The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)

by Edmund Burke

VOL. XII.

• [Speeches In the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq., late Governor-General of Bengal. (Continued.)]
• • [Speech in General Reply.]
  • • [Fifth Day: Saturday, June 7, 1794] [3]
    • [Sixth Day: Wednesday, June 11] [75]
    • [Seventh Day: Thursday, June 12] [143]
    • [Eighth Day: Saturday, June 14] [235]
    • [Ninth Day: Monday, June 16] [335]

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INDEX.

• Accidental things ought to be carefully distinguished from permanent causes and effects, v. 234.
• Account, capital use of an, what, i. 511.
• Act of navigation, i. 378; ii. 30, 33.
• Acts of grace, impolicy of, ii. 386.
• Acts of indemnity and oblivion, probable effects of, as a means of reconciling France to a monarchy, iv. 460.
• Addison, Mr., the correctness of his opinion of the cause of the grand effect of the rotund questioned, i. 150.
• • his fine lines on honorable political connections, i. 529.
• Administration, Short Account of a Late Short, (Marquis of Rockingham's,) i. 263.
• • censures on that administration, i. 379.
  • state of public affairs at the time of its formation, i. 381.
  • character and conduct of it, i. 388.
  • idea of it respecting America, i. 397.
  • remarks on its foreign negotiations, i. 412.
  • character of a united administration, i. 419.
  • of a disunited one, i. 425.
  • the administration should be correspondent to the legislature, i. 471.
• Admiration, the first source of obedience, iv. 251.
• • one of the principles which interest us in the characters of others, vii. 148.
• Adrian, first contracts the hounds of the Roman Empire, vii. 214.
• Advice, compulsive, from constituents, its authority first resisted by Mr. Burke, iv. 95.
• Adviser, duty of an, iv. 42.
• Agricola, Julius, character and conduct of, vii. 199.
• Aix, the Archbishop of, his offer of contribution, why refused by the French National Assembly, iii. 390.
• Aix-la-Chapelle, the treaty of, remarks on, v. 441.
• Akbar, the Emperor, obtains possession of Bengal, ix. 392
• Alfred the Great, character and conduct of, vii. 261.
• • his care and sagacity in improving the laws and institutions of England, vii. 482.
• Allegiance, oath of, remarkable one taken by the nobility to King Stephen, vii. 388.
• Alliance, one of the requisites of a good peace, i. 295.
• • the famous Triple Alliance negotiated by Temple and De Witt, v. 438.
  • alliance between Church and State in a Christian commonwealth, a fanciful speculation, vii. 43.
• Ambition, one of the passions belonging to society, i. 124.
• • nature and end of, i. 124.
  • misery of disappointed, i. 335.
  • ought to be influenced by popular motives, i. 474.
  • influence of, iii. 107.
  • one of the natural distempers of a democracy, iv. 164.
  • legislative restraints on it in democracies always violent and ineffectual, iv. 164.
  • not an exact calculator, vii. 82.
  • virtue of a generous ambition for applause for public services, x. 176.
• America, advantage of, to England, i. 297.
• • nature of various taxes there, i. 355.
  • project of a representation of in Parliament, its difficulties, i. 372.
  • its rapidly increasing commerce, ii. 112.
  • eloquent description of rising glories of, in vision, ii. 115.
  • temper and character of its inhabitants, ii. 120.
  • their spirit of liberty, whence, ii. 120, 133
  • proposed taxation of, by grant instead of imposition, ii. 154.
  • danger in establishing a military government there, vi. 176.
• American Stamp Act, its origin, i. 385.
• • repeal of the, i. 265, 389.
  • reasons of the repeal, ii. 48.
  • good effects of the repeal, i. 401; ii. 59.
• Ancestors, our, reverence due to them, iii. 562; iv. 213.
• Angles, in buildings, prejudicial to their grandeur, i. 151.
• Animals, their cries capable of conveying great ideas, i. 161.
• Anniversaries, festive, advantages of, iv. 369.
• Anselm, appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, vii. 373.
• • supports Henry I. against his brother Robert, vii. 377.
• Apparitions, singular inconsistency in the ideas of the vulgar concerning them, vii. 181.
• Arbitrary power, steals upon a people by lying dormant for a time, or by being rarely exercised, ii. 201.
• • cannot be exercised or delegated by the legislature, ix. 455.
  • not recognized in the Gentoo code, xi. 208.
• Arbitrary system, must always be a corrupt one, x. 5.
• • danger in adopting it as a principle of action, xi. 322.
• Areopagus, court and senate of, remarks on the, iii. 507.
• Ariosto, a criticism of Boileau on, vii. 154.
• Aristocracy, affected terror at the growth of the power of the, in the reign of George II., i. 457.
• • influence of the, i. 457.
  • too much spirit not a fault of the, i. 458.
  • general observations on the, iii. 415.
  • character of a true natural one, iv. 174.
  • regulations in some states with respect to, iv. 250.
  • must submit to the dominion of prudence and virtue, v. 127.
  • character of the aristocracy of France before the Revolution, iii. 412; vi. 39.
• Aristotle, his caution against delusive geometrical accuracy in moral arguments, ii. 170.
• • his observations on the resemblance between a democracy and a tyranny, iii. 397.
  • his distinction between tragedy and comedy, vii. 153.
  • his natural philosophy alone unworthy of him, vii. 252.
  • his system entirely followed by Bede, vii. 252.
• Armies yield a precarious and uncertain obedience to a senate, iii. 524.
• • remarks on the standing armies of France and England, iii. 224.
• Army commanded by General Monk, character of it, iv. 36.
• Art, every work of, great only as it deceives, i. 152.
• Artist, a true one effects the noblest designs by easy methods, i. 152.
• Artois, Comte d', character of, iv. 430.
• Ascendency, Protestant, observations on it, vi. 393.
• Asers, their origin and conquests, vii. 228.
• Assassination, recommended and employed by the National Assembly of France, iv. 34.
• • the dreadful consequences of this policy, in case of war, iv. 34.
• Astonishment, cause and nature of, i. 160, 217.
• Atheism by establishment, what, v. 310.
• • ought to be repressed by law, vii. 35.
  • schools of, set up by the French regicides at the public charge, vi. 106.
• Atheists, modern, contrasted with those of antiquity, iv. 355.
• Athenians, at the head of the democratic interests of Greece, iv. 321.
• Athens, the plague of, remarkable prevalence of wickedness during its continuance, vii. 84.
• Augustin, state of religion in Britain when he arrived there, vii. 233.
• • introduced Christianity among the Anglo-Saxons, vii. 235.
• Aulic Council, remarks on the, v. 119.
• Austria began in the reign of Maria Theresa to support great armies, v. 368.
• • her treaty of 1756 with France, deplored by the French in 1773, v. 370.
• Authority, its only firm seat in public opinion, ii. 224; vi. 165.
• • the people the natural control on it, iv. 164.
  • the exercise and control of it together contradictory, iv. 164.
  • the monopoly of it an evil, v. 151.
• Avarice, an instrument and source of oppression in India, iii. 107; ix. 491.

• Bacon, Lord, a remark of his applied to the revolution in France, v. 175.
• • his demeanor at his impeachment, xi. 173.
• Bacon, N., his work on the laws of England not entitled to authority, vii. 479.
• Bail, method of giving it introduced by Alfred, vii. 265.
• • advantage of it, vii. 265.
• Ball, John, abstract of a discourse of, iv. 178.
• Ballot, all contrivances by it vain to prevent a discovery of the inclinations, iii. 507.
• Balmerino, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 34.
• Banian, functions and character of the, ix. 363.
• Bank paper in England, owing to the flourishing condition of commerce, iii. 541.
• Bards, the, character of their verses, vii. 178.
• Bartholomew, St., massacre of, iii. 420.
• Bathurst, Lord, his imagined vision of the rising glories of America, ii. 114.
• Bayle, Mr., an observation of his on religious persecution, vi. 333.
• Beauchamp, Lord, his bill concerning imprisonment; Mr. Burke's course with respect to it, ii. 382.
• Beauty, a cause of love, i. 114, 165.
• • proportion not the cause of it in vegetables, i. 166.
  • nor in animals, i. 170.
  • nor in the human species, i. 172.
  • beauty and proportion not ideas of the same nature, i. 181.
  • the opposite to beauty not disproportion or deformity, but ugliness, i. 181.
  • fitness not the cause of beauty, i. 181.
  • nor perfection, i. 187.
  • how far the idea of beauty applicable to the qualities of the mind, i. 188.
  • how far applicable to virtue, i. 190.
  • the real cause of beauty, i. 191.
  • beautiful objects, small, i. 191.
  • and smooth, i. 193.
  • and of softly varied contour, i. 194.
  • and delicate, i. 195.
  • and of clear, mild, or diversified, colors, i. 196.
  • beauty of the physiognomy, i. 198.
  • beauty of the eye, i. 198.
  • the beautiful in feeling, i. 201.
  • the beautiful in sounds, i. 203.
  • physical effects of beauty, i. 232.
• Bede, the Venerable, brief account of him and his works, vii. 250.
• Bedford, the first earl of, who, v. 201.
• Begums of Oude, accused by the East India Company of rebellion, ii. 475.
• • pretence for seizing their treasures, xii. [33].
• Benares, city of, the capital of the Indian religion, ii. 477, 484.
• • province of, its projected sale to the Nabob of Oude, xi. 259.
  • devastation of, during Mr. Hastings's government, xi. 302, 347.
  • the Rajah of, nature of his authority, xi. 240.
  • imprisoned by Mr. Hastings's order, xi. 277.
  • the Ranny of, the soldiery incited by Mr. Hastings to plunder her, ii. 486.
• Benfield, Paul, his character and conduct, iii. 97.
• Bengal, extent and condition, of, ii. 498.
• • conquest of, by the Emperor Akbar, ix. 392.
  • era of the independent subahs of, ix. 392.
  • era of the British empire in, ix. 393.
  • nature of the government exercised there by Mr. Hastings, xii. [211].
• Bengal Club, observations on the, iv. 324.
• Bidjegur, fortress of, taken by order of Mr. Hastings, xi. 291.
• Biron, Duchess of, murdered by the French regicides, vi. 41.
• Bitterness, in description, a source of the sublime, i. 162.
• Blackness, effects of, i. 229.
• Boadicea, Roman outrages against, vii. 197.
• Boileau, his criticism on a tale in Ariosto, vii. 154.
• Bolingbroke, Lord, animadversions on his philosophical works, i. 3.
• • some characteristics of his style, i. 7.
  • a presumptuous and superficial writer, iii. 398.
  • a remark of his on the superiority of a monarchy over other forms of government, iii. 398.
• Boncompagni, Cardinal, character of him, iv. 338.
• Borrower, the public, and the private lender, not adverse parties with contending interests, v. 455.
• Bouillon, Godfrey of, engages in the Crusade, vii. 372.
• Boulogne, fortress of, surrendered to France, v. 204.
• • importance of it to England, v. 204.
• Bouvines, victory of, important advantages of it to France, vii. 458.
• Brabançons, mercenary troops in the time of Henry II., their character, vii. 420.
• Bribing, by means of it, rather than by being bribed, wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind, iii. 107.
• Brissot, his character and conduct, iv. 371.
• • Preface to his Address to his Constituents, v. 65.
• Britain, invasion of, by Cæsar, vii. 165.
• • account of its ancient inhabitants, vii. 170.
  • invaded by Claudius, vii. 191.
  • reduced by Ostorius Scapula, vii. 191.
  • finally subdued by Agricola, vii. 199.
  • why not sooner conquered, vii. 202.
  • nature of the government settled there by the Romans, vii. 205.
  • first introduction of Christianity into, vii. 221.
  • deserted by the Romans, vii. 223.
  • entry and settlement of the Saxons there, and their conversion to Christianity, vii. 227.
• Britons, more reduced than any other nation that fell under the German power, vii. 232.
• Brown, Dr., effect of his writings on the people of England, v. 239.
• Buch, Captal de, his severe treatment of the Jacquerie in France, iv. 177.
• Buildings, too great length in them, prejudicial to grandeur of effect, i. 152.
• • should be gloomy to produce an idea of the sublime, i. 158.
• Burke, Mr., his sentiments respecting several leading members of the Whig party, iv. 66.
• • and respecting a union of Ireland with Great Britain, iv. 297.
  • respecting acts of indemnity and oblivion as a means of reconciling France to a monarchy, iv. 460.
  • his animadversions on the conduct of Mr. Fox, v. 7.
  • his pathetic allusion to his deceased son, v. 207.
• Burnet, Bishop, his statement of the methods which carried men of parts to Popery in France, iii. 430.
• Bute, Earl of, his resignation, i. 381.
• • his successors recommended by him, i. 381.
  • supposed head of the court party called "King's Men," i. 467.

