405] ; compared to the Popish Plot, [406]
"Cato," Addison's play of, its merits, and the contest it occasioned, [333] ; its first representation, [391] ; its performance at Oxford, [392] ; its deficiencies, [365] [366]
Cato, the censor, anecdote of, [354]
Catullus, his mythology, [75]
Cavaliers, their successors in the reign of George I. turned demagogues, [4]
Cavendish, Lord, his conduct in the new council of Temple, [96] ; his merits, [73]
Cecil. See Burleigh.
Cecil, Robert, his rivalry with Francis Bacon, [356] [365] ; his fear and envy of Essex, [362] ; increase of his dislike for Bacon, [365] ; his conversation with Essex, [365] ; his interference to obtain knighthood for Bacon, [384]
Cecilia, Madame D'Arblay's, [369] [311] ; specimen of its style, [315] [316]
Censorship, existed in some form from Henry VIII. to the Revolution, [329]
Ceres, [54] ; note.
Cervantes, [81] ; his celebrity, 80 the perfection of his art, [328] [329] ; fails as a critic, [329]
Chalmers, Dr., Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his defence of the Church, [122]
Champion, Colonel, commander of the Bengal army, [32]
Chandemagore, French settlement, on the Hoogley, [230] ; captured by the English, [239]
Charlemagne, imbecility of his successors, [205]
Charles, Archduke, his claim to the Spanish crown, [90] ; takes the field in support of it, [10] ; accompanies Peterborough in his expedition, [112] ; his success in the north-east of Spain, [117] ; is proclaimed king at Madrid, [119] ; his reverses and retreat, [123] ; his re-entry into Madrid, [126] ; his unpopularity, [127] ; concludes a peace, [131] ; forms an alliance with Philip of Spain, [138]
Charles I., lawfulness of the resistance to, [235] [243] Milton's defence of his execution, [246] [249] ; his treatment of the Parliament of [164] [457] ; his treatment of Stratford, [468] ; estimate of his character, [469] [498] [500] [443] ; his tall, [497] ; his condemnation and its consequences, [500] [501] Hampden's opposition to him, and its consequences, [443] [459] ; resistance of the Scots to him, [460] ; his increasing difficulties, [461] ; his conduct towards the House of Commons, [477] [482] ; his flight, [488] ; review of his conduct and treatment, [484] [488] ; reaction in his favor during the Long Parliament, [410] ; effect of the victory over him on the national character, [7] [8]
Charles I. and Cromwell, choice between, [490]
Charles II., character of his reign, [251] ; his foreign subsidies, [528] ; his situation in [100]0 contrasted with that of Lewis XVIII., [282] [283] ; his character, [290] [30] [80] ; his position towards the king of France, [290] ; consequences of his levity and apathy, [299] [300] ; his court compared with that of his father, [29] ; his extravagance, [34] ; his subserviency to France, [37] [44] [46] ; his renunciation of the dispensing power, [55] ; his relations with Temple, [58] [60] [63] [97] ; his system of bribery of the Commons, [71] ; his dislike of Halifax, [90] ; his dismissal of Temple, [97] ; his characteristics, [349] ; his influence upon English literature, [349] [350] ; compared with Philip of Orleans, Regent of France, [64] [65] Banyan's gratitude to him, [143] ; his social disposition, [374]
Charles II. of Spain, his unhappy condition, [88] [93] [100] ; his difficulties in respect to the succession, [88] [93]
Charles III. of Spain, his hatred of England, [29]
Charles VIII., [483]
Charles XII., compared with Clive, [297]
Charlotte, Queen, obtains the attendance of Miss Burney, [279] ; her partisanship for Hastings, [288] [290] ; her treatment of Miss Burney, [298] [297]
Chateaubriand, his remark about the person of Louis XIV., [58] ; note.
Chatham, Earl of, character of his public life, [196] [197] ; his early life, [198] ; his travels, [199] ; enters the army [199] ; obtains a seat in Parliament, [200] ; attaches himself to the Whigs in opposition, [207] ; his qualities as an orator, [211] [213] ; dismissed from the army, [215] ; is made Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, [161] ; declaims against the ministers, [218] ; his opposition to Carteret, [219] ; legacy left him by the Duchess of Marlborough, [219] ; supports the Pelham ministry, [220] ; appointed Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, [221] ; overtures made to him by Newcastle, [280] ; made Secretary of State, [235] ; defends Admiral Byng, [237] ; coalesces with the Duke of Newcastle, [230] ; success of his administration, [230]-250; his appreciation of Clive, [260] [289] ; breach between him and the great Whig connection, [289] ; review of his correspondence, [1] ; in the zenith of prosperity and glory, [221] [222] ; his coalition with Newcastle, [7] ; his strength in Parliament, [13] ; jealousies in his cabinet, [25] ; his defects, [26] ; proposes to declare war against Spain oil account of the family compact, [29] ; rejection of his counsel, [30] ; his resignation, [30] ; the king's gracious behavior to him, [30] ; public enthusiasm towards him, [31] ; his conduct in opposition, [33] [46] ; his speech against peace with France and Spain, [49] ; his unsuccessful audiences with George III. to form an administration, [58] Sir William Pynsent bequeaths his whole property to him, [63] ; bad state of his health, [64] ; is twice visited by the Duke of Cumberland with propositions from the king, [68] [72] ; his condemnation of the American Stamp Act, [77] [78] ; is induced by the king to assist in ousting Rockingham, [86] ; morbid state of his mind, [87] [88] [95] [99] ; undertakes to form an administration, [89] ; is created Earl of Chatham, [91] ; failure of his ministerial arrangements, [91] [99] ; loss of his popularity, and of his foreign influence, [99] ; his despotic manners, [89] [93] ; lays an embargo on the exportation of corn, [95] ; his first speech in the Mouse of Lords, [95] ; his supercilious conduct towards the Peers, [95] ; his retirement from office, [100] ; his policy violated, [101] ; resigns the privy seal, [100] ; stale of parties and of public affairs on his recovery, [100] [301] ; his political relations, [101] ; his eloquence not suited to the House of Lords, [104] ; opposed the recognition of the independence of the United States, [107] ; his last appearance in the House of Lords, [108] [22] ; his death, [100] [230] ; reflections on his fall, [100] ; his funeral in Westminster Abbey, lit.; compared with Mirabeau, [72] [73]
Chatham, Earl of, (the second), [230] ; made First Lord of the Admiralty, [270]
Cherbourg, guns taken from, [245]
Chesterfield, Lord, his dismissal by Walpole, [204] ; prospectus of Johnson's Dictionary addressed to him, [187] [188] ; pulls it in the World, [194]
Cheyte Sing, a vassal of the government of Cennigal, [75] ; his large revenue and suspected treasure, [79] Hastings's policy in desiring to punish him. [80] ; to [85] ; his treatment made the successful charge against Hastings, [118]
Chillingworth, his opinion on apostolical succession, [172] ; became a Catholic from conviction, [306]
Chinese (the) compared to the Homans under Diocletian, [415] [416]
Chinsurab, Dutch settlement on the Hoogley, [230] ; its siege by the English and capitulation. [259]
Chivalry, its form in Languedoc in the [12]th century, [308] [309]
Cholmondeley, Mrs., [271]
Christchurch College. Oxford, its repute after the Revolution, [108] ; issues a new edition of the Letters of Phalaris, [108] [116] [118] ; its condition under Atterbury, [121] [122]
Christianity, its alliance with the ancient philosophy, [444] ; light in which it was regarded hv the Italians at the Reformation, [316] ; its effect upon mental activity; [416]
Church (the), in the time of James II., [520]
Church (the), Southey's Hook of, [137]
Church, the English, persecutions in her name, [443] High and Low Church parties, [362] [119] [120]
Church of England, its origin and connection with the state, [452] [453] [190] ; its condition in the time of Charles [1] , [166] ; endeavor of the leading Whigs at the Revolution to alter its Liturgy and Articles, [321] [178] ; its contest with the Scotch nation, [322] Mr. Gladstone's work in defence of it, [116] ; his arguments for its being the pure Catholic Church of Christ, [161] [166] ; its claims to apostolical succession discussed, [166] [178] ; views respecting its alliance with the state, [183] [193] ; contrast of its operations during the two generations succeeding the Reformation, with those of the Church of Rome, [331] [332]
Church of Rome, its alliance with ancient philosophy, [444] ; causes of its success and vitality, [300] [301] ; sketch of its history, [307] [349]
Churchill, Charles, [519] [42] [200]
Cicero, partiality of Dr. Middleton towards, [340] ; the most eloquent and skilful of advocates, [340] ; his epistles in his banishment, [361] ; his opinion of the study of rhetoric, [472] ; as a critic, [142]
Cider, proposal of a tax on, by the Bute administration, [50]
Circumstances, effect of, upon character, [322] [323] [325]
"City of the Violet Crown," a favorite epithet of Athens, [36] ; note.
Civil privileges and political power identical, [311]
Civil War (the), Cowley and Milton's imaginary conversation about, [112] [138] ; its evils the price of our liberty, [243] ; conduct of the Long Parliament in reference to it, [470] [495] [496]
Civilization, only peril to can arise from misgovernment, [41] [42] England's progress in, due to the people, [187] ; modern, its influence upon philosophical speculation, [417] [418]
Clarendon, Lord, his history, [424] ; his character, [521] ; his testimony in favor of Hampden, [448] [468] [472] [41] [493] ; his literary merit, [338] ; his position at the head of affairs, [29] [31] [37] [38] ; his faulty style, [50] ; his opposition to the growing power of the Commons, [73] ; his temper, [74] ; the charge against Christ-Churchmen of garbling his history, [130]
Clarke, Dr. Samuel, [303]
Clarkson, Thomas, [309]
Classics, ancient, celebrity of, [139] ; rarely examined on just principles of criticism, [139] ; love of, in Italy in the [14]th century, [278]
Classical studies, their advantages and defects considered, [347] [354]
Clavering, General, [35] ; his opposition to Hastings, [40] [47] ; his appointment as Governor General, [54] ; his defeat, [56] ; his death, [57]
Cleveland, Duchess of, her favor to Wycherly and Churchill, [372] [373]
Clifford, Lord, his character, [47] ; his retirement, [55] [56] ; his talent for debate, [72]
Clive, Lord, review of Sir John Malcolm's Life of, [194] [298] ; his family and boyhood, [196] [197] ; his shipment to India, [198] ; his arrival at Madras and position there, [200] ; obtains an ensign's commission in the Company's service, [203] ; his attack, capture, and defence of Arcot, [215] [219] ; his subsequent proceedings, [220] [221] [223] ; his marriage and return to England,224; his reception, [225] ; enters Parliament, [226] ; return to India, [228] ; his subsequent proceedings, [228] [236] ; his conduct towards Ormichund, [238] [241] 247, [248] ; his pecuniary acquisitions, [251] ; his transactions with Meer Jaffier, [240] [246] [254] ; appointed Governor of the Company's possessions in Bengal, [255] ; his dispersion of Shah Alum's army, [256] [257] ; responsibility of his position, [259] ; his return to England, [260] ; his reception, [260] [261] ; his proceedings at the India House, [263] [265] [269] ; nominated Governor of the British possessions in Bengal. [270] ; his arrival at Calcutta, [270] ; suppresses a conspiracy, [275] [276] ; success of his foreign policy, [276] ; his return to England, [279] ; his unpopularity and its causes, [279] [285] ; invested with the Grand Cross of the Bath, [292] ; his speech in his defence, and its consequence, [289] [290] [292] ; his life in retirement, [291] ; reflections on his career, [296] ; failing of his mind, and death by his own hand, [296]
Clizia, Machiavelli's, [298]
Clodius, extensive bribery at the trial of, [421]
"Clouds" (the), of Aristophanes, [383]
Club-room, Johnson's, [425] [159]
Coalition of Chatham and Newcastle, [243]
Cobham, Lord, his malignity towards Essex, [380]
Coke, Sir E., his conduct towards Bacon, [357] [406] ; his opposition to Bacon in Peacham's case, [389] [390] ; his experience in conducting state prosecutions, [392] ; his removal from the Bench, [406] ; his reconciliation with Buckingham, and agreement to marry his daughter to Buckingham's brother, [406] ; his reconciliation with Bacon, [408] ; his behavior to Bacon at his trial, [427]
Coleridge, relative "correctness" of his poetry, [339] Byron's opinion of him, [352] ; his satire upon Pitt, [271]
Coligni, Caspar de, reference to, [67]
Collier, Teremy, sketch of his life, [393] [396] ; his publication on the profaneness of the English stage, [396] [399] ; his controversy with Congreve, [401]
Colloquies on Society, Southey's, [132] ; plan of the work. [141] [142]
Collot, D'llerbois, [475] [489] [49]S, [501] [504] [506] [508] [510]
Colonies, [83] ; question of the competency of Parliament to tax them, [77] [78]
Comedy (the), of England, effect of the writings of Congreve and Sheridan upon, [295]
Comedies, Dryden's, [360]
Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, [350]-411; how he exercised a great influence on the human mind, [351]
Conimes, his testimony to the good government of England, [434]
Commerce and manufactures, their extent in Italy in the 14th century, [270] ; condition of, during the war at the latter part of the reign of George II., [247]
Committee of Public Safety, the French, [403] [475] [503]
Commons, House of, increase of its power, [532] ; increase of its power by and since the Revolution, [325]
Commonwealth, [335]
Conceits of Petrarch, [89] [90] ; of Shakspeare and the writers of his age, [342] [344] [347]
Coudé, Marshal, compared with Clive, [237]
Condensation, had effect of enforced upon composition, [152]
Contians, Admiral, his defeat by Hawke, [245]
Congreve, his birth and early life, [387] ; sketch of his career at the Temple, [388] ; his "Old Bachelor," [389] "Double Dealer," [39] ; success of his "Love for Love," [391] ; his "Mourning Bride," [392] ; his controversy with Collier, [397] [400] [403] ; his "Way of the World," [403] ; his later years, [404] [405] ; his position among mem of letters, [400] ; his attachment to Mrs. Bracegirdle, [407] ; his friendship with the Duchess of Marlborough, [408] ; hi; death and capricious will, [408] ; his funeral in Westminster Abbey, [409] ; cenotaph to his memory at Stowe, [409] ; analogy between him and Wycherley, [410]
Congreve and Sheridan, effect of their works upon the comedy of England, [295] ; contrasted with Shakspeare, [295]
Conquests of the British arms in [175] [244] [245]
Constance, council of, put an end to the Wickliffe schism, [313]
Constantinople, mental stagnation in, [417]
Constitution (the), of England, in the [15]th and [18]th centuries, compared with those of other European states, [470] [477] ; the argument that it would he destroyed by admitting the dews to power, 307, [308] ; its theory in respect to the three branches of the legislature, [25] [20] [410]
Constitutional government, decline of. on the Continent, early in the [17]th century, [481]
Constitutional History of England, review of llaltam's, [433] [543]
Constitutional Royalists in the reign of Charles L, [474] [483]
Convention, the French, [449] [475]
Conversation, the source of logical inaccuracy, [148] [383] [384] ; imaginary, between Cowley and Milton touching the great Civil War, [112] [138]
Conway, Henry, vi. 02; Secretary of State under Lord Rockingham, [74] ; returns to his position under Chatham, [91] [95] ; sank into insignificance [100]
Conway, Marshal, his character, [200]
Cooke, Sir Anthony, his learning, [349]
Cooperation, advantages of. [184]
Coote, Sir Eyre, [1] ; his character and conduct in council, [62] ; his great victory of Porto Novo, [74]
Corah, ceded to the Mogul, [27]
Corday, Charlotte, [400]
Corneille, his treatment by the French Academy, [23]
"Correctness" in the fine arts and in the sciences, [339] [343] ; in painting. [343] ; what is meant by it in poetry, [339] [343]
Corruption, parliamentary, not necessary to the Tudors, [108] ; its extent in the reigns of George I. and II. [21] [23]
Corsica given up to France, [100]
Cossimbazar, its situation and importance, [7]
Cottabus, a Greek game, [30] ; note.
Council of York, its abolition, [409]
Country Wife of Wycherley, its character and merits, [370] ; whence borrowed, [385]
Courtenay, Rt. Hon. T. P., review of his Memoirs of Sir William Temple, [115] ; his concessions to Dr. Lingard in regard to the Triple Alliance, [41] ; his opinion of Temple's proposed new council, [65] ; his error as to Temple's residence, [100]
Cousinhood, nickname of the official members of the Temple family, [13]
Covenant, the Scotch, [460]
Covenanters, (the), their conclusion of treaty with Charles I., [460]
Coventry, Lady, [262]
Cowley, dictum of Denham concerning him, [203] ; deficient in imagination, [211] ; his wit, [162] [375] ; his admiration of Bacon, [492] [493] ; imaginary conversation between him and [21] ; about the Civil War, [112] [138]
Cowper, Earl, keeper of the Great Seal, [361]
Cowper, William, [349] ; his praise of Pope, [351] ; his friendship with Warren Hastings, [5] ; neglected, [261]
Cox, Archdeacon, his eulogium on Sir Robert Walpole, [173]
Coyer, Abbé, his imitation of Voltaire, [377]
Crabbe, George, [261]
Craggs, Secretary, [227] ; succeeds Addison, [413] Addison dedicates his works to him, [418]
Cranmer, Archbishop, estimate of his character, [448] [449]
Crebillon, the younger, [155]
Crisis, Steele's, [403]
Crisp, Samuel, his early career, [259] ; his tragedy of Virginia, [261] ; his retirement and seclusion, [264] ; his friendship with the Burneys, [265] ; his gratification at the success of Miss Burney's first work, [269] ; his advice to her upon her comedy, [273] ; his applause of her "Cecilia," [275]
Criticism, Literary, principles of, not universally recognized, [21] ; rarely applied to the examination of the ancient classics, [139] ; causes of its failure when so applied, [143] ; success in, of Aristotle, [140] Dionysius, [141] Quintilian, [141] [142] Longinus, [142] [143] Cicero, [142] ; ludicrous instance of French criticism, [144] ; ill success of classical scholars who have risen above verbal criticism, [144] ; their lack of taste and judgment, [144] ; manner in which criticism is to be exercised upon oratorical efforts, [149] [151] ; criticism upon Dante, [55] [79] Petrarch, [80]-99; a rude state of society, favorable to genius, but not to criticism, [57] [58] [325] ; great writers are bad critics, [76] [328] ; effect of upon poetry, [338] ; its earlier stages, [338] [339] ; remarks on Johnson's code of, [417]
Critics professional, their influence over the reading public, [196]
Croker, Mr., his edition of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, reviewed, [368] [426]
Cromwell and Charles, choice between, [496]
Cromwell and Napoleon, remarks on Mr. Hallam's parallel between, [504] [510]
Cromwell, Henry, description of, [17]
Cromwell, Oliver, his elevation to power, [502] ; his character as a legislator, [504] ; as a general, [504] ; his administration and its results, [509] [510] ; embarked with Hampden for America, but not suffered to proceed, [459] ; his qualities, [496] ; his administration, [286] [292] ; treatment of his remains, [289] ; his ability displayed in Ireland, [25] [27] ; anecdote of his sitting for his portrait, [2]
Cromwell, Richard, [15]
Crown (the) veto by, on Acts of Parliament, [487] [488] ; its control over the army, [489] ; its power in the [16]th century, [15] ; curtailment of its prerogatives, [169] [171] ; its power predominant at beginning of the [17]th century, [70] ; decline of its power during the Pensionary Parliament, [71] ; its long contest with the Parliament put an end to by the Revolution, [78] ; see also Prerogative.
Crusades (the), their beneficial effect upon Italy, [275]
Crusoe, Robinson, the work of an uneducated genius, [57] ; its effect upon the imaginations of children, [331]
Culpeper, Mr., [474]
Cumberland, the dramatist, his manner of acknowledging literary merit, [270]
Cumberland, Duke of, [260] ; the confidential friend rif Henry Fox, [44] ; confided in by George II., [67] ; his character, * [67] ; mediated between the King and the Whigs, [68]
D.
