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INDEX
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VOLUMES III. AND IV.

A.
Academy, the ancient, compared with a modern university, iv. [214].
Accommodation, of one’s-self, a great art, in public life, iii. [82].
Addison, Mr., his contemplation in the ruins of Kenelworth Castle, iii. [172].
his political character exhibited in his Whig Examiner, [177]. n.
calls in question the praises bestowed on Queen Elizabeth, [178].
his strictures on the manners of that age, [186].
character of his treatise on medals, [24].
his remark on the use of popular superstitions in poetry, iv. [289].
his observation on the fairy way of writing, [323].
Admiralty Court, the imperial law still obtains there, iii. [375].
Allodial estates, in France, what, iii. [318].
Amadis de Gaule, remarkable passage in a preface to, iv. [347].
Arbuthnot, Dr. discourses with Mr. Addison and Mr. Digby on the age of Queen Elizabeth, iii. [168].
his veneration for the manners of those times, [180].
his opinion on the influence of the nobility, [184].
on the pageants at Kenelworth, [203].
See Elizabeth.
Ariosto, why considered inferior to Tasso by the French critics, iv. [310].
his work admirable for its pictures of life and manners, [328].
Arthur, a subject to the writers of romance, iv. [241].
the superior character in the Fairy Queen, [303].
Ascham, his remark on the pernicious tendency of books of chivalry, iii. [192]. n.
Atheism, imported by our travelling gentry, iv. [99].
Athens, its manly character corrupted by Asiatic manners, iv. [201].
B.
Bacchus, a knight errant, iv. [266].
Bacon, Lord, his remark on retirement, iii. [137].
why he was neglected by Queen Elizabeth, iii. [243]. n.
his excuse for bribery, [269].
his remark on depression of nobility, iv. [27]. n.
Bacon, Nat. character of his discourses on government, iii. [307].
his observation on the state of the law in Henry V’s reign, [378].
his character of Henry VIII. iv. [29]. n.
Barons, their contests with the king, whence arising, iii. [332].
how reduced by Henry VII. [334].
they originally formed the great council of the kingdom, ib.
their opposition to a law for legitimating bastards, [363].
their castles courts, as well as fortresses, iv. [247].
described in romances as giants, [264].
Bashfulness in young persons, whence arising, iv. [161].
a wise provision of nature, [162].
Bastards, how legitimated by the imperial and canon laws, iii. [362].
Bear-baiting practised in the reign of Elizabeth, iii. [186]. n.
Beneficiary Estates, in France, what, iii. [318].
Berkeley, Bishop, his “Minute Philosopher” excellent as a specimen of modern dialogue, iii. [24].
Boileau, a word of his overturned the reputation of the Italian poetry, iv. [314].
Bracton, his notion of a free government, iii. [370].
Breeding, forms of, a primary concern in foreign travel, iv. [147].
Bribery, common in Elizabeth’s reign, iii. [267].
Burghley, Lord, practised on the fears of Queen Elizabeth, iii. [257].
Burnet, Bishop, his notion of the danger to be apprehended from the Pretender, iii. [293].
Augurs favourably of the Revolution, iv. [9], [10].
his inquiry into the increase of Prerogative under the Tudors, [19].
and after the ecclesiastical supremacy was transferred, [46].
his apology for the clergy, [58] to [64].
his opinion on resistance, [66]. n.
Butler, ridicules the circumstance of women warriors in romance, iv. [317].
C.
Cæsar, tribute to, misapplication of that precept by our reformers, iv. [74].
Camden, Mr. his opinion of the Irish rebellion in the reign of Elizabeth, iii. [232]. n.
Canon law, introduction of, discountenanced by our Kings, iii. [355], [358].
retained in the church after the Reformation, iv. [67].
its doctrine convenient for the maintenance of absolute supremacy, [69].
Capet, Hugh, the nobles had become independent on his accession, iii. [321].
Cervantes, his ridicule destroyed the remains of Spanish prowess, iii. [199].
keenly satirizes the Grecian epics, iv. [272].
Chace, the favourite passion of our home-bred gentry, iv. [116].
Challenge, accepted, through deference to the opinion of the ladies, iv. [168].
Charlemagne, a subject to the writers of romance, iv. [241].
Charles I. arguments of the lawyers in his time, for divine right, iv. [78]. n.
Charles II. how far his court benefited by foreign travel, iv. [100].
his restoration introduced the French manners and prejudices among us, [311].
Charms, in romance, often metaphorical, iv. [268].
Charters, Great, by some considered as usurpations on the Prince, iii. [298].
Chaucer, has left an unfinished story on the Gothic model, iv. [294].
his Rime of Sir Topaz a banter on books of romances, [335].
compared with the work of Cervantes, [336].
his tale of Cambuscan a proof that he did not intend to ridicule the marvellous, [342].
