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B.
Baber, founder of the Mogul empire, [202]
Bacon, Lady, mother of Lord Bacon, [349]
Bacon, Lord, review of Basil Montagu's new edition of the works of, [336] [495] ; his mother distinguished as a linguist, [349] ; his early years, [352] [355] ; his services refused by government, [355] [356] ; his admission at Gray's Inn, [357] ; his legal attainments, [358] ; sat in Parliament in [159]3, [359] ; part he took in politics, [360] ; his friendship with the Earl of Essex, [305] [372] ; examination of his conduct to Essex, [373] [384] ; influence of King James on his fortunes, [383] ; his servility to Lord Southampton, [384] ; influence his talents had with the public, [386] ; his distinction in Parliament and in the courts of law, [388] ; his literary and philosophical works, [388] ; his "Novum Organum," and the admiration it excited, [388] ; his work of reducing and recompiling the laws of England, [389] ; his tampering with the judges on the trial of Peacham, [389] [394] ; attaches himself to Buckingham, [390] ; his appointment as Lord Keeper, [399] ; his share in the vices of the administration, [400] ; his animosity towards Sir Edward Coke, [405] [407] ; his town and country residences, [408] [409] ; his titles of Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, report against him of the Committee on the Courts of Justice, [413] ; nature of the charges, [413] [414] ; overwhelming evidence to them, [414] [410] ; his admission of his guilt, [410] ; his sentence, [417] ; examination of Mr. Montagu's arguments in his defence, [417] [430] ; mode in which he spent the last years of his life, [431] [432] ; chief peculiarity of his philosophy, [435] [447] ; his views compared with those of Plato, [448] [455] ; to what his wide and durable fame is chiefly owing, [403] ; his frequent treatment of moral subjects, [407] ; his views as a theologian, [409] ; vulgar notion of him as inventor of the inductive method, [470] ; estimate of his analysis of that method, [471] [479] ; union of audacity and sobriety in his temper, [480] ; his amplitude of comprehension, [481] [482] ; his freedom from the spirit of controversy, [484] ; his eloquence, wit, and similitudes, [484] ; his disciplined imagination. [487] ; his boldness and originality, [488] ; unusual development in the order of his faculties, [489] ; his resemblance to the mind of Burke, [489] ; specimens of his two styles, [490] [491] ; value of his Essays, [491] ; his greatest performance the first book of the Novum Organum, [492] ; contemplation of his life, [492] [495] ; his reasoning upon the principle of heat, [90] ; his system generally as opposed to the schoolmen, [78] [79] [103] ; his objections to the system of education at the Universities, [445]
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his character, [342] [448]
Baconian philosophy, its chief peculiarity, [435] ; its essential spirit, [439] ; its method and object differed from the ancient, [448] ; comparative views of Bacon and Plato, [448] [159] ; its beneficent spirit, [455] [458] [403] ; its value compared with ancient philosophy, [459] [471]
Baillie, Gen., destruction of his detachment by Hyder Ali, [72]
Balance of power, interest of the Popes in preserving it, [338]
Banim, Mr., his defence of James II. as a supporter of toleration, [304]
Banking operations of Italy ill the [14] ; century, [270]
Baptists, (the) Bunyan's position among, [140] [147]
Bar (the) its degraded condition in the time of James II., [520]
Barbary, work on, by Rev. Dr. Addison, [325]
Barbarians, Mitford's preference of Greeks, [190]
Barcelona, capture of, by Peterborough, [110]
Barère, Bertrand, Memoirs of, reviewed, [423] [539] ; opinions of the editors as to his character, [424] ; his real character, [425] [427] [429] [407] ; has hitherto found no apologist, [420] ; compared with Danton and Robespierre, [420] ; his natural disposition, [427] ; character of his memoirs, [429] [430] ; their mendacity, [431] [430] [445] ; their literary value, [430] ; his birth and education, [430] [437] ; his marriage, [438] ; first visit to Paris, [439] ; his journal, [439] ; elected a representative of the Third Estate, [440] ; his character as a legislator, [441] ; his oratory, [442] [471] [472] ; his early political opinions, [442] ; draws a report on the Woods and Forests, [443] ; becomes more republican, [443] ; on the dissolution of the National Assembly he is made a judge, [440] ; chosen to the Convention, [449] ; belongs to the Girondists, [455] ; sides with the Mountain in condemnation of the king, [450] [457] ; was really a federalist, [400] ; continues with the Girondists, [401] ; appointed upon the Committee of Public Safety, [403] ; made