Страница - 124Страница - 126- Habeas Corpus Act, Lord Shaftesbury's connection with, ii. 570, 578.
- Hale, Sir Matthew, integrity of, ii. 405.
- Halifax, Charles Montague, Earl of, his attainments, iii. [409].
- Draws Addison into politics, [411].
- Addison's Epistle to, [421].
- Loses power, [422].
- Returns to the Council, [432].
- Halifax, George Savile, Viscount, a trimmer; compared with Shaftesbury, ii. 573.
- His political tracts, 575.
- His oratorical powers, 575, 576.
- The king's dislike of him, 576, 577.
- Hallam, Henry, his History of England dry but accurate, i. 287.
- His perfect fairness to all parties, 290.
- Just condemnation of Cranmer, 298.
- His view of Strafford's punishment, 312.
- Of the Parliament of 1640, 316.
- Condemns the Long Parliament, 336.
- His estimate of Cromwell, 347.
- Of Clarendon, 362.
- Of William III.'s reign, 809.
- Hamilton, Gerard, his celebrated speech, ii. 205.
- Hammond, Henry, uncle of Sir William Temple, ii. 509.
- Hampden, John, review of Lord Nugent's Memorials of, ii. 1.
- His public and private character, 2, 3.
- Baxter's testimony to his excellence, 4.
- His origin and early history, 4,5.
- Took his seat in the House of Commons in 1621, and joined the opposition to the court, 6.
- His first appearance as a public man, 13.
- His first stand for the fundamental principle of the Constitution, 16.
- Committed to prison, 16.
- Set at liberty and reëlected for Wendover, 17.
- His retirement, 18.
- His remembrance of his persecuted friends, 19.
- His letters to Sir John Eliot, 19.
- Clarendon's characterization of him as a debater, 19.
- Letter from him to Sir John Eliot, 20.
- His acquirements, 21.
- Death of his wife, 22.
- His resistance to the assessment for ship-money, 27.
- Strafford's hatred of him, 29.
- His intention to leave England, 29.
- His return for Buckinghamshire in the fifth Parliament of Charles I., 31.
- His motion on the subject of the king's message, 32.
- His election by two constituencies to the Long Parliament, 36.
- Character of his speaking, 37.
- His opinion on the bill for the attainder of Strafford, 40.
- Lord Clarendon's testimony to his moderation, 41.
- His mission to Scotland, 41.
- His conduct in the House of Commons on the passage of the Grand Remonstrance, 44.
- His impeachment ordered by the king, 45-49.
- Returns in triumph to the House, 50.
- Raises a regiment in Buckinghamshire, 56.
- Contrasted with Essex, 57, 58.
- His encounter with Rupert at Chalgrove, 59.
- His death and burial, 60.
- Effect on his party, 61.
- Hanover, Chatham's invective against the favor shown it by George II., ii. 254.
- Harcourt, French ambassador to Spain, ii. 144, 145.
- Harley, Robert, his accession to power, ii. 177.
- Censured by Lord Mahon, 178.
- Thrown into prison, 182.
- Hastings, Warren, essay on, iii. [114-242].
- Birth and ancestry, [115].
- Education, [117].
- Beginnings in India, [119].
- Returns to England, [123].
- Appointed to the Council at Madras, [124].
- Meets Baroness Imhoff, [125].
- Effects reforms at Madras, [126].
- Dispenses with the double government at Bengal, [133].
- His principle "Thou shalt want ere I want," [135].
- His dealings with the Prince of Oude, [137].
- Helps him conquer the Rohillas, [141].
- His successful financial policy, [143].
- Made Governor-General, [144].
- Opposed by majority of the Council, [148].
- Accused by Nuncomar, [150].
- Supported by the English sentiment in Bengal, [151].
- Motive in destroying Nuncomar, [157].
- Opposition to, in England, [159].
- Maclean presents his resignation, [160].
- Repudiates the resignation and retains his position, [161].
- Marries Baroness Imhoff, and is reappointed Governor-General, [163].
- Plans to meet the Mahratta encroachments, [164].
- Stops the legal excesses of Impey, [172].
- Fights a duel with Francis, [174].
- Sends Coote against Hyder Ali, [178].
- Notes the advantage to the English of the double government in India, [181].
- His demands on the Rajah of Benares, [182].
- Visits Benares, [184].
- Adds it to British dominions, [187].
- Extorts money from the Begums of Oude, [191].
- Condemned in England but supported by the Company, [194].
- His extension of the Indian dominions, [195].
- Internal administration in India reviewed, [196].
- Ability in writing dispatches, [198].
- His encouragement of literature, [199].
- Loved by all classes, [200].
- His offences, [201].
- Returns to England, [203].
- Insensible of his danger, [205].
- Mistakes in his course of defence, [206].
- Supported by the ministry, [207].
- His opponents, [209].
- His defence, [214].
- Cleared on the charge relating to the Rohilla war, [215].
- Deserted by the ministry on the charge respecting Cheyte Sing, [216].
- Spoliation of the Begums charged by Sheridan, [220].
- Scene at his trial, [223].
- His counsel, [225].
- Acquitted, [233].
- Ruined financially, [235].
- Aided by the East India Company, [236].
- Later life at Daylesford, [238].
- Tardy acknowledgment of his services, [240].
- Death, [241].
- Hastings, Mrs. Warren, her influence, iii. [203]. See Imhoff, Baroness.
