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INDEX
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A.
A priori reasoning, [8] [9] [10] [20] [21] [59]
Abbt and abbot, difference between, [76]
Academy, character of its doctrines, [411]
Academy, French, (the), [2] [3] ; has been of no benefit to literature, [23] ; its treatment of Corneille and Voltaire, [23] [21] ; the scene of the fiercest animosities, [23]
Academy of the Floral Games, at Toulouse, [136] [137] ; Acting, Garrick's, quotation from Fielding illustrative of, i. 332; the true test of excellence in,[133]
Adam, Robert, court architect to George III., [11]
Addington, Henry, speaker of the House of Commons, [282] ; made First Lord of the Treasury, [282] ; his administration, [282] [281] ; coolness between him and Pitt, [285] [286] ; their quarrel, [287] ; his resignation, [290] [112] ; raised to the Peerage, [112] ; raised to the Peerage, [293]
Addison, Joseph, review of Miss Aikin's life of, [321] [122] ; his character, [323] [321] ; sketch of his father's life, [321] [325] ; his birth and early life, [325] [327] ; appointed to a scholarship in Magdalene College, Oxford, [327] ; his classical attainments, [327] [330] ; his Essay on the Evidences of Christianity, [330] ; his Latin poems, [331] [332] ; contributes a preface to Dryden's Georgies, [335] ; his intention to take orders frustrated. [335] ; sent by the government to the Continent, [333] ; his introduction to Boileau, [310] ; leaves Paris and proceeds to Venice, [311] [315] ; his residence in Italy, [315] [350] ; composes his Epistle to Montague (then Lord Halifax), [350] ; his prospects clouded by the death of William III., [351] ; becomes tutor to a young English traveller, [351] ; writes his Treatise on Medals, [351] ; repairs to Holland, [351] ; returns to England, [351] ; his cordial reception and introduction into the Kit Cat Club, [351] ; his pecuniary difficulties, [352] ; engaged by Godolphin to write a poem in honour of Marlborough's exploits, [351] [355] ; is appointed to a Commissionership, [355] ; merits of his "Campaign," [356] ; criticism of his Travels in Italy, [329] [359] ; his opera of Rosamond, [361] ; is made Undersecretary of State, and accompanies the Earl of Halifax to Hanover, [361] [302] ; his election to the House of Commons, [362] ; his failure as a speaker, [362] ; his popularity and talents for conversation, [365] [367] ; his timidity and constraint among strangers, [367] ; his favorite associates, [368] [371] ; becomes Chief Secretary for Ireland under Wharton, [371] ; origination of the Tatler, [373] [371] ; his characteristics as a writer, [373] [378] ; compared with Swift and Voltaire as a master of the art of ridicule, [377] [379] ; his pecuniary losses, [382] [383] ; loss of his Secretaryship, [382] ; resignation of his Fellowship, [383] ; encouragement and disappointment of his advances towards a great lad [383] ; returned to Parliament without a contest, [383] ; his Whig Examiner, [384] ; intercedes with the Tories on behalf of Ambrose Phillipps and Steele, [384] ; his discontinuance of the Tatler and commencement of the Spectator, [384] ; his part in the Spectator, [385] ; his commencement and discontinuance of the Guardian, [389] ; his Cato, [345] [390] [394] [365] [366] ; his intercourse with Pope, [394] [395] ; his concern for Steele, [396] ; begins a new series of the Spectator, [397] ; appointed secretary to the Lords Justices of the Council on the death of Queen Anne. [397] ; again appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, [399] ; his relations with Swift and Tickell, [399] [400] ; removed to the Board of Trade, [401] ; production of his Drummer, [401] ; his Freeholder, [402] ; his estrangement from Pope, [403] [404] ; his long courtship of the Countess Dowager of Warwick and union with her, [411] [412] ; takes up his abode at Holland House, [412] ; appointed Secretary of State bv Sunderland, [413] ; failure of his health, [413] [418] ; resigns his post, [413] ; receives a pension, [414] ; his estrangement from Steele and other friends, [414] [415] ; advocates the bill for limiting the number of Peers, [415] ; refutation of a calumny upon him, [417] ; intrusts his works to Tickell, and dedicates them to Greggs, [418] ; sends for Gay on his death-bed to ask his forgiveness, [418] [419] ; his death and funeral, [420] ; Tickell's eulogy on his death, [421] ; superb edition of his works, [421] ; his monument in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, [422] ; praised by Dryden, [369]
Addison, Dr. Lancelot, sketch of his life, [325] [325]
Adiaphorists, a sect of German Protestants, [7] [8]
Adultery, how represented by the Dramatists of the Restoration, [357]
Advancement of Learning, by Bacon, its publication, [383]
Æschines, his character, [193] [194]
Æschylus and the Greek Drama, [210] [229]
Afghanistan, the monarchy of, analogous to that of England in the 10th century, [29] ; bravery of its inhabitants, [23] ; the English the only army in India which could compete with them, [30] ; their devastation in India, [207]
Agricultural and manufacturing laborers, comparison of their condition, [145] [148]
Agitjari, the singer, [256]
Aiken, Miss, review of her Life of Addison, [321] [422]
Aix, its capture, [244]
Akenside, his epistle to Curio, [183]
Alcibiades, suspected of assisting at a mock celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries, [49]
Aldrich, Dean, [113]
Alexander the Great compared with Clive, [297]
Altieri, his greatness, [61] ; influence of Dante upon his style, [61] [62] ; comparison between him and Cowper, [350] ; his Rosmunda contrasted with Shakspere's Lady Macbeth, [175] ; influence of Plutarch and the writers of his school upon, i. 401. [401]
Allahabad, [27]
Allegories of Johnson and Addison, [252]
Allegory, difficulty of making it interesting, [252]
Allegro and Penseroso, [215]
Alphabetical writing, the greatest of human inventions, [453] ; comparative views of its value by Plato and Bacon, [453] [454]
America, acquisitions of the Catholic Church in, [300] ; its capabilities, [301]
American Colonies, British, war with them, [57] [59] ; act for imposing stamp duties upon them, [58] [65] ; their disaffection, [76] ; revival of the dispute with them, [105] ; progress of their resistance, [106]
Anabaptists, their origin, [12]
