G.
Gabrielli, the singer, [256]
Galileo, [305]
Galway, Lord, commander of the allies in Spain in [170] [109] [119] ; defeated by the Bourbons at Almanza, [124]
Game, (a) Roman, [4] ; noie; (a) Greek, [30] ; note.
Ganges, the chief highway of Eastern commerce, [229]
Garden of Eden, pictures of, in oil Bibles, [343] ; painting of, by a gifted master, [343]
Garrick, David, a pupil of Johnson, [179] ; their relations to each other, [189] [190] [203] [398] ; his power of amusing children, [255] ; his friendship lor Crisp, [261] [202] ; his advice as to Crisp's tragedy of Virginia, [202] ; his power of imitation, [300] ; quotation from Fielding illustrative of the effect of his acting, [332]
Garth, his epilogue to Cato, [392] ; his verses upon the controversy in regard to the Letters of Phalaris, [118]
Gascons, [430] [487] [511] [525]
Gay, sent for by Addison on his death-bed to ask his forgiveness, [418]
Generalization, superiority in, of modern to ancient historians, [410] [414]
Geneva, Addison's visit to, [350]
Genius, creative, a rude state of society favorable to, [57] [325] ; requires discipline to enable it to perfect anything. [334] [335]
Genoa, its decay owing to Catholicism, [330] Addison's admiration of, [345]
Gensonnd, his ability, [452] ; his impeachment, [409] ; his defence, [473] ; his death, [474]
"Gentleman Dancing-Master," its production on the stage, [375] ; its best scenes suggested by Calderon, [385]
"Gentleman's Magazine" (the), [182] [184]
Geologist, Bishop Watson's comparison of, [425]
Geometry, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon, [450]
George I., his accession, [136]
George II., political state of the nation in his time. [533] ; his resentment against Chatham for his opposition to the payment of Hanoverian troops, [220] ; compelled to admit him to office, [221] ; his efforts for the protection of Hanover, [230] ; his relations towards his ministers, [241] [244] ; reconciled to Chatham's possession of power, [14] ; his death, [14] ; his character, [16]
George III., his accession the commencement of a new historic era, [532] ; cause of the discontents in the early part of his reign, [534] ; his partiality to Clive, [292] ; bright prospects at his accession, [58] [1] ; his interview with Miss Burney, [277] ; his opinions of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Shakespeare, [277] [278] ; his partisanship for Hastings, [291] ; his illness, and the view taken of it in the palace, [291] [292] ; the history of the first ten years of his reign but imperfectly known, [1] ; his characteristics, [16] [17] ; his favor to Lord Bute, [19] ; his notions of government, [21] ; slighted for Chatham at the Lord Mayor's dinner, [31] ; receives the resignation of Bute, and appoints George Grenville his successor, [54] ; his treatment by Grenville, [59] ; increase of his aversion to his ministers, [62] [63] ; his illness, 06; disputes between him and his ministry on the regency question, [66] ; inclined to enforce the American Stamp Act by the sword, [76] ; the faction of the "King's friends," [79] [89] ; his unwilling consent to the repeal of the Stamp Act, [82] ; dismisses Rockingham, and appoints Chatham, [88] ; his character and late popularity, [263] [265] ; his insanity and the question of the regency, [265] [267] ; his opposition to Catholic emancipation, [281] [282] ; his opposition to Fox, [291] [293]
Georgies (the), Addison's translation of a portion of, [332] [333]
Germany, the literature of, little known in England sixty or seventy years ago, [340] [341]
Germany and Switzerland, Addison's ramble in, [351]
Ghizni, peculiarity of the campaign of, [29]
Ghosts, Johnson's belief in, [410]
Gibbon, his alleged conversion to Mahommedanism, [375] ; his success as a historian, [252] ; his presence at Westminster Hall at the trial of Hastings, [126] ; unlearned his native English during his exile, [314] [260]
Gibbons, Gruiling, [367] [368]
Gibraltar, capture of, by Sir George Booke, [110]
Gittard, Lady, sister of Sir William Temple, [35] [39] [101] ; her death, [113]
Gifford, Byron's admiration of, [352]
Girondists, Barère's share in their destruction, [434] [435] [468] [469] [474] ; description of their party and principles, [452] [454] ; at first in the majority, [455] ; their intentions towards the king, [455] [456] ; their contest with the Mountain, [458] [459] [460] ; their trial, [473] ; and death, [474] [475] ; their character, [474]
Gladstone, W. E., review of "The State in its Relations with the Church," [110] ; quality of his mind, [111] [120] ; grounds on which he rests his case for the defence of the Church, [122] ; his doctrine that the duties of government are paternal, [125] ; specimen of his arguments, [127] [129] ; his argument that the profession of a national religion is imperative, [120] [131] [135] ; inconsequence of his reasoning, [138] ; to: [148]
Gleig, Kev. review of his Life of Warren Hastings, [114]
Godfrey, Sir E., [297]
Godolphin, Lord, his conversion to Whiggism, [130] ; engages Addison to write a poem on the battle of Illenheim, [355]
Godolphin and Marlborough, their policy soon after the accession of Queen Anne, [353]
Goëzman, his bribery as a member of the parliament of Lewis by Betmarchais, [430] [431]
Goldsmith, Oliver, Life of, [151] [171] ; his birth and parentage, [151] ; his school days, [152] [153] ; enters Trinity College, Dublin, [153] ; his university life, [154] ; his autograph upon a pane of glass, [154] ; note; his recklessness and instability, [154] [155] ; his travels, [155] ; his carelessness of the truth, [150] ; his life in London, [156] [157] ; his residence, [157] ; note; his hack writings, [157] [158] ; his style, [158] ; becomes known to literary men, [158] ; one of the original members of The Club, [159] Johnson's friendship for him, [159] [170] ; his "Vicar of Wakefield," [159] [161] ; his "Traveller." [160] ; his comedies. [161] [163] ; his "Deserted Village," [162] [163] ; his histories, [164] ; his amusing blunders, [164] ; his literary merits, 165, [170] ; his social position, [165] ; his inferiority in conversation, [165] 166, [393] ; his "Retaliation," [170] ; his character, [167] [168] [407] ; his prodigality, [168] ; his sickness and death, [169] ; his burial and cenotaph in Westminster Abbey, [169] [170] ; his biographers, [171]
Goordas, son of Nuneomar, his appointment as treasurer of the household, [24]
Gorhamlery, the country residence of Lord Bacon, [409]
Government, doctrines of Southey on the duties and ends of, stated and examined, [157] [168] ; its eon-duet in relation to infidel publications, [170] ; various forms of, [413] [414] ; changes in its form sometimes not felt till long alter, [86] ; the science of, experimental and progressive, [132] [272] [273] ; examination of Mr. Gladstone's treatise on the Philosophy of, [116] [176] ; its proper functions, [362] ; different forms of, [108] [111] ; their advantages, [179] [181] Mr. Hill's Essay on, reviewed, [5] [51]
Grace Abounding, Runyan's, [259]
Grafton, Duke of, Secretary of State under Lord Rockingham, [74] ; first Lord of the Treasury under Chatham, [91] ; joined the Bedfords, [100]
Granby, Marquis of, his character, [261]
Grand Alliance (the), against the Bourbons, [103]
Grand Remonstrance, debate on, and passing of it, [475]
Granville, Lord. See Carteret, Lord. Gray, his want of appreciation of Johnson, [261] ; his Latin verses, [342] ; his unsuccessful application for a professorship, [41] ; his injudicious plagiarisms from Dante, [72] ; note.
"Great Commoner." the designation of Lord Chatham, [250] [10]
Greece, its history compared with that of Italy, [281] ; its degradation and rise in modern times, [334] ; instances of the corruption of judges in the ancient commonwealths of, [420] ; its literature, [547] [340] [349] [352] ; history of, by Mitford, reviewed, [172] [201] ; historians of, modern, their characteristics, [174] [177] ; civil convulsions in, contrasted with those in Rome, [189] [190]
Greek Drama, its origin, [216] ; compared with the English plays of the age of Elizabeth, [338]
Greeks, difference between them and the Romans, [237] ; in their treatment of woman. [83] [84] ; their social condition compared with that of the Italians of the middle ages, [312] ; their position and character in the [12]th century, [300] ; their exclusiveness, [411] [412]
Gregory XI., his austerity and zeal, [324]
Grenvilles (the), [11] Richard Lord Temple at their head, [11]
Grenville, George, his character, [27] [23] ; intrusted with the lead in the Commons under the Bute administration, [33] ; his support of the proposed tax on cider, [51] ; his nickname of "Gentle Shepherd," [51] ; appointed prime minister, [54] ; his opinions, [54] [55] ; character of his public acts, [55] [50] ; his treatment of the king, [59] ; his deprivation of Henry Conway of his regiment, [62] ; proposed the imposition of stamp duties on the North American colonies, 05; his embarrassment on the question of a regency; his triumph over the king, [70] ; superseded by Lord Rockingham and his friends, [74] ; popular demonstration against him on the repeal of the Stamp Act, [83] ; deserted by the Bedfords, [109] ; his pamphlet against the Rocking-hams, [102] ; his reconciliation with Chatham, [103] ; his death, [104]
Grenville, Lord, [291] [292] [290]
Greville, Eulke, patron of Dr. Burney, his character, [251]
Grey, Lady Jane, her high classical acquirements, [349]
"Grievances," popular, on occasion of Walpole's fall, [181]
Grub Street, [405]
Guadaloupe, of, [244]
Guardian (the), its birth, [389] [390] ; its discontinuance, [390]
Guelfs (the), their success greatly promoted by the ecclesiastical power, [273]
Guicciardini, [2]
Guiciwar, its interpretation, [59]
Guise, Henry, Duke of, his conduct on the day of the barricades at Paris, [372] ; his resemblance to Essex. [372]
Gunpowder, its inventor and the date of its discovery unknown, [444]
Gustavus Adolphus, [338]
Gypsies (the), [380]
H.
Hale, Sir Matthew, his integrity, u. [490] [391]
Halifax, Lord, a trimmer both by intellect and by constitution, [87] ; compared with Shaftesbury, [87] ; his political tracts, [88] ; his oratorical powers, [89] [90] ; the king's dislike to him, [90] ; his recommendation of Addison to Godolphin, [354] [355] ; sworn of the Privy Council of Queen Anne, [301]
Hallam, Mr., review of his Constitutional History of England, [433] 543; his qualifications as an historian, [435] ; his style, [435] [430] ; character of his Constitutional History, [430] ; his impartiality, [430] [439] [512] ; his description of the proceedings of the third parliament of Charles I., and the measures which followed its dissolution, [450] [457] ; his remarks on tlie impeachment of Stratford, [458] [405] ; on the proceedings of the Long Parliament, and on the question of the justice of the civil war, [409] [495] ; his opinion on the nineteen propositions of the Long Parliament, [480] ; on the veto of the crown on acts of parliament, [487] ; on the control over tlie army, [489] ; on the treatment of Laud, and on his correspondence with Strafford, [492] [493] ; on tlie execution of Charles I., [497] ; his parallel between Cromwell and Napoleon, [504] [510] ; his character of Clarendon, [522]
Hamilton, Gerard, his celebrated single speech, [231] ; his effective speaking in the Irish Parliament, [372]
Hammond, Henry, uncle of Sir William Temple, his designation by the new Oxonian sectaries, [14]
Hampden, John, his conduct in tlie ship-money attender approved by the Royalists, effect of his loss on the Parliamentary cause, [496] ; review of Lord Nugent's Memorial of him, [427] ; his public and private character, [428] [429] Baxtor's testimony to his excellence, his origin and early history, [431] ; took his seat in the House of Commons, [432] ; joined the opposition to the Court; his first appearance as a public man, [441] ; his first stand for the fundamentals of the Constitution, [444] ; committed to prison. [444] ; set at liberty, and reelected for Wendover, [445] ; his retirement, [445] ; his remembrance of his persecuted friends, [447] ; his letters to Sir John Eliot, [447] Clarendon's character of him as a debater, [447] ; letter from him to Sir John Eliot, [448] ; his acquirements, [228] [450] ; death of his wife, [451] ; his resistance to the assessment for ship-money, [458] Stratford's hatred of him, [458] ; his intention to leave England, [458] ; his return tor Buckinghamshire in the fifth parliament of Charles I., [401] ; his motion on the subject of the king's message, [403] ; his election by two constituencies to the Long Parliament, [407] ; character of his speaking, [407] [408] ; his opinion on the bill for the attainder of Strafford, [471] Lord Clarendon's testimony to his moderation, [472] ; his mission to Scotland, [472] ; his conduct in the House of Commons on the passing of the Grand Remonstrance, [475] ; his impeachment ordered by the king, [477] [483] ; returns in triumph to the House, [482] ; his resolution, [489] ; raised a regiment in Buckinghamshire, [48] 1; contrasted with Essex, [491] ; his encounter with Rupert at Chalgrove, [493] ; his death and burial, [494] [495] ; effect of his death on his party, [490]
Hanover, Chatham's invective against the favor shown to, by George II., [219]
Harcourt, French ambassador to the Court of Charles II. of Spain, [94]
Hardwicke, Earl of, [13] ; his views of the policy of Chatham, [20] High Steward of the University of Cambridge, [37]
Harley, Robert, [400] ; his accession to power, [130] ; censure on him by Lord Mahon, [132] ; his kindness for men of genius, [405] ; his unsuccessful attempt to rally the Tories in [170] [3] ; his advice to the queen to dismiss the Whigs, [381]
Harrison, on the condition of the working classes in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, [175]
Hastings, Warren, review of Mr. Greig's Memoirs of his Life, [114] [7] ; his pedigree, [2] ; his birth, and the death of his father and mother, [3] ; taken charge of by his uncle and sent to Westminster school, [5] ; sent as a writer to Bengal, his position there, [7] ; events which originated his greatness, [8] ; becomes a member of council at Calcutta, [9] ; his character in pecuniary transactions, [11] [101] ; his return to England, generosity to his relations, and loss of his moderate fortune, [11] ; his plan for the cultivation of Persian literature at Oxford, [12] ; his interview with Johnson, [12] ; his appointment as member of council at Madras, and voyage to India, [13] ; his attachment to the Baroness Imhoff, [13] ; his judgment and vigor at-Madras, [15] ; his nomination to the head of the government at Bengal, [15] ; his relation with Nucomar, [19] [22] [24] ; his embarrassed finances and means to relieve them, [25] [74] ; his principle of dealing with his neighbors and the excuse for him, [25] ; his proceedings towards the Nabob and the Great Mogul, [27] ; his sale of territory to the Nabob of Oude, [28] ; his refusal to interfere to stop the barbarities of Sujah Dowlah, [33] ; his great talents for administration, [34] ; his disputes with the members of the new council, [40] ; his measures reversed, and the powers of government taken from him, [40] ; charges preferred against him, [42] [43] ; his painful situation, and appeal to England, [44] ; examination of his conduct, [49] [51] ; his letter to Dr. Johnson, [52] ; his condemnation by the directors, [52] ; his resignation tendered by his agent and accepted, [54] ; his marriage and reappointment, [50] ; his importance to England at that conjuncture, [57] [70] ; his duel with Francis, [70] ; his great influence, [73] [74] ; his financial embarrassment and designs for relief, [74] ; his transactions with and measures against Cheyte Sing, [71] ; seq.: his perilous situation in Benares, [82] [83] ; his treatment of the Nabob vizier, [85] [80] ; his treatment of the Begums, [879]2; close of his administration, [93] ; remarks on his system, [93] [102] ; his reception in England, [103] ; preparations for his impeachment, [104] [110] ; his defence at the bar of the House, [110] ; brought to the bar of the Peers, [123] ; scq.; his appearance on his trial, his counsel and his accusers, [120] ; his arraignment by Burke, [129] [130] ; narrative of the proceedings against him, [131] [139] ; expenses of his trial, [139] ; his last interference in politics, [141] [142] ; his pursuits and amusements at Daylesford, [142] ; his appearance and reception at the bar of the House of Commons, [144] ; his reception at Oxford. [145] ; sworn of the Privy Council and gracious reception by the Prince Regent, [145] ; his presentation to the Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia, [145] ; his death, [145] ; summary of his character, [145] [147]
Hatton, Lady, [308] ; her manners and temper, [308] ; her marriage with Sir Edward Coke, [368]
Havanna, capture of, [32]
Hawk, Admiral, his victory over the French fleet under Conflans, [245]
Hayley, William, [223] ; his translation of Dante, [78]
Hayti, its cultivation, [305] [306] ; its history and improvement, [390] [400] ; its production,395, [398] ; emigration to, from the United States, [398] [401]
Heat, the principle of, Bacon's reasoning upon, [90]
"Heathens" (the), of Cromwell's time, [258]