Dacier, Madame, [338]
D'Alembert, [23] Horace Walpole's opinion of him, [156]
Dallas, Chief Justice, one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial, [27]
Dauby, Earl, His connection with Temple, abilities and character, [57] ; impeached and sent to the Tower; owed his office and dukedom to his talent in debate, [72]
Danger, public, a certain amount of, will warrant a retrospective law, [470]
Dante, criticism upon, [55] [79] ; the earliest and greatest writer of his country, [55] ; first to attempt composition in the Italian language, [56] ; admired in his own and the following age, [58] ; but without due appreciation, [59] [329] [330] ; unable to appreciate himself, [58] Simon's remark about him, [58] ; his own age unable to comprehend the Divine Comedy, [59] ; bad consequence to Italian literature of the neglect of his style down to the time of Alfieri, [60] [61] ; period of his birth, [62] ; characteristics of his native city, [63] [64] ; his relations to his age, [66] ; his personal history, [60] ; his religious fervor, his gloomy temperament, [67] ; his Divine Comedy, [67] [220] [277] ; his description of Heaven inferior to those of Hell or Purgatory, [67] ; his reality, the source of his power, [68] [69] ; compared with Milton, [68] [69] [220] ; his metaphors and comparisons, [70] [72] ; little impressed by the forms of the external world, [72] [74] ; dealt mostly with the sterner passions, [74] ; his use of the ancient mythology, [75] [76] ; ignorant of the Greek language, [76] ; his style, [77] [78] ; his translators, [78] ; his admiration of writers inferior to himself, [329] ; of Virgil, [329] "correctness," of his poetry, [338] ; story from, [3]
Danton, compared with Barere, [426] ; his death, [481] [482]
D'Arblay, Madame, review of her Diary and Letters, [248] [320] ; wide celebrity of her name, [248] ; her Diary, [250] ; her family, [250] [251] ; her birth and education, [252] [254] ; her father's social position, [254]- [257] ; her first literary efforts, [258] ; her friendship with Mr. Crisp, [259] [265] ; publication of her "Evelina," [266] [268] ; her comedy, "The Witlings," [273] [274] ; her second novel, "Cecilia," [275] ; death of her friends Crisp and Johnson, [275] [276] ; her regard for Mrs. Dernny. [276] ; her interview with the king and queen, [277] [278] ; accepts the situation of keeper of the robes, [279] ; sketch of her life in this position, [279] [287] ; attends at Warren Hastings' trial, [288] ; her espousal of the cause of Hastings, [288] ; her incivility to Windham and Burke, [288] [289] ; her sufferings during her keepership, [290] [294] [300] ; her marriage, and close of the Diary, [301] ; publication of "Camilla," [302] ; subsequent events in her life, [302] [303] ; publication of "The Wanderer," [303] ; her death, [303] ; character of her writings, [303] [318] ; change in her style, [311] [314] ; specimens of her three styles, [315] [316] ; failure of her later works, [318] ; service she rendered to the English novel, [319] [320]
Dashwood, Sir Francis, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Bute, [36] ; his inefficiency, [51]
David, d'Angers, his memoirs of Barère reviewed, [423] [539]
Davies, Tom, [384]
Davila, one of Hampden's favorite authors, [450]
Davlesford, site of the estate of the Hastings family, [5] ; its purchase and adornment by Hastings, [142]
De Angmentis Scientiarium, by Bacon, [388] [433]
Debates in Parliament, effects of their publication, [538]
Debt, the national, effect of its abrogation, [153] England's capabilities in respect to it, [186]
Declaration of Bight, [317] "Declaration of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert Earl of Essex," by Lord Macon, [373]
Dedications, literary, more honest than formerly, [191]
Defoe, Daniel, [57]
De. Guignes, [256]
Delany, Dr., his connection with Swift, [276] ; his widow, and her favor with the royal family, [276] [277]
Delhi, its splendor during the Mogul empire, [204]
Delium. battle of, [21]
Demerville, [521]
Democracy, violence in its advocates induces reaction, [11] ; pure, characteristics of, [513] [514]
Democritus the reputed inventor of the arch, [438] Macon's estimate of him, [439]
Demosthenes, Johnson's remark, that he spoke to a people of brutes, [146] ; transcribed Thucydides six times, [147] ; he and his contemporary orators compared to the Italian Condottieri, [156] Mitford's misrepresentation of him, [191] [193] [195] 197; perfection of his speeches, [376] ; his remark about bribery, [428]
Denham, dictum of, concerning Cowley, [203] ; illustration from, [61]
Denmark, contrast of its progress to the retrogression of Portugal, [340]
Dennis, John, his attack upon Addison's "Plato", [393] Pope's narrative of his Frenzy, [394] [395]
"Deserted Village" (the), Goldsmith's, [162] [163]
Desmoulin's Camille, [483]
Devonshire, Duchess of, [126]
Devonshire, Duke of, forms an administration after the resignation of Newcastle, [235] Lord Chamberlain under Bute, [38] ; dismissed from his lord-lieutenancy, [47] ; his son invited to court by the king, [71]
Dewey, Dr., his views upon slavery in the West Indies, [393] [401]
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, reviewed, [248] [320]
Dice, [13] ; note.
Dionvsius, of Halicarnassus, [141] [413]
Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, [178] [143]
Discussion, free, its tendency, [167]
Dissent, its extent in the time of Charles I., [168] ; cause of, in England, [333] ; avoidance of in the Church of Rome, [334] ; see also Church of England.
Dissenters (the), examination of the reasoning of Mr. Gladstone for their exclusion from civil offices, [147] [155]
Disturbances, public, during Grenville's administration, [70]
Divine Right, [236]
Division of labor, its necessity, [123] ; illustration of the effects of disregarding it, [123]
Dodington, Mubb, [13] ; his kindness to Johnson, [191]
Donne, John, comparison of his wit with Horace Walpole's, [163]
Dorset, the Earl of, [350] ; the patron of literature in the reign of Charles IL, [400] [376]
Double Dealer, by Congreve, its reception, [390] ; his defence of its profaneness, [401]
Dougan, John, his report on the captured negroes, [362] ; his humanity, [363] ; his return home and death, [363] Major Morly's charges against him.
Dover, Lord, review of his edition of Horace Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Maim, [143] [193] ; see Walpole, Sir Horace.
Dowdeswell, Mr., Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Rockingham, [74]
Drama (the), its origin in Greece, [216] ; causes of its dissolute character soon after the Restoration, [366] ; changes of style which it requires, [365]
Dramas, Greek, compared with the English plays of the age of Elizabeth, [339]
Dramatic art, the unities violated in all the great masterpieces of, [341]
Dramatic literature shows the state of contemporary religious opinion, [29]
Dramatic Works (the), of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, review of Leigh Hunt's edition of, [350, ] [411]
Dramatists of the Elizabethan age, characteristics of, [344] [346] ; manner in which they treat religious subjects, [211]
Drogheda, Countess of, her character, acquaintance with Wycherley, and marriage, [370] ; its consequences, [377]
Dryden, John, review of his works, [321] [370] ; his rank among poets, [321] ; highest in the second rank of poets, 317; his characteristics, [821] ; his relations to his times, [321] [322] [351] ; greatest of the critical poets, [351] [317] ; characteristics of the different stages in his literary career, [352] ; the year [107]8 the date of the change in his manner, [352] ; his Annus Mirabilis, [353] [355] ; he resembles Lucan. [355] ; characteristics of his rhyming plays, [355] [301] 308; his comic characters, [350] ; the women of his comedies, [350] ; of his tragedies, [357] 358; his tragic characters, [350] [357] ; his violations of historical propriety, [358] ; and of nature, [351] ; his tragicomedies, [351] ; his skill in the management of the heroic couplets, [300] ; his comedies, [300] ; his tragedies, [300] 301; his bombast, [301] [302] ; his imitations of the earlier dramatists unsuccessful, [302] [304] ; his Song of the Fairies. [304] ; his second manner, [305] [307] ; the improvement in his plays, [305] ; his power of reasoning in verse, [300] [308] ; ceased to write for the stage, [307] ; after his death English literature retrograded, [307] ; his command of language, [307] ; excellences of his style, [308] ; his appreciation of his contemporaries, [309] ; and others, [381] ; of Addison and of Milton, [309] [370] ; his dedications, [309] [370] ; his taste, [370] [371] ; his carelessness, [371] ; the Hind and the Panther, [371] [372] Absalom and Ahithophel, [372] [83] [85] ; his resemblance to Juvenal and to Boileau, [372] [373] ; his part in the political disputes of his times, [373] ; the Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, [374] ; general characteristics of his style, [374] [375] ; his merits not adequately appreciated in his own day, [191] ; alleged improvement in English poetry since his time, [347] ; the connecting link of the literary schools of James I. and Anne, [355] ; his excuse for the indecency and immorality of his writings, [355] ; his friendship for Congreve and lines upon his Double Dealer, [390] ; censured by Collier, [398] [400] Addison's complimentary verses to him, [322] ; and critical preface to his translation of the Georgies, [335] ; the original of his Father Dominic, [290]
Dublin, Archbishop of, his work on Logic, [477]
Dumont, [51] , his Recollections of Mirabeau reviewed, [37] [74] ; his general characteristics, [37] [41] ; his view's upon the French Revolution, [41] [43] [44] [40] ; his services in it, [47] ; his personal character, [74] ; his style, [73] [74] ; his opinion that Burke's work on the French Revolution had saved Europe, [44] [204] ; as the interpreter of Ilentham, [38] [40] [153]
Dundas, Sir., his character, and hostility to Hastings, [108] [120] ; eulogizes Pitt, [234] ; becomes his most useful assistant in the House of Commons, [247] ; patronizes Burns, [231]
"Duodecim Seriptre," a Roman game, [4] ; note.
Dupleix, governor of Pondicherry, his gigantic schemes for establishing French influence in India, [202] [209] [212] [220] [222] [228] ; his death, [228] [294]
Duroc, [522]
E.
East India Companv, its absolute authority in India, [240] ; its condition when Clive lirst went to India, [198] [200] ; its war with the French East India Companv, [202] ; increase of its power, [220] ; its factories in Bengal, [230] ; fortunes made by its servants in Bengal, [205] [200] ; its servants transferred into diplomatists and generals, [8] ; nature of its government and power, [10] [17] ; rights of the Nabob of Oude over Benares ceded to it [75] ; its financial embarrassments, [80] Fox's proposed alteration in its charter, [244] [247]
Ecclesiastical commission (the), [100]
Ecclesiastics, fondness of the old dramatists for the character of, [29]
Eden, pictures of, in old Bibles, [343] ; painting of, by a gifted master, [343]
Edinburgh, comparison of with Florence, [340]
Education in England in the [18]th century, [354] ; duty of the government in promoting it, [182] [183] ; principles of should be progressive, [343] [344] ; characteristics of in the Universities, [344] [345] [355] [300] ; classical, its advantages and defects discussed, [340] ; to: [354]
Education in Italy in the [14]th century, [277]
Egerton, his charge of corruption against Bacon, [413] Bacon's decision against him after receiving his present, [430]
Egotism, why so unpopular in conversation, and so popular in writing, [81] [82] [305]
Elephants, use of, in war in India, [218]
Eleusinian mysteries, [49] [54] Alcibiades suspected of having assisted at a mock celebration of, [49] ; note; crier and torch-bearer important functionaries at celebration of, [53] ; note.
"Eleven" (the), police of Athens, [34] ; note.
Eliot, Sir John, [440]-448; his treatise oil Government, [449] ; died a martyr to liberty, [451]
Elizabeth (Queen), fallacy entertained respecting the persecutions under her, [439] [441] ; her penal laws, [441] ; arguments in favor of, on the head of persecution, apply with more force to Mary, [450] ; to: [452] ; condition of the working classes in her reign, [175] [437] ; her rapid advance of Cecil, [8] ; character of her government, [10] [18] [22] [32] ; a persecutor though herself indifferent, [31] [32] ; her early notice of Lord Bacon, [353] ; her favor towards Essex, [301] ; factions at the close of her reign, [302] [363] [382] ; her pride and temper, [370] [397] ; and death, [383] ; progress ill knowledge since her days, [302] ; her Protestantism, [328] [29]
Ellenborough, Lord, one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial, [127] ; his proclamations, [472]
Ellis, W., [235]
Elphinstone, Lord, [298]
Elwood, Milton's Quaker friend, allusion to, [205]
Emigration of Puritans to America, [459]
Emigration from England to Ireland under Cromwell, [20]
Empires, extensive, often more flourishing alter a little pruning, [83]
England, her progress in civilization due to the people, [190] ; her physical and moral condition in the [15]th century, [434] [435] ; never so rich and powerful as since the loss of her American colonies, [83] ; conduct of, in reference to the Spanish succession, [103] [104] ; successive steps of her progress, [279] [281] ; influence of her revolution on the human race, [281] [321] ; her situation at the Restoration compared with France at the restoration of Louis XVIII., [282] [284] ; her early situation, [290] [293] [301] ; character of her public men at the latter part of the [17]th century, [11] ; difference in her situation under Charles II., and under the Protectorate, [32] ; her fertility in heroes and statesmen, [170] ; how her history should be written by a perfect historian, [428] [432] ; characteristics of her liberty, [399] ; her strength contrasted with that of France, [24] ; condition of her middle classes, [423] [424]
English (the), in the [10]th century a free people, [18] [19] ; their character, [292] [300]
English language, [308]
English literature of that age, [341] [342] ; effect of foreign influences upon, [349] [350]
English plays of the ago of Elizabeth, [344] [340] [339] "Englishman," Steele's, [403]
Enlightenment, its increase in the world not necessarily unfavorable to Catholicism, [301]
Enthusiasts, dealings of the Church of Rome and the Church of England with them, [331] [330]
Epicureans, their peculiar doctrines, [443]
Epicurus, the lines on his pedestal, [444]
Epistles, Petrarch's, i. 08, [99] ; addressed to the dead and the unborn, [99]
Epitaphs, Latin, [417]
Epithets, use of by Homer, [354] ; by the old ballad-writers, [354]
Ereilla, Alonzo de, a soldier as well as a poet, [81]
Essay on Government, by Sir William Temple, [50] ; by James Mills, [5] [51]
Essays, Bacon's, value of them, [311] [7] [388] [433] [481] [491]
Essex, Earl of, [30] ; his character, popularity and favor with Elizabeth, [301] [304] [373] ; his political conduct, [304] ; his friendship for Bacon, [305] [300] [373] [397] ; his conversation with Robert Cecil, [305] ; pleads for Bacon's marriage with Lady Hatton, [308] [400] ; his expedition to Spain, [307] ; his faults, [308] [309] [397] ; decline of his fortunes, [308] ; his administration in Ireland, [309] Bacon's faithlessness to him, [309] [371] ; his trial and execution, [371] [373] ; ingratitude of Bacon towards him, [309] [380] [398] ; feeling of King James towards him, [384] ; his resemblance to Buckingham, [397]
Essex, Earl of, (Ch. I.,) [489] [491]
Etherege. Sir George, [353]
Eugene of Savoy, [143]
Euripides, his mother an herb-woman, [45] ; note; his lost plays, [45] ; quotation from, [50] [51] ; attacked for the immorality of one of his verses, [51] ; note; his mythology, [75] Quintilian's admiration of him, [141] Milton's, [217] ; emendation of a passage of, [381] ; note; his characteristics, [352]
Europe, state of, at the peace of Utrecht, [135] ; want of union in, to arrest the designs of Lewis XIX., [35] ; the distractions of, suspended for a short time by the treaty of Nimeguen, [60] ; its progress during the last seven centuries, [307]
Evelina, Madame D'Arblay's, specimen of her style from, [315] [310]
Evils, natural and national, [158]
Exchequer, fraud of the Cabal ministry in closing it, [53]
Exclusiveness of the Greeks, [411] [412] ; of the Romans, [413] [410]
F.
Fable (a), of Pilpay, [188]
Fairfax, reserved for him and Cromwell to terminate the civil war, [491]
Falkland, Lord, his conduct in respect to the bill of attainder against Strafford, [400] ; his character as a politician, [483] ; at the head of the constitutional Royalists, [474]
Family Compact (the), between France and Spain, [138] [29]
Fanaticism, not altogether evil, [64]
Faust, [303]
Favorites, royal, always odious, [38]
Female Quixote (the), [319]
Fenelon, the nature of and standard of morality in his Telemachus, [359]
Ferdinand II., his devotion to Catholicism, [329]
Ferdinand VII., resemblance between him and Charles I. of England, [488]
Fictions, literary, [267]
Fidelity, touching instance of, in the Sepoys towards Clive, [210]
Fielding, his contempt for Richardson, [201] ; case from his "Amelia," analogous to Addison's treatment of Steele, [370] ; quotation from, illustrative of the effect of Garrick's acting, [332]
Filieaja Vincenzio, [300]
Finance, Southev's theory of, [150]- [155]
Finch, Chief Justice to Charles I., [450] ; tied to Holland, [409]
Fine Arts (the), encouragement of, in Italy, in the [14]th century, [277] ; causes of their decline in England after the civil war, [157] ; government should promote them, [184]
Fletcher, the dramatist, [350] [308] [352]
Fletcher, of Saltona, [388] [389]
Florence, [63] [64] ; difference between a soldier of, and one belonging to a standing army, [61] ; state of, in the [14]th century, [276]-277; its History, by Maehiavelli, [317] ; compared with Edinburgh, [340]
Fluxions, [324]
Foote, Charles, his stage character of an Anglo-Indian grandee, [282] ; his mimicry, [305] ; his inferiority to Garrick, [306]
Forms of government, [412] [413]
Fox, the family of, [414] [415]
Fox, Henry, sketch of his political character, [224] [229] [415] ; directed to form an administration in concert with Chatham, [235] ; applied to by Bute to manage the House of Commons, [43] [44] ; his private and public qualities, [45] ; became leader of the House of Commons, [46] ; obtains his promised peerage, [54] ; his unpopularity, [417]
Fox, Charles James, comparison of his History of James II. with Mackintosh's History of the Revolution, [252] ; his style, [254] ; characteristic of his oratory, [25]G; contrasted with that of Pitt, [25]G; his bodily and mental constitution, [415] [417] [232] ; his championship of arbitrary measures, and defiance of public opinion, [418] ; his change after the death of his father, [418] ; clamor raised against his India Bill, and his defence of it, [107] [244] 246; his alliance with Burke, and call for peace with the American republic, [110] ; his powerful party, [114] ; his conflicts with Pitt, [115] ; his motion on the charge against Hastings respecting his treatment of Cheyte Sing, [117] ; his appearance on the trial of Hastings, [127] [128] ; his rupture with Burke, [136] ; introduces Pitt, when a youth, in the House of Lords, and is struck with his precocity, [229] ; his admiration of Pitt's maiden speech, [233] ; puts up his name at Brookes's, [233] ; becomes Secretary of State, [235] ; resigns, [237] ; forms a coalition with North, [238] [241] Secretary of State, but in reality Prime Minister, [241] ; loses popularity, [243] ; resigns, [246] ; leads the opposition, [247] ; maintains the constitutional doctrine in regard to impeachments, 269, [270] ; fails to lead his party to favor the French Revolution, [273] ; his retirement from political life, [278] [284] ; opposes Pitt in regard to declaring war against France, [288] ; combines with him against Addington, [290] ; the king refuses to take him as a minister, [291] ; his generous feeling towards Pitt, [296] ; opposes the motion for a public funeral to Pitt, [297]
Fragments of a Roman ’Pale, [1] [19]
France, her history from the time of Louis XIV. to the Revolution, [63] [68] ; from the dissolution of the National Assembly to the meeting of the Convention, [446] [449] ; from the meeting of the Convention to the Reign of Terror, [449]475; during the Reign of Terror, [475] [500] ; from the Revolution of the ninth of Thermidor to the Consulate, [500]-513; under Napoleon, [513] [528] ; illustration from her history since the revolution, [514] ; her condition in [171]2 and [183] [134] ; her state at the restoration of Louis XVIII., [283] ; enters into a compact with Spain against England, [29] ; recognizes the independence of the United States, [105] ; her strength contrasted with that of England, [24] ; her history during the hundred days, [529] [530] ; after the Restoration, [429]
Francis, Sir Philip, councillor under the Regulating Act for India, [35] ; his character and talents, [35] 36; probability of his being the author of the Letters of Junius, [36] ; to: [39] ; his opposition to Hastings, [40] [56] ; his patriotic feeling, and reconciliation with Hastings, [62] ; his opposition to the arrangement with Sir Elijah Impey, [69] ; renewal of his quarrel with Hastings, [69] ; duel with Hastings, [70] ; his return to England, [74] ; his entrance into the House of Commons and character there, [109] [117] ; his speech on Mr. Fox's motion relating to Cheyte Sing, [118] ; his exclusion from the committee on the impeachment of Hastings, [123] [124]
Francis, the Emperor, [14]
Franklin, Benjamin, Dr., his admiration for Miss Burney, [211]
Franks, rapid fall after the death of Charlemagne, [205] [200]
Frederic I., [150]
Frederic II., iv. 011.
Frederic the Great, review of his Life and Times, by Thomas Campbell, [148] [248] ; notice of the House of Brandenburgh, [140] ; birth of Frederic, [152] ; his lather's conduct to him, [153] ; his taste for music, [153] ; his desertion from his regiment. [155] ; his imprisonment, [155] ; his release, [155] ; his favorite abode, [150] ; his amusements, [150] ; his education, [157] ; his exclusive admiration for French writers, [158] ; his veneration for the genius of Voltaire, [100] ; his correspondence with Voltaire, [101] ; his accession to the throne, [102] ; his character little understood, [103] ; his true character, [103] [104] ; he determines to invade Silesia, [100] ; prepares for war, [108] ; commences hostilities, [108] [105] ; his perfidy, [109] ; occupies Silesia, [171] ; his first battle, [171] ; his change of policy, [174] ; gains the battle of Chotusitz, [174] Silesia ceded to him, [175] ; his whimsical conferences with Voltaire, [170] ; recommences hostilities, [177] ; his retreat from Bohemia, [177] ; his victory at Hohenlfiedberg, [178] ; his part in the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, [179] ; public opinion respecting his political character, [179] ; his application to business, [179] ; his bodily exertions, [180] [181] ; general principles of his government, [182] ; his economy, [183] ; his character as an administrator, [184] ; his labors to secure to his people cheap and speedy justice, [185] ; religious persecution unknown under his government, [180] ; vices of his administration, [180] ; his commercial policy, [187] ; his passion for directing and regulating, [187] ; his contempt for the German language, [188] ; his associates at Potsdam, [189] [190] ; his talent for sarcasm, [192] ; invites Voltaire to Berlin, [190] ; their singular friendship, [197] ; seq.; union of France, Vustna and Saxony, against him, [212] ; he anticipates his ruin, [213] ; extent of his peril, [217] ; he occupies Saxony, [217] ; defeats Marshal Bruwn at Lowositz, [218] ; gains the battle of Prague, [219] ; loses the battle of Kolin, [220] ; his victory, [229] ; its effects, [231] ; his subsequent victories, [232] [248]
Frederic William I., [150] ; his character, [150] ; his ill-regululated mind, [151] ; his ambition to form a brigade of giants, [151] ; his feeling about his troops, [152] ; his hard and savage temper, [152] ; his conduct to his son Frederic, [153] [155] ; his illness and death, [102]
Free inquiry, right of, in religious matters, [102] [103]
French Academy (the), [23] ; seq.