• Cæsar, Julius, his policy with respect to the Gauls, vii. 163.
• • his invasion of Germany, vii. 164.
  • and of Britain, vii. 165.
• Calais, lost by the surrender of Boulogne, v. 204.
• Calamity, its deliberations rarely wise, iii. 540.
• • public calamity often arrested by the seasonable energy of a single man, v. 124.
• Caligula undertakes an expedition against Britain, vii. 190.
• Calonne, M. de, remarks on his work, "L'État de la France," iii. 479.
• • extract from it, iii. 549.
• Campanella, curious story concerning him, i. 212.
• Canada Bills, convention for their liquidation, i. 409.
• Canterbury, dispute between the suffragan bishops of the province and the monks of the Abbey of St. Austin, vii. 446.
• Cantons, French, their origin, nature, and function, iii. 462, 464, 471.
• Cantoo Baboo, Mr. Hastings's banian, x. 19.
• Canute, his character and conduct, vii. 276.
• • remarks on his code of laws, vii. 483.
• Capital, monopoly of, not an evil, v. 151.
• Care, appearance of, highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence, i. 154.
• Carnatic, the extent, nature, and condition of the country, ii. 492; iii. 65.
• • dreadful devastation of it by Hyder Ali Khân, iii. 62.
• Caste, consequences of losing it in India, x. 89.
• Castile, different from Catalonia and Aragon, iv. 340.
• Castles, great numbers of them built in the reign of Stephen, vii. 389.
• Casuistry, origin and requisites of, iv. 168.
• • danger of pursuing it too far, iv. 168.
• Catholics, Letter to an Irish Peer on the Penal Laws against, iv. 217.
• Celsus, his opinion that internal remedies were not of early use proved to be erroneous, vii. 184.
• Cerealis, extract from his fine speech to the Gauls, iv. 272.
• Change and reformation, distinction between, v. 186.
• Characters of others, principles which interest us in them, vii. 148.
• Charity, observations on, v. 146.
• • not to be interfered with by the magistrate, v. 146.
• Charles I. defended himself on the practice of his predecessors, ii. 279.
• • his ill-judged attempt to establish the rites of the Church of England in Scotland, vii. 8.
• Charles II. obliged by the sense of the nation to abandon the Dutch war, ii. 219.
• • brief character of him, iv. 37.
  • his government compared with that of Cromwell, iv. 467.
• Charles XII. of Sweden, parallel between him and Richard I. of England, vii. 436.
• Charters are kept when their purposes are maintained, ii. 565.
• Chatham, Lord, his character, ii. 61.
• Cheselden, Mr., his story of a boy who was couched for a cataract, i. 226.
• Chester, the County Palatine of, admitted to representation in Parliament in the reign of Henry VIII., ii. 150.
• Chesterfield, Lord, his conduct (when Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland) with respect to the Roman Catholics, iv. 235.
• Cheyt Sing, Rajah of Benares, nature of his authority, ii. 479; xi. 240.
• • imprisoned by order of Mr. Hastings, xi. 277.
• Christendom, the several states of, have all been formed slowly and without any unity of design, v. 373.
• Christianity, original introduction of, into Britain, vii. 221.
• Church, the, has power to reform her doctrine, discipline, and rites, vii. 7.
• Church establishment in England, observations on it, iii. 352.
• • the provision made for its clergy by the state, iii. 364.
  • education of its clergy contrasted with that of the Roman Catholic clergy, iv. 231.
  • eulogy on it, vi. 401; vii. 36, 56.
• Cicero, remarks on his orations against Verres, xii. [349].
• Circumstances, importance of them in all political principles, iii. 240; vii. 55.
• Citizens, not to be listened to, in matters relating to agriculture, v. 146.
• Civil list, debts due on it, request for a supply for discharging them, how made, i. 508.
• • plan of economy relative to it, ii. 350.
• Civil society, great purpose of, vi. 333.
• Civil vicinity, law of, what, v. 322.
• Civil wars corrupt the morals of the people, ii. 203.
• Clamor, justifiable when it is caused by abuse, vii. 121.
• Clarendon, Constitutions of, vii. 403.
• Claudius, the Emperor invades Britain, vii. 191.
• Clavering, Sir John, eulogy on him, x. 246; xii. [348].
• Clear expression, different from a strong one, i. 260.
• Clearness not necessary for affecting the passions, i. 133.
• Clergy, convocation of, a part of the constitution, ii. 226.
• • observations on the provision made by the state for them, iii. 364, 448.
  • Roman Catholic, in France, character of them before the Revolution, iii. 424.
  • laws of William and Anne respecting the Popish clergy, vi. 317.
  • review of the state of the clergy in England down to the reign of Henry II., vii. 398.
• Clive, Lord, sent to India, ix. 438.
• • his conduct there, ix. 439.
• Clootz, Anacharsis, his masquerade embassy to the Constituent Assembly of France, vi. 49.
• Coke, Lord, ingenious quotation in his Reports, i. 5.
• • his observation on discretion in judicature, iv. 292.
• Colonies, commercial, mode of levying taxes in them, an important and difficult consideration, i. 354.
• • American, import ten times more from Great Britain, than they spend in return, i. 393.
• Colonists, the British, in America, character of, i. 395.
• • Address to, vi. 183.
• Colors, soft and cheerful ones unfit to produce grand images, i. 158.
• Comedy, observations on, vii. 150.
• • Aristotle's distinction between it and tragedy, vii. 153.
• Comines, Philip de, his remarks on the English civil wars, vi. 252.
• Commerce and liberty, the two main sources of power to Great Britain, ii. 87.
• • great increase of, in America, ii. 112.
• Common law, nature of the, vii. 462.
• Common Pleas, court of, its origin, vii. 466.
• Commons, the House of, observations on its nature and character, i. 491.
• • what qualities recommend a man to a seat in it, in popular elections, i. 497.
  • can never control other parts of the government, unless the members themselves are controlled by their constituents, i. 503.
  • ought to be connected with and dependent on the people, i. 508.
  • has a collective character, distinct from that of its members, ii. 66.
  • duty of the members to their constituents, ii. 95.
  • general observations on its privileges and duties, ii. 544.
  • the collective sense of the people to be received from it, ii. 545.
  • its powers and capacities, ii. 552.
  • cannot renounce its share of authority, iii. 258.
  • its composition, iii. 289.
  • the most powerful and most corruptible part of the constitution, vii. 62.
  • a superintendence over the doctrines and proceedings of the courts of justice, one of its principal objects, vii. 107.
  • concise view of its proceedings on the East India question, ii. 559.
• Commonwealths, not subject to laws analogous to those of physical life, v. 124, 234.
• Communes, in France, their origin, nature, and function, iii. 462, 464, 472.
• Compurgators, in Saxon law, what, vii. 318.
• Condorcet, brief character of him, iv. 356, 372.
• • extract from a publication of his, iv. 356.
• Confidence, unsuspecting, in government, importance of it, ii. 234.
• • of mankind, how to be secured, v. 414.
• Connections, party, political, observations on them, i. 527, 530.
• • commended by patriots in the commonwealths of antiquity, i. 527.
  • the Whig connection in Queen Anne's reign, i. 529.
• Conquest cannot give a right to arbitrary power, ix. 456.
• Conscience, a tender one ought to be tenderly handled, vii. 54.
• Constantine the Great, changes made by him in the internal policy of the Roman Empire, vii. 220.
• Constantinople, anecdote of the visit of an English country squire to, v. 387.
• • anecdote of the Greeks at the taking of, vi. 96.
• Constituents, in England, more in the spirit of the constitution to lessen than to enlarge their number, i. 370.
• • their duty to their representatives, ii. 370.
  • compulsive instruction from them first rejected by Mr. Burke, iv. 95.
  • points in which they are incompetent to instruct their representatives, vii. 74, 75.
• Constitution, a, cannot defend itself, vi. 100.
• • consequences of disgracing the frame and constitution of the state, vii. 103.
  • the English, a change in it, an immense and difficult operation, i. 371, 520.
  • English, changes in it to be attempted only in times of general confusion, i. 371.
  • eulogy on it, iii. 561; v. 210; vii. 100.
  • the whole scheme of it to prevent any one of its principles from being carried to an extreme, iv. 207.
  • not struck out at a heat, iv. 209.
  • commendation of it by Montesquieu, iv. 212.
  • the only means of its subversion, what, v. 49, 52.
• Constitutional Society, The, its nature and design, iii. 236.
• Conti, Prince de, his character and conduct, iv. 436.
• Contract, an implied, one, always, between the laborer and his employer, v. 137.
• Contracting parties, not necessary that they should have different interests, v. 139.
• Control and exercise of authority together contradictory, iv. 164.
• Convocation of the clergy, though a part of the constitution, now called for form only, ii. 226.
• Conway, General, moves the repeal of the American Stamp Act, ii. 52.
• Cornwallis, Lord, (Baron,) proceedings in his trial, xi. 30.
• Cornwallis, Lord, (Marquis,) his evidence at the trial of Warren Hastings, xii. [359].
• Coronation oath, its obligations with respect to Roman Catholics, iv. 259.
• Corporate bodies, their usefulness as instruments, iii. 441.
• • more under the direction of the state than private citizens, iii. 447.
• Corruption, of nature and example, what the only security against, ii. 238.
• • in pecuniary matters, the suspicion of it how to be avoided, iii. 95.
• Cossim, Ali Khân, his character and conduct, ix. 405.
• Country, lore of, remarks on, xi. 422.
• Credit and power incompatible, i. 368.
• Crimes, the acts of individuals, not of denominations, ii. 418.
• • according to the criminal law, what, vi. 340.
• Cromwell, brief character of him, iii. 294.
• • his principle in the appointment of judges, iv. 13.
  • his conduct in government, iv. 37.
  • his government compared with that of Charles II., iv. 467.
• Cross, the effect of it not so grand in architecture as that of the parallelogram, i. 150.
• Crown, the influence of it, what, i. 444.
• • inheritable nature of it, iii. 258.
  • this principle maintained at the Revolution, iii. 254.
  • the only legitimate channel of communication with other nations, v. 10.
• Crusade, origin and progress of the, vii. 369.
• Curfew, origin and policy of the, vii. 354.
• Curiosity, the first and simplest emotion of the human mind, i. 101.
• • general observations on it, i. 101.
• Custom, considered in relation to deformity and beauty, i. 179.
• • not the cause of pleasure, i. 180.
• Cyprus, account of the conquest of it by Richard I., vii. 428.

• Danger and pain, the idea of them a source of the sublime, i. 110, 130.
• • with certain modifications, delightful, i. 111.
  • the danger of anything very dear to us removes for the time all other affections from the mind, iv. 95.
• Darkness more productive of sublime ideas than light, i. 156.
• • necessary to the highest degree of the sublime in building, i. 158.
  • Locke's opinion concerning, i. 225.
  • terrible in its own nature, i. 226.
  • why, i. 227.
• Davies, Sir John, his statement of the benefits of the extension of English constitutional law to Ireland, ii. 147; iv. 273.
• Day, not so sublime as night, i. 158.
• Debi Sing, his character and conduct, x. 69.
• Debt, the interest of, not the principal, that which distresses a nation, i. 329.
• Debts, civil, faults of the law with regard to, ii. 384.
• • public, excessive, their tendency to subvert government, iii. 437.
• Deceivers and cheats never can repent, iv. 9.
• Declaration of Right, contains the principles of the Revolution of 1688, iii. 252.
• • drawn by Lord Somers, iii. 254.
  • proceeds upon the principle of reference to antiquity, iii. 273.
• Defensive measures, though vigorous at first, relax by degrees, iv. 355.
• • necessary considerations with regard to them, vi. 100.
• Definitions, frequently fallacious, i. 81.
• Deformity not opposed to beauty, but to the complete common form, i. 178.
• Deity, power the most striking of his attributes, i. 143.
• Delamere, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 31.
• Delight, what, i. 107.
• • distinguished from pleasure, i. 108.
  • the misfortunes of others sometimes a source of, i. 118.
  • the attendant of every passion which animates us to any active purpose, i. 119.
  • how pain can be a cause of, i. 215.
• Democracy, no example in modern times of a considerable one, iii. 396.
• • an absolute one, not to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government, iii. 396.
  • Aristotle's observation on the resemblance between a democracy and a tyranny; iii. 397.
  • the vice of the ancient democracies, what, iii. 508.
  • the foodful nurse of ambition, iv. 104.
• Departments in France, their origin, nature, and function, iii. 461, 465.
• Depth thought to have a grander effect than height, i. 147.
• Description, verbal, a means of raising a stronger emotion than painting, i. 133.
• Desirable things always practicable, ii. 357.
• Despotism, nature of, i. 446; ix. 458.
• D'Espréménil, the illustrious French magistrate, murdered by the Revolutionists, vi. 40.
• Dialogue, advantages and disadvantages of it as a mode of argumentation, vi. 9.
• Difference in taste, commonly so called, whence, i. 89.
• Difficulty, a source of greatness in idea, i. 153.
• • its disciplinary uses, iii. 453.
  • political difficulties, ill consequences of attempting to elude them, iii. 454.
• Dignity, national, no standard for rating the conditions of peace, v. 257.
• Dimension, greatness of, a powerful cause of the sublime, i. 147.
• • necessary to the sublime in building, i. 152.
  • but incompatible with beauty, i. 242.
• Dinagepore, Rajah of, account of him, xii. [318].
• Diogenes, anecdote of him, iv. 61.
• Directory, the, by whom settled, vii. 13.
• • rejected at the Restoration, vii. 13.
• Disappointment, what, i. 108.
• Discontents, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present, i. 433.
• • produced by a system of favoritism, i. 469.
• Discretion, Lord Coke's remark on, iv. 292.
• Discretionary powers of the monarch, should be exercised upon public principles, i. 469.
• Discrimination, a coarse, the greatest enemy to accuracy of judgment, v. 143.
• Dissenters, observations on the Test Act, in reference to them, iv. 264.
• Distress, great, never teaches wise lessons to mankind, iv. 10.
• Distrust, advantages of, iv. 443.
• Disunion in government, mischief of, i. 425.
• Divorce, observations on, v. 313.
• Domesday Book, origin, and nature of it, vii. 354.
• Double cabinet, project of a, in the English court, i. 447.
• • nature and design of it, i. 454.
  • mischievous influence of it, i. 478.
  • how recommended at court, i. 485.
  • its operation upon Parliament, i. 490.
  • singular doctrine propagated by it, i. 525.
• Drama, Hints for an Essay on the, vii. 143.
• Dramatic writing, difficulty of, vii. 145.
• • origin of, vii. 149.
• Druids, some account of their origin, character, and functions, vii. 176.
• • the opinion that their religion was founded on the unity of the Godhead, confuted, vii. 185.
• Dryden, his translation of a passage in Virgil, v. 391.
• Du Bos, his theory of the greater effect of painting than of poetry on the passions, controverted, i. 134.
• Dunkirk, demolition of, i. 412.
• Dunning, Mr., brief character of, ii. 398.
• Du Pin, M. de la Tour, his account of the state of the army in France, iii. 512.
• Durham, County Palatine of, admitted to representation in Parliament, in the reign of Charles II., ii. 152.
• Duty, effectual execution of it, how to be secured, ii. 353.
• • determined by situation, ii. 465; iv. 167.
  • people do not like to be told of it, iv. 163.
  • not dependent on the will, iv. 165.

