INDEX
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The 1860 six volume print set had the index for all six volumes at the end to volume six. This PG edition has the complete index for all volumes at the end of each volume.
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [XYZ]
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]
| [A] | [B] | [C] | [D] | [E] | [F] | [G] | [H] | [I] | [J] | [K] | [L] | [M] | [N] | [O] | [P] | [Q] | [R] | [S] | [T] | [U] | [V] | [W] | [XYZ] |
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]
Clizia, Machiavelli's, [298]
Clodius, extensive bribery at the trial of, [421]
"Clouds" (the), of Aristophanes, [383]
Club-room, Johnson's, [425] [159]
Coalition of Chatham and Newcastle, [243]
Cobham, Lord, his malignity towards Essex, [380]
Coke, Sir E., his conduct towards Bacon, [357] [406] ; his opposition to Bacon in Peacham's case, [389] [390] ; his experience in conducting state prosecutions, [392] ; his removal from the Bench, [406] ; his reconciliation with Buckingham, and agreement to marry his daughter to Buckingham's brother, [406] ; his reconciliation with Bacon, [408] ; his behavior to Bacon at his trial, [427]
Coleridge, relative "correctness" of his poetry, [339] Byron's opinion of him, [352] ; his satire upon Pitt, [271]
Coligni, Caspar de, reference to, [67]
Collier, Teremy, sketch of his life, [393] [396] ; his publication on the profaneness of the English stage, [396] [399] ; his controversy with Congreve, [401]
Colloquies on Society, Southey's, [132] ; plan of the work. [141] [142]
Collot, D'llerbois, [475] [489] [49]S, [501] [504] [506] [508] [510]
Colonies, [83] ; question of the competency of Parliament to tax them, [77] [78]
Comedy (the), of England, effect of the writings of Congreve and Sheridan upon, [295]
Comedies, Dryden's, [360]
Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, [350]-411; how he exercised a great influence on the human mind, [351]
Conimes, his testimony to the good government of England, [434]
Commerce and manufactures, their extent in Italy in the 14th century, [270] ; condition of, during the war at the latter part of the reign of George II., [247]
Committee of Public Safety, the French, [403] [475] [503]
Commons, House of, increase of its power, [532] ; increase of its power by and since the Revolution, [325]
Commonwealth, [335]
Conceits of Petrarch, [89] [90] ; of Shakspeare and the writers of his age, [342] [344] [347]
Coudé, Marshal, compared with Clive, [237]
Condensation, had effect of enforced upon composition, [152]
Contians, Admiral, his defeat by Hawke, [245]
Congreve, his birth and early life, [387] ; sketch of his career at the Temple, [388] ; his "Old Bachelor," [389] "Double Dealer," [39] ; success of his "Love for Love," [391] ; his "Mourning Bride," [392] ; his controversy with Collier, [397] [400] [403] ; his "Way of the World," [403] ; his later years, [404] [405] ; his position among mem of letters, [400] ; his attachment to Mrs. Bracegirdle, [407] ; his friendship with the Duchess of Marlborough, [408] ; hi; death and capricious will, [408] ; his funeral in Westminster Abbey, [409] ; cenotaph to his memory at Stowe, [409] ; analogy between him and Wycherley, [410]
Congreve and Sheridan, effect of their works upon the comedy of England, [295] ; contrasted with Shakspeare, [295]
Conquests of the British arms in [175] [244] [245]
Constance, council of, put an end to the Wickliffe schism, [313]
Constantinople, mental stagnation in, [417]
Constitution (the), of England, in the [15]th and [18]th centuries, compared with those of other European states, [470] [477] ; the argument that it would he destroyed by admitting the dews to power, 307, [308] ; its theory in respect to the three branches of the legislature, [25] [20] [410]
Constitutional government, decline of. on the Continent, early in the [17]th century, [481]
Constitutional History of England, review of llaltam's, [433] [543]
Constitutional Royalists in the reign of Charles L, [474] [483]
Convention, the French, [449] [475]
Conversation, the source of logical inaccuracy, [148] [383] [384] ; imaginary, between Cowley and Milton touching the great Civil War, [112] [138]
Conway, Henry, vi. 02; Secretary of State under Lord Rockingham, [74] ; returns to his position under Chatham, [91] [95] ; sank into insignificance [100]
Conway, Marshal, his character, [200]
Cooke, Sir Anthony, his learning, [349]
Cooperation, advantages of. [184]
Coote, Sir Eyre, [1] ; his character and conduct in council, [62] ; his great victory of Porto Novo, [74]
Corah, ceded to the Mogul, [27]
Corday, Charlotte, [400]
Corneille, his treatment by the French Academy, [23]
"Correctness" in the fine arts and in the sciences, [339] [343] ; in painting. [343] ; what is meant by it in poetry, [339] [343]
Corruption, parliamentary, not necessary to the Tudors, [108] ; its extent in the reigns of George I. and II. [21] [23]
Corsica given up to France, [100]
Cossimbazar, its situation and importance, [7]
Cottabus, a Greek game, [30] ; note.
