Poor-rates (the), lower in manufacturing than in agricultural districts. [146]
Pope, his independence of spirit, [191] ; his translation of Homer's description of a moonlight night, [338] ; relative "correctness" of his poetry, [338] Byron's admiration of him, [351] ; praise of him, by Cowper, [351] ; his character, habits, and condition, [404] ; his dislike of Bentley, [113] ; his acquaintance with Wycherley, [381] ; his appreciation of the literary merits of Congreve, [406] ; the originator of the heroic couplet, [333] ; his condensation in consequence of its use, [152] ; his testimony to Addison's conversational powers, [366] ; his Rape of the Lock his best poem, [394] ; his Essay on Criticism warmly praised in the Spectator, [394] ; his intercourse with Addison, [394] ; his hatred of Dennis, [394] ; his estrangement from Addison, [403] ; his suspicious nature, [403]408; his satire of Addison, [409] [411] ; his Messiah translated into Latin verse by Johnson, [175]
Popes, review of Ranke's History of the, [299]
Popham, Major, [84]
Popish Plot, circumstances which assisted the belief in, [294] [298]
Popoli, Duchess of, saved by the Earl of Peterborough, [116]
Port Royal, its destruction a disgrace to the Jesuits and to the Romish Church, [333]
Portico, the doctrines of the school so called, [441]
Portland, Duke of, [241] [278]
Porto Carrero, Cardinal, [94] [98] Lewis XIV.'s opinion of him, [104] ; his disgrace and reconciliation with the Queen Dowager, [121]
Portrait-painting, [385] [338]
Portugal, its retrogression in prosperity compared with Denmark, [340]
Posidonius, his eulogy of philosophy as ministering to human comfort, [436]
Post Nati, the great case in the Exchequer Chamber, conducted by Bacon, [387] [367] ; doubts upon the legality of the decision, [387]
Power, political, religions belief ought not to exclude from, [303]
Pratt, Charles, [13] Chief Justice, [86] ; created Lord Camden, and intrusted with the seals. [91]
Predestination, doctrine of, [317]
Prerogative royal, its advance, [485] ; in the [16]th century, [172] ; its curtailment by the Revolution, [170] ; proposed by Bolingbroke to be strengthened, [171] ; see also Crown.
Press, Milton's defence of its freedom, [262] ; its emancipation after the Revolution, [530] ; remarks on its freedom, [169] [270] ; censorship of, in the reign of Elizabeth, [15] ; its influence on the public mind after the Devolution, [330] ; upon modern oratory, [150]
Pretsman, Mr., [225]
Prince, The, of Machiavelli, general condemnation of it, [207] ; dedicated to the younger Lorenzo de Medici; compared with Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 013.
Printing, effect of its discovery upon writers of history, [411] ; its inventor and the date of its discovery unknown, [444]
Prior, Matthew, his modesty compared with Aristophanes and Juvenal, [352]
Prisoners of war, Barêre's proposition tor murdering, [490]-495.
Private judgment, Milton's defence of the right of, [202] Mr. Gladstone's notions of the rights and abuses of, [102] [103]
Privileges of the House of Commons, change in public opinion in respect to them, [330] See also Parliament.
Privy Council, Temple's plan for its reconstitution, iv. 04; Mr. Courtenay's opinion of its absurdity contested, [5] [77] Barillon's remarks upon it, [7]
Prize compositions necessarily unsatisfactory, [24]
Progress of mankind in the political and physical sciences, [271] [277] ; in intellectual freedom, [302] ; the key of the Baconian doctrine, [430] ; how retarded by the unprofitableness of ancient philosophy, [430] [405] ; during the last [250] ; years, [302]
Prometheus, [38]
Prosperity, national, [150]
Protector (the), character of his administration, [248]
Protestant nonconformists in the reign of Charles I., their intolerance, [473]
Protestantism, its early history, [13] ; its doctrine touching the right of private judgment, [104] ; light which Ranke has thrown upon its movements, [300] [301] ; its victory in the northern parts of Europe, [314] ; its failure in Italy, [315] ; effect of its outbreak in any one part of Christendom, [317] ; its contest with Catholicism in France, Poland, and Germany, [325] [331] ; its stationary character, [348] [349]
Protestants and Catholics, their relative numbers in the [10]th century, [25]
Provence, its language, literature, and civilization in the [12]th century, [308] [309] ; its poets the teachers of Petrarch, [85]
Prussia, king of, subsidized by the Pitt and Newcastle ministry, [245] ; influence of Protestantism upon her, [339] ; superiority of her commercial system, [48] [49]
Psalnianazur, George, [185]
Ptolemaic system, [229]
Public opinion, its power, [168]
Public spirit, an antidote against bad government, [18] ; a safeguard against legal oppression, [18]
Publicity (the), of parliamentary proceedings, influence of, [108] ; a remedy for corruption, [22]
Pulci, allusion to, [279]
Pulteney, William, his opposition to Walpole, [202] ; moved the address to the king on the marriage of the Prince of Wales, [210] ; his unpopularity, [218] ; accepts a peerage, [219] ; compared with Chatham, [93]
Pundits of Bengal, their jealousy of foreigners, [98]
Punishment, warning not the only end of, [404]
Punishment and reward, the only means by which government can effect its ends, [303]
Puritanism, effect of its prevalence upon tlie national taste, [302] [347] ; the restraints it imposed, [300] ; reaction against it, [307]
Puritans (the), character and estimate of them, [253] [257] ; hatred of them by James I, [455] ; effect of their religious austerity, [109] Johnson's contempt for their religious scruples, [411] ; their persecution by Charles I., [451] ; settlement of, in America, [459] ; blamed for calling in the Scots, [405] ; defence of them against this accusation, [405] ; difficulty and peril of their leaders, [470] ; the austerity of their manners drove many to the royal standard, [481] ; their position at the close of tlie reign of Elizabeth, [302] [303] ; their oppression by Whitgift, [330] ; their faults in the day of their power and their consequences, [307] [368] ; their hostility to works of the imagination, [340] [347]
Puritans and Papists, persecution of, by Elizabeth, [430]
Eym, John, his influence, [407] Lady Carlisle's warning to him, [478] ; his impeachment ordered by the king, [477]
Pynsent, Sir William, his legacy to Chatham, [63]
Pyramid, the Great, Arab fable concerning it, [347] ; how it looked to one of the French philosophers who accompanied Napoleon, [58]
"Pyrenees (the), have ceased to exist," [99]
Q.