Chivalry, its tendency to refine the manners, iii. [189].
its ill effects, [192]. n.
contributed to the revival of letters, [195].
had its origin in a barbarous age, iv. [238].
sprung out of the feudal constitution, [242].
its characteristics accounted for, [245].
passion for arms, ib.
romantic ideas of justice, [246].
courtesy and gallantry, [247].
love of God and of the Ladies, [250].
its genuine character displayed in the Crusades, [252], [254].
two distinct periods in deducing its rise and progress, [258].
agreement between heroic and Gothic manners, [262].
their differences noted, [272].
custom which prevailed at festivals, [297].
women-warriors, [317].
Greek fire, [320].
Church, its revenues dilapidated by queen Elizabeth, iii. [273].
more immediately subjected to the feudal system than the civil power, iii. [326].
struggles between the ecclesiastics and the monarchs, thence arising, [331].
distinction between ecclesiastical and temporal courts by William I. [352].
canon law discountenanced by our Kings, [359].
Cicero, introduced the writing of Dialogue among the Romans, iii. [20].
his remark on the advantage of applying it to real personages, [26].
his rule respecting the appropriate style and expression, [36].
character of his dialogue defined, [40].
Citizens and Burgesses, whence originating, iii. [338].
Clarendon, Lord, his character of Lord Falkland, iii. [67]. n.
of Waller, [69]. n.
his eulogium on Ben Jonson and Cowley, [140]. n.
Clergy, justified in attending the courts of princes, iii. [145].
in the reign of the Conqueror, turned common lawyers, [352].
the Imperial law their favourite study, [361].
opposed by the barons, [363].
supported by the judges and great officers of the realm, [366].
at the Reformation propagated the doctrine of passive obedience, iv. [57].
and of divine right, [62].
apology for them, [63], [64].
Combat, a mode of deciding questions of right and property, iii. [200].
Comnena, Manuel, a crusade in his time attended by women-warriors, iv. [317].
Constitution, English, enquiry into, iii. [284].
hath at all times been free, [286].
many have but crude notions of it, [297].
summary of erroneous doctrines respecting it, [298].
question proposed, [305].
its origin in the Saxon institutions, [309].
æra of the Conquest, [310].
contest for liberty throughout the Norman and Plantagenet lines, [313].
council of the Kingdom originally consisting of such as held in capite of the crown, by barony, or knight’s service, [334].
origin of knights of shires, [337].
of citizens and burgesses, [338].
formation of a House of Commons, [340], [346].
its freedom shewn in the perpetual opposition of the people to the civil and canon laws, [349] to [358].
proofs of it, [363], [367].
Imperial law still prevails in certain of our Courts, and in the Universities, [375].
fate and fortunes of the Civil law down to the present time, [378].
contrasted with the free principles of the English law, [384] to [386].
increase of prerogative under the Tudor line, [392]. iv. [16].
state of the nation at the accession of Henry VII. [24], [27].
Henry VIII. [28].
Rupture with the Court of Rome, [29].
high prerogative, [37].
Commons house rising in importance, [39].
causes of the increase of Royal authority, [40].
translation of the Pope’s supremacy to the king, [41].
use made of the title, Supreme head of the Church, [49].
high commission court and star-chamber, [50].
dispensing power, [52].
instances of its exercise, [53], [54].
passive obedience, [57].
why inculcated by the clergy, [58].
doctrine of divine right whence originating, [62].
growth of Puritanism, [63].
Canon laws retained after the yoke of Rome was thrown off, [67].
influence of the crown, after the Reformation, required to be limited by another change in the government, [71].
translation of the supremacy no argument against the freedom of the constitution, [73].
causes concurring with the Reformation to favour liberty, in the time of Charles I. [76], [77].
issue of the conflict between prerogative and liberty, [79], [80].
what is meant by the free constitution of the English monarchy, [81]. n.
Court, but two sorts of men that should live in one, iii. [124].
the clergy justified in attending, [145].
Cowley, Mr. his motives for retiring from the world, iii. [101].
expatiates on the benefit of solitude, [104].
grounds of his apology for seclusion, [110].
his early habits, [112].
his residence at Oxford, and friendship with Lord Falkland, [116].
his peculiar disposition, [120].
his invective against courts, [124].
his pursuits in retirement, [127].
uses of applying experiment and observation to natural science, [129].
his cynical severity against courts, [135].
eulogium on him by Lord Clarendon, [140]. n.
remonstrance of his friend on his seclusion, [147].
his reply in the words of Spenser, [148].
his resolution unshaken, [150].
his purposed apology to Lord St. Alban’s begun in his Essays, [152].
his poem, called “The Complaint,” [157].
Craig, his opinion of the feudal law, iii. [328].
Criticism, bad, arises from abuse of terms, iv. [324].
Cromwell, his design for setting up a Protestant Council, iv. [14].
Crusades, state of things when they were set on foot, iv. [252].
considered as the origin of knight errantry, [255].
domestic disorders resulting from them, [277].
vast armies which were sent out, [318].
Cutter of Coleman Street, origin and purpose of that comedy, iii. [122]. n.