Council of York, its abolition, [409]
Country Wife of Wycherley, its character and merits, [370] ; whence borrowed, [385]
Courtenay, Rt. Hon. T. P., review of his Memoirs of Sir William Temple, [115] ; his concessions to Dr. Lingard in regard to the Triple Alliance, [41] ; his opinion of Temple's proposed new council, [65] ; his error as to Temple's residence, [100]
Cousinhood, nickname of the official members of the Temple family, [13]
Covenant, the Scotch, [460]
Covenanters, (the), their conclusion of treaty with Charles I., [460]
Coventry, Lady, [262]
Cowley, dictum of Denham concerning him, [203] ; deficient in imagination, [211] ; his wit, [162] [375] ; his admiration of Bacon, [492] [493] ; imaginary conversation between him and [21] ; about the Civil War, [112] [138]
Cowper, Earl, keeper of the Great Seal, [361]
Cowper, William, [349] ; his praise of Pope, [351] ; his friendship with Warren Hastings, [5] ; neglected, [261]
Cox, Archdeacon, his eulogium on Sir Robert Walpole, [173]
Coyer, Abbé, his imitation of Voltaire, [377]
Crabbe, George, [261]
Craggs, Secretary, [227] ; succeeds Addison, [413] Addison dedicates his works to him, [418]
Cranmer, Archbishop, estimate of his character, [448] [449]
Crebillon, the younger, [155]
Crisis, Steele's, [403]
Crisp, Samuel, his early career, [259] ; his tragedy of Virginia, [261] ; his retirement and seclusion, [264] ; his friendship with the Burneys, [265] ; his gratification at the success of Miss Burney's first work, [269] ; his advice to her upon her comedy, [273] ; his applause of her "Cecilia," [275]
Criticism, Literary, principles of, not universally recognized, [21] ; rarely applied to the examination of the ancient classics, [139] ; causes of its failure when so applied, [143] ; success in, of Aristotle, [140] Dionysius, [141] Quintilian, [141] [142] Longinus, [142] [143] Cicero, [142] ; ludicrous instance of French criticism, [144] ; ill success of classical scholars who have risen above verbal criticism, [144] ; their lack of taste and judgment, [144] ; manner in which criticism is to be exercised upon oratorical efforts, [149] [151] ; criticism upon Dante, [55] [79] Petrarch, [80]-99; a rude state of society, favorable to genius, but not to criticism, [57] [58] [325] ; great writers are bad critics, [76] [328] ; effect of upon poetry, [338] ; its earlier stages, [338] [339] ; remarks on Johnson's code of, [417]
Critics professional, their influence over the reading public, [196]
Croker, Mr., his edition of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, reviewed, [368] [426]
Cromwell and Charles, choice between, [496]
Cromwell and Napoleon, remarks on Mr. Hallam's parallel between, [504] [510]
Cromwell, Henry, description of, [17]
Cromwell, Oliver, his elevation to power, [502] ; his character as a legislator, [504] ; as a general, [504] ; his administration and its results, [509] [510] ; embarked with Hampden for America, but not suffered to proceed, [459] ; his qualities, [496] ; his administration, [286] [292] ; treatment of his remains, [289] ; his ability displayed in Ireland, [25] [27] ; anecdote of his sitting for his portrait, [2]
Cromwell, Richard, [15]
Crown (the) veto by, on Acts of Parliament, [487] [488] ; its control over the army, [489] ; its power in the [16]th century, [15] ; curtailment of its prerogatives, [169] [171] ; its power predominant at beginning of the [17]th century, [70] ; decline of its power during the Pensionary Parliament, [71] ; its long contest with the Parliament put an end to by the Revolution, [78] ; see also Prerogative.