• Easter, whence the name derived, vii. 237.
• • disputes about the time of celebrating it promote the study of astronomy and chronology, vii. 252.
• East India Company, origin of the, ix. 348.
• • system of its service, ix. 350.
  • a fundamental part of its constitution, that its government shall be a written one, ix. 369.
  • two sources of its power, ix. 345.
  • its negotiations with government, i. 362.
  • observations on its charter, ii. 438.
  • extent and population of its possessions, ii. 443, 444.
  • observations on its conduct, ii. 446.
  • its treatment of the nations indirectly subject to its authority, ii. 466.
  • its administration in the countries immediately under its government, ii. 497.
  • concise view of the proceedings of the House of Commons relative to it, ii. 559.
• East Indies, origin of the extensive British possessions there, ii. 560.
• Ecclesiastical investiture, origin and nature of, vii. 382.
• Economy and war not easily reconciled, i. 310.
• • admirable system of, in France, under Necker, ii. 273.
  • difficulty of attempting a plan of public economy, ii. 268.
  • rules for a proper plan of, ii. 286.
  • things prescribed by the principles of radical economy, ii. 310.
  • distinction between economy and parsimony, v. 195.
  • political economy, had its origin in England, v. 192.
• Education, effect of it on the colonists in America, ii. 124.
• • description of a good one, iv. 24; xii. [280].
• Edward the Confessor, his character and conduct, vii. 278.
• Election, popular, of magistrates, importance of it to a state, i. 472.
• • right of, what, i. 505.
  • mischief of frequent elections, i. 517; vii. 75.
  • the expense of them an important consideration, vii. 78.
• Elizabeth, sister of Louis XVI., murdered by the French regicides, vi. 41.
• Emphyteusis of the Romans, nature of it, vi. 354.
• Empires do not fall by their own weight, vi. 27.
• England, nature of its monarchy, ii. 288.
• • eulogy on its constitution, v. 210;
  • natural representation of its people, what it is, v. 284.
  • its constant policy with regard to France, iv. 397.
  • always necessarily the soul and head of any confederacy against France, iv. 397; v. 245.
• English History, An Abridgment of the, vii. 157.
• Enmity, when avowed, is always felt, vi. 57.
• Enthusiasm, excited by other causes besides religion, v. 361.
• Eostre, the name of a Saxon goddess,—whence the term Easter, vii. 237.
• Epicureans, the, why tolerated in their atheism by the supporters of the ancient heathen religions, vii. 31.
• • their physics the most rational of the ancient systems, vii. 251.
  • why discredited, vii. 251.
• Equity, criminal, a monster in jurisprudence, i. 500.
• Established Church, the, should be powerful, but comprehensive and tolerant, vii. 36.
• Established religion of a state, has often torn to pieces the civil establishment, vi. 357.
• Establishment, legal, ground of a legislative alteration of it, vii. 10.
• • ground of the constitutional provision for the exclusive application of tithes to its support, vii. 12.
• Etiquette, its signification and uses, v. 434.
• Europe, general division of, before the universal prevalence of the Roman power, vii. 159.
• • the original inhabitants of Greece and Italy of the same race with the people of Northern Europe, vii. 161.
  • view of the state of Europe at the time of the Norman invasion, vii. 327.
• Evidence, circumstantial, remarks on it, xi. 93.
• Example, of men of principle, never without use, i. 426.
• • the only argument of effect in civil life, i. 499.
  • what the only security against a corrupt one, ii. 238.
  • the school of mankind, v. 331.
• Executions of criminals, observations on them, vi. 245.
• Exercise necessary to the finer organs, i. 216.
• Expression, difference between a clear and a strong one, i. 260.
• Eye, the, in what its beauty consists, i. 198.
• Eyre, Sir Robert, (Solicitor-General,) extracts from his speech at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 138.

• Factions, formed upon and generate opinions, vii. 44.
• Fame, a passion for it, the instinct of all great souls, ii. 65.
• • the separation of it from virtue, a harsh divorce, ii. 243.
• Fanaticism, epidemical, formidable nature of it, iii. 435.
• • may be caused by a theory concerning government as much as by a dogma in religion, iv. 192.
• Farmer, dangerous to try experiments on him, v. 147.
• • amount of his usual profits, what, v. 148.
  • difficulties of his business, v. 152.
• Favoritism, a system of, in the executory government of England, at variance with the plan of the legislature, i. 469.
• Fear, cause of it, i. 210.
• • early and provident fear the mother of safety, vii. 50.
• Feeling, the beautiful in, i. 201.
• Female sex, the moral sensibility more acute in them then in men, xii. [164].
• Finances, three standards to judge of the condition of a nation with regard to them, i. 330.
• • importance of them to a state, iii. 534.
  • admirable management of the French finances under Necker, ii. 273.
• Financier, duty of a judicious one in respect to his calculations, i. 348.
• • his objects, what, iii. 538, 558.
• Fire, a chief object of worship to the Druids, why, vii. 182.
• Firmness, a virtue only when it accompanies the most perfect wisdom, i. 440.
• Fitness, not the cause of beauty, i. 181.
• • the real effects of it, i. 184.
• Flattery, why so prevalent, i. 124.
• Florence, republic of, its origin, vii. 331.
• Force, not impaired, either in effect or opinion, by an unwillingness to exert itself, ii. 108.
• • objections to its employment against the American colonies, ii. 118.
• Forest lands, plan of economical reform concerning them, ii. 300.
• Foster, Justice, extracts from his Crown Cases and Discourses on the Crown Law, xi. 28, 123.
• Fox, (C.J.) panegyrics on him, ii. 533; iii. 219.
• • reluctant dissent from his opinion concerning the assumption of citizenship by the French army, iii. 218.
  • animadversions on his commendation of the French Revolution, iv. 77; v. 7.
  • policy of a treaty with France maintained by him, v. 26.
  • his conduct contrasted with that of Mr. Pitt, v. 60.
• France, from its vicinity, always an object of English vigilance with regard to its power or example, iii. 216.
• • Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with respect to, iv. 403.
  • the liberties of Europe dependent on its being a great and preponderating power, iv. 455.
  • character of its government before the Revolution, as shown by a review of the condition of the kingdom, iii. 400.
  • its exterior splendor just before the Revolution, v. 236.
  • state of things there during the Revolution, iv. 70.
  • barbarous treatment of the king and queen at the outbreak of the Revolution, iii. 325.
  • eloquent description of the queen as Dauphiness, and of the revolution in her fortunes, iii. 331.
  • observations on her execution, vi. 40.
  • degraded office to which the king was appointed by the Revolutionists, iii. 496; iv. 20.
  • with his own hand pulled down the pillars of his throne, iv. 362.
  • character of the king's brothers, iv. 429.
  • character of the aristocracy before the Revolution, iii. 412; vi. 39.
• Franchise and office, difference between them, iv. 252.
• • effect of separating property from franchise, iv. 256.
• Franklin, Dr., conjectures on his visit to Paris, vi. 152.
• Freedom, the great contests for it in England chiefly on the question of taxation, ii. 120.
• • but in the ancient commonwealths chiefly on the right of election of magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders of the state, ii. 120.
  • character of civil freedom, ii. 229.
  • our best securities for it obtained from princes who were either war-like or prodigal, vi. 35.
• French Affairs, Thoughts on, iv. 313.
• French Directory, the character of its members, v. 448.
• • their conduct towards the foreign ministers, vi. 48.
• French emigrants, capable of being serviceable in restoring order to France, iv. 427.
• French literary cabal, their plan for the destruction of Christianity, iii. 378.
• French moneyed interest, at variance with the landed interest, iii. 376.
• French Revolution, characterized as one of doctrine and theoretic dogma, iv. 319.
• • its fundamental principle, iv. 322.
• Frenchmen naturally more intense in their application than Englishmen, iv. 54.
• • mischievous consequences of this, iv. 55.
• Friends of the Liberty of the Press, a club formed under the auspices of Mr. Fox, v. 20.
• • origin and character of it, v. 20.
• Friends of the People, origin, composition, and proceedings of the club so called, v. 12.
• • a libellous petition of theirs, v. 47.
• Frugality, founded on the principle that all riches have limits, ii. 308.

• Gaming, a principle inherent in human nature, ii. 293.
• • a general spirit of it encouraged by the Revolutionists in France, iii. 488.
  • they who are under its influence treat their fortunes lightly, iv. 204.
• Garrick, David, anecdote of him, vi. 47.
• Gauls, their early incursions into Greece and Italy, vii. 161.
• • reduced at last by the Romans under Cæsar, vii. 162.
  • policy of Cæsar with regard to them, vii. 163.
• Geneva, possible benefits to it from state granaries, v. 155.
• Genghis Khân, observations on his code, xi. 212.
• Genoa, republic of, its origin, vii. 831.
• Gentoo law, the primeval law of India, xi. 207.
• Gentoos, the original inhabitants of Hindostan, ix. 377.
• • distribution of the people into orders or castes, ix. 380.
  • origin and character of their laws, ix. 482.
  • extracts from Halhed's translation of them, xi. 209.
• George II., character of his reign, i. 456.
• George III., advantages under which he came to the throne, i. 450.
• Germanic Custumary, the source of the polity of every country in Europe, v. 319.
• Germans, of Scythian original, vii. 322.
• • brief account of their manners and institutions, vii. 291.
  • in certain of their institutions the outlines of the constitution of England delineated, vii. 293.
• Germany, how likely to be affected by the Revolution in France, iv. 328.
• Gibraltar, the object of England in retaining it, iv. 383.
• Glastonbury Abbey, its extraordinary wealth and splendor, vii. 245.
• Go-betweens, the world governed by, iv. 189.
• • their mode of influence, iv. 190.
• Good fame of every man, ought to be protected by the laws, vii. 112.
• Gothic Custumary, the source of the polity of every country in Europe, v. 319.
• Government, the forms of a free one not altogether incompatible with the ends of an arbitrary one, i. 444.
• • project of government devised in the court of Frederick, Prince of Wales, i. 447.
  • considered, i. 450.
  • nature and design of it, i. 460.
  • name of it, i. 466.
  • important ends of a mixed government, i. 469.
  • folly of hazarding plans of government except from a seat of authority, ii. 104.
  • government a practical thing, ii. 227; iii. 310.
  • character of a free one, ii. 227.
  • an eminent criterion of a wise one, what, ii. 278.
  • reform in it should be early and temperate, ii. 280.
  • without means of some change, is without the means of its conservation, iii. 259.
  • difficulty of forming a free one, iii. 560.
  • the particular form of it to be determined by the circumstances and habits of a country, iv. 109.
  • a theory concerning it may be as much a cause of fanaticism as a dogma in religion, iv. 192.
  • the establishment of one a difficult undertaking for foreign powers to act in as principals, iv. 410.
  • not subject to laws analogous to those or physical life, v. 124, 234.
  • restraint the great purpose of, v. 133, 189.
  • policy of, in times of scarcity, v. 156.
  • important problem concerning, v. 166.
  • perishes only through its own weakness, v. 169.
  • impossible where property does not rule, v. 377.
  • the great objects of, v. 466; vii. 72.
  • its duty and right to attend much to opinions, vii. 44.
  • stands on opinion, vii. 91.
• Grace, acts of, impolicy of them, ii. 386.
• Gracefulness, an idea belonging to posture and motion, i. 200.
• Granaries, public, danger in erecting them, v. 153.
• • fit only for a state too small for agriculture, v. 155.
• Grand Seignior, the, not an arbitrary monarch, ix. 464.
• Great personages, wisely provided that we should interest ourselves in their fate, xi. 308.
• • everywhere made the objects of tragedy, xi. 308.
• Greece, its original inhabitants of the same race as the people of Northern Europe, vii. 161.
• • situation of it from a remote period, vii. 161.
• Greek Church, character of its secular clergy, iv. 230.
• Green Cloth, Court of, its origin and composition, ii. 304.
• Grenville, Mr., character of him, ii. 37.
• Grenville, Lord, eulogy of him, v. 174.
• Grief, cause of, i. 108.
• Guienne, William, Duke of, engages in the Crusade, vii. 374.
• Guilt, gigantic, overpowers our ideas of justice, iv. 466.
• • expedients for concealing it, frequently the cause of its detection, x. 49.
  • is never wise, x. 49; xi. 261.