Anacharsis, reputed contriver of the potter's wheel, [438]
Analysis, critical not applicable with exactness to poetry, [325] ; but grows more accurate as criticism improves, [321]
Anaverdy Khan, governor of tlie Carnatic, [211]
Angria, his fortress of Gheriah reduced by Clive, [228]
Anne, Queen, her political and religious inclinations, [130] ; changes in her government in 1710, [130] ; relative estimation bv the Whigs and the Tories of her reign, [133] [140] ; state of parties at her accession, v. 352, [352] [353] ; dismisses the Whigs, [381] [382] ; change in the conduct of public affairs consequent on her death, [397] ; touches Johnson for the king's evil, [173] ; her cabinet during the Seven Years' War, [410]
Antijacobin Review, (the new), vi. 405; contrasted with the Antijacobin, [400] [407]
Antioch, Grecian eloquence at, [301]
Anytus, [420]
Apostolical succession, Mr. Gladstone claims it for the Church of England, [100] ; to 178. [178]
Apprentices, negro, in the West Indies, [307] [374] [370] [378] [383]
Aquinas, Thomas, [478]
Arab fable of the Great Pyramid, [347]
Arbuthnot's Satirical Works, [377]
Archimedes, his slight estimate of his inventions, [450]
Archytas, rebuked by Plato, [449]
Arcot, Nabob of, his relations with England, [211] [219] ; his claims recognized by the English, [213]
Areopagitiea, Milton's allusion to, [204]
Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Walpole's administration, [204]
Arimant, Dryden's, [357]
Ariosto, [60]
Aristophanes, [352] ; his clouds a true picture of the change in his countrymen's character, [383]
Aristotle, his authority impaired by the Reformation, [440] ; the most profound critic of antiquity, [140] [141] ; his doctrine in regard to poetry, [40] ; the superstructure of his treatise on poetry not equal to its plan, [140]
Arithmetic, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon, [448]
Arlington, Lord, his character, [30] ; his coldness for the Triple Alliance, [37] ; his impeachment, [50]
Armies in the middle ages, how constituted, [282] [478] a powerful restraint on the regal power, [478] ; subsequent change in this respect, [479]
Arms, British, successes of, against the French in 1758, [244] [247]
Army, (the) control of, by Charles I., or by the Parliament, [489] ; its triumph over both, [497] ; danger of a standing army becoming an instrument of despotism, [487]
Arne, Dr., set to music Addison's opera of Rosamund, [361]
Arragon and Castile, their old institutions favorable to public liberty iii. 80. [80]
Arrian, [395]
Art of War, Machiavelli's, [306]
Arundel, Earl of, iii. [434]
Asia, Central, its people, [28]
Asiatic Society, commencement of its career under Warren Hastings, [98]
Assemblies, deliberative, [2] [40]
Assembly, National, the French, [46] [48] [68] [71] [443] [446]
Astronomy, comparative estimate of by Socrates and by Bacon, [452]
Athenian jurymen, stipend of, [33] ; note; police, name of, i. 34, [34] ; note; magistrates, name of, who took cognisance of offences against religion, i. 53, [139] ; note.; orators, essay on, [139] [157] ; oratory unequalled, [145] ; causes of its excellence, [145] ; its quality, [151] [153] [156]
Johnson's ignorance of Athenian character, [146] [418] ; intelligence of the populace, and its causes, [140] [149] ; books the least part of their education, [147] ; what it consisted in, [148] ; their knowledge necessarily defective, [148] ; and illogical from its conversational character, [149] ; eloquence, history of, [151] [153] ; when at its height, [153] [154] ; coincidence between their progress in the art of war and the art of oratory, [155] ; steps by which Athenian oratory approached to finished excellence extemporaneous with those by which its character sank, [153] ; causes of this phenomenon, [154] ; orators, in proportion as they became more expert, grew less respectable in general character, [155] ; their vast abilities, [151] ; statesmen, their decline and its causes, [155] ; ostracism, [182] ; comedies, impurity of, [182] [2] ; reprinted at the two Universities, [182] ; iii. 2. [2]
"Athenian Revels," Scenes from, [30] ; to: [54]
Athenians (the) grew more sceptical with the progress of their civilization, [383] ; the causes of their deficiencies in logical accuracy, [383] [384]
Johnson's opinion of them, [384] [418]
Athens, the most disreputable part of, i. 31, note ; favorite epithet of, i. 30, [30] ; note; her decline and its characteristics, [153] [154] Mr. Clifford's preference of Sparta over, [181] ; contrasted with Sparta, [185] [187] ; seditions in, [188] ; effect of slavery in, [181] ; her liturgic system, [190] ; period of minority in, [191] [192] ; influence of her genius upon the world, [200] [201]
Attainder, an act of, warrantable, [471]
Atterbury, Francis, life of, vi. [112] [131] ; his youth, [112] ; his defence of Luther, [113] ; appointed a royal chaplain, [113] ; his share in the controversy about the Letters of Phalaris, [115] [119] [110] ; prominent as a high-churchman, [119] [120] ; made Dean of Carlisle, [120] ; defends Sacheverell, [121] ; made Dean of Christ Church, [121] ; desires to proclaim James II., [122] ; joins the opposition, [123] ; refuses to declare for the Protestant succession, [123] ; corresponds with the Pretender, [123] [124] ; his private life, [124] [125] [129] ; reads the funeral service over the body of Addison, [124] [420] ; imprisoned for his part in the Jacobite conspiracy, [125] ; his trial and sentence, [120] [127] ; his exile, [128] [129] ; his favor with the Pretender, [129] [130] ; vindicates himself from the charge of having garbled Clarendon's history, [130] ; his death and burial, [131]
Attila, [300]
Attributes of God,subtle speculations touching them imply no high degree of intellectual culture, [303] [304] "
Aubrey, his charge of corruption against Bacon, [413]
Bacon's decision against him after his present, [430]
Augsburg, Confession of, its adoption in Sweden, [329]
Augustin, St., iv. 300. [300]
Attrungzebe, his policy, [205] [206]
Austen, Jane, notice of, [307] [308]
Austin, Sarah, her character as a translator, [299] [349]
Austria, success of her armies in the Catholic cause, [337]
Authors, their present position, [190] ; to: [197]
Avignon, the Papal Court transferred from Rome to, [312]
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B.