Quebec, conquest of, by Wolfe, iii.
Quince, Peter, sense in which he uses the word "translated," [405] [406]
Quintilian, his character as a critic, [141] [142] ; causes of his deficiencies in this respect, [141] ; admired Euripides, [141]
R.
Rabbinical Learning, work on, by Rev. L. Addison, [325]
Racine, his Greeks far less "correctly" drawn than those of Shakspeare, [338] ; his Iphigenie an anachronism, [338] ; passed the close of his life in writing sacred dramas, [300]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, i [36] ; his varied acquirements, [96] ; his position at court at the close of the reign of Elizabeth, [364] ; his execution, [400]
"Rambler" (the), [190]
Itamsav, court painter to George III., [4]L
Ramus, [447]
Ranke, Leopold, review of his History of the Popes, [299] [349] ; his
qualifications as an historian, [299] [347]
Rape of the Lock (the), Pope's best poem, [394] ; recast by its author, [403] [404]
Rasselas, Johnson's, [19]G, [197]
Reader, Steele's, [403]
Reading in the present age necessarily desultory, [147] ; the least part of an Athenian education, [147] 148.
Reasoning in verse, Drvden's, [300] [308]
Rebellion, the Great, and the Revolution, analogy between them, [237] [247]
Rebellion in Ireland in 1840, [473]
Reform, the process of, often necessarily attended with many evils, [13] ; its supporters sometimes unworthy, [13]
Reform Bill, [235] ; conduct of its opponents, [311]
Reform in Parliament before the Revolution, [539] ; public desire for, [541] ; policy of it, [542] [131] ; its results, [54] [50]
Reformation (the), Milton's Treatise of, [204] ; the history of the Reformation much misrepresented, [439] [445] ; party divisions caused by it, [533] ; their consequences, [534] ; its immediate effect upon political liberty in England, [435] ; its social and political consequences, [10] ; analogy between it and the French Revolution, [10] [11] ; its effect upon the Church of Rome, [87] ; vacillation which it produced in English legislation, [344] ; auspices under which it commenced, [313] ; its effect upon the Roman court, [323] ; its progress not effected by the event of battles or sieges, [327]
Reformers, always unpopular in their own age, [273] [274]
Refugees, [300]
Regicides of Charles L, disapproval of their conduct, [240] ; injustice of the imputations cast on them, [240] [247]
Regium Donum, [170]
Regulating Act, its introduction by Lord North, and change which it made in the form of the Indian government, [35] [52] 03; power which it gave to the Chief Justice, [67]
Religion, national establishment of, [100] ; its connection with civil government, [101] ; sey.; its effects upon the policy of Charles I., and of the Puritans, [108] ; no disqualification for the safe exercise of political power, [300] ; the religion of the English in the [10]th century, [27] [31] ; what system of, should be taught by a government, [188] ; no progress made in the knowledge of natural religion, since the days of Thales, [302] ; revealed, not of the nature of a progressive science, [304] ; injurious influence of Louis XIV. upon, iii. 04; of slavery in the West Indies, [311] [313]
Remonstrant, allusion to Milton's Animadversions on the, [204]
Rent, [400]
Representative government, decline of, [485]
Republic, french, Burke's character of, [402]
Restoration (the), degenerated character of our statesmen and politicians in the times succeeding it, [512] [513] ; low standard of political morality after it, [512] ; violence of party and low state of national feeling after it, [525] : that of Charles II. and of Lewis XVIII. contrasted. [283] 284; its effects upon the morals and manners of the nation, [367] [308]
Retrospective law, is it ever justifiable? [403] [404] [400] ; warranted by a certain amount of public danger, [470]
"Revels, Athenian," scenes from, [30]
Review, New Antijacobin (the). See Antijacobin Review.
Revolution (the), its principles often grossly misrepresented, [235] ; analogy between it and the "Great Rebellion," [237] [247] ; its effect on the character of public men, [520] ; freedom of the press after it, [530] ; its effects, [530] ; the fruit of a coalition, [410] ; ministerial responsibility since, [531] ; review of (Mackintosh's History of, [251] [335]
Revolution, the French, its history, [440]-513; its character, [273] [275] ; warnings which preceded it, [440] [441] [50] [340] [427] [428] ; its social and political consequences, [10] [11] [205] [200] [532] [534] [430] ; its effects on the whole salutary, [40] [41] [67] ; the excesses of its development, [41] [44] ; differences between the first and the second, [515] ; analogy between it and the Reformation, [10] [11] Dumont's views upon it, [41] [43] [44] 40; contrasted with the English, [40] [50] 08, [70]
Revolutionary tribunal, (the). See Tribunal.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [126]
Rheinsberg, [150]
Rhyme introduced into English plays to please Charles II., [349]
Richardson, [298]
Richelieu, Cardinal, [338]
Richmond, Duke of, [107]
Rigby, secretary for Ireland, [12]
Rimini, story of, [74]
Riots, public, during Grenville's administration, [70]
Robertson, Dr., [472] [215] Scotticisms in his works, [342]
Robespierre, [340] ; analogy between his followers and those of Kniperdoling, [12] [420] [470] [480] ; false accusations against, [431] ; his treatment of the Girondists, [473] [474] ; one of the Committee of Safety, [475] ; his life attempted, [489] ; the division in the Committee, and the revolution of the ninth Thermidor, [497] [499] ; his death, [500] ; his character, [501]
Robinson, Sir Thomas, [228]
Rochefort, threatening of, [244]
Rochester, Earl of, [307] [114] [335]
Rockingham, Marquess of, his characteristics, [73] ; parallel between his party and the Bedfords, [73] ; accepts the Treasury, [74] ; patronizes Burke, [75] ; proposals of his administration on the American Stamp Act, [78] ; his dismissal, [88] ; his services, [88] [89] ; his moderation towards the new ministry, [93] ; his relation to Chatham, [102] ; advocated the independence of the United States, [100] ; at the head of the Whigs, [232] ; made First Minister, [235] ; his administration, [23](i, [237] ; his death, [237]
Rockingham and Bedfords, parallel between them, [73]
Sir Thomas, [273] Uohillas, description of them, [29] ; agreement between Hastings and Stirajah Dowlali for their subjugation, [30] [31]
Roland, Madame, [43] [452] [453] [473]
Homans (the), exclusiveness of, [413] [410] ; under Diocletian, compared to the Chinese, [415] [416]
Romans and Greeks, difference between, [287] ; in their treatment of woman, [83] [84]
Roman Tale (a), fragments of, [119] ; game, called Duodeeim Scriptæ, [4] ; note,; name for the highest throw on the dice, [13] ; note.