- Hatton, Lady, marries Sir Edward Coke, ii. 385.
- Hawke, Admiral, defeats French fleet under Conflans, ii. 277.
- Hawkins, Sir John, interpolation of extracts from, in Boswell's Johnson, condemned, i. 707-710.
- Henry VII., his reign the starting-point of modern English history, i. 371.
- Henry VIII., his interest in the Reformation, i. 302.
- Attempts to raise a forced loan, ii. 82.
- His intermediate position between the Catholic and Protestant parties, 86.
- Henry IV. of France, ii. 621.
- Heresy, remarks on, ii. 622-634.
- Herodotus, as an historian, his simplicity, i. 236.
- Inaccuracy of, 237.
- His work adapted to oral publication, 239.
- His reality, 240.
- Hesiod, his complaint of the corruption of the judges of Ascra, ii. 431.
- Hesse Darmstadt, Prince of, commands the land forces sent against Gibraltar in 1704, ii. 158.
- Accompanies Peterborough on his expedition. 161.
- His death at the capture of Monjuich, 164.
- High Commission, Court of, abolished, ii. 38.
- Highgate, death of Lord Bacon at, ii. 443.
- Hind and the Panther, The, i. 231.
- Historians, their difficulties, i. 235.
- The early, 236.
- The modern, 264.
- Their progress, 265.
- Exclusive spirit of the Grecian, 266.
- Dependence of the Latin on the Greek, 267.
- Points of superiority of modern, 272.
- Prejudiced, 273.
- Their neglect of narrative history, 276.
- Ideal, their characteristics, 280.
- Historical reading, its effect, i. 279.
- History, Johnson's view of, i. 243.
- Chiefly a matter of perspective, 245.
- Neglect of narrative, 276.
- Only value of, 277.
- Ideal form of, explained, 281.
- A compound of poetry and philosophy, 285.
- Difficulties of dividing them, 286.
- Hobbes, Thomas, influence of, ii. 421.
- Holland, governed with almost regal power by John de Witt, ii. 525.
- Its apprehensions of the designs of France, 528.
- Its defensive alliance with England and Sweden, 532.
- Holland, first Lord. See Fox, Henry.
- Holland, Henry Fox, third Lord, essay on, iii. [101-113].
- Compared to his grandfather and uncle, [107].
- Ability in debate, [109].
- Liberality, [110].
- His hospitality, [111].
- Hollis, Denzil, imprisoned by Charles I., ii. 18.
- Holwell, Mr., his presence of mind in the Black Hole, ii. 704.
- Cruelty of the Nabob to, 705.
- Homer, Quintilian's criticisms on, i. 42.
- Horace, compares poems to certain paintings, i. 49.
- Hosein, son of Ali, festival in memory of, ii. 690.
- Legend of his death, 691.
- Hospitals, objects of, ii. 660.
- Hume, David, an advocate rather than an historian, i. 273.
- On the violence of parties before the Revolution, ii. 350.
- Hungarians, their incursions into Lombardy, ii. 680.
- Hungary, rises to support Maria Theresa, iii. [265].
- Hunt. Leigh, his Comic Dramatists of the Restoration reviewed, iii. [47-100].
- Too lenient toward their immorality, [51].
- Huntington, William, ii. 750.
- Hutchinson, Mrs., ii. 518.
- Hyder Ali, character of, iii. [175].
- Imhoff, Baron, meets Hastings, iii. [124].
- Agrees to divorce his wife, [126].
- Imhoff, Baroness, her attachment to Warren Hastings, iii. [125].
- Marries him, [163].
- See Hastings, Mrs. Warren.
- Impey, Sir Elijah, a schoolmate of Hastings, iii. [118].
- Sent to India as Chief Justice, [148].
- Sentences Nuncomar, [153].
- His conduct reprehensible, [156].
- Attempts to enforce the English law in India, [168].
- Bought off by Hastings, [172].
- His conduct in the plundering of the Begums of Oude, [193].
- Recalled to England, [194].
- India, foundation of the British Empire in, ii. 277, 280.
- Early conduct of the English in, iii. [122].
- Their government in, [127].
- Regulating act for, [144].
- English law not suited to, [168].
- Advantages to the conquerors of the double governments in, [181].
- Induction, reasoning by, not invented by Bacon, ii. 475.
- Utility of its analysis greatly overrated by Bacon, 476.
- Example of its leading to absurdity, 479.
- Ireland, rebellion in, in 1640, ii. 41.
- Essex's administration in, 386, 387.
- Its condition under Cromwell's government, 519-521.
- Its state contrasted with that of Scotland, 639.
- Its union with England compared with the Persian fable of King Zohak, 640.
- Italian writers, criticisms on the principal, i. 1-39.
- Dante, 1-22.
- Petrarch, 23-39.
- Italy, her condition after the fall of Rome, i. 144.
- Freedom maintained during the Middle Ages, 145.
- Magnitude of her commerce, 147.
- Progress of learning in, 148.
- Art attains its zenith in, under Lorenzo the Magnificent, 150.
- Decline of martial vigor, 151.
- Use of mercenary soldiers in, 154.
- Peculiar system of fashionable morality produced in, 156.
- Character of her statesmen, 160.
- Corruption of her politics, 168.
- Feeling in, against the League of Cambray, 171.
- Effect of the Reformation in, iii. [15].
- Italy, Narrative of Travels in, Addison's, iii. [430].
- Jacobins, their origin, ii. 72.