Baber, founder of the Mogul empire, [202]
Bacon, Lady, mother of Lord Bacon, [349]
Bacon, Lord, review of Basil Montagu's new edition of the works of, [336] [495] ; his mother distinguished as a linguist, [349] ; his early years, [352] [355] ; his services refused by government, [355] [356] ; his admission at Gray's Inn, [357] ; his legal attainments, [358] ; sat in Parliament in [159]3, [359] ; part he took in politics, [360] ; his friendship with the Earl of Essex, [305] [372] ; examination of his conduct to Essex, [373] [384] ; influence of King James on his fortunes, [383] ; his servility to Lord Southampton, [384] ; influence his talents had with the public, [386] ; his distinction in Parliament and in the courts of law, [388] ; his literary and philosophical works, [388] ; his "Novum Organum," and the admiration it excited, [388] ; his work of reducing and recompiling the laws of England, [389] ; his tampering with the judges on the trial of Peacham, [389] [394] ; attaches himself to Buckingham, [390] ; his appointment as Lord Keeper, [399] ; his share in the vices of the administration, [400] ; his animosity towards Sir Edward Coke, [405] [407] ; his town and country residences, [408] [409] ; his titles of Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, report against him of the Committee on the Courts of Justice, [413] ; nature of the charges, [413] [414] ; overwhelming evidence to them, [414] [410] ; his admission of his guilt, [410] ; his sentence, [417] ; examination of Mr. Montagu's arguments in his defence, [417] [430] ; mode in which he spent the last years of his life, [431] [432] ; chief peculiarity of his philosophy, [435] [447] ; his views compared with those of Plato, [448] [455] ; to what his wide and durable fame is chiefly owing, [403] ; his frequent treatment of moral subjects, [407] ; his views as a theologian, [409] ; vulgar notion of him as inventor of the inductive method, [470] ; estimate of his analysis of that method, [471] [479] ; union of audacity and sobriety in his temper, [480] ; his amplitude of comprehension, [481] [482] ; his freedom from the spirit of controversy, [484] ; his eloquence, wit, and similitudes, [484] ; his disciplined imagination. [487] ; his boldness and originality, [488] ; unusual development in the order of his faculties, [489] ; his resemblance to the mind of Burke, [489] ; specimens of his two styles, [490] [491] ; value of his Essays, [491] ; his greatest performance the first book of the Novum Organum, [492] ; contemplation of his life, [492] [495] ; his reasoning upon the principle of heat, [90] ; his system generally as opposed to the schoolmen, [78] [79] [103] ; his objections to the system of education at the Universities, [445]
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his character, [342] [448]
Baconian philosophy, its chief peculiarity, [435] ; its essential spirit, [439] ; its method and object differed from the ancient, [448] ; comparative views of Bacon and Plato, [448] [159] ; its beneficent spirit, [455] [458] [403] ; its value compared with ancient philosophy, [459] [471]
Baillie, Gen., destruction of his detachment by Hyder Ali, [72]
Balance of power, interest of the Popes in preserving it, [338]
Banim, Mr., his defence of James II. as a supporter of toleration, [304]
Banking operations of Italy ill the [14] ; century, [270]
Baptists, (the) Bunyan's position among, [140] [147]
Bar (the) its degraded condition in the time of James II., [520]
Barbary, work on, by Rev. Dr. Addison, [325]
Barbarians, Mitford's preference of Greeks, [190]
Barcelona, capture of, by Peterborough, [110]
Barère, Bertrand, Memoirs of, reviewed, [423] [539] ; opinions of the editors as to his character, [424] ; his real character, [425] [427] [429] [407] ; has hitherto found no apologist, [420] ; compared with Danton and Robespierre, [420] ; his natural disposition, [427] ; character of his memoirs, [429] [430] ; their mendacity, [431] [430] [445] ; their literary value, [430] ; his birth and education, [430] [437] ; his marriage, [438] ; first visit to Paris, [439] ; his journal, [439] ; elected a representative of the Third Estate, [440] ; his character as a legislator, [441] ; his oratory, [442] [471] [472] ; his early political opinions, [442] ; draws a report on the Woods and Forests, [443] ; becomes more republican, [443] ; on the dissolution of the National Assembly he is made a judge, [440] ; chosen to the Convention, [449] ; belongs to the Girondists, [455] ; sides with the Mountain in condemnation of the king, [450] [457] ; was really a federalist, [400] ; continues with the Girondists, [401] ; appointed upon the Committee of Public Safety, [403] ; made its Secretary, [403] ; wavers