French Republic, Burke's character of, [402]
French Revolution (the). See Revolution, the French.
Funds, national. See National Debt.
G.
Gabrielli, the singer, [256]
Galileo, [305]
Galway, Lord, commander of the allies in Spain in [170] [109] [119] ; defeated by the Bourbons at Almanza, [124]
Game, (a) Roman, [4] ; noie; (a) Greek, [30] ; note.
Ganges, the chief highway of Eastern commerce, [229]
Garden of Eden, pictures of, in oil Bibles, [343] ; painting of, by a gifted master, [343]
Garrick, David, a pupil of Johnson, [179] ; their relations to each other, [189] [190] [203] [398] ; his power of amusing children, [255] ; his friendship lor Crisp, [261] [202] ; his advice as to Crisp's tragedy of Virginia, [202] ; his power of imitation, [300] ; quotation from Fielding illustrative of the effect of his acting, [332]
Garth, his epilogue to Cato, [392] ; his verses upon the controversy in regard to the Letters of Phalaris, [118]
Gascons, [430] [487] [511] [525]
Gay, sent for by Addison on his death-bed to ask his forgiveness, [418]
Generalization, superiority in, of modern to ancient historians, [410] [414]
Geneva, Addison's visit to, [350]
Genius, creative, a rude state of society favorable to, [57] [325] ; requires discipline to enable it to perfect anything. [334] [335]
Genoa, its decay owing to Catholicism, [330] Addison's admiration of, [345]
Gensonnd, his ability, [452] ; his impeachment, [409] ; his defence, [473] ; his death, [474]
"Gentleman Dancing-Master," its production on the stage, [375] ; its best scenes suggested by Calderon, [385]
"Gentleman's Magazine" (the), [182] [184]
Geologist, Bishop Watson's comparison of, [425]
Geometry, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon, [450]
George I., his accession, [136]
George II., political state of the nation in his time. [533] ; his resentment against Chatham for his opposition to the payment of Hanoverian troops, [220] ; compelled to admit him to office, [221] ; his efforts for the protection of Hanover, [230] ; his relations towards his ministers, [241] [244] ; reconciled to Chatham's possession of power, [14] ; his death, [14] ; his character, [16]
George III., his accession the commencement of a new historic era, [532] ; cause of the discontents in the early part of his reign, [534] ; his partiality to Clive, [292] ; bright prospects at his accession, [58] [1] ; his interview with Miss Burney, [277] ; his opinions of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Shakespeare, [277] [278] ; his partisanship for Hastings, [291] ; his illness, and the view taken of it in the palace, [291] [292] ; the history of the first ten years of his reign but imperfectly known, [1] ; his characteristics, [16] [17] ; his favor to Lord Bute, [19] ; his notions of government, [21] ; slighted for Chatham at the Lord Mayor's dinner, [31] ; receives the resignation of Bute, and appoints George Grenville his successor, [54] ; his treatment by Grenville, [59] ; increase of his aversion to his ministers, [62] [63] ; his illness, 06; disputes between him and his ministry on the regency question, [66] ; inclined to enforce the American Stamp Act by the sword, [76] ; the faction of the "King's friends," [79] [89] ; his unwilling consent to the repeal of the Stamp Act, [82] ; dismisses Rockingham, and appoints Chatham, [88] ; his character and late popularity, [263] [265] ; his insanity and the question of the regency, [265] [267] ; his opposition to Catholic emancipation, [281] [282] ; his opposition to Fox, [291] [293]
Georgies (the), Addison's translation of a portion of, [332] [333]
Germany, the literature of, little known in England sixty or seventy years ago, [340] [341]
Germany and Switzerland, Addison's ramble in, [351]
Ghizni, peculiarity of the campaign of, [29]
Ghosts, Johnson's belief in, [410]
Gibbon, his alleged conversion to Mahommedanism, [375] ; his success as a historian, [252] ; his presence at Westminster Hall at the trial of Hastings, [126] ; unlearned his native English during his exile, [314] [260]
Gibbons, Gruiling, [367] [368]
Gibraltar, capture of, by Sir George Booke, [110]
Gittard, Lady, sister of Sir William Temple, [35] [39] [101] ; her death, [113]
Gifford, Byron's admiration of, [352]
Girondists, Barère's share in their destruction, [434] [435] [468] [469] [474] ; description of their party and principles, [452] [454] ; at first in the majority, [455] ; their intentions towards the king, [455] [456] ; their contest with the Mountain, [458] [459] [460] ; their trial, [473] ; and death, [474] [475] ; their character, [474]
Gladstone, W. E., review of "The State in its Relations with the Church," [110] ; quality of his mind, [111] [120] ; grounds on which he rests his case for the defence of the Church, [122] ; his doctrine that the duties of government are paternal, [125] ; specimen of his arguments, [127] [129] ; his argument that the profession of a national religion is imperative, [120] [131] [135] ; inconsequence of his reasoning, [138] ; to: [148]
Gleig, Kev. review of his Life of Warren Hastings, [114]
Godfrey, Sir E., [297]
Godolphin, Lord, his conversion to Whiggism, [130] ; engages Addison to write a poem on the battle of Illenheim, [355]
Godolphin and Marlborough, their policy soon after the accession of Queen Anne, [353]
Goëzman, his bribery as a member of the parliament of Lewis by Betmarchais, [430] [431]
Goldsmith, Oliver, Life of, [151] [171] ; his birth and parentage, [151] ; his school days, [152] [153] ; enters Trinity College, Dublin, [153] ; his university life, [154] ; his autograph upon a pane of glass, [154] ; note; his recklessness and instability, [154] [155] ; his travels, [155] ; his carelessness of the truth, [150] ; his life in London, [156] [157] ; his residence, [157] ; note; his hack writings, [157] [158] ; his style, [158] ; becomes known to literary men, [158] ; one of the original members of The Club, [159] Johnson's friendship for him, [159] [170] ; his "Vicar of Wakefield," [159] [161] ; his "Traveller." [160] ; his comedies. [161] [163] ; his "Deserted Village," [162] [163] ; his histories, [164] ; his amusing blunders, [164] ; his literary merits, 165, [170] ; his social position, [165] ; his inferiority in conversation, [165] 166, [393] ; his "Retaliation," [170] ; his character, [167] [168] [407] ; his prodigality, [168] ; his sickness and death, [169] ; his burial and cenotaph in Westminster Abbey, [169] [170] ; his biographers, [171]
Goordas, son of Nuneomar, his appointment as treasurer of the household, [24]
Gorhamlery, the country residence of Lord Bacon, [409]
Government, doctrines of Southey on the duties and ends of, stated and examined, [157] [168] ; its eon-duet in relation to infidel publications, [170] ; various forms of, [413] [414] ; changes in its form sometimes not felt till long alter, [86] ; the science of, experimental and progressive, [132] [272] [273] ; examination of Mr. Gladstone's treatise on the Philosophy of, [116] [176] ; its proper functions, [362] ; different forms of, [108] [111] ; their advantages, [179] [181] Mr. Hill's Essay on, reviewed, [5] [51]
Grace Abounding, Runyan's, [259]
Grafton, Duke of, Secretary of State under Lord Rockingham, [74] ; first Lord of the Treasury under Chatham, [91] ; joined the Bedfords, [100]
Granby, Marquis of, his character, [261]
Grand Alliance (the), against the Bourbons, [103]
Grand Remonstrance, debate on, and passing of it, [475]
Granville, Lord. See Carteret, Lord. Gray, his want of appreciation of Johnson, [261] ; his Latin verses, [342] ; his unsuccessful application for a professorship, [41] ; his injudicious plagiarisms from Dante, [72] ; note.
"Great Commoner." the designation of Lord Chatham, [250] [10]
Greece, its history compared with that of Italy, [281] ; its degradation and rise in modern times, [334] ; instances of the corruption of judges in the ancient commonwealths of, [420] ; its literature, [547] [340] [349] [352] ; history of, by Mitford, reviewed, [172] [201] ; historians of, modern, their characteristics, [174] [177] ; civil convulsions in, contrasted with those in Rome, [189] [190]
Greek Drama, its origin, [216] ; compared with the English plays of the age of Elizabeth, [338]
Greeks, difference between them and the Romans, [237] ; in their treatment of woman. [83] [84] ; their social condition compared with that of the Italians of the middle ages, [312] ; their position and character in the [12]th century, [300] ; their exclusiveness, [411] [412]
Gregory XI., his austerity and zeal, [324]
Grenvilles (the), [11] Richard Lord Temple at their head, [11]
Grenville, George, his character, [27] [23] ; intrusted with the lead in the Commons under the Bute administration, [33] ; his support of the proposed tax on cider, [51] ; his nickname of "Gentle Shepherd," [51] ; appointed prime minister, [54] ; his opinions, [54] [55] ; character of his public acts, [55] [50] ; his treatment of the king, [59] ; his deprivation of Henry Conway of his regiment, [62] ; proposed the imposition of stamp duties on the North American colonies, 05; his embarrassment on the question of a regency; his triumph over the king, [70] ; superseded by Lord Rockingham and his friends, [74] ; popular demonstration against him on the repeal of the Stamp Act, [83] ; deserted by the Bedfords, [109] ; his pamphlet against the Rocking-hams, [102] ; his reconciliation with Chatham, [103] ; his death, [104]
Grenville, Lord, [291] [292] [290]
Greville, Eulke, patron of Dr. Burney, his character, [251]
Grey, Lady Jane, her high classical acquirements, [349]
"Grievances," popular, on occasion of Walpole's fall, [181]
Grub Street, [405]
Guadaloupe, of, [244]
Guardian (the), its birth, [389] [390] ; its discontinuance, [390]
Guelfs (the), their success greatly promoted by the ecclesiastical power, [273]
Guicciardini, [2]
Guiciwar, its interpretation, [59]
Guise, Henry, Duke of, his conduct on the day of the barricades at Paris, [372] ; his resemblance to Essex. [372]
Gunpowder, its inventor and the date of its discovery unknown, [444]
Gustavus Adolphus, [338]
Gypsies (the), [380]
H.
Hale, Sir Matthew, his integrity, u. [490] [391]
Halifax, Lord, a trimmer both by intellect and by constitution, [87] ; compared with Shaftesbury, [87] ; his political tracts, [88] ; his oratorical powers, [89] [90] ; the king's dislike to him, [90] ; his recommendation of Addison to Godolphin, [354] [355] ; sworn of the Privy Council of Queen Anne, [301]
Hallam, Mr., review of his Constitutional History of England, [433] 543; his qualifications as an historian, [435] ; his style, [435] [430] ; character of his Constitutional History, [430] ; his impartiality, [430] [439] [512] ; his description of the proceedings of the third parliament of Charles I., and the measures which followed its dissolution, [450] [457] ; his remarks on tlie impeachment of Stratford, [458] [405] ; on the proceedings of the Long Parliament, and on the question of the justice of the civil war, [409] [495] ; his opinion on the nineteen propositions of the Long Parliament, [480] ; on the veto of the crown on acts of parliament, [487] ; on the control over tlie army, [489] ; on the treatment of Laud, and on his correspondence with Strafford, [492] [493] ; on tlie execution of Charles I., [497] ; his parallel between Cromwell and Napoleon, [504] [510] ; his character of Clarendon, [522]
Hamilton, Gerard, his celebrated single speech, [231] ; his effective speaking in the Irish Parliament, [372]
Hammond, Henry, uncle of Sir William Temple, his designation by the new Oxonian sectaries, [14]
Hampden, John, his conduct in tlie ship-money attender approved by the Royalists, effect of his loss on the Parliamentary cause, [496] ; review of Lord Nugent's Memorial of him, [427] ; his public and private character, [428] [429] Baxtor's testimony to his excellence, his origin and early history, [431] ; took his seat in the House of Commons, [432] ; joined the opposition to the Court; his first appearance as a public man, [441] ; his first stand for the fundamentals of the Constitution, [444] ; committed to prison. [444] ; set at liberty, and reelected for Wendover, [445] ; his retirement, [445] ; his remembrance of his persecuted friends, [447] ; his letters to Sir John Eliot, [447] Clarendon's character of him as a debater, [447] ; letter from him to Sir John Eliot, [448] ; his acquirements, [228] [450] ; death of his wife, [451] ; his resistance to the assessment for ship-money, [458] Stratford's hatred of him, [458] ; his intention to leave England, [458] ; his return tor Buckinghamshire in the fifth parliament of Charles I., [401] ; his motion on the subject of the king's message, [403] ; his election by two constituencies to the Long Parliament, [407] ; character of his speaking, [407] [408] ; his opinion on the bill for the attainder of Strafford, [471] Lord Clarendon's testimony to his moderation, [472] ; his mission to Scotland, [472] ; his conduct in the House of Commons on the passing of the Grand Remonstrance, [475] ; his impeachment ordered by the king, [477] [483] ; returns in triumph to the House, [482] ; his resolution, [489] ; raised a regiment in Buckinghamshire, [48] 1; contrasted with Essex, [491] ; his encounter with Rupert at Chalgrove, [493] ; his death and burial, [494] [495] ; effect of his death on his party, [490]
Hanover, Chatham's invective against the favor shown to, by George II., [219]
Harcourt, French ambassador to the Court of Charles II. of Spain, [94]
Hardwicke, Earl of, [13] ; his views of the policy of Chatham, [20] High Steward of the University of Cambridge, [37]
Harley, Robert, [400] ; his accession to power, [130] ; censure on him by Lord Mahon, [132] ; his kindness for men of genius, [405] ; his unsuccessful attempt to rally the Tories in [170] [3] ; his advice to the queen to dismiss the Whigs, [381]
Harrison, on the condition of the working classes in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, [175]
Hastings, Warren, review of Mr. Greig's Memoirs of his Life, [114] [7] ; his pedigree, [2] ; his birth, and the death of his father and mother, [3] ; taken charge of by his uncle and sent to Westminster school, [5] ; sent as a writer to Bengal, his position there, [7] ; events which originated his greatness, [8] ; becomes a member of council at Calcutta, [9] ; his character in pecuniary transactions, [11] [101] ; his return to England, generosity to his relations, and loss of his moderate fortune, [11] ; his plan for the cultivation of Persian literature at Oxford, [12] ; his interview with Johnson, [12] ; his appointment as member of council at Madras, and voyage to India, [13] ; his attachment to the Baroness Imhoff, [13] ; his judgment and vigor at-Madras, [15] ; his nomination to the head of the government at Bengal, [15] ; his relation with Nucomar, [19] [22] [24] ; his embarrassed finances and means to relieve them, [25] [74] ; his principle of dealing with his neighbors and the excuse for him, [25] ; his proceedings towards the Nabob and the Great Mogul, [27] ; his sale of territory to the Nabob of Oude, [28] ; his refusal to interfere to stop the barbarities of Sujah Dowlah, [33] ; his great talents for administration, [34] ; his disputes with the members of the new council, [40] ; his measures reversed, and the powers of government taken from him, [40] ; charges preferred against him, [42] [43] ; his painful situation, and appeal to England, [44] ; examination of his conduct, [49] [51] ; his letter to Dr. Johnson, [52] ; his condemnation by the directors, [52] ; his resignation tendered by his agent and accepted, [54] ; his marriage and reappointment, [50] ; his importance to England at that conjuncture, [57] [70] ; his duel with Francis, [70] ; his great influence, [73] [74] ; his financial embarrassment and designs for relief, [74] ; his transactions with and measures against Cheyte Sing, [71] ; seq.: his perilous situation in Benares, [82] [83] ; his treatment of the Nabob vizier, [85] [80] ; his treatment of the Begums, [879]2; close of his administration, [93] ; remarks on his system, [93] [102] ; his reception in England, [103] ; preparations for his impeachment, [104] [110] ; his defence at the bar of the House, [110] ; brought to the bar of the Peers, [123] ; scq.; his appearance on his trial, his counsel and his accusers, [120] ; his arraignment by Burke, [129] [130] ; narrative of the proceedings against him, [131] [139] ; expenses of his trial, [139] ; his last interference in politics, [141] [142] ; his pursuits and amusements at Daylesford, [142] ; his appearance and reception at the bar of the House of Commons, [144] ; his reception at Oxford. [145] ; sworn of the Privy Council and gracious reception by the Prince Regent, [145] ; his presentation to the Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia, [145] ; his death, [145] ; summary of his character, [145] [147]
Hatton, Lady, [308] ; her manners and temper, [308] ; her marriage with Sir Edward Coke, [368]
Havanna, capture of, [32]
Hawk, Admiral, his victory over the French fleet under Conflans, [245]
Hayley, William, [223] ; his translation of Dante, [78]
Hayti, its cultivation, [305] [306] ; its history and improvement, [390] [400] ; its production,395, [398] ; emigration to, from the United States, [398] [401]
Heat, the principle of, Bacon's reasoning upon, [90]
"Heathens" (the), of Cromwell's time, [258]
Heathfield, Lord, [125]
Hebert, [459] [409] [470] [473] [481]
Hebrew writers (the), resemblance of Æschylus to, [210] ; neglect of, by the Romans, [414]
Hebrides (the), Johnson's visit to, [420] ; his letters from, [423]
Hecatare, its derivation and definition, [281]
Hector, Homer's description of, [303]
Hedges, Sir Charles, Secretary of State, [302]
Helvetius, allusion to, [208]
Henry IV. of France, [139] ; twice abjured Protestantism from interested motives, [328]
Henry VIII., [452] ; his position between the Catholic and Protestant parties, [27]
Hephzibah, an allegory so called, [203]
Heresy, remarks on, [143] [153]
Herodotus, his characteristics, [377] 382; his naivete, [378] ; his imaginative coloring of facts, [378] [379] [420] ; his faults, [379] ; his style adapted to his times, [380] ; his history read at the Olympian festival, [381] ; its vividness, [381] [382] ; contrasted with Thucydides, [385] ; with Xenophon, [394] ; with Tacitus, [408] ; the speeches introduced into his narrative, [388] ; his anecdote about Mæandrius of Samos, [132] ; tragedy on the fall of Miletus, [333]
Heroic couplet (the), Drvden's unrivalled management of, [300] ; its mechanical nature, [333] [334] ; specimen from Ben Jonson, [334] ; from Hoole, [334] ; its rarity before the time of Pope, [334]
Heron, Robert, [208]
Hesiod, his complaint of the corruption of the judges of Asera, [420]
Hesse Darmstadt, Prince of, commanded the land forces sent against Gibraltar in [170] [110] ; accompanies Peterborough on his expedition, [112] ; his death at the capture of Monjuieh, [110]
High Commission Court, its abolition, [409]
Highgate, death of Lord Bacon at, [434]
Hindoo Mythology, [306]
Hindoos, their character compared with other nations, [19] [20] ; their position and feeling towards the people of Central Asia, [28] ; their mendacity and perjury, [42] ; their view of forgery, [47] ; importance attached by them to ceremonial practices, [47] ; their poverty compared with the people of England, [64] ; their feelings against English law, [65] [67]
Historical romance, as distinguished from true history, [444] [445]
History, Essay upon, [470] 442; in what spirit it should be written, [197] [199] ; true sources of, [100] ; complete success in, achieved by no one. [470] ; province of, [470] [477] ; its uses, [422] ; writer of a perfect, [377] [427] [442] [2] 52, [2] 50, [201] ; begins in romance, and ends in essay, [377] [400] Herodotus, as a writer of, [377] [482] ; grows more sceptical with the progress of civilization, 385; writers of, contrast between, and writers of fiction, [38] [5] [480] [38] [300] [444] [44] ; comparison of, with portrait-painting, [380] [488] Thucydides, as a writer of, [385] [303] Xenophon, as a writer of, [304] [304] Eulybius and Arrian, as writers of, 355; Plutarch and his school, as writers of, [305] [402] Livy, as a writer of, [402] [404] [404] [400] Tacitus, as a writer of, [400] ; writers of, contrast between, and the dramatists, [40] ; writers of, modern, superior to the ancient in truthfulness, [400] [410] ; and in philosophic generalizations, [410] [411] [410] ; how affected by the discovery of printing, [411] ; writers of, ancient, how Directed by their national exclusiveness, [410] ; modern, how affected by the triumph of Christianity, [410] [417] ; by the Northern invasions, [417] ; by the modern civilization, [417] [418] ; their faults, [410] ; to: [421] ; their straining of facts to suit theories; their misrepresentations, [420] ; their ill success in writing ancient history, [421] ; their distortions of truth not unfavorable to correct views in political science, [422] ; but destructive to history proper, [423] ; contracted with biographers, [423] ; their contempt for the writers of memoirs, [423] ; the majesty of, nothing too trivial for, [424] [192] [2] ; what circumstantial details of the life of the people history needs, [424] [428] ; most writers of, look only on the surface of affairs, [426] ; their errors in consequence, [420] ; reading of history compared in its effects with foreign travel, [420] [427] ; writer of, a truly great, will exhibit the spirit of the age in miniature, [427] [428] ; must possess an intimate knowledge of domestic history of nations, [432] Johnson's contempt for it, [421]
History of the Popes of Rome during the [16]th and [17]th centuries, review of Ranke's, [299] [350]
History of Greece, Clifford's, reviewed, [172] [201]
Hobbes, Thomas, his influence on the two Succeeding generations, [409] Malbranche's opinion of him, [340]
Hohenfriedberg, victory of, [178]
Hohenlohe, Prince, [301]
Holbach, Baron, his supper parties, [348]
Holderness, Earl of, his resignation of office, [24]
Holkar, origin of the House of, [59]
Holland, allusion to the rise of, [87] ; governed with almost regal power by John de Witt, [32] ; its apprehensions of the designs of France, [35] ; its defensive alliance with England and Sweden, [40] [44]
Holland House, beautiful lines addressed to it by Tickell, [423] ; its interesting associations, Addison's abode and death there, [424] [412]
Holland, Lord, review of his opinions as recorded in the journals of the House of Lords, [412] [426] ; his family, [414] [417] [419] ; his public life, [419] [422] ; his philanthropy, [64] [65] [422] [423] ; feelings with which his memory is cherished, [423] ; his hospitality at Holland House, [425] ; his winning manners and uprightness, [425] ; his last lines, [425] [426]
Hollis, Mr., committed to prison by Charles I., [447] ; his impeachment, [477]
Hollwell, Mr., his presence of mind in the Black Hole, [233] ; cruelty of the Nabob towards him, [234]
Home, John, patronage of by Bute, [41]
Homer, difference between his poetry and Milton's, [213] ; one of the most "correct" poets, [338] Pope's translation of his description of a moonlight night, [331] ; his descriptions of war. [356] [358] ; his egotism, [82] ; his oratorical power, [141] ; his use of epithets, [354] ; his description of Hector, [363]
Hooker, his faulty style, [50]
Hoole, specimen of his heroic couplets, [334]
Horace, Bentley's notes on, [111] ; compared poems to paintings whose effect varies as the spectator changes his stand, [141] ; his comparison of the imitators of Pindar, [362] ; his philosophy, [125]
Hosein, son of Ali, festival to his memory, [217] ; legend of his death, [218]
Hospitals, objects for which they are built, [183]
Hotspur, character of, [326]
Hough, Bishop, [338]
House of Commons (the), increase of its power, [532] [536] [540] ; change in public feeling in respect to its privileges, [537] ; its responsibility, [531] ; commencement of the practice of buying votes in, [168] ; corruption in, not necessary to the Tudors, [168] ; increase of its influence after the Devolution, [170] ; how to be kept in order, [170]
Hume, David, his characteristics as a historian, [420] ; his description of the violence of parties before the Devolution, [328]
Humor, that of Addison compared with that of Swift and Voltaire, [377] [378]
Hungarians, their incursions into Lombardy, [206]
Hunt, Leigh, review of his edition of the Dramatic works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Karquhar, [350]-411; his merits and faults, [350] [351] ; his qualifications as an editor, [350] ; his appreciation of Shakspeare, Spenser, Dryden, and Addison, [351]
Huntingdon, Countess of, [336]
Huntingdon, William, [285]
Hutchinson, Mrs., [24]
Hyde, Mr., his conduct in the House of Commons, [463] ; voted for Strafford's attainder, [471] ; at the head of the Constitutional Loyalists, [474] ; see also Clarendon, Lord.