Crusades (the), their beneficial effect upon Italy, [275]
Crusoe, Robinson, the work of an uneducated genius, [57] ; its effect upon the imaginations of children, [331]
Culpeper, Mr., [474]
Cumberland, the dramatist, his manner of acknowledging literary merit, [270]
Cumberland, Duke of, [260] ; the confidential friend rif Henry Fox, [44] ; confided in by George II., [67] ; his character, * [67] ; mediated between the King and the Whigs, [68]
D.
Dacier, Madame, [338]
D'Alembert, [23] Horace Walpole's opinion of him, [156]
Dallas, Chief Justice, one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial, [27]
Dauby, Earl, His connection with Temple, abilities and character, [57] ; impeached and sent to the Tower; owed his office and dukedom to his talent in debate, [72]
Danger, public, a certain amount of, will warrant a retrospective law, [470]
Dante, criticism upon, [55] [79] ; the earliest and greatest writer of his country, [55] ; first to attempt composition in the Italian language, [56] ; admired in his own and the following age, [58] ; but without due appreciation, [59] [329] [330] ; unable to appreciate himself, [58] Simon's remark about him, [58] ; his own age unable to comprehend the Divine Comedy, [59] ; bad consequence to Italian literature of the neglect of his style down to the time of Alfieri, [60] [61] ; period of his birth, [62] ; characteristics of his native city, [63] [64] ; his relations to his age, [66] ; his personal history, [60] ; his religious fervor, his gloomy temperament, [67] ; his Divine Comedy, [67] [220] [277] ; his description of Heaven inferior to those of Hell or Purgatory, [67] ; his reality, the source of his power, [68] [69] ; compared with Milton, [68] [69] [220] ; his metaphors and comparisons, [70] [72] ; little impressed by the forms of the external world, [72] [74] ; dealt mostly with the sterner passions, [74] ; his use of the ancient mythology, [75] [76] ; ignorant of the Greek language, [76] ; his style, [77] [78] ; his translators, [78] ; his admiration of writers inferior to himself, [329] ; of Virgil, [329] "correctness," of his poetry, [338] ; story from, [3]
Danton, compared with Barere, [426] ; his death, [481] [482]
D'Arblay, Madame, review of her Diary and Letters, [248] [320] ; wide celebrity of her name, [248] ; her Diary, [250] ; her family, [250] [251] ; her birth and education, [252] [254] ; her father's social position, [254]- [257] ; her first literary efforts, [258] ; her friendship with Mr. Crisp, [259] [265] ; publication of her "Evelina," [266] [268] ; her comedy, "The Witlings," [273] [274] ; her second novel, "Cecilia," [275] ; death of her friends Crisp and Johnson, [275] [276] ; her regard for Mrs. Dernny. [276] ; her interview with the king and queen, [277] [278] ; accepts the situation of keeper of the robes, [279] ; sketch of her life in this position, [279] [287] ; attends at Warren Hastings' trial, [288] ; her espousal of the cause of Hastings, [288] ; her incivility to Windham and Burke, [288] [289] ; her sufferings during her keepership, [290] [294] [300] ; her marriage, and close of the Diary, [301] ; publication of "Camilla," [302] ; subsequent events in her life, [302] [303] ; publication of "The Wanderer," [303] ; her death, [303] ; character of her writings, [303] [318] ; change in her style, [311] [314] ; specimens of her three styles, [315] [316] ; failure of her later works, [318] ; service she rendered to the English novel, [319] [320]