- As a party in the French convention, urge the execution of the king, iii. [516].
- Supported by the Paris mob, [519].
- Condemn Marie Antoinette, [528].
- And the Girondists, [532].
- Begin the Reign of Terror, [533].
- Incapacity of their leaders, [537].
- Attack on Robespierre's faction, [553].
- End of their power, [556], [563].
- James I., his folly and weakness, ii. 11.
- Resembled Claudius Cæsar, 12.
- Court paid to him by the English courtiers before the death of Elizabeth, 398.
- His twofold character, 398.
- His favorable reception of Bacon, 399.
- His anxiety for the union of England and Scotland, 402.
- His employment of Bacon in perverting the laws, 403.
- His favors and attachment to Buckingham, 410, 411.
- Absoluteness of his government, 417.
- Summons Parliament, 422.
- His political blunders, 422, 423.
- His message to the Commons on the misconduct of Bacon, 425.
- James II., death of, i. 151.
- Acknowledgment by Louis XIV. of his son as his successor, 152.
- The favorite of the High Church party, 328.
- His misgovernment, 329.
- His claims as a supporter of toleration, 329-332.
- His conduct toward Lord Rochester, 332.
- His union with Louis XIV., 333.
- His confidential advisers, 334.
- See York, Duke of.
- Jardine, Mr., on the use of torture in England, ii. 408, note.
- Jeffreys, Judge, cruelty of, ii. 329.
- Jenyns, Soame, his Origin of Evil reviewed by Johnson, ii. 195.
- Jesuit Order, its theory and practice regarding heretics, ii. 334.
- Its spirit and methods, iii. [20].
- Fall of, [41].
- Jews, civil disabilities of, protested against, i. 641-655.
- Christianity of the government no barrier to removing their disabilities, 642.
- Political exclusion a form, not a fact, 644.
- Their aloofness merely a result of persecution, 646.
- Justice demands their fair treatment, 655.
- Johnson, Dr. Samuel, his view of history, i. 243.
- Croker's Boswell's Johnson reviewed, 691-742.
- Disdain of a French lady's library, 693.
- Observations on Gibbon, 697.
- Sells the Vicar of Wakefield, 698.
- Dates of his university degrees, 699.
- Epigram of, censured, 701.
- Greatness of Boswell's life of, 711.
- Our intimate knowledge of, 716.
- His arrival in London, 717.
- Small hope of patronage, 720.
- Early poverty and misery, 721.
- Last of the Grub Street hacks, 724.
- Kindness of, 725.
- Disregard of small grievances, 726.
- Mixture of credulity and skepticism, 727.
- Sentiments on religion, 728.
- On politics, 730.
- Judgments on books, 731.
- How formed, 732.
- His opinion of certain works, 733.
- Observation of men and manners, 734.
- Remarks on society narrow, 735.
- Contempt of foreigners, 736.
- Of travel and history, 738.
- Mannerisms, 739.
- His singular destiny, 742.
- Friend of Dr. Burney, iii. [337].
- Fondness for Fanny Burney, [351].
- Jones, Sir William, his distichs on a lawyer's division of time, i. 704.
- Jonson, Ben, on Bacon's eloquence, ii. 378.
- Verses on the celebration of Bacon's sixtieth year, 421.
- Tribute to Bacon, 442.
- Junius, probably Philip Francis, iii. [145].
- Juvenal, Johnson's aspersions on, i. 700.
- Keith, George, Earl Marischal of Scotland, at the court of Frederic the Great, iii. [279].
- Killed at Hochkirchen, [319].
- Kimbolton, Lord, impeached, ii. 45.
- King's Friends, a party under George III., iii. [659].
- Kniperdoling and Robespierre, analogy between their followers, ii. 72.
- Knowledge, advancement of society in, ii. 178, 301.
- Labor, division of, ii. 606.
- Labourdonnais, his talents, ii. 677.
- His treatment by the French government, 757.
- Lacedæmon, causes of the silent but rapid downfall of, i. 54, note.
- La Fontaine, his character, i. 713.
- Lalla Rookh, similes in, ii. 489.
- Lally, Governor, ii. 758.
- Lamb, Charles, defends the dramatists of the Restoration, iii. [53].
- Las Torres, Count of, ii. 164, 165.
- Latimer, Hugh, his popularity in London, ii. 433, 438.
- Latin tongue in Dante's time, i. 1.
- Laud, Archbishop, his errors, i. 336.
- Not a traitor, 337.
- His character, ii. 23.
- His diary, 24.
- His impeachment and imprisonment, 37.
- His rigor against the Puritans, and tenderness towards the Catholics, 41.
- Laudohn, an Austrian general, beats Frederic at Hochkirchen, iii. [319].
- At Kunersdorf, [322].
- Defeated at Lignitz but takes Schweidnitz, [325].
- Lawrence, Major, his early notice of Clive, ii. 678.
- Legerdemain, ii. 372.
- Legge, Right Hon. H. B., ii. 264.
- His dismissal, 265.
- His return to the Exchequer, 268.
- Legislation, comparative views on, by Plato and by Bacon, ii. 463.
- Lennox, Charlotte, ii. 518.
- Letters of Phalaris, ii. 592-596.
- Liberty, its excesses, the reaction from tyranny, i. 119.
- Cause of, espoused by Puritans, 132.
- Maintained in the Italian towns of the Middle Ages, 145.
- Its character in small states, 252.