its Secretary, [403] ; wavers between the Girondists and the Mountain, [404] ; joins with the Mountain, [405] ; remains upon the Committee of Public Safety, [460] ; his relation to the Mountain, [400]-408; takes the initiative against the Girondists, [408] [409] ; moves the execution of Marie Antoinette, [409] ; speaks against the Girondists, [434] [435] [474] ; one of the Committee of Safety, [475] ; his part (luring the Reign of Terror. [482] [485] [487] ; his cruelties, 485, [480] ; life's pleasantries, [487] [488] ; his proposition to murder English prisoners, [490] [492] ; his murders, [495] [497] ; his part in the quarrels of the Committee, [497] [590] ; moves that Robespierre be put to death, [499] [500] ; cries raised against him, [504] ; a committee appointed to examine into his conduct, [505] ; his defence, [505] [50] ; condemned to imprisonment, [507] ; his journey to Orleans and confinement there, [507]509; removed to Saintes, [510] ; his escape, [510] ; elected a member of the Council of Five Hundred, [511] ; indignation of the members and annulling of the election, [511] [512] ; writes a work on the Liberty of the Seas. [512] ; threatened by the mob, [512] [513] ; his relations with Napoleon, [514] [518] [521] [527] ; a journalist and pamphleteer, [523] [524] ; his literary style, [525] ; his degradation, [527] ; his treachery, [528] ; becomes a royalist, [529] ; elected to the Chamber of Representatives, [529] ; banished from France, [531] ; his return, [531] ; involved in lawsuits with his family, [531] ; pensioned, [532] ; his death, [532] ; his character, [534] [535] [537] [539] ; his ignorance of England and her his, [530] ; his religious hypocrisy,
Baretti, his admiration for Miss Burney, [271]
Barilion, M. his pithy words on the new council proposed by Temple, [7] [70]
Barlow, Bishop, [370]
Barrington, Lord, [13]
Harwell, Mr., [35] ; his support of Hastings, [40] [54] [55] [2]
Baltic, Burke's declamations on its capture, [113]
Bathos, perfect instance of, to be found in Petrarch's 5th sonnet, [93]
Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies, Addison's, [331]
Bavaria, its contest between Protestantism and Catholicism, [326]
Baxter's testimony to Hampden's excellence, [430]
Bayle, Peter, [300]
Beatrice, Dante's, [1]
Beanclerk, Topliam, [204]
Beaumarchais, his suit before the parliament of Paris, [430] [431]
Beckford, Alderman, [90]
Bedford, Duke of, [11] ; his views of the policy of Chatham, [20] [41] ; presents remonstrance to George II [71]
Bedford, Earl of. invited by Charles I. to form an administration, [472]
Bedfords (the), [11] ; parallel between them and the Buckinghams, [73] ; their opposition to the Buckingham ministry on the Stamp Act, [79] ; their willingness to break with Grenville on Chatham's accession to office, [89] ; deserted Grenville and admitted to office, [110]
Bedford House assailed by a rabble, [70]
Begums of Oude, their domains and treasures, [80] ; disturbances in Oude imputed to them, [87] ; their protestations, [88] ; their spoliation charged against Hastings, [121]
Belgium, its contest between Protestantism and Catholicism, [326] [330]
Belial, [355]
Bell, Peter, Byron's spleen against, [353]
Bellasys, the English general, [107]
Bellingham, his malevolence, [309]
Belphegor (the), of Machiavelli, [299]
Benares, its grandeur, [74] ; its annexation to the British dominions, [84]
"Benefits of the death of Christ," [325]
Benevolences, Oliver St. John's opposition to, and Bacon's support of, [389]
Bengal, its resources, [228]
Bentham and Dumont, [38] [40] [153]
Bentham and his system, [53] [54] [59] 80, [87] [91] [115] 116, [121] [122] ; his language on the French revolution, [204] ; his greatness, [38] [40]
Bentinck, Lord William, his memory cherished by the Hindoos, [298]
Bentivoglio, Cardinal, on the state of religion in England in the [16]th century, [25]
Bentley, Richard, his quarrel with Boyle, and remarks on Temple's Essay on the Letters of Phalaris, [109] [111] [115] [119] ; his edition of Milton, [111] ; his notes on Horace, [111] ; his reconciliation with Boyle and Atterbury, [113] ; his apothegm about criticism, [119] [212]
Berar, occupied by the Bonslas, [59]
Berwick, Duke of, held the Allies in check, [109] ; his retreat before Galway, [119]
Bible (the), English, its literary style, [348]
Bickell, R. Rev., his work on Slavery in the West Indies, [330]
Bickerstaff, Isaac, astrologer, [374]
Billaud, [405] [475] [498] [499] [501] [504] [506] [508] [510]
Biographia Britannica, refutation of a calumny on Addison in, [417]
Biography, writers of contrasted with historians, [423] ; tenure by which they are bound to their subject, [103]
Bishops, claims of those of the Church of England to apostolical succession, [160]-174.