between the Girondists and the Mountain, [404] ; joins with the Mountain, [405] ; remains upon the Committee of Public Safety, [460] ; his relation to the Mountain, [400]-408; takes the initiative against the Girondists, [408] [409] ; moves the execution of Marie Antoinette, [409] ; speaks against the Girondists, [434] [435] [474] ; one of the Committee of Safety, [475] ; his part (luring the Reign of Terror. [482] [485] [487] ; his cruelties, 485, [480] ; life's pleasantries, [487] [488] ; his proposition to murder English prisoners, [490] [492] ; his murders, [495] [497] ; his part in the quarrels of the Committee, [497] [590] ; moves that Robespierre be put to death, [499] [500] ; cries raised against him, [504] ; a committee appointed to examine into his conduct, [505] ; his defence, [505] [50] ; condemned to imprisonment, [507] ; his journey to Orleans and confinement there, [507]509; removed to Saintes, [510] ; his escape, [510] ; elected a member of the Council of Five Hundred, [511] ; indignation of the members and annulling of the election, [511] [512] ; writes a work on the Liberty of the Seas. [512] ; threatened by the mob, [512] [513] ; his relations with Napoleon, [514] [518] [521] [527] ; a journalist and pamphleteer, [523] [524] ; his literary style, [525] ; his degradation, [527] ; his treachery, [528] ; becomes a royalist, [529] ; elected to the Chamber of Representatives, [529] ; banished from France, [531] ; his return, [531] ; involved in lawsuits with his family, [531] ; pensioned, [532] ; his death, [532] ; his character, [534] [535] [537] [539] ; his ignorance of England and her his, [530] ; his religious hypocrisy,
Baretti, his admiration for Miss Burney, [271]
Barilion, M. his pithy words on the new council proposed by Temple, [7] [70]
Barlow, Bishop, [370]
Barrington, Lord, [13]
Harwell, Mr., [35] ; his support of Hastings, [40] [54] [55] [2]
Baltic, Burke's declamations on its capture, [113]
Bathos, perfect instance of, to be found in Petrarch's 5th sonnet, [93]
Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies, Addison's, [331]
Bavaria, its contest between Protestantism and Catholicism, [326]
Baxter's testimony to Hampden's excellence, [430]
Bayle, Peter, [300]
Beatrice, Dante's, [1]
Beanclerk, Topliam, [204]
Beaumarchais, his suit before the parliament of Paris, [430] [431]
Beckford, Alderman, [90]
Bedford, Duke of, [11] ; his views of the policy of Chatham, [20] [41] ; presents remonstrance to George II [71]
Bedford, Earl of. invited by Charles I. to form an administration, [472]
Bedfords (the), [11] ; parallel between them and the Buckinghams, [73] ; their opposition to the Buckingham ministry on the Stamp Act, [79] ; their willingness to break with Grenville on Chatham's accession to office, [89] ; deserted Grenville and admitted to office, [110]
Bedford House assailed by a rabble, [70]
Begums of Oude, their domains and treasures, [80] ; disturbances in Oude imputed to them, [87] ; their protestations, [88] ; their spoliation charged against Hastings, [121]
Belgium, its contest between Protestantism and Catholicism, [326] [330]
Belial, [355]
Bell, Peter, Byron's spleen against, [353]
Bellasys, the English general, [107]
Bellingham, his malevolence, [309]
Belphegor (the), of Machiavelli, [299]
Benares, its grandeur, [74] ; its annexation to the British dominions, [84]
"Benefits of the death of Christ," [325]
Benevolences, Oliver St. John's opposition to, and Bacon's support of, [389]
Bengal, its resources, [228]
Bentham and Dumont, [38] [40] [153]
Bentham and his system, [53] [54] [59] 80, [87] [91] [115] 116, [121] [122] ; his language on the French revolution, [204] ; his greatness, [38] [40]
Bentinck, Lord William, his memory cherished by the Hindoos, [298]
Bentivoglio, Cardinal, on the state of religion in England in the [16]th century, [25]
Bentley, Richard, his quarrel with Boyle, and remarks on Temple's Essay on the Letters of Phalaris, [109] [111] [115] [119] ; his edition of Milton, [111] ; his notes on Horace, [111] ; his reconciliation with Boyle and Atterbury, [113] ; his apothegm about criticism, [119] [212]
Berar, occupied by the Bonslas, [59]
Berwick, Duke of, held the Allies in check, [109] ; his retreat before Galway, [119]
Bible (the), English, its literary style, [348]
Bickell, R. Rev., his work on Slavery in the West Indies, [330]
Bickerstaff, Isaac, astrologer, [374]
Billaud, [405] [475] [498] [499] [501] [504] [506] [508] [510]
Biographia Britannica, refutation of a calumny on Addison in, [417]
Biography, writers of contrasted with historians, [423] ; tenure by which they are bound to their subject, [103]
Bishops, claims of those of the Church of England to apostolical succession, [160]-174.