Heathfield, Lord, [125]
Hebert, [459] [409] [470] [473] [481]
Hebrew writers (the), resemblance of Æschylus to, [210] ; neglect of, by the Romans, [414]
Hebrides (the), Johnson's visit to, [420] ; his letters from, [423]
Hecatare, its derivation and definition, [281]
Hector, Homer's description of, [303]
Hedges, Sir Charles, Secretary of State, [302]
Helvetius, allusion to, [208]
Henry IV. of France, [139] ; twice abjured Protestantism from interested motives, [328]
Henry VIII., [452] ; his position between the Catholic and Protestant parties, [27]
Hephzibah, an allegory so called, [203]
Heresy, remarks on, [143] [153]
Herodotus, his characteristics, [377] 382; his naivete, [378] ; his imaginative coloring of facts, [378] [379] [420] ; his faults, [379] ; his style adapted to his times, [380] ; his history read at the Olympian festival, [381] ; its vividness, [381] [382] ; contrasted with Thucydides, [385] ; with Xenophon, [394] ; with Tacitus, [408] ; the speeches introduced into his narrative, [388] ; his anecdote about Mæandrius of Samos, [132] ; tragedy on the fall of Miletus, [333]
Heroic couplet (the), Drvden's unrivalled management of, [300] ; its mechanical nature, [333] [334] ; specimen from Ben Jonson, [334] ; from Hoole, [334] ; its rarity before the time of Pope, [334]
Heron, Robert, [208]
Hesiod, his complaint of the corruption of the judges of Asera, [420]
Hesse Darmstadt, Prince of, commanded the land forces sent against Gibraltar in [170] [110] ; accompanies Peterborough on his expedition, [112] ; his death at the capture of Monjuieh, [110]
High Commission Court, its abolition, [409]
Highgate, death of Lord Bacon at, [434]
Hindoo Mythology, [306]
Hindoos, their character compared with other nations, [19] [20] ; their position and feeling towards the people of Central Asia, [28] ; their mendacity and perjury, [42] ; their view of forgery, [47] ; importance attached by them to ceremonial practices, [47] ; their poverty compared with the people of England, [64] ; their feelings against English law, [65] [67]
Historical romance, as distinguished from true history, [444] [445]
History, Essay upon, [470] 442; in what spirit it should be written, [197] [199] ; true sources of, [100] ; complete success in, achieved by no one. [470] ; province of, [470] [477] ; its uses, [422] ; writer of a perfect, [377] [427] [442] [2] 52, [2] 50, [201] ; begins in romance, and ends in essay, [377] [400] Herodotus, as a writer of, [377] [482] ; grows more sceptical with the progress of civilization, 385; writers of, contrast between, and writers of fiction, [38] [5] [480] [38] [300] [444] [44] ; comparison of, with portrait-painting, [380] [488] Thucydides, as a writer of, [385] [303] Xenophon, as a writer of, [304] [304] Eulybius and Arrian, as writers of, 355; Plutarch and his school, as writers of, [305] [402] Livy, as a writer of, [402] [404] [404] [400] Tacitus, as a writer of, [400] ; writers of, contrast between, and the dramatists, [40] ; writers of, modern, superior to the ancient in truthfulness, [400] [410] ; and in philosophic generalizations, [410] [411] [410] ; how affected by the discovery of printing, [411] ; writers of, ancient, how Directed by their national exclusiveness, [410] ; modern, how affected by the triumph of Christianity, [410] [417] ; by the Northern invasions, [417] ; by the modern civilization, [417] [418] ; their faults, [410] ; to: [421] ; their straining of facts to suit theories; their misrepresentations, [420] ; their ill success in writing ancient history, [421] ; their distortions of truth not unfavorable to correct views in political science, [422] ; but destructive to history proper, [423] ; contracted with biographers, [423] ; their contempt for the writers of memoirs, [423] ; the majesty of, nothing too trivial for, [424] [192] [2] ; what circumstantial details of the life of the people history needs, [424] [428] ; most writers of, look only on the surface of affairs, [426] ; their errors in consequence, [420] ; reading of history compared in its effects with foreign travel, [420] [427] ; writer of, a truly great, will exhibit the spirit of the age in miniature, [427] [428] ; must possess an intimate knowledge of domestic history of nations, [432] Johnson's contempt for it, [421]
History of the Popes of Rome during the [16]th and [17]th centuries, review of Ranke's, [299] [350]
History of Greece, Clifford's, reviewed, [172] [201]
Hobbes, Thomas, his influence on the two Succeeding generations, [409] Malbranche's opinion of him, [340]
Hohenfriedberg, victory of, [178]
Hohenlohe, Prince, [301]
Holbach, Baron, his supper parties, [348]
Holderness, Earl of, his resignation of office, [24]
Holkar, origin of the House of, [59]
Holland, allusion to the rise of, [87] ; governed with almost regal power by John de Witt, [32] ; its apprehensions of the designs of France, [35] ; its defensive alliance with England and Sweden, [40] [44]
Holland House, beautiful lines addressed to it by Tickell, [423] ; its interesting associations, Addison's abode and death there, [424] [412]
Holland, Lord, review of his opinions as recorded in the journals of the House of Lords, [412] [426] ; his family, [414] [417] [419] ; his public life, [419] [422] ; his philanthropy, [64] [65] [422] [423] ; feelings with which his memory is cherished, [423] ; his hospitality at Holland House, [425] ; his winning manners and uprightness, [425] ; his last lines, [425] [426]
Hollis, Mr., committed to prison by Charles I., [447] ; his impeachment, [477]
Hollwell, Mr., his presence of mind in the Black Hole, [233] ; cruelty of the Nabob towards him, [234]
Home, John, patronage of by Bute, [41]
Homer, difference between his poetry and Milton's, [213] ; one of the most "correct" poets, [338] Pope's translation of his description of a moonlight night, [331] ; his descriptions of war. [356] [358] ; his egotism, [82] ; his oratorical power, [141] ; his use of epithets, [354] ; his description of Hector, [363]
Hooker, his faulty style, [50]
Hoole, specimen of his heroic couplets, [334]
Horace, Bentley's notes on, [111] ; compared poems to paintings whose effect varies as the spectator changes his stand, [141] ; his comparison of the imitators of Pindar, [362] ; his philosophy, [125]
Hosein, son of Ali, festival to his memory, [217] ; legend of his death, [218]
Hospitals, objects for which they are built, [183]
Hotspur, character of, [326]
Hough, Bishop, [338]
House of Commons (the), increase of its power, [532] [536] [540] ; change in public feeling in respect to its privileges, [537] ; its responsibility, [531] ; commencement of the practice of buying votes in, [168] ; corruption in, not necessary to the Tudors, [168] ; increase of its influence after the Devolution, [170] ; how to be kept in order, [170]
Hume, David, his characteristics as a historian, [420] ; his description of the violence of parties before the Devolution, [328]
Humor, that of Addison compared with that of Swift and Voltaire, [377] [378]
Hungarians, their incursions into Lombardy, [206]
Hunt, Leigh, review of his edition of the Dramatic works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Karquhar, [350]-411; his merits and faults, [350] [351] ; his qualifications as an editor, [350] ; his appreciation of Shakspeare, Spenser, Dryden, and Addison, [351]
Huntingdon, Countess of, [336]
Huntingdon, William, [285]
Hutchinson, Mrs., [24]
Hyde, Mr., his conduct in the House of Commons, [463] ; voted for Strafford's attainder, [471] ; at the head of the Constitutional Loyalists, [474] ; see also Clarendon, Lord.
Hyder Ali, his origin and character, [71] ; his invasion of the Carnatic, and triumphant success, [71] ; his progress arrested by Sir Eyre Coote, [74]
I.
Iconoclast, Milton's allusion to, [264]
"Idler" (the), [105]
Idolatry, [225] Illiad (the), Pope's and Tickell's translations, [405] [408]
Bunyan and Milton by Martin, Illustrations of [251] Imagination, effect upon, of works of art, [80] [333] [334] ; difference in this respect between the English and the Italians, [80] ; its strength in childhood, [331] ; in a barbarous age, [335] [336] ; works of, early, their effect, [336] ; highest quality of, [37] ; master-pieces of, products of an uncritical age, [325] ; or of uncultivated minds, [343] ; hostility of Puritans to works of, [346] [347] ; great strength of Milton's, [213] ; and power of Bunyan's, [256] [267]
Imhotf, Baron, his position and circumstances, [13] ; character and attractions of his wife and attachment between her and Hastings, [14] [15] [56] [102]
Impeachment of Lord Kimbolton, Hampden, Pym and Hollis, [477] ; of Hastings, [116] ; of Melville, [202] ; constitutional doctrine in regard to, [260] [270]
Impey, Sir Elijah, [6] Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, [30] ; his hostility to the Council, [45] ; remarks on his trial of Nuncomar, [45] [40] [66] ; dissolution of his friendship with Hastings, [67] ; his interference in the proceedings against the Begums, [91] ; ignorance of the native dialects, [91] ; condemnation in Parliament of the arrangement made with him by Hastings, [92]
Impostors, fertile in a reforming age, [340]
Indemnity, bill of, to protect witnesses against Walpole, [218]
India, foundation of the English empire in, [24] [248]
Indies, the West. West Indies.
Induction, method of, not invented by Bacon, [470] ; utility of its analysis greatly overrated by Bacon, [471] ; example of its leading to absurdity, [471] ; contrasted with it priori reasoning, [8] [9] ; the only true method of reasoning upon political questions, [481] [70] [74] [72] [70] ; to: [78]
Indulgences, [814]
Infidelity, on the treatment of, [171] ; its powerlessness to disturb the peace of the world, [341]
Informer, character of, [519]
Inquisition, instituted on the suppression of the Albigensian heresy, [310] ; armed with powers to suppress the Reformation, [323]
Interest, effect of attempts by government to limit the rate of, [352]
Intolerance, religious, effects of, [170]
Ireland, rebellion in, in [164] [473] ; in [175] [280] Essex's administration in its condition under Cromwell's government, [25] [27] ; its state contrasted with that of Scotland, [101] ; its union with England compared with the Persian table of King Zolmk, [101] ; reason of its not joining in favor of the Reformation, [314] [330] ; danger to England from its discontents, Pitt's admirable policy towards, [280] [281]
Isocrates, [103]
Italian Language, Dante the first to compose in, [50] ; its characteristics, [50]
Italian Masque (the), [218]
Italians, their character in the middle ages, [287] ; their social condition compared with that of the ancient Greeks, [312]
Italy, state of, in the dark ages, [272] ; progress of civilization and refinement in, [274] [275] ; seq; its condition under Cæsar Borgia, [303] ; its temper at the Reformation, [315] ; seq; its slow progress owing to Catholicism, [340] ; its subjugation, [345] ; revival of the power of the Church in, [347]
J.
"Jackboot," a popular pun on Bute's name, [41] [151]
Jacobins, their origin, [11] ; their policy, [458] [450] ; had effects of their administration, [532] [534]
Jacobin Club, its excesses, [345] [402] [400] [473] [475] [481] [488] [401] ; its suppression, [502] ; its final struggle for ascendency, [500]
James I. [455] ; his folly and weakness, [431] ; resembled Claudius Caesar, [440] ; court paid to him by the English courtiers before the death of Elizabeth, [382] ; his twofold character, [383] ; his favorable reception of Bacon, [383] [380] ; his anxiety for the union of England and Scotland, [387] ; his employment of Bacon in perverting the laws, [538] ; his favors and attachment to Buckingham, [396] [308] ; absoluteness of his government, [404] ; his summons of a Parliament, [410] ; his political blunders, [410] [411] ; his message to the Commons on the misconduct of Bacon, [414] ; his readiness to make concessions to Rome, [328]
James II., the cause of his expulsion, [237] ; administration of the law in his time, [520] Vareist's portrait of him, [251] ; his death, and acknowledgment by Louis XIV. of his son as his successor, [102] ; favor towards him of the High Church party, [303] [122] ; his misgovernment, [304] ; his claims as a supporter of toleration, [304] [308] ; his conduct towards Lord Rochester, [307] ; lus union with Lewis XI V., [303] ; his confidential advisers, [301] ; his kindness and munificence to Wycherley, [378]
Jardine,.Mr., his work on the use of torture in England, [304] ; note.
Jeffreys, Judge, his cruelty, [303]
Jenyns, Soanie, his notion of happiness in heaven, [378] ; his work on the "Origin of Evil" reviewed by Johnson, [270] [152] [195]
Jerningham, Mr. his verses, [271]
Jesuitism, its theory and practice towards heretics, [310] ; its rise, [320] ; destruction, [343] ; its fall and consequences', [344] ; its doctrines, [348] [340]
Jesuits, order of, instituted by Loyola, [320] ; their character, [320] [321] ; their policy and proceedings, [322] [323] ; their doctrines, [321] [322] ; their conduct in the confessional, [322] ; their missionary activity, [322]
Jews (the), review of the Civil Disabilities of, [307] [323] ; argument that the Constitution would be destroyed by admitting them to power, [307] [310] ; the argument that they are aliens, [313] ; inconsistency of the law in respect to them, [309] [313] ; their exclusive spirit a natural consequence of their treatment, [315] ; argument against them, that they look forward to their restoration to their own country, [317] [323]
Job, the Book of, [216]
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, life of, [172] 220; review of Croker's edition of Boswell's life of, [368] [425] ; his birth and parentage, [172] ; his physical and mental peculiarities, [172] [173] [170] [307] [408] ; his youth, [173] [174] [253] ; entered at Pembroke College, Oxford, [174] ; his life there, [175] ; translates Pope's "Messiah" into Latin verse, [175] ; quits the university without a degree, [175] ; his religious sentiments, [177] [411] ; his early struggles, [177] [178] ; his marriage, [178] ; opens a school and has Garrick for a pupil, [179] ; settles in London, [179] ; condition of men of letters at that time, [179] [180] [398] [404] ; his privations, [404] [181] ; his manners, [181] [271] ; his connection with the "Gentleman's Magazine," [182] ; his political bigotry, [183] [184] [213] [412] [413] [333] ; his "London," [184] [185] ; his associates, [185] [180] ; his life of Savage, [187] [214] ; undertakes the Dictionary, [187] ; completes it, [193] [194] ; his "Vanity of Human Wishes," [188] [189] ; his "Irene," [179] [190] ; his "Tatler," [190]-192; Mrs. Johnson dies, [193] ; his poverty, [195] ; his review of Jenyns' "Nature and Origin of Evil," [195] [270] ; his "Idler," [195] ; his "Basselas," [190] [197] ; his elevation and pension, [198] [405] ; his edition of Shakspeare, [199] [202] ; made Doctor of Laws, [202] ; his conversational powers, [202] ; his "Chib," [203] [200] [425] ; his connection with the Thrales, [200] [207] [270] ; broken by Mrs. Thrale's marriage with Piozzi, [210] 217; his benevolence, [207] [208] [271] ; his visit to the Hebrides, [209] [210] [420] ; his literary style, [187] [192] [211] [213] [215] [219] [423] [313] ; his "Taxation no Tyranny," [212] ; his Lives of the Poets, [213] [215] [219] ; his want of financial skill, [215] ; peculiarity of his intellect, [408] ; his credulity, [409] [200] ; narrowness of his views of society, [140] [418] ; his ignorance of the Athenian character, [140] ; his contempt for history, [421] ; his judgments on books, [414] [410] ; his objection to Juvenal's Satires, [379] ; his definitions of Excise and Pensioner, [333] [198] ; his admiration of the Pilgrim's Progress, [253] ; his friendship for Goldsmith, [159] [170] ; comparison of his political writings with those of Swift, [102] ; his language about Clive, [284] ; his praise of Congreve's "Mourning Bride," [391] [392] [400] ; his interview with Hastings, [12] ; his friendship with Dr. Burney, [254] ; his ignorance of music, [255] ; his want of appreciation of Gray, [201] [214] ; his fondness for Miss Burney and approbation of her book. [271] [219] ; his injustice to Fielding, [271] ; his sickness and death, [275] [218] [219] ; his character, [219] [220] ; singularity of his destiny, [426] ; neglected by Pitt's administration in his illness and old age, [218] [200]
Jones, Inigo, [318]
Jones, Sir William, [383]
Jonson, Ben, [299] ; his "Hermogenes," [358] ; his description of Lord Bacon's eloquence, [859] ; his verses on the celebration of Bacon's sixtieth year, [408] [409] ; his tribute to Bacon, [433] ; his description of humors in character, [303] ; specimen of his heroic couplets, [334]
Joseph II., his reforms, [344]
Judges (the), condition of their tenure of office, [480] ; formerly accustomed to receive gifts from suitors, [420] 425; how their corruption is generally detected, [430] ; integrity required from them, [50]
Judgment, private, Milton's defence of the right of, [262]
Judicial arguments, nature of, [422] ; bench, its character in the time of James II., [520]
Junius, Letters of, arguments in favor of their having been written by Sir Philip Francis, [36] ; seq.; their effects, [101]
Jurymen, Athenian, [33] ; note.