Home, ancient, bribery at, [421] ; civil convulsions in, contra-ted with those in Greece, [189] [190] ; literature of, [347] [349]
Rome, Church of, its encroaching disposition, [295] [296] ; its policy, [308] ; its antiquity, [301] ; see also Church of Home.
Hooke, Sir George, his capture of Gibraltar, [110] ; his fight with a French squadron near Malaga, [110] ; his return to England, [110]
Rosamond, Addison's opera of, [361]
Roundheads (the), their literature, [234] ; their successors in the reign of George I. turned courtiers, [4]
Rousseau, his sufferings, [365] Horace Walpole's opinion of him, [156]
Rowe, his verses to the Chloe of Holland House, [412]
Roval Society (the), of Literature, [20]-29.
Royalists (the), of the time of Charles I., [257] ; many of them true friends to the Constitution, [483] ; some of the most eminent formerly in opposition to the Court, [471]
Royalists, Constitutional, in the reign of Charles I., [471] [481]
Rumford, Count, [147]
Rupert, Prince, [493] ; his encounter with Hampden at Chalgrove, [493]
Russell, Lord, [526] ; his conduct in the new council, [96] ; his death, [99]
Russia and Poland, diffusion of wealth in, as compared with England, [182]
Rutland, Earl of, his character, [411] [412]
Ruyter, Admiral de, [51]
Rymer, [417]
S.
Sacheverell. Dr., his impeachment and conviction, [130] [362] [121]
Sackville, the Earl of, (16th century,) [36] [261]
Sackville, Lord George, [13]
Sadler, Mr., his Law of Population reviewed, [214] [249] ; his style, [214] [215] [270] [305] 306; specimen of his verse, [215] ; the spirit of his work, [216] [217] [220] [270] [305] ; his objections to the Doctrines of Malthus. [217] [218] [222] [228] [244] [271] [272] ; answer to them, [219] [221] ; his law stated, [222] ; does not understand the meaning of the words in which it is stated, [224]226, [278] [279] ; his law proved to be not true, [226] 227, [231] [238] [280]295; his views injurious to the cause of religion, [228] [230] ; attempts to prove that the increase of population in America is chiefly owing to immigration, [238] [239] [245] [249] ; refutes himself, [239] [240] ; his views upon the fecundity of the English peers, [240] [241] [298] [304] ; refutation of these arguments, [241] [243] ; his general characteristics, [249] ; his Refutation refuted, [268] [306] ; misunderstands Paley's arguments, [273] [274] ; the meaning of "the origin of evil," [274] [278] ; and the principle which he has himself laid down, [295] [298]
St. Denis, [484]
St. Dennis and St. George-in-the Water, parishes of, imaginary lawsuit between, [100]
St. Ignatius. See Loyola.
St. John, Henry, his accession to power in [171] [130] [141] ; see also Bolingbroke, Lord.
St. John, Oliver, counsel against Charles I.'s writ for ship-money, [457] [464] ; made Solicitor-General, [472]
St. Just, [466] [470] 474,475,498, [500]
St. Louis, his persecution of liberties, [421]
St. Maloes, ships burnt in the harbor of, [244]
St. Patrick, [214]
St. Thomas, island of, [381] [383]
Saintes, [510]
Sallust, characteristics of, as a historian, [404] [400] ; his conspiracy of Catiline has rather the air of a clever party-pamphlet, than of a history, [404] ; grounds for questioning' the reality of the conspiracy, [403] ; his character and genius, [337]
Salmasius, Milton's refutation of, [248]
Salvator Rosa, [347]
Samson, Agonistes, [215]
San Marino, visited by Addison, [340]
Satire, the only indigenous growth of Roman literature, [348]
Savage, Richard, his character, [180] ; his life by Johnson, [187] [214]
Savile, Sir George, [73]
Savonarola, [316]
Saxony, its elector the natural head of the Protestant party in Germany, [328] ; its persecution of the Calvinists, [329] ; invasion by the Catholic party in Germamy [337]
Schism, cause of, in England, [334]
Schwellenberg, Madame, her position and character, [283] [284] [297]
Science, political, progress of, [271] [279] [334]
Scholia, origin of the House of, [59]
Scotland, cruelties of James II. in, [300] [311] ; establishment of the Kirk in, [322] [159] ; her progress in wealth and intelligence owing to Protestantism, [340] ; incapacity of its natives to hold land in England even after the Union [300]
Scots (the), effects of their resistance to Charles I., [400] [401] ; ill feeling excited against them by Bute's elevation to power, [39] [40] ; their wretched condition in the Highland, and Fletcher of Saltoun's views upon it, [388] [389]
Scott, Major, his plea in defence of Hastings, [105] ; his influence, [100] ; his challenge to Burke, [114]
Scott, Sir Walter, [435] ; relative "correctness" of his poetry, [338] ; his Duke of Rockingham (in "Peveril"), [358] Scotticisms in his works, [342] ; value of his writings, [428] ; pensioned by Earl Grey, [201]
Seas, Liberty of the, Barêre's work upon, [512]
Sedley, Sir Charles, [353]
Self-denying ordinance (the), [490]
Seneca, his work "On Anger," [437] ; his claims as a philosopher, [438] ; his work on natural philosophy, [412] ; the Baconian system in reference to, [478]
Sevajee, founder of the Mahratta empire, [59]
Seward, Mr., [271]
Sforza, Francis, [280]
Shaltesbury, Lord, allusion to, [208] [13] ; his character, [81] [89] ; contrasted with Halifax, [90]
Shakspeare, allusion to, [208] [30] ; one of the most "correct" poets, [337] ; relative "correctness" of his Troilus and Cressida, [338] ; contrasted with Byron, [359] Johnson's edition of, [417] [199] [342] ; his superlative merits, [345] ; his bombast, [301] ; his fairies' songs, [304]
Shaw, the Lifeguardsman, [357]
Shebbeare, Bute's patronage of, [40]
Shelburne, Lord, Secretary of State in Chatham's second administration, [91] ; his dismissal, [100] ; heads one section of the opposition to North, [233] ; made First Lord of the Treasury, [237] ; his quarrel with Fox, [239] ; his resignation, [241]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [257] [350]
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [389] ; his speech against Hastings, r. [121] ; his encouragement to Miss Burney to write for the stage, [273] ; his sarcasm against Pitt, [210]
Sheridan and Congreve, effect of their works upon the Comedy of England, [295] ; contrasted with Shakspeare, [295]
Ship-money, question of its legality, [157] ; seq.