• Habeas Corpus, remarks upon the suspension of it in respect to Americans, ii. 190.
• Habit and use, not causes of pleasure, i. 180.
• Hale, Sir Matthew, Cromwell's declaration to him when he appointed him judge, iv. 13.
• • defect in his History of the Common Law, vii. 476.
  • causes of it, vii. 476.
• Halhed's translation of the Gentoo code, remarks on it, xi. 207.
• Hallmote, or Court Baron, what, vii. 301.
• Hannay, Colonel, his character and conduct, xi. 418.
• Happiness, civil, what, x. 135.
• Hardwicke, Lord, his declaration as to the general rule of evidence, xi. 77.
• Harrington, his opinion as to a commonwealth not governed by its property, v. 377.
• Hastings, Mr., articles of charge against him presented to the House of Commons, 1786, viii. 305-ix. 318.
• • appendix to the eighth and sixteenth charges, ix. 319.
  • speeches of Mr. Burke in his impeachment, ix. 327-x. 451; xi. 155-xii. 398.
  • Report from the Committee appointed to inspect the Lords' Journals, in relation to their proceedings on his trial, xi. 1.
  • his conduct in the treaty with the Mahrattas, ii. 454.
  • brief account of his treatment of the Nabob of Oude, ii. 467.
  • of the Begums of Oude, ii. 476.
  • of the Ranny of Benares, ii. 485.
  • his venal agreement for the extirpation of the Rohillas, viii. 308.
  • his fraudulent sale of the territories of the Mogul, viii. 322.
  • his designs against the Rajah of Benares, viii. 339.
  • orders the arrest of the Rajah, viii. 361.
  • instigates the plunder of his family by the soldiery, viii. 368.
  • usurps the government of Benares, viii. 380.
  • his oppressive impositions and exactions, viii. 381.
  • enforces the confiscation of the landed estates of the Begums of Oude, viii. 403.
  • orders the seizure of their treasures, viii. 409.
  • severities practised upon their ministers in the execution of those orders, viii. 414.
  • endeavors to stifle an inquiry into his proceedings, viii. 448.
  • corruptly abandons the Nabob of Furruckabad and his country to the oppressions of the Nabob of Oude, viii. 472.
  • causes the destruction of the Rajah of Sahlone, viii. 486.
  • sets at defiance the orders of the Company with respect to contracts, ix. 4.
  • and with respect to salaries, ix. 11.
  • his illegal and extravagant allowances to Sir Eyre Coote, ix. 12.
  • and to Brigadier-General Stibbert, ix. 13.
  • and to Sir John Day, ix. 15.
  • and for the civil establishment of Fort William, ix. 17.
  • his appointment of the Secretary of the Council as agent for the supply of rice, with enormous commissions, ix. 19.
  • his corrupt receipt of presents in numerous instances, ix. 23.
  • tender and subsequent disavowal of his resignation, and refusal to vacate office, ix. 42.
  • his illegal contract with the Surgeon-General, ix. 60.
  • his contracts for Poolbundy repairs, ix. 60.
  • his opium contracts, ix. 63.
  • his appointment of R.J. Sulivan to office, ix. 70.
  • his conduct with regard to the Ranna of Gohud, ix. 72.
  • his frequent, violent, and unauthorized changes in the revenue and judicial systems of Bengal, ix. 79, 87.
  • permits his own banian to hold farms to a large amount in different districts, in violation of his own regulations, ix. 83.
  • refuses relief to the distresses of the Nabob of Oude, ix. 98.
  • seeks to enforce unjust demands against the Nabob, ix. 98.
  • illegally assumes the delegation of the whole functions of the Council, for the purpose of making a treaty with the Nabob, ix. 104.
  • in contravention of treaty stipulations, burdens the Nabob with the continued maintenance of British troops, ix. 109, 112.
  • makes unjustifiable demands on, and receives unlawful presents from the Nabob, ix. 110, 114.
  • on his own simple allegation of indefinite offences, urges the Nabob to put to death Almas Ali Khân, ix. 154.
  • establishes a system of disreputable and ruinous interference in the government of the Nabob, ix. 162.
  • attempts to abandon the British army to the sole discretion of the Nabob, ix. 168.
  • arrests and continues in long imprisonment Mahomed Reza Khân, without any proofs of guilt, ix. 185.
  • appoints Munny Begum to be guardian to the Nabob of Bengal, and administratrix of the government, ix. 187.
  • seeks the aggrandizement of the Mahrattas, ix. 220, 228.
  • the Mogul delivered up to them through his instrumentality, ix. 221.
  • he libels and asperses the Court of Directors, ix. 228.
  • forces the Mahrattas into a war, by repeatedly invading their country, ix. 253.
  • concludes a dishonorable treaty of peace and alliance with them, ix. 254.
  • withholds and conceals his official correspondence and proceedings from the Directors and Council, ix. 267.
  • his conduct with regard to Fyzoola Khân, ix. 268.
  • his arbitrary principles of government, ix. 446; xi. 194.
  • his corrupt system of government, x. 5.
  • general farming of the lands at auction, in derogation of the rights of proprietors, x. 15.
  • sale of offices, x. 21.
  • conduct in reference to the accusations of Nundcomar, x. 24, 205.
  • in the case of Munny Begum and the Nabob of Bengal, x. 26, 193, 278; xii. [218], [245].
  • the receipt of bribes justified by an intention to apply them to the Company's service, x. 43, 324.
  • account given of some of these transactions to the Directors, x. 44, 338.
  • delegation of the management of the revenues to a nominal council, with Gunga Govind Sing as agent, x. 53.
  • appointment of Debi Sing to the charge of the province of Dinagepore, x. 65.
  • the enormities of this man, mock inquiries into them, and Mr. Hastings's responsibility in the premises, x. 77, 92, 186.
  • Mr. Hastings's measures justified by himself, as producing an increase of revenue, x. 136.
  • remarks on the testimonials of the natives in his favor, x. 154; xii. [358].
  • proofs of personal corruption, x. 161-295.
  • charged with peculation by General Clavering, x. 244.
  • opinions of counsel concerning his proposed prosecution by the Directors, x. 257.
  • his connivance in the general corruption of the Service, x. 296; xii. [294].
  • recriminatory charges against the House of Commons, xi. 166.
  • powers claimed by him, and the manner and results of their exercise, xi. 195, 236, 238.
  • in the case of Cheyt Sing and the province of Benares, xi. 236.
  • of the Nabob of Oude, his kindred and country, xi. 372; xii. [3].
  • of the province of Bengal, xii. [208].
  • his extravagant and corrupt contracts, xii. [297].
  • his conduct in reference to various presents, xii. [324], [338], [350].
  • observations on the Mahometan college founded by him, xii. [352].
  • Lord Cornwallis's testimony to the disastrous effects of his revenue system, xii. [359].
  • examination of the merits set up by him, xii. [370].
• Hawles, Sir John, extracts from his speech at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 126, 135.
• Height, less grand than depth, i. 147.
• Helvetii, remarkable emigration of them related by Cæsar, vii. 172.
• Henry I. of England, brief account of his reign, vii. 375.
• Henry II. of England, brief account of his reign, vii. 394.
• Henry IV. of England, severs the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster from the crown, ii. 296.
• Henry IV. of France, brief character of him, iii. 411.
• Hii, or Columbkill, brief account of it, vii. 249.
• Hindoo institutions, characteristics of, ix. 382.
• Hindoo polity, destroyed by Mr. Hastings, ix. 394.
• Hindostan, eras in its history, ix. 386.
• History, moral lessons to be drawn from it, iii. 418, 421.
• • caution with regard to the study of it, iv. 468.
• Hobbes, his view of war as the state of Nature, i. 15.
• Holland, Sir John, extracts from his speech at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 146.
• Holy Land, view of its condition at the commencement of the third Crusade, vii. 426.
• Homer, his similitudes seldom exact, i. 88.
• • a simile from the Iliad, i. 105.
  • his representation of Discord, obscure and magnificent, i. 138.
  • no instance in the Iliad of the fall of any man remarkable for stature and strength that touches us with pity, i. 243.
  • has given to the Trojans more of the amiable and social virtues than to the Greeks, i. 243.
  • would excite pity for the Trojans, admiration for the Greeks, i. 243.
  • his masterly representation of the grief of Priam over the body of Hector, iv. 95.
  • observation on his representation of the ghosts of heroes at the sacrifices of Ulysses, vii. 181.
  • his works introduced into England by Theodorus, Archbishop of Canterbury, vii. 249.
• Honest men, no safety for them but by believing all possible evil of evil men, iv. 7.
• Horace, the truth of an observation in his Art of Poetry, discussed, i. 134.
• • a passage from him of similar import to one from David, i. 143.
• Household, the royal, has strong traces of feudality, ii. 303.
• Howard, the philanthropist, his labors, ii. 387.
• Hudibras, humorous lines from, applicable to the modern Whigs, iv. 150.
• Hume, Mr., his account of the secret of Rousseau's principles of composition, iii. 459.
• • his remark on the doctrines of John Ball, iv. 355.
• Humility, the basis of the Christian system, iv. 26.
• • humanity cannot be degraded by it, v. 253.
• Husbandry, classification of laborers in, v. 144.
• Hyder Ali Khân, scheme of the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot to extirpate him, iii. 61.
• • dreadful devastation of the Carnatic by him, iii. 83.
• Hypæthra of the Greeks, what, vii. 187.

• Imagination, what, i. 86.
• • no bounds to men's passions when they are under its influence, iv. 192.
• Imitation, one of the passions belonging to society, i. 122.
• • its source and use, i. 122.
• Impeachment, the great guardian of the purity of the constitution, i. 495.
• Impey, Sir Elijah, (Chief Justice of Bengal,) accused of the official murder of Nundcomar, x. 218.
• • resolution of the House of Commons concerning this accusation, x. 311.
  • serves as bearer of Mr. Hastings's order to seize the treasures of the Begums of Oude, xii. [32].
  • acts as commissioner to seek affidavits against the Begums, xii. [82].
• Indecision, the natural accomplice of violence, iv. 190.
• Indemnification, one of the requisites of a good peace, i. 295.
• Indemnity and oblivion, acts of, their probable effects as means of reconciling France to a monarchy, iv. 460.
• Independence of mind, always more or less influenced by independence of fortune, vii. 78.
• India, the people of, classification of them, ix. 376; xi. 207.
• Indians, British alliances with them in the American war denounced, vi. 171.
• Indifference, pleasure, and pain, viewed in relation to each other, as states of the mind, i. 103.
• Indolence, the prevailing characteristic of the class of elegant, weak-minded people, vii. 147.
• Industry, effect of the Irish Popery laws in discouraging it, vi. 351.
• Infinite, the artificial, consists in succession and uniformity of parts, i. 149, 220.
• Infinity, a source of the sublime, i. 148.
• • in agreeable images, a cause of pleasure, i. 153.
• Influence of the crown, operation of it, i. 444.
• Inheritance, value of this principle in the British constitution, iii. 274.
• Injury is quick and rapid, justice slow, x. 151; xi. 181.
• Innocence, contrasted with guilt, ix. 371.
• Insolvency, who ought to suffer in a case of, iii. 381.
• Institutions, ancient juridical ones in England, intended to retard the headlong course of violence and oppression, ii. 193.
• • in political institutions, soundness of the materials of more importance than the fashion of the work, v. 120.
  • how, when revolutionized, to be reëstablished, v. 126.
  • benefits of institution, properly conditional, vii. 15.
• Interest of a debt, not the principal, distresses a nation, i. 329.
• Intolerance, mischief of it, vii. 34.
• Ireland, danger of a proposed tax upon, i. 352.
• • early transmission thither of English liberties and institutions, ii. 146.
  • Two Letters to Gentlemen of Bristol relative to the Trade of Ireland, ii. 247.
  • Mr. Burke's defence of his Parliamentary conduct with regard to it, ii. 377.
  • the plan for the government of Ireland until 1782, what, iv. 233.
  • the true revolution there, that of 1782, iv. 276.
  • state of religion there before the grant of Pope Adrian IV., vi. 342.
  • object of the grant, vi. 342.
  • mutual importance of Ireland and Great Britain to one another, vi. 420.
  • reduction of Ireland by Henry II., vii. 410.
  • nature and previous condition of the country, vii. 410.
  • motives which led Adrian to commission Henry to reduce it, vii. 410, 413.
  • the English laws said to have been established there at its subjugation by John, vii. 449.
• Irish language, names of the letters of it taken from the names of several species of trees, vii. 412.
• Isocrates, observation of his in one of his orations against the Sophists, i. 5.
• Italy, its original inhabitants of the same race as the people of Northern Europe, vii. 161.
• • its situation from a remote period, vii. 161.