Dashwood, Sir Francis, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Bute, [36] ; his inefficiency, [51]
David, d'Angers, his memoirs of Barère reviewed, [423] [539]
Davies, Tom, [384]
Davila, one of Hampden's favorite authors, [450]
Davlesford, site of the estate of the Hastings family, [5] ; its purchase and adornment by Hastings, [142]
De Angmentis Scientiarium, by Bacon, [388] [433]
Debates in Parliament, effects of their publication, [538]
Debt, the national, effect of its abrogation, [153] England's capabilities in respect to it, [186]
Declaration of Bight, [317] "Declaration of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert Earl of Essex," by Lord Macon, [373]
Dedications, literary, more honest than formerly, [191]
Defoe, Daniel, [57]
De. Guignes, [256]
Delany, Dr., his connection with Swift, [276] ; his widow, and her favor with the royal family, [276] [277]
Delhi, its splendor during the Mogul empire, [204]
Delium. battle of, [21]
Demerville, [521]
Democracy, violence in its advocates induces reaction, [11] ; pure, characteristics of, [513] [514]
Democritus the reputed inventor of the arch, [438] Macon's estimate of him, [439]
Demosthenes, Johnson's remark, that he spoke to a people of brutes, [146] ; transcribed Thucydides six times, [147] ; he and his contemporary orators compared to the Italian Condottieri, [156] Mitford's misrepresentation of him, [191] [193] [195] 197; perfection of his speeches, [376] ; his remark about bribery, [428]
Denham, dictum of, concerning Cowley, [203] ; illustration from, [61]
Denmark, contrast of its progress to the retrogression of Portugal, [340]
Dennis, John, his attack upon Addison's "Plato", [393] Pope's narrative of his Frenzy, [394] [395]
"Deserted Village" (the), Goldsmith's, [162] [163]
Desmoulin's Camille, [483]
Devonshire, Duchess of, [126]
Devonshire, Duke of, forms an administration after the resignation of Newcastle, [235] Lord Chamberlain under Bute, [38] ; dismissed from his lord-lieutenancy, [47] ; his son invited to court by the king, [71]
Dewey, Dr., his views upon slavery in the West Indies, [393] [401]
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, reviewed, [248] [320]
Dice, [13] ; note.
Dionvsius, of Halicarnassus, [141] [413]
Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, [178] [143]
Discussion, free, its tendency, [167]
Dissent, its extent in the time of Charles I., [168] ; cause of, in England, [333] ; avoidance of in the Church of Rome, [334] ; see also Church of England.
Dissenters (the), examination of the reasoning of Mr. Gladstone for their exclusion from civil offices, [147] [155]
Disturbances, public, during Grenville's administration, [70]
Divine Right, [236]
Division of labor, its necessity, [123] ; illustration of the effects of disregarding it, [123]
Dodington, Mubb, [13] ; his kindness to Johnson, [191]
Donne, John, comparison of his wit with Horace Walpole's, [163]
Dorset, the Earl of, [350] ; the patron of literature in the reign of Charles IL, [400] [376]
Double Dealer, by Congreve, its reception, [390] ; his defence of its profaneness, [401]
Dougan, John, his report on the captured negroes, [362] ; his humanity, [363] ; his return home and death, [363] Major Morly's charges against him.
Dover, Lord, review of his edition of Horace Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Maim, [143] [193] ; see Walpole, Sir Horace.