Shrewsbury, Duke of, [397]
Sienna, cathedral of, [319]
Sigismund of Sweden, [329]
Silius Italicus, [357]
Simonides, his speculations on natural religion, [302]
Sismondi, M., [131] ; his remark about Dante, [58]
Sixtus V., [321]
Skinner Cyriac, [202]
Slave-trade, [259]
Slavery in Athens, [189] ; in Sparta, [190] ; in the West Indies, [303] ; its origin there, [301] [305] ; its legal rights there. [305] [310] ; parallel between slavery there and in other countries, [311] ; its effects upon religion, [311] [313] ; upon public opinion and morals, [311] [320] ; who are the zealots for, [320] [321] ; their foolish threats, [322] ; effect of, upon commerce, [323] [325] ; impunity of its advocates, [325] [32]G; its danger, [328] ; and approaching downfall, [329] ; defended in Major Moody's report, [361] [373] [371] ; its approval by Fletcher of Saltoun, [388] [389]
Smalridge, George, [121] [122]
Smith, Adam, [286]
Smollett, his judgment on Lord Carteret, [188] ; his satire on the Duke of Newcastle, [191]
Social contract, [182]
Society, Mr. Southey's Colloquies on, reviewed, [132]
Society, Royal, (the), of literature, [20]-29; its absurdity, [20] ; dangers to be apprehended from it, [20]-23; cannot be impartial, [21] [22] ; foolishness of its system of prizes, [23] [21] Dartmoor the first subject proposed by it for a prize, [21] [31] ; never published a prize composition, [25] ; apologue illustrating its consequences, [25] [29]
Socrates, the first martyr of intellectual liberty, [350] his views of the uses of astronomy, [152] ; his reasoning exactly the reasoning of Paley's Natural Theology, [511] [303] ; his dialogues, [381]
Soldier, citizen, (a), different from a mercenary, [61] [187]
Somers, Lord Chancellor, his encouragement of literature, [337] ; procures a pension for Addison, [338] ; made Lord President of the Council, [362]
Somerset, the Protector, as a promoter of the English Reformation, [452] ; his fall, [396]
Somerset, Duke of, [415]
Sonnets, Milton's, [233] Petrarch's, [93] [95]
Sophocles and the Greek Drama, [217]
Soul, [303]
Soult, Marshal, reference to, [67]
Southampton, Earl of, notice of, [384]
Southcote, Joanna, [336]
Southern and Northern countries, difference of moral feeling in, [285]
Southey, Robert, review of his Colloquies on Society, [132] ; his characteristics, [132] 134; his poetry preferable to his prose, [136] ; his lives of Nelson and John Wesley, [136] [137] ; his Peninsular War, [137] ; his Book of the Church, [137] ; his political system, [140] ; plan of his present work, [141] ; his opinions regarding the manufacturing system, [146] ; his political economy, [151] ; seq.; the national debt, [153] [156] ; his theory of the basis of government, [158] ; his remarks on public opinion, [159] [160] ; his view of the Catholic claims, [170] ; his ideas on the prospects of society, [172] ; his prophecies respecting the Corporation and Test Acts, and the removal of the Catholic disabilities, [173] ; his observations on the condition of the people in the [16]th and [19]th centuries, [174] ; his arguments on national wealth, [178] [180] ; review of his edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, [250] ; see also Bunyon.
South Sea Bubble, [200]
Spain, [488] ; review of Lord Mahon's War of the Succession in, [75] ; her state under Philip, [79] ; her literature during the [16]th century, [80] ; her state a century later, [81] ; effect produced on her by bad government, [85] ; by the Reformation, [87] ; her disputed succession, [88] [91] ; the Partition Treaty, [92] [93] ; conduct of the French towards her, [93] ; how affected by the death of Charles, [98] ; seq.; designation of the War of the Spanish Succession, [338] ; no conversions to Protestantism in, [348]
Spanish and Swiss soldiers in the time of Machiavelli, character of, [307]
Sparre, the Dutch general, [107]
Sparta, her power, causes of its decline, [155] ; note; defeated when she ceased to possess, alone of the Greeks, a permanent standing army, Mr. Milford's preference of over Athens, [181] ; her only really great men, [182] ; characteristics of her government, [183] [184] ; her domestic institutions, [184] 185; character of some of her leading men, [185] ; contrasted with Athens, [186] [187] ; slavery in, [190]
Spectator (the), notices of it, [385]389, [397]
Spelling of proper names, [173]
Spencer, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty, [277]
Spenser, [251] [252] ; his allegory, [75]
Spirits, Milton's, materiality of them, [227]
Spurton, Dr., [494]
Spy, police, character of, [519] [520]
Stafford, Lord, incident at his execution, [300]
Stamp Act, disaffection of the American colonists on account of it, [78] ; its repeal, [82] [83]
Stanhope, Earl of, [201]
Stanhope, General, [115] ; commands in Spain (1707), [125] [126]
Star Chamber, [459] ; its abolition, [468]
Staremberg, the imperial general in Spain (in [170] [125] [128]
States, best government of, [154]
Statesmanship, contrast of the Spanish and Dutch notions of, [35]
Statesmen, the character of, greatly affected by that of the times, [531] ; character of the first generation of professed statesmen that England produced, [342] [348]
State Trials, [293] [302] [325] [427]
Steele, [366] ; his character, [369] Addison's treatment of him, [370] ; his origination of the Tatler, [374] ; his subsequent career, [384] 355, [401]
Stephens,.Tames, his Slavery in the British West Indies reviewed, [303] [330] ; character of the work, [303] [304] ; his parallel between their slave laws and those of other countries, [311] ; has disposed of the arguments in its favor, [313]
Stoicism, comparison of that of the Bengalee with the European, [19] [20]
Strafford, Earl of, [457] ; his character as a statesman, [460] ; bill of attainder against him, [462] ; his character, [454] ; his impeachment attainder, and execution, [468] ; defence of the proceedings agains him, [470]
Strawberry Hill, [146]
Stuart, Dugald, [142]
"Sublime" (the). Longinus on, [142] Burke and Dugald Stewart on, [142]
Subsidies; foreign, in the time of Charles II., [523]
Subsidizing foreign powers, Pitt's aversion to, [231]
Succession in Spain, war of the, [75] ; see also Spain.