Juvenal's Satires, Johnson's objection to them, [379] ; their impurity, [352] ; his resemblance to lin'd en, [372] ; quotes the Pentateuch, [414] ; quotation from, applied to Louis XIV., [59]
K.
Keith, Marshall, [235]
Kenrick, William, [269]
Kimbolton, Lord, his impeachment, [477]
King, the name of an Athenian magistrate, [53] ; note.
"King's Friends," the faction of the, [79] [82]
Kit-Cat Club, Addison's introduction to the, [351]
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, Addison's lines to him, [375]
"Knights," comedy of the. [21]
Kniperdoling and Robespierre, analogy between their followers, [12]
Knowledge, advancement of society in, [390] [391] [132]
L.
Labor, division of, [123] ; effect of attempts by government to limit the hours of, [362] Major Moody's new philosophy of, and its refutation, [373] [398]
Laboring classes (the), their condition in England and on the Continent, [178] ; in the United States, [180]
Labourdonnais, his talents, [202] ; his treatment by the French government, [294]
Laedaunon. See Sparta.
La Fontaine, allusion to, [393]
Lalla Kookli, [485]
Lally, Governor, his treatment by the French government, [294]
Lamb, Charles, his defence cf the dramatists of the Restoration, [357] ; his kind nature, [358]
Lampoons, Pope's, [408]
Lancaster, Dr., his patronage of Addison, [326]
Landscape gardening, [374] [389]
Langton, Mr., his friendship with Johnson, [204] [219] ; his admiration of Miss Burney, [271]
Language, Drvden's command of, [367] ; effect of its cultivation upon poetry, [337] [338] Latin, its decadence, [55] ; its characteristics, [55] Italian, Dante the first to compose in, [56]
Languedoc, description of it in the twelfth century, [308] [309] ; destruction of its prosperity and literature by the Normans, [310]
Lansdowne, Lord, his friendship for Hastings, [106]
Latimer, Hugh, his popularity in London, [423] [428]
Latin poems, excellence of Milton's, [211] Boileau's praise of, [342] [343] Petrarch's, [96] ; language, its character and literature, [347] [349]
Latinity, Croker's criticisms on, [381]
Laud, Archbishop, his treatment by the Parliament, [492] [493] ; his correspondence with Strafford, [492] ; his character, [452] [453] ; his diary, [453] ; his impeachment and imprisonment, [468] ; his rigor against the Puritans, and tenderness towards the Catholics, [473]
Lauderdale, Lord, [417]
Law, its administration in the time of James II., [520] ; its monstrous grievances in India, [64] [69]
Lawrence, Major, his early notice of Clive, [203, ] [241, ] ; his abilities, [203]
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, [305]
Laws, penal, of Elizabeth, [439] [440]
Lawsuit, imaginary, between the parishes of St. Dennis and St. George-in-the-water, [100, ] [111]
Lawyers, their inconsistencies as advocates and legislators, [414] [415]
Learning in Italy, revival of, [275] ; causes of its decline, [278]
Legerdemain, [353]
Legge, Et. lion. H. B., [230] ; his return to the Exchequer, [38] [13] ; his dismissal, [28]
Legislation, comparative views on, by Plato and by Bacon, [456]
Legitimacy, [237]
Leibnitz, [324]
Lemon, Mr., his discovery of Milton's Treatise on Christian Doctrine, [202]
Lennox, Charlotte, [24]
Leo X., his character, [324] ; nature of the war between him and Luther, [327] [328]
Lessing, [341]
Letters of Phalaris, controversy between Sir William Temple and Christ Church College and Bentley upon their merits and genuineness, [108] [112] [114] [119]
Libels on the court of George III., in Bute's time, [42]
Libertinism in the time of Charles II., [517]
Liberty, public, Milton's support of, [246] ; its rise and progress in Italy, [274] ; its real nature, [395] [397] ; characteristics of English, [399] [68] [71] ; of the Seas, Barrere's work upon, [512]
Life, human, increase in the time of, [177]
Lincoln Cathedral, painted window in, [428]
Lingard, Dr., his account of the conduct of James II. towards Lord Rochester, [307] ; his ability as a historian, [41] ; his strictures on the Triple Alliance, [42]
Literary men more independent than formerly, [190]-192; their influence, [193] [194] ; abjectness of their condition during the reign of George IL, [400] [401] ; their importance to contending parties in the reign of Queen Anne, [304] ; encouragement afforded to, by the Revolution, [336] ; see also Criticism, literary.
Literature of the Roundheads, [234] ; of the Royalists, [234] ; of the Elizabethan age, [341] [346] ; of Spain in the [16]th century, [80] ; splendid patronage of, at the close of the [17]th and beginning of the [18]th centuries, [98] ; discouragement of, on the accession of the House of Hanover, [98] ; importance of classical in the [16]th century, [350] Petrarch, its votary, [86] ; what its history displays in all languages [340] [341] ; not benefited by the French Academy, [23]
Literature, German, little known in England sixty or seventy years ago, [341]
Literature, Greek, [349] [353]
Literature, Italian, unfavorable influence of Petrarch upon, [59] [60] ; characteristics of, in the [14]th century, [278] ; and generally, down to Alfieri, [60]
Literature, Roman, [347] [349]
Literature, Royal Society of, [202, ] [9]
"Little Dickey," a nickname for Norris, the actor, [417]
Livy, Discourses on, by Machiavelli, [309] ; compared with Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, [313] [314] ; his characteristics as an historian, [402] [403] ; meaning of the expression lactece ubertus, as applied to him, [403]
Logan, Mr., his ability in defending Hastings, [139]
Lollardism in England, [27]
London, in the [17]th century, [479] ; devoted to the national cause, [480] [481] ; its public spirit, [18] ; its prosperity during the ministry of Lord Chatham, [247] ; conduct of, at the Restoration, [289] ; effects of the Great Plague upon, [32] ; its excitement on occasion of the tax on cider proposed by Bute's ministry, [50] University of, see University.
Long Parliament (the), controversy on its merits, [239] [240] ; its first meeting, [457] ; ii.406; its early proceedings, [469] [470] ; its conduct in reference to the civil war, [471] ; its nineteen propositions, [486] ; its faults, [490] [494] ; censured by Mr. Hallam, [491] ; its errors in the conduct of the war, [494] ; treatment of it by the army, [497] ; recapitulation of its acts, [408] ; its attainder of Stratford defended, [471] ; sent Hampden to Edinburgh to watch the king, [479] ; refuses to surrender the members ordered to be impeached, [477] ; openly denies the king, [489] ; its conditions of reconciliation, [480]
Lope, his distinction as a writer and a soldier, [81]
Lords, the House of, its position previous to the Restoration, [287] ; its condition as a debating assembly in [177] [420]
Lorenzo de Medici, state of Italy in his time, [278]
Lorenzo de Medici (the younger), dedication of Machiavelli's Prince to him, [309]
Loretto, plunder of, [346]
Louis XI., his conduct in respect to the Spanish succession, [80] [99] ; his acknowledgment, on the death of James II., of the Prince of Wales as King of England, and its consequences, [102] ; sent an army into Spain to the assistance of his grandson, [109] ; his proceedings in support of his grandson Philip, [109] [127] ; his reverses in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, [129] ; his policy, [309] ; character of his government, [308] [311] ; his military exploits, [5] ; his projects and affected moderation, [36] ; his ill-humor at the Triple Alliance, [41] ; his conquest of Franche Comte, [42] ; his treaty with Charles, [53] ; the early part of his reign a time of license, [364] ; his devotion, [339] ; his late regret for his extravagance, [39] ; his character and person, [576] ; his injurious influence upon religion, [64]
Louis XV., his government, [646] [6] [293]
Louis XVI., [441] ; to: [449] [455] [150] [67]
Louis XVIII., restoration of, compared with that of Charles II., [282] ; seq.
Louisburg, fall of, [244]
L'Ouverture, Toussaint, [366] [390] [392]
Love, superiority of the. Romans over the Greeks in their delineations of, [83] ; change in the nature of the passion of, [84] ; earned by the introduction of the Northern element, [83]
"Love for Love," by Congreve, [392] ; its moral, [402]
"Love in a Wood," when acted, [371]
Loyola, his energy, [320] [336]
Lucan, Dryden's resemblance to, [355]
Lucian, [387]
Luther, his declaration against the ancient philosophy, [446] ; sketch of the contest which began with his preaching against the Indulgences and terminated with the treaty of Westphalia, [314] [338] ; was the product of his age, [323] ; defence of, by Atterbury, [113]
Lysurgus, [185]
Lysias, anecdote by Plutarch of his "speech for the Athenian tribunals," [117]
Lyttleton, Lord, [54]
M.
Maebomey, original name of the Burney family, [250] Machiavelli, his works, by Périer, [267] ; general odiousness of his name and works, [268] [269] ; suffered for public liberty, [269] ; his elevated sentiments and just views, [270] ; held in high estimation by his contemporaries. [271] ; state of moral feeling ill Italy in his time, [272] ; his character as a man, [291] ; as a poet, [293] ; as a dramatist, [296] ; as a statesman, [291] [300] [309] [313] [309] ; excellence of his precepts, [311] ; his candor, [313] ; comparison between him and Montesquieu, [314] ; his style, [314] ; his levity, [316] ; his historical works, [316] ; lived to witness the last struggle for Florentine liberty, [319] ; his works and character misrepresented, [319] ; his remains dishonored till long after his death, [319] ; monument erected to his memory by an English nobleman, [319]
Mackenzie, Henry, his ridicule of the Nabob class, [283]
Mackenzie, Mr., his dismissal insisted on by Grenville, [70]
Mackintosh, Sir James, review of his History of the Revolution in England, [251] [335] ; comparison with Fox's History of James II., [252] ; character of his oratory, [253] ; his conversational powers, [256] ; his qualities as an historian, [250] ; his vindication from the imputations of the editor, [262] [270]-278; change in his opinions produced by the French Revolution, [263] ; his moderation, [268] [270] ; his historical justice, [277] [278] ; remembrance of him at Holland House, [425]
Macleane, Colonel, agent in England for Warren Hastings, [44] [53]
Macpherson, James, [77] [331] [210] ; a favorite author with Napoleon, [515] ; despised by Johnson, [116]
Madras, description of it, [199] ; its capitulation to the French, [202] ; restored to the English, [203]
Maand, capture of, by the English army in [470] [119]
Mæandnus, of Samos, [132]
Magazine, delightful invention for a very idle or a very busy man, [156] ; resembles the little angels of the Rabbinical tradition, [156] [157]
Magdalen College, treatment of, by James II., [413] Addison's connection with it, [327]
Mahon, Lord, Review of his History of the War of the Succession in Spain, [75] [142] ; his qualities as an historian, [75] [77] ; his explanation of the financial condition of Spain, [85] ; his opinions on the Partition Treaty, [90]-92; his representations of Cardinal Porto Carrero, [104] ; his opinion of the peace on the conclusion of the War of the Spanish Succession, [131] ; his censure of Harley, [132] ; and view of the resemblance of the Tories of the present day to the Whigs of the Revolution, [132] [135]
Mahrattas, sketch of their history, [207] [58] ; expedition against them, [60]
Maintenon, Madame de, [364] [30]
Malaga, naval battle near, in [170] [110]
Malcolm, Sir John, review of his Life of Lord Clive, [194] [299] ; value of his work, [190] ; his partiality for Clive, [237] ; his defence of Clive's conduct towards Ornichaud, [248]
Mallet, David, patronage of by Bute, [41]
Malthus, Mr., his theory of population, and Sadler's objections to it, [217] [218] [222] [223] [228] [244] [271] [272]
Manchester, Countess of, [339]
Manchester, Earl of, his patronage of Addison, [338] [350]
Mandeville, his metaphysical powers, [208]
Mandragola (the), of Maehiavelli, [293]
Manilla, capitulation of, [32]
Mannerism of Johnson, ii [423]
Mansfield, Lord, his character and talents, [223] ; his rejection of the overtures of Newcastle, [234] ; his elevation, [234] [12] ; his friendship for Hastings, [106] ; character of his speeches, [104]
Manso, Milton's Epistle to, [212]
Manufactures and commerce of Italy in the [14]th century, [275] [277]
Manufacturing and agricultural laborers, comparison of their condition, [147] [149]
Manufacturing system (the), Southey's opinion upon, [145] ; its effect on the health, [147]
Marat, his bust substituted for the statues of the Martyrs of Christianity, [345] ; his language about Barère, [458] [466] ; his bust torn down, [502]
Mareet, Mrs., her Dialogues on Political Economy, [207]
March, Lord, one of the persecutors of Wilkes, [60]
Maria Theresa, her accession to the throne, [164] ; her situation and personal qualities, [165] [166] ; her unbroken spirit, [173] ; gives birth to the future emperor, Joseph II., [173] ; her coronation, [173] ; enthusiastic loyalty and war-cry of Hungary, [174] ; her brother-in-law, Prince Charles of Lorraine, defeated by Frederic the Great, at Chotusitz, [174] ; she cedes Silesia, [175] ; her husband, Francis, raised to the Imperial Throne, [179] ; she resolves to humble Frederic, [200] ; succeeds in obtaining the adhesion of Russia, [200] ; her letter to Madame Pompadour, [211] ; signs the peace of Hubertsburg, [245]
Marie Antoinette, Barère's share in her death, [401] [434] [409] [470]
Marino, San, visited by Addison, [340]
Marlborough, Duchess of, her friendship with Congreve, [408] ; her inscription on his monument, [409]
Marlborough, Duke of, [259] ; his conversion to Whiggism, [129] ; his acquaintance with the Duchess of Cleveland,-and commencement of his splendid fortune, [373] ; notice of Addison's poem in his honor, [358]
Marlborough and Godolphin, their policy, [353]
Maroons (the), of Surinam, [386] ; to: [388]
Marsh, Bishop, his opposition to Calvinistic doctrine, [170]
Martinique, capture of, [32]
Martin's illustrations of the Pilgrim's Progress, and of Paradise Lost, [251]
Marvel, Andrew, [333]
Mary, Queen, [31]
Masque, the Italian, [218]
Massinger, allusion to his "Virgin Martyr," [220] ; his fondness for the Roman Catholic Church, [30] ; indelicate writing in his dramas, [356]
Mathematical reasoning, [103] ; studies, their advantages and defects, [346]
Mathematics, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon, [451]
Maximilian of Bavaria, [328]
Maxims, general, their uselessness, [310]
Maynooth, Mr. Gladstone's objections to the vote of money for, [179]
Mecca, [301]
Medals, Addison's Treatise on, [329] [351]
Medici, Lorenzo de. See Lorenzo de Medici.