D.
Davenant, Sir W. a new sort of criticism in his preface to Gondibert, iv. [311].
Declaration of rights, a barrier against future encroachments of the crown, iii. [293].
Decretals, of the popes, against the civil law, iii. [355].
Dialogue, a favourite form of instruction with the ancients, iii. [19].
its advantages, [21].
only three in the English language worthy of mention, [24].
real persons only to be introduced in it, [27].
a new species, created by Lucian, [28].
the serious and philosophic, the best, [32].
its requisites, [34].
rule for restraining the characteristic peculiarities of style, [39].
modern writers cannot aspire to the elegance of the ancient, [43].
remedies for their difficulties, ib. [46].
the ancient notion of, very little comprehended in our days, iv. [90].
Disparity, a passage from a tract so called, iii. [235]. n.
another, illustrative of Queen Elizabeth’s policy, [258]. n.
Dispensing power of the Crown, iv. [52].
exercised by various sovereigns, [53], [54].
eleven out of twelve judges declared for it, [55].
Dissipation of mind, caused by travel, iv. [145].
Divine right, doctrine of, why preached up, iv. [62].
arguments for it used by the lawyers in the time of Charles I. [78]. n.
Drama, a particular precept for, mistaken for a general maxim, iv. [326].
Dutch towns, accomplished scholars sometimes met within them, iv. [121].
E.
Education, that commonly called liberal, wherein defective, iv. [117], [118].
its proper objects pointed out, [138].
one of its great secrets, to fix the attention of youth, [145].
private, why preferable to public, [210].
Edward the Confessor, formed a digest of the Saxon laws, iii. [349].
Edward I. dispute concerning the succession to the crown of Scotland in his reign, iii. [367].
Edward III. a house of commons originating in his reign, iii. [340], [344].
Ειρηναρχια, a Latin panegyric on Queen Elizabeth taught in schools, iii. [239]. n.
Elizabeth, Queen, dialogue on the age of, iii. [167].
humour of magnifying her character, whence arising, [177].
her romantic spirit, [196].
examples of it, ib. n.
honours paid her at Kenelworth, [203].
superiority of poets in her reign, to what owing, [209].
language of that age, favourable to poetry, [210].
inquiry into the merits of her government, [219].
sketch of its history, [221], [222].
splendour of her reign how far owing to fortunate circumstances, [223].
her enthusiasm for her Protestant subjects, [225].
contending factions of Papists and Puritans, [226].
condition of the Continental powers, [230].
of Ireland, [231].
of Scotland, [233].
her prerogative uncontrouled, [234].
passion for letters in her reign, [236].
a Latin panegyric on her, taught in grammar-schools, [239]. n.
spirit and genius of the nation roused by the dangers of the time, [241].
manners of her subjects debased by servility and insolence, [242].
her choice of ministers, ib.
her personal qualities, [245].
her love for her people called in question, [250].
her foreign and domestic policy glanced at, [252].
her popularity in part ascribed to her vices, [255].
her cowardice, [256].
her avarice, [261].
her fondness for shew, [265].
sale of offices, [266].
reason why she did not marry, [271]. n.
her government oppressive, [272].
two great events which cast an uncommon lustre over her reign, [274].
causes of her domestic successes, [275].
her character, [276].
vindicated, [279].
established the Reformation, iv. [31], [32].
exercised the dispensing power, [54].
her inclination for the fancies of chivalry, iv. [347].
Empson and Dudley, how enabled to violate the constitution, iii. [379].
their proceedings sanctioned by Parliament, iv. [34].
England, a constitutional history of, highly desirable, iii. [286], [288].
its monarchy by some declared to be absolute, [298], [299].
its lands were allodial in the Saxon times, [324].
how possessed, ib.
introduction of feudal tenures at the conquest, why popular, [325].
origin of the struggles between the Church and the King, [331].
between the King and his Barons, [332].
never famous for the civility of its inhabitants, iv. [112].
early travel recommended as a cure for this defect, [113].
prejudices and low habits of our youth, [115].
liberal arts not much advanced, [127].
foreign nations to be emulated, [129].
qualifications for a Senator, [140].
another view of the state of the country, [151].
ideas of liberty connected with it, [153].
Epic narration, less restricted to truth than the drama, iv. [327].
Erasmus, improved on the dialogue of Lucian, iii. [28].
Erudition, present state of, iv. [132].
Esprit, De l’, remark on a work so called, iv. [89]. n.
Europe, why not fit for an Englishman to travel in, iv. [200].
view of the Protestant Universities of, [212], [213].
F.
Faery Court, means the reign of chivalry, iv. [248].
Fairies, more engaging than the rabble of Pagan divinities, iv. [283].
Fairy Queen of Spenser, to be criticized as a Gothic, and not a classical poem, [292], [296].
derives its method from the established modes of chivalry, [297].
in what its unity consists, [300].
expedients of the poet in connecting the subject, [302].
allegorical character of the poem, [304].
conduct of the story justified by its moral, [305].
principal defect arising from the union of two designs, [306].