Dowdeswell, Mr., Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Rockingham, [74]
Drama (the), its origin in Greece, [216] ; causes of its dissolute character soon after the Restoration, [366] ; changes of style which it requires, [365]
Dramas, Greek, compared with the English plays of the age of Elizabeth, [339]
Dramatic art, the unities violated in all the great masterpieces of, [341]
Dramatic literature shows the state of contemporary religious opinion, [29]
Dramatic Works (the), of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, review of Leigh Hunt's edition of, [350, ] [411]
Dramatists of the Elizabethan age, characteristics of, [344] [346] ; manner in which they treat religious subjects, [211]
Drogheda, Countess of, her character, acquaintance with Wycherley, and marriage, [370] ; its consequences, [377]
Dryden, John, review of his works, [321] [370] ; his rank among poets, [321] ; highest in the second rank of poets, 317; his characteristics, [821] ; his relations to his times, [321] [322] [351] ; greatest of the critical poets, [351] [317] ; characteristics of the different stages in his literary career, [352] ; the year [107]8 the date of the change in his manner, [352] ; his Annus Mirabilis, [353] [355] ; he resembles Lucan. [355] ; characteristics of his rhyming plays, [355] [301] 308; his comic characters, [350] ; the women of his comedies, [350] ; of his tragedies, [357] 358; his tragic characters, [350] [357] ; his violations of historical propriety, [358] ; and of nature, [351] ; his tragicomedies, [351] ; his skill in the management of the heroic couplets, [300] ; his comedies, [300] ; his tragedies, [300] 301; his bombast, [301] [302] ; his imitations of the earlier dramatists unsuccessful, [302] [304] ; his Song of the Fairies. [304] ; his second manner, [305] [307] ; the improvement in his plays, [305] ; his power of reasoning in verse, [300] [308] ; ceased to write for the stage, [307] ; after his death English literature retrograded, [307] ; his command of language, [307] ; excellences of his style, [308] ; his appreciation of his contemporaries, [309] ; and others, [381] ; of Addison and of Milton, [309] [370] ; his dedications, [309] [370] ; his taste, [370] [371] ; his carelessness, [371] ; the Hind and the Panther, [371] [372] Absalom and Ahithophel, [372] [83] [85] ; his resemblance to Juvenal and to Boileau, [372] [373] ; his part in the political disputes of his times, [373] ; the Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, [374] ; general characteristics of his style, [374] [375] ; his merits not adequately appreciated in his own day, [191] ; alleged improvement in English poetry since his time, [347] ; the connecting link of the literary schools of James I. and Anne, [355] ; his excuse for the indecency and immorality of his writings, [355] ; his friendship for Congreve and lines upon his Double Dealer, [390] ; censured by Collier, [398] [400] Addison's complimentary verses to him, [322] ; and critical preface to his translation of the Georgies, [335] ; the original of his Father Dominic, [290]
Dublin, Archbishop of, his work on Logic, [477]
Dumont, [51] , his Recollections of Mirabeau reviewed, [37] [74] ; his general characteristics, [37] [41] ; his view's upon the French Revolution, [41] [43] [44] [40] ; his services in it, [47] ; his personal character, [74] ; his style, [73] [74] ; his opinion that Burke's work on the French Revolution had saved Europe, [44] [204] ; as the interpreter of Ilentham, [38] [40] [153]
Dundas, Sir., his character, and hostility to Hastings, [108] [120] ; eulogizes Pitt, [234] ; becomes his most useful assistant in the House of Commons, [247] ; patronizes Burns, [231]
"Duodecim Seriptre," a Roman game, [4] ; note.
Dupleix, governor of Pondicherry, his gigantic schemes for establishing French influence in India, [202] [209] [212] [220] [222] [228] ; his death, [228] [294]
Duroc, [522]
E.
East India Companv, its absolute authority in India, [240] ; its condition when Clive lirst went to India, [198] [200] ; its war with the French East India Companv, [202] ; increase of its power, [220] ; its factories in Bengal, [230] ; fortunes made by its servants in Bengal, [205] [200] ; its servants transferred into diplomatists and generals, [8] ; nature of its government and power, [10] [17] ; rights of the Nabob of Oude over Benares ceded to it [75] ; its financial embarrassments, [80] Fox's proposed alteration in its charter, [244] [247]
Ecclesiastical commission (the), [100]
Ecclesiastics, fondness of the old dramatists for the character of, [29]
Eden, pictures of, in old Bibles, [343] ; painting of, by a gifted master, [343]
Edinburgh, comparison of with Florence, [340]
Education in England in the [18]th century, [354] ; duty of the government in promoting it, [182] [183] ; principles of should be progressive, [343] [344] ; characteristics of in the Universities, [344] [345] [355] [300] ; classical, its advantages and defects discussed, [340] ; to: [354]
Education in Italy in the [14]th century, [277]
Egerton, his charge of corruption against Bacon, [413] Bacon's decision against him after receiving his present, [430]
Egotism, why so unpopular in conversation, and so popular in writing, [81] [82] [305]
Elephants, use of, in war in India, [218]
Eleusinian mysteries, [49] [54] Alcibiades suspected of having assisted at a mock celebration of, [49] ; note; crier and torch-bearer important functionaries at celebration of, [53] ; note.
"Eleven" (the), police of Athens, [34] ; note.