Medicine, comparative estimate of the science of, by Plato and by Bacon, [454] [456]
Meer Cossim, his talents, [260] ; his deposition and revenge, [266]
Meer Jatlier, his conspiracy, [240] ; his conduct during the battle of Plassey, [243] [240] ; his pecuniary transactions with Clive, [251] ; his proceedings on being threatened by the Great Mogul, [250] ; his fears of the English, and intrigues with the Dutch, [258] ; deposed and reseated by the English, [266] ; his death, [270] ; his large bequest to Lord Clive, [279]
Melanethon, [7]
Melville, Lord, his impeachment, [292]
Meinmius, compared to Sir Wm. Temple, [112]
Memoirs of Sir "William Temple, review of, [1] [115] ; wanting in selection and compression, [2]
Memoirs of the Life of Warren Hastings, review of, [1] [148]
Memoirs, writers of, neglected by historians, [423]
Memory, comparative views of the importance of, by Plato and by Bacon, [454]
Menander, the lost comedies of, [375]
Mendaeium, different species of, [430]
Mendoza, Hurtado de, [81]
Mercenaries, employment of, in Italy, [283] ; its political consequences, [284] ; and moral effects, [285]
Messiah, Pope's, translated into Latin verse by Johnson, [175]
Metals, the precious, production of, [351]
Metaphysical accuracy incompatible with successful poetry, [225]
Metcalfe, Sir Charles, his ability and disinterestedness, [298]
Methodists, their rise unnoticed by some writers of the history of England under George II., [426] ; their early object, [318]
Mexico, exactions of the Spanish viceroys in, exceeded by the English agents in Bengal, [266]
Miehell, Sir Francis, [401]
Middle ages, inconsistency in the schoolmen of the, [415]
Middlesex election, the constitutional question in relation to it, [101] [104]
Middleton, Dr., remarks on his Life of Cicero, [340] [341] ; his controversies with Bentley, [112]
Midias, Demosthenes' speech against, [102]
"Midsummer Night's Dream," sense in which the word "translated" is therein used, [180]
Milan, Addison's visit to, [345]
Military science, studied by Machiavelli, [306]
Military service, relative adaptation of different classes for, [280]
Militia (the), control of, by Charles I. or by the Parliament, [488]
Mill, James, his merits as a historian, [277] [278] ; defects of his History of British India, [195] [196] ; his unfairness towards Clive's character, [237] ; his Essay on Government reviewed, [5] [51] ; his theory and method of reasoning, [6] [8] [10] [12] [18] [20] [46] [48] ; his style. [8] ; his erroneous definition of the end of government, [11] ; his objections to a Democracy only practical ones, [12] ; attempts to demonstrate that a purely aristocratic form of government is necessarily bad, [12] [13] ; so also an absolute monarchy, [13] [14] ; refutation of these arguments, [15] [16] [18] ; his inconsistencies, [16] [17] [96] [97] 121; his narrow views, [19] [20] ; his logical deficiencies, [95] ; his want of precision in the use of terms, [103] [108] ; attempts to prove that no combination of the simple forms of government can exist, [21] [22] ; refutation of this argument., [22] [29] ; his ideas upon the representative system. [29] [30] ; objections to them, [30]-32; his views upon the qualifications of voters, [32] [36] ; objections to them, [36] [38] [41] [42] ; confounds the interests of the present generation with those of the human race, [38] [39] ; attempts to prove that the people understand their own interest, [42] ; refutation of this argument, [43] ; general objections to his theory, [44] [47] [122] ; defended by the Westminster Review, [529] ; inconsistencies between him and the reviewer, [56] [58] ; the reviewer mistakes the points at issue, [58] [60] [61] [65] [70] [77] [114] ; and misrepresents arguments, [62] [73] [74] ; refutation of his positions. [63] [64] [66] [74] [76] [122] [127] ; the reviewer shifts the issue, [68] [127] [128] ; fails to strengthen Mill's positions, [71] ; and manifests great disingenuousness, [115] [118] [129] [130]
Millar, Lady, her vase for verses, [271]
Milton, review of his Treatise on Christian Doctrine, Mr. Lemon's discovery of the MS. of it, [202] ; his style, "202; his theological opinions, [204] ; his poetry his great passport to general remembrance, [205] [211] ; power of his imagination, [211] ; the most striking characteristic of his poetry, [213] [375] ; his Allegro and Penseroso, [215] ; his Cornus and Samson Agonistes, [215] ; his minor poems, [219] ; appreciated the literature of modern Italy, [219] ; his Paradise Regained, [219] ; parallel between him and Dante, [17] [18] ; his Sonnets most exhibit his peculiar character, [232] ; his public conduct, [233] ; his defence of the execution of Charles L, [246] ; his refutation of Salmasius, [248] ; his conduct under the Protector, [249] ; peculiarities which distinguished him from his contemporaries, [253] ; noblest qualities of every party combined in him, [260] ; his defence of the freedom of the press, and the right of private judgment, [262] ; his boldness in the maintenance of his opinions, [263] ; recapitulation of his literary merits, [264] ; one of the most "correct" poets, [338] ; his egotism, [82] ; effect of his blindness upon his genius, [351] Dryden's admiration of, [369] [370]
Milton and Cowley, an imaginary conversation between, touching the great Civil War, [112] [138]
Milton and Shakspeare,character of, Johnson's observations on, [417]
Minden, battle of, [247]
Minds, great, the product of their times, [323] [325]
Mines, Spanish-American, [85] [351]
Ministers, veto by Parliament on their appointment, [487] ; their responsibility lessened by the Revolution, [531]
Minorca, capture of, by the French, [232]
Minority, period of, at Athens, [191] [192]
"Minute guns!" Diaries Townshend's exclamation on hearing Bute's maiden speech, [33]
Mirabeau, Dumont's recollections of, [71] [74] ; his habit of giving compound nicknames, [72] ; compared with Wilkes, [72] ; with Chatham, [72] [73]
Missionaries, Catholic, their zeal and spirit, [300]
Mittford, Mr., his History of Greece reviewed, [172] [201] ; its popularity greater than its merits, [172] ; his characteristics, [173] [174] [177] [420]-422; his scepticism and political prejudices, [178] [188] ; his admiration of an oligarchy, and preference of Sparta to Athens, [181] [183] ; his views in regard to Lyeurgus, [185] ; reprobates the liturgic system of Athens, [190] ; his unfairness, [191] 422; his misrepresentation of Demosthenes, [191] [193] [195] [197] ; his partiality for Æschines, [193] [194] ; his admiration of monarchies, [195] ; his general preference of the Barbarians to the Greeks, [190] ; his deficiencies as an historian, [190] 197; his indifference for literature and literary pursuits, [197] [199]
Modern history, the period of its commencement, [532]
Mogul, the Great, [27] ; plundered by Hastings, [74]
Mohammed Heza Khan, his character, [18] ; selected by Clive, [21] ; his capture, confinement at Calcutta and release, [25]
Molière, [385]
Molwitz, battle of, [171]
Mompesson, Sir Giles, conduct of Bacon in regard to his patent, [401] [402] ; abandoned to the vengeance of the Commons, [412]
Monarch, absolute, establishment of, in continental states, [481] Mitford's admiration of, [195]
Monarchy, the English, in the l6th century, [15] [20]
Monjuieh, capture of the fort of, by Peterborough, [115]
Monmouth, Duke of, [300] ; his supplication for life, [99]
Monopolies, English, during the latter end of Elizabeth's reign, multiplied under James, [304] [401] ; connived at by Bacon, [402]
Monson, Mr., one of the new councillors under the Regulating Act for India, his opposition to Hastings, [40] ; his death and its important consequences, [54]
Montagu, Basil, review of his edition of Lord Bacon's works, [330] ; character of his work, [330] ; his explanation of Lord Burleigh's conduct towards Bacon, [350] ; his views and arguments in defence of Bacon's conduct towards Essex, [373] [379] ; his excuses for Bacon's use of torture, and his tampering with the judges, [391] [394] ; his reductions on Bacon's admonitions to Buckingham, [403] ; his complaints against James for not interposing to save Bacon, [415] ; and for advising him to plead guilty, [410] ; his defence of Bacon, [417] [430]
Montagu, Charles, notice of him, [338] ; obtains permission for Addison to retain his fellowship during his travels, [338] Addison's Epistle to him, [350] ; see also Halifax, Lord.
Montague, Lord, [399]
Montague, Marv, her testimony to Addison's colloquial powers, [300]
Montague, Mrs., [126]
Mont Cenis, [349]
Monttesquieu, his style, [314] [304] [365] Horace Walpole's opinion of him, [155] ; ought to have styled his work L'esprit sur les Lois, [142]
Montesquieu and Machiavelli, comparison between, [314]
Montgomery, Mr. Robert, his Omnipresence of the Deity reviewed, [199] ; character of his poetry, [200] [212]
Montreal, capture of, by the British, [170] [245]
Moody, Major Thomas, his reports on the captured negroes reviewed, [361] [404] ; his character, [302] [303] [404] ; characteristics of his report, [304] 402; its reception, [304] ; its literary style, [305] ; his principle of an instinctive antipathy between the White and the Black races, [365] ; its refutation, [306] [367] ; his new philosophy of labor, [373] [374] ; his charges against Mr. Dougal, [376] ; his inconsistencies, [377] ; and erroneous deductions, [379] [380] [391] ; his arrogance and bad grammar, [394] ; his disgraceful carelessness in quoting documents, [399]
Moore, Mr., extract from his "Zelnco," [420]
Moore's Life of Lord Byron, review of, [324] [367] ; its style and matter, [324] ; similes in his "Lalla Rookh," [485]
Moorshedabad, its situation and importance, [7]
Moral feeling, state of, in Italy in the time of Machiavelli, [271]
Morality of Plutarch, and the historians of his school, political, low standard of, after the Restoration, [398] [515]
Moses, Bacon compared to, by Cowley, [493]
"Mountain" (the), their principles, [454] [455] ; their intentions towards the King, [450] [457] ; its contests with the Girondists, [458] [459] [402] [460] ; its triumph, [473]
"Mountain of Light," [145]
Mourad Bey, his astonishment at Buonaparte's diminutive figure, [357]
"Mourning Bride," by Congreve, its high standing as a tragic drama, [391]
Moylan, Mr., review of his Collection of the Opinions of Lord Holland as recorded in the Journals of the House of Lords, [412] [420]
Mucius, the famous Roman lawyer, [4] ; note.
Munro, Sir Hector, [72]
Munro, Sir Thomas, [298]
Munster, Bishop of, [32]
Murphy, Mr., his knowledge of stage effect, [273] ; his opinion of "The Witlings," [273]
Mussulmans, their resistance to the practices of English law, [5]
Mysore, [71] ; its fierce horsemen, [72]
Mythology, Dante's use of, [75] [76]
N.
Nabobs, class of Englishmen to whom the name was applied, [280] 283.
Names, in Milton, their significance, [214] ; proper, correct spelling of, [173]
Naples, [347]
Napoleon, his policy and actions as first Consul, [513] [514] [525] [283] [280] ; his treatment of Barer, [514] [516] [518] [522] [520] ; his literary style, [515] ; his opinion of Barère's abilities, [524] [525] ; his military genius, [293] [294] ; his early proof of talents for war, [297] ; his hold on the affections of his subjects, [14] ; devotion of his Old Guard surpassed by that of the garrison of Arcot to Clive, [210] Mr. Hallam's parallel between him and Cromwell, [504] ; compared with Philip II. of Spain, [78] ; protest of Lord Holland against his detention, [213] ; threatens to invade England, [287] ; anecdotes respecting, [236] [237] [357] [495] [408]
Nares, Rev. Dr., review of his Burleigh and his Times, [1] [30]
National Assembly. See Assembly.
National Debt, Southey's notions of, [153] [155] ; effect of its abrogation, [154] England's capabilities in respect to it, [180]
National feeling, low state of, after the Restoration, [525]
Natural history, a body of, commenced by Bacon, [433]
Nature, Dryden's violations of, [359] ; external, Dante's insensibility to, [72] [74] ; feeling of the present age for, [73] ; not the source of the highest poetical inspiration, [73] [74]
Navy, its mismanagement in the reign of Charles II., [375]
Negroes, their legal condition in the West Indies, [307] [310] ; their religious condition, [311] [313] ; their social and industrial capacities, [301] [402] Major Moody s theory of an instinctive antipathy between them and the Whites, and its refutation, [305] [307] ; prejudices against them in the United States, [368] [361] ; amalgamation between them and the Whites, [370] [373] ; their capacity and inclination for labor, [383] [385] [387] [391] ; the Maroons of Surinam, [380] ; to: [388] ; inhabitants of Hayti, [390] ; to: [400] ; their probable fate, [404]
Nelson, Southey's Life of, [136]
"New Atalantis" of Bacon, remarkable passages in, [488]
Newbery, Mr., allusion to his pasteboard pictures, [215]
Newcastle, Duke of, his relation to Walpole, [178] [191] ; his character, [191] ; his appointment as head of the administration, [226] ; his negotiations with Fox, [227] [228] ; attacked in Parliament by Chatham, [229] ; his intrigues, [234] ; his resignation of office, [235] ; sent for by the king on Chatham's dismissal", leader of the Whig aristocracy, [239] ; motives for his coalition with Chatham, [240] ; his perfidy towards the king, [242] ; his jealousy of Fox, [242] ; his strong government with Chatham, [243] [244] ; his character and borough influence, [472] ; his contests with Henry Fox, [472] ; his power and patronage, [7] [8] ; his unpopularity after the resignation of Chatham, [34] [35] ; he quits office, [35]
Newdigate, Sir Roger, a great critic, [342]
Newton, John, his connection with the slave-trade, [421] ; his attachment to the doctrines of predestination, [176]
Newton, Sir Isaac, [207] ; his residence in Leicester Square, [252] Malbranche's admiration of him, [340] ; invented the method of fluxions simultaneously with Leibnitz, [324]
"New Zealander" (the), [301] [160] [162] [201] [41] [42]
Niagara, conquest of, [244]
Ninleguen, congress at, [59] ; hollow and unsatisfactory treaty of, [60]
Nizam, originally a deputy of the Mogul sovereign, [59]
Nizam al Mulk, Viceroy of the Deecan, his death, [211]
Nonconformity. See Dissent in the Church of England.
Normandy, [77]
Normans, their warfare against the Albigenses, [310]
Norris, Henry, the nickname "Little Dickey" applied to him by Addison, [417]
North, Lord, his change in the constitution of the Indian government, [35] ; his desire to obtain the removal of Hastings, [53] ; change in his designs, and its cause, [57] ; his sense, tact, and urbanity, [128] ; his weight in the ministry, [13] Chancellor of the Exchequer, [100] ; at the head of the ministry, [232] ; resigns, [235] ; forms a coalition with Fox, [239] ; the recognized heads of the Tory party, [243]
Northern and Southern countries, difference of moral feeling in, [285] [286]
Novels, popular, character of those which preceded Miss Burney's Evelina, [319]
November, fifth of, [247]
Novum Organum, admiration excited by it before it was published, [388] ; and afterwards, [409] ; contrast between its doctrine and the ancient philosophy, [438] [448] [405] ; its first book the greatest performance of Bacon, [492]
Nov, Attorney-General to Charles I, [456]
Nugent, Lord, review of his Memorials of John Hampden and his Party, [427]
Nugent. Robert Craggs, [13]
Nuncomar, his part in the revolutions in Bengal, [19] [20] ; his services dispensed with by Hastings, [24] ; his rancor against Mahommed Reza Khan, [25] ; his alliance with the majority of the new council, [42] 43; his committal for felony, trial, and sentence, [45] [40] ; his death, [48] [49]
O.
Oates, Titus, remarks on his plot, [295] [300]
Oc, language of Provence and neighboring countries, its beauty and richness, [308]
Ochino Bernardo, [349] ; his sermons on fate and free-will translated by Lady Bacon, [349]
Odd (the), the peculiar province of Horace Walpole, [161]
"Old Bachelor," Congreve's, [389]
Old Sarum, its cause pleaded by Junius, [38]
Old Whig, Addison's, [417]
Oleron, [509]
Oligarchy, characteristics of, [181] 183.