Hyder Ali, his origin and character, [71] ; his invasion of the Carnatic, and triumphant success, [71] ; his progress arrested by Sir Eyre Coote, [74]
I.
Iconoclast, Milton's allusion to, [264]
"Idler" (the), [105]
Idolatry, [225] Illiad (the), Pope's and Tickell's translations, [405] [408]
Bunyan and Milton by Martin, Illustrations of [251] Imagination, effect upon, of works of art, [80] [333] [334] ; difference in this respect between the English and the Italians, [80] ; its strength in childhood, [331] ; in a barbarous age, [335] [336] ; works of, early, their effect, [336] ; highest quality of, [37] ; master-pieces of, products of an uncritical age, [325] ; or of uncultivated minds, [343] ; hostility of Puritans to works of, [346] [347] ; great strength of Milton's, [213] ; and power of Bunyan's, [256] [267]
Imhotf, Baron, his position and circumstances, [13] ; character and attractions of his wife and attachment between her and Hastings, [14] [15] [56] [102]
Impeachment of Lord Kimbolton, Hampden, Pym and Hollis, [477] ; of Hastings, [116] ; of Melville, [202] ; constitutional doctrine in regard to, [260] [270]
Impey, Sir Elijah, [6] Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, [30] ; his hostility to the Council, [45] ; remarks on his trial of Nuncomar, [45] [40] [66] ; dissolution of his friendship with Hastings, [67] ; his interference in the proceedings against the Begums, [91] ; ignorance of the native dialects, [91] ; condemnation in Parliament of the arrangement made with him by Hastings, [92]
Impostors, fertile in a reforming age, [340]
Indemnity, bill of, to protect witnesses against Walpole, [218]
India, foundation of the English empire in, [24] [248]
Indies, the West. West Indies.
Induction, method of, not invented by Bacon, [470] ; utility of its analysis greatly overrated by Bacon, [471] ; example of its leading to absurdity, [471] ; contrasted with it priori reasoning, [8] [9] ; the only true method of reasoning upon political questions, [481] [70] [74] [72] [70] ; to: [78]
Indulgences, [814]
Infidelity, on the treatment of, [171] ; its powerlessness to disturb the peace of the world, [341]
Informer, character of, [519]
Inquisition, instituted on the suppression of the Albigensian heresy, [310] ; armed with powers to suppress the Reformation, [323]
Interest, effect of attempts by government to limit the rate of, [352]
Intolerance, religious, effects of, [170]
Ireland, rebellion in, in [164] [473] ; in [175] [280] Essex's administration in its condition under Cromwell's government, [25] [27] ; its state contrasted with that of Scotland, [101] ; its union with England compared with the Persian table of King Zolmk, [101] ; reason of its not joining in favor of the Reformation, [314] [330] ; danger to England from its discontents, Pitt's admirable policy towards, [280] [281]
Isocrates, [103]
Italian Language, Dante the first to compose in, [50] ; its characteristics, [50]
Italian Masque (the), [218]
Italians, their character in the middle ages, [287] ; their social condition compared with that of the ancient Greeks, [312]
Italy, state of, in the dark ages, [272] ; progress of civilization and refinement in, [274] [275] ; seq; its condition under Cæsar Borgia, [303] ; its temper at the Reformation, [315] ; seq; its slow progress owing to Catholicism, [340] ; its subjugation, [345] ; revival of the power of the Church in, [347]
J.
"Jackboot," a popular pun on Bute's name, [41] [151]
Jacobins, their origin, [11] ; their policy, [458] [450] ; had effects of their administration, [532] [534]
Jacobin Club, its excesses, [345] [402] [400] [473] [475] [481] [488] [401] ; its suppression, [502] ; its final struggle for ascendency, [500]
James I. [455] ; his folly and weakness, [431] ; resembled Claudius Caesar, [440] ; court paid to him by the English courtiers before the death of Elizabeth, [382] ; his twofold character, [383] ; his favorable reception of Bacon, [383] [380] ; his anxiety for the union of England and Scotland, [387] ; his employment of Bacon in perverting the laws, [538] ; his favors and attachment to Buckingham, [396] [308] ; absoluteness of his government, [404] ; his summons of a Parliament, [410] ; his political blunders, [410] [411] ; his message to the Commons on the misconduct of Bacon, [414] ; his readiness to make concessions to Rome, [328]
James II., the cause of his expulsion, [237] ; administration of the law in his time, [520] Vareist's portrait of him, [251] ; his death, and acknowledgment by Louis XIV. of his son as his successor, [102] ; favor towards him of the High Church party, [303] [122] ; his misgovernment, [304] ; his claims as a supporter of toleration, [304] [308] ; his conduct towards Lord Rochester, [307] ; lus union with Lewis XI V., [303] ; his confidential advisers, [301] ; his kindness and munificence to Wycherley, [378]
Jardine,.Mr., his work on the use of torture in England, [304] ; note.
Jeffreys, Judge, his cruelty, [303]
Jenyns, Soanie, his notion of happiness in heaven, [378] ; his work on the "Origin of Evil" reviewed by Johnson, [270] [152] [195]
Jerningham, Mr. his verses, [271]
Jesuitism, its theory and practice towards heretics, [310] ; its rise, [320] ; destruction, [343] ; its fall and consequences', [344] ; its doctrines, [348] [340]
Jesuits, order of, instituted by Loyola, [320] ; their character, [320] [321] ; their policy and proceedings, [322] [323] ; their doctrines, [321] [322] ; their conduct in the confessional, [322] ; their missionary activity, [322]
Jews (the), review of the Civil Disabilities of, [307] [323] ; argument that the Constitution would be destroyed by admitting them to power, [307] [310] ; the argument that they are aliens, [313] ; inconsistency of the law in respect to them, [309] [313] ; their exclusive spirit a natural consequence of their treatment, [315] ; argument against them, that they look forward to their restoration to their own country, [317] [323]
Job, the Book of, [216]
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, life of, [172] 220; review of Croker's edition of Boswell's life of, [368] [425] ; his birth and parentage, [172] ; his physical and mental peculiarities, [172] [173] [170] [307] [408] ; his youth, [173] [174] [253] ; entered at Pembroke College, Oxford, [174] ; his life there, [175] ; translates Pope's "Messiah" into Latin verse, [175] ; quits the university without a degree, [175] ; his religious sentiments, [177] [411] ; his early struggles, [177] [178] ; his marriage, [178] ; opens a school and has Garrick for a pupil, [179] ; settles in London, [179] ; condition of men of letters at that time, [179] [180] [398] [404] ; his privations, [404] [181] ; his manners, [181] [271] ; his connection with the "Gentleman's Magazine," [182] ; his political bigotry, [183] [184] [213] [412] [413] [333] ; his "London," [184] [185] ; his associates, [185] [180] ; his life of Savage, [187] [214] ; undertakes the Dictionary, [187] ; completes it, [193] [194] ; his "Vanity of Human Wishes," [188] [189] ; his "Irene," [179] [190] ; his "Tatler," [190]-192; Mrs. Johnson dies, [193] ; his poverty, [195] ; his review of Jenyns' "Nature and Origin of Evil," [195] [270] ; his "Idler," [195] ; his "Basselas," [190] [197] ; his elevation and pension, [198] [405] ; his edition of Shakspeare, [199] [202] ; made Doctor of Laws, [202] ; his conversational powers, [202] ; his "Chib," [203] [200] [425] ; his connection with the Thrales, [200] [207] [270] ; broken by Mrs. Thrale's marriage with Piozzi, [210] 217; his benevolence, [207] [208] [271] ; his visit to the Hebrides, [209] [210] [420] ; his literary style, [187] [192] [211] [213] [215] [219] [423] [313] ; his "Taxation no Tyranny," [212] ; his Lives of the Poets, [213] [215] [219] ; his want of financial skill, [215] ; peculiarity of his intellect, [408] ; his credulity, [409] [200] ; narrowness of his views of society, [140] [418] ; his ignorance of the Athenian character, [140] ; his contempt for history, [421] ; his judgments on books, [414] [410] ; his objection to Juvenal's Satires, [379] ; his definitions of Excise and Pensioner, [333] [198] ; his admiration of the Pilgrim's Progress, [253] ; his friendship for Goldsmith, [159] [170] ; comparison of his political writings with those of Swift, [102] ; his language about Clive, [284] ; his praise of Congreve's "Mourning Bride," [391] [392] [400] ; his interview with Hastings, [12] ; his friendship with Dr. Burney, [254] ; his ignorance of music, [255] ; his want of appreciation of Gray, [201] [214] ; his fondness for Miss Burney and approbation of her book. [271] [219] ; his injustice to Fielding, [271] ; his sickness and death, [275] [218] [219] ; his character, [219] [220] ; singularity of his destiny, [426] ; neglected by Pitt's administration in his illness and old age, [218] [200]
Jones, Inigo, [318]
Jones, Sir William, [383]
Jonson, Ben, [299] ; his "Hermogenes," [358] ; his description of Lord Bacon's eloquence, [859] ; his verses on the celebration of Bacon's sixtieth year, [408] [409] ; his tribute to Bacon, [433] ; his description of humors in character, [303] ; specimen of his heroic couplets, [334]
Joseph II., his reforms, [344]
Judges (the), condition of their tenure of office, [480] ; formerly accustomed to receive gifts from suitors, [420] 425; how their corruption is generally detected, [430] ; integrity required from them, [50]
Judgment, private, Milton's defence of the right of, [262]
Judicial arguments, nature of, [422] ; bench, its character in the time of James II., [520]
Junius, Letters of, arguments in favor of their having been written by Sir Philip Francis, [36] ; seq.; their effects, [101]
Jurymen, Athenian, [33] ; note.
Juvenal's Satires, Johnson's objection to them, [379] ; their impurity, [352] ; his resemblance to lin'd en, [372] ; quotes the Pentateuch, [414] ; quotation from, applied to Louis XIV., [59]
K.
Keith, Marshall, [235]
Kenrick, William, [269]
Kimbolton, Lord, his impeachment, [477]
King, the name of an Athenian magistrate, [53] ; note.
"King's Friends," the faction of the, [79] [82]
Kit-Cat Club, Addison's introduction to the, [351]
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, Addison's lines to him, [375]
"Knights," comedy of the. [21]
Kniperdoling and Robespierre, analogy between their followers, [12]
Knowledge, advancement of society in, [390] [391] [132]
L.
Labor, division of, [123] ; effect of attempts by government to limit the hours of, [362] Major Moody's new philosophy of, and its refutation, [373] [398]
Laboring classes (the), their condition in England and on the Continent, [178] ; in the United States, [180]
Labourdonnais, his talents, [202] ; his treatment by the French government, [294]
Laedaunon. See Sparta.
La Fontaine, allusion to, [393]
Lalla Kookli, [485]
Lally, Governor, his treatment by the French government, [294]
Lamb, Charles, his defence cf the dramatists of the Restoration, [357] ; his kind nature, [358]
Lampoons, Pope's, [408]
Lancaster, Dr., his patronage of Addison, [326]
Landscape gardening, [374] [389]
Langton, Mr., his friendship with Johnson, [204] [219] ; his admiration of Miss Burney, [271]
Language, Drvden's command of, [367] ; effect of its cultivation upon poetry, [337] [338] Latin, its decadence, [55] ; its characteristics, [55] Italian, Dante the first to compose in, [56]
Languedoc, description of it in the twelfth century, [308] [309] ; destruction of its prosperity and literature by the Normans, [310]
Lansdowne, Lord, his friendship for Hastings, [106]
Latimer, Hugh, his popularity in London, [423] [428]
Latin poems, excellence of Milton's, [211] Boileau's praise of, [342] [343] Petrarch's, [96] ; language, its character and literature, [347] [349]
Latinity, Croker's criticisms on, [381]
Laud, Archbishop, his treatment by the Parliament, [492] [493] ; his correspondence with Strafford, [492] ; his character, [452] [453] ; his diary, [453] ; his impeachment and imprisonment, [468] ; his rigor against the Puritans, and tenderness towards the Catholics, [473]
Lauderdale, Lord, [417]
Law, its administration in the time of James II., [520] ; its monstrous grievances in India, [64] [69]
Lawrence, Major, his early notice of Clive, [203, ] [241, ] ; his abilities, [203]
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, [305]
Laws, penal, of Elizabeth, [439] [440]
Lawsuit, imaginary, between the parishes of St. Dennis and St. George-in-the-water, [100, ] [111]
Lawyers, their inconsistencies as advocates and legislators, [414] [415]
Learning in Italy, revival of, [275] ; causes of its decline, [278]
Legerdemain, [353]
Legge, Et. lion. H. B., [230] ; his return to the Exchequer, [38] [13] ; his dismissal, [28]
Legislation, comparative views on, by Plato and by Bacon, [456]
Legitimacy, [237]
Leibnitz, [324]
Lemon, Mr., his discovery of Milton's Treatise on Christian Doctrine, [202]
Lennox, Charlotte, [24]
Leo X., his character, [324] ; nature of the war between him and Luther, [327] [328]
Lessing, [341]
Letters of Phalaris, controversy between Sir William Temple and Christ Church College and Bentley upon their merits and genuineness, [108] [112] [114] [119]
Libels on the court of George III., in Bute's time, [42]
Libertinism in the time of Charles II., [517]
Liberty, public, Milton's support of, [246] ; its rise and progress in Italy, [274] ; its real nature, [395] [397] ; characteristics of English, [399] [68] [71] ; of the Seas, Barrere's work upon, [512]
Life, human, increase in the time of, [177]
Lincoln Cathedral, painted window in, [428]
Lingard, Dr., his account of the conduct of James II. towards Lord Rochester, [307] ; his ability as a historian, [41] ; his strictures on the Triple Alliance, [42]
Literary men more independent than formerly, [190]-192; their influence, [193] [194] ; abjectness of their condition during the reign of George IL, [400] [401] ; their importance to contending parties in the reign of Queen Anne, [304] ; encouragement afforded to, by the Revolution, [336] ; see also Criticism, literary.
Literature of the Roundheads, [234] ; of the Royalists, [234] ; of the Elizabethan age, [341] [346] ; of Spain in the [16]th century, [80] ; splendid patronage of, at the close of the [17]th and beginning of the [18]th centuries, [98] ; discouragement of, on the accession of the House of Hanover, [98] ; importance of classical in the [16]th century, [350] Petrarch, its votary, [86] ; what its history displays in all languages [340] [341] ; not benefited by the French Academy, [23]
Literature, German, little known in England sixty or seventy years ago, [341]
Literature, Greek, [349] [353]
Literature, Italian, unfavorable influence of Petrarch upon, [59] [60] ; characteristics of, in the [14]th century, [278] ; and generally, down to Alfieri, [60]
Literature, Roman, [347] [349]
Literature, Royal Society of, [202, ] [9]
"Little Dickey," a nickname for Norris, the actor, [417]
Livy, Discourses on, by Machiavelli, [309] ; compared with Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, [313] [314] ; his characteristics as an historian, [402] [403] ; meaning of the expression lactece ubertus, as applied to him, [403]
Logan, Mr., his ability in defending Hastings, [139]
Lollardism in England, [27]
London, in the [17]th century, [479] ; devoted to the national cause, [480] [481] ; its public spirit, [18] ; its prosperity during the ministry of Lord Chatham, [247] ; conduct of, at the Restoration, [289] ; effects of the Great Plague upon, [32] ; its excitement on occasion of the tax on cider proposed by Bute's ministry, [50] University of, see University.
Long Parliament (the), controversy on its merits, [239] [240] ; its first meeting, [457] ; ii.406; its early proceedings, [469] [470] ; its conduct in reference to the civil war, [471] ; its nineteen propositions, [486] ; its faults, [490] [494] ; censured by Mr. Hallam, [491] ; its errors in the conduct of the war, [494] ; treatment of it by the army, [497] ; recapitulation of its acts, [408] ; its attainder of Stratford defended, [471] ; sent Hampden to Edinburgh to watch the king, [479] ; refuses to surrender the members ordered to be impeached, [477] ; openly denies the king, [489] ; its conditions of reconciliation, [480]
Lope, his distinction as a writer and a soldier, [81]
Lords, the House of, its position previous to the Restoration, [287] ; its condition as a debating assembly in [177] [420]
Lorenzo de Medici, state of Italy in his time, [278]
Lorenzo de Medici (the younger), dedication of Machiavelli's Prince to him, [309]
Loretto, plunder of, [346]
Louis XI., his conduct in respect to the Spanish succession, [80] [99] ; his acknowledgment, on the death of James II., of the Prince of Wales as King of England, and its consequences, [102] ; sent an army into Spain to the assistance of his grandson, [109] ; his proceedings in support of his grandson Philip, [109] [127] ; his reverses in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, [129] ; his policy, [309] ; character of his government, [308] [311] ; his military exploits, [5] ; his projects and affected moderation, [36] ; his ill-humor at the Triple Alliance, [41] ; his conquest of Franche Comte, [42] ; his treaty with Charles, [53] ; the early part of his reign a time of license, [364] ; his devotion, [339] ; his late regret for his extravagance, [39] ; his character and person, [576] ; his injurious influence upon religion, [64]
Louis XV., his government, [646] [6] [293]
Louis XVI., [441] ; to: [449] [455] [150] [67]
Louis XVIII., restoration of, compared with that of Charles II., [282] ; seq.
Louisburg, fall of, [244]
L'Ouverture, Toussaint, [366] [390] [392]
Love, superiority of the. Romans over the Greeks in their delineations of, [83] ; change in the nature of the passion of, [84] ; earned by the introduction of the Northern element, [83]
"Love for Love," by Congreve, [392] ; its moral, [402]
"Love in a Wood," when acted, [371]
Loyola, his energy, [320] [336]
Lucan, Dryden's resemblance to, [355]
Lucian, [387]
Luther, his declaration against the ancient philosophy, [446] ; sketch of the contest which began with his preaching against the Indulgences and terminated with the treaty of Westphalia, [314] [338] ; was the product of his age, [323] ; defence of, by Atterbury, [113]
Lysurgus, [185]
Lysias, anecdote by Plutarch of his "speech for the Athenian tribunals," [117]
Lyttleton, Lord, [54]
M.