Eliot, Sir John, [440]-448; his treatise oil Government, [449] ; died a martyr to liberty, [451]
Elizabeth (Queen), fallacy entertained respecting the persecutions under her, [439] [441] ; her penal laws, [441] ; arguments in favor of, on the head of persecution, apply with more force to Mary, [450] ; to: [452] ; condition of the working classes in her reign, [175] [437] ; her rapid advance of Cecil, [8] ; character of her government, [10] [18] [22] [32] ; a persecutor though herself indifferent, [31] [32] ; her early notice of Lord Bacon, [353] ; her favor towards Essex, [301] ; factions at the close of her reign, [302] [363] [382] ; her pride and temper, [370] [397] ; and death, [383] ; progress ill knowledge since her days, [302] ; her Protestantism, [328] [29]
Ellenborough, Lord, one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial, [127] ; his proclamations, [472]
Ellis, W., [235]
Elphinstone, Lord, [298]
Elwood, Milton's Quaker friend, allusion to, [205]
Emigration of Puritans to America, [459]
Emigration from England to Ireland under Cromwell, [20]
Empires, extensive, often more flourishing alter a little pruning, [83]
England, her progress in civilization due to the people, [190] ; her physical and moral condition in the [15]th century, [434] [435] ; never so rich and powerful as since the loss of her American colonies, [83] ; conduct of, in reference to the Spanish succession, [103] [104] ; successive steps of her progress, [279] [281] ; influence of her revolution on the human race, [281] [321] ; her situation at the Restoration compared with France at the restoration of Louis XVIII., [282] [284] ; her early situation, [290] [293] [301] ; character of her public men at the latter part of the [17]th century, [11] ; difference in her situation under Charles II., and under the Protectorate, [32] ; her fertility in heroes and statesmen, [170] ; how her history should be written by a perfect historian, [428] [432] ; characteristics of her liberty, [399] ; her strength contrasted with that of France, [24] ; condition of her middle classes, [423] [424]
English (the), in the [10]th century a free people, [18] [19] ; their character, [292] [300]
English language, [308]
English literature of that age, [341] [342] ; effect of foreign influences upon, [349] [350]
English plays of the ago of Elizabeth, [344] [340] [339] "Englishman," Steele's, [403]
Enlightenment, its increase in the world not necessarily unfavorable to Catholicism, [301]
Enthusiasts, dealings of the Church of Rome and the Church of England with them, [331] [330]
Epicureans, their peculiar doctrines, [443]
Epicurus, the lines on his pedestal, [444]
Epistles, Petrarch's, i. 08, [99] ; addressed to the dead and the unborn, [99]
Epitaphs, Latin, [417]
Epithets, use of by Homer, [354] ; by the old ballad-writers, [354]
Ereilla, Alonzo de, a soldier as well as a poet, [81]
Essay on Government, by Sir William Temple, [50] ; by James Mills, [5] [51]
Essays, Bacon's, value of them, [311] [7] [388] [433] [481] [491]
Essex, Earl of, [30] ; his character, popularity and favor with Elizabeth, [301] [304] [373] ; his political conduct, [304] ; his friendship for Bacon, [305] [300] [373] [397] ; his conversation with Robert Cecil, [305] ; pleads for Bacon's marriage with Lady Hatton, [308] [400] ; his expedition to Spain, [307] ; his faults, [308] [309] [397] ; decline of his fortunes, [308] ; his administration in Ireland, [309] Bacon's faithlessness to him, [309] [371] ; his trial and execution, [371] [373] ; ingratitude of Bacon towards him, [309] [380] [398] ; feeling of King James towards him, [384] ; his resemblance to Buckingham, [397]
Essex, Earl of, (Ch. I.,) [489] [491]
Etherege. Sir George, [353]
Eugene of Savoy, [143]
Euripides, his mother an herb-woman, [45] ; note; his lost plays, [45] ; quotation from, [50] [51] ; attacked for the immorality of one of his verses, [51] ; note; his mythology, [75] Quintilian's admiration of him, [141] Milton's, [217] ; emendation of a passage of, [381] ; note; his characteristics, [352]
Europe, state of, at the peace of Utrecht, [135] ; want of union in, to arrest the designs of Lewis XIX., [35] ; the distractions of, suspended for a short time by the treaty of Nimeguen, [60] ; its progress during the last seven centuries, [307]
Evelina, Madame D'Arblay's, specimen of her style from, [315] [310]
Evils, natural and national, [158]
Exchequer, fraud of the Cabal ministry in closing it, [53]
Exclusiveness of the Greeks, [411] [412] ; of the Romans, [413] [410]
F.