Olympic games, Herodotus' history read at, [331]
Oniai. his appearance at Dr. Burney's concerts, [257] ; anecdote about, [59]
Oinichund, his position in India, [238] ; his treachery towards Clive, [241] [249]
Omnipresence of the Deity, Robert Montgomery's reviewed, [199]
Opinion, public, its power, [169]
Opposition, parliamentary, when it began to take a regular form, [433]
Orange, the Prince of, [46] ; the only hope of his country, [51] ; his success against the French. [52] ; his marriage with the Lady Mary, [60]
Orators, Athenian, essay on, [139] 157; in what spirit "their works should be read, [149] ; causes of their greatness found in their education, [149] ; modern orators address themselves less to the audience than to the reporters, [151]
Oratory, how to be criticised, [149] ; to be estimated on principles different from those applied to other productions, [150] ; its object not truth but persuasion, [150] ; little of it left in modern days, [151] ; effect of the freedom of the press upon it, [151] ; practice and discipline give superiority in, as in the art of war, [155] ; effect of the division of labor upon, [154] ; those desirous of success in, should study Dante next to Demosthenes, [78] ; its necessity to an English statesman, [96] [97] [363] [364] [251] [253]
Orestes, the Athenian highwayman, [34] ; note.
Doloff, Count, his appearance at Dr. Burney's concert, [256]
Orme, merits and defects of his work on India, [195]
Orsiui, the Princess, [105]
Orthodoxy, at one time a synonyme for ignorance and stupidity, [343]
Osborne, Sir Peter, incident of Temple with the son and daughter of, [16] [23]
Osborne, Thomas, the bookseller, [131]
Oswald, James, [13]
Otway, [191]
Overbury, Sir Thomas, [426] [428]
Ovid, Addison's Notes to the 2d and 3d hooks of his Metamorphoses, [328]
Owen, Mr. Robert, [140]
Oxford, [287]
Oxford, Earl of. See Harley, Robert. Oxford, University of, its inferiority to Cambridge in intellectual activity, [343] [344] ; its disaffection to the House of Hanover, [402] [36] ; rose into favor with the government under Bute, [36]
P.
Painting, correctness in, [343] ; causes of its decline in England after the civil wars, [157]
Paley, Archdeacon, [261] Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his defence of the Church, [122] ; his reasoning the same as that by which Socrates confuted Aristodemus, [303] ; his views on "the origin of evil," [273] [276]
Pallas, the birthplace of Goldsmith, [151]
Paoli, his admiration of Miss Burney, [271]
Papacy, its influence, [314] ; effect of Luther's public renunciation of communion with it, [315]
Paper currency, Southey's notions of, [151] [152]
Papists, line of demarcation between them and Protestants, [362] Papists and Puritans, persecution of, by Elizabeth, [439]
Paradise, picture of, in old Bibles, [343] ; painting of, by a gifted master, [343]
Paradise Regained, its excellence, [219]
Paris, influence of its opinions among the educated classes in Italy, [144]
Parker, Archbishop, [31] Parliaments of the [15]th century, their condition, [479]
Parliament, the, sketch of its proceedings, [470] [540] Parliament of James I., [440] [441] Charles I., his first, [443] [444] ; his second, [444] [445] ; its dissolution, [446] ; his fifth, [401]
Parliament, effect of the publication of its proceedings, [180] Parliament, Long. See Long Parliament.
Parliamentary government, [251] 253.
Parliamentary opposition, its origin, [433]
Parliamentary reform, [131] [21] [22] [233] [237] [239] [241] [410] [425]
Parr, Dr., [120]
Milton, Parties, state of, in the time of Milton, [257] ; in England, [171] [130] ; analogy in the state of, [170]4 and [182] [353] ; mixture of, at George II.'s first levee after Walpole's resignation, [5]
Partridge, his wrangle with Swift, [374]
Party, power of, during the Reformation and the French Revolution, [11] [14] ; illustrations of the use and the abuse of it, [73]
Pascal, Blaise, [105] [300] ; was the product of his age, [323] Patronage of literary men, [190] ; less necessary than formerly, [191] [352] ; its injurious effects upon style, [352] [353]
"Patriots" (the), in opposition to Sir R. Walpole, [170] [179] ; their remedies for state evils, [181] [183] Patriotism, genuine, [396]
Paul IV., Pope, his zeal and devotion, [318] [324]
Paulet, Sir Amias, [354]
Paulieian theology, its doctrines and prevalence among the Albigenses, [309] ; in Bohemia and the Lower Danube, [313]
Pauson, the Greek painter, [30] ; note.
Peacham, Rev. Mr., his treatment by Bacon, [389] [390]
Peers, new creations of, [486] ; impolicy of limiting the number of, [415] [410]
Pelham, Henry, his character, [189] ; his death. [225]
Pelhams (the), their ascendency, [188] ; their accession to power, [220] [221] ; feebleness of the opposition to them, [222] ; see also Newcastle, Duke of.
Pembroke College, Oxford, Johnson entered at, [174] [175]
Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, Pitt entered at, [225]
Péner, M.. translator of the works of Machiavelli, [207]
Peninsular War, Southey's, [137]
Penseroso and Allegro, Milton's, [215]
Pentathlete (a), [154]
People (the), comparison of their condition in the [10]th and [19]th centuries, [173] ; their welfare not considered in partition treaties, [91] [92]
Pepys, his praise of the Triple Alliance, [44] ; note.
Percival, Mr., [411] [414] [419]
Pericles, his distribution of gratuities among the members of the Athenian tribunals, [420] ; the substance but not the manner of his speeches transmitted by Thucydides, [152]
Persecution, religious, in the reign of Elizabeth, [439] [440] ; its reactionary effect upon churches and thrones, [456] ; in England during the progress of the Reformation, [14]
Personation, Johnson's want of talent for, [423]
Personification, Robert Montgomery's penchant for, [207]
Persuasion, not truth, the object of oratory, [150]
Peshwa, authority and origin of, [59]
Peterborough, Earl of, his expedition to Spain, [110] ; his character, [110] [123] [124] ; his successes on the northeast coast of Spain, [112] [119] ; his retirement to Valencia thwarted, [123] ; returns to Valencia as a volunteer, [123] ; his recall to England, [123]
Petition of Right, its enactment, [445] ; violation of it, [445]
Petrarch, characteristics of his writings, [56] [57] [88] [90]-96, [211] ; his influence upon Italian literature to Altieri's time unfavorable, [59] ; criticism upon, [80]-99; his wide celebrity. [80] ; besides Cervantes the only modern writer who has attained an European reputation, [80] ; the source of his popularity to be found in his egotism, [81] [82] ; and the universal interest felt in his theme, [82] [85] [365] ; the first eminent poet wholly devoted to the celebration of love, [85] ; the Provençal poets his masters, [85] ; his fame increased by the inferiority of his imitators, [86] ; but injured by their repetitions of his topics, [94] ; lived the votary of literature, [86] ; and died its martyr, [87] ; his crowning on the Capitol, [86] [87] ; his private history, [87] ; his inability to present sensible objects to the imagination, [89] ; his genius, and his perversion of it by his conceits, [90] ; paucity of his thoughts, [90] ; his energy of style when lie abandoned amatory composition, [91] ; the defect of his writings, their excessive brilliancy, and want of relief, [92] ; his sonnets, [93] [95] ; their effect upon the reader's mind, [93] ; the fifth sonnet the perfection of bathos, [93] ; his Latin writings over-estimated by himself and his contemporaries, [95] [96] [413] ; his philosophical essays, [97] ; his epistles, [98] ; addressed to the dead and the unborn, [99] ; the first restorer of polite letters into Italy, [277]
Petty, Henry, Lord, [296]
Phalaris, Letters of, controversy upon their merits and genuineness, [108] [112] [114] [119]
Philarehus for Phylarehus, [381]
Philip II. of Spain, extent and splendor of his empire, [77]
Philip III. of Spain, his accession, [98] ; his character, [98] [104] ; his choice of a wife, [105] ; is obliged to fly from Madrid, [118] ; surrender of his arsenal and ships at Carthagena, [119] ; defeated at Alinenara, and again driven from Madrid, [126] ; forms a close alliance with his late competitor, [138] ; quarrels with France, [138] ; value of his renunciation of the crown of France. [139]
Philip le Bel, [312]
Philip, Duke of Orleans, regent of France, [63] [66] ; compared with Charles II. of England, [64] [65]
Philippeaux, Abbe, his account of Addison's mode of life at Blois, [339]
Philips, John, author of the Splendid Shilling, [386] ; specimen of his poetry in honor of Marlborough, [386] ; the poet of the English vintage, [50]
Philips, Sir Robert, [413]
Phillipps, Ambrose, [369]
Philological studies, tendency of, [143] ; unfavorable to elevated criticism, [143]
Philosophy, ancient, its characteristics, [436] ; its stationary character, [441] [459] ; its alliance with Christianity, [443] [445] ; its fall, [445] [446] ; its merits compared with the Baconian, [461] [462] ; reason of its barrenness, [478] [479]
Philosophy, moral, its relation to the Baconian system, [467]
Philosophy, natural, the light in which it was viewed by the ancients, [436] [443] ; chief peculiarity of Bacon's, [435]
Phrarnichus, [133]
Pilgrim's Progress, review of Southey's edition of the, [250] ; see also Bunyan.
Pilpav, Fables of, [188]
Pindar and the Greek drama, [216] Horace's comparison of his imitators, [362]
Pineus (the), [31] ; note.
Pisistratus, Bacon's comparison of Essex to him, [372]
Pitt, William, (the first). (See Chatham, Earl of.)
Pitt, William, (the second.) his birth, [221] ; his precocity, [223] ; his feeble health, [224] ; his early training, [224] [225] ; entered at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, [225] ; his life and studies there, [225] [229] ; his oratorical exercises, [228] [229] ; accompanies his father in his last attendance in the House of Peers, [223] [230] ; called to the bar, [230] ; enters Parliament, [230] ; his first speech, [233] ; his forensic ability, [2] [14] ; declines any post that did not entitle him to a seat in the Cabinet, * [235] ; courts the Ultra-Whigs, [236] ; made Chancellor of the Exchequer, [247] ; denounces the coalition between Fox and North, [240] ; resigns and declines a place at the Treasury Hoard, [241] ; makes a second motion in favor of Parliamentary Reform, [241] ; visits the Continent, [242] ; his great popularity, [244] [244] ; made First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, [240] ; his contest with the opposition, [247] ; his increasing popularity in the nation, [248] ; his pecuniary disinterestedness, [249] [257] [208] ; reelected to Parliament, [24] ; the greatest subject that England had seen for many generations, [250] ; his peculiar talents, [250]-257; his oratory, [254] [255] [128] ; the correctness of his private life, [258] ; his failure to patronize men of letters and artists, [259] [202] ; his administration can be divided into equal parts, [202] ; his lirst eight years, [202] [271] ; his struggle upon the question of the Regency, [205] [207] ; his popularity, [207] [208] ; his feelings towards France, [270] [272] ; his change of views in the latter part of his administration not unnatural, [272] [274] [45] ; failure of his administration of military affairs, vi.275, [277] ; his undiminished popularity, [277] [278] ; his domestic policy, [27]S, [274] ; his admirable policy respecting Ireland and the Catholic Question, [289] [281] ; his resignation, [281] ; supports Addington's administration. [284] ; grows cold in his support, [285] ; his quarrel with Addington. [287] ; his great debate with Fox upon the war question, [288] ; his coalition with Fox, [236] ; to: [242] [410] [191] ; his second administration, [292] ; his failing health, [294] ; his ill-success in the coalition against Napoleon, [294] [295] ; his illness increases, [295] [250] ; his death, [297] ; his funeral, [298] ; his debts paid from the public treasury, [298] ; his neglect of his private finances, [298] [249] ; his character, [299] [300] [410] [411] ; his admiration for Hastings, [107] [110] [117] ; his asperity towards Francis, [104] ; his speech in support of Fox's motion against Hastings, [117] ; his motive, [119] ; his position upon the question of Parliamentary Reform, [410]
Pius V., his bigotry, [185] ; his austerity and zeal, [424]
Pius VI., his captivity and death, [440] ; his funeral rites long withheld, [440]
Plagiarism, effect of, on the reader's mind, [94] ; instances of R. Montgomery's, [199] [202]
"Plain Dealer," Wycherley's, its appearance and merit, [370] [384] ; its libertinism, [480]
Plassey, battle of, [243] [246] ; its effect in England, [254]
Plato, comparison of his views with those of Racon, [448] [404] ; excelled in the art of dialogue, [105]
Plautus, his Casina, [248]
Plays, English, of the age of Elizabeth, [448] ; rhyme introduced into, to please Charles II., [349] ; characteristics of Dryden's rhyming, [355] [301]
Plebeian, Steele's, [4]
Plomer, Sir T., one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial, [127]
Plutarch and the historians of his school, [395] [402] ; their mental characteristics, [395] ; their ignorance of the nature of real liberty, [590] ; and of true patriotism, [397] ; their injurious influence, [348] ; their bad morality, [398] ; their effect upon Englishmen, [400] ; upon Europeans and especially the French, [400] [402] [70] [71] ; contrasted with Tacitus, [409] ; his evidence of gifts being given to judges in Athens, [420] ; his anecdote of Lysias's speech before the Athenian tribunals, [117]
Poem, imaginary epic, entitled "The Wellingtoniad," [158]
Poetry, definition of, [210] ; incapable of analysis, [325] [327] ; character of Southey's, [139] ; character of Robert Montgomery's, [199] [213] ; wherein that of our tunes differs from that of the last century, [337] ; laws of, [340] ; to: [347] ; unities in, [338] ; its end, [338] ; alleged improvements in since the time of Dryden, [348] ; the interest excited by Byron's, [383] Dr. Johnson's standard of, [416] Addison's opinion of Tuscan, [361] ; what excellence in, depends upon, [384] [335] ; when it begins to decline, [337] ; effects of the cultivation of language upon, [337] [338] ; of criticism, [338] ; its St. Martin's Summer, [339] ; the imaginative fades into the critical, in all literatures, [330] [37] [2]
Poets, effect of political transactions upon, [62] ; what is the best education of, [73] ; are bad critics, [76] [327] [328] ; must have faith in the creations of their imaginations, [328] ; their creative faculty, [354]
Poland, contest between Protestantism and Catholicism in, [326] [330]
Pole, Cardinal, [8]
Police, Athenian, [34] French, secret, [119] [120]
Politeness, definition of, [407]
Politian, allusion to, i [279]
Political convulsions, effect of, upon works of imagination, [62] ; questions, true method of reasoning upon, [47] [50]
Polybius, [395]
Pondicherry, [212] ; its occupation by the English, [60]
Poor (the), their condition in the [16]th and [19]th centuries, [173] ; in England and on the Continent, [179] [182]
Poor-rates (the), lower in manufacturing than in agricultural districts. [146]
Pope, his independence of spirit, [191] ; his translation of Homer's description of a moonlight night, [338] ; relative "correctness" of his poetry, [338] Byron's admiration of him, [351] ; praise of him, by Cowper, [351] ; his character, habits, and condition, [404] ; his dislike of Bentley, [113] ; his acquaintance with Wycherley, [381] ; his appreciation of the literary merits of Congreve, [406] ; the originator of the heroic couplet, [333] ; his condensation in consequence of its use, [152] ; his testimony to Addison's conversational powers, [366] ; his Rape of the Lock his best poem, [394] ; his Essay on Criticism warmly praised in the Spectator, [394] ; his intercourse with Addison, [394] ; his hatred of Dennis, [394] ; his estrangement from Addison, [403] ; his suspicious nature, [403]408; his satire of Addison, [409] [411] ; his Messiah translated into Latin verse by Johnson, [175]
Popes, review of Ranke's History of the, [299]
Popham, Major, [84]
Popish Plot, circumstances which assisted the belief in, [294] [298]
Popoli, Duchess of, saved by the Earl of Peterborough, [116]
Port Royal, its destruction a disgrace to the Jesuits and to the Romish Church, [333]
Portico, the doctrines of the school so called, [441]
Portland, Duke of, [241] [278]
Porto Carrero, Cardinal, [94] [98] Lewis XIV.'s opinion of him, [104] ; his disgrace and reconciliation with the Queen Dowager, [121]
Portrait-painting, [385] [338]
Portugal, its retrogression in prosperity compared with Denmark, [340]
Posidonius, his eulogy of philosophy as ministering to human comfort, [436]
Post Nati, the great case in the Exchequer Chamber, conducted by Bacon, [387] [367] ; doubts upon the legality of the decision, [387]
Power, political, religions belief ought not to exclude from, [303]
Pratt, Charles, [13] Chief Justice, [86] ; created Lord Camden, and intrusted with the seals. [91]
Predestination, doctrine of, [317]
Prerogative royal, its advance, [485] ; in the [16]th century, [172] ; its curtailment by the Revolution, [170] ; proposed by Bolingbroke to be strengthened, [171] ; see also Crown.