• Jacobinism by establishment, what, v. 309.
• Jacobins, their character, iv. 437, v. 285, vi. 367.
• • their great object, v. 39.
• Jacquerie, brief notice of the, iv. 177.
• Jaffier Ali Khân, made Nabob of Bengal by the English, ix. 401.
• Jaghires, Indian, nature of them, xii. [9].
• Jekyl, Sir Joseph, his character, iv. 130.
• • extracts from his speech at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 130, 131, 132, 136, 137, 142, 143.
• Jews, a source of great revenue to William the Conqueror, vii. 351.
• Job, observations on its sublime representation of a vision in the night, i. 137.
• • its sublime descriptions of the war-horse, the wild ass, and the unicorn and leviathan, i. 140.
• John, King of England, brief account of his reign, vii. 437.
• Judge, duty of one, xi. 104.
• Judges, ought to be the very last to feel the necessities of the state, ii. 351.
• Judgment and wit, difference between them, i. 87.
• • the senses should be put under the tuition of the judgment, iii. 15.
  • a coarse discrimination the greatest enemy to accuracy of judgment, v. 143.
• Juridical and legislative acts, difference between them, vii. 63.
• Juries, an institution of gradual formation, vii. 115.
• • not attributable to Alfred, vii. 264.
  • never prevalent amongst the Saxons, vii. 264.
• Jurisprudence, nature and importance of the science, iii. 357.
• • abrogation of it in France at the Revolution, v. 307.
  • state of the study of it in England, vii. 476.
  • whole frame of it altered since the Conquest, vii. 478.
• Justice is slow, injury quick and rapid, x. 151; xi. 181.
• • general observations on it, xii. [393], [395].

• Keppel, Lord, character of him, v. 222.
• Kilkenny, Statutes of, prove the ancient existence in Ireland of the spirit of the Popery laws, iv. 273.
• King, the things in which he has an individual interest, i. 485.
• • nature of his office, iii. 497.
  • just powers of the king of France, iv. 49.
  • power of the king of England, iv. 50.
  • Address to the, in relation to the Measures of Government in the American Contest, vi. 161.
• Kings, naturally lovers of low company, ii. 337.
• • in what sense the servants of the people, iii. 269.
• King's Men, or King's Friends, character of the court corporation so called, i. 466.
• Knight-errantry, origin of it, vii. 390.

• Labor, necessary, why, i. 215.
• • human labor called by the ancients instrumentum vocale, v. 140.
  • that on which the farmer is most to rely for the repayment of his capital, v. 140.
• Laborer and employer, always an implied contract between them, v. 137.
• • the first and fundamental interest of the laborer, what, v. 140.
• Laboring poor, impropriety of the expression, v. 135, 466.
• Lacedemonians, at the head of the aristocratic interests of Greece, iv. 321.
• La Fontaine, has not one original story, vii. 145.
• Lancaster, Duchy and County Palatine of, severed from the crown by Henry IV., ii. 296.
• Landed estate of the crown, remarks on it, ii. 299.
• Landed Interest, policy of the French Republic with regard to it, iv. 323.
• Landed property, the firm basis of every stable government, v. 491.
• Lanfranc, character of him, vii. 363.
• Langton, Stephen, his appointment to the see of Canterbury through the influence of the Pope, vii. 447, 451.
• • oath administered by him to King John on his absolution, vii. 455.
• Law's Mississippi scheme, character of it, iii. 554.
• Law of neighborhood, what, v. 321.
• Law, remarks on the study of it, ii. 125.
• Laws, reach but a very little way, i. 470.
• • their severity tempered by trial by jury, i. 499.
  • superseded by occasions of public necessity, ii. 329.
  • bad ones the worst sort of tyranny, ii. 395.
  • laws and manners, a knowledge of what belongs to each the duty of a statesman, v. 167.
  • civil laws not all merely positive, v. 321.
  • two things requisite to the solid establishment of them, vi. 321.
  • equity and utility, the two foundations of them, vi. 323.
  • ought to be in unison with manners, vii. 27.
  • of England, Essay towards an History of the, vii. 475.
  • of England, written in the native language until the Norman Conquest, vii. 481.
  • of other Northern nations, written in Latin, vii. 481.
  • cause of this difference, vii. 481.
  • of Canute the Great, remarks on them, vii. 483.
  • of Edward the Confessor, so called, vii. 484.
  • ancient Saxon, review of their sanctions, vii. 484.
  • sources of them, vii. 487.
  • Gentoo, sources of them, ix. 482.
  • Mahometan, sources of them, ix. 480; xi. 216.
• Lawful enjoyment, the surest method to prevent unlawful gratification, iv. 256.
• Lawsuit, observations on that comedy, vii. 152.
• Learning, an attention to it necessary to Christianity, vii. 246.
• • contributed, in the early ages, to the temporal power of the clergy, vii. 399.
• Lechmere, Mr., extracts from his speeches at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 122, 124, 142.
• Legislation, important problem in, v. 166.
• Legislative and juridical acts, the difference between them, vii. 63.
• Legislative right, not to be exercised without regard to the general opinion of those who are to be governed, ii. 224.
• Legislators, bound only by the great principles of reason and equity, and the general sense of mankind, ii. 196.
• • character of a true legislator, ii. 456.
  • duties of legislators, v. 166; vi. 319.
  • the mode of proceeding of the ancient legislators, iii. 476.
• Legislature, the true end of it, what, ii. 225; iii. 457.
• • its power of regulating the succession to the crown, iv. 134.
• Leland, Dr., his book (View of Deistical Writers) the best on the subject, vii. 34.
• Length, too great, in buildings, prejudicial to grandeur of effect, i. 152.
• Letter of Mr. Burke to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on American Affairs, ii. 187.
• • to Gentlemen of Bristol, on the Trade of Ireland, ii. 249, 258.
  • to a Member of the National Assembly, on French Affairs, iv. 1.
  • to a Peer of Ireland, on the Penal Laws against Irish Catholics, iv. 217.
  • to Sir Hercules Langrishe, on the Roman Catholics of Ireland, iv. 241; vi. 375.
  • to William Elliot, Esq., on a Speech in the House of Lords, in the Debate concerning Lord Fitzwilliam, v. 107.
  • to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks upon himself and his Pension, v. 171.
  • on a Regicide Peace, v. 233, 342, 384; vi. 1.
  • to the Empress of Russia, vi. 113.
  • to Sir Charles Bingham, on the Irish Absentee Tax, vi. 121.
  • to Hon. Charles James Fox, on the American War, vi. 135.
  • to the Marquis of Rockingham, on the Plans of the Opposition in reference to the American War, vi. 151.
  • to Rt. Hon. Edmund S. Pery, on the Relief of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, vi. 197.
  • to Thomas Burgh, Esq., in Vindication of his Parliamentary Conduct relative to Ireland, vi. 209.
  • to John Merlott, Esq., on the same subject, vi. 235.
  • to the Lord Chancellor and others, with Thoughts on the Executions of the Rioters in 1780, vi. 239.
  • to Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas, with the Sketch of a Negro Code, vi. 255.
  • to the Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Meeting, on Parliamentary Reform, vi. 291.
  • to William Smith, Esq., on Catholic Emancipation, vi. 361.
  • to Richard Burke, Esq., on Protestant Ascendency in Ireland, vi. 385.
  • on the Affairs of Ireland in 1797, vi. 413.
  • on Mr. Dowdeswell's Bill for explaining the Powers of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels, vii. 123.
• Libel, the elements of a, vii. 113.
• Libelling, not the crime of an illiterate people, vii. 111.
• Liberty and commerce, the two main sources of power to Great Britain, ii. 87.
• • mistakes about liberty, ii. 228.
  • cannot long exist among a people generally corrupt, ii. 242.
  • necessity of regulating it, iii. 240, 559,
  • how far men are qualified for it, iv. 51.
  • the distinguishing part of the British constitution, iv. 97.
  • its preservation the peculiar duty of the House of Commons, iv. 97.
  • order and virtue necessary to its existence, iv. 97.
  • a constitution uniting public and private liberty with the elements of a beneficent and stable government, an elaborate contrivance, iv. 211.
  • partial freedom and true liberty contrasted, vi. 389.
  • review of the causes of the revolution in favor of liberty in the reign of King John, vii. 472.
• Light, how a cause of the sublime, i. 156.
• • when excessive, resembles darkness in its effects, i. 157.
  • light and riant colors opposed to the sublime, i. 159.
• Limerick, treaty of, observations on two of its articles, vi. 345.
• Lindisfarne, brief account of, vii. 250.
• Liturgy of the Established Church, alteration of it ineffectual for the quieting of discontent, vii. 13.
• Locke, Mr., his opinion concerning pleasure and pain, i. 105.
• • his opinion concerning darkness, i. 225.
• Longinus, an observation of his on the effect of sublime passages in poets and orators, i. 124.
• Lords, House of, affected alarm at a supposed intrenchment by it on the balance of the constitution, in the reign of George II., i. 457.
• • the feeblest part of the constitution, v. 49.
• Loudness, a source of the sublime, i. 159.
• Louis XIII., his hatred of Richelieu, iii. 499.
• Louis XIV., his dislike to Mazarin and Louvois, iii. 499.
• • his conduct at the peace of Ryswick, vi. 58.
  • reason given by him for the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, vi. 328.
• Louis XVI., barbarous treatment experienced by him at the Revolution, iii. 325; iv. 19.
• • unjustly called an arbitrary monarch, iii. 339.
  • degraded office to which he was appointed by the Revolutionists, iii. 496; iv. 20.
  • not the first cause of the evil by which he suffered, v. 366.
  • his character, v. 378.
  • character of his brothers, iv. 429.
• Love, its origin, nature, and objects, i. 125.
• • the physical cause of it, i. 232.
  • nature of that taught by Rousseau, iv. 30.
  • observations on the love of parents to their children, xi. 422.
  • and on the love of country, xi. 422; iii. 292, 494.
• Lucretius, passages from him, illustrative of the sublime, i. 144, 257.
• Luxury, some good consequences of it, i. 424.
• • a tax on it, the only contribution that can be termed voluntary, v. 461.