Fable (a), of Pilpay, [188]
Fairfax, reserved for him and Cromwell to terminate the civil war, [491]
Falkland, Lord, his conduct in respect to the bill of attainder against Strafford, [400] ; his character as a politician, [483] ; at the head of the constitutional Royalists, [474]
Family Compact (the), between France and Spain, [138] [29]
Fanaticism, not altogether evil, [64]
Faust, [303]
Favorites, royal, always odious, [38]
Female Quixote (the), [319]
Fenelon, the nature of and standard of morality in his Telemachus, [359]
Ferdinand II., his devotion to Catholicism, [329]
Ferdinand VII., resemblance between him and Charles I. of England, [488]
Fictions, literary, [267]
Fidelity, touching instance of, in the Sepoys towards Clive, [210]
Fielding, his contempt for Richardson, [201] ; case from his "Amelia," analogous to Addison's treatment of Steele, [370] ; quotation from, illustrative of the effect of Garrick's acting, [332]
Filieaja Vincenzio, [300]
Finance, Southev's theory of, [150]- [155]
Finch, Chief Justice to Charles I., [450] ; tied to Holland, [409]
Fine Arts (the), encouragement of, in Italy, in the [14]th century, [277] ; causes of their decline in England after the civil war, [157] ; government should promote them, [184]
Fletcher, the dramatist, [350] [308] [352]
Fletcher, of Saltona, [388] [389]
Florence, [63] [64] ; difference between a soldier of, and one belonging to a standing army, [61] ; state of, in the [14]th century, [276]-277; its History, by Maehiavelli, [317] ; compared with Edinburgh, [340]
Fluxions, [324]
Foote, Charles, his stage character of an Anglo-Indian grandee, [282] ; his mimicry, [305] ; his inferiority to Garrick, [306]
Forms of government, [412] [413]
Fox, the family of, [414] [415]
Fox, Henry, sketch of his political character, [224] [229] [415] ; directed to form an administration in concert with Chatham, [235] ; applied to by Bute to manage the House of Commons, [43] [44] ; his private and public qualities, [45] ; became leader of the House of Commons, [46] ; obtains his promised peerage, [54] ; his unpopularity, [417]
Fox, Charles James, comparison of his History of James II. with Mackintosh's History of the Revolution, [252] ; his style, [254] ; characteristic of his oratory, [25]G; contrasted with that of Pitt, [25]G; his bodily and mental constitution, [415] [417] [232] ; his championship of arbitrary measures, and defiance of public opinion, [418] ; his change after the death of his father, [418] ; clamor raised against his India Bill, and his defence of it, [107] [244] 246; his alliance with Burke, and call for peace with the American republic, [110] ; his powerful party, [114] ; his conflicts with Pitt, [115] ; his motion on the charge against Hastings respecting his treatment of Cheyte Sing, [117] ; his appearance on the trial of Hastings, [127] [128] ; his rupture with Burke, [136] ; introduces Pitt, when a youth, in the House of Lords, and is struck with his precocity, [229] ; his admiration of Pitt's maiden speech, [233] ; puts up his name at Brookes's, [233] ; becomes Secretary of State, [235] ; resigns, [237] ; forms a coalition with North, [238] [241] Secretary of State, but in reality Prime Minister, [241] ; loses popularity, [243] ; resigns, [246] ; leads the opposition, [247] ; maintains the constitutional doctrine in regard to impeachments, 269, [270] ; fails to lead his party to favor the French Revolution, [273] ; his retirement from political life, [278] [284] ; opposes Pitt in regard to declaring war against France, [288] ; combines with him against Addington, [290] ; the king refuses to take him as a minister, [291] ; his generous feeling towards Pitt, [296] ; opposes the motion for a public funeral to Pitt, [297]
Fragments of a Roman 'Pale, [1] [19]