Press, Milton's defence of its freedom, [262] ; its emancipation after the Revolution, [530] ; remarks on its freedom, [169] [270] ; censorship of, in the reign of Elizabeth, [15] ; its influence on the public mind after the Devolution, [330] ; upon modern oratory, [150]
Pretsman, Mr., [225]
Prince, The, of Machiavelli, general condemnation of it, [207] ; dedicated to the younger Lorenzo de Medici; compared with Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 013.
Printing, effect of its discovery upon writers of history, [411] ; its inventor and the date of its discovery unknown, [444]
Prior, Matthew, his modesty compared with Aristophanes and Juvenal, [352]
Prisoners of war, Barêre's proposition tor murdering, [490]-495.
Private judgment, Milton's defence of the right of, [202] Mr. Gladstone's notions of the rights and abuses of, [102] [103]
Privileges of the House of Commons, change in public opinion in respect to them, [330] See also Parliament.
Privy Council, Temple's plan for its reconstitution, iv. 04; Mr. Courtenay's opinion of its absurdity contested, [5] [77] Barillon's remarks upon it, [7]
Prize compositions necessarily unsatisfactory, [24]
Progress of mankind in the political and physical sciences, [271] [277] ; in intellectual freedom, [302] ; the key of the Baconian doctrine, [430] ; how retarded by the unprofitableness of ancient philosophy, [430] [405] ; during the last [250] ; years, [302]
Prometheus, [38]
Prosperity, national, [150]
Protector (the), character of his administration, [248]
Protestant nonconformists in the reign of Charles I., their intolerance, [473]
Protestantism, its early history, [13] ; its doctrine touching the right of private judgment, [104] ; light which Ranke has thrown upon its movements, [300] [301] ; its victory in the northern parts of Europe, [314] ; its failure in Italy, [315] ; effect of its outbreak in any one part of Christendom, [317] ; its contest with Catholicism in France, Poland, and Germany, [325] [331] ; its stationary character, [348] [349]
Protestants and Catholics, their relative numbers in the [10]th century, [25]
Provence, its language, literature, and civilization in the [12]th century, [308] [309] ; its poets the teachers of Petrarch, [85]
Prussia, king of, subsidized by the Pitt and Newcastle ministry, [245] ; influence of Protestantism upon her, [339] ; superiority of her commercial system, [48] [49]
Psalnianazur, George, [185]
Ptolemaic system, [229]
Public opinion, its power, [168]
Public spirit, an antidote against bad government, [18] ; a safeguard against legal oppression, [18]
Publicity (the), of parliamentary proceedings, influence of, [108] ; a remedy for corruption, [22]
Pulci, allusion to, [279]
Pulteney, William, his opposition to Walpole, [202] ; moved the address to the king on the marriage of the Prince of Wales, [210] ; his unpopularity, [218] ; accepts a peerage, [219] ; compared with Chatham, [93]
Pundits of Bengal, their jealousy of foreigners, [98]
Punishment, warning not the only end of, [404]
Punishment and reward, the only means by which government can effect its ends, [303]
Puritanism, effect of its prevalence upon tlie national taste, [302] [347] ; the restraints it imposed, [300] ; reaction against it, [307]
Puritans (the), character and estimate of them, [253] [257] ; hatred of them by James I, [455] ; effect of their religious austerity, [109] Johnson's contempt for their religious scruples, [411] ; their persecution by Charles I., [451] ; settlement of, in America, [459] ; blamed for calling in the Scots, [405] ; defence of them against this accusation, [405] ; difficulty and peril of their leaders, [470] ; the austerity of their manners drove many to the royal standard, [481] ; their position at the close of tlie reign of Elizabeth, [302] [303] ; their oppression by Whitgift, [330] ; their faults in the day of their power and their consequences, [307] [368] ; their hostility to works of the imagination, [340] [347]
Puritans and Papists, persecution of, by Elizabeth, [430]
Eym, John, his influence, [407] Lady Carlisle's warning to him, [478] ; his impeachment ordered by the king, [477]
Pynsent, Sir William, his legacy to Chatham, [63]
Pyramid, the Great, Arab fable concerning it, [347] ; how it looked to one of the French philosophers who accompanied Napoleon, [58]
"Pyrenees (the), have ceased to exist," [99]
Q.
Quebec, conquest of, by Wolfe, iii.
Quince, Peter, sense in which he uses the word "translated," [405] [406]
Quintilian, his character as a critic, [141] [142] ; causes of his deficiencies in this respect, [141] ; admired Euripides, [141]
R.
Rabbinical Learning, work on, by Rev. L. Addison, [325]
Racine, his Greeks far less "correctly" drawn than those of Shakspeare, [338] ; his Iphigenie an anachronism, [338] ; passed the close of his life in writing sacred dramas, [300]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, i [36] ; his varied acquirements, [96] ; his position at court at the close of the reign of Elizabeth, [364] ; his execution, [400]
"Rambler" (the), [190]
Itamsav, court painter to George III., [4]L
Ramus, [447]
Ranke, Leopold, review of his History of the Popes, [299] [349] ; his
qualifications as an historian, [299] [347]
Rape of the Lock (the), Pope's best poem, [394] ; recast by its author, [403] [404]
Rasselas, Johnson's, [19]G, [197]
Reader, Steele's, [403]
Reading in the present age necessarily desultory, [147] ; the least part of an Athenian education, [147] 148.
Reasoning in verse, Drvden's, [300] [308]
Rebellion, the Great, and the Revolution, analogy between them, [237] [247]
Rebellion in Ireland in 1840, [473]
Reform, the process of, often necessarily attended with many evils, [13] ; its supporters sometimes unworthy, [13]
Reform Bill, [235] ; conduct of its opponents, [311]
Reform in Parliament before the Revolution, [539] ; public desire for, [541] ; policy of it, [542] [131] ; its results, [54] [50]
Reformation (the), Milton's Treatise of, [204] ; the history of the Reformation much misrepresented, [439] [445] ; party divisions caused by it, [533] ; their consequences, [534] ; its immediate effect upon political liberty in England, [435] ; its social and political consequences, [10] ; analogy between it and the French Revolution, [10] [11] ; its effect upon the Church of Rome, [87] ; vacillation which it produced in English legislation, [344] ; auspices under which it commenced, [313] ; its effect upon the Roman court, [323] ; its progress not effected by the event of battles or sieges, [327]
Reformers, always unpopular in their own age, [273] [274]
Refugees, [300]
Regicides of Charles L, disapproval of their conduct, [240] ; injustice of the imputations cast on them, [240] [247]
Regium Donum, [170]
Regulating Act, its introduction by Lord North, and change which it made in the form of the Indian government, [35] [52] 03; power which it gave to the Chief Justice, [67]
Religion, national establishment of, [100] ; its connection with civil government, [101] ; sey.; its effects upon the policy of Charles I., and of the Puritans, [108] ; no disqualification for the safe exercise of political power, [300] ; the religion of the English in the [10]th century, [27] [31] ; what system of, should be taught by a government, [188] ; no progress made in the knowledge of natural religion, since the days of Thales, [302] ; revealed, not of the nature of a progressive science, [304] ; injurious influence of Louis XIV. upon, iii. 04; of slavery in the West Indies, [311] [313]
Remonstrant, allusion to Milton's Animadversions on the, [204]
Rent, [400]
Representative government, decline of, [485]
Republic, french, Burke's character of, [402]
Restoration (the), degenerated character of our statesmen and politicians in the times succeeding it, [512] [513] ; low standard of political morality after it, [512] ; violence of party and low state of national feeling after it, [525] : that of Charles II. and of Lewis XVIII. contrasted. [283] 284; its effects upon the morals and manners of the nation, [367] [308]
Retrospective law, is it ever justifiable? [403] [404] [400] ; warranted by a certain amount of public danger, [470]
"Revels, Athenian," scenes from, [30]
Review, New Antijacobin (the). See Antijacobin Review.
Revolution (the), its principles often grossly misrepresented, [235] ; analogy between it and the "Great Rebellion," [237] [247] ; its effect on the character of public men, [520] ; freedom of the press after it, [530] ; its effects, [530] ; the fruit of a coalition, [410] ; ministerial responsibility since, [531] ; review of (Mackintosh's History of, [251] [335]
Revolution, the French, its history, [440]-513; its character, [273] [275] ; warnings which preceded it, [440] [441] [50] [340] [427] [428] ; its social and political consequences, [10] [11] [205] [200] [532] [534] [430] ; its effects on the whole salutary, [40] [41] [67] ; the excesses of its development, [41] [44] ; differences between the first and the second, [515] ; analogy between it and the Reformation, [10] [11] Dumont's views upon it, [41] [43] [44] 40; contrasted with the English, [40] [50] 08, [70]
Revolutionary tribunal, (the). See Tribunal.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [126]
Rheinsberg, [150]
Rhyme introduced into English plays to please Charles II., [349]
Richardson, [298]
Richelieu, Cardinal, [338]
Richmond, Duke of, [107]
Rigby, secretary for Ireland, [12]
Rimini, story of, [74]
Riots, public, during Grenville's administration, [70]
Robertson, Dr., [472] [215] Scotticisms in his works, [342]
Robespierre, [340] ; analogy between his followers and those of Kniperdoling, [12] [420] [470] [480] ; false accusations against, [431] ; his treatment of the Girondists, [473] [474] ; one of the Committee of Safety, [475] ; his life attempted, [489] ; the division in the Committee, and the revolution of the ninth Thermidor, [497] [499] ; his death, [500] ; his character, [501]
Robinson, Sir Thomas, [228]
Rochefort, threatening of, [244]
Rochester, Earl of, [307] [114] [335]
Rockingham, Marquess of, his characteristics, [73] ; parallel between his party and the Bedfords, [73] ; accepts the Treasury, [74] ; patronizes Burke, [75] ; proposals of his administration on the American Stamp Act, [78] ; his dismissal, [88] ; his services, [88] [89] ; his moderation towards the new ministry, [93] ; his relation to Chatham, [102] ; advocated the independence of the United States, [100] ; at the head of the Whigs, [232] ; made First Minister, [235] ; his administration, [23](i, [237] ; his death, [237]
Rockingham and Bedfords, parallel between them, [73]
Sir Thomas, [273] Uohillas, description of them, [29] ; agreement between Hastings and Stirajah Dowlali for their subjugation, [30] [31]
Roland, Madame, [43] [452] [453] [473]
Homans (the), exclusiveness of, [413] [410] ; under Diocletian, compared to the Chinese, [415] [416]
Romans and Greeks, difference between, [287] ; in their treatment of woman, [83] [84]
Roman Tale (a), fragments of, [119] ; game, called Duodeeim Scriptæ, [4] ; note,; name for the highest throw on the dice, [13] ; note.
Home, ancient, bribery at, [421] ; civil convulsions in, contra-ted with those in Greece, [189] [190] ; literature of, [347] [349]
Rome, Church of, its encroaching disposition, [295] [296] ; its policy, [308] ; its antiquity, [301] ; see also Church of Home.
Hooke, Sir George, his capture of Gibraltar, [110] ; his fight with a French squadron near Malaga, [110] ; his return to England, [110]
Rosamond, Addison's opera of, [361]
Roundheads (the), their literature, [234] ; their successors in the reign of George I. turned courtiers, [4]
Rousseau, his sufferings, [365] Horace Walpole's opinion of him, [156]
Rowe, his verses to the Chloe of Holland House, [412]
Roval Society (the), of Literature, [20]-29.
Royalists (the), of the time of Charles I., [257] ; many of them true friends to the Constitution, [483] ; some of the most eminent formerly in opposition to the Court, [471]
Royalists, Constitutional, in the reign of Charles I., [471] [481]
Rumford, Count, [147]
Rupert, Prince, [493] ; his encounter with Hampden at Chalgrove, [493]
Russell, Lord, [526] ; his conduct in the new council, [96] ; his death, [99]
Russia and Poland, diffusion of wealth in, as compared with England, [182]
Rutland, Earl of, his character, [411] [412]
Ruyter, Admiral de, [51]
Rymer, [417]
S.
Sacheverell. Dr., his impeachment and conviction, [130] [362] [121]
Sackville, the Earl of, (16th century,) [36] [261]
Sackville, Lord George, [13]
Sadler, Mr., his Law of Population reviewed, [214] [249] ; his style, [214] [215] [270] [305] 306; specimen of his verse, [215] ; the spirit of his work, [216] [217] [220] [270] [305] ; his objections to the Doctrines of Malthus. [217] [218] [222] [228] [244] [271] [272] ; answer to them, [219] [221] ; his law stated, [222] ; does not understand the meaning of the words in which it is stated, [224]226, [278] [279] ; his law proved to be not true, [226] 227, [231] [238] [280]295; his views injurious to the cause of religion, [228] [230] ; attempts to prove that the increase of population in America is chiefly owing to immigration, [238] [239] [245] [249] ; refutes himself, [239] [240] ; his views upon the fecundity of the English peers, [240] [241] [298] [304] ; refutation of these arguments, [241] [243] ; his general characteristics, [249] ; his Refutation refuted, [268] [306] ; misunderstands Paley's arguments, [273] [274] ; the meaning of "the origin of evil," [274] [278] ; and the principle which he has himself laid down, [295] [298]
St. Denis, [484]
St. Dennis and St. George-in-the Water, parishes of, imaginary lawsuit between, [100]
St. Ignatius. See Loyola.
St. John, Henry, his accession to power in [171] [130] [141] ; see also Bolingbroke, Lord.
St. John, Oliver, counsel against Charles I.'s writ for ship-money, [457] [464] ; made Solicitor-General, [472]
St. Just, [466] [470] 474,475,498, [500]
St. Louis, his persecution of liberties, [421]
St. Maloes, ships burnt in the harbor of, [244]
St. Patrick, [214]
St. Thomas, island of, [381] [383]
Saintes, [510]
Sallust, characteristics of, as a historian, [404] [400] ; his conspiracy of Catiline has rather the air of a clever party-pamphlet, than of a history, [404] ; grounds for questioning' the reality of the conspiracy, [403] ; his character and genius, [337]
Salmasius, Milton's refutation of, [248]
Salvator Rosa, [347]
Samson, Agonistes, [215]
San Marino, visited by Addison, [340]
Satire, the only indigenous growth of Roman literature, [348]
Savage, Richard, his character, [180] ; his life by Johnson, [187] [214]
Savile, Sir George, [73]
Savonarola, [316]
Saxony, its elector the natural head of the Protestant party in Germany, [328] ; its persecution of the Calvinists, [329] ; invasion by the Catholic party in Germamy [337]
Schism, cause of, in England, [334]
Schwellenberg, Madame, her position and character, [283] [284] [297]
Science, political, progress of, [271] [279] [334]
Scholia, origin of the House of, [59]
Scotland, cruelties of James II. in, [300] [311] ; establishment of the Kirk in, [322] [159] ; her progress in wealth and intelligence owing to Protestantism, [340] ; incapacity of its natives to hold land in England even after the Union [300]
Scots (the), effects of their resistance to Charles I., [400] [401] ; ill feeling excited against them by Bute's elevation to power, [39] [40] ; their wretched condition in the Highland, and Fletcher of Saltoun's views upon it, [388] [389]
Scott, Major, his plea in defence of Hastings, [105] ; his influence, [100] ; his challenge to Burke, [114]
Scott, Sir Walter, [435] ; relative "correctness" of his poetry, [338] ; his Duke of Rockingham (in "Peveril"), [358] Scotticisms in his works, [342] ; value of his writings, [428] ; pensioned by Earl Grey, [201]
Seas, Liberty of the, Barêre's work upon, [512]
Sedley, Sir Charles, [353]
Self-denying ordinance (the), [490]
Seneca, his work "On Anger," [437] ; his claims as a philosopher, [438] ; his work on natural philosophy, [412] ; the Baconian system in reference to, [478]
Sevajee, founder of the Mahratta empire, [59]
Seward, Mr., [271]
Sforza, Francis, [280]
Shaltesbury, Lord, allusion to, [208] [13] ; his character, [81] [89] ; contrasted with Halifax, [90]
Shakspeare, allusion to, [208] [30] ; one of the most "correct" poets, [337] ; relative "correctness" of his Troilus and Cressida, [338] ; contrasted with Byron, [359] Johnson's edition of, [417] [199] [342] ; his superlative merits, [345] ; his bombast, [301] ; his fairies' songs, [304]
Shaw, the Lifeguardsman, [357]
Shebbeare, Bute's patronage of, [40]
Shelburne, Lord, Secretary of State in Chatham's second administration, [91] ; his dismissal, [100] ; heads one section of the opposition to North, [233] ; made First Lord of the Treasury, [237] ; his quarrel with Fox, [239] ; his resignation, [241]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [257] [350]
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [389] ; his speech against Hastings, r. [121] ; his encouragement to Miss Burney to write for the stage, [273] ; his sarcasm against Pitt, [210]
Sheridan and Congreve, effect of their works upon the Comedy of England, [295] ; contrasted with Shakspeare, [295]
Ship-money, question of its legality, [157] ; seq.