Maebomey, original name of the Burney family, [250] Machiavelli, his works, by Périer, [267] ; general odiousness of his name and works, [268] [269] ; suffered for public liberty, [269] ; his elevated sentiments and just views, [270] ; held in high estimation by his contemporaries. [271] ; state of moral feeling ill Italy in his time, [272] ; his character as a man, [291] ; as a poet, [293] ; as a dramatist, [296] ; as a statesman, [291] [300] [309] [313] [309] ; excellence of his precepts, [311] ; his candor, [313] ; comparison between him and Montesquieu, [314] ; his style, [314] ; his levity, [316] ; his historical works, [316] ; lived to witness the last struggle for Florentine liberty, [319] ; his works and character misrepresented, [319] ; his remains dishonored till long after his death, [319] ; monument erected to his memory by an English nobleman, [319]
Mackenzie, Henry, his ridicule of the Nabob class, [283]
Mackenzie, Mr., his dismissal insisted on by Grenville, [70]
Mackintosh, Sir James, review of his History of the Revolution in England, [251] [335] ; comparison with Fox's History of James II., [252] ; character of his oratory, [253] ; his conversational powers, [256] ; his qualities as an historian, [250] ; his vindication from the imputations of the editor, [262] [270]-278; change in his opinions produced by the French Revolution, [263] ; his moderation, [268] [270] ; his historical justice, [277] [278] ; remembrance of him at Holland House, [425]
Macleane, Colonel, agent in England for Warren Hastings, [44] [53]
Macpherson, James, [77] [331] [210] ; a favorite author with Napoleon, [515] ; despised by Johnson, [116]
Madras, description of it, [199] ; its capitulation to the French, [202] ; restored to the English, [203]
Maand, capture of, by the English army in [470] [119]
Mæandnus, of Samos, [132]
Magazine, delightful invention for a very idle or a very busy man, [156] ; resembles the little angels of the Rabbinical tradition, [156] [157]
Magdalen College, treatment of, by James II., [413] Addison's connection with it, [327]
Mahon, Lord, Review of his History of the War of the Succession in Spain, [75] [142] ; his qualities as an historian, [75] [77] ; his explanation of the financial condition of Spain, [85] ; his opinions on the Partition Treaty, [90]-92; his representations of Cardinal Porto Carrero, [104] ; his opinion of the peace on the conclusion of the War of the Spanish Succession, [131] ; his censure of Harley, [132] ; and view of the resemblance of the Tories of the present day to the Whigs of the Revolution, [132] [135]
Mahrattas, sketch of their history, [207] [58] ; expedition against them, [60]
Maintenon, Madame de, [364] [30]
Malaga, naval battle near, in [170] [110]
Malcolm, Sir John, review of his Life of Lord Clive, [194] [299] ; value of his work, [190] ; his partiality for Clive, [237] ; his defence of Clive's conduct towards Ornichaud, [248]
Mallet, David, patronage of by Bute, [41]
Malthus, Mr., his theory of population, and Sadler's objections to it, [217] [218] [222] [223] [228] [244] [271] [272]
Manchester, Countess of, [339]
Manchester, Earl of, his patronage of Addison, [338] [350]
Mandeville, his metaphysical powers, [208]
Mandragola (the), of Maehiavelli, [293]
Manilla, capitulation of, [32]
Mannerism of Johnson, ii [423]
Mansfield, Lord, his character and talents, [223] ; his rejection of the overtures of Newcastle, [234] ; his elevation, [234] [12] ; his friendship for Hastings, [106] ; character of his speeches, [104]
Manso, Milton's Epistle to, [212]
Manufactures and commerce of Italy in the [14]th century, [275] [277]
Manufacturing and agricultural laborers, comparison of their condition, [147] [149]
Manufacturing system (the), Southey's opinion upon, [145] ; its effect on the health, [147]
Marat, his bust substituted for the statues of the Martyrs of Christianity, [345] ; his language about Barère, [458] [466] ; his bust torn down, [502]
Mareet, Mrs., her Dialogues on Political Economy, [207]
March, Lord, one of the persecutors of Wilkes, [60]
Maria Theresa, her accession to the throne, [164] ; her situation and personal qualities, [165] [166] ; her unbroken spirit, [173] ; gives birth to the future emperor, Joseph II., [173] ; her coronation, [173] ; enthusiastic loyalty and war-cry of Hungary, [174] ; her brother-in-law, Prince Charles of Lorraine, defeated by Frederic the Great, at Chotusitz, [174] ; she cedes Silesia, [175] ; her husband, Francis, raised to the Imperial Throne, [179] ; she resolves to humble Frederic, [200] ; succeeds in obtaining the adhesion of Russia, [200] ; her letter to Madame Pompadour, [211] ; signs the peace of Hubertsburg, [245]
Marie Antoinette, Barère's share in her death, [401] [434] [409] [470]
Marino, San, visited by Addison, [340]
Marlborough, Duchess of, her friendship with Congreve, [408] ; her inscription on his monument, [409]
Marlborough, Duke of, [259] ; his conversion to Whiggism, [129] ; his acquaintance with the Duchess of Cleveland,-and commencement of his splendid fortune, [373] ; notice of Addison's poem in his honor, [358]
Marlborough and Godolphin, their policy, [353]
Maroons (the), of Surinam, [386] ; to: [388]
Marsh, Bishop, his opposition to Calvinistic doctrine, [170]
Martinique, capture of, [32]
Martin's illustrations of the Pilgrim's Progress, and of Paradise Lost, [251]
Marvel, Andrew, [333]
Mary, Queen, [31]
Masque, the Italian, [218]
Massinger, allusion to his "Virgin Martyr," [220] ; his fondness for the Roman Catholic Church, [30] ; indelicate writing in his dramas, [356]
Mathematical reasoning, [103] ; studies, their advantages and defects, [346]
Mathematics, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon, [451]
Maximilian of Bavaria, [328]
Maxims, general, their uselessness, [310]
Maynooth, Mr. Gladstone's objections to the vote of money for, [179]
Mecca, [301]
Medals, Addison's Treatise on, [329] [351]
Medici, Lorenzo de. See Lorenzo de Medici.
Medicine, comparative estimate of the science of, by Plato and by Bacon, [454] [456]
Meer Cossim, his talents, [260] ; his deposition and revenge, [266]
Meer Jatlier, his conspiracy, [240] ; his conduct during the battle of Plassey, [243] [240] ; his pecuniary transactions with Clive, [251] ; his proceedings on being threatened by the Great Mogul, [250] ; his fears of the English, and intrigues with the Dutch, [258] ; deposed and reseated by the English, [266] ; his death, [270] ; his large bequest to Lord Clive, [279]
Melanethon, [7]
Melville, Lord, his impeachment, [292]
Meinmius, compared to Sir Wm. Temple, [112]
Memoirs of Sir "William Temple, review of, [1] [115] ; wanting in selection and compression, [2]
Memoirs of the Life of Warren Hastings, review of, [1] [148]
Memoirs, writers of, neglected by historians, [423]
Memory, comparative views of the importance of, by Plato and by Bacon, [454]
Menander, the lost comedies of, [375]
Mendaeium, different species of, [430]
Mendoza, Hurtado de, [81]
Mercenaries, employment of, in Italy, [283] ; its political consequences, [284] ; and moral effects, [285]
Messiah, Pope's, translated into Latin verse by Johnson, [175]
Metals, the precious, production of, [351]
Metaphysical accuracy incompatible with successful poetry, [225]
Metcalfe, Sir Charles, his ability and disinterestedness, [298]
Methodists, their rise unnoticed by some writers of the history of England under George II., [426] ; their early object, [318]
Mexico, exactions of the Spanish viceroys in, exceeded by the English agents in Bengal, [266]
Miehell, Sir Francis, [401]
Middle ages, inconsistency in the schoolmen of the, [415]
Middlesex election, the constitutional question in relation to it, [101] [104]
Middleton, Dr., remarks on his Life of Cicero, [340] [341] ; his controversies with Bentley, [112]
Midias, Demosthenes' speech against, [102]
"Midsummer Night's Dream," sense in which the word "translated" is therein used, [180]
Milan, Addison's visit to, [345]
Military science, studied by Machiavelli, [306]
Military service, relative adaptation of different classes for, [280]
Militia (the), control of, by Charles I. or by the Parliament, [488]
Mill, James, his merits as a historian, [277] [278] ; defects of his History of British India, [195] [196] ; his unfairness towards Clive's character, [237] ; his Essay on Government reviewed, [5] [51] ; his theory and method of reasoning, [6] [8] [10] [12] [18] [20] [46] [48] ; his style. [8] ; his erroneous definition of the end of government, [11] ; his objections to a Democracy only practical ones, [12] ; attempts to demonstrate that a purely aristocratic form of government is necessarily bad, [12] [13] ; so also an absolute monarchy, [13] [14] ; refutation of these arguments, [15] [16] [18] ; his inconsistencies, [16] [17] [96] [97] 121; his narrow views, [19] [20] ; his logical deficiencies, [95] ; his want of precision in the use of terms, [103] [108] ; attempts to prove that no combination of the simple forms of government can exist, [21] [22] ; refutation of this argument., [22] [29] ; his ideas upon the representative system. [29] [30] ; objections to them, [30]-32; his views upon the qualifications of voters, [32] [36] ; objections to them, [36] [38] [41] [42] ; confounds the interests of the present generation with those of the human race, [38] [39] ; attempts to prove that the people understand their own interest, [42] ; refutation of this argument, [43] ; general objections to his theory, [44] [47] [122] ; defended by the Westminster Review, [529] ; inconsistencies between him and the reviewer, [56] [58] ; the reviewer mistakes the points at issue, [58] [60] [61] [65] [70] [77] [114] ; and misrepresents arguments, [62] [73] [74] ; refutation of his positions. [63] [64] [66] [74] [76] [122] [127] ; the reviewer shifts the issue, [68] [127] [128] ; fails to strengthen Mill's positions, [71] ; and manifests great disingenuousness, [115] [118] [129] [130]
Millar, Lady, her vase for verses, [271]
Milton, review of his Treatise on Christian Doctrine, Mr. Lemon's discovery of the MS. of it, [202] ; his style, "202; his theological opinions, [204] ; his poetry his great passport to general remembrance, [205] [211] ; power of his imagination, [211] ; the most striking characteristic of his poetry, [213] [375] ; his Allegro and Penseroso, [215] ; his Cornus and Samson Agonistes, [215] ; his minor poems, [219] ; appreciated the literature of modern Italy, [219] ; his Paradise Regained, [219] ; parallel between him and Dante, [17] [18] ; his Sonnets most exhibit his peculiar character, [232] ; his public conduct, [233] ; his defence of the execution of Charles L, [246] ; his refutation of Salmasius, [248] ; his conduct under the Protector, [249] ; peculiarities which distinguished him from his contemporaries, [253] ; noblest qualities of every party combined in him, [260] ; his defence of the freedom of the press, and the right of private judgment, [262] ; his boldness in the maintenance of his opinions, [263] ; recapitulation of his literary merits, [264] ; one of the most "correct" poets, [338] ; his egotism, [82] ; effect of his blindness upon his genius, [351] Dryden's admiration of, [369] [370]
Milton and Cowley, an imaginary conversation between, touching the great Civil War, [112] [138]
Milton and Shakspeare,character of, Johnson's observations on, [417]
Minden, battle of, [247]
Minds, great, the product of their times, [323] [325]
Mines, Spanish-American, [85] [351]
Ministers, veto by Parliament on their appointment, [487] ; their responsibility lessened by the Revolution, [531]
Minorca, capture of, by the French, [232]
Minority, period of, at Athens, [191] [192]
"Minute guns!" Diaries Townshend's exclamation on hearing Bute's maiden speech, [33]
Mirabeau, Dumont's recollections of, [71] [74] ; his habit of giving compound nicknames, [72] ; compared with Wilkes, [72] ; with Chatham, [72] [73]
Missionaries, Catholic, their zeal and spirit, [300]
Mittford, Mr., his History of Greece reviewed, [172] [201] ; its popularity greater than its merits, [172] ; his characteristics, [173] [174] [177] [420]-422; his scepticism and political prejudices, [178] [188] ; his admiration of an oligarchy, and preference of Sparta to Athens, [181] [183] ; his views in regard to Lyeurgus, [185] ; reprobates the liturgic system of Athens, [190] ; his unfairness, [191] 422; his misrepresentation of Demosthenes, [191] [193] [195] [197] ; his partiality for Æschines, [193] [194] ; his admiration of monarchies, [195] ; his general preference of the Barbarians to the Greeks, [190] ; his deficiencies as an historian, [190] 197; his indifference for literature and literary pursuits, [197] [199]
Modern history, the period of its commencement, [532]
Mogul, the Great, [27] ; plundered by Hastings, [74]
Mohammed Heza Khan, his character, [18] ; selected by Clive, [21] ; his capture, confinement at Calcutta and release, [25]
Molière, [385]
Molwitz, battle of, [171]
Mompesson, Sir Giles, conduct of Bacon in regard to his patent, [401] [402] ; abandoned to the vengeance of the Commons, [412]
Monarch, absolute, establishment of, in continental states, [481] Mitford's admiration of, [195]
Monarchy, the English, in the l6th century, [15] [20]
Monjuieh, capture of the fort of, by Peterborough, [115]
Monmouth, Duke of, [300] ; his supplication for life, [99]
Monopolies, English, during the latter end of Elizabeth's reign, multiplied under James, [304] [401] ; connived at by Bacon, [402]
Monson, Mr., one of the new councillors under the Regulating Act for India, his opposition to Hastings, [40] ; his death and its important consequences, [54]
Montagu, Basil, review of his edition of Lord Bacon's works, [330] ; character of his work, [330] ; his explanation of Lord Burleigh's conduct towards Bacon, [350] ; his views and arguments in defence of Bacon's conduct towards Essex, [373] [379] ; his excuses for Bacon's use of torture, and his tampering with the judges, [391] [394] ; his reductions on Bacon's admonitions to Buckingham, [403] ; his complaints against James for not interposing to save Bacon, [415] ; and for advising him to plead guilty, [410] ; his defence of Bacon, [417] [430]
Montagu, Charles, notice of him, [338] ; obtains permission for Addison to retain his fellowship during his travels, [338] Addison's Epistle to him, [350] ; see also Halifax, Lord.
Montague, Lord, [399]
Montague, Marv, her testimony to Addison's colloquial powers, [300]
Montague, Mrs., [126]
Mont Cenis, [349]
Monttesquieu, his style, [314] [304] [365] Horace Walpole's opinion of him, [155] ; ought to have styled his work L'esprit sur les Lois, [142]
Montesquieu and Machiavelli, comparison between, [314]
Montgomery, Mr. Robert, his Omnipresence of the Deity reviewed, [199] ; character of his poetry, [200] [212]
Montreal, capture of, by the British, [170] [245]
Moody, Major Thomas, his reports on the captured negroes reviewed, [361] [404] ; his character, [302] [303] [404] ; characteristics of his report, [304] 402; its reception, [304] ; its literary style, [305] ; his principle of an instinctive antipathy between the White and the Black races, [365] ; its refutation, [306] [367] ; his new philosophy of labor, [373] [374] ; his charges against Mr. Dougal, [376] ; his inconsistencies, [377] ; and erroneous deductions, [379] [380] [391] ; his arrogance and bad grammar, [394] ; his disgraceful carelessness in quoting documents, [399]
Moore, Mr., extract from his "Zelnco," [420]
Moore's Life of Lord Byron, review of, [324] [367] ; its style and matter, [324] ; similes in his "Lalla Rookh," [485]
Moorshedabad, its situation and importance, [7]
Moral feeling, state of, in Italy in the time of Machiavelli, [271]
Morality of Plutarch, and the historians of his school, political, low standard of, after the Restoration, [398] [515]
Moses, Bacon compared to, by Cowley, [493]
"Mountain" (the), their principles, [454] [455] ; their intentions towards the King, [450] [457] ; its contests with the Girondists, [458] [459] [402] [460] ; its triumph, [473]
"Mountain of Light," [145]
Mourad Bey, his astonishment at Buonaparte's diminutive figure, [357]
"Mourning Bride," by Congreve, its high standing as a tragic drama, [391]
Moylan, Mr., review of his Collection of the Opinions of Lord Holland as recorded in the Journals of the House of Lords, [412] [420]
Mucius, the famous Roman lawyer, [4] ; note.
Munro, Sir Hector, [72]
Munro, Sir Thomas, [298]
Munster, Bishop of, [32]
Murphy, Mr., his knowledge of stage effect, [273] ; his opinion of "The Witlings," [273]
Mussulmans, their resistance to the practices of English law, [5]
Mysore, [71] ; its fierce horsemen, [72]
Mythology, Dante's use of, [75] [76]
N.
Nabobs, class of Englishmen to whom the name was applied, [280] 283.
Names, in Milton, their significance, [214] ; proper, correct spelling of, [173]
Naples, [347]
Napoleon, his policy and actions as first Consul, [513] [514] [525] [283] [280] ; his treatment of Barer, [514] [516] [518] [522] [520] ; his literary style, [515] ; his opinion of Barère's abilities, [524] [525] ; his military genius, [293] [294] ; his early proof of talents for war, [297] ; his hold on the affections of his subjects, [14] ; devotion of his Old Guard surpassed by that of the garrison of Arcot to Clive, [210] Mr. Hallam's parallel between him and Cromwell, [504] ; compared with Philip II. of Spain, [78] ; protest of Lord Holland against his detention, [213] ; threatens to invade England, [287] ; anecdotes respecting, [236] [237] [357] [495] [408]
Nares, Rev. Dr., review of his Burleigh and his Times, [1] [30]
National Assembly. See Assembly.
National Debt, Southey's notions of, [153] [155] ; effect of its abrogation, [154] England's capabilities in respect to it, [180]
National feeling, low state of, after the Restoration, [525]
Natural history, a body of, commenced by Bacon, [433]
Nature, Dryden's violations of, [359] ; external, Dante's insensibility to, [72] [74] ; feeling of the present age for, [73] ; not the source of the highest poetical inspiration, [73] [74]
Navy, its mismanagement in the reign of Charles II., [375]
Negroes, their legal condition in the West Indies, [307] [310] ; their religious condition, [311] [313] ; their social and industrial capacities, [301] [402] Major Moody s theory of an instinctive antipathy between them and the Whites, and its refutation, [305] [307] ; prejudices against them in the United States, [368] [361] ; amalgamation between them and the Whites, [370] [373] ; their capacity and inclination for labor, [383] [385] [387] [391] ; the Maroons of Surinam, [380] ; to: [388] ; inhabitants of Hayti, [390] ; to: [400] ; their probable fate, [404]
Nelson, Southey's Life of, [136]
"New Atalantis" of Bacon, remarkable passages in, [488]
Newbery, Mr., allusion to his pasteboard pictures, [215]
Newcastle, Duke of, his relation to Walpole, [178] [191] ; his character, [191] ; his appointment as head of the administration, [226] ; his negotiations with Fox, [227] [228] ; attacked in Parliament by Chatham, [229] ; his intrigues, [234] ; his resignation of office, [235] ; sent for by the king on Chatham's dismissal", leader of the Whig aristocracy, [239] ; motives for his coalition with Chatham, [240] ; his perfidy towards the king, [242] ; his jealousy of Fox, [242] ; his strong government with Chatham, [243] [244] ; his character and borough influence, [472] ; his contests with Henry Fox, [472] ; his power and patronage, [7] [8] ; his unpopularity after the resignation of Chatham, [34] [35] ; he quits office, [35]
Newdigate, Sir Roger, a great critic, [342]
Newton, John, his connection with the slave-trade, [421] ; his attachment to the doctrines of predestination, [176]
Newton, Sir Isaac, [207] ; his residence in Leicester Square, [252] Malbranche's admiration of him, [340] ; invented the method of fluxions simultaneously with Leibnitz, [324]
"New Zealander" (the), [301] [160] [162] [201] [41] [42]
Niagara, conquest of, [244]
Ninleguen, congress at, [59] ; hollow and unsatisfactory treaty of, [60]
Nizam, originally a deputy of the Mogul sovereign, [59]
Nizam al Mulk, Viceroy of the Deecan, his death, [211]
Nonconformity. See Dissent in the Church of England.
Normandy, [77]
Normans, their warfare against the Albigenses, [310]
Norris, Henry, the nickname "Little Dickey" applied to him by Addison, [417]
North, Lord, his change in the constitution of the Indian government, [35] ; his desire to obtain the removal of Hastings, [53] ; change in his designs, and its cause, [57] ; his sense, tact, and urbanity, [128] ; his weight in the ministry, [13] Chancellor of the Exchequer, [100] ; at the head of the ministry, [232] ; resigns, [235] ; forms a coalition with Fox, [239] ; the recognized heads of the Tory party, [243]
Northern and Southern countries, difference of moral feeling in, [285] [286]
Novels, popular, character of those which preceded Miss Burney's Evelina, [319]
November, fifth of, [247]
Novum Organum, admiration excited by it before it was published, [388] ; and afterwards, [409] ; contrast between its doctrine and the ancient philosophy, [438] [448] [405] ; its first book the greatest performance of Bacon, [492]
Nov, Attorney-General to Charles I, [456]
Nugent, Lord, review of his Memorials of John Hampden and his Party, [427]
Nugent. Robert Craggs, [13]
Nuncomar, his part in the revolutions in Bengal, [19] [20] ; his services dispensed with by Hastings, [24] ; his rancor against Mahommed Reza Khan, [25] ; his alliance with the majority of the new council, [42] 43; his committal for felony, trial, and sentence, [45] [40] ; his death, [48] [49]
O.
Oates, Titus, remarks on his plot, [295] [300]
Oc, language of Provence and neighboring countries, its beauty and richness, [308]
Ochino Bernardo, [349] ; his sermons on fate and free-will translated by Lady Bacon, [349]
Odd (the), the peculiar province of Horace Walpole, [161]
"Old Bachelor," Congreve's, [389]
Old Sarum, its cause pleaded by Junius, [38]
Old Whig, Addison's, [417]
Oleron, [509]
Oligarchy, characteristics of, [181] 183.