Sugar, its cultivation and profits, [395] [390] [403]
Sujah Dowlah, Nabob Vizier of Oude, [28] ; his flight, [32] ; his death, [85]
Sullivan, Mr., chairman of the East India Company, his character, [265] ; his relation to Clive, [270]
Sunderland, Earl of, [201] Secretary of State, [302] ; appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, [399] ; reconstructs the ministry in [171] [413]
Supernatural beings, how to be represented in literature, [69] [70]
Superstition, instance of, in the [19]th century, [3]Ü7.
Supreme Court of Calcutta, account of, [45]
Surajah Dowlah, Viceroy of Bengal, his character, [231] ; the monster of the "Black Hole," [232] ; his flight and death, [246] [251] ; investigation by the House of Commons into the circumstances of his deposition, [28]
Surinam, the Maroons of, [386]
Sweden, her part in the Triple Alliance, [41] ; her relations to Catholicism, [329]
Swift, Jonathan, his position at Sir William Temple's, [101] ; instance of his imitation of Addison, [332] ; his relations with Addison, [399] ; joins the Tories, [400] ; his verses upon Boyle, [118] [119]
Swiss and Spanish soldiers in the time of Machiavelli, character of, [307]
Sydney, Algernon, [525] ; his reproach on the scaffold to the sheriff's, [327]
Sydney, Sir Philip, [36]
Syllogistic process, analysis of, by Aristotle, [473]
T.
Tacitus, characteristics of, as a writer of history, [406] [408] ; compared with Thucydides, [407] [409] ; unrivalled in h is delineations of character, [407] ; as among ancient historians in his dramatic power, [408] ; contrasted, in this respect, with Herodotus, Xenophon, and Plutarch, [408] [409]
Tale, a Roman, Fragments of, [119]
Talleyrand, [515] ; his fine perception of character, [12] ; picture of him at Holland House, [425]
Tasso, [353] [354] ; specimen from Hoole's translation, [334]
Tatler (the), its origination, [373] ; its popularity, [380] ; change in its character, [384] ; its discontinuance, [385]
Taxation, principles of, [154] [155]
Teignmouth, Lord, his high character and regard for Hastings, [103]
Telemachus, the nature of and standard of morality in, [359] ; iii. Off-62.
Telephus, the hero of one of Euripides' lost plays, [45] ; note.
Tempest, the great, of [170] [359]
Temple, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty in the Duke of Devonshire's administration, [235] ; his parallel between Byng's behavior at Minorca and the king's behavior at Oudenarde, [238] ; his resignation of office, [30] ; supposed to have encouraged the assailants of Bute's administration, [42] ; dissuades Pitt from supplanting Grenville,69; prevents Pitt's acceptance of George III.'s offer of the administration, [72] ; his opposition to Rockingham's ministry on the question of the Stamp Act, [79] ; quarrel between him and Pitt, [89] [90] ; prevents the passage of Fox's India Bill, [240] [247]
Temple, Sir William, review of Courtenay's Memoirs of, [1] [115] ; his character as a statesman, [3] [7] [12] [13] ; his family, [13] 14; his early life, [15] ; his courtship of Dorothy Osborne, [16] 17; historical interest of his love-letters, [18] [19] [22] [23] ; his marriage, [24] ; his residence in Ireland, [25] ; his feelings towards Ireland, [27] [28] ; attaches himself to Arlington, [29] [30] ; his embassy to Munster, [33] ; appointed resident at the court of Brussels, [33] ; danger of his position, [35] ; his interview with DeWitt, [36] ; his negotiation of the Triple Alliance, [39] [41] ; his fame at home and abroad, [45] ; his recall, and farewell of De Witt, [47] ; his cold reception and dismissal, [48] 49; style and character of his compositions, [49] [50] ; charged to conclude a separate peace with the Dutch, [56] ; offered the Secretaryship of State, [58] ; his audiences of the king, [59] 60; his share in bringing about the marriage of the Prince of Orange with the Lady Mary, [60] ; required to sign the treaty of Nimeguen, [60] ; recalled to England, [61] ; his plan of a new privy council, 04, [76] [79] ; his alienation from his colleagues, [95] [90] ; his conduct on the Exile Question, [97] ; leaves publie life, and retires to the country, [98] ; his literary pursuits, [99] ; his amanuensis, Swift, [101] ; his Essay on Ancient and Modern Learning, [105] [108] ; his praise of the Letters, [107] [115] ; his death and character, [113] [115]
Terentianus, [142]
Terror, reign of. See Deign of Terror.
Test Act (the), [270]
Thackeray, Dev. Francis, review of his Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, etc., [194] [250] ; his style and matter, [194] [195] ; his omission to notice Chatham's conduct towards Walpole, [218]
Thales, [302]
Theatines, [318]
Theology, characteristics of the science of, [302] [300]
Theramenes, his tine perception of character, [12]
Thrale, Mrs., [389] ; her friendship with Johnson, [200] [207] ; her marriage with Piozzi, [210] [217] ; lier position and character, [270] ; her regard tor Miss Burney, [270]
Thucydides, his history transcribed by Demosthenes six times, [147] ; character of the speeches introduced into his narrative, [152] [388] 389; the great difficulty of understanding them arises from their compression, [153] ; and is acknowledged by Cicero, [153] ; lies not in the language but in the reasoning, [153] ; their resemblance to each other, [153] ; their value, [153] ; his picturesque style compared to Vandyke's, [380] ; description of it, [388] ; has surpassed all rivals in the art of historical narration, [389] ; his deficiencies, [390] ; his mental characteristics, [391] [393] ; compared with Herodotus, [385] ; with Tacitus, [407] [409]
Thurlow, Lord, sides against Clive, [292] ; favors Hastings, [107] [117] [121] [130] ; his weight in the government, [107] [235] ; becomes unpopular with his colleagues, [237] ; dismissed, [241] ; again made Chancellor, [247]
Ticked, Thomas, Addison's chief favorite, [371] ; his translation of the first hook of the Iliad. [405]408; character of his intercourse with Addison, [407] ; appointed by Addison Undersecretary of State, [415] Addison intrusts his works to him, 418; his elegy on the death of Addison, [421] ; his beautiful lines upon Holland House, [423]
Timlal, his character of the Karl of Chatham's maiden speech, [210]
Tinville, Fouquier, [482] [489] [503]
Toledo, admission of the Austrian troops into, [170] [110]
Toleration, religious, the safest policy for governments, [455] ; conduct of James IL as a professed supporter of it, [304] [308]
Tories, their popularity and ascendancy in [171] [129] ; description of them during the sixty years following the Devolution, [141] ; of Walpole's time, [200] ; mistaken reliance by James II. upon them, [310] ; their principles and conduct after the Devolution, [332] ; contempt into which they had fallen (1754), [220] Clive unseated by their vote, [227] ; their joy on the accession of Anne, [352] ; analogy between their divisions in [170]4 and in [182]0, [353] ; their attempt to rally in [170]7, [302] ; called to office by Queen Anne in [171]0, [382] ; their conduct on occasion of the tirst representation of Addison's Cato, [391] 392; their expulsion of Steele, from the House of Commons, [390] ; possessed none of the publie patronage in the reign of George L, [4] ; their hatred of the House of Hanover, [2] [4] [15] ; paucity of talent among them, [5] ; their joy on the accession of George III., [17] ; their political creed on the accession of George I., [20] [21] ; in the ascendent for the tirst time since the accession of the House of Hanover, 313; see Whigs.