Shrewsbury, Duke of, [397]
Sienna, cathedral of, [319]
Sigismund of Sweden, [329]
Silius Italicus, [357]
Simonides, his speculations on natural religion, [302]
Sismondi, M., [131] ; his remark about Dante, [58]
Sixtus V., [321]
Skinner Cyriac, [202]
Slave-trade, [259]
Slavery in Athens, [189] ; in Sparta, [190] ; in the West Indies, [303] ; its origin there, [301] [305] ; its legal rights there. [305] [310] ; parallel between slavery there and in other countries, [311] ; its effects upon religion, [311] [313] ; upon public opinion and morals, [311] [320] ; who are the zealots for, [320] [321] ; their foolish threats, [322] ; effect of, upon commerce, [323] [325] ; impunity of its advocates, [325] [32]G; its danger, [328] ; and approaching downfall, [329] ; defended in Major Moody's report, [361] [373] [371] ; its approval by Fletcher of Saltoun, [388] [389]
Smalridge, George, [121] [122]
Smith, Adam, [286]
Smollett, his judgment on Lord Carteret, [188] ; his satire on the Duke of Newcastle, [191]
Social contract, [182]
Society, Mr. Southey's Colloquies on, reviewed, [132]
Society, Royal, (the), of literature, [20]-29; its absurdity, [20] ; dangers to be apprehended from it, [20]-23; cannot be impartial, [21] [22] ; foolishness of its system of prizes, [23] [21] Dartmoor the first subject proposed by it for a prize, [21] [31] ; never published a prize composition, [25] ; apologue illustrating its consequences, [25] [29]
Socrates, the first martyr of intellectual liberty, [350] his views of the uses of astronomy, [152] ; his reasoning exactly the reasoning of Paley's Natural Theology, [511] [303] ; his dialogues, [381]
Soldier, citizen, (a), different from a mercenary, [61] [187]
Somers, Lord Chancellor, his encouragement of literature, [337] ; procures a pension for Addison, [338] ; made Lord President of the Council, [362]
Somerset, the Protector, as a promoter of the English Reformation, [452] ; his fall, [396]
Somerset, Duke of, [415]
Sonnets, Milton's, [233] Petrarch's, [93] [95]
Sophocles and the Greek Drama, [217]
Soul, [303]
Soult, Marshal, reference to, [67]
Southampton, Earl of, notice of, [384]
Southcote, Joanna, [336]
Southern and Northern countries, difference of moral feeling in, [285]
Southey, Robert, review of his Colloquies on Society, [132] ; his characteristics, [132] 134; his poetry preferable to his prose, [136] ; his lives of Nelson and John Wesley, [136] [137] ; his Peninsular War, [137] ; his Book of the Church, [137] ; his political system, [140] ; plan of his present work, [141] ; his opinions regarding the manufacturing system, [146] ; his political economy, [151] ; seq.; the national debt, [153] [156] ; his theory of the basis of government, [158] ; his remarks on public opinion, [159] [160] ; his view of the Catholic claims, [170] ; his ideas on the prospects of society, [172] ; his prophecies respecting the Corporation and Test Acts, and the removal of the Catholic disabilities, [173] ; his observations on the condition of the people in the [16]th and [19]th centuries, [174] ; his arguments on national wealth, [178] [180] ; review of his edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, [250] ; see also Bunyon.
South Sea Bubble, [200]
Spain, [488] ; review of Lord Mahon's War of the Succession in, [75] ; her state under Philip, [79] ; her literature during the [16]th century, [80] ; her state a century later, [81] ; effect produced on her by bad government, [85] ; by the Reformation, [87] ; her disputed succession, [88] [91] ; the Partition Treaty, [92] [93] ; conduct of the French towards her, [93] ; how affected by the death of Charles, [98] ; seq.; designation of the War of the Spanish Succession, [338] ; no conversions to Protestantism in, [348]
Spanish and Swiss soldiers in the time of Machiavelli, character of, [307]
Sparre, the Dutch general, [107]
Sparta, her power, causes of its decline, [155] ; note; defeated when she ceased to possess, alone of the Greeks, a permanent standing army, Mr. Milford's preference of over Athens, [181] ; her only really great men, [182] ; characteristics of her government, [183] [184] ; her domestic institutions, [184] 185; character of some of her leading men, [185] ; contrasted with Athens, [186] [187] ; slavery in, [190]
Spectator (the), notices of it, [385]389, [397]
Spelling of proper names, [173]
Spencer, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty, [277]
Spenser, [251] [252] ; his allegory, [75]
Spirits, Milton's, materiality of them, [227]
Spurton, Dr., [494]
Spy, police, character of, [519] [520]
Stafford, Lord, incident at his execution, [300]
Stamp Act, disaffection of the American colonists on account of it, [78] ; its repeal, [82] [83]
Stanhope, Earl of, [201]
Stanhope, General, [115] ; commands in Spain (1707), [125] [126]
Star Chamber, [459] ; its abolition, [468]
Staremberg, the imperial general in Spain (in [170] [125] [128]
States, best government of, [154]
Statesmanship, contrast of the Spanish and Dutch notions of, [35]
Statesmen, the character of, greatly affected by that of the times, [531] ; character of the first generation of professed statesmen that England produced, [342] [348]
State Trials, [293] [302] [325] [427]
Steele, [366] ; his character, [369] Addison's treatment of him, [370] ; his origination of the Tatler, [374] ; his subsequent career, [384] 355, [401]
Stephens,.Tames, his Slavery in the British West Indies reviewed, [303] [330] ; character of the work, [303] [304] ; his parallel between their slave laws and those of other countries, [311] ; has disposed of the arguments in its favor, [313]
Stoicism, comparison of that of the Bengalee with the European, [19] [20]
Strafford, Earl of, [457] ; his character as a statesman, [460] ; bill of attainder against him, [462] ; his character, [454] ; his impeachment attainder, and execution, [468] ; defence of the proceedings agains him, [470]
Strawberry Hill, [146]
Stuart, Dugald, [142]
"Sublime" (the). Longinus on, [142] Burke and Dugald Stewart on, [142]
Subsidies; foreign, in the time of Charles II., [523]
Subsidizing foreign powers, Pitt's aversion to, [231]
Succession in Spain, war of the, [75] ; see also Spain.
Sugar, its cultivation and profits, [395] [390] [403]
Sujah Dowlah, Nabob Vizier of Oude, [28] ; his flight, [32] ; his death, [85]
Sullivan, Mr., chairman of the East India Company, his character, [265] ; his relation to Clive, [270]
Sunderland, Earl of, [201] Secretary of State, [302] ; appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, [399] ; reconstructs the ministry in [171] [413]
Supernatural beings, how to be represented in literature, [69] [70]
Superstition, instance of, in the [19]th century, [3]Ü7.
Supreme Court of Calcutta, account of, [45]
Surajah Dowlah, Viceroy of Bengal, his character, [231] ; the monster of the "Black Hole," [232] ; his flight and death, [246] [251] ; investigation by the House of Commons into the circumstances of his deposition, [28]
Surinam, the Maroons of, [386]
Sweden, her part in the Triple Alliance, [41] ; her relations to Catholicism, [329]
Swift, Jonathan, his position at Sir William Temple's, [101] ; instance of his imitation of Addison, [332] ; his relations with Addison, [399] ; joins the Tories, [400] ; his verses upon Boyle, [118] [119]
Swiss and Spanish soldiers in the time of Machiavelli, character of, [307]
Sydney, Algernon, [525] ; his reproach on the scaffold to the sheriff's, [327]
Sydney, Sir Philip, [36]
Syllogistic process, analysis of, by Aristotle, [473]
T.
Tacitus, characteristics of, as a writer of history, [406] [408] ; compared with Thucydides, [407] [409] ; unrivalled in h is delineations of character, [407] ; as among ancient historians in his dramatic power, [408] ; contrasted, in this respect, with Herodotus, Xenophon, and Plutarch, [408] [409]
Tale, a Roman, Fragments of, [119]
Talleyrand, [515] ; his fine perception of character, [12] ; picture of him at Holland House, [425]
Tasso, [353] [354] ; specimen from Hoole's translation, [334]
Tatler (the), its origination, [373] ; its popularity, [380] ; change in its character, [384] ; its discontinuance, [385]
Taxation, principles of, [154] [155]
Teignmouth, Lord, his high character and regard for Hastings, [103]
Telemachus, the nature of and standard of morality in, [359] ; iii. Off-62.
Telephus, the hero of one of Euripides' lost plays, [45] ; note.
Tempest, the great, of [170] [359]
Temple, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty in the Duke of Devonshire's administration, [235] ; his parallel between Byng's behavior at Minorca and the king's behavior at Oudenarde, [238] ; his resignation of office, [30] ; supposed to have encouraged the assailants of Bute's administration, [42] ; dissuades Pitt from supplanting Grenville,69; prevents Pitt's acceptance of George III.'s offer of the administration, [72] ; his opposition to Rockingham's ministry on the question of the Stamp Act, [79] ; quarrel between him and Pitt, [89] [90] ; prevents the passage of Fox's India Bill, [240] [247]
Temple, Sir William, review of Courtenay's Memoirs of, [1] [115] ; his character as a statesman, [3] [7] [12] [13] ; his family, [13] 14; his early life, [15] ; his courtship of Dorothy Osborne, [16] 17; historical interest of his love-letters, [18] [19] [22] [23] ; his marriage, [24] ; his residence in Ireland, [25] ; his feelings towards Ireland, [27] [28] ; attaches himself to Arlington, [29] [30] ; his embassy to Munster, [33] ; appointed resident at the court of Brussels, [33] ; danger of his position, [35] ; his interview with DeWitt, [36] ; his negotiation of the Triple Alliance, [39] [41] ; his fame at home and abroad, [45] ; his recall, and farewell of De Witt, [47] ; his cold reception and dismissal, [48] 49; style and character of his compositions, [49] [50] ; charged to conclude a separate peace with the Dutch, [56] ; offered the Secretaryship of State, [58] ; his audiences of the king, [59] 60; his share in bringing about the marriage of the Prince of Orange with the Lady Mary, [60] ; required to sign the treaty of Nimeguen, [60] ; recalled to England, [61] ; his plan of a new privy council, 04, [76] [79] ; his alienation from his colleagues, [95] [90] ; his conduct on the Exile Question, [97] ; leaves publie life, and retires to the country, [98] ; his literary pursuits, [99] ; his amanuensis, Swift, [101] ; his Essay on Ancient and Modern Learning, [105] [108] ; his praise of the Letters, [107] [115] ; his death and character, [113] [115]
Terentianus, [142]
Terror, reign of. See Deign of Terror.
Test Act (the), [270]
Thackeray, Dev. Francis, review of his Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, etc., [194] [250] ; his style and matter, [194] [195] ; his omission to notice Chatham's conduct towards Walpole, [218]
Thales, [302]
Theatines, [318]
Theology, characteristics of the science of, [302] [300]
Theramenes, his tine perception of character, [12]
Thrale, Mrs., [389] ; her friendship with Johnson, [200] [207] ; her marriage with Piozzi, [210] [217] ; lier position and character, [270] ; her regard tor Miss Burney, [270]
Thucydides, his history transcribed by Demosthenes six times, [147] ; character of the speeches introduced into his narrative, [152] [388] 389; the great difficulty of understanding them arises from their compression, [153] ; and is acknowledged by Cicero, [153] ; lies not in the language but in the reasoning, [153] ; their resemblance to each other, [153] ; their value, [153] ; his picturesque style compared to Vandyke's, [380] ; description of it, [388] ; has surpassed all rivals in the art of historical narration, [389] ; his deficiencies, [390] ; his mental characteristics, [391] [393] ; compared with Herodotus, [385] ; with Tacitus, [407] [409]
Thurlow, Lord, sides against Clive, [292] ; favors Hastings, [107] [117] [121] [130] ; his weight in the government, [107] [235] ; becomes unpopular with his colleagues, [237] ; dismissed, [241] ; again made Chancellor, [247]
Ticked, Thomas, Addison's chief favorite, [371] ; his translation of the first hook of the Iliad. [405]408; character of his intercourse with Addison, [407] ; appointed by Addison Undersecretary of State, [415] Addison intrusts his works to him, 418; his elegy on the death of Addison, [421] ; his beautiful lines upon Holland House, [423]
Timlal, his character of the Karl of Chatham's maiden speech, [210]
Tinville, Fouquier, [482] [489] [503]
Toledo, admission of the Austrian troops into, [170] [110]
Toleration, religious, the safest policy for governments, [455] ; conduct of James IL as a professed supporter of it, [304] [308]
Tories, their popularity and ascendancy in [171] [129] ; description of them during the sixty years following the Devolution, [141] ; of Walpole's time, [200] ; mistaken reliance by James II. upon them, [310] ; their principles and conduct after the Devolution, [332] ; contempt into which they had fallen (1754), [220] Clive unseated by their vote, [227] ; their joy on the accession of Anne, [352] ; analogy between their divisions in [170]4 and in [182]0, [353] ; their attempt to rally in [170]7, [302] ; called to office by Queen Anne in [171]0, [382] ; their conduct on occasion of the tirst representation of Addison's Cato, [391] 392; their expulsion of Steele, from the House of Commons, [390] ; possessed none of the publie patronage in the reign of George L, [4] ; their hatred of the House of Hanover, [2] [4] [15] ; paucity of talent among them, [5] ; their joy on the accession of George III., [17] ; their political creed on the accession of George I., [20] [21] ; in the ascendent for the tirst time since the accession of the House of Hanover, 313; see Whigs.
Tories and Whigs after the Devolution, [530]
Tortola, island of, [362] ; its negro apprentices, [374] [376] ; its legislature, [377] ; its system of labor, [379]
Torture, the application of, by Bacon in Peacham's case, [383] [394] ; its use forbidden by Elizabeth, [393]
Mr. Jartline's work on the use of it, [394] ; note.