France, her history from the time of Louis XIV. to the Revolution, [63] [68] ; from the dissolution of the National Assembly to the meeting of the Convention, [446] [449] ; from the meeting of the Convention to the Reign of Terror, [449]475; during the Reign of Terror, [475] [500] ; from the Revolution of the ninth of Thermidor to the Consulate, [500]-513; under Napoleon, [513] [528] ; illustration from her history since the revolution, [514] ; her condition in [171]2 and [183] [134] ; her state at the restoration of Louis XVIII., [283] ; enters into a compact with Spain against England, [29] ; recognizes the independence of the United States, [105] ; her strength contrasted with that of England, [24] ; her history during the hundred days, [529] [530] ; after the Restoration, [429]
Francis, Sir Philip, councillor under the Regulating Act for India, [35] ; his character and talents, [35] 36; probability of his being the author of the Letters of Junius, [36] ; to: [39] ; his opposition to Hastings, [40] [56] ; his patriotic feeling, and reconciliation with Hastings, [62] ; his opposition to the arrangement with Sir Elijah Impey, [69] ; renewal of his quarrel with Hastings, [69] ; duel with Hastings, [70] ; his return to England, [74] ; his entrance into the House of Commons and character there, [109] [117] ; his speech on Mr. Fox's motion relating to Cheyte Sing, [118] ; his exclusion from the committee on the impeachment of Hastings, [123] [124]
Francis, the Emperor, [14]
Franklin, Benjamin, Dr., his admiration for Miss Burney, [211]
Franks, rapid fall after the death of Charlemagne, [205] [200]
Frederic I., [150]
Frederic II., iv. 011.
Frederic the Great, review of his Life and Times, by Thomas Campbell, [148] [248] ; notice of the House of Brandenburgh, [140] ; birth of Frederic, [152] ; his lather's conduct to him, [153] ; his taste for music, [153] ; his desertion from his regiment. [155] ; his imprisonment, [155] ; his release, [155] ; his favorite abode, [150] ; his amusements, [150] ; his education, [157] ; his exclusive admiration for French writers, [158] ; his veneration for the genius of Voltaire, [100] ; his correspondence with Voltaire, [101] ; his accession to the throne, [102] ; his character little understood, [103] ; his true character, [103] [104] ; he determines to invade Silesia, [100] ; prepares for war, [108] ; commences hostilities, [108] [105] ; his perfidy, [109] ; occupies Silesia, [171] ; his first battle, [171] ; his change of policy, [174] ; gains the battle of Chotusitz, [174] Silesia ceded to him, [175] ; his whimsical conferences with Voltaire, [170] ; recommences hostilities, [177] ; his retreat from Bohemia, [177] ; his victory at Hohenlfiedberg, [178] ; his part in the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, [179] ; public opinion respecting his political character, [179] ; his application to business, [179] ; his bodily exertions, [180] [181] ; general principles of his government, [182] ; his economy, [183] ; his character as an administrator, [184] ; his labors to secure to his people cheap and speedy justice, [185] ; religious persecution unknown under his government, [180] ; vices of his administration, [180] ; his commercial policy, [187] ; his passion for directing and regulating, [187] ; his contempt for the German language, [188] ; his associates at Potsdam, [189] [190] ; his talent for sarcasm, [192] ; invites Voltaire to Berlin, [190] ; their singular friendship, [197] ; seq.; union of France, Vustna and Saxony, against him, [212] ; he anticipates his ruin, [213] ; extent of his peril, [217] ; he occupies Saxony, [217] ; defeats Marshal Bruwn at Lowositz, [218] ; gains the battle of Prague, [219] ; loses the battle of Kolin, [220] ; his victory, [229] ; its effects, [231] ; his subsequent victories, [232] [248]
Frederic William I., [150] ; his character, [150] ; his ill-regululated mind, [151] ; his ambition to form a brigade of giants, [151] ; his feeling about his troops, [152] ; his hard and savage temper, [152] ; his conduct to his son Frederic, [153] [155] ; his illness and death, [102]
Free inquiry, right of, in religious matters, [102] [103]
French Academy (the), [23] ; seq.
French Republic, Burke's character of, [402]
French Revolution (the). See Revolution, the French.
Funds, national. See National Debt.