- Lingard, Doctor, his account of the treatment of Lord Rochester by James II., ii. 332.
- His ability as an historian, 533.
- His strictures on the Triple Alliance, 533.
- Literature, rise of, in Italy, i. 148.
- General consideration of the progress of, 190 et seq.
- What epochs favorable to masterpieces, 190.
- Influence of the critical faculty, 192.
- Effect of technical skill, 198.
- Rise of good imitative literature, 203.
- Theories of, confirmed by history, 204.
- Literature, English, its quibbling character during James I.'s reign, i. 205.
- Patronage of, 547.
- Superseded by a system of puffs, 549.
- Revival of, 591.
- Encouragement of, by court favor, 718.
- Patronage discontinued by Walpole, 719.
- Livy, as an historian, graceful but untruthful, i. 258.
- Locke, John, Sadler not comparable to, i. 657.
- Lollards, iii. [13].
- London, in the 17th century, ii. 47.
- Devoted to the national cause, 48.
- Its public spirit, 77, 78.
- Its prosperity during the ministry of Lord Chatham, 279.
- Conduct of, at the Restoration, 316.
- Effects of the Great Plague upon, 525.
- Longinus, criticism of his work on the Sublime, i. 42.
- Louis XIV., his character and person, ii. 113-115.
- His conduct in respect to the Spanish succession, 140, 141, 149.
- His acknowledgment of James II.'s son as King of England, and its consequences, 152.
- Sends an army into Spain to the assistance of his grandson, 158.
- His proceedings in support of his grandson, Philip, 158-175.
- His reverses in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, 175.
- His policy, 333.
- Character of his government, 334, 335.
- His military exploits, 501, 502.
- His projects and affected moderation, 528.
- His ill-humor at the Triple Alliance, 533.
- His conquest of Franche Comté 534.
- His treaty with Charles, 543.
- Louis XV., his government, ii. 757, 758.
- Louis XVIII., restoration of, compared with that of Charles II., ii. 311.
- Louisburg, fall of, ii. 276.
- Love, honorable and chivalrous, unknown to the Greeks, i. 25.
- As delineated by the Roman poets, 25.
- What the word implies in its modern sense, 26.
- Change in the nature of the passion in the Middle Ages, 27.
- Love for Love, Congreve's, iii. [83].
- Loyola, Ignatius, his life and character, iii. [18].
- Founds the Jesuit Order, [20].
- Luther, Martin, opposes the ancient philosophy, ii. 454.
- Lysias, speech of, for the Athenian tribunals, ii. 601.
- Macflecnoe, Dryden's, i. 233.
- Machiavelli, his name generally odious, i. 140.
- Theories with regard to his Prince, 141.
- His composite character, 143.
- Better than his contemporaries, 163.
- His genius as a dramatist, 163.
- His dramas, 165-168.
- Fiction and political correspondence, 168.
- Dexterity as a diplomat, 169.
- Patriotism, 171.
- Efforts in behalf of military reform, 173.
- His Art of War, 175.
- The Prince and Discourses on Livy considered, 176.
- Errors in, excusable, 178.
- Compared to Montesquieu, 180.
- His historical works, 183.
- Mackintosh, Sir James, review of his History of the
- Revolution in England, ii. 283-356.
- Comparison with Fox's History of James II., 284.
- Character of his oratory, 285.
- His conversational powers, 289.
- His qualities as an historian, 290.
- His vindication from the imputations of the editor, 293, 299-305.
- Change in his opinions produced by the French Revolution, 294.
- His moderation, 298-300.
- His historical justice, 306.
- Maclean, Colonel, Hastings's agent in London, receives his resignation, iii. [152].
- Madras, description of, ii. 674.
- Its capitulation to the French, 677.
- Restored to the English, 678.
- Madrid, capture of, by the English army in 1705, ii. 166, 167.
- Mahommed Reza Khan, candidate for minister of Bengal, iii. [129].
- Appointed by Clive, [131].
- Removed by order of the Court of Directors, [132].
- Acquitted, [135].
- Mahon, Lord, review of his History of the War of the Succession in Spain, ii. 128-186.
- His qualities as an historian, 128-130.
- His explanation of the financial condition of Spain, 136, 137.
- His opinions on the Partition Treaty, 141-143.
- His representations of Cardinal Portocarrero, 154.
- His opinion of the peace at the conclusion of the War of the Spanish Succession, 177.
- His censure of Harley, 178.
- His view of the resemblance of the Tories of 1832 to the Whigs of the Revolution, 178-181.
- Mahrattas, danger to India from, iii. [164].
- Malaga, naval battle near, in 1704, ii. 159.
- Malcolm, Sir John, review of his Life of Lord Clive, ii. 670-762.
- Value of his work, 671.
- His partiality for Clive, 708.
- His defence of Clive's conduct towards Omichund, 717.
- Malthus, Thomas, his law of population attacked by Sadler, i. 610, 659.
- Use of arithmetical terms objected to, 616.
- His opinion as regards the United States, 636.
- Mandragola, The, i. 163. Its plot, 165.
- Mansfield, Murray, Lord, his character and talents, ii. 258.
- His rejection of the overtures of Newcastle, 267.
- His elevation, 267.
- Maria Theresa, her accession, iii. [257].
- Rallies Hungary to her assistance, [265].
- Cedes Silesia and wins Frederic, [266], [267].
- Again attacked by Frederic, [268], [269].