Black Hole of Calcutta described, [233] [234] ; retribution of the English for its horrors, [235] [239] [242] [245]
Blackmore, Sir Richard, his attainments in the ancient languages, [331]
Blackstone, [334]
Blasphemous publications, policy of Government in respect to, [171]
Blenheim, battle of, [354] Addison employed to write a poem in its honor, [355]
Blois, Addison's retirement to, [339]
"Bloombury Gang," the denomination of the Bedfords, [11]
Bodley, Sir Thomas, founder of the Bodleian Library, [388] [433]
Bohemia, influence of the doctrines of Wickliffe in, [313]
Boileau, Addison's intercourse with, [340] [341] ; his opinion of modern Latin, [341] ; his literary qualities, [343] ; his resemblance to Dryden, [373]
Bolingbroke, Lord, the liberal patron of literature, [400] ; proposed to strengthen the royal prerogative, [171] ; his jest on the occasion of the tirst representation of Cato, [392] Pope's perfidy towards him, [408] ; his remedy for the disease of the state, [23] [24]
Bombast, Dryden's, [361] [362] Shakspeare's, [361]
Bombay, its affairs thrown into confusion by the new council at Calcutta, [40]
Book of the Church, Southey's, [137]
Books, puffing of, [192] [198]
Booth played the hero in Addison's Cato on its tirst representation, [392]
Borgia, Cæsar, [301]
Boroughs, rotten, the abolition of, a necessary reform in the time of George I., [180]
Boswell, James, his character, [391] [397] [204] [205]
Boswell's Life of Johnson, by Crocker, review of, [368] [426] ; character of the work, [387]
Boswellism, [265]
Bourbon, the House of, their vicissitudes in Spain, [106] [130]
Bourne, Vincent, [5] [342] ; his Latin verses in celebration of Addison's restoration to health, [413]
Boyd, his translation of Dante, [78]
Boyer, President, [390]-392.
Boyle, Charles, his nominal editorship of the Letters of Phalaris, [108] [113] [119] ; his book on Greek history and philology, v.331.
Boyle, Rt. Hon. Henry, [355]
"Boys" (the) in opposition to Sir R. Walpole, [176]
Bracegirdle, Mis., her celebrity as an actress, [407] ; her intimacy with Congreve, [407]
Brahmins, [306]
"Breakneck Steps," Fleet Street, [157] ; note.