Olympic games, Herodotus' history read at, [331]
Oniai. his appearance at Dr. Burney's concerts, [257] ; anecdote about, [59]
Oinichund, his position in India, [238] ; his treachery towards Clive, [241] [249]
Omnipresence of the Deity, Robert Montgomery's reviewed, [199]
Opinion, public, its power, [169]
Opposition, parliamentary, when it began to take a regular form, [433]
Orange, the Prince of, [46] ; the only hope of his country, [51] ; his success against the French. [52] ; his marriage with the Lady Mary, [60]
Orators, Athenian, essay on, [139] 157; in what spirit "their works should be read, [149] ; causes of their greatness found in their education, [149] ; modern orators address themselves less to the audience than to the reporters, [151]
Oratory, how to be criticised, [149] ; to be estimated on principles different from those applied to other productions, [150] ; its object not truth but persuasion, [150] ; little of it left in modern days, [151] ; effect of the freedom of the press upon it, [151] ; practice and discipline give superiority in, as in the art of war, [155] ; effect of the division of labor upon, [154] ; those desirous of success in, should study Dante next to Demosthenes, [78] ; its necessity to an English statesman, [96] [97] [363] [364] [251] [253]
Orestes, the Athenian highwayman, [34] ; note.
Doloff, Count, his appearance at Dr. Burney's concert, [256]
Orme, merits and defects of his work on India, [195]
Orsiui, the Princess, [105]
Orthodoxy, at one time a synonyme for ignorance and stupidity, [343]
Osborne, Sir Peter, incident of Temple with the son and daughter of, [16] [23]
Osborne, Thomas, the bookseller, [131]
Oswald, James, [13]
Otway, [191]
Overbury, Sir Thomas, [426] [428]
Ovid, Addison's Notes to the 2d and 3d hooks of his Metamorphoses, [328]
Owen, Mr. Robert, [140]
Oxford, [287]
Oxford, Earl of. See Harley, Robert. Oxford, University of, its inferiority to Cambridge in intellectual activity, [343] [344] ; its disaffection to the House of Hanover, [402] [36] ; rose into favor with the government under Bute, [36]
P.
Painting, correctness in, [343] ; causes of its decline in England after the civil wars, [157]
Paley, Archdeacon, [261] Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his defence of the Church, [122] ; his reasoning the same as that by which Socrates confuted Aristodemus, [303] ; his views on "the origin of evil," [273] [276]
Pallas, the birthplace of Goldsmith, [151]
Paoli, his admiration of Miss Burney, [271]
Papacy, its influence, [314] ; effect of Luther's public renunciation of communion with it, [315]
Paper currency, Southey's notions of, [151] [152]
Papists, line of demarcation between them and Protestants, [362] Papists and Puritans, persecution of, by Elizabeth, [439]
Paradise, picture of, in old Bibles, [343] ; painting of, by a gifted master, [343]
Paradise Regained, its excellence, [219]
Paris, influence of its opinions among the educated classes in Italy, [144]
Parker, Archbishop, [31] Parliaments of the [15]th century, their condition, [479]
Parliament, the, sketch of its proceedings, [470] [540] Parliament of James I., [440] [441] Charles I., his first, [443] [444] ; his second, [444] [445] ; its dissolution, [446] ; his fifth, [401]
Parliament, effect of the publication of its proceedings, [180] Parliament, Long. See Long Parliament.
Parliamentary government, [251] 253.
Parliamentary opposition, its origin, [433]
Parliamentary reform, [131] [21] [22] [233] [237] [239] [241] [410] [425]
Parr, Dr., [120]
Milton, Parties, state of, in the time of Milton, [257] ; in England, [171] [130] ; analogy in the state of, [170]4 and [182] [353] ; mixture of, at George II.'s first levee after Walpole's resignation, [5]
Partridge, his wrangle with Swift, [374]
Party, power of, during the Reformation and the French Revolution, [11] [14] ; illustrations of the use and the abuse of it, [73]
Pascal, Blaise, [105] [300] ; was the product of his age, [323] Patronage of literary men, [190] ; less necessary than formerly, [191] [352] ; its injurious effects upon style, [352] [353]
"Patriots" (the), in opposition to Sir R. Walpole, [170] [179] ; their remedies for state evils, [181] [183] Patriotism, genuine, [396]
Paul IV., Pope, his zeal and devotion, [318] [324]
Paulet, Sir Amias, [354]
Paulieian theology, its doctrines and prevalence among the Albigenses, [309] ; in Bohemia and the Lower Danube, [313]
Pauson, the Greek painter, [30] ; note.
Peacham, Rev. Mr., his treatment by Bacon, [389] [390]
Peers, new creations of, [486] ; impolicy of limiting the number of, [415] [410]
Pelham, Henry, his character, [189] ; his death. [225]
Pelhams (the), their ascendency, [188] ; their accession to power, [220] [221] ; feebleness of the opposition to them, [222] ; see also Newcastle, Duke of.
Pembroke College, Oxford, Johnson entered at, [174] [175]
Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, Pitt entered at, [225]
Péner, M.. translator of the works of Machiavelli, [207]
Peninsular War, Southey's, [137]
Penseroso and Allegro, Milton's, [215]
Pentathlete (a), [154]
People (the), comparison of their condition in the [10]th and [19]th centuries, [173] ; their welfare not considered in partition treaties, [91] [92]
Pepys, his praise of the Triple Alliance, [44] ; note.
Percival, Mr., [411] [414] [419]
Pericles, his distribution of gratuities among the members of the Athenian tribunals, [420] ; the substance but not the manner of his speeches transmitted by Thucydides, [152]
Persecution, religious, in the reign of Elizabeth, [439] [440] ; its reactionary effect upon churches and thrones, [456] ; in England during the progress of the Reformation, [14]
Personation, Johnson's want of talent for, [423]
Personification, Robert Montgomery's penchant for, [207]
Persuasion, not truth, the object of oratory, [150]
Peshwa, authority and origin of, [59]
Peterborough, Earl of, his expedition to Spain, [110] ; his character, [110] [123] [124] ; his successes on the northeast coast of Spain, [112] [119] ; his retirement to Valencia thwarted, [123] ; returns to Valencia as a volunteer, [123] ; his recall to England, [123]
Petition of Right, its enactment, [445] ; violation of it, [445]
Petrarch, characteristics of his writings, [56] [57] [88] [90]-96, [211] ; his influence upon Italian literature to Altieri's time unfavorable, [59] ; criticism upon, [80]-99; his wide celebrity. [80] ; besides Cervantes the only modern writer who has attained an European reputation, [80] ; the source of his popularity to be found in his egotism, [81] [82] ; and the universal interest felt in his theme, [82] [85] [365] ; the first eminent poet wholly devoted to the celebration of love, [85] ; the Provençal poets his masters, [85] ; his fame increased by the inferiority of his imitators, [86] ; but injured by their repetitions of his topics, [94] ; lived the votary of literature, [86] ; and died its martyr, [87] ; his crowning on the Capitol, [86] [87] ; his private history, [87] ; his inability to present sensible objects to the imagination, [89] ; his genius, and his perversion of it by his conceits, [90] ; paucity of his thoughts, [90] ; his energy of style when lie abandoned amatory composition, [91] ; the defect of his writings, their excessive brilliancy, and want of relief, [92] ; his sonnets, [93] [95] ; their effect upon the reader's mind, [93] ; the fifth sonnet the perfection of bathos, [93] ; his Latin writings over-estimated by himself and his contemporaries, [95] [96] [413] ; his philosophical essays, [97] ; his epistles, [98] ; addressed to the dead and the unborn, [99] ; the first restorer of polite letters into Italy, [277]
Petty, Henry, Lord, [296]
Phalaris, Letters of, controversy upon their merits and genuineness, [108] [112] [114] [119]
Philarehus for Phylarehus, [381]
Philip II. of Spain, extent and splendor of his empire, [77]
Philip III. of Spain, his accession, [98] ; his character, [98] [104] ; his choice of a wife, [105] ; is obliged to fly from Madrid, [118] ; surrender of his arsenal and ships at Carthagena, [119] ; defeated at Alinenara, and again driven from Madrid, [126] ; forms a close alliance with his late competitor, [138] ; quarrels with France, [138] ; value of his renunciation of the crown of France. [139]
Philip le Bel, [312]
Philip, Duke of Orleans, regent of France, [63] [66] ; compared with Charles II. of England, [64] [65]
Philippeaux, Abbe, his account of Addison's mode of life at Blois, [339]
Philips, John, author of the Splendid Shilling, [386] ; specimen of his poetry in honor of Marlborough, [386] ; the poet of the English vintage, [50]
Philips, Sir Robert, [413]
Phillipps, Ambrose, [369]
Philological studies, tendency of, [143] ; unfavorable to elevated criticism, [143]
Philosophy, ancient, its characteristics, [436] ; its stationary character, [441] [459] ; its alliance with Christianity, [443] [445] ; its fall, [445] [446] ; its merits compared with the Baconian, [461] [462] ; reason of its barrenness, [478] [479]
Philosophy, moral, its relation to the Baconian system, [467]
Philosophy, natural, the light in which it was viewed by the ancients, [436] [443] ; chief peculiarity of Bacon's, [435]
Phrarnichus, [133]
Pilgrim's Progress, review of Southey's edition of the, [250] ; see also Bunyan.
Pilpav, Fables of, [188]
Pindar and the Greek drama, [216] Horace's comparison of his imitators, [362]
Pineus (the), [31] ; note.
Pisistratus, Bacon's comparison of Essex to him, [372]
Pitt, William, (the first). (See Chatham, Earl of.)
Pitt, William, (the second.) his birth, [221] ; his precocity, [223] ; his feeble health, [224] ; his early training, [224] [225] ; entered at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, [225] ; his life and studies there, [225] [229] ; his oratorical exercises, [228] [229] ; accompanies his father in his last attendance in the House of Peers, [223] [230] ; called to the bar, [230] ; enters Parliament, [230] ; his first speech, [233] ; his forensic ability, [2] [14] ; declines any post that did not entitle him to a seat in the Cabinet, * [235] ; courts the Ultra-Whigs, [236] ; made Chancellor of the Exchequer, [247] ; denounces the coalition between Fox and North, [240] ; resigns and declines a place at the Treasury Hoard, [241] ; makes a second motion in favor of Parliamentary Reform, [241] ; visits the Continent, [242] ; his great popularity, [244] [244] ; made First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, [240] ; his contest with the opposition, [247] ; his increasing popularity in the nation, [248] ; his pecuniary disinterestedness, [249] [257] [208] ; reelected to Parliament, [24] ; the greatest subject that England had seen for many generations, [250] ; his peculiar talents, [250]-257; his oratory, [254] [255] [128] ; the correctness of his private life, [258] ; his failure to patronize men of letters and artists, [259] [202] ; his administration can be divided into equal parts, [202] ; his lirst eight years, [202] [271] ; his struggle upon the question of the Regency, [205] [207] ; his popularity, [207] [208] ; his feelings towards France, [270] [272] ; his change of views in the latter part of his administration not unnatural, [272] [274] [45] ; failure of his administration of military affairs, vi.275, [277] ; his undiminished popularity, [277] [278] ; his domestic policy, [27]S, [274] ; his admirable policy respecting Ireland and the Catholic Question, [289] [281] ; his resignation, [281] ; supports Addington's administration. [284] ; grows cold in his support, [285] ; his quarrel with Addington. [287] ; his great debate with Fox upon the war question, [288] ; his coalition with Fox, [236] ; to: [242] [410] [191] ; his second administration, [292] ; his failing health, [294] ; his ill-success in the coalition against Napoleon, [294] [295] ; his illness increases, [295] [250] ; his death, [297] ; his funeral, [298] ; his debts paid from the public treasury, [298] ; his neglect of his private finances, [298] [249] ; his character, [299] [300] [410] [411] ; his admiration for Hastings, [107] [110] [117] ; his asperity towards Francis, [104] ; his speech in support of Fox's motion against Hastings, [117] ; his motive, [119] ; his position upon the question of Parliamentary Reform, [410]
Pius V., his bigotry, [185] ; his austerity and zeal, [424]
Pius VI., his captivity and death, [440] ; his funeral rites long withheld, [440]
Plagiarism, effect of, on the reader's mind, [94] ; instances of R. Montgomery's, [199] [202]
"Plain Dealer," Wycherley's, its appearance and merit, [370] [384] ; its libertinism, [480]
Plassey, battle of, [243] [246] ; its effect in England, [254]
Plato, comparison of his views with those of Racon, [448] [404] ; excelled in the art of dialogue, [105]
Plautus, his Casina, [248]
Plays, English, of the age of Elizabeth, [448] ; rhyme introduced into, to please Charles II., [349] ; characteristics of Dryden's rhyming, [355] [301]
Plebeian, Steele's, [4]
Plomer, Sir T., one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial, [127]
Plutarch and the historians of his school, [395] [402] ; their mental characteristics, [395] ; their ignorance of the nature of real liberty, [590] ; and of true patriotism, [397] ; their injurious influence, [348] ; their bad morality, [398] ; their effect upon Englishmen, [400] ; upon Europeans and especially the French, [400] [402] [70] [71] ; contrasted with Tacitus, [409] ; his evidence of gifts being given to judges in Athens, [420] ; his anecdote of Lysias's speech before the Athenian tribunals, [117]
Poem, imaginary epic, entitled "The Wellingtoniad," [158]
Poetry, definition of, [210] ; incapable of analysis, [325] [327] ; character of Southey's, [139] ; character of Robert Montgomery's, [199] [213] ; wherein that of our tunes differs from that of the last century, [337] ; laws of, [340] ; to: [347] ; unities in, [338] ; its end, [338] ; alleged improvements in since the time of Dryden, [348] ; the interest excited by Byron's, [383] Dr. Johnson's standard of, [416] Addison's opinion of Tuscan, [361] ; what excellence in, depends upon, [384] [335] ; when it begins to decline, [337] ; effects of the cultivation of language upon, [337] [338] ; of criticism, [338] ; its St. Martin's Summer, [339] ; the imaginative fades into the critical, in all literatures, [330] [37] [2]
Poets, effect of political transactions upon, [62] ; what is the best education of, [73] ; are bad critics, [76] [327] [328] ; must have faith in the creations of their imaginations, [328] ; their creative faculty, [354]
Poland, contest between Protestantism and Catholicism in, [326] [330]
Pole, Cardinal, [8]
Police, Athenian, [34] French, secret, [119] [120]
Politeness, definition of, [407]
Politian, allusion to, i [279]
Political convulsions, effect of, upon works of imagination, [62] ; questions, true method of reasoning upon, [47] [50]
Polybius, [395]
Pondicherry, [212] ; its occupation by the English, [60]
Poor (the), their condition in the [16]th and [19]th centuries, [173] ; in England and on the Continent, [179] [182]
Poor-rates (the), lower in manufacturing than in agricultural districts. [146]
Pope, his independence of spirit, [191] ; his translation of Homer's description of a moonlight night, [338] ; relative "correctness" of his poetry, [338] Byron's admiration of him, [351] ; praise of him, by Cowper, [351] ; his character, habits, and condition, [404] ; his dislike of Bentley, [113] ; his acquaintance with Wycherley, [381] ; his appreciation of the literary merits of Congreve, [406] ; the originator of the heroic couplet, [333] ; his condensation in consequence of its use, [152] ; his testimony to Addison's conversational powers, [366] ; his Rape of the Lock his best poem, [394] ; his Essay on Criticism warmly praised in the Spectator, [394] ; his intercourse with Addison, [394] ; his hatred of Dennis, [394] ; his estrangement from Addison, [403] ; his suspicious nature, [403]408; his satire of Addison, [409] [411] ; his Messiah translated into Latin verse by Johnson, [175]
Popes, review of Ranke's History of the, [299]
Popham, Major, [84]
Popish Plot, circumstances which assisted the belief in, [294] [298]
Popoli, Duchess of, saved by the Earl of Peterborough, [116]
Port Royal, its destruction a disgrace to the Jesuits and to the Romish Church, [333]
Portico, the doctrines of the school so called, [441]
Portland, Duke of, [241] [278]
Porto Carrero, Cardinal, [94] [98] Lewis XIV.'s opinion of him, [104] ; his disgrace and reconciliation with the Queen Dowager, [121]
Portrait-painting, [385] [338]
Portugal, its retrogression in prosperity compared with Denmark, [340]
Posidonius, his eulogy of philosophy as ministering to human comfort, [436]
Post Nati, the great case in the Exchequer Chamber, conducted by Bacon, [387] [367] ; doubts upon the legality of the decision, [387]
Power, political, religions belief ought not to exclude from, [303]
Pratt, Charles, [13] Chief Justice, [86] ; created Lord Camden, and intrusted with the seals. [91]
Predestination, doctrine of, [317]
Prerogative royal, its advance, [485] ; in the [16]th century, [172] ; its curtailment by the Revolution, [170] ; proposed by Bolingbroke to be strengthened, [171] ; see also Crown.
Press, Milton's defence of its freedom, [262] ; its emancipation after the Revolution, [530] ; remarks on its freedom, [169] [270] ; censorship of, in the reign of Elizabeth, [15] ; its influence on the public mind after the Devolution, [330] ; upon modern oratory, [150]
Pretsman, Mr., [225]
Prince, The, of Machiavelli, general condemnation of it, [207] ; dedicated to the younger Lorenzo de Medici; compared with Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 013.
Printing, effect of its discovery upon writers of history, [411] ; its inventor and the date of its discovery unknown, [444]
Prior, Matthew, his modesty compared with Aristophanes and Juvenal, [352]
Prisoners of war, Barêre's proposition tor murdering, [490]-495.
Private judgment, Milton's defence of the right of, [202] Mr. Gladstone's notions of the rights and abuses of, [102] [103]
Privileges of the House of Commons, change in public opinion in respect to them, [330] See also Parliament.
Privy Council, Temple's plan for its reconstitution, iv. 04; Mr. Courtenay's opinion of its absurdity contested, [5] [77] Barillon's remarks upon it, [7]
Prize compositions necessarily unsatisfactory, [24]
Progress of mankind in the political and physical sciences, [271] [277] ; in intellectual freedom, [302] ; the key of the Baconian doctrine, [430] ; how retarded by the unprofitableness of ancient philosophy, [430] [405] ; during the last [250] ; years, [302]
Prometheus, [38]
Prosperity, national, [150]
Protector (the), character of his administration, [248]
Protestant nonconformists in the reign of Charles I., their intolerance, [473]
Protestantism, its early history, [13] ; its doctrine touching the right of private judgment, [104] ; light which Ranke has thrown upon its movements, [300] [301] ; its victory in the northern parts of Europe, [314] ; its failure in Italy, [315] ; effect of its outbreak in any one part of Christendom, [317] ; its contest with Catholicism in France, Poland, and Germany, [325] [331] ; its stationary character, [348] [349]
Protestants and Catholics, their relative numbers in the [10]th century, [25]
Provence, its language, literature, and civilization in the [12]th century, [308] [309] ; its poets the teachers of Petrarch, [85]
Prussia, king of, subsidized by the Pitt and Newcastle ministry, [245] ; influence of Protestantism upon her, [339] ; superiority of her commercial system, [48] [49]
Psalnianazur, George, [185]
Ptolemaic system, [229]
Public opinion, its power, [168]
Public spirit, an antidote against bad government, [18] ; a safeguard against legal oppression, [18]
Publicity (the), of parliamentary proceedings, influence of, [108] ; a remedy for corruption, [22]
Pulci, allusion to, [279]
Pulteney, William, his opposition to Walpole, [202] ; moved the address to the king on the marriage of the Prince of Wales, [210] ; his unpopularity, [218] ; accepts a peerage, [219] ; compared with Chatham, [93]
Pundits of Bengal, their jealousy of foreigners, [98]
Punishment, warning not the only end of, [404]
Punishment and reward, the only means by which government can effect its ends, [303]
Puritanism, effect of its prevalence upon tlie national taste, [302] [347] ; the restraints it imposed, [300] ; reaction against it, [307]
Puritans (the), character and estimate of them, [253] [257] ; hatred of them by James I, [455] ; effect of their religious austerity, [109] Johnson's contempt for their religious scruples, [411] ; their persecution by Charles I., [451] ; settlement of, in America, [459] ; blamed for calling in the Scots, [405] ; defence of them against this accusation, [405] ; difficulty and peril of their leaders, [470] ; the austerity of their manners drove many to the royal standard, [481] ; their position at the close of tlie reign of Elizabeth, [302] [303] ; their oppression by Whitgift, [330] ; their faults in the day of their power and their consequences, [307] [368] ; their hostility to works of the imagination, [340] [347]
Puritans and Papists, persecution of, by Elizabeth, [430]
Eym, John, his influence, [407] Lady Carlisle's warning to him, [478] ; his impeachment ordered by the king, [477]
Pynsent, Sir William, his legacy to Chatham, [63]
Pyramid, the Great, Arab fable concerning it, [347] ; how it looked to one of the French philosophers who accompanied Napoleon, [58]
"Pyrenees (the), have ceased to exist," [99]
Q.
Quebec, conquest of, by Wolfe, iii.
Quince, Peter, sense in which he uses the word "translated," [405] [406]
Quintilian, his character as a critic, [141] [142] ; causes of his deficiencies in this respect, [141] ; admired Euripides, [141]
R.
Rabbinical Learning, work on, by Rev. L. Addison, [325]
Racine, his Greeks far less "correctly" drawn than those of Shakspeare, [338] ; his Iphigenie an anachronism, [338] ; passed the close of his life in writing sacred dramas, [300]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, i [36] ; his varied acquirements, [96] ; his position at court at the close of the reign of Elizabeth, [364] ; his execution, [400]
"Rambler" (the), [190]
Itamsav, court painter to George III., [4]L
Ramus, [447]
Ranke, Leopold, review of his History of the Popes, [299] [349] ; his
qualifications as an historian, [299] [347]
Rape of the Lock (the), Pope's best poem, [394] ; recast by its author, [403] [404]
Rasselas, Johnson's, [19]G, [197]
Reader, Steele's, [403]
Reading in the present age necessarily desultory, [147] ; the least part of an Athenian education, [147] 148.