- Enmity toward him, [293].
- Combines Europe against him, [294].
- Makes peace with him, [328].
- Marlborough, Duke of, converted to Whiggism, ii. 176.
- Marsh, Bishop, opposes Calvinistic doctrine, ii. 653.
- Martin, Mr., an illustrator, unfortunate in his choice of subjects, i. 744.
- Mary, Queen, her persecutions more excusable than Elizabeth's, i. 292.
- Massinger, Philip, his fondness for the Catholic Church, ii. 88.
- Mathematics, Plato's estimate of, and Bacon's, ii. 458.
- Mawbey, Sir Joseph, accuracy of his anecdote of Johnson, i. 698.
- Medicine, Plato's estimate of, and Bacon's, ii. 461-463.
- Meer Cossim, his talents, deposition, and revenge, ii. 733, 734.
- Meer Jaffier, his conspiracy, ii. 710.
- His conduct during the battle of Plassey, 715.
- His pecuniary transactions with Clive, 720, 721.
- His proceedings on being threatened by the Great Mogul, 724, 725.
- His fears of the English and intrigues with the Dutch, 726.
- Deposed and reseated by the English, 733.
- His death, 737.
- His large bequest to Lord Clive, 745.
- Melancthon, ii. 68.
- Memmius, compared to Sir W. Temple, ii. 596.
- Memory, Plato's estimate of, and Bacon's, ii. 461.
- Mendoza, Hurtado de, ii. 133.
- Metcalf, Sir Charles, ii. 761.
- Mexico, exactions of Spanish viceroys in, ii. 733.
- Michell, Sir Francis, ii. 414, 424.
- Middleton, Dr., remarks on his Life of Cicero, ii. 360, 361.
- Mill, James, his Essay on Government, i. 381-422.
- Style of reasoning, 384.
- His objection to aristocratical government, 387.
- To monarchy, 388.
- Contradicted by history, 390.
- His fallacious reasoning with regard to combinations of government, 396.
- On representative governments, 403.
- Error in his theory, 405.
- His idea with regard to suffrage qualifications, 408.
- Failure to gauge human nature correctly, 414.
- His art a trick of legerdermain, 417, 418.
- Westminster Reviewer's defence of, refuted, 423-459.
- His inconsistency, 464.
- His merits as an historian, ii. 306, 307.
- Defects of his history of British India, 671.
- His unfairness towards Clive's character, 708.
- Milton, John, compared with Dante, i. 13, 99.
- His Essay on the Doctrines of Christianity recovered, 83.
- Style and doctrines, 84.
- His poetry his chief claim to recognition, 86.
- His age unfavorable to his work, 86.
- Excellence of his Latin verse, 91.
- Suggestion the characteristic of his verse, 93.
- L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, 94.
- Samson Agonistes, 94.
- Admiration for Euripides, 96.
- Comus, 97.
- Paradise Lost, 99.
- His use of the supernatural, 104.
- Character displayed in his poetry, 108.
- His sonnets, 109. His public conduct, 110.
- His support of public liberty approved, 121.
- His defence of the regicides justified, 123.
- His support of Cromwell creditable, 125.
- His character a combination of the good elements of contemporary parties, 133, 134.
- Prose writings, 137.
- Blindness may have helped his work, 213.
- His correctness considered, 584.
- Admired by Byron, 595.
- Minden, battle of, ii. 279.
- Minorca, captured by the French, ii. 266.
- Mirabeau, Dumont's Recollections of, ii. 95-127.
- His use of nicknames, 125.
- Compared with Wilkes, 125.
- With Chatham, 126.
- Missionary, story of a, i. 622.
- Mitford, Mr., his History of Greece criticised, i. 56-82.
- His characteristics as an historian, 57.
- His narration better than his predecessors', 60.
- His skepticism and political bias, 61.
- Partial to Lacedæmon, 64.
- And Lycurgus, 67.
- Prejudiced against Athens, 70.
- Inaccuracy with regard to Demosthenes, 73.
- With regard to Æschines, 75.
- His neglect of the peaceful pursuits of the Greeks, 77.
- His faults, 274.
- Molwitz, battle of, iii. [263].
- Mompesson, Sir Giles, conduct of Bacon in regard to his patent, ii. 414, 415.
- Abandoned to the vengeance of the Commons, 424.
- Monarchy, the English, in the 16th century, ii. 75, 80.
- Monjuich, fortress of, captured by Peterborough, ii. 163, 164.
- Monopolies, during the latter part of Elizabeth's reign, ii. 382.
- Multiplied under James, 414.
- Connived at by Bacon, 414, 415.
- Monson, Mr., made Councillor in India, iii. [144].
- Montagu, Basil, review of his edition of Lord Bacon's works, ii. 357-497.
- Character of his work, 357-363.
- His explanation of Lord Burleigh's conduct towards Bacon, 375.
- His views and arguments in defence of Bacon's conduct towards Essex, 390-395.
- His excuses for Bacon's use of torture, and his tampering with the judges, 405-408.
- His reflections on Bacon's admonition to Buckingham, 416.
- His complaints against James for not interposing to save Bacon, and for advising him to plead guilty, 427.
- His defence of Bacon, 429-440.
- Montesquieu, his Spirit of Laws, compared to Machiavelli's Prince, i. 180.
- Horace Walpole's opinion of, ii. 198.
- Montgomery, Robert, his poems reviewed, i. 546-568.