Breda, treaty of, [34]
Bribery, foreign, in the time of Charles II., [525]
Brihuega, siege of, [128]
"Broad Bottom Administration" (the), [220]
Brothers, his prophecies as a test of faith, [305] [306]
Brown, Launcelot, [284]
Brown's Estimate, [233]
Bruce, his appearance at Mr. Burney's concerts, [257]
Brunswick, the House of, [14]
Brussels, its importance as the seat of a vice-regal Court, [34]
Bridges, Sir Egerton, [303]
Buchanan, character of his writings, [447]
Buckhurst, [353]
Buckingham, Duke of, the "Steenie" of James [1] , [44] Bacon's early discernment of his influence, [330] [337] ; his expedition to Spain, 308; his return for Bacon's patronage, [333] ; his corruption, [402] ; his character and position, [402] [408] ; his marriage, [411] [412] ; his visit to Bacon, and report of his condition, [414]
Buckingham, Duke of, one of the Cabal ministry, [374] ; his fondness for Wycherley, [374] ; anecdote of, [374]
Budgell Eustace, one of Addison's friends, [308] [303] [371]
Bunyan, John, Life of, [132] [150] [252] [204] ; his birth and early life, [132] ; mistakes of his biographers in regard to his moral character, [133] [134] ; enlists in the Parliamentary army, [135] ; his marriage, [135] ; his religious experiences, [130]-138; begins to preach, [133] ; his imprisonment, [133] [141] ; his early writings, [141] [142] ; his liberation and gratitude to Charles II., [142] [143] ; his Pilgrim's Progress, [143] [140] ; the product of an uneducated genius, [57] [343] ; his subsequent writings, [14] ; his position among the Baptists, [140] [147] ; his second persecution, and the overtures made to him, [147] [148] ; his death and burial-place, [148] ; his fame, [14] [143] ; his imitators, [143] [150] ; his style, [200] ; his religious enthusiasm and imagery, [333] Southey's edition of his Pilgrim's Progress reviewed, [253] [207] ; peculiarities of the work, [200] ; not a perfect allegory, [257] [258] ; its publication, and the number of its editions, [145] [140]
Buonaparte. See Napoleon.
Burgoyne, Gen., chairman of the committee of inquiry on Lord Clive, [232]
Burgundy, Louis, Duke of, grandson of Louis XIV., iii. 02, 03.
Burke, Edmund, his characteristics, [133] ; his opinion of the war with Spain on the question of maritime right, [210] ; resembles Bacon, [483] ; effect of his speeches on the House of Commons, [118] ; not the author of the Letters of Junius, [37] ; his charges against Hastings, [104] [137] ; his kindness to Alisa Burney, [288] ; her incivility to him at Hastings' trial, [28] ; his early political career, [75] ; his first speech in the House of Commons, [82] ; his opposition to Chatham's measures relating to India, [30] ; his defence of his party against Grenville's attacks, [102] ; his feeling towards Chatham, [103] ; his treatise on "The Sublime," [142] ; his character of the French Republic, [402] ; his views of the French and American revolutions, [51] [208] ; his admiration of Pitt's maiden speech, [233] ; his opposition to Fox's India bill, [245] ; in the opposition to Pitt, [247] [243] ; deserts Fox, [273]
Burleigh and his Times, review of Lev. Dr. Xarea's, [1] [30] ; his early life and character, [3] [10] ; his death, [10] ; importance of the times in which he lived, [10] ; the great stain on his character, [31] ; character of the class of statesmen he belonged to, [343] ; his conduct towards Bacon, [355] [305] ; his apology for having resorted to torture, [333] Bacon's letter to him upon the department of knowledge he had chosen, [483]
Burnet, Bishop, [114]
Burney, Dr., his social position, [251] [255] ; his conduct relative to his daughter's first publication. [207] ; his daughter's engagement at Court, [281]
Burney, Frances. See D'Arblay, Madame.
Burns, Robert, [201]
Bussy, his eminent merit and conduct in India, [222]
Bute, Earl of, his character and education, [13] [20] ; appointed Secretary of State, [24] ; opposes the proposal of war with Spain on account of the family compact, [30] ; his unpopularity on Chatham's resignation, [31] ; becomes Prime Minister, [30] ; his first speech in the House of Lords, [33] ; induces the retirement of the Duke of Newcastle, [35] ; becomes first Lord of the Treasury, [35] ; his foreign and domestic policy, [37] [52] ; his resignation, [52] ; continues to advise the King privately, [57] [70] [79] ; pensions Johnson, [198] [199]
Butler, [350] Addison not inferior to him in wit, [375]
Byng, Admiral, his failure at Minorca. [232] ; his trial, [236] ; opinion of his conduct, [236] Chatham's defence of him, [237]
Byron, Lord, his epistolary style, [325] ; his character, [326] [327] ; his early life, [327] ; his quarrel with, and separation from, his wife, [329]331; his expatriation, [332] ; decline of his intellectual powers, [333] ; his attachment to Italy and Greece, [335] ; his sickness and death, [336] ; general grief for his fate, [336] ; remarks on his poetry, [336] ; his admiration of the Hope school of poetry, [337] : his opinion of Wordsworth and Coleridge, [352] ; of Deter Bell, [353] ; his estimate of the poetry of the [18]th and [19]th centuries, [353] ; his sensitiveness to criticism, [354] ; the interpreter between Wordsworth and the multitude, [356] ; the founder of an exoteric Lake, school, [356] ; remarks on his dramatic works, [357] [363] ; his egotism, [365] ; cause of his influence, [336] [337]
C.