Reasoning in verse, Drvden's, [300] [308]
Rebellion, the Great, and the Revolution, analogy between them, [237] [247]
Rebellion in Ireland in 1840, [473]
Reform, the process of, often necessarily attended with many evils, [13] ; its supporters sometimes unworthy, [13]
Reform Bill, [235] ; conduct of its opponents, [311]
Reform in Parliament before the Revolution, [539] ; public desire for, [541] ; policy of it, [542] [131] ; its results, [54] [50]
Reformation (the), Milton's Treatise of, [204] ; the history of the Reformation much misrepresented, [439] [445] ; party divisions caused by it, [533] ; their consequences, [534] ; its immediate effect upon political liberty in England, [435] ; its social and political consequences, [10] ; analogy between it and the French Revolution, [10] [11] ; its effect upon the Church of Rome, [87] ; vacillation which it produced in English legislation, [344] ; auspices under which it commenced, [313] ; its effect upon the Roman court, [323] ; its progress not effected by the event of battles or sieges, [327]
Reformers, always unpopular in their own age, [273] [274]
Refugees, [300]
Regicides of Charles L, disapproval of their conduct, [240] ; injustice of the imputations cast on them, [240] [247]
Regium Donum, [170]
Regulating Act, its introduction by Lord North, and change which it made in the form of the Indian government, [35] [52] 03; power which it gave to the Chief Justice, [67]
Religion, national establishment of, [100] ; its connection with civil government, [101] ; sey.; its effects upon the policy of Charles I., and of the Puritans, [108] ; no disqualification for the safe exercise of political power, [300] ; the religion of the English in the [10]th century, [27] [31] ; what system of, should be taught by a government, [188] ; no progress made in the knowledge of natural religion, since the days of Thales, [302] ; revealed, not of the nature of a progressive science, [304] ; injurious influence of Louis XIV. upon, iii. 04; of slavery in the West Indies, [311] [313]
Remonstrant, allusion to Milton's Animadversions on the, [204]
Rent, [400]
Representative government, decline of, [485]
Republic, french, Burke's character of, [402]
Restoration (the), degenerated character of our statesmen and politicians in the times succeeding it, [512] [513] ; low standard of political morality after it, [512] ; violence of party and low state of national feeling after it, [525] : that of Charles II. and of Lewis XVIII. contrasted. [283] 284; its effects upon the morals and manners of the nation, [367] [308]
Retrospective law, is it ever justifiable? [403] [404] [400] ; warranted by a certain amount of public danger, [470]
"Revels, Athenian," scenes from, [30]
Review, New Antijacobin (the). See Antijacobin Review.
Revolution (the), its principles often grossly misrepresented, [235] ; analogy between it and the "Great Rebellion," [237] [247] ; its effect on the character of public men, [520] ; freedom of the press after it, [530] ; its effects, [530] ; the fruit of a coalition, [410] ; ministerial responsibility since, [531] ; review of (Mackintosh's History of, [251] [335]
Revolution, the French, its history, [440]-513; its character, [273] [275] ; warnings which preceded it, [440] [441] [50] [340] [427] [428] ; its social and political consequences, [10] [11] [205] [200] [532] [534] [430] ; its effects on the whole salutary, [40] [41] [67] ; the excesses of its development, [41] [44] ; differences between the first and the second, [515] ; analogy between it and the Reformation, [10] [11] Dumont's views upon it, [41] [43] [44] 40; contrasted with the English, [40] [50] 08, [70]
Revolutionary tribunal, (the). See Tribunal.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [126]
Rheinsberg, [150]
Rhyme introduced into English plays to please Charles II., [349]
Richardson, [298]
Richelieu, Cardinal, [338]
Richmond, Duke of, [107]
Rigby, secretary for Ireland, [12]
Rimini, story of, [74]
Riots, public, during Grenville's administration, [70]
Robertson, Dr., [472] [215] Scotticisms in his works, [342]
Robespierre, [340] ; analogy between his followers and those of Kniperdoling, [12] [420] [470] [480] ; false accusations against, [431] ; his treatment of the Girondists, [473] [474] ; one of the Committee of Safety, [475] ; his life attempted, [489] ; the division in the Committee, and the revolution of the ninth Thermidor, [497] [499] ; his death, [500] ; his character, [501]
Robinson, Sir Thomas, [228]
Rochefort, threatening of, [244]
Rochester, Earl of, [307] [114] [335]
Rockingham, Marquess of, his characteristics, [73] ; parallel between his party and the Bedfords, [73] ; accepts the Treasury, [74] ; patronizes Burke, [75] ; proposals of his administration on the American Stamp Act, [78] ; his dismissal, [88] ; his services, [88] [89] ; his moderation towards the new ministry, [93] ; his relation to Chatham, [102] ; advocated the independence of the United States, [100] ; at the head of the Whigs, [232] ; made First Minister, [235] ; his administration, [23](i, [237] ; his death, [237]
Rockingham and Bedfords, parallel between them, [73]
Sir Thomas, [273] Uohillas, description of them, [29] ; agreement between Hastings and Stirajah Dowlali for their subjugation, [30] [31]
Roland, Madame, [43] [452] [453] [473]
Homans (the), exclusiveness of, [413] [410] ; under Diocletian, compared to the Chinese, [415] [416]
Romans and Greeks, difference between, [287] ; in their treatment of woman, [83] [84]
Roman Tale (a), fragments of, [119] ; game, called Duodeeim Scriptæ, [4] ; note,; name for the highest throw on the dice, [13] ; note.
Home, ancient, bribery at, [421] ; civil convulsions in, contra-ted with those in Greece, [189] [190] ; literature of, [347] [349]
Rome, Church of, its encroaching disposition, [295] [296] ; its policy, [308] ; its antiquity, [301] ; see also Church of Home.
Hooke, Sir George, his capture of Gibraltar, [110] ; his fight with a French squadron near Malaga, [110] ; his return to England, [110]
Rosamond, Addison's opera of, [361]
Roundheads (the), their literature, [234] ; their successors in the reign of George I. turned courtiers, [4]
Rousseau, his sufferings, [365] Horace Walpole's opinion of him, [156]
Rowe, his verses to the Chloe of Holland House, [412]
Roval Society (the), of Literature, [20]-29.
Royalists (the), of the time of Charles I., [257] ; many of them true friends to the Constitution, [483] ; some of the most eminent formerly in opposition to the Court, [471]
Royalists, Constitutional, in the reign of Charles I., [471] [481]
Rumford, Count, [147]
Rupert, Prince, [493] ; his encounter with Hampden at Chalgrove, [493]
Russell, Lord, [526] ; his conduct in the new council, [96] ; his death, [99]
Russia and Poland, diffusion of wealth in, as compared with England, [182]
Rutland, Earl of, his character, [411] [412]
Ruyter, Admiral de, [51]
Rymer, [417]
S.
Sacheverell. Dr., his impeachment and conviction, [130] [362] [121]
Sackville, the Earl of, (16th century,) [36] [261]
Sackville, Lord George, [13]
Sadler, Mr., his Law of Population reviewed, [214] [249] ; his style, [214] [215] [270] [305] 306; specimen of his verse, [215] ; the spirit of his work, [216] [217] [220] [270] [305] ; his objections to the Doctrines of Malthus. [217] [218] [222] [228] [244] [271] [272] ; answer to them, [219] [221] ; his law stated, [222] ; does not understand the meaning of the words in which it is stated, [224]226, [278] [279] ; his law proved to be not true, [226] 227, [231] [238] [280]295; his views injurious to the cause of religion, [228] [230] ; attempts to prove that the increase of population in America is chiefly owing to immigration, [238] [239] [245] [249] ; refutes himself, [239] [240] ; his views upon the fecundity of the English peers, [240] [241] [298] [304] ; refutation of these arguments, [241] [243] ; his general characteristics, [249] ; his Refutation refuted, [268] [306] ; misunderstands Paley's arguments, [273] [274] ; the meaning of "the origin of evil," [274] [278] ; and the principle which he has himself laid down, [295] [298]
St. Denis, [484]
St. Dennis and St. George-in-the Water, parishes of, imaginary lawsuit between, [100]
St. Ignatius. See Loyola.
St. John, Henry, his accession to power in [171] [130] [141] ; see also Bolingbroke, Lord.
St. John, Oliver, counsel against Charles I.'s writ for ship-money, [457] [464] ; made Solicitor-General, [472]
St. Just, [466] [470] 474,475,498, [500]
St. Louis, his persecution of liberties, [421]
St. Maloes, ships burnt in the harbor of, [244]
St. Patrick, [214]
St. Thomas, island of, [381] [383]
Saintes, [510]
Sallust, characteristics of, as a historian, [404] [400] ; his conspiracy of Catiline has rather the air of a clever party-pamphlet, than of a history, [404] ; grounds for questioning' the reality of the conspiracy, [403] ; his character and genius, [337]
Salmasius, Milton's refutation of, [248]
Salvator Rosa, [347]
Samson, Agonistes, [215]
San Marino, visited by Addison, [340]
Satire, the only indigenous growth of Roman literature, [348]
Savage, Richard, his character, [180] ; his life by Johnson, [187] [214]
Savile, Sir George, [73]
Savonarola, [316]
Saxony, its elector the natural head of the Protestant party in Germany, [328] ; its persecution of the Calvinists, [329] ; invasion by the Catholic party in Germamy [337]
Schism, cause of, in England, [334]
Schwellenberg, Madame, her position and character, [283] [284] [297]
Science, political, progress of, [271] [279] [334]
Scholia, origin of the House of, [59]
Scotland, cruelties of James II. in, [300] [311] ; establishment of the Kirk in, [322] [159] ; her progress in wealth and intelligence owing to Protestantism, [340] ; incapacity of its natives to hold land in England even after the Union [300]
Scots (the), effects of their resistance to Charles I., [400] [401] ; ill feeling excited against them by Bute's elevation to power, [39] [40] ; their wretched condition in the Highland, and Fletcher of Saltoun's views upon it, [388] [389]
Scott, Major, his plea in defence of Hastings, [105] ; his influence, [100] ; his challenge to Burke, [114]
Scott, Sir Walter, [435] ; relative "correctness" of his poetry, [338] ; his Duke of Rockingham (in "Peveril"), [358] Scotticisms in his works, [342] ; value of his writings, [428] ; pensioned by Earl Grey, [201]
Seas, Liberty of the, Barêre's work upon, [512]
Sedley, Sir Charles, [353]
Self-denying ordinance (the), [490]
Seneca, his work "On Anger," [437] ; his claims as a philosopher, [438] ; his work on natural philosophy, [412] ; the Baconian system in reference to, [478]
Sevajee, founder of the Mahratta empire, [59]
Seward, Mr., [271]
Sforza, Francis, [280]
Shaltesbury, Lord, allusion to, [208] [13] ; his character, [81] [89] ; contrasted with Halifax, [90]
Shakspeare, allusion to, [208] [30] ; one of the most "correct" poets, [337] ; relative "correctness" of his Troilus and Cressida, [338] ; contrasted with Byron, [359] Johnson's edition of, [417] [199] [342] ; his superlative merits, [345] ; his bombast, [301] ; his fairies' songs, [304]
Shaw, the Lifeguardsman, [357]
Shebbeare, Bute's patronage of, [40]
Shelburne, Lord, Secretary of State in Chatham's second administration, [91] ; his dismissal, [100] ; heads one section of the opposition to North, [233] ; made First Lord of the Treasury, [237] ; his quarrel with Fox, [239] ; his resignation, [241]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [257] [350]
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [389] ; his speech against Hastings, r. [121] ; his encouragement to Miss Burney to write for the stage, [273] ; his sarcasm against Pitt, [210]
Sheridan and Congreve, effect of their works upon the Comedy of England, [295] ; contrasted with Shakspeare, [295]
Ship-money, question of its legality, [157] ; seq.
Shrewsbury, Duke of, [397]
Sienna, cathedral of, [319]
Sigismund of Sweden, [329]
Silius Italicus, [357]
Simonides, his speculations on natural religion, [302]
Sismondi, M., [131] ; his remark about Dante, [58]
Sixtus V., [321]
Skinner Cyriac, [202]
Slave-trade, [259]
Slavery in Athens, [189] ; in Sparta, [190] ; in the West Indies, [303] ; its origin there, [301] [305] ; its legal rights there. [305] [310] ; parallel between slavery there and in other countries, [311] ; its effects upon religion, [311] [313] ; upon public opinion and morals, [311] [320] ; who are the zealots for, [320] [321] ; their foolish threats, [322] ; effect of, upon commerce, [323] [325] ; impunity of its advocates, [325] [32]G; its danger, [328] ; and approaching downfall, [329] ; defended in Major Moody's report, [361] [373] [371] ; its approval by Fletcher of Saltoun, [388] [389]
Smalridge, George, [121] [122]
Smith, Adam, [286]
Smollett, his judgment on Lord Carteret, [188] ; his satire on the Duke of Newcastle, [191]
Social contract, [182]
Society, Mr. Southey's Colloquies on, reviewed, [132]
Society, Royal, (the), of literature, [20]-29; its absurdity, [20] ; dangers to be apprehended from it, [20]-23; cannot be impartial, [21] [22] ; foolishness of its system of prizes, [23] [21] Dartmoor the first subject proposed by it for a prize, [21] [31] ; never published a prize composition, [25] ; apologue illustrating its consequences, [25] [29]
Socrates, the first martyr of intellectual liberty, [350] his views of the uses of astronomy, [152] ; his reasoning exactly the reasoning of Paley's Natural Theology, [511] [303] ; his dialogues, [381]
Soldier, citizen, (a), different from a mercenary, [61] [187]
Somers, Lord Chancellor, his encouragement of literature, [337] ; procures a pension for Addison, [338] ; made Lord President of the Council, [362]
Somerset, the Protector, as a promoter of the English Reformation, [452] ; his fall, [396]
Somerset, Duke of, [415]
Sonnets, Milton's, [233] Petrarch's, [93] [95]
Sophocles and the Greek Drama, [217]
Soul, [303]
Soult, Marshal, reference to, [67]
Southampton, Earl of, notice of, [384]
Southcote, Joanna, [336]
Southern and Northern countries, difference of moral feeling in, [285]
Southey, Robert, review of his Colloquies on Society, [132] ; his characteristics, [132] 134; his poetry preferable to his prose, [136] ; his lives of Nelson and John Wesley, [136] [137] ; his Peninsular War, [137] ; his Book of the Church, [137] ; his political system, [140] ; plan of his present work, [141] ; his opinions regarding the manufacturing system, [146] ; his political economy, [151] ; seq.; the national debt, [153] [156] ; his theory of the basis of government, [158] ; his remarks on public opinion, [159] [160] ; his view of the Catholic claims, [170] ; his ideas on the prospects of society, [172] ; his prophecies respecting the Corporation and Test Acts, and the removal of the Catholic disabilities, [173] ; his observations on the condition of the people in the [16]th and [19]th centuries, [174] ; his arguments on national wealth, [178] [180] ; review of his edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, [250] ; see also Bunyon.
South Sea Bubble, [200]
Spain, [488] ; review of Lord Mahon's War of the Succession in, [75] ; her state under Philip, [79] ; her literature during the [16]th century, [80] ; her state a century later, [81] ; effect produced on her by bad government, [85] ; by the Reformation, [87] ; her disputed succession, [88] [91] ; the Partition Treaty, [92] [93] ; conduct of the French towards her, [93] ; how affected by the death of Charles, [98] ; seq.; designation of the War of the Spanish Succession, [338] ; no conversions to Protestantism in, [348]
Spanish and Swiss soldiers in the time of Machiavelli, character of, [307]
Sparre, the Dutch general, [107]
Sparta, her power, causes of its decline, [155] ; note; defeated when she ceased to possess, alone of the Greeks, a permanent standing army, Mr. Milford's preference of over Athens, [181] ; her only really great men, [182] ; characteristics of her government, [183] [184] ; her domestic institutions, [184] 185; character of some of her leading men, [185] ; contrasted with Athens, [186] [187] ; slavery in, [190]
Spectator (the), notices of it, [385]389, [397]
Spelling of proper names, [173]
Spencer, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty, [277]
Spenser, [251] [252] ; his allegory, [75]
Spirits, Milton's, materiality of them, [227]
Spurton, Dr., [494]
Spy, police, character of, [519] [520]
Stafford, Lord, incident at his execution, [300]
Stamp Act, disaffection of the American colonists on account of it, [78] ; its repeal, [82] [83]
Stanhope, Earl of, [201]
Stanhope, General, [115] ; commands in Spain (1707), [125] [126]
Star Chamber, [459] ; its abolition, [468]
Staremberg, the imperial general in Spain (in [170] [125] [128]
States, best government of, [154]
Statesmanship, contrast of the Spanish and Dutch notions of, [35]
Statesmen, the character of, greatly affected by that of the times, [531] ; character of the first generation of professed statesmen that England produced, [342] [348]
State Trials, [293] [302] [325] [427]
Steele, [366] ; his character, [369] Addison's treatment of him, [370] ; his origination of the Tatler, [374] ; his subsequent career, [384] 355, [401]
Stephens,.Tames, his Slavery in the British West Indies reviewed, [303] [330] ; character of the work, [303] [304] ; his parallel between their slave laws and those of other countries, [311] ; has disposed of the arguments in its favor, [313]
Stoicism, comparison of that of the Bengalee with the European, [19] [20]
Strafford, Earl of, [457] ; his character as a statesman, [460] ; bill of attainder against him, [462] ; his character, [454] ; his impeachment attainder, and execution, [468] ; defence of the proceedings agains him, [470]
Strawberry Hill, [146]
Stuart, Dugald, [142]
"Sublime" (the). Longinus on, [142] Burke and Dugald Stewart on, [142]
Subsidies; foreign, in the time of Charles II., [523]
Subsidizing foreign powers, Pitt's aversion to, [231]
Succession in Spain, war of the, [75] ; see also Spain.
Sugar, its cultivation and profits, [395] [390] [403]
Sujah Dowlah, Nabob Vizier of Oude, [28] ; his flight, [32] ; his death, [85]
Sullivan, Mr., chairman of the East India Company, his character, [265] ; his relation to Clive, [270]
Sunderland, Earl of, [201] Secretary of State, [302] ; appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, [399] ; reconstructs the ministry in [171] [413]
Supernatural beings, how to be represented in literature, [69] [70]
Superstition, instance of, in the [19]th century, [3]Ü7.
Supreme Court of Calcutta, account of, [45]
Surajah Dowlah, Viceroy of Bengal, his character, [231] ; the monster of the "Black Hole," [232] ; his flight and death, [246] [251] ; investigation by the House of Commons into the circumstances of his deposition, [28]
Surinam, the Maroons of, [386]
Sweden, her part in the Triple Alliance, [41] ; her relations to Catholicism, [329]
Swift, Jonathan, his position at Sir William Temple's, [101] ; instance of his imitation of Addison, [332] ; his relations with Addison, [399] ; joins the Tories, [400] ; his verses upon Boyle, [118] [119]
Swiss and Spanish soldiers in the time of Machiavelli, character of, [307]
Sydney, Algernon, [525] ; his reproach on the scaffold to the sheriff's, [327]
Sydney, Sir Philip, [36]
Syllogistic process, analysis of, by Aristotle, [473]
T.
Tacitus, characteristics of, as a writer of history, [406] [408] ; compared with Thucydides, [407] [409] ; unrivalled in h is delineations of character, [407] ; as among ancient historians in his dramatic power, [408] ; contrasted, in this respect, with Herodotus, Xenophon, and Plutarch, [408] [409]
Tale, a Roman, Fragments of, [119]
Talleyrand, [515] ; his fine perception of character, [12] ; picture of him at Holland House, [425]
Tasso, [353] [354] ; specimen from Hoole's translation, [334]
Tatler (the), its origination, [373] ; its popularity, [380] ; change in its character, [384] ; its discontinuance, [385]
Taxation, principles of, [154] [155]
Teignmouth, Lord, his high character and regard for Hastings, [103]
Telemachus, the nature of and standard of morality in, [359] ; iii. Off-62.
Telephus, the hero of one of Euripides' lost plays, [45] ; note.
Tempest, the great, of [170] [359]
Temple, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty in the Duke of Devonshire's administration, [235] ; his parallel between Byng's behavior at Minorca and the king's behavior at Oudenarde, [238] ; his resignation of office, [30] ; supposed to have encouraged the assailants of Bute's administration, [42] ; dissuades Pitt from supplanting Grenville,69; prevents Pitt's acceptance of George III.'s offer of the administration, [72] ; his opposition to Rockingham's ministry on the question of the Stamp Act, [79] ; quarrel between him and Pitt, [89] [90] ; prevents the passage of Fox's India Bill, [240] [247]
Temple, Sir William, review of Courtenay's Memoirs of, [1] [115] ; his character as a statesman, [3] [7] [12] [13] ; his family, [13] 14; his early life, [15] ; his courtship of Dorothy Osborne, [16] 17; historical interest of his love-letters, [18] [19] [22] [23] ; his marriage, [24] ; his residence in Ireland, [25] ; his feelings towards Ireland, [27] [28] ; attaches himself to Arlington, [29] [30] ; his embassy to Munster, [33] ; appointed resident at the court of Brussels, [33] ; danger of his position, [35] ; his interview with DeWitt, [36] ; his negotiation of the Triple Alliance, [39] [41] ; his fame at home and abroad, [45] ; his recall, and farewell of De Witt, [47] ; his cold reception and dismissal, [48] 49; style and character of his compositions, [49] [50] ; charged to conclude a separate peace with the Dutch, [56] ; offered the Secretaryship of State, [58] ; his audiences of the king, [59] 60; his share in bringing about the marriage of the Prince of Orange with the Lady Mary, [60] ; required to sign the treaty of Nimeguen, [60] ; recalled to England, [61] ; his plan of a new privy council, 04, [76] [79] ; his alienation from his colleagues, [95] [90] ; his conduct on the Exile Question, [97] ; leaves publie life, and retires to the country, [98] ; his literary pursuits, [99] ; his amanuensis, Swift, [101] ; his Essay on Ancient and Modern Learning, [105] [108] ; his praise of the Letters, [107] [115] ; his death and character, [113] [115]
Terentianus, [142]
Terror, reign of. See Deign of Terror.