Black Hole of Calcutta described, [233] [234] ; retribution of the English for its horrors, [235] [239] [242] [245]
Blackmore, Sir Richard, his attainments in the ancient languages, [331]
Blackstone, [334]
Blasphemous publications, policy of Government in respect to, [171]
Blenheim, battle of, [354] Addison employed to write a poem in its honor, [355]
Blois, Addison's retirement to, [339]
"Bloombury Gang," the denomination of the Bedfords, [11]
Bodley, Sir Thomas, founder of the Bodleian Library, [388] [433]
Bohemia, influence of the doctrines of Wickliffe in, [313]
Boileau, Addison's intercourse with, [340] [341] ; his opinion of modern Latin, [341] ; his literary qualities, [343] ; his resemblance to Dryden, [373]
Bolingbroke, Lord, the liberal patron of literature, [400] ; proposed to strengthen the royal prerogative, [171] ; his jest on the occasion of the tirst representation of Cato, [392] Pope's perfidy towards him, [408] ; his remedy for the disease of the state, [23] [24]
Bombast, Dryden's, [361] [362] Shakspeare's, [361]
Bombay, its affairs thrown into confusion by the new council at Calcutta, [40]
Book of the Church, Southey's, [137]
Books, puffing of, [192] [198]
Booth played the hero in Addison's Cato on its tirst representation, [392]
Borgia, Cæsar, [301]
Boroughs, rotten, the abolition of, a necessary reform in the time of George I., [180]
Boswell, James, his character, [391] [397] [204] [205]
Boswell's Life of Johnson, by Crocker, review of, [368] [426] ; character of the work, [387]
Boswellism, [265]
Bourbon, the House of, their vicissitudes in Spain, [106] [130]
Bourne, Vincent, [5] [342] ; his Latin verses in celebration of Addison's restoration to health, [413]
Boyd, his translation of Dante, [78]
Boyer, President, [390]-392.
Boyle, Charles, his nominal editorship of the Letters of Phalaris, [108] [113] [119] ; his book on Greek history and philology, v.331.
Boyle, Rt. Hon. Henry, [355]
"Boys" (the) in opposition to Sir R. Walpole, [176]
Bracegirdle, Mis., her celebrity as an actress, [407] ; her intimacy with Congreve, [407]
Brahmins, [306]
"Breakneck Steps," Fleet Street, [157] ; note.
Breda, treaty of, [34]
Bribery, foreign, in the time of Charles II., [525]
Brihuega, siege of, [128]
"Broad Bottom Administration" (the), [220]
Brothers, his prophecies as a test of faith, [305] [306]
Brown, Launcelot, [284]
Brown's Estimate, [233]
Bruce, his appearance at Mr. Burney's concerts, [257]
Brunswick, the House of, [14]
Brussels, its importance as the seat of a vice-regal Court, [34]
Bridges, Sir Egerton, [303]
Buchanan, character of his writings, [447]
Buckhurst, [353]
Buckingham, Duke of, the "Steenie" of James [1] , [44] Bacon's early discernment of his influence, [330] [337] ; his expedition to Spain, 308; his return for Bacon's patronage, [333] ; his corruption, [402] ; his character and position, [402] [408] ; his marriage, [411] [412] ; his visit to Bacon, and report of his condition, [414]
Buckingham, Duke of, one of the Cabal ministry, [374] ; his fondness for Wycherley, [374] ; anecdote of, [374]
Budgell Eustace, one of Addison's friends, [308] [303] [371]
Bunyan, John, Life of, [132] [150] [252] [204] ; his birth and early life, [132] ; mistakes of his biographers in regard to his moral character, [133] [134] ; enlists in the Parliamentary army, [135] ; his marriage, [135] ; his religious experiences, [130]-138; begins to preach, [133] ; his imprisonment, [133] [141] ; his early writings, [141] [142] ; his liberation and gratitude to Charles II., [142] [143] ; his Pilgrim's Progress, [143] [140] ; the product of an uneducated genius, [57] [343] ; his subsequent writings, [14] ; his position among the Baptists, [140] [147] ; his second persecution, and the overtures made to him, [147] [148] ; his death and burial-place, [148] ; his fame, [14] [143] ; his imitators, [143] [150] ; his style, [200] ; his religious enthusiasm and imagery, [333] Southey's edition of his Pilgrim's Progress reviewed, [253] [207] ; peculiarities of the work, [200] ; not a perfect allegory, [257] [258] ; its publication, and the number of its editions, [145] [140]
Buonaparte. See Napoleon.
Burgoyne, Gen., chairman of the committee of inquiry on Lord Clive, [232]
Burgundy, Louis, Duke of, grandson of Louis XIV., iii. 02, 03.
Burke, Edmund, his characteristics, [133] ; his opinion of the war with Spain on the question of maritime right, [210] ; resembles Bacon, [483] ; effect of his speeches on the House of Commons, [118] ; not the author of the Letters of Junius, [37] ; his charges against Hastings, [104] [137] ; his kindness to Alisa Burney, [288] ; her incivility to him at Hastings' trial, [28] ; his early political career, [75] ; his first speech in the House of Commons, [82] ; his opposition to Chatham's measures relating to India, [30] ; his defence of his party against Grenville's attacks, [102] ; his feeling towards Chatham, [103] ; his treatise on "The Sublime," [142] ; his character of the French Republic, [402] ; his views of the French and American revolutions, [51] [208] ; his admiration of Pitt's maiden speech, [233] ; his opposition to Fox's India bill, [245] ; in the opposition to Pitt, [247] [243] ; deserts Fox, [273]
Burleigh and his Times, review of Lev. Dr. Xarea's, [1] [30] ; his early life and character, [3] [10] ; his death, [10] ; importance of the times in which he lived, [10] ; the great stain on his character, [31] ; character of the class of statesmen he belonged to, [343] ; his conduct towards Bacon, [355] [305] ; his apology for having resorted to torture, [333] Bacon's letter to him upon the department of knowledge he had chosen, [483]
Burnet, Bishop, [114]
Burney, Dr., his social position, [251] [255] ; his conduct relative to his daughter's first publication. [207] ; his daughter's engagement at Court, [281]
Burney, Frances. See D'Arblay, Madame.