- Passed off on the public as a great poet, 547.
- His plagiarism and bad grammar, 556 et seq.
- His descriptions, 560.
- His personification, 563.
- His unjustified popularity, 566.
- His Satan, 566, 567.
- Montreal, captured by the British, ii. 277.
- Moore, Thomas, his Life of Lord Byron, i. 569-607.
- More, Sir Thomas, as a character in Southey's Colloquies, i. 506.
- His feeling for the doctrine of transubstantiation, iii. [7].
- Mourning Bride, Congreve's, iii. [83].
- Munny Begum, given charge of the infant Nabob, iii. [134].
- Munro, Sir Thomas, ii. 761.
- Munster, Bishop of, ii. 525.
- Murray, Solicitor-General (1750), his character, ii. 258.
- Professional ambition, 261.
- Refuses Newcastle's overtures, 267.
- Nabobs, class of Englishmen so called, ii. 745-748.
- Napoleon, compared with Philip II. of Spain, ii. 131.
- Anecdote of, 269.
- His Old Guard compared with Clive's garrison at Arcot, 689.
- His early proof of talents for war, 760.
- Nares, Rev. Dr., review of his Burleigh and his Times, ii. 63-94.
- Nelson, Southey's Life of, i. 499.
- Newcastle, Duke of, his relation to Walpole, ii. 217, 218.
- His character, 229, 230.
- His appointment as head of the administration, 260.
- His negotiations with Fox, 261, 262.
- Attacked in Parliament by Chatham, 263.
- His intrigues, 267.
- His resignation of office, 268.
- Sent for by the king on Chatham's dismissal, 270.
- Leader of the Whig aristocracy, 272.
- Motives for his coalition with Chatham, 273.
- His perfidy toward the king, 274.
- His jealousy of Fox, 274.
- His strong government with Chatham, 275.
- Forms a coalition with Chatham, iii. [596].
- His power, [597].
- Displaced by Bute, [620].
- Newdigate, Sir Roger, his rule for prize poems, i. 585.
- Newton, John, his connection with the slave trade, ii. 432.
- His belief in predestination, 653.
- Niagara, conquest of, ii. 276.
- Nimeguen, treaty of, ii. 549.
- Its hollowness and unsatisfactoriness, 550.
- Nizam al Mulk, Viceroy of the Deccan, his death, ii. 684.
- North, Lord, makes Hastings Governor-General of India, iii. [144].
- Tries to remove him, [160].
- Novum Organum, Lord Bacon's, quoted from, i. 447.
- Use of quotation defended, 469.
- Admiration excited by it before it was published, ii. 403.
- And afterwards, 421.
- Contrast between its doctrine and the ancient philosophy, 447, 455, 470.
- Its first book the greatest performance of Bacon, 494.
- Nov, Attorney-General to Charles I., ii. 26.
- Nugent, Lord, review of his Memorials of John Hampden, his Party and his Times; ii. 1-62.
- Nuncomar, candidate for minister of Bengal, his character, iii. [129].
- Disliked by Hastings, [133].
- Used as a tool, [135].
- Accuses Hastings before the Council, [150].
- Seized on charge of felony, and convicted, [153].
- His execution, [155].
- Oates, Titus, his plot, ii. 321-326.
- Ochino, Bernardo, sermons by, ii. 369.
- Ode to the Virgin, Petrarch's, i. 32.
- Old Bachelor, Congreve's, iii. [81].
- Oligarchy, has proved universally pernicious, i. 64.
- Omichund, his position in India, ii. 709.
- His treachery toward Clive, 711-717.
- Omnipresence of the Deity, Montgomery's, criticised, i. 556.
- Orange, William, Prince of, ii. 537.
- The only hope of his country, 542.
- His success against the French 543.
- His marriage with the Lady Mary, 550.
- See William III.
- Orators, On the Athenian, i. 40-55.
- Oratory, excellence to which it attained at Athens, i. 45.
- Circumstances favorable to that result, 46.
- Principles upon which it is to be estimated, 49.
- Causes of the difference between English and Athenian orators, 50.
- History of, at Athens, 51.
- Speeches of the ancients, as transmitted to us by Thucydides, 52.
- Period during which it flourished most at Athens, 52.
- Coincidence between the progress of the art of war and that of oratory, 54.
- Orme, his work on India, ii. 671.
- Orsini, Princess, ii. 154, 155, 169.
- Osborne, Sir Peter, and Sir William Temple, ii. 511.
- Ossian, poems of, utterly condemned, i. 20.
- Ostracism in Athens, i. 64.
- Oude, Hastings's dealings with the Prince of, iii. [137].
- Monetary demands on, [188].
- Begums of, plundered, [191].
- Overbury, Sir Thomas, ii. 436, 438.
- Oxford, University of, inferior to that of Cambridge, in intellectual activity, ii. 364.
- Painting, causes of its decline, in England after the civil wars, ii. 199.
- Paley, cited, i. 660. Mr. Gladstone on, ii. 605.
- Papacy, its antiquity, iii. [2].
- Triumph at the Reformation due to public opinion, [25].
- Papists and Protestants, line of demarcation between, ii. 380.
- Paradise Lost, Milton's, i. 99.
- Parker, Archbishop, ii. 89.
- Parliament, recent demands on, i. 377.
- Reform of, demanded, 378.
- Parliament of James I., ii. 13, 14.
- Of Charles I., his first, 15, 16.
- His second, 17.