Tories and Whigs after the Devolution, [530]
Tortola, island of, [362] ; its negro apprentices, [374] [376] ; its legislature, [377] ; its system of labor, [379]
Torture, the application of, by Bacon in Peacham's case, [383] [394] ; its use forbidden by Elizabeth, [393]
Mr. Jartline's work on the use of it, [394] ; note.
Tory, a modern, [132] ; his points of resemblance and of difference to a Whig of Queen Anne's time, [132] [133]
Toulouse, Count of, compelled by Peterborough to raise the siege of Barcelona, [117]
Toussaint L'Ouverture, [366] [390]
Townshend, Lord, his quarrel with Walpole and retirement from public life, [203]
Townshend, Charles, [13] ; his exclamation during the Earl of Bute's maiden speech, [33] ; his opinion of the Rockingham administration, [74] Chancellor of the Exchequer in Pitt's second administration, [91] Pitt's overbearing manners towards him, 95, 96; his insubordination, [97] ; his death, [100]
Town Talk, Steele's, [402] Tragedy, how much it has lost from a notion of what is due to its dignity, [20]
Tragedies, Dryden's, i. [360] 361. Trainbands of the City (the), [479] [480] ; their publie spirit, [18] Transubstantiation, a doctrine of faith, [305]
Travel, its uses, [420] Johnson's contempt for it, [420] ; foreign, compared in its effects to the reading of history, [42]G, [427]
"Traveller" (the), Goldsmith's, [1]
Treadmill, the study of ancient philosophy compared to labor in the, [441]
Treason, high, did the articles against Strafford amount to? [462] ; law passed at the Revolution respecting trials for, [328] Trent, general reception of the decisions of the council of, [32] Trial of the legality of Charles I.'s writ for ship-money, [457] ; of Strafford, 468; of Warren Hastings, [126]
Tribunals, the large jurisdiction exercised by those of Papal Rome, [314]
Tribunal, Revolutionary, (the), [496] [501]
Triennial Bill, consultation of William III. with Sir William Temple upon it, [103]
Triple Alliance, circumstances which led to it, [34] [38] ; its speedy conclusion and importance, [41] [45] Dr. Lingard's remarks on it, [42] [43] ; its abandonment by the English government, [49] ; reverence for it in Parliament,
Truth the object of philosophy, history, fiction, and poetry, but not of oratory, [150]
Tudors (tlie), their government popular though despotic, [16] ; dependent on the public favor, [20] [21] ; parallel between the Tudors and the Caesars not applicable, [21] ; corruption not necessary to them, [168]
Turgot, M. [67] ; veneration with which France cherishes his memory, [298] [427]
Turkey-carpet style of poetry, [199]
Turner, Colonel, the Cavalier, anecdote of him, [501]
Tuscan poetry, Addison's opinion of, [360]
U.
Union of England with Scotland, its happy results, [160] ; of England with Ireland, its unsatisfactory results, [160] ; illustration in the Persian fable of King Zohak, [161]
United Provinces, Temple's account of, a masterpiece in its kind, [50]
United States, happiness in, its causes, [39] [40] ; growth of the population of, [238] [239] [245] [249] ; their prejudices against negroes, [368] [369]
Unities (the), in poetry, [341]
Unity, hopelessness of having, [161]
University, the London, essay upon, [331] [360] ; objections to. [331] ; their unreasonableness, [332] ; the necessity of the institution, [333] [334] ; religious objections, [334] [335] [337] ; its great advantages, [335] ; its locality, [336] ; objections on that ground, [338] [389] ; refutation of them, [339] ; its freedom from the radical defects of the old universities, [359] ; its future, [360]
Universities, their principle of not withholding from the student works containing impurity, [351] [352] ; change in tlie relations to government of Oxford and Cambridge in Bute's time, [37] ; their jealousy of the London University, [331] [348] ; religious differences in, [338] ; their moral condition, [339] [340] ; their glorious associations, [341] ; radical defects of their system, [342] ; their Wealth and Privileges, [343] [344] ; character of their studies, [344] ; objected to by Bacon and others, [345] ; evils of their system of education, [354] ; their prizes and rewards, [355] ; idleness of their students, [355] [35] ; character of their graduates, [357] ; their fitness for real life, [358] [359]
Usage, the law of orthography, [173]
Uses, statute of, [37]
Usurper (a), to obtain the affection of his subjects must deserve it, [14] [15]
Utilitarians, [5] [8] [50] [52] [55] 07, [78] [79] ; their theory of government criticised, [92] [131] ; their mental characteristics, [92] ; the faults of their philosophy, [93] 123130; its inutility, [79] [87] [90] ; their impracticability, [100] ; the inaccuracies of their reasoning, [119] [120] ; their summum barium, [123] ; their disingenuousness, [130] [131]
Utility, the key of the Baconian doctrine, [430]
Uti. edit, the treaty of exasperation of parties on account of it, [135] [130] ; dangers that were to be apprehended from it, [137] ; state of Europe at the time, [130] ; defence of it, [139] [141]
V.
Vandyke, his portrait of the Earl of Strafford, [454]
Yausittart. Mr., Governor of Bengal, his position, [9] ; his fair intentions, feebleness, and inefficiency, [9]
Varela's portrait of James II., [251]
Vattel, [27]
Vega, Garcilasso de la, a soldier as well as a poet, [81]
Vendôme, Duke of, takes the command of the Bourbon forces in Spain (1710), iii [127]
Venice, republic of, next in antiquity to tin- line of the Supreme Pontiff's, [300]
Venus, the Roman term for the highest throw on the dice, [13] ; note.