Burns, Robert, [201]
Bussy, his eminent merit and conduct in India, [222]
Bute, Earl of, his character and education, [13] [20] ; appointed Secretary of State, [24] ; opposes the proposal of war with Spain on account of the family compact, [30] ; his unpopularity on Chatham's resignation, [31] ; becomes Prime Minister, [30] ; his first speech in the House of Lords, [33] ; induces the retirement of the Duke of Newcastle, [35] ; becomes first Lord of the Treasury, [35] ; his foreign and domestic policy, [37] [52] ; his resignation, [52] ; continues to advise the King privately, [57] [70] [79] ; pensions Johnson, [198] [199]
Butler, [350] Addison not inferior to him in wit, [375]
Byng, Admiral, his failure at Minorca. [232] ; his trial, [236] ; opinion of his conduct, [236] Chatham's defence of him, [237]
Byron, Lord, his epistolary style, [325] ; his character, [326] [327] ; his early life, [327] ; his quarrel with, and separation from, his wife, [329]331; his expatriation, [332] ; decline of his intellectual powers, [333] ; his attachment to Italy and Greece, [335] ; his sickness and death, [336] ; general grief for his fate, [336] ; remarks on his poetry, [336] ; his admiration of the Hope school of poetry, [337] : his opinion of Wordsworth and Coleridge, [352] ; of Deter Bell, [353] ; his estimate of the poetry of the [18]th and [19]th centuries, [353] ; his sensitiveness to criticism, [354] ; the interpreter between Wordsworth and the multitude, [356] ; the founder of an exoteric Lake, school, [356] ; remarks on his dramatic works, [357] [363] ; his egotism, [365] ; cause of his influence, [336] [337]
C.
Cabal (the), their proceedings and designs, [46] [54] [59]
Cabinets, in modern times, [65] [235]
Cadiz, exploit of Essex at the siege of, [107] [367] ; its pillage by the English expedition in [170] [108]
Cæsar Borgia, [307]
Cæsar, Claudius, resemblance of James I. to, [440]
Cæsar compared with Cromwell, [504] ; his Commentaries an incomparable model for military despatches, [404]
Cæsars (the), parallel between them and the Tudors, not applicable, [21]
Calcutta, its position on the Hoogley, [230] ; scene of the Black Hole of, [232] [233] ; resentment of the English at its fall, [235] ; again threatened by Surajah Dow lab, [239] ; revival of its prosperity, [251] ; its sufferings during the famine, [285] ; its capture, [8] ; its suburbs infested by robbers, [41] ; its festivities on Hastings's marriage, [56]
Callicles, [41] ; note.
Calvinism, moderation of Bunyan's, [263] ; held by the Church of England at the end of the [16] ; century, [175] ; many of its doctrines contained in the Paulieian theology, [309]
Cambon, [455]
Cambridge, University of, favored by George I. and George II., [36] [37] ; its superiority to Oxford in intellectual activity, [344] ; disturbances produced in, by the Civil War, [15]
Cambyses, story of his punishment of the corrupt judge, [423]
Camilla, Madame D'Arblay's, [314]
Campaign (the), by Addison, [355]
Canada, subjugation of, by the British in [176] [244]
Canning, Mr., [45] [46] [286] [411] [414] [419]
Cape Breton, reduction of, [244]
Carafla, Gian Pietro, afterwards Pope Paul, IV. his zeal and devotion, [318] [324]
Carlisle, Lady, [478]
Carmagnoles, Bariere's, [471] [472] [490] [491] [498] [499] [502] [505] [529]
Carnatic, (the), its resources, [211] [212] ; its invasion by Hvder Ali, [71] [72]
Carnot, Hippolyte, his memoirs of Barrere reviewed, [423] [539] ; failed to notice the falsehoods of his author, [430] [431] [435] [557] ; his charitableness to him, [445] [485] ; defends his proposition for murdering prisoners, [490] ; blinded by party spirit, [523] ; defends the Jacobin administration, [534] ; his general characteristics, [53] [539]
Carrier, [404]
Carteret, Lord, his ascendency at the fall of Walpole, [184] Sir Horatio Walpole's stories about him, [187] ; his detection from Sir Robert Walpole, [202] ; succeeds Walpole, [210] ; his character as a statesman, [218] [220]
Carthagena, surrender of the arsenal and ship of, to the Allies, [111]
Cary's translation of Dante, [68] [78] [70]
Casiua (the), of Ilautus, [298]
Castile. Admiral of, [100]
Castile and Arragon, their old institutions favorable to public liberty, [86]
Castilians, their character in the [16]th century, [81] ; their conduct in the war of the Succession, [121] ; attachment to the faith of their ancestors, [316]
Castracani, Castruccio, Life of, by Machiavelli, [317]
Cathedral, Lincoln, painted window in, [428]
Catholic Association, attempt of the Tories to put it down, [413]
Catholic Church. See Church of Home.
Catholicism, causes of its success, [301] [307] 318, [331] [336] ; the most poetical of all religions, [65]
Catholics, Roman, Pitt's policy respecting, [280] [281]
Catholics and dews, the same reasoning employed against both, [312]
Catholics and Protestants, their relative numbers in the [16]th century, [26]
Catholic Queen (a), precautions against, [487]
Catholic Question (the), [413] [410]
Catiline, his conspiracy doubted, [405] ; compared to the Popish Plot, [406]
"Cato," Addison's play of, its merits, and the contest it occasioned, [333] ; its first representation, [391] ; its performance at Oxford, [392] ; its deficiencies, [365] [366]
Cato, the censor, anecdote of, [354]
Catullus, his mythology, [75]
Cavaliers, their successors in the reign of George I. turned demagogues, [4]
Cavendish, Lord, his conduct in the new council of Temple, [96] ; his merits, [73]
Cecil. See Burleigh.