- Its dissolution, 18.
- His fifth, 31.
- Effect of the publication of its proceedings, 220.
- Parliament, the Long, its actions justified, i. 116.
- Convened, 306.
- Early measures approved, 316.
- Attempt to seize five of its members, 318.
- Loyal tendency of, 319.
- Loyalists in, 320.
- Attitude at the beginning of the war, 329.
- Nineteen propositions of, 331.
- Claims control of the militia, 333.
- Its errors, 335.
- Inclined to half measures at first, 338.
- Growth of military party in, 339.
- Gets into the hands of the army, 340.
- Its first meeting, ii. 36.
- Recapitulation of its acts, 37.
- Its attainder of Strafford defended, 39, 40.
- Sends Hampden to Edinburgh to watch the king, 41.
- Refuses to surrender the members ordered to be impeached, 45.
- Openly defies the king, 49.
- Its conditions of reconciliation, 53.
- Pascal, Blaise, ii. 590.
- "Patriots, The," in opposition to Sir Robert Walpole, ii. 219.
- Their remedies for state evils, 220-222.
- Paulet, Sir Amias, ii. 373.
- Peacham, Rev. Mr., his treatment by Bacon, ii. 405.
- Peel, Sir Robert, i. 701.
- Peerage, Sadler's assertion of its sterility refuted, i. 633, 684.
- Pelham, Henry, his character, ii. 228.
- Pelhams, the, their ascendency, ii. 227.
- Their accession to power, 255.
- Feebleness of the opposition to them, 257.
- Peninsular War, Southey's, i. 500.
- People, the, in the 17th and 19th centuries, i. 543, 544.
- Their welfare disregarded in partition treaties, ii. 141, 142.
- Pepys, Samuel, praises the Triple Alliance, ii. 536, note.
- Pericles, his eloquence, i. 53.
- Distributes gratuities to Athenian tribunals, ii. 431.
- Périer, J. V., his translation of Machiavelli, i. 140.
- Peterborough, Earl of, his expedition to Spain, ii. 159.
- His character, 159, 171.
- His successes on the northeast coast of Spain, 161-166.
- His retirement to Valencia thwarted, 170.
- Returns to Valencia as a volunteer, 170.
- His recall to England, 171.
- Pétion, the Girondist, iii. [523].
- His unfortunate end, [527].
- Saint Just's speech on his guilt, [528].
- "Petition of Right," enactment of the, ii. 17.
- Violated by Charles I., 17, 27.
- Petrarch, influence of his poems on the literature of Italy, i. 5, 6.
- Celebrity as a writer, 23.
- His amatory verses, 25.
- Causes co-operating to spread his renown, 26, 27.
- His coronation at Rome, 28, 29.
- His poetical powers, 30.
- His genius, 31.
- Paucity of his thoughts, 31.
- His energy when speaking of the wrongs and degradation of Italy, 32.
- His poems on religious subjects, 32.
- Prevailing defect of his best compositions, 33.
- His imitators, 34.
- His sonnets, 35.
- Remarks on his Latin writings, 36.
- Phalaris, Letters of, controversy upon their merits and genuineness, ii. 592-596.
- Philip II. of Spain, extent and splendor of his empire, ii. 130.
- Philip III. of Spain, his accession, ii. 148.
- His character, 148-150.
- His choice of a wife, 154.
- Obliged to fly from Madrid, 166.
- Surrender of his arsenal and ships at Carthagena, 167.
- Defeated at Almenara, and again driven from Madrid, 173.
- Forms a close alliance with his late competitor, 183.
- Quarrels with France; value of his renunciation of the crown of France, 184.
- Philip, Duke of Orleans, regent of France, ii. 118-120.
- Compared with Charles II. of England, 119, 120.
- Philips, Ambrose, friend of Addison, iii. [438].
- Philips, Sir Robert, ii. 425.
- Philosophical Church, the, iii. [39].
- Its philanthropic tendency, [39].
- Its extravagance, [42].
- Philosophy, ancient, its characteristics, ii. 445.
- Its stationary character, 449, 465.
- Its alliance with Christianity, 452, 453.
- Its fall, 453.
- Its merits compared with the Baconian, 465-469.
- Reason of its barrenness, 482.
- Philosophy, moral, its relation to the Baconian system, ii. 472.
- Philosophy, natural, the light in which it was viewed by the ancients, ii. 445-452.
- New features of Bacon's, 455.
- Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan's, its characteristic peculiarity, i. 745.
- Liked by all classes, 746.
- Characters real beings, 748.
- Not a consistent allegory, 749.
- Portrays its author's internal conflicts, 754.
- Depicts characters and judicial scenes typical of the time, 756.
- Pisistratus, Bacon's comparison of Essex to, ii. 388.
- Pitt, William, the elder. See Chatham, Earl of.
- Pitt, William, the younger, sides with Hastings at first, iii. [207].
- Supports the Benares charge against him, [216].
- Motive alleged, [219].
- Pius V., a bigot, ii. 662.
- Plain Dealer, Wycherley's, its appearance and merit, iii. [70], [79].
- Plassey, battle of, ii. 713-715.
- Its effect in England, 723.
- Plato, never sullen, ii. 359.
- Comparison of his views with those of Bacon, 456-469.
- His excellence in the art of dialogue, 590.
- Plutarch, his school of historical writers, their faults, i. 251.
- Out of sympathy with their subjects, 252.