Vergniaud, [452] [457] [473] [474]
Verona, protest of Lord Holland against the course pursued by England at the Congress of, [413]
Verres, extensive bribery at the trial of, [421]
Verse, occasional, [350] ; blank, [300] ; reasoning in, [300]
Versification, modern, in a dead language, [212]
Veto, by Parliament, on the appointment of ministers, [487] ; by the Crown on aets of Parliament, [488]
"Violet Crown, city of," a favorite epithet of Athens, [30] ; note.
"Vicar of Wakefield" (the), [159] [161]
Vigo, capture of the Spanish galleons at. [170] [108]
"Village, Deserted" (the), Goldsmith's, [162] [103]
Villani, John, his account of the state of Florence in the [14]th century, [276]
Villn-Vieiosa, battle of, [171] [128]
Villiers, Sir Edward, [412]
Virgil not so "correct" a poet as Homer, [337] ; skill with which Addison imitated him, [331] Dante's admiration of, [329]
Vision of Judgment, Southev's, [145]
Voltaire. the connecting link of the literary schools of Lewis XIV. and Lewis XVI., [355] Horace Walpole's opinion of him. [155] ; his partiality to England, [412] [294] ; meditated a history of the conquest of Bengal, 214; his character, and that of his compeers, [294] ; his interview with Congreve, [407] ; his genius venerated by Frederic the Great, [100] ; his whimsical conferences with Frederic, [176] ; seq.; compared with Addison as a master of the art of ridicule, [370] [377] ; his treatment by the French Academy, [23] ; failed to obtain the poetical prize,
W.
Wages, effects of attempts by government to limit the amount of, [362] ; their relations to labor, [383] [385] [400]
Waldegrave, Lord, made first Lord of the Treasury by George II., [242] ; his attempt to form an administration, [243]
Wales, Frederic, Prince of, joined the opposition to Walpole, [208] ; his marriage, [209] ; makes Pitt his groom of the bedchamber, [216] ; his death, [222] [223] ; headed the opposition, [7] ; his sneer at the Earl of Bute, [20]
Wales, Princess Dowager of, mother of George [111] [18] ; popular ribaldry against her, [42]
Wales, the Prince of, generally in opposition to the minister, [208]
Wall, Mr., Governor of Goree, [318]
Waller, Edmund, his conduct in the House of Commons, [303] ; similarity of his character to Lord Bacon's, [38] [5] [386]
Walmesley, Gilbert, [177]
Walpole, Sir Horace, review of Lord Dover's edition of his Letters to Sir Horace Mann, [143] ; eccentricity of his character, [144] [145] ; his politics, [146] ; his affectation of philosophy, [149] ; his unwillingness to be considered a man of letters, [149] ; his love of the French language, [152] ; character of his works, [156] [158] ; his sketch of Lord Carteret, [187]
Walpole, Sir Robert, his retaliation on the Tories for their treatment of him, [136] ; the "glory of the Whigs," [165] ; his character, [166] ; seq.; the charges against him of corrupting the Parliament, [171] ; his dominant passion, [171] 173; his conduct in regard to the Spanish war, [173] ; his last struggle, [178] ; outcry for his impeachment, [179] ; formidable character of the opposition to him, [175] [206] ; his conduct in reference to the South Sea bubble, [200] ; his conduct towards his colleagues, [202] [205] ; found it necessary to resign, [217] ; bill of indemnity for witnesses brought against him, [218] ; his maxim in election questions in the House of Commons, [473] ; his many titles to respect, [416] [417]
Walpolean battle, the great, [165] [426]
Walsingham, the Earl of (16th century), [36]
Wanderer, Madame D'Arblay's, [311]
War, the Art of, by Machiavelli, [306]
War of the Succession in Spain, Lord Mahon's, review of, [75] [112] ; see Spain.
War, in what spirit it should be waged, [187] [188] ; languid, condemned, [495] Homer's description of, [356] [357] ; descriptions of by Silius Italicus, [357] ; against Spain, counselled by Pitt and opposed by Bute, [29] ; found by Bute to be inevitable, [32] ; its conclusion, [37] ; debate on the treaty of peace, [49]
War, civil. See Civil War.
Ward, John William, Lord Dudley, [288]
Warburton, Bishop, his views on the ends of government, [122] ; his social contract a fiction, [182] ; his opinion as to the religion to be taught by government, [188]
Warning, not the only end of punishment, [464]
Warwick, Countess Dowager of, [411] [412] ; her marriage with Addison, [412]
Warwick, Earl of, makes mischief between Addison and Pope, [469] ; his dislike of the marriage between Addison and his mother, [411] ; his character, [412]
Watson, Bishop, [425]
Way of the World, by Congreve, its merits, [403]
Wealth, tangible and intangible, [150] [152] ; national and private, [153] [180] ; its increase among all Masses in England, [180] [187] ; its diffusion in Russia and Poland as compared with England, [182] ; its accumulation and diffusion in England and in Continental states, [182]
Wodderburne, Alexander, his defence of Lord Clive, [292] ; his urgency with Clive to furnish Voltaire with the materials for his meditated history of the conquest of Bengal, [294]
Weekly Intelligencer (the), extract from, on Hampden's death, [405]
Weldon, Sir A., his Story of the meanness of Bacon, [407]
Wellesley, Marquis, his eminence as a statesman, iv. 05; his opinion as to the expediency of reducing the numbers of the Privy Council, 05; l'itt's friendship for him, [205]
Wellington, Duke of, [90] [357] [408] [409] [420] ; l'itt's estimate of him, [290] "Wellingtoniad" (the), an imaginary epic poem, [158] [171]
Wendover, its recovery of the elective franchise, [443]
Wesley, John, Southey's life of, [137] ; his dislike to the doctrine of predestination, [170]
West Indies (the), slavery in, [303] [330] ; its origin and legal condition there, [303] [310] ; state of religion in, [311] [313] ; state of manners, [314] [310] ; public opinion in, [315] [317] [318] 319; despotic character of the inhabitants, [320]-322; commerce of, [323] [325] ; character of the proprietors, [320]-329; slavery in, approaching its end, [328] [329] ; their system of cultivation, [378] [381] [403]
Westminster Hall, [42] ; the scene of the trial of Hastings, [124]
Westphalia, the treaty of, [314] [338]
Wharton, Earl of, lord lieutenant of Ireland, [371] ; appoints Addison chief secretary, [371]
Wheler, Mr., his appointment as Governor-General of India, [54] ; his conduct in the council, [57] 02, [74]
Whigs (the), their unpopularity and loss of power in [171] [130] ; their position in Walpole's time, [20] [207] ; their violence in [167]9, [299] ; the king's revenge on them, [301] ; revival of their strength, [304] ; their conduct at the Devolution, [319] [320] ; after that event, [330] ; doctrines and literature they patronized daring the seventy years they were in power, [332] Mr. Courtenay's remark on those of the [17]th century, [272] ; attachment of literary men to them after the Devolution, [337] ; their fall on the accession of Anne, [351] [301] ; in the ascendant in [170] Queen Anne's dislike of them, [381] ; their dismissal by her, [381] ; their success in the administration of the government, [381] ; dissensions and reconstruction of the Whig government in [171]7, [430] ; enjoyed all the public patronage in the reign of George I., [4] [5] ; acknowledged the Duke of Newcastle as their leader, [8] ; their power and intiuence at the close of the reign of George II., [10] ; their support of the Brunswick dynasty, [15] ; division of them into two classes, old and young, [72] ; superior character of the young Whig school, [73] ; see Tories.