Cecil, Robert, his rivalry with Francis Bacon, [356] [365] ; his fear and envy of Essex, [362] ; increase of his dislike for Bacon, [365] ; his conversation with Essex, [365] ; his interference to obtain knighthood for Bacon, [384]
Cecilia, Madame D'Arblay's, [369] [311] ; specimen of its style, [315] [316]
Censorship, existed in some form from Henry VIII. to the Revolution, [329]
Ceres, [54] ; note.
Cervantes, [81] ; his celebrity, 80 the perfection of his art, [328] [329] ; fails as a critic, [329]
Chalmers, Dr., Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his defence of the Church, [122]
Champion, Colonel, commander of the Bengal army, [32]
Chandemagore, French settlement, on the Hoogley, [230] ; captured by the English, [239]
Charlemagne, imbecility of his successors, [205]
Charles, Archduke, his claim to the Spanish crown, [90] ; takes the field in support of it, [10] ; accompanies Peterborough in his expedition, [112] ; his success in the north-east of Spain, [117] ; is proclaimed king at Madrid, [119] ; his reverses and retreat, [123] ; his re-entry into Madrid, [126] ; his unpopularity, [127] ; concludes a peace, [131] ; forms an alliance with Philip of Spain, [138]
Charles I., lawfulness of the resistance to, [235] [243] Milton's defence of his execution, [246] [249] ; his treatment of the Parliament of [164] [457] ; his treatment of Stratford, [468] ; estimate of his character, [469] [498] [500] [443] ; his tall, [497] ; his condemnation and its consequences, [500] [501] Hampden's opposition to him, and its consequences, [443] [459] ; resistance of the Scots to him, [460] ; his increasing difficulties, [461] ; his conduct towards the House of Commons, [477] [482] ; his flight, [488] ; review of his conduct and treatment, [484] [488] ; reaction in his favor during the Long Parliament, [410] ; effect of the victory over him on the national character, [7] [8]
Charles I. and Cromwell, choice between, [490]
Charles II., character of his reign, [251] ; his foreign subsidies, [528] ; his situation in [100]0 contrasted with that of Lewis XVIII., [282] [283] ; his character, [290] [30] [80] ; his position towards the king of France, [290] ; consequences of his levity and apathy, [299] [300] ; his court compared with that of his father, [29] ; his extravagance, [34] ; his subserviency to France, [37] [44] [46] ; his renunciation of the dispensing power, [55] ; his relations with Temple, [58] [60] [63] [97] ; his system of bribery of the Commons, [71] ; his dislike of Halifax, [90] ; his dismissal of Temple, [97] ; his characteristics, [349] ; his influence upon English literature, [349] [350] ; compared with Philip of Orleans, Regent of France, [64] [65] Banyan's gratitude to him, [143] ; his social disposition, [374]
Charles II. of Spain, his unhappy condition, [88] [93] [100] ; his difficulties in respect to the succession, [88] [93]
Charles III. of Spain, his hatred of England, [29]
Charles VIII., [483]
Charles XII., compared with Clive, [297]
Charlotte, Queen, obtains the attendance of Miss Burney, [279] ; her partisanship for Hastings, [288] [290] ; her treatment of Miss Burney, [298] [297]
Chateaubriand, his remark about the person of Louis XIV., [58] ; note.
Chatham, Earl of, character of his public life, [196] [197] ; his early life, [198] ; his travels, [199] ; enters the army [199] ; obtains a seat in Parliament, [200] ; attaches himself to the Whigs in opposition, [207] ; his qualities as an orator, [211] [213] ; dismissed from the army, [215] ; is made Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, [161] ; declaims against the ministers, [218] ; his opposition to Carteret, [219] ; legacy left him by the Duchess of Marlborough, [219] ; supports the Pelham ministry, [220] ; appointed Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, [221] ; overtures made to him by Newcastle, [280] ; made Secretary of State, [235] ; defends Admiral Byng, [237] ; coalesces with the Duke of Newcastle, [230] ; success of his administration, [230]-250; his appreciation of Clive, [260] [289] ; breach between him and the great Whig connection, [289] ; review of his correspondence, [1] ; in the zenith of prosperity and glory, [221] [222] ; his coalition with Newcastle, [7] ; his strength in Parliament, [13] ; jealousies in his cabinet, [25] ; his defects, [26] ; proposes to declare war against Spain oil account of the family compact, [29] ; rejection of his counsel, [30] ; his resignation, [30] ; the king's gracious behavior to him, [30] ; public enthusiasm towards him, [31] ; his conduct in opposition, [33] [46] ; his speech against peace with France and Spain, [49] ; his unsuccessful audiences with George III. to form an administration, [58] Sir William Pynsent bequeaths his whole property to him, [63] ; bad state of his health, [64] ; is twice visited by the Duke of Cumberland with propositions from the king, [68] [72] ; his condemnation of the American Stamp Act, [77] [78] ; is induced by the king to assist in ousting Rockingham, [86] ; morbid state of his mind, [87] [88] [95] [99] ; undertakes to form an administration, [89] ; is created Earl of Chatham, [91] ; failure of his ministerial arrangements, [91] [99] ; loss of his popularity, and of his foreign influence, [99] ; his despotic manners, [89] [93] ; lays an embargo on the exportation of corn, [95] ; his first speech in the Mouse of Lords, [95] ; his supercilious conduct towards the Peers, [95] ; his retirement from office, [100] ; his policy violated, [101] ; resigns the privy seal, [100] ; stale of parties and of public affairs on his recovery, [100] [301] ; his political relations, [101] ; his eloquence not suited to the House of Lords, [104] ; opposed the recognition of the independence of the United States, [107] ; his last appearance in the House of Lords, [108] [22] ; his death, [100] [230] ; reflections on his fall, [100] ; his funeral in Westminster Abbey, lit.; compared with Mirabeau, [72] [73]