Fairy way of writing, vindicated, iv. [316].
allegory its last resource, [349].
Falkland, Lord, his scruples on accepting the office of Secretary of State, iii. [67].
Feugregeois, wonders told of it in the history of the crusades, iv. [320].
Feudal law, instituted by William the Conqueror, iii. [313].
or rather new-modelled by him, [317].
previously adopted in France, [319], [320].
its fruits, [321].
favourable to the cause of liberty, [323].
definition of the feudal system, [329].
its defects, [333], [334].
fitted itself to the varying situations of society, [345].
Feudal constitution, the origin of chivalry, iv. [242].
consideration had of females under it, [274].
distinction between the early and later feudal times, [276].
dissensions of leaders, domestic disorders, and usurpations, [277], [278].
Foreigners, their disputes with British subjects, by what laws decided, iii. [376].
Fortescue, his distinction between regal and political forms of government, iii. [388]. n.
Fortune, the making of one, an indefinite expression, iii. [131].
Franc-almoign, a particular tenure in the Saxon times, iii. [327].
France, its lands, under the Carlovingian line, of two kinds, iii. [318].
changes introduced, ib. [319], [320].
most of its lands were beneficiary, [324].
her pre-eminence in taste and politeness, iv. [130].
Freedom, English, best supported by the ancient nobility, iii. [184].
Free men, persons holding allodial estates in France, so called, iii. [318].
French critics, preferred the Gierusalemme Liberata to the Orlando Furioso, iv. [309].
Fynes Moryson, his remark on the condition of the English people, iii. [183]. n.
G.
Gardening, Gothic method of design in, iv. [301].
Genius, men of, infelicities attending the sensibility of their gratitude, iii. [140].
Gentleman, what his chief object, iv. [123].
German nations, foundation of gallantry in their ancient manners, iv. [250].
their predatory disposition, [269].
Giants of Romance, were oppressive feudal lords, iv. [263].
Gothic romance, incorporated with pagan fable, in a pageant given to Queen Elizabeth at Kenelworth, iii. [203].
whence fallen into disrepute, iv. [333].
steps of its decline traced, [345].
---- MANNERS,
in some circumstances agree with the heroic, iv. [262].
military enthusiasm, ib.
giants and savages, [263].
monsters, dragons, and serpents, [265].
robbery and piracy, [268].
bastardy, [269].
hospitality and courtesy, [270].
martial exercises, ib.
passion for adventures, [271].
wherein they differed from the heroic, [272].
in the affair of religion and gallantry, [274].
more poetical than the heroic, [280].
in the displays of love and friendship, [282].
in religious machinery, [283].
their effect on Spenser, [291].
on Milton, [292].
on Shakespear, [294].
method of design in poetry, [300].
Greeks, a sort of chivalry prevailed among them, iv. [273].
Grotius, his character of the English in Elizabeth’s reign, iii. [242]. n.
his remark on the foreign policy of that Queen, [259]. n.
Guarini, his Pastor Fido, for what admirable, iv. [315].
Guy, earl of warwick, his return from the wars, compared with that of Ulysses, iv. [278].
H.
Habits, low and immoral, how far likely to be corrected by foreign travel, iv. [157].
Hale’s case, afforded an alarming proof of the influence of the dispensing power, iv. [55].
Hampden, Mr. his allegation in the great cause of ship-money, [78]. n.
Harrington, Sir James, his opinion on the statutes against retainers, in Henry VII.’s reign, [184]. n.
Harrison, his account of the progress of learning in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, iii. [237]. n.
Helmet, used as a signal of hospitality in the ages of chivalry, iii. [182].
Henriade, why not long-lived, iv. [331].
Henry III. issued a prohibition against the teachers of the Roman law in London, iii. [357], [358].
Henry VII. his character, iv. [19].
increased his own authority and diminished that of his nobles, [25].
filled the great offices with churchmen only, [26].
exercised the dispensing power, contrary to act of parliament, [53].
Henry VIII. favoured the study of the civil law, though constrained to abolish it, iii. [380].
his character, iv. [19].
advantageous circumstances on his accession, [29].
his rupture with the court of Rome, ib.
obtained of his parliament to have his proclamations pass for laws, [34].
Helvidius, Priscus, a fine trait in his character, as given by Tacitus, iii. [142].
Hentznerus, Paulus, praises Queen Elizabeth’s skill in languages, iii. [257]. n.
Herbert, Mr. George, commended king James as a greater orator than any of the ancients, iii. [240]. n.
Hercules, a knight errant, iv. [266].
Heroic poetry, why it has survived the Gothic, iv. [333].
High Commission Court, iii. [381].
in what originating, iv. [49].
History, English, study of it essential to a young senator, iv. [142].
Hobbes, Mr. assisted in establishing a new sort of criticism, iv. [311].
his notion of poetical truth, [324].