Whig and Tory, inversion of the meaning of, [131]
Whigs and Tories after the Devolution, [530] ; their relative condition in [171] [130] ; their essential characteristics, [2] ; their transformation in the reign of George I., [3] ; analogy presented by France, [4] ; subsidence of party spirit between them, [5] ; revival under Bute's administration of the animosity between them, [38]
Whitgift, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, his character, [353] ; his Calvinistic doctrines, [175]177; his zeal and activity against the Puritans, [330]
Wickliffe, John, juncture at which he rose, [312] ; his intiuence in England, Germany, and Bohemia, [313]
Wieland, [341]
Wilberforce, William, travels upon the Continent with Pitt, [242] ; opposes Fox's India bill, [245] [240] ; reelected to Parliament, [249] ; his efforts to suppress the slave-trade, [209] ; his intimate friendship with Pitt, [287] [297] ; his description of Pitt's speech against Hastings, [120]
Wilkes, John, conduct of the government with respect to his election for Middlesex, [535] ; his comparison of the mother of George III. to the mother of Edward [111] , [42] ; his persecution by the Grenville administration, [56] ; description of him, [56] ; his North Briton, [56] ; his committal to the Tower, [56] ; his discharge, [57] ; his Essay on Woman laid before the House of Lords, 511; tights a duel with one of Lord Bute's dependents, [60] ; flies to France, [60] ; is works ordered to be burnt by the hangman, and himself expelled the House of Commons, and outlawed, [60] ; obtains damages in an action tor the seizure of his papers, [61] ; returns from exile and is elected for Middlesex, [100] ; compared to Mirabeau, [72]
Wilkie, David, recollection of him at Holland House, [425] ; failed in portrait-painting, [319]
William III., low state of national prosperity and national character in his reign, [529] ; his feeling in reference to the Spanish succession, [102] ; unpopularity of his person and measures, [101] ; suffered under a complication of diseases, [101] ; his death, [102] ; limitation of his prerogatives, [103] ; compact with the Convention, [320] ; his habit of consulting Temple, [103] ; coalition which he formed against Lewis XIV. secretly favored by Home, [339] ; his vices not obtruded on the public eye. [392] ; his assassination planned, [394] Addison's Lines to him, [333] ; reference to him, [67]
Williams, Dean of Westminster, his services to Buckingham, and counsel to him and the king, [411] [416]
Williams, John, his character, [139] [270] ; employed by Hastings to write in his defence, [139]
Williams, Sir William, his character as a lawyer, [378] ; his view of the duty of counsel in conducting prosecutions, [378]
Wimbledon Church, Lord Burleigh attended mass at, [6]
Windham, Mr., his opinion of Sheridan's speech against Hastings, [122] ; his argument for retaining brands in the impeachment against Hastings, [123] ; his appearance at the trial, [12]S; his adherence to Burke, [136]
Wine, excess in, not a sign of ill-breeding in the reign of Queen Anne, [367]
"Wisdom of our ancestors," proper value of the plea of, [272]
Wit, Addison's compared with that of Cowley and Butler, [375]
Witt, John de, power with which he governed Holland, [32] ; his interview with Temple, [36] ; his manners, [36] [37] ; his confidence in Temple and deception by Charles' court, [47] ; his violent death, [51]
Wolfe, General, l'itt's panegyric upon, [213] ; his conquest of Quebec and death, [244] ; monument voted to him, [244]
Woman, source of the charm of her beauty, [74] ; her different treatment among the Greeks and the Romans, [83] [85] ; in the middle ages, [85] ; and among civilized nations generally, [33] [35]
Women, as agricultural laborers, [394] [395]
Women (the) of Dryden's comedies, [356] ; of his tragedies, [357] [358]
Woodfall, Mr., his dealings with Junius, [38]
Wordsworth, relative "correctness" of his poetry, [338] Byron's distaste for, [352] ; characteristics of his poems, [356] [362] ; his egotism, [82]
Works, public, employment of the public wealth in, [155] ; publie and private, comparative value of, [155]
Waiting, grand canon of, [76]
Wycherley, William, his literary merits and faults, [368] ; his birth, family, and education, [369] [370] ; age at which he wrote his plays, [370] [371] ; his favor with the Duchess of Cleveland, [372] [373] ; his marriage, [376] ; his embarrassments, [377] ; his acquaintance with Pope, [381] [383] ; his character as a writer, [384] 387; his severe handling by Collier, [599] ; analogy between him and Congreve, [410]
X.
Xenophon, his report of the reasoning of Socrates in confutation of Aristodeinus, his political economy, [149] ; his presentation of the Spartan character, [185] ; his style, [393] ; his mental characteristics, [393] [394] ; contrasted with Herodotus, [394] ; with Tacitus, [403]
Y.
York, Duke of, [62] ; anxiety excited by his sudden return from Holland, [94] ; detestation of him, [94] ; revival of the question of his exclusion, [96]
York House, the London residence of Bacon and his father, [408] [432]
Yonge, Sir William, [205]
Young, Dr., his testimony to Addison's colloquial powers, [366]
Z.