Chatham, Earl of, (the second), [230] ; made First Lord of the Admiralty, [270]
Cherbourg, guns taken from, [245]
Chesterfield, Lord, his dismissal by Walpole, [204] ; prospectus of Johnson's Dictionary addressed to him, [187] [188] ; pulls it in the World, [194]
Cheyte Sing, a vassal of the government of Cennigal, [75] ; his large revenue and suspected treasure, [79] Hastings's policy in desiring to punish him. [80] ; to [85] ; his treatment made the successful charge against Hastings, [118]
Chillingworth, his opinion on apostolical succession, [172] ; became a Catholic from conviction, [306]
Chinese (the) compared to the Homans under Diocletian, [415] [416]
Chinsurab, Dutch settlement on the Hoogley, [230] ; its siege by the English and capitulation. [259]
Chivalry, its form in Languedoc in the [12]th century, [308] [309]
Cholmondeley, Mrs., [271]
Christchurch College. Oxford, its repute after the Revolution, [108] ; issues a new edition of the Letters of Phalaris, [108] [116] [118] ; its condition under Atterbury, [121] [122]
Christianity, its alliance with the ancient philosophy, [444] ; light in which it was regarded hv the Italians at the Reformation, [316] ; its effect upon mental activity; [416]
Church (the), in the time of James II., [520]
Church (the), Southey's Hook of, [137]
Church, the English, persecutions in her name, [443] High and Low Church parties, [362] [119] [120]
Church of England, its origin and connection with the state, [452] [453] [190] ; its condition in the time of Charles [1] , [166] ; endeavor of the leading Whigs at the Revolution to alter its Liturgy and Articles, [321] [178] ; its contest with the Scotch nation, [322] Mr. Gladstone's work in defence of it, [116] ; his arguments for its being the pure Catholic Church of Christ, [161] [166] ; its claims to apostolical succession discussed, [166] [178] ; views respecting its alliance with the state, [183] [193] ; contrast of its operations during the two generations succeeding the Reformation, with those of the Church of Rome, [331] [332]
Church of Rome, its alliance with ancient philosophy, [444] ; causes of its success and vitality, [300] [301] ; sketch of its history, [307] [349]
Churchill, Charles, [519] [42] [200]
Cicero, partiality of Dr. Middleton towards, [340] ; the most eloquent and skilful of advocates, [340] ; his epistles in his banishment, [361] ; his opinion of the study of rhetoric, [472] ; as a critic, [142]
Cider, proposal of a tax on, by the Bute administration, [50]
Circumstances, effect of, upon character, [322] [323] [325]
"City of the Violet Crown," a favorite epithet of Athens, [36] ; note.
Civil privileges and political power identical, [311]
Civil War (the), Cowley and Milton's imaginary conversation about, [112] [138] ; its evils the price of our liberty, [243] ; conduct of the Long Parliament in reference to it, [470] [495] [496]
Civilization, only peril to can arise from misgovernment, [41] [42] England's progress in, due to the people, [187] ; modern, its influence upon philosophical speculation, [417] [418]
Clarendon, Lord, his history, [424] ; his character, [521] ; his testimony in favor of Hampden, [448] [468] [472] [41] [493] ; his literary merit, [338] ; his position at the head of affairs, [29] [31] [37] [38] ; his faulty style, [50] ; his opposition to the growing power of the Commons, [73] ; his temper, [74] ; the charge against Christ-Churchmen of garbling his history, [130]
Clarke, Dr. Samuel, [303]
Clarkson, Thomas, [309]
Classics, ancient, celebrity of, [139] ; rarely examined on just principles of criticism, [139] ; love of, in Italy in the [14]th century, [278]
Classical studies, their advantages and defects considered, [347] [354]
Clavering, General, [35] ; his opposition to Hastings, [40] [47] ; his appointment as Governor General, [54] ; his defeat, [56] ; his death, [57]
Cleveland, Duchess of, her favor to Wycherly and Churchill, [372] [373]
Clifford, Lord, his character, [47] ; his retirement, [55] [56] ; his talent for debate, [72]
Clive, Lord, review of Sir John Malcolm's Life of, [194] [298] ; his family and boyhood, [196] [197] ; his shipment to India, [198] ; his arrival at Madras and position there, [200] ; obtains an ensign's commission in the Company's service, [203] ; his attack, capture, and defence of Arcot, [215] [219] ; his subsequent proceedings, [220] [221] [223] ; his marriage and return to England,224; his reception, [225] ; enters Parliament, [226] ; return to India, [228] ; his subsequent proceedings, [228] [236] ; his conduct towards Ormichund, [238] [241] 247, [248] ; his pecuniary acquisitions, [251] ; his transactions with Meer Jaffier, [240] [246] [254] ; appointed Governor of the Company's possessions in Bengal, [255] ; his dispersion of Shah Alum's army, [256] [257] ; responsibility of his position, [259] ; his return to England, [260] ; his reception, [260] [261] ; his proceedings at the India House, [263] [265] [269] ; nominated Governor of the British possessions in Bengal. [270] ; his arrival at Calcutta, [270] ; suppresses a conspiracy, [275] [276] ; success of his foreign policy, [276] ; his return to England, [279] ; his unpopularity and its causes, [279] [285] ; invested with the Grand Cross of the Bath, [292] ; his speech in his defence, and its consequence, [289] [290] [292] ; his life in retirement, [291] ; reflections on his career, [296] ; failing of his mind, and death by his own hand, [296]