Homer, correspondence of his descriptions with those of Gothic romance, iv. [266].
his two poems intended to expose the evils arising from the political state of old Greece, [277].
felicity of his age, for poetical manners, [280].
Hospitality, much practised by the great, in former times, iii. [181].
species of it peculiar to the purer ages of chivalry, [182]. n.
House of Commons, its origin, iii. [340].
generated by the constitution, [346].
Human nature, how to be studied, iv. [197].
Hume, ground of his apology for the House of Stuart, iii. [391]. n.
his account of the feudal times the best part of his history of England, iv. [80]. n.
his zeal for the house of Stuart a disgrace to his work, [82].
I & J.
James I. favoured the study of the civil law, iii. [381].
advantages under which he succeeded to the crown, iv. [33].
believed himself absolute, [37].
his bold language to his parliaments, [38].
asserts the right of the King to suspend the laws, [54].
considered a most able judge of church work, [59], [60]. n.
styles himself the great schoolmaster of the land, [69]. n.
Jesuits, their expedient to justify the pope in deposing kings, iv. [61].
Ignorance, the parent of many vices, iv. [108].
Interest, of men in office, how connected with duty, iii. [139].
Jonson, Ben, praised by Lord Clarendon, iii. [140]. n.
his encomium on legends of ancient chivalry, [194].
contrasts them with real life and manners, [198].
design of the witch-scenes in his Masque of Queens, iv. [287].
Ireland, distractions in, during the reign of Elizabeth, iii. [231].
Irish, savage, in the reign of Elizabeth, held their rhymers in principal estimation, iv. [271].
Italian Poetry, a short history of, [309] to [315].
vindicated, [316], [328].
its fictions ingenious as well as bold, [330].
Italy, the theatre of politeness in the age of Elizabeth, iv. [99].
abounding with literary men, [121].
Jury, trial by, when disgraced and rejected, iii. [379], [382].
Justices of Peace, in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, notoriously corrupt, iii. [270].
Justinian Law, when introduced into England, iii. [354].
Why the chief study of the clergy, [361].
opposed by the barons, [363].
allows legitimation by subsequent marriage, [365].
in what courts it obtains to this day, [375].
its fate and fortunes down to the present time, [378].
Justs and Turnaments, their origin, iv. [243].
K.
Kenelworth Castle, contemplations in the ruins of, iii. [170].
behaviour of Lord Leicester’s porter on Queen Elizabeth’s visit, [174].
pageants in honour of her, [203].
Knights of Shire, whence originating, iii. [337], [338].
Knights Errant, iv. [247].
their devotion to the fair sex, [248].
their most essential qualities, courage and faith, [251].
origin ascribed to the crusades, [255].
objection to that hypothesis, [257].
what the principal mover of their adventures, [275].
Knowledge of the world, necessary for enlarging the mind, iv. [108].
what is meant by it, [122], [123].
not attainable by early travel, [170].
to be acquired by degrees, [180].
L.
Ladies, attach a high degree of merit to good breeding, iv. [168].
though bred at home, have a manifest advantage over their travelled brothers in liberal acquirements, [176].
virtues and faults more conspicuous in them than in the other sex, [177], [178].
“Lady of the Lake,” a pageant at Kenelworth Castle, iii. [203].
Laga, or Leaga, the Saxon word for law, its extensive import, iii. [308].
Language, English, at what period most favourable to poetry, iii. [210].
Languages, time sometimes wasted in studying, iv. [147].
Laws, how rendered necessary, iv. [108].
Learning, revival of, began first by poetry, iii. [206].
Legislators, ancient, why required to travel for instruction, iv. [95].
Legislature, their right to settle the government, unquestionable, iii. [302].
Leicester, Earl of, his splendid monument in the great church of Warwick, iii. [168].
Strictures on his conduct, [176].
Letters, the cultivation of, its own reward, iii. [130].
Liberal Arts, of late growth in England, iv. [127].
study of them less important than other branches of education, [192].
Liberty, a right understanding of its principles necessary to the security of the British government, iii. [295].
religious, made way for the entertainment of civil, in all its branches, iv. [76].
Life-guard, instituted by Henry VII. iv. [25].
Livy, his dialogues, if preserved, would have suffered by comparison with those of Cicero, iii. [41].
Locke, Mr. Lord Shaftesbury’s opinion of him as a philosopher, iv. [88].
his notion of education, opposed to that of his lordship, [136], [138].
denies that its objects can be attained by foreign travel, [143].
his remarks on England, [151].
on national prejudices, [152], [154].
on evil habits, [156].
on bashfulness in youth, [161].
on knowledge of the world, [170].
on the means of instilling it into the minds of youth, [180].
his objections to the study of the fine arts, [191], [193].
of the fine arts, [191], [193].
Declares against European travels, [200].
his remarks on the universities, [204].
on clergy tutors, [217].
Presage of brighter days for the universities, [224].
Lollardism, spreading in the reign of Henry VII. iv. [27].
London, a fit scene for seeing the world, iv. [190].