• Machiavel, an observation of his on war and peace, i. 15.
• • his maxim concerning wickedness by halves, vi. 43.
• Madmen, a frequent appearance in them accounted for, i. 149.
• Magna Charta, observations on it, iii. 272; iv. 266.
• • origin and nature of it, vii. 460.
• Magnanimity, in politics, often the truest wisdom, ii. 181.
• Magnificence, a source of the sublime, i. 154.
• Magnitude, in building, necessary to the sublime, i. 152.
• Mahomed Reza Khân, arrested by Mr. Hastings, x. 184.
• Mahometanism, its conquests in Hindostan, ix. 387.
• Mahometan government, character of it, ix. 463.
• • laws, sources of them, ix. 480; xi. 216.
• Mahrattas, their territories invaded by the East India Company, ii. 453.
• • treaties with them, ii. 453, 454.
• Majority, in a commonwealth, question as to the proper power of, iii. 299; iv. 170.
• • not true that in all contests the decision will be in their favor, vii. 53.
• Malesherbes, murdered by the French Revolutionists, vi. 40.
• Malvoisins, what, vii. 389.
• Man, a creature of habit and opinions, ii. 234; xii. [164].
• Manifestoes, implying superiority over an enemy, when commonly made, iv. 405.
• • matters usually contained in them, iv. 405.
• Manilla ransom, remarks on it, i. 407.
• Manners, while they remain entire, correct the vices of law, ii. 202.
• • corrupted by civil wars, ii. 203.
  • maintained in Europe for ages by the spirit of nobility and of religion, iii. 335.
  • in England, derived from France, iii. 336.
  • have done alone in England what institutions and manners together have done in France, iv. 327.
  • statesmen ought to know what appertains respectively to manners and laws, v. 167.
  • of more importance than laws, v. 310.
  • laws ought to be in unison with them, vii. 27.
• Mansfield, Lord, his declarations concerning rules of evidence, xi. 84.
• Mara, the name of a Saxon goddess,—whence the term Night-Mare, vii. 237.
• Marriage, beneficial results of the Christian doctrine concerning it, v. 312.
• • endeavors of the French Constituent Assembly to desecrate it, v. 312.
  • ends for which it was instituted, vii. 131.
  • restraints upon it in the reign of King John, vii. 464.
• Marriage Act, principles upon which it is grounded, vii. 131.
• Mathematical and metaphysical reasoning, compared with moral, vii. 73.
• Mazarin, Cardinal, not loved by Louis XIV., iii. 499.
• • bon-mot of a flatterer of his, on the match between Louis XIV. and a daughter of Spain, vi. 20.
• Mediterranean Sea, importance to England of keeping a strong naval force there, v. 421.
• Memorial to be delivered to Monsieur de M.M., Hints for a, iv. 307.
• Merchants, English, their evidence, petitions, and consultations respecting America, i. 399, 405, 406.
• • principles and qualities of, ii. 506.
• Mercy, not opposed to justice, iv. 465; vi. 252.
• • consists not in the weakness of the means, but in the benignity of the ends, vi. 168.
• Metaphysician, nothing harder than the heart of a thorough-bred one, v. 216.
• Migration, in early times, caused by pasturage and hunting, vii. 171.
• • and by wars, vii. 171.
• Military life, its attractions to those who have had experience of it, v. 464.
• Military and naval officers, the fortitude required of them, v. 468.
• Militia, probable origin of it, vii. 422.
• Milton, his admirable description of Death, i. 132.
• • his celebrated portrait of Satan, i. 135.
  • his description of the appearance of the Deity, i. 156.
  • example from him of the beautiful in sounds, i. 203.
  • of the power of words, i. 259.
• Ministers, Prussian, infected with the principles of the French Revolution, iv. 359.
• • British, to be controlled by the House of Commons, v. 57.
  • observations on their duty in giving information to the public, vi. 14.
• Minority, Observations on the Conduct of the, in Parliament, in the Session of 1792, v. 1.
• • power of a restless one, v. 285.
• Mistletoe, veneration of the Druids for it, vii. 183.
• Modes of life, injustice of sudden legislative violence to such as the laws had previously encouraged, iii. 439.
• Modesty, heightens all other virtues, i. 188; v. 128.
• • but sometimes their worst enemy, v. 129.
• Mogul, the Great, his grants to the East India Company, ii. 560; ix. 345.
• • sold by the Company, ii. 448.
  • the Company's treaties with him broken by them, ii. 452.
  • conspiracy to murder his son, ix. 412.
• Mohun, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 32.
• Mona, the principal residence of the Druids in the beginning of Nero's reign, vii. 195.
• • reduced by Suetonius Paulinus, vii. 196.
• Monarchy, preferred by Bolingbroke to other governments, iii. 398.
• • one of its advantages, to have no local seat, iv. 431.
• Monastic institutions, their important uses, iii. 440; vii. 244, 245.
• Money, the value of it how to be judged, v. 454.
• Moneyed companies, dangerous to tax great ones, i. 368.
• Moneyed interest, when dangerous to a government, iii. 437.
• Moneyed men, ought to be allowed to set a value on their money, v. 455.
• Monk, General, character of the army commanded by him, iv. 36.
• Monopoly of authority, an evil; of capital, a benefit, v. 151.
• Montesquieu, his remark on the legislators of antiquity, iii. 477.
• • character of him, iv. 211.
  • his false view of the people of India, xi. 207.
• Moral duties, not necessary that the reasons of them should be made clear to all, i. 7.
• Moral order of things, great disasters in it affect the mind like miracles in the physical, iii. 337.
• Moral questions never abstract ones, vii. 55.
• Moral reasoning, compared with mathematical and metaphysical, vii. 73.
• Mortality, a general one always a time of remarkable wickedness, vii. 84.
• Multitudes, the shouting of, a source of the sublime, i. 159.
• • a multitude told by the head, not the people, iv. 183.
• Munny Begum, (of Bengal,) her history, x. 195; xii. [226].
• • appointed by Mr. Hastings regent of Bengal, and guardian of the Nabob, x. 196; xii. [218].
  • (of Oude,) her noble birth, rank, and connections, xii. [46].
• Music, remark concerning the beautiful in it, i. 204.
• Mystery, in any matter of policy, affords presumption of fraud, xii. [79].

• Nabob of Arcot, the Subah of the Deccan sold to him by the East India Company, ii. 450.
• • nature of his debts, iii. 25, 28, 29, 35, 39, 47.
• Nabob of Oude, conduct of the East India Company towards him, ii. 466.
• Nantes, Edict of, reason assigned by Louis XIV. for the revocation of it, vi. 328.
• • observations thereon, vi. 328.
• Naples, how likely to be affected by the revolution in France, iv. 337.
• Nation, Present State of the, Observations on a late Publication so intituled, i. 269.
• • character of this publication, i. 274.
  • state of the nation in 1770, i. 437.
  • speculation of the ministry on the cause of it, i. 438.
  • animadversions on their views, i. 439.
• National Assembly of France, corresponds with the Revolution Society of London, iii. 237.
• • its composition and character, iii. 283, 450.
  • studies recommended by it to the youth of France, iv. 25.
  • its worship of Rousseau, iv. 25.
• Natural powers in man, the senses, the imagination, and the judgment, i. 82.
• Nature, state of, inconveniences of it, i. 10.
• • the social, impels a man to propagate his principles, v. 361.
• Navigation, Act of, its policy, i. 378; ii. 30, 38.
• Navy, the great danger of economical experiments upon it, i. 345.
• Necessity, the plea of, remarks on it, v. 450.
• Negro Code, Sketch of a, vi. 262.
• Negro slaves, denunciation of attempts to excite insurrections among them in the colonies by proclamations of the English governors, vi. 171.
• Neighborhood, the law of, what, v. 321.
• Newfoundland, view of the trade with it, i. 320.
• Newspapers, powerful influence of them in the diffusion of French principles, iv. 327.
• Night, a cause of the sublime, i. 132, 158.
• Norman conquest, extraordinary facility of it, vii. 287.
• • attempt to account for it, vii. 288.
  • the great era of the English laws, vii. 487.
• Normandy, reunion of it to the crown of France, vii. 445.
• North, Lord, observations on his character, v. 182; vi. 216, 223.
• Novelty, the first and simplest source of pleasure to the mind, i. 101.
• • the danger of indulging a desire for it in practical cases, iv. 76.
• Nundcomar, accuses Mr. Hastings of corruption, x. 24.
• Nuzzer, or Nuzzerana, what, x. 171.

• Oak, the, why venerated by the Druids, vii. 183.
• Oath, the Coronation, observations upon it in reference to the Roman Catholics, iv. 260.
• Obscurity, generally necessary to the terrible, i. 132.
• • why more affecting than clearness, i. 135.
• Obstinacy, though a great and very mischievous vice, closely allied to the masculine virtues, ii. 66.
• Office, men too much conversant in it rarely have enlarged minds, ii. 38.
• • in feudal times, the lowest offices often held by considerable persons, ii. 303.
  • the reason of this, ii. 304.
• Officers, military and naval, nature of the fortitude required of them, v. 468.
• Opinion, popular, the support of government, ii. 224; vi. 165; vii. 91.
• • an equivocal test of merit, v. 183.
  • the generality of it not always to be judged of by the noise of the acclamation, v. 286.
• Opinions, men impelled to propagate their own by their social nature, v. 361.
• • their influence on the affections and passions, v. 403; vii. 44.
  • the most decided often stated in the form of questions, vi. 28.
  • the interest and duty of government to attend much to them, vii. 44.
• Oppression, the poorest and most illiterate are judges of it, iv. 281.
• Orange, Prince of, (afterwards William III.,) extracts from his Declaration, iv. 147.
• Ordeal, purgation by, vii. 314.
• Oude, extent and government of, under Sujah ul Dowlah, xi. 373.

• Pain, pleasure, and indifference, their mutual relation as states of the mind, i. 103.
• • nature and cause of pain, i. 210.
  • how a cause of delight, i. 215.
• Paine, Thomas, remarks on his character, v. iii; vi. 60.
• Painting and poetry, their power, when due to imitation, and when to sympathy, i. 123.
• Pandulph, the Pope's legate, his politic dealing with King John, vii. 451.
• • parallel between his conduct to King John and that of the Roman consuls to the Carthaginians in the last Punic war, vii. 453.
• Papal power, uniform steadiness of it in the pursuit of its ambitious projects, vii. 449.
• Papal pretensions, sources of their growth and support, vii. 384.
• Papal States, how likely to be affected by the revolution in France, iv. 337.
• Parliament, remarks on it, i. 491.
• • the power of dissolving it, the most critical and delicate of all the trusts vested in the crown, ii. 553.
  • disadvantages of triennial parliaments, vii. 79.
• Parliaments of France, character of them, iii. 505.
• Parliament of Paris, observations on its subversion, xii. [396].
• Parliamentary disorders, ideas for the cure of them, i. 516.
• Parsimony, a leaning towards it in war may be the worst management, i. 310.
• Party divisions, inseparable from free government, i. 271.
• • definition of the term, party, i. 530.
  • evils of party domination, vi. 390.
• Passions, all concern either self-preservation or society, i. 110.
• • final cause of the difference between those belonging to self-preservation and those which regard the society of the sexes, i. 113.
  • those which belong to self-preservation turn upon pain and danger, i. 125.
  • nature and objects of those belonging to society, i. 125.
  • a control over them necessary to the existence of society, iv. 52.
  • strong ones awaken the faculties, v. 287.
  • vehement passion not always indicative of an infirm judgment, v. 407.
  • mere general truths interfere very little with them, vi. 326.
  • passions which interest men in the characters of others, vii. 148.
• Pasturage and hunting, weaken men's ties to any particular habitation, vii. 171.
• Paulus, observation of his on law, vi. 324.
• Peace, requisites of a good one, i. 295.
• • the steps taken to bring one about always an augury of what it is likely to be, v. 251.
  • a ground of peace never laid until it is as good as concluded, v. 260.
  • an arrangement of peace in its nature a permanent settlement, v. 349.
• Penal statute of William III. against the Papists, repeal of it, ii. 391.
• People, accurate idea of the term, iv. 169.
• • evils of an abuse of it, iv. 411.
  • the temper of the people the first study of a statesman, i. 436.
  • in seasons of popular discontent, something generally amiss in the government, i. 440.
  • the people have no interest in disorder, i. 441.
  • generally fifty years behindhand in their politics, i. 442.
  • a connection with their interests a necessary qualification of a minister, i. 474.
  • sense of the people, how to be ascertained by the king, i. 475.
  • should show themselves able to protect every representative in the performance of his duty, i. 503.
  • liberty cannot long exist where they are generally corrupt, ii. 242.
  • the people of England love a mitigated monarchy more than even the best republic, iv. 149.
  • danger of teaching them to think lightly of their engagements to their governors, iv. 162.
  • the natural control on authority, iv. 164.
  • dangerous nature of a power capable of resisting even their erroneous choice of an object, vi. 296.
  • points on which they are incompetent to give advice to their representatives, vii. 74, 75.
• Perfection not the cause of beauty, i. 187.
• Persecution, religious, an observation of Mr. Bayle concerning it, vi. 333.
• • general observations on it, vi. 394.
• Persecutor, a violent one, frequently an unbeliever in his own creed, vi. 86.
• Peshcush, what, x. 171.
• Peters, Hugh, remarks on a passage in a sermon of his, iii. 318.
• Petition of Right, rests the franchises of the subject not on abstract right, but on inheritance, iii. 273.
• Philosophical inquiries, how to be conducted, i. 70.
• • use of them, i. 72.
• Philosophy, Lord Bolingbroke's, animadversions on it, i. 4.
• Physic, the profession of it, in ancient times, annexed to the priesthood, vii. 183.
• Physiognomy, has a considerable share in the beauty of the human species, i. 198.
• Pilgrimages of the Middle Ages, benefits of them, vii. 247.
• Pitt, Mr., remarks on his conduct in 1784, v. 57.
• • his Declaration on the war with the French Republic, v. 278; vi. 21.
  • eulogy of it, v. 279, 390; vi. 22.
  • and of his speech on that war, v. 390.
• Place Bill, proposed remedy for parliamentary disorders, i. 518.
• Plagues, in Athens and in London, wickedness remarkably prevalent during their continuance, vii. 84.
• Pleasure and pain, observations on them, i. 102.
• • pleasure, pain, and indifference, their mutual relation, as states of the mind, i. 103.
• Poetry, more powerful than painting in moving the passions, i. 134.
• • does not depend for its effect on raising ideas or sensible images of things, i. 246, 255.
  • this exemplified, i. 252.
  • affects rather by sympathy than imitation, i. 257.
  • dramatic poetry strictly imitation, i. 257.
  • descriptive poetry operates chiefly by substitution, i. 257.
• Poland, character of the revolution there, iv. 195.
• • contrasted with the revolution in France, iv. 198.
• Policy, a refined one, the parent of confusion, ii. 106.
• • inseparable from justice, iii. 438.
• Political connection, how regarded by the ancient Romans, i. 528.
• • England governed by one in the reign of Queen Anne, i. 529.
  • general observations on, i. 530.
• Political economy, had its origin in England, v. 192.
• Political system, an unwise or mischievous one not necessarily of short duration, iv. 353.
• Politician, duties of one, iii. 557, 559.
• Politics, ought to be adjusted to, human nature, i. 398.
• • different in different ages, i. 442.
  • unsuitable to the pulpit, iii. 246.
• Polybius, anecdote concerning him, iv. 285.
• Poor, the laboring, their poverty owing to their numbers, v. 134.
• • proper compassion for them, v. 135, 466.
• Poorunder, treaty of, broken by Mr. Hastings, xii. [382].
• Pope, the, his dispute with Henry I., vii. 384.
• • his pretext for giving Henry II. a commission to conquer Ireland, vii. 413.
  • his excommunication of King John, vii. 449.
  • treatment of him by the French Revolutionists, v. 418.
• Popery Laws, Tract on the, vi. 299.
• Popular election, a mighty evil, vii. 72.
• Popular opinion, an equivocal test of merit, v. 183.
• Population, rapid increase of it in America, ii. 110.
• • state of it, a standard by which, to estimate the effects of a government on any country, iii. 400.
  • view of that of France, at different periods, iii. 400.
  • comparative effects of peace and war on it, as regards the higher classes, v. 472.
• Power, all sublimity some modification of it, i. 138.
• • incompatible with credit, i. 368.
  • the civil power, when it calls in the aid of the military, perishes by the assistance it receives, i. 484.
  • arbitrary power steals upon a people by being rarely exercised, ii. 201.
  • persons possessed of power ought to have a strong sense of religion, iii. 354.
  • the ability to use it for the great and lasting benefit of a country a test of statesmanship, iii. 441.
  • not willingly abandoned by its possessors, iv. 11.
  • dissensions in the commonwealth mostly concerning the hands in which it is to be placed, iv. 163.
  • necessity of teaching men to restrain the immoderate exercise and inordinate desire of it, iv. 163.
  • active power never willingly placed by legislators in the hands of the multitude, iv. 164.
  • danger of a resumption of delegated power by the people, iv. 168.
  • does not always accompany property, iv. 349.
  • the possession of it discovers a man's true character, v. 362.
  • men will incur the greatest risks for the sake of it, vii. 82.
  • originates from God alone, ix. 456.
  • the supreme power in every constitution must be absolute, ix. 460.
  • ends to which a superintending, controlling power ought to be directed, xi. 417.
• Prejudice, cannot be created, vi. 368.
• Prerogative, remarks on the exercise of it, ii. 225.
• Presbyterianism, remarks on it, iv. 452.
• Prescription, part of the law of Nature, iii. 433.
• • the most solid of all titles, and the most recognized in jurisprudence, vi. 412; vii. 94.
• Present State of Affairs, Heads for Consideration on the, iv. 379.
• Price, Dr. Richard, observations on his sermon on the Love of our Country, iii. 244, 301, 304, 316.
• Price of commodities, how raised, v. 142.
• • danger of attempting to raise it by authority, v. 143.
• Primogeniture, right of, operation of the Popery Laws in taking it away, vi. 302.
• Principal of a debt, cannot distress a nation, i. 329.
• Principalities, the, proposal to unite them to the crown, ii. 298.
• Privations, all general ones great, i. 146.
• Profit, an honorable and fair one, the best security against avarice and rapacity, ii. 335.
• Projects, new, requirements of men of sense with respect to them, i. 367.
• Property, ought greatly to predominate over ability in the representation, iii. 298.
• • importance of the power of perpetuating it in families, iii. 298.
  • not always accompanied with power, iv. 349.
• Proportion, what, i. 166.
• • not the cause of beauty in vegetables, i. 166.
  • nor in animals, i. 170.
  • nor in the human species, i. 172.
  • whence the idea of proportion, as the principal component of beauty, arose, i. 178.
• Prosperity, discovers the real character of a man, iv. 22.
• • a prejudice in favor of it, however obtained, iv. 425.
• Protestant, the state so declared at the Revolution, with a qualification, iv. 257.
• Protestant ascendency, observations on, vi. 391.
• Protestant Association, the, animadversions on it, ii. 389, 415.
• Protestantism, at no period established, undefined, in England, iv. 258.
• Protestants, errors of the early, ii. 390.
• • misconduct of those in the South of France at the Revolution, iv. 452.
• Provisions, trade of, danger of tampering with it, v. 133.
• Prudence, the first in rank of the political and moral virtues, iv. 81.
• • its decisions differ from those of judicature, iv. 251.
  • its rules and definitions rarely exact, never universal, v. 241.
• Psalms, and Prophets, crowded with instances of the introduction of the terrible in Nature to heighten the awe of the Divine presence, i. 144.
• Public affairs, state of them previous to the formation of the Rockingham administration, i. 381.
• Public men, not all equally corrupt, ii. 240.
• Public service, means of rewarding it necessary in every state, ii. 330.
• Punishment, considerations necessary to be observed in inflicting it, iv. 466; vi. 245.
• • under the Saxon laws, extremely moderate, vii. 321.
• Purveyance and receipt in kind, what, ii. 306.
• • taken away by the 12th Charles II., ii. 306.
  • revived the next year, ii. 306.
• Pythagoras, his discipline contrasted with that of Socrates, vii. 179.
• • why silence enjoined by him, vii. 179.