- Their cant about patriotism, 254.
- Their influence on England slight, 255.
- The French affected by, 257; ii. 124.
- His evidence of gift-taking by Athenian judges, 431.
- His anecdote of a speech by Lysias, 601.
- Poetry, semi-civilization most favorable to the creation of, i. 86.
- Defined, 89.
- Use of the supernatural in, 101, 102.
- Application of criticism to, 191.
- Need of skill in, 198.
- Revivals of, 203.
- Its decay retarded in England by the drama, 209.
- Meaning of correctness in, 581.
- Its object, 587.
- Its imitation, 588.
- Revival of, in England, 591.
- Byron's share in its revival, 594.
- Pole, Cardinal, ii. 69.
- Politian, quoted, ii. 286.
- Political Science, progress of, ii. 300, 307, 303, 355, 356.
- Polybius, authenticity his only merit as an historian, i. 251.
- Pondicherry, ii. 686.
- Pope, Alexander, first English author to be free of patronage, i. 548.
- Deterioration of his school, 591.
- Admired by Byron, 594.
- Enriched by political favors, 722.
- Esteemed by Johnson, 733.
- Friendship with Wycherley, iii. [74].
- Defends Addison's Cato, [461].
- Estranged from Addison, [469].
- His character leads to a suspicion of malignity, [473].
- Attacks Addison in Atticus, [474].
- Popes, the, restraint of, in Italy, i. 145.
- Ranke's History of, reviewed, iii. [1-46].
- Popish Plot, the, ii. 321-325.
- Popoli, Duchess of, saved by the Earl of Peterborough, ii. 164.
- Population, theory of excess of, a reflection on the Deity, i. 611.
- Sadler's law of, 615.
- Disproved by evidence, 617.
- Its dependence on wealth, 631.
- Further refutation of Sadler's law, 670 et seq.
- Portico, school of the, its doctrines, ii. 450.
- Portocarrero, Cardinal, ii. 144-148.
- Louis XIV.'s opinion of him, 154.
- His disgrace and reconciliation with the Queen Dowager, 167.
- Posidonius, on the value of philosophy, ii. 445.
- Post Nati, the, great case of, in the Exchequer Chamber, conducted by Bacon; doubts upon the legality of the decision, ii. 402.
- Pragmatic Sanction, agreed to, iii. [257].
- Entirely destroyed by Frederic the Great's action, [262].
- Prerogative, royal, curtailed by the Revolution, ii. 211.
- Bolingbroke proposes to strengthen it, 211. See Crown.
- Press, the, emancipation of, i. 369.
- Censorship of, in the reign of Elizabeth, ii. 76.
- Prince, The, Machiavelli's, i. 176.
- Compared to Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 180.
- Printing, its inventor and the date of its discovery unknown, ii. 452.
- Privy Council, Temple's plan for its reconstitution, ii. 553.
- Mr. Courtenay's opinion of its absurdity contested, 554-565.
- Barillon's remarks upon it, 556.
- Progress of mankind, in the political and physical sciences, ii. 300-306.
- In intellectual freedom, 380.
- The key of the Baconian doctrine, 445.
- How retarded by the unprofitableness of ancient philosophy, 445-472.
- Protestantism, early history of, ii. 73, 74.
- Its attitude toward private judgment, 643.
- Rapid advance of, iii. [14].
- Struggle with Catholicism, [25].
- Dissension in the ranks of, [28].
- Vanquished and humbled, [34].
- Productive of prosperity to its adherents, [36].
- Non-extension of, remarkable, [45].
- Protestant Nonconformists, in the reign of Charles I., intolerance of, ii. 42.
- Protestants and Catholics, relative numbers of, in the 16th century, ii. 83, 84.
- Provence, earliest civilized portion of Western Europe, iii. [9].
- Prussia, king of, subsidized by the Pitt and Newcastle ministry, ii. 278.
- Its beginnings, iii. [243].
- Becomes a kingdom, [244].
- Condition of, under Frederic the Great, [275].
- Fearful devastation of, in the Seven Years' War, [329].
- Prynne, pilloried and mutilated, ii. 23, 29.
- Public opinion, power of, ii. 209.
- Public spirit, an antidote against bad government, ii. 78.
- A safe-guard against legal oppression, 79.
- Puffing, used to float poor books, i. 549.
- Method employed, 550.
- Discreditable to the author puffed, 552.
- Its effect, 553.
- Pulteney, William, his opposition to Walpole, ii. 213, 239.
- Moved the address to the king on the marriage of the Prince of Wales, 246.
- His unpopularity, 253.
- Accepts a peerage, 254.
- Puritans, absurd and brilliant characteristics of, i. 128-132.
- Theatres closed by, 209.
- Persecution of, by Elizabeth, inexcusable, 295.
- Their persecution by Charles I., ii. 22.
- Settlement in America, 29.
- Blamed for calling in the Scots, 34.
- Defended against this accusation, 34, 35.
- Difficulty and peril of their leaders, 44.
- The austerity of their manners drove many to the royal standard, 55.
- Their position at the close of the reign of Elizabeth, 380.
- Pym, John, intimate with Hampden, ii. 31.
- His influence, 36.
- His impeachment ordered by the King, 45.
- Lady Carlisle's warning to him, 46.
- Pynsent, Sir William, his legacy to Chatham, iii. [645].
- Quebec, conquest of, by Wolfe, ii. 276.
- Quintilian, as a critic, i. 42.