Tory, a modern, [132] ; his points of resemblance and of difference to a Whig of Queen Anne's time, [132] [133]
Toulouse, Count of, compelled by Peterborough to raise the siege of Barcelona, [117]
Toussaint L'Ouverture, [366] [390]
Townshend, Lord, his quarrel with Walpole and retirement from public life, [203]
Townshend, Charles, [13] ; his exclamation during the Earl of Bute's maiden speech, [33] ; his opinion of the Rockingham administration, [74] Chancellor of the Exchequer in Pitt's second administration, [91] Pitt's overbearing manners towards him, 95, 96; his insubordination, [97] ; his death, [100]
Town Talk, Steele's, [402] Tragedy, how much it has lost from a notion of what is due to its dignity, [20]
Tragedies, Dryden's, i. [360] 361. Trainbands of the City (the), [479] [480] ; their publie spirit, [18] Transubstantiation, a doctrine of faith, [305]
Travel, its uses, [420] Johnson's contempt for it, [420] ; foreign, compared in its effects to the reading of history, [42]G, [427]
"Traveller" (the), Goldsmith's, [1]
Treadmill, the study of ancient philosophy compared to labor in the, [441]
Treason, high, did the articles against Strafford amount to? [462] ; law passed at the Revolution respecting trials for, [328] Trent, general reception of the decisions of the council of, [32] Trial of the legality of Charles I.'s writ for ship-money, [457] ; of Strafford, 468; of Warren Hastings, [126]
Tribunals, the large jurisdiction exercised by those of Papal Rome, [314]
Tribunal, Revolutionary, (the), [496] [501]
Triennial Bill, consultation of William III. with Sir William Temple upon it, [103]
Triple Alliance, circumstances which led to it, [34] [38] ; its speedy conclusion and importance, [41] [45] Dr. Lingard's remarks on it, [42] [43] ; its abandonment by the English government, [49] ; reverence for it in Parliament,
Truth the object of philosophy, history, fiction, and poetry, but not of oratory, [150]
Tudors (tlie), their government popular though despotic, [16] ; dependent on the public favor, [20] [21] ; parallel between the Tudors and the Caesars not applicable, [21] ; corruption not necessary to them, [168]
Turgot, M. [67] ; veneration with which France cherishes his memory, [298] [427]
Turkey-carpet style of poetry, [199]
Turner, Colonel, the Cavalier, anecdote of him, [501]
Tuscan poetry, Addison's opinion of, [360]
U.
Union of England with Scotland, its happy results, [160] ; of England with Ireland, its unsatisfactory results, [160] ; illustration in the Persian fable of King Zohak, [161]
United Provinces, Temple's account of, a masterpiece in its kind, [50]
United States, happiness in, its causes, [39] [40] ; growth of the population of, [238] [239] [245] [249] ; their prejudices against negroes, [368] [369]
Unities (the), in poetry, [341]
Unity, hopelessness of having, [161]
University, the London, essay upon, [331] [360] ; objections to. [331] ; their unreasonableness, [332] ; the necessity of the institution, [333] [334] ; religious objections, [334] [335] [337] ; its great advantages, [335] ; its locality, [336] ; objections on that ground, [338] [389] ; refutation of them, [339] ; its freedom from the radical defects of the old universities, [359] ; its future, [360]
Universities, their principle of not withholding from the student works containing impurity, [351] [352] ; change in tlie relations to government of Oxford and Cambridge in Bute's time, [37] ; their jealousy of the London University, [331] [348] ; religious differences in, [338] ; their moral condition, [339] [340] ; their glorious associations, [341] ; radical defects of their system, [342] ; their Wealth and Privileges, [343] [344] ; character of their studies, [344] ; objected to by Bacon and others, [345] ; evils of their system of education, [354] ; their prizes and rewards, [355] ; idleness of their students, [355] [35] ; character of their graduates, [357] ; their fitness for real life, [358] [359]
Usage, the law of orthography, [173]
Uses, statute of, [37]
Usurper (a), to obtain the affection of his subjects must deserve it, [14] [15]
Utilitarians, [5] [8] [50] [52] [55] 07, [78] [79] ; their theory of government criticised, [92] [131] ; their mental characteristics, [92] ; the faults of their philosophy, [93] 123130; its inutility, [79] [87] [90] ; their impracticability, [100] ; the inaccuracies of their reasoning, [119] [120] ; their summum barium, [123] ; their disingenuousness, [130] [131]
Utility, the key of the Baconian doctrine, [430]
Uti. edit, the treaty of exasperation of parties on account of it, [135] [130] ; dangers that were to be apprehended from it, [137] ; state of Europe at the time, [130] ; defence of it, [139] [141]
V.
Vandyke, his portrait of the Earl of Strafford, [454]
Yausittart. Mr., Governor of Bengal, his position, [9] ; his fair intentions, feebleness, and inefficiency, [9]
Varela's portrait of James II., [251]
Vattel, [27]
Vega, Garcilasso de la, a soldier as well as a poet, [81]
Vendôme, Duke of, takes the command of the Bourbon forces in Spain (1710), iii [127]
Venice, republic of, next in antiquity to tin- line of the Supreme Pontiff's, [300]
Venus, the Roman term for the highest throw on the dice, [13] ; note.
Vergniaud, [452] [457] [473] [474]
Verona, protest of Lord Holland against the course pursued by England at the Congress of, [413]
Verres, extensive bribery at the trial of, [421]
Verse, occasional, [350] ; blank, [300] ; reasoning in, [300]
Versification, modern, in a dead language, [212]
Veto, by Parliament, on the appointment of ministers, [487] ; by the Crown on aets of Parliament, [488]
"Violet Crown, city of," a favorite epithet of Athens, [30] ; note.
"Vicar of Wakefield" (the), [159] [161]
Vigo, capture of the Spanish galleons at. [170] [108]
"Village, Deserted" (the), Goldsmith's, [162] [103]
Villani, John, his account of the state of Florence in the [14]th century, [276]
Villn-Vieiosa, battle of, [171] [128]
Villiers, Sir Edward, [412]
Virgil not so "correct" a poet as Homer, [337] ; skill with which Addison imitated him, [331] Dante's admiration of, [329]
Vision of Judgment, Southev's, [145]
Voltaire. the connecting link of the literary schools of Lewis XIV. and Lewis XVI., [355] Horace Walpole's opinion of him. [155] ; his partiality to England, [412] [294] ; meditated a history of the conquest of Bengal, 214; his character, and that of his compeers, [294] ; his interview with Congreve, [407] ; his genius venerated by Frederic the Great, [100] ; his whimsical conferences with Frederic, [176] ; seq.; compared with Addison as a master of the art of ridicule, [370] [377] ; his treatment by the French Academy, [23] ; failed to obtain the poetical prize,
W.
Wages, effects of attempts by government to limit the amount of, [362] ; their relations to labor, [383] [385] [400]
Waldegrave, Lord, made first Lord of the Treasury by George II., [242] ; his attempt to form an administration, [243]
Wales, Frederic, Prince of, joined the opposition to Walpole, [208] ; his marriage, [209] ; makes Pitt his groom of the bedchamber, [216] ; his death, [222] [223] ; headed the opposition, [7] ; his sneer at the Earl of Bute, [20]
Wales, Princess Dowager of, mother of George [111] [18] ; popular ribaldry against her, [42]
Wales, the Prince of, generally in opposition to the minister, [208]
Wall, Mr., Governor of Goree, [318]
Waller, Edmund, his conduct in the House of Commons, [303] ; similarity of his character to Lord Bacon's, [38] [5] [386]
Walmesley, Gilbert, [177]
Walpole, Sir Horace, review of Lord Dover's edition of his Letters to Sir Horace Mann, [143] ; eccentricity of his character, [144] [145] ; his politics, [146] ; his affectation of philosophy, [149] ; his unwillingness to be considered a man of letters, [149] ; his love of the French language, [152] ; character of his works, [156] [158] ; his sketch of Lord Carteret, [187]
Walpole, Sir Robert, his retaliation on the Tories for their treatment of him, [136] ; the "glory of the Whigs," [165] ; his character, [166] ; seq.; the charges against him of corrupting the Parliament, [171] ; his dominant passion, [171] 173; his conduct in regard to the Spanish war, [173] ; his last struggle, [178] ; outcry for his impeachment, [179] ; formidable character of the opposition to him, [175] [206] ; his conduct in reference to the South Sea bubble, [200] ; his conduct towards his colleagues, [202] [205] ; found it necessary to resign, [217] ; bill of indemnity for witnesses brought against him, [218] ; his maxim in election questions in the House of Commons, [473] ; his many titles to respect, [416] [417]
Walpolean battle, the great, [165] [426]
Walsingham, the Earl of (16th century), [36]
Wanderer, Madame D'Arblay's, [311]
War, the Art of, by Machiavelli, [306]
War of the Succession in Spain, Lord Mahon's, review of, [75] [112] ; see Spain.
War, in what spirit it should be waged, [187] [188] ; languid, condemned, [495] Homer's description of, [356] [357] ; descriptions of by Silius Italicus, [357] ; against Spain, counselled by Pitt and opposed by Bute, [29] ; found by Bute to be inevitable, [32] ; its conclusion, [37] ; debate on the treaty of peace, [49]
War, civil. See Civil War.
Ward, John William, Lord Dudley, [288]
Warburton, Bishop, his views on the ends of government, [122] ; his social contract a fiction, [182] ; his opinion as to the religion to be taught by government, [188]
Warning, not the only end of punishment, [464]
Warwick, Countess Dowager of, [411] [412] ; her marriage with Addison, [412]
Warwick, Earl of, makes mischief between Addison and Pope, [469] ; his dislike of the marriage between Addison and his mother, [411] ; his character, [412]
Watson, Bishop, [425]
Way of the World, by Congreve, its merits, [403]
Wealth, tangible and intangible, [150] [152] ; national and private, [153] [180] ; its increase among all Masses in England, [180] [187] ; its diffusion in Russia and Poland as compared with England, [182] ; its accumulation and diffusion in England and in Continental states, [182]
Wodderburne, Alexander, his defence of Lord Clive, [292] ; his urgency with Clive to furnish Voltaire with the materials for his meditated history of the conquest of Bengal, [294]
Weekly Intelligencer (the), extract from, on Hampden's death, [405]
Weldon, Sir A., his Story of the meanness of Bacon, [407]
Wellesley, Marquis, his eminence as a statesman, iv. 05; his opinion as to the expediency of reducing the numbers of the Privy Council, 05; l'itt's friendship for him, [205]
Wellington, Duke of, [90] [357] [408] [409] [420] ; l'itt's estimate of him, [290] "Wellingtoniad" (the), an imaginary epic poem, [158] [171]
Wendover, its recovery of the elective franchise, [443]
Wesley, John, Southey's life of, [137] ; his dislike to the doctrine of predestination, [170]
West Indies (the), slavery in, [303] [330] ; its origin and legal condition there, [303] [310] ; state of religion in, [311] [313] ; state of manners, [314] [310] ; public opinion in, [315] [317] [318] 319; despotic character of the inhabitants, [320]-322; commerce of, [323] [325] ; character of the proprietors, [320]-329; slavery in, approaching its end, [328] [329] ; their system of cultivation, [378] [381] [403]
Westminster Hall, [42] ; the scene of the trial of Hastings, [124]
Westphalia, the treaty of, [314] [338]
Wharton, Earl of, lord lieutenant of Ireland, [371] ; appoints Addison chief secretary, [371]
Wheler, Mr., his appointment as Governor-General of India, [54] ; his conduct in the council, [57] 02, [74]
Whigs (the), their unpopularity and loss of power in [171] [130] ; their position in Walpole's time, [20] [207] ; their violence in [167]9, [299] ; the king's revenge on them, [301] ; revival of their strength, [304] ; their conduct at the Devolution, [319] [320] ; after that event, [330] ; doctrines and literature they patronized daring the seventy years they were in power, [332] Mr. Courtenay's remark on those of the [17]th century, [272] ; attachment of literary men to them after the Devolution, [337] ; their fall on the accession of Anne, [351] [301] ; in the ascendant in [170] Queen Anne's dislike of them, [381] ; their dismissal by her, [381] ; their success in the administration of the government, [381] ; dissensions and reconstruction of the Whig government in [171]7, [430] ; enjoyed all the public patronage in the reign of George I., [4] [5] ; acknowledged the Duke of Newcastle as their leader, [8] ; their power and intiuence at the close of the reign of George II., [10] ; their support of the Brunswick dynasty, [15] ; division of them into two classes, old and young, [72] ; superior character of the young Whig school, [73] ; see Tories.
Whig and Tory, inversion of the meaning of, [131]
Whigs and Tories after the Devolution, [530] ; their relative condition in [171] [130] ; their essential characteristics, [2] ; their transformation in the reign of George I., [3] ; analogy presented by France, [4] ; subsidence of party spirit between them, [5] ; revival under Bute's administration of the animosity between them, [38]
Whitgift, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, his character, [353] ; his Calvinistic doctrines, [175]177; his zeal and activity against the Puritans, [330]
Wickliffe, John, juncture at which he rose, [312] ; his intiuence in England, Germany, and Bohemia, [313]
Wieland, [341]
Wilberforce, William, travels upon the Continent with Pitt, [242] ; opposes Fox's India bill, [245] [240] ; reelected to Parliament, [249] ; his efforts to suppress the slave-trade, [209] ; his intimate friendship with Pitt, [287] [297] ; his description of Pitt's speech against Hastings, [120]
Wilkes, John, conduct of the government with respect to his election for Middlesex, [535] ; his comparison of the mother of George III. to the mother of Edward [111] , [42] ; his persecution by the Grenville administration, [56] ; description of him, [56] ; his North Briton, [56] ; his committal to the Tower, [56] ; his discharge, [57] ; his Essay on Woman laid before the House of Lords, 511; tights a duel with one of Lord Bute's dependents, [60] ; flies to France, [60] ; is works ordered to be burnt by the hangman, and himself expelled the House of Commons, and outlawed, [60] ; obtains damages in an action tor the seizure of his papers, [61] ; returns from exile and is elected for Middlesex, [100] ; compared to Mirabeau, [72]
Wilkie, David, recollection of him at Holland House, [425] ; failed in portrait-painting, [319]
William III., low state of national prosperity and national character in his reign, [529] ; his feeling in reference to the Spanish succession, [102] ; unpopularity of his person and measures, [101] ; suffered under a complication of diseases, [101] ; his death, [102] ; limitation of his prerogatives, [103] ; compact with the Convention, [320] ; his habit of consulting Temple, [103] ; coalition which he formed against Lewis XIV. secretly favored by Home, [339] ; his vices not obtruded on the public eye. [392] ; his assassination planned, [394] Addison's Lines to him, [333] ; reference to him, [67]
Williams, Dean of Westminster, his services to Buckingham, and counsel to him and the king, [411] [416]
Williams, John, his character, [139] [270] ; employed by Hastings to write in his defence, [139]
Williams, Sir William, his character as a lawyer, [378] ; his view of the duty of counsel in conducting prosecutions, [378]
Wimbledon Church, Lord Burleigh attended mass at, [6]
Windham, Mr., his opinion of Sheridan's speech against Hastings, [122] ; his argument for retaining brands in the impeachment against Hastings, [123] ; his appearance at the trial, [12]S; his adherence to Burke, [136]
Wine, excess in, not a sign of ill-breeding in the reign of Queen Anne, [367]
"Wisdom of our ancestors," proper value of the plea of, [272]
Wit, Addison's compared with that of Cowley and Butler, [375]
Witt, John de, power with which he governed Holland, [32] ; his interview with Temple, [36] ; his manners, [36] [37] ; his confidence in Temple and deception by Charles' court, [47] ; his violent death, [51]
Wolfe, General, l'itt's panegyric upon, [213] ; his conquest of Quebec and death, [244] ; monument voted to him, [244]
Woman, source of the charm of her beauty, [74] ; her different treatment among the Greeks and the Romans, [83] [85] ; in the middle ages, [85] ; and among civilized nations generally, [33] [35]
Women, as agricultural laborers, [394] [395]
Women (the) of Dryden's comedies, [356] ; of his tragedies, [357] [358]
Woodfall, Mr., his dealings with Junius, [38]
Wordsworth, relative "correctness" of his poetry, [338] Byron's distaste for, [352] ; characteristics of his poems, [356] [362] ; his egotism, [82]
Works, public, employment of the public wealth in, [155] ; publie and private, comparative value of, [155]
Waiting, grand canon of, [76]
Wycherley, William, his literary merits and faults, [368] ; his birth, family, and education, [369] [370] ; age at which he wrote his plays, [370] [371] ; his favor with the Duchess of Cleveland, [372] [373] ; his marriage, [376] ; his embarrassments, [377] ; his acquaintance with Pope, [381] [383] ; his character as a writer, [384] 387; his severe handling by Collier, [599] ; analogy between him and Congreve, [410]