• Raimond, Count of Toulouse, engages in the Crusade, vii. 372.
• Raleigh, Sir Walter, abusive epithet applied to him by Lord Coke, xi. 175.
• Reason, sound, no real virtue without it, iv. 24.
• • never inconvenient but when it comes to be applied, vi. 326.
• Reasoners, men generally the worse reasoners for having been ministers, i. 338.
• Reformation, in government, should be early and temperate, ii. 280.
• • and slow, iii. 456.
  • different from change, v. 186.
  • general observations on it, iii. 455; iv. 111; vi. 294; vii. 71.
  • in England, has always proceeded upon the principle of reference to antiquity, iii. 272.
• Reformation, the, observations on it, ii. 389.
• • effects of it, iv. 319.
• Reformers, English, character of them, iii. 430.
• Regicide by establishment, what, v. 309.
• Regicide Peace, Letters on, v. 233, 342, 384; vi. 9.
• Religion, writers against it never set up any of their own, i. 7.
• • effects of it on the colonists of America, ii. 122.
  • the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort, iii. 350.
  • the respect entertained for it in England, iii. 352.
  • a strong sense of it necessary to those in power, iii. 354.
  • mischievous consequences of changing it, except under strong conviction, iv. 453.
  • the magistrate has a right to direct the exterior ceremonies of it, vii. 30.
  • the Christian, in its rise overcame all opposition, vii. 25.
• Religious opinions, not the only cause of enthusiasm, v. 361.
• Repetition, of the same story, effect of it, iv. 328.
• Report on the Affairs of India, Ninth, viii. 1.
• • Eleventh, viii. 217.
  • on the Lords' Journals, xi. 1.
  • Vindication of, this Report from the Animadversions of Lord Thurlow, xi. 149.
• Representation, ought to include both the ability and the property of a state, iii. 297.
• • virtual, what, iv. 293.
  • natural, what, v. 284.
  • of America in the British Parliament, project of, i. 372.
  • consideration of its difficulties, i. 373.
  • of England, and that of France in the National Assembly, compared, iii. 481.
• Representation to his Majesty on the Speech from the Throne, ii. 537.
• Representative, his duty to his constituents, ii. 95, 281, 357.
• Republican government, remarks on, iv. 109.
• Reputation, public, how to be secured, ix. 341.
• Resemblance, pleasing to the imagination, i. 87.
• Responsibility of ministers of state, nature of it, iii. 501; v. 507.
• Revenge, observations on, xi. 179.
• Revenue, great importance of it to a state, iii. 534.
• • its administration the sphere of every active virtue, iii. 535.
• Revolution of 1688, diminished influence of the crown at that time how compensated, i. 445.
• • principles of it contained in the Declaration of Right, iii. 252.
  • the subversion of the old, and the settlement of the new government, inseparably combined in it, iv. 80.
  • grounds of it, iv. 121.
  • contrasted with the French Revolution, iii. 225.
• Revolution in France, Reflections on the, iii. 231.
• • general observations on it, iii. 220.
  • characterized as a revolution of doctrine and theoretic dogma, iv. 319.
  • contrasted with the English Revolution of 1688, iii. 225.
• Revolution Society, correspond with the National Assembly of France, iii. 238.
• • remarks on its principles and proceedings, iii. 238.
• Reynolds, Sir Joshua, on idiosyncrasy in taste and judgment, iv. 212.
• Rich, need the consolations of religion, iii. 366.
• • trustees for those who labor, v. 134.
• Richard I., brief account of his reign, vii. 425.
• • parallel between him and Charles XII. of Sweden, vii. 436.
• Richelieu, Cardinal, hated by Louis XIII., iii. 499.
• Rights, assumed, their consequences of great moment in deciding on their validity, iv. 183.
• Rights of Men, Jacobinical theory of, animadversions on it, iii. 307.
• • sophistically confounded with their power, iii. 313.
• Robespierre, his character, vi. 62.
• Rochford, Lord, his remonstrance with regard to Corsica, i. 480.
• Rockingham, Marquis of, Short Account of his Administration, i. 263.
• • formation of his administration, i. 379.
  • state of public affairs at the time, i. 381.
  • character and conduct of it, i. 388.
  • ideas of it with regard to America, i. 403.
  • his Lordship's conduct in American affairs, ii. 40.
• Rohilla nation, sale of it by the East India Company, ii. 449.
• Roland, character of him, v. 70.
• Roman Catholics, Mr. Burke's defence of his Parliamentary conduct with regard to them, ii. 388.
• • Letter on the Penal Laws against, iv. 217.
  • mode of education necessary for their clergy, iv. 229, 231.
  • condition of their clergy before the restraint on marriage, iv. 230.
  • mischievous consequences of placing the appointment of the Irish Roman Catholic clergy in the hands of the Lord Lieutenant, iv. 234.
• Roman politics, under the Empire, different from those which actuated the Republic, vii. 203.
• • dominion over the Britons and other conquered nations, methods by which it was preserved, vii. 205.
  • procurators under the Emperors, why invested with greater powers than the legates, vii. 208.
  • military ways, character and purpose of them, vii. 211.
  • number and extent of the principal ones in Britain, vii. 211.
  • revenues, nature of them, vii. 211.
  • three great changes in the government after the dissolution of the Commonwealth, vii. 220.
• Rome, ancient, destroyed by the disorders of continual elections, vii. 80.
• • and by its heavy taxes, vii. 213.
  • bounds of the empire first contracted by Adrian, vii. 214.
• Rome, modern, its example a caution not to attempt to feed the people by the hands of the magistrates, v. 155.
• Rota, in the French National Assembly, effect of it, iv. 350.
• Rotund, noble effect of it, i. 150.
• • accounted for, i. 150.
• Rousseau, the secret of his principles of composition, iii. 459.
• • a resemblance to him an object of rivalry to the leaders of the National Assembly, iv. 25.
  • vanity his ruling passion, iv. 26.
  • brief character of him, iv. 27.
  • totally destitute of taste, iv. 30.
  • morality of the passions in his Nouvelle Éloise, iv. 31.
  • character of his style, iv. 32.
• Russell, Baron, the first, his character, v. 201.
• Russia, the Emperor of, the true policy of his government, v. 422.
• Russian treaty of commerce, i. 410.