Lucan, his magic scenes excelled by those of Apuleius, iv. [283], [284].
Lucian, created a new species of dialogue, iii. [28].
its nature defined, [30], [32].
his remark on the social use of the table, [182].
M.
Manners, best acquired by early travel, iv. [119].
meaning of the term, [120].
a chief object of study, [124].
Masks and Shows, their origin and design, iii. [207].
Matthew Paris, his remark on the subjection of the ecclesiastical to the secular power at the Conquest, iii. [327]. n.
Maynard, Sir John, one of the most accomplished lawyers of his time, iii. [289]. n.
traces the origin of the English Constitution, [306].
was one of the eleven members proceeded against, on the charge of the army, [383]. n.
his opinion that the power of the militia was not in the king, iv. [75]. n.
Melvil, Sir James, his frank reply to Queen Elizabeth touching her celibacy, iii. [271]. n.
Milton, recommends gymnastics in his Tractate of Education, iii. [188].
why he preferred the classic to the Gothic model in poetry, iv. [292].
pleased with the manners described in books of chivalry, [293].
his allusion to the vast armies described in romance, [318].
Pagan gods and Gothic fairies out of credit when he wrote, [331].
admired Chaucer’s tale of Cambuscan, [342].
His reason for relinquishing his design of Prince Arthur, [348].
Modesty, in young persons, a grace and ornament, iv. [162].
the blush of budding reason and virtue, [164].
Montesquieu, his observation on the Gothic government, iii. [341]. n.
More, Dr. Henry, his dialogue with Mr. Waller on sincerity, iii. [53].
his character, according to Bishop Burnet, [93]. n.
Mountjoy, Lord, how reprimanded by Queen Elizabeth, iii. [249].
N.
Nations, improved by intercourse with each other, iv. [109].
Nature, how to be followed in poetry, iv. [324].
Neutrality, why another name for insincerity, iii. [66].
Norham, great Council of, rejected the Cæsarean law, iii. [367].
O.
Obedience, Passive, doctrine of, by whom propagated, iv. [57].
P.
Pagan superstitions, fall short of the Gothic, iv. [284].
Pandects, when and by whom introduced into England, iii. [354].
their doctrine concerning the origin of government, [371].
Papal Supremacy, its extent in this kingdom, iv. [42].
how transferred to Henry VIII. [43].
qualifying clauses, ib.
high notions entertained of the pope’s power, [46].
dispensing power, [52].
exercised by the popes against the Gospel itself, [56]. n.
indignation of the popes against our reforming sovereigns, [61].
Parliaments, their authority acknowledged even under our most despotic Princes, iv. [37].
transferred the papal supremacy to Henry VIII. [43].
how curbed by the dispensing power, [51], [52].
Personification, why frequent in old poetry, iii. [211], [212].
Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, a festival given by him, for a crusade, iv. [298].
Philosophers, ancient, considered travel as a necessary part of their studies, iv. [95].
Philosophy, how at present degraded, iv. [131].
Plato, the model, if not the inventor, of the Greek dialogue, iii. [20].
Plot, of Mr. Waller, its failure, iii. [71], [72].
confounded with another of more dangerous tendency, [75].
Plutarch, his life of Theseus reads like a modern romance, iv. [266].
Poetry, what point in the revolutions of taste and language most favourable to it, iii. [210].
the sublime species not subject to strict rules of credibility, iv. [325], [326].
Poets, generally enamoured of solitude, iii. [113], [114].
Pole, Cardinal, violent in his invectives against Henry VIII. iv. [60].
Politeness, not attainable by great men, iv. [166].
what its most reasonable sense, [201].
Prejudices, of home-bred gentlemen, iv. [114].
the term equivocal, [152].
some ought not to be removed, [153].
proper cure for vicious prejudices, [155].
Prerogative, of English monarchs, controuled by law, iii. [287].
Protestant Council, projected by Cromwell, iv. [14]. n.
Protestantism, had made considerable progress on the accession of Elizabeth, iii. [224].
its effects on the public morals, [238].
Protestants, French, persecution of, iv. [12]. n.
Puritanism, growth of, iv. [63].
Puritans, how managed by Queen Elizabeth, iii. [227].
R.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, his opinion on the conduct of the Spanish war, iii. [252].
received money to use his interest with the Queen, [268].
Reason, best exercised in society, iii. [106].
Recreant, why a term of disgrace for a vanquished knight, iv. [251].
Reformation, established in the reign of Elizabeth, iv. [31], [32].
though founded on principles of liberty, for a time favoured the power of the crown, [70].
carried on and established by the whole legislature, [73].
Religious Houses, suppression of, favoured the extension of prerogative, iv. [20].
Representation, Dramatic, requires stricter adherence to truth than narration, iv. [326].
Retainers, laws of Henry VII. against, iv. [25].
Retirement, foundation of the dialogue concerning, iii. [97]. n.
its good effects on the mind, [104].
its disadvantages, [106].
retirement of good men from public employments prejudicial to the state, [141].