Test Act (the), [270]
Thackeray, Dev. Francis, review of his Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, etc., [194] [250] ; his style and matter, [194] [195] ; his omission to notice Chatham's conduct towards Walpole, [218]
Thales, [302]
Theatines, [318]
Theology, characteristics of the science of, [302] [300]
Theramenes, his tine perception of character, [12]
Thrale, Mrs., [389] ; her friendship with Johnson, [200] [207] ; her marriage with Piozzi, [210] [217] ; lier position and character, [270] ; her regard tor Miss Burney, [270]
Thucydides, his history transcribed by Demosthenes six times, [147] ; character of the speeches introduced into his narrative, [152] [388] 389; the great difficulty of understanding them arises from their compression, [153] ; and is acknowledged by Cicero, [153] ; lies not in the language but in the reasoning, [153] ; their resemblance to each other, [153] ; their value, [153] ; his picturesque style compared to Vandyke's, [380] ; description of it, [388] ; has surpassed all rivals in the art of historical narration, [389] ; his deficiencies, [390] ; his mental characteristics, [391] [393] ; compared with Herodotus, [385] ; with Tacitus, [407] [409]
Thurlow, Lord, sides against Clive, [292] ; favors Hastings, [107] [117] [121] [130] ; his weight in the government, [107] [235] ; becomes unpopular with his colleagues, [237] ; dismissed, [241] ; again made Chancellor, [247]
Ticked, Thomas, Addison's chief favorite, [371] ; his translation of the first hook of the Iliad. [405]408; character of his intercourse with Addison, [407] ; appointed by Addison Undersecretary of State, [415] Addison intrusts his works to him, 418; his elegy on the death of Addison, [421] ; his beautiful lines upon Holland House, [423]
Timlal, his character of the Karl of Chatham's maiden speech, [210]
Tinville, Fouquier, [482] [489] [503]
Toledo, admission of the Austrian troops into, [170] [110]
Toleration, religious, the safest policy for governments, [455] ; conduct of James IL as a professed supporter of it, [304] [308]
Tories, their popularity and ascendancy in [171] [129] ; description of them during the sixty years following the Devolution, [141] ; of Walpole's time, [200] ; mistaken reliance by James II. upon them, [310] ; their principles and conduct after the Devolution, [332] ; contempt into which they had fallen (1754), [220] Clive unseated by their vote, [227] ; their joy on the accession of Anne, [352] ; analogy between their divisions in [170]4 and in [182]0, [353] ; their attempt to rally in [170]7, [302] ; called to office by Queen Anne in [171]0, [382] ; their conduct on occasion of the tirst representation of Addison's Cato, [391] 392; their expulsion of Steele, from the House of Commons, [390] ; possessed none of the publie patronage in the reign of George L, [4] ; their hatred of the House of Hanover, [2] [4] [15] ; paucity of talent among them, [5] ; their joy on the accession of George III., [17] ; their political creed on the accession of George I., [20] [21] ; in the ascendent for the tirst time since the accession of the House of Hanover, 313; see Whigs.
Tories and Whigs after the Devolution, [530]
Tortola, island of, [362] ; its negro apprentices, [374] [376] ; its legislature, [377] ; its system of labor, [379]
Torture, the application of, by Bacon in Peacham's case, [383] [394] ; its use forbidden by Elizabeth, [393]
Mr. Jartline's work on the use of it, [394] ; note.
Tory, a modern, [132] ; his points of resemblance and of difference to a Whig of Queen Anne's time, [132] [133]
Toulouse, Count of, compelled by Peterborough to raise the siege of Barcelona, [117]
Toussaint L'Ouverture, [366] [390]
Townshend, Lord, his quarrel with Walpole and retirement from public life, [203]
Townshend, Charles, [13] ; his exclamation during the Earl of Bute's maiden speech, [33] ; his opinion of the Rockingham administration, [74] Chancellor of the Exchequer in Pitt's second administration, [91] Pitt's overbearing manners towards him, 95, 96; his insubordination, [97] ; his death, [100]
Town Talk, Steele's, [402] Tragedy, how much it has lost from a notion of what is due to its dignity, [20]
Tragedies, Dryden's, i. [360] 361. Trainbands of the City (the), [479] [480] ; their publie spirit, [18] Transubstantiation, a doctrine of faith, [305]
Travel, its uses, [420] Johnson's contempt for it, [420] ; foreign, compared in its effects to the reading of history, [42]G, [427]
"Traveller" (the), Goldsmith's, [1]
Treadmill, the study of ancient philosophy compared to labor in the, [441]
Treason, high, did the articles against Strafford amount to? [462] ; law passed at the Revolution respecting trials for, [328] Trent, general reception of the decisions of the council of, [32] Trial of the legality of Charles I.'s writ for ship-money, [457] ; of Strafford, 468; of Warren Hastings, [126]
Tribunals, the large jurisdiction exercised by those of Papal Rome, [314]
Tribunal, Revolutionary, (the), [496] [501]
Triennial Bill, consultation of William III. with Sir William Temple upon it, [103]
Triple Alliance, circumstances which led to it, [34] [38] ; its speedy conclusion and importance, [41] [45] Dr. Lingard's remarks on it, [42] [43] ; its abandonment by the English government, [49] ; reverence for it in Parliament,
Truth the object of philosophy, history, fiction, and poetry, but not of oratory, [150]
Tudors (tlie), their government popular though despotic, [16] ; dependent on the public favor, [20] [21] ; parallel between the Tudors and the Caesars not applicable, [21] ; corruption not necessary to them, [168]
Turgot, M. [67] ; veneration with which France cherishes his memory, [298] [427]
Turkey-carpet style of poetry, [199]
Turner, Colonel, the Cavalier, anecdote of him, [501]
Tuscan poetry, Addison's opinion of, [360]
U.
Union of England with Scotland, its happy results, [160] ; of England with Ireland, its unsatisfactory results, [160] ; illustration in the Persian fable of King Zohak, [161]
United Provinces, Temple's account of, a masterpiece in its kind, [50]
United States, happiness in, its causes, [39] [40] ; growth of the population of, [238] [239] [245] [249] ; their prejudices against negroes, [368] [369]
Unities (the), in poetry, [341]
Unity, hopelessness of having, [161]
University, the London, essay upon, [331] [360] ; objections to. [331] ; their unreasonableness, [332] ; the necessity of the institution, [333] [334] ; religious objections, [334] [335] [337] ; its great advantages, [335] ; its locality, [336] ; objections on that ground, [338] [389] ; refutation of them, [339] ; its freedom from the radical defects of the old universities, [359] ; its future, [360]
Universities, their principle of not withholding from the student works containing impurity, [351] [352] ; change in tlie relations to government of Oxford and Cambridge in Bute's time, [37] ; their jealousy of the London University, [331] [348] ; religious differences in, [338] ; their moral condition, [339] [340] ; their glorious associations, [341] ; radical defects of their system, [342] ; their Wealth and Privileges, [343] [344] ; character of their studies, [344] ; objected to by Bacon and others, [345] ; evils of their system of education, [354] ; their prizes and rewards, [355] ; idleness of their students, [355] [35] ; character of their graduates, [357] ; their fitness for real life, [358] [359]
Usage, the law of orthography, [173]
Uses, statute of, [37]
Usurper (a), to obtain the affection of his subjects must deserve it, [14] [15]
Utilitarians, [5] [8] [50] [52] [55] 07, [78] [79] ; their theory of government criticised, [92] [131] ; their mental characteristics, [92] ; the faults of their philosophy, [93] 123130; its inutility, [79] [87] [90] ; their impracticability, [100] ; the inaccuracies of their reasoning, [119] [120] ; their summum barium, [123] ; their disingenuousness, [130] [131]
Utility, the key of the Baconian doctrine, [430]
Uti. edit, the treaty of exasperation of parties on account of it, [135] [130] ; dangers that were to be apprehended from it, [137] ; state of Europe at the time, [130] ; defence of it, [139] [141]
V.
Vandyke, his portrait of the Earl of Strafford, [454]
Yausittart. Mr., Governor of Bengal, his position, [9] ; his fair intentions, feebleness, and inefficiency, [9]
Varela's portrait of James II., [251]
Vattel, [27]
Vega, Garcilasso de la, a soldier as well as a poet, [81]
Vendôme, Duke of, takes the command of the Bourbon forces in Spain (1710), iii [127]
Venice, republic of, next in antiquity to tin- line of the Supreme Pontiff's, [300]
Venus, the Roman term for the highest throw on the dice, [13] ; note.
Vergniaud, [452] [457] [473] [474]
Verona, protest of Lord Holland against the course pursued by England at the Congress of, [413]
Verres, extensive bribery at the trial of, [421]
Verse, occasional, [350] ; blank, [300] ; reasoning in, [300]
Versification, modern, in a dead language, [212]
Veto, by Parliament, on the appointment of ministers, [487] ; by the Crown on aets of Parliament, [488]
"Violet Crown, city of," a favorite epithet of Athens, [30] ; note.
"Vicar of Wakefield" (the), [159] [161]
Vigo, capture of the Spanish galleons at. [170] [108]
"Village, Deserted" (the), Goldsmith's, [162] [103]
Villani, John, his account of the state of Florence in the [14]th century, [276]
Villn-Vieiosa, battle of, [171] [128]
Villiers, Sir Edward, [412]
Virgil not so "correct" a poet as Homer, [337] ; skill with which Addison imitated him, [331] Dante's admiration of, [329]
Vision of Judgment, Southev's, [145]
Voltaire. the connecting link of the literary schools of Lewis XIV. and Lewis XVI., [355] Horace Walpole's opinion of him. [155] ; his partiality to England, [412] [294] ; meditated a history of the conquest of Bengal, 214; his character, and that of his compeers, [294] ; his interview with Congreve, [407] ; his genius venerated by Frederic the Great, [100] ; his whimsical conferences with Frederic, [176] ; seq.; compared with Addison as a master of the art of ridicule, [370] [377] ; his treatment by the French Academy, [23] ; failed to obtain the poetical prize,
W.
Wages, effects of attempts by government to limit the amount of, [362] ; their relations to labor, [383] [385] [400]
Waldegrave, Lord, made first Lord of the Treasury by George II., [242] ; his attempt to form an administration, [243]
Wales, Frederic, Prince of, joined the opposition to Walpole, [208] ; his marriage, [209] ; makes Pitt his groom of the bedchamber, [216] ; his death, [222] [223] ; headed the opposition, [7] ; his sneer at the Earl of Bute, [20]
Wales, Princess Dowager of, mother of George [111] [18] ; popular ribaldry against her, [42]
Wales, the Prince of, generally in opposition to the minister, [208]
Wall, Mr., Governor of Goree, [318]
Waller, Edmund, his conduct in the House of Commons, [303] ; similarity of his character to Lord Bacon's, [38] [5] [386]
Walmesley, Gilbert, [177]
Walpole, Sir Horace, review of Lord Dover's edition of his Letters to Sir Horace Mann, [143] ; eccentricity of his character, [144] [145] ; his politics, [146] ; his affectation of philosophy, [149] ; his unwillingness to be considered a man of letters, [149] ; his love of the French language, [152] ; character of his works, [156] [158] ; his sketch of Lord Carteret, [187]
Walpole, Sir Robert, his retaliation on the Tories for their treatment of him, [136] ; the "glory of the Whigs," [165] ; his character, [166] ; seq.; the charges against him of corrupting the Parliament, [171] ; his dominant passion, [171] 173; his conduct in regard to the Spanish war, [173] ; his last struggle, [178] ; outcry for his impeachment, [179] ; formidable character of the opposition to him, [175] [206] ; his conduct in reference to the South Sea bubble, [200] ; his conduct towards his colleagues, [202] [205] ; found it necessary to resign, [217] ; bill of indemnity for witnesses brought against him, [218] ; his maxim in election questions in the House of Commons, [473] ; his many titles to respect, [416] [417]
Walpolean battle, the great, [165] [426]
Walsingham, the Earl of (16th century), [36]
Wanderer, Madame D'Arblay's, [311]
War, the Art of, by Machiavelli, [306]
War of the Succession in Spain, Lord Mahon's, review of, [75] [112] ; see Spain.
War, in what spirit it should be waged, [187] [188] ; languid, condemned, [495] Homer's description of, [356] [357] ; descriptions of by Silius Italicus, [357] ; against Spain, counselled by Pitt and opposed by Bute, [29] ; found by Bute to be inevitable, [32] ; its conclusion, [37] ; debate on the treaty of peace, [49]
War, civil. See Civil War.
Ward, John William, Lord Dudley, [288]
Warburton, Bishop, his views on the ends of government, [122] ; his social contract a fiction, [182] ; his opinion as to the religion to be taught by government, [188]
Warning, not the only end of punishment, [464]
Warwick, Countess Dowager of, [411] [412] ; her marriage with Addison, [412]
Warwick, Earl of, makes mischief between Addison and Pope, [469] ; his dislike of the marriage between Addison and his mother, [411] ; his character, [412]
Watson, Bishop, [425]
Way of the World, by Congreve, its merits, [403]
Wealth, tangible and intangible, [150] [152] ; national and private, [153] [180] ; its increase among all Masses in England, [180] [187] ; its diffusion in Russia and Poland as compared with England, [182] ; its accumulation and diffusion in England and in Continental states, [182]
Wodderburne, Alexander, his defence of Lord Clive, [292] ; his urgency with Clive to furnish Voltaire with the materials for his meditated history of the conquest of Bengal, [294]
Weekly Intelligencer (the), extract from, on Hampden's death, [405]
Weldon, Sir A., his Story of the meanness of Bacon, [407]
Wellesley, Marquis, his eminence as a statesman, iv. 05; his opinion as to the expediency of reducing the numbers of the Privy Council, 05; l'itt's friendship for him, [205]
Wellington, Duke of, [90] [357] [408] [409] [420] ; l'itt's estimate of him, [290] "Wellingtoniad" (the), an imaginary epic poem, [158] [171]
Wendover, its recovery of the elective franchise, [443]
Wesley, John, Southey's life of, [137] ; his dislike to the doctrine of predestination, [170]
West Indies (the), slavery in, [303] [330] ; its origin and legal condition there, [303] [310] ; state of religion in, [311] [313] ; state of manners, [314] [310] ; public opinion in, [315] [317] [318] 319; despotic character of the inhabitants, [320]-322; commerce of, [323] [325] ; character of the proprietors, [320]-329; slavery in, approaching its end, [328] [329] ; their system of cultivation, [378] [381] [403]
Westminster Hall, [42] ; the scene of the trial of Hastings, [124]
Westphalia, the treaty of, [314] [338]
Wharton, Earl of, lord lieutenant of Ireland, [371] ; appoints Addison chief secretary, [371]
Wheler, Mr., his appointment as Governor-General of India, [54] ; his conduct in the council, [57] 02, [74]
Whigs (the), their unpopularity and loss of power in [171] [130] ; their position in Walpole's time, [20] [207] ; their violence in [167]9, [299] ; the king's revenge on them, [301] ; revival of their strength, [304] ; their conduct at the Devolution, [319] [320] ; after that event, [330] ; doctrines and literature they patronized daring the seventy years they were in power, [332] Mr. Courtenay's remark on those of the [17]th century, [272] ; attachment of literary men to them after the Devolution, [337] ; their fall on the accession of Anne, [351] [301] ; in the ascendant in [170] Queen Anne's dislike of them, [381] ; their dismissal by her, [381] ; their success in the administration of the government, [381] ; dissensions and reconstruction of the Whig government in [171]7, [430] ; enjoyed all the public patronage in the reign of George I., [4] [5] ; acknowledged the Duke of Newcastle as their leader, [8] ; their power and intiuence at the close of the reign of George II., [10] ; their support of the Brunswick dynasty, [15] ; division of them into two classes, old and young, [72] ; superior character of the young Whig school, [73] ; see Tories.
Whig and Tory, inversion of the meaning of, [131]
Whigs and Tories after the Devolution, [530] ; their relative condition in [171] [130] ; their essential characteristics, [2] ; their transformation in the reign of George I., [3] ; analogy presented by France, [4] ; subsidence of party spirit between them, [5] ; revival under Bute's administration of the animosity between them, [38]
Whitgift, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, his character, [353] ; his Calvinistic doctrines, [175]177; his zeal and activity against the Puritans, [330]
Wickliffe, John, juncture at which he rose, [312] ; his intiuence in England, Germany, and Bohemia, [313]
Wieland, [341]
Wilberforce, William, travels upon the Continent with Pitt, [242] ; opposes Fox's India bill, [245] [240] ; reelected to Parliament, [249] ; his efforts to suppress the slave-trade, [209] ; his intimate friendship with Pitt, [287] [297] ; his description of Pitt's speech against Hastings, [120]
Wilkes, John, conduct of the government with respect to his election for Middlesex, [535] ; his comparison of the mother of George III. to the mother of Edward [111] , [42] ; his persecution by the Grenville administration, [56] ; description of him, [56] ; his North Briton, [56] ; his committal to the Tower, [56] ; his discharge, [57] ; his Essay on Woman laid before the House of Lords, 511; tights a duel with one of Lord Bute's dependents, [60] ; flies to France, [60] ; is works ordered to be burnt by the hangman, and himself expelled the House of Commons, and outlawed, [60] ; obtains damages in an action tor the seizure of his papers, [61] ; returns from exile and is elected for Middlesex, [100] ; compared to Mirabeau, [72]
Wilkie, David, recollection of him at Holland House, [425] ; failed in portrait-painting, [319]
William III., low state of national prosperity and national character in his reign, [529] ; his feeling in reference to the Spanish succession, [102] ; unpopularity of his person and measures, [101] ; suffered under a complication of diseases, [101] ; his death, [102] ; limitation of his prerogatives, [103] ; compact with the Convention, [320] ; his habit of consulting Temple, [103] ; coalition which he formed against Lewis XIV. secretly favored by Home, [339] ; his vices not obtruded on the public eye. [392] ; his assassination planned, [394] Addison's Lines to him, [333] ; reference to him, [67]
Williams, Dean of Westminster, his services to Buckingham, and counsel to him and the king, [411] [416]
Williams, John, his character, [139] [270] ; employed by Hastings to write in his defence, [139]
Williams, Sir William, his character as a lawyer, [378] ; his view of the duty of counsel in conducting prosecutions, [378]
Wimbledon Church, Lord Burleigh attended mass at, [6]
Windham, Mr., his opinion of Sheridan's speech against Hastings, [122] ; his argument for retaining brands in the impeachment against Hastings, [123] ; his appearance at the trial, [12]S; his adherence to Burke, [136]
Wine, excess in, not a sign of ill-breeding in the reign of Queen Anne, [367]
"Wisdom of our ancestors," proper value of the plea of, [272]
Wit, Addison's compared with that of Cowley and Butler, [375]
Witt, John de, power with which he governed Holland, [32] ; his interview with Temple, [36] ; his manners, [36] [37] ; his confidence in Temple and deception by Charles' court, [47] ; his violent death, [51]
Wolfe, General, l'itt's panegyric upon, [213] ; his conquest of Quebec and death, [244] ; monument voted to him, [244]
Woman, source of the charm of her beauty, [74] ; her different treatment among the Greeks and the Romans, [83] [85] ; in the middle ages, [85] ; and among civilized nations generally, [33] [35]
Women, as agricultural laborers, [394] [395]
Women (the) of Dryden's comedies, [356] ; of his tragedies, [357] [358]
Woodfall, Mr., his dealings with Junius, [38]
Wordsworth, relative "correctness" of his poetry, [338] Byron's distaste for, [352] ; characteristics of his poems, [356] [362] ; his egotism, [82]
Works, public, employment of the public wealth in, [155] ; publie and private, comparative value of, [155]
Waiting, grand canon of, [76]
Wycherley, William, his literary merits and faults, [368] ; his birth, family, and education, [369] [370] ; age at which he wrote his plays, [370] [371] ; his favor with the Duchess of Cleveland, [372] [373] ; his marriage, [376] ; his embarrassments, [377] ; his acquaintance with Pope, [381] [383] ; his character as a writer, [384] 387; his severe handling by Collier, [599] ; analogy between him and Congreve, [410]
X.
Xenophon, his report of the reasoning of Socrates in confutation of Aristodeinus, his political economy, [149] ; his presentation of the Spartan character, [185] ; his style, [393] ; his mental characteristics, [393] [394] ; contrasted with Herodotus, [394] ; with Tacitus, [403]
Y.
York, Duke of, [62] ; anxiety excited by his sudden return from Holland, [94] ; detestation of him, [94] ; revival of the question of his exclusion, [96]
York House, the London residence of Bacon and his father, [408] [432]
Yonge, Sir William, [205]
Young, Dr., his testimony to Addison's colloquial powers, [366]
Z.