• Sacheverell, Dr., his impeachment carried on for the purpose of stating the grounds and principles of the Revolution, iv. 119.
• • extracts from speeches of Managers at his trial, iv. 122-146.
  • proceedings in his trial, xi. 16.
• Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, reduces Palestine, vii. 427.
• • defeated by Richard I., vii. 429.
• Salaries, objections to a tax upon them, ii. 283.
• Sallust, remarks on his finely contrasted characters of Cæsar and Cato, i. 189.
• Salt, monopoly of, by the French government, i. 332.
• Santerre, his brutal conduct to Louis XVI., vi. 101.
• Saracens, their fierce irruptions and conquests, vii. 328.
• Savile, Sir George, his bill for the repeal of the statute of William III. against Papists, ii. 396.
• • his character, ii. 397.
• Saxons, a brief account of their laws and institutions, vii. 291.
• • under their rule, the succession to the crown in England partly hereditary and partly elective, vii. 297.
  • their laws wholly abolished in England since the Conquest, vii. 478.
  • sources of them, vii. 487.
• Scarcity, Thoughts and Details on, v. 131.
• • proper policy in respect to the poor, in times of, v. 156.
• Scotland, beneficial effects on trade of its union with England, ii. 254.
• • its Church establishment under the Union, iv. 258.
• Scripture, indefinite nature of subscription to it, vii. 18.
• Scythians, all Northern Europe originally inhabited by them, vii. 160.
• Selden, his statement of the Parliamentary practice in the examination of witnesses, xi. 108.
• Self-preservation, the passions which concern it the strongest ones, i. 110.
• • the sublime an idea belonging to it, i. 164.
• Senses, general remarks on them, i. 82.
• • ought to be put under the tuition of the judgment, iii. 15.
• Serpent, why an object of idolatry, vii. 184.
• Shakspeare, his description of the king's army in Henry IV. an example of the sublime, i. 155.
• Shelburne, Lord, animadversions on a passage in a speech of his, ii. 544.
• Silence, why enjoined by Pythagoras and the Druids, vii. 178.
• Sirach, Son of, fine example of the sublime from his Book of Wisdom, i. 155.
• Slaves, never so beneficial to their masters as freemen, v. 147.
• Smells, a source of the sublime, i. 162.
• Smith, Sir Sydney, Captain, observations on his case, v. 400.
• Smoothness, why beautiful, i. 234.
• Social nature, the, impels a man to propagate his principles, v. 361.
• Society, Natural, A Vindication of, i. 1.
• • definition of the term, i. 11.
  • notion of, how first introduced, i. 11.
  • political society, its nature and origin, i. 11; iii. 359; iv. 165.
  • its continuance under a permanent covenant, iii. 359; iv. 165.
  • the great purpose of it, what, vi. 333.
  • society and solitude compared, as sources of pleasure or pain, i. 115.
• Socrates, his discipline contrasted with that of Pythagoras, vii. 179.
• Solitude, something may be done in it for society, v. 125.
• Somers, Lord, the Declaration of Right drawn by him, iii. 254.
• Sophia, the Princess, why named in the Act of Settlement as the root of inheritance to the kings of England, iii. 262.
• Sophia, St., Church of, anecdote of the Greeks assembled there, at the taking of Constantinople, vi. 96.
• Sound, a source of the sublime, i. 159.
• • grand effect of a single one of some strength repeated after intervals, i. 160.
  • a low, tremulous, intermitting one productive of the sublime, i. 160.
  • the beautiful in sounds, i. 203.
• Spain, how likely to be affected by the revolution in France, iv. 339.
• • not a substantive power, iv. 385.
• Speech of Mr. Burke on American Taxation, ii. 1.
• • at his Arrival at Bristol, ii. 85.
  • at the Conclusion of the Poll, ii. 89.
  • on Conciliation with America, ii. 99.
  • on Economical Reform, ii. 265.
  • previous to the Election in 1780, ii. 365.
  • on Declining the Poll, ii. 425.
  • on Mr. Fox's East India Bill, ii. 431.
  • on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts, iii. 1.
  • on the Army Estimates, iii. 211.
  • on the Acts of Uniformity, vii. 3.
  • on the Relief of Protestant Dissenters, vii. 21.
  • on the Petition of the Unitarians, vii. 39.
  • on the Middlesex Election, vii. 59.
  • on Shortening the Duration of Parliaments, vii. 69.
  • on Reform of the Representation of the Commons in Parliament, vii. 89.
  • on the Powers of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels, vii. 105.
  • on the Repeal of the Marriage Act, vii. 129.
  • on Dormant Claims of the Church, vii. 137.
  • in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, ix. 327-x. 145; x. 147-451; xi. 155-xii. 393.
• Spelman, Sir Henry, his difficulties in the study of the law, vii. 477.
• Spirituous liquors, beneficial effects of them, v. 164.
• Spon, M., his curious story of Campanella, i. 212.
• Spring, why the pleasantest of the seasons, i. 153.
• Stability, one of the requisites of a good peace, i. 295.
• Stafford, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 31.
• • remarks on the prosecution, xi. 112.
• Stamp Act, American, its origin, i. 385.
• • repeal of it, i. 389; ii. 47.
  • motives for the repeal, i. 391, 399.
  • good effects of the repeal, i. 401; ii. 59.
• Stanhope, General, extracts from his speech at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 127.
• Starry heaven, why productive of the idea of grandeur, i. 154.
• State, the, meaning of the term, iv, 248.
• • consideration of its fitness for an oligarchical form, connected with the question of vesting it solely in some one description of citizens, iv. 251.
  • not subject to laws analogous to those of physical life, v. 124, 234.
  • the internal causes affecting the fortunes of states uncertain and obscure, v. 235.
  • great irregularities in their rise, culmination, and decline, v. 235.
  • in a conflict between equally powerful states, an infinite advantage afforded by unyielding determination, v. 243.
• Statesmen, duties of, i. 436; v. 167.
• • standard of one, iii. 440.
  • difference between them and professors in universities, vii. 41.
• Stephen, brief account of his reign, vii. 386.
• Stonehenge, wherein an object of admiration, i. 153; vii. 179.
• Stones, rude ones, why objects of veneration, vii. 185.
• Strafford, Earl of, proceedings in his trial, xi. 14. 113.
• Sublime, sources of it, i. 110.
• • the strongest emotion of the mind, i. 110.
  • in all things abhors mediocrity, i. 157.
• Sublime and Beautiful, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the, i. 67.
• • stand on very different foundations, i. 192.
  • comparison between them, i. 205.
  • on the efficient cause of them, i. 208.
• Succession, hereditary, the principle of it recognized at the Revolution, iii. 252.
• Succession, in visual objects, effects of it explained, i. 222.
• Suddenness, a source of the sublime, i. 160.
• Suffering, the force to endure, needful to those who aspire to act greatly, v. 250.
• Sujah ul Dowlah, his character, xi. 373.
• Sully, M. de, an observation of his on revolutions in great states, i. 441.
• Superstition, nature of it, iii. 442.
• Surplus produce, nature and application of it, iii. 444.
• Sweetness, its nature, i. 235.
• • relaxing, i. 237.
• Swift, Dr., a saying of his concerning public benefactors, ii. 472.
• Sympathy, observations on it, i. 177; v. 398.

• Taille, nature of, i. 330, 333.
• Talents, eminent, obscure and vulgar vices sometimes blended with, iv. 26.
• Tallien, the regicide, his sanguinary brutality, vi. 102.
• Tamerlane, his conquests in Hindostan, ix. 388.
• • remarks on his Institutes, ix. 467; xi. 214.
• Tanistry, what, vii. 297.
• Taste, discourse concerning it, i. 79.
• • definition of it, i. 81.
  • want of it, whence, i. 95.
  • a wrong or bad one, what, i. 95.
  • a good one, i. 96.
  • of no mean importance in the regulation of life, iv. 30.
• Taxes, mode of levying them in commercial colonies an important and difficult consideration, i. 354.
• • nature of several in America, i. 355.
  • colonial, Lord North's project of a ransom of them by auction, ii. 171.
  • the great contests for freedom in England chiefly upon the question of taxing, ii. 120.
  • taxes on different establishments, remarks concerning them, i. 368.
  • upon salaries, ii. 283.
  • details of English taxes, v. 476.
• Terror, sometimes a source of delight, i. 119.
• • how, i. 214.
  • an effect of the sublime, i. 130.
  • its physical effects, i. 211.
• Test Act, observations on it, iv. 264.
• Thanes, brief account of them, vii. 300.
• Theatre, general observations on the, iii. 338.
• • prosperous condition of it in England, v. 485.
  • made an affair of state in the French Republic, vi. 104.
• Theodorus, Archbishop of Canterbury, brief account of him, vii. 249.
• • his services to the cause of letters in England, vii. 249.
• Three Seals, the history of the affair so called, ix. 408.
• Time blends the conquered with the conquerors, iv. 272.
• Toleration, true, exemplified, iii. 431.
• • ought to be tender and large, iv. 258.
  • favorable to, and a part of Christianity, vii. 25.
  • not a virtue of the ancient heathens, vii. 31.
• Toulon, fleet of, injudicious measures of the English government with regard to it, iv. 445.
• Townshend, Charles, character of him, ii. 64.
• Trade, sometimes seems to perish when it only assumes a different form, i. 313.
• • quickly and deeply affected by taxes, i. 391.
  • tests of the state of it, what, v. 493.
  • Board of, its character and history, ii. 340.
• Tragedy, observations on the effects of, i. 120.
• • its subjects and passions, vii. 150.
  • great personages everywhere made the objects of it, xi. 308.
• Transmigration of souls, origin of the doctrine, vii. 181.
• Treasurer's staff, Lord Coke's account of the purpose of it, ii. 354.
• Trent, Council of, its wise introduction of the discipline of seminaries for priests, iv. 231.
• Triangle, the poorest of all figures in its effect, i. 152.
• Triennial Parliaments, evils of them, vii. 79.
• Trinoda necessitas, in Saxon law, what, vii. 325.
• Turkey, power sought there with avidity, notwithstanding the danger and insecurity of its tenure, vii. 82.
• Tyranny, aggravated by contumely, ii. 484.
• • the desire and design of it often lurk in the claim of an extravagant liberty, iv. 115.
  • never learns moderation from the ill success of first oppressions, x. 83.

• Ugliness, the opposite to beauty, but not to proportion and fitness, i. 199.
• • consistent with the sublime, i. 199.
• Uniformity and succession of parts constitute the artificial infinite, i. 149.
• Universal, nothing of this nature can be rationally affirmed or any moral or political subject, iv. 80.
• Use, to be carefully attended to in most works of art, i. 154.
• • use and habit not causes of pleasure, i. 180.

• Vanity, nature and tendency of, iv. 26.
• Variation, beautiful, why, i. 239.
• Vastness, a cause of the sublime, i. 147.
• • unity why necessary to it, i. 219.
• Vattel, extracts from his Law of Nations, iv. 471.
• Venice, its restrictions with respect to offices of state, iv. 249.
• • origin of the republic, vii. 331.
  • acquires the island of Cyprus, vii. 428.
  • the only state in Europe which benefited by the Crusades, vii. 428.
• Verbal description, a means of raising a stronger emotion than painting, i. 133.
• Vice, the instances rare of an immediate transition to it from virtue, i. 421.
• Vices, obscure and vulgar ones sometimes blended with eminent talents, iv. 26.
• • in common society receive palliating names, xi. 177.
• Vicinity, civil, law of, what, v. 322.
• Virgil, his figure of Fame obscure, yet magnificent, i. 138.
• • remarks on his combination of images at the mouth of hell, i. 146.
  • an example from him of the sublime effect of an uncertain light, i. 161.
  • and of the cries of animals, i. 162.
  • and of powerful smells, i. 163.
  • his picture of the murder of Priam, i. 259.
  • of the Harpies, v. 187
• Virtue, how far the idea of beauty may be applied to it, i. 190.
• • description of the gradual extinguishment of it in public men, i. 421.
  • will catch, as well as vice by contact, ii. 242.
  • virtues which cause admiration, i. 188.
  • virtues which engage the heart, i. 188.
• Visual objects of great dimensions, why sublime, i. 217.
• • effects of succession in them explained, i. 222.
• Voters, more in the spirit of the English constitution to lessen than to enlarge their number, i. 370.

• Wages, the rate of them has no direct relation, to the price of provisions, v. 136.
• Wales, misgovernment of, by England, for two hundred years, ii. 148.
• • alteration of the system in the reign of Henry VIII., ii. 150.
• Wales, Frederick, Prince of, project of government devised in his court, i. 447.
• • means adopted for its introduction and recommendation to popular favor, i. 451, 453.
  • nature of the party formed for its support, i. 459.
  • name of this party, i. 466.
  • and of the new system, i. 466.
• Walpole, Mr., (afterwards Sir Robert,) his character, iv. 128.
• • extract from his speech in the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 129.
  • forced into the war with Spain by popular clamor, v. 288.
  • fault in his general proceeding, v. 289.
• War, its original may be very far from being its principal purpose, i. 298.
• • not easily reconciled with economy, i. 310.
  • the ground of a political war, laborers and manufacturers not capable of conceiving, v. 38.
  • of England with the French Republic, a war with an armed doctrine, v. 250.
  • can never be carried on long against the will of the people, v. 283.
  • general observations on, v. 318.
  • the power of making it, why put under the discretion of the crown, v. 335.
  • principle of the law of nations with regard to it, vi. 349.
• Warwick, Earl of, proceedings in his trial, xi. 32.
• Water, why venerated by the Druids, vii. 182.
• Weakness, human, in adversity, never pitied by those who applaud prosperous folly and guilt, iv. 183.
• Wealth, internal, consists in useful commodities as much as in gold and silver, i. 321.
• • of a country, a standard by which to estimate the character of the government, iii. 402.
  • can never rank first in England, iv. 327.
  • ought always to be the servant of virtue and public honor, v. 242.
  • remark of a foreigner on the display of it in the shops in London, v. 496.
• Whigs, the great connection of, in the reign of Queen Anne, i. 529.
• • the impeachment of Dr. Sacheverell, for what purpose carried on by them, iv. 119.
  • statement of the principles of the new Whigs, iv. 120, 151.
  • opinion of the new, with respect to the power of the people over the commonwealth, iv. 161.
  • Appeal from the New to the Old, iv. 57.
• Wilkes, Mr., his contest with the court party, i. 497.
• • pretence for punishing him, i. 500.
• Will and duty contradictory terms, iv. 165.
• • duty not subject to will, iv. 165.
• William of Normandy, the extraordinary facility of his conquest of England explained, vii. 288.
• • his numerous followers accounted for, vii. 333.
  • brief account of his reign, vii. 335.
  • view of his revenue, vii. 346.
  • his character, vii. 362.
• William Rufus, brief account of his reign, vii. 364.
• William III., his elevation to the throne an act not of choice, but of necessity, iii. 254.
• • his judicious appointments to the vacant bishoprics, iv. 14.
  • the spirited address of the Commons to him respecting the war with France, v. 296.
  • the Grand Alliance against France his masterpiece, v. 297.
  • his indomitable perseverance in pressing this measure, v. 299.
  • address of the House of Lords respecting it, v. 300.
• Wintoun, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 22.
• Wisdom of the Son of Sirach, example of the sublime from that book, i. 155.
• Wishes, vehement, the discovery of them generally frustrates their attainment, v. 252.
• Wit and judgement, difference between them, i. 87.
• Words, the proper medium for conveying the affections of the mind, i. 133.
• • affect us in a manner very different from natural objects, painting, or architecture, i. 246.
  • three sorts of them, i. 247.
  • general words before ideas, i. 249.
  • effect of them, i. 250.
  • may affect without raising images, i. 252.
  • this exemplified in the case of the poet Blacklock, i. 252.
  • and of Saunderson, the mathematician, i. 253.
  • how words influence the passions, i. 258.
  • the only means by which many ideas have ever been at all presented to the senses, i. 259.
  • the source of a great part of the mischiefs that vex the world, vi. 397.
  • the world much influenced by them, xi. 172.
• Writers, when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind, iii. 380

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