Revolution of 1688, why justifiable, iii. [283].
settlement introduced by it, how to be rendered secure, [295].
Rhetorician, one who taught the art of not speaking, iv. [121].
Richard II. the wonder-working parliament in his reign rejected the Roman civil law, iii. [367].
his declaration that his will was law, [374].
Robert the Norman, his wife fought by his side in battle, iv. [317].
Roman Emperors, their policy in assuming the title of Pontifex Maximus, iv. [47].
Rome, Court of, its authority rejected by Henry VIII. iv. [29].
Romance, Spirit of, whence originating, iv. [239].
principal subjects, [241].
from what period its writers derive their ideas of chivalry, [259].
practice of mixing Pagan fable with it, [272].
Gothic superstitions introduced, [284].
decline of this species of writing, [333], [345], [348].
Rousseau, his observation on the use of the marvellous in epic and dramatic compositions, iv. [327]. n.
Royal Society, much talked of, before it was instituted, iii. [143]. n.
Ryswick, treaty of, wherein defective, iv. [12].
S.
St. Alban’s, Lord, the patron of Cowley, iii. [97], [99], [102].
Saxons, the principles of their policy still maintained in our government, iii. [307].
spirit of liberty prevailed among them, [309].
their institutions, after the decline of the Romans, the standing laws of this kingdom, [349].
Savages of Romance, dependants of feudal lords, iv. [263].
Selden, his character of Ben Jonson, iii. [209].
a curious extract from his dissertation on Fleta, [370].
Self-love, when uncontrouled, engenders vices, iv. [108].
Senator, English, requisite qualifications of one, iv. [140].
are not attainable by foreign travel, [143].
Sidney, Sir Philip, the flower of knighthood, iii. [197].
Sincerity in the commerce of the world, a dialogue on, iii. [53].
Shaftesbury, Lord, eminent as a writer of dialogue, iii. [24].
his remarks on the difficulties attending that class of composition, [42].
represented in a dialogue with Mr. Locke, on the uses of foreign travel, iv. [87].
states its advantages, [107].
asserts it to be the most important part of education, [111].
descants on the prejudices of home-bred gentlemen, [115].
on the state of the arts in Britain, [126].
on the decay of philosophy, [131].
his raillery against the Gothic manner in poetry, [311].
Shakespear, remark of his best critic on the witch-scenes in Macbeth, iv. [286].
greater in the Gothic than in the classic manner, [295].
Socrates, whence he took his name of Ironist, iii. [28].
never stirred out of Athens, iv. [96].
Somers, Mr. his fears that the principles of liberty are not thoroughly established in the minds of the people, iii. [295], [297].
his notion of the varying ascendancy of liberty and prerogative, iv. [18].
Spain, Queen Elizabeth’s triumph over, to what owing, iii. [274].
Spenser, had talent for business as well as for poetry, iii. [243].
his funeral, ib. n.
charmed by Gothic Romance, iv. [239].
his account of the courtesy of chivalry, [247].
of the connection of gallantry with the profession of Knighthood, [249].
his description of characters in romance, [264].
his design in the Fairy Queen, [280].
why he chose chivalry for his theme, and Fairy land for his scene, [291].
why he had recourse to allegory, [346].
with whom he ranks highest among the poets, [350].
Sprat, the Rev. Mr. his account of a conversation with Mr. Cowley on retirement, iii. [99].
Star-Chamber, iii. [381].
when confirmed by act of parliament, iv. [25], [34].
its jurisdiction why extended, [50].
Stephen, the Justinian laws introduced into England during his reign, iii. [354].
interdicted the study of them, [356].
Stillingfleet, Dr. his remark on the dispensing power, iv. [54].
Stuart, House of, part of their difficulties ascribed to the bad policy of their predecessor, iii. [228].
English Government despotic under the first princes of that line, iii. [390].
prerogative increased in the preceding reigns, iv. [20], [33].
confirmed the jurisdiction of the Star-Chamber by statute, [34].
exercised the dispensing power to a dangerous degree, [55].
T.
Tacitus, bears testimony to the free spirit of the German constitutions, iii. [309].
Tasso, his Gierusalemme Liberata planned on the model of the Iliad, iv. [279].
his description of a garden, iv. [301].
his Gierusalemme Liberata considered, [308].
how estimated by the French critics, [309], [310].
his Clarinda not so extravagant a character as is generally supposed, [318].
remark of a French critic on his enchantments, [322].
his fairy tales do him more honour than the classical parts of his poem, [329].
Terence, his characters all express themselves with equal elegance, iii. [39].
Theobald, Archbishop, favoured the reading of the Justinian laws in England, iii. [354].
Third Estate in France, their deputies how stigmatized by one of the popes, iv. [59]. n.
Thuanus, his remark on the romantic spirit of Queen Elizabeth, iii. [196].
Thurkeby, Judge, exclaims against the dispensing power, iv. [53]. n.