Cabal (the), their proceedings and designs, [46] [54] [59]
Cabinets, in modern times, [65] [235]
Cadiz, exploit of Essex at the siege of, [107] [367] ; its pillage by the English expedition in [170] [108]
Cæsar Borgia, [307]
Cæsar, Claudius, resemblance of James I. to, [440]
Cæsar compared with Cromwell, [504] ; his Commentaries an incomparable model for military despatches, [404]
Cæsars (the), parallel between them and the Tudors, not applicable, [21]
Calcutta, its position on the Hoogley, [230] ; scene of the Black Hole of, [232] [233] ; resentment of the English at its fall, [235] ; again threatened by Surajah Dow lab, [239] ; revival of its prosperity, [251] ; its sufferings during the famine, [285] ; its capture, [8] ; its suburbs infested by robbers, [41] ; its festivities on Hastings's marriage, [56]
Callicles, [41] ; note.
Calvinism, moderation of Bunyan's, [263] ; held by the Church of England at the end of the [16] ; century, [175] ; many of its doctrines contained in the Paulieian theology, [309]
Cambon, [455]
Cambridge, University of, favored by George I. and George II., [36] [37] ; its superiority to Oxford in intellectual activity, [344] ; disturbances produced in, by the Civil War, [15]
Cambyses, story of his punishment of the corrupt judge, [423]
Camilla, Madame D'Arblay's, [314]
Campaign (the), by Addison, [355]
Canada, subjugation of, by the British in [176] [244]
Canning, Mr., [45] [46] [286] [411] [414] [419]
Cape Breton, reduction of, [244]
Carafla, Gian Pietro, afterwards Pope Paul, IV. his zeal and devotion, [318] [324]
Carlisle, Lady, [478]
Carmagnoles, Bariere's, [471] [472] [490] [491] [498] [499] [502] [505] [529]
Carnatic, (the), its resources, [211] [212] ; its invasion by Hvder Ali, [71] [72]
Carnot, Hippolyte, his memoirs of Barrere reviewed, [423] [539] ; failed to notice the falsehoods of his author, [430] [431] [435] [557] ; his charitableness to him, [445] [485] ; defends his proposition for murdering prisoners, [490] ; blinded by party spirit, [523] ; defends the Jacobin administration, [534] ; his general characteristics, [53] [539]
Carrier, [404]
Carteret, Lord, his ascendency at the fall of Walpole, [184] Sir Horatio Walpole's stories about him, [187] ; his detection from Sir Robert Walpole, [202] ; succeeds Walpole, [210] ; his character as a statesman, [218] [220]
Carthagena, surrender of the arsenal and ship of, to the Allies, [111]
Cary's translation of Dante, [68] [78] [70]
Casiua (the), of Ilautus, [298]
Castile. Admiral of, [100]
Castile and Arragon, their old institutions favorable to public liberty, [86]
Castilians, their character in the [16]th century, [81] ; their conduct in the war of the Succession, [121] ; attachment to the faith of their ancestors, [316]
Castracani, Castruccio, Life of, by Machiavelli, [317]
Cathedral, Lincoln, painted window in, [428]
Catholic Association, attempt of the Tories to put it down, [413]
Catholic Church. See Church of Home.
Catholicism, causes of its success, [301] [307] 318, [331] [336] ; the most poetical of all religions, [65]
Catholics, Roman, Pitt's policy respecting, [280] [281]
Catholics and dews, the same reasoning employed against both, [312]
Catholics and Protestants, their relative numbers in the [16]th century, [26]
Catholic Queen (a), precautions against, [487]
Catholic Question (the), [413] [410]
Catiline, his conspiracy doubted, [405] ; compared to the Popish Plot, [406]
"Cato," Addison's play of, its merits, and the contest it occasioned, [333] ; its first representation, [391] ; its performance at Oxford, [392] ; its deficiencies, [365] [366]
Cato, the censor, anecdote of, [354]
Catullus, his mythology, [75]
Cavaliers, their successors in the reign of George I. turned demagogues, [4]
Cavendish, Lord, his conduct in the new council of Temple, [96] ; his merits, [73]
Cecil. See Burleigh.