Tilt Yard, a school of fortitude and honour to our forefathers, iii. [185].
Its exercises excelled those of the Grecian gymnastics, [188].
Toleration-act, when passed, iv. [11]. n.
Topaz, Sir, of Chaucer, a prelude to Don Quixote, iv. [336].
Tour of Europe, too limited for a philosophic traveller, iv. [198].
Travel, foreign, dialogue on the uses of, iv. [87].
considered as a part of early education, [93].
question stated, [94].
example of the ancient philosophers, [96].
allusion to the court of Elizabeth, [98].
of Charles II. [100].
youth more exposed to vice abroad than at home, [103].
arguments in favour of it, [107].
its tendency to remove prejudices and correct low habits, [115].
and to qualify a person for bearing his part in public affairs, [124].
the argument refuted, [135].
proper objects of education, [138].
does not contribute to attain them, [143].
waste of time, ib.
dissipation of mind, [145].
objects to which the traveller’s application is directed, [146].
hinder him from more important studies, [149].
vicious prejudices may be removed without it, [155].
low habits not likely to be corrected by it, [157], [158].
precipitates youth into manhood, [165].
is become fashionable through the influence of the ladies, [168].
knowledge of the world not to be acquired by it, [172].
unseasonable and useless in youth, [173].
considered as a means of dissolving hasty and ill-timed connexions, [188].
of studying the fine arts, [191].
when to be practised with most advantage, [195].
to be extended beyond the tour of Europe, [198].
foreign and English universities compared, [212].
what tutorage most proper, [217].
Tudor Line, government of England more despotic under them than in the preceding reigns, iii. [390].
Tutor, Travelling, how to be chosen, iv. [106].
the best cannot teach every thing requisite, [149].
what tutorage most proper, [217].
V. and U.
Vacarius taught the civil law in England, iii. [355].
Virtue, exists most in the offices of social life, iii. [106].
not incompatible with ambition, [139].
Virtuosoship, one of the objects of foreign travel, iv. [146].
Ulysses, his return afforded an exception to the domestic licence of the time, iv. [278].
Unity of design in Gothic poems, iv. [300].
Universities, the Imperial law still obtains in them, iii. [375].
strictures on, iv. [132].
a sketch of their institution and genius, [204].
why the barbarous plans of education still prevail, [206].
a reformation contemplated, [208].
their studies and discipline not without their use, [211].
compared with those of the continent, [212].
their forms and regulations commended, [214].
much room for improvement in them, [223].
happy presage of their future condition, [224].
W.
Waller, Mr. Edmund, represented in dialogue with Dr. More, on sincerity in the commerce of the world, iii. [53].
recites his history, [57].
his introduction at court, where he recommended himself by his poetry, [60].
engaged actively in the parliament of 1640, [63].
his relationship and attachment to Mr. Hampden could never bias him from moderation, [65].
his resolution to pursue the King’s interests, and yet keep clear with the Parliament, [69].
his popularity drew him into difficulties, [71].
failure of his plot, [72].
his address in extricating himself from the danger thence arising, [77].
his hypocrisy, [79].
retired into France during the troubles of the country, [83].
ascribes his misfortunes to sincerity, and his escape from them, to dissimulation, [84].
is admitted, on his return, to the confidence of the Protector, whom he panegyrized, [86].
congratulated Charles II. on his restoration, [88].
his arguments in justification of his conduct, [91].
Walls of Fire, mentioned in romance, what in reality, iv. [320].
Walsingham, Secretary, recounts the ill effects of Queen Elizabeth’s frugality, iii. [263]. n.
his illustrious poverty, [264].
Warwick, Great Church of, famous for its monuments, iii. [168].
William I. his Conquest by some considered as the foundation of absolute monarchy in England, iii. [298], [309].
his claim to the crown not conquest but testamentary succession, [311].
instituted the feudal law, [313].
consequences of his distribution of forfeited estates and seignories, [333].
obliged to ratify the old standing laws of the kingdom, [349].
illustration of his policy in his distinction of the ecclesiastical and temporal courts, [351], [352].
styles himself Bastard, in one of his charters, [363].
William III. King, his character, iv. [14].
Wolsey, Cardinal, charged with subjecting the laws of the land to the imperial laws, iii. [380].
Women-Warriors, in times of chivalry, iv. [317].
World, the Commerce of, how to be prepared for, iv. [138].
a knowledge of, the most momentous part of education, and least understood, [179].
X.
Xenophon, why lavish in praise of hunting, iii. [189].
Y.
Yorke, the late Right Hon. Charles, extract from a letter of his, on the origin of chivalry, iv. [254].
Youth, the season for acquiring right propensities and virtuous habits, iv. [113].
education of, in England, wherein defective, iv. [117].
value of time at that age, [144].
bashfulness a favourable symptom, [161].
what period of it requires most care and vigilance, [180].
entrance into the world, [181].
necessity of moral discipline, [184].
Z.
Zeal for the faith, actuated the professors of chivalry, iv. [251].

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