Cecil, Robert, his rivalry with Francis Bacon, [356] [365] ; his fear and envy of Essex, [362] ; increase of his dislike for Bacon, [365] ; his conversation with Essex, [365] ; his interference to obtain knighthood for Bacon, [384]
Cecilia, Madame D'Arblay's, [369] [311] ; specimen of its style, [315] [316]
Censorship, existed in some form from Henry VIII. to the Revolution, [329]
Ceres, [54] ; note.
Cervantes, [81] ; his celebrity, 80 the perfection of his art, [328] [329] ; fails as a critic, [329]
Chalmers, Dr., Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his defence of the Church, [122]
Champion, Colonel, commander of the Bengal army, [32]
Chandemagore, French settlement, on the Hoogley, [230] ; captured by the English, [239]
Charlemagne, imbecility of his successors, [205]
Charles, Archduke, his claim to the Spanish crown, [90] ; takes the field in support of it, [10] ; accompanies Peterborough in his expedition, [112] ; his success in the north-east of Spain, [117] ; is proclaimed king at Madrid, [119] ; his reverses and retreat, [123] ; his re-entry into Madrid, [126] ; his unpopularity, [127] ; concludes a peace, [131] ; forms an alliance with Philip of Spain, [138]
Charles I., lawfulness of the resistance to, [235] [243] Milton's defence of his execution, [246] [249] ; his treatment of the Parliament of [164] [457] ; his treatment of Stratford, [468] ; estimate of his character, [469] [498] [500] [443] ; his tall, [497] ; his condemnation and its consequences, [500] [501] Hampden's opposition to him, and its consequences, [443] [459] ; resistance of the Scots to him, [460] ; his increasing difficulties, [461] ; his conduct towards the House of Commons, [477] [482] ; his flight, [488] ; review of his conduct and treatment, [484] [488] ; reaction in his favor during the Long Parliament, [410] ; effect of the victory over him on the national character, [7] [8]
Charles I. and Cromwell, choice between, [490]
Charles II., character of his reign, [251] ; his foreign subsidies, [528] ; his situation in [100]0 contrasted with that of Lewis XVIII., [282] [283] ; his character, [290] [30] [80] ; his position towards the king of France, [290] ; consequences of his levity and apathy, [299] [300] ; his court compared with that of his father, [29] ; his extravagance, [34] ; his subserviency to France, [37] [44] [46] ; his renunciation of the dispensing power, [55] ; his relations with Temple, [58] [60] [63] [97] ; his system of bribery of the Commons, [71] ; his dislike of Halifax, [90] ; his dismissal of Temple, [97] ; his characteristics, [349] ; his influence upon English literature, [349] [350] ; compared with Philip of Orleans, Regent of France, [64] [65] Banyan's gratitude to him, [143] ; his social disposition, [374]
Charles II. of Spain, his unhappy condition, [88] [93] [100] ; his difficulties in respect to the succession, [88] [93]
Charles III. of Spain, his hatred of England, [29]
Charles VIII., [483]
Charles XII., compared with Clive, [297]
Charlotte, Queen, obtains the attendance of Miss Burney, [279] ; her partisanship for Hastings, [288] [290] ; her treatment of Miss Burney, [298] [297]
Chateaubriand, his remark about the person of Louis XIV., [58] ; note.
Chatham, Earl of, character of his public life, [196] [197] ; his early life, [198] ; his travels, [199] ; enters the army [199] ; obtains a seat in Parliament, [200] ; attaches himself to the Whigs in opposition, [207] ; his qualities as an orator, [211] [213] ; dismissed from the army, [215] ; is made Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, [161] ; declaims against the ministers, [218] ; his opposition to Carteret, [219] ; legacy left him by the Duchess of Marlborough, [219] ; supports the Pelham ministry, [220] ; appointed Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, [221] ; overtures made to him by Newcastle, [280] ; made Secretary of State, [235] ; defends Admiral Byng, [237] ; coalesces with the Duke of Newcastle, [230] ; success of his administration, [230]-250; his appreciation of Clive, [260] [289] ; breach between him and the great Whig connection, [289] ; review of his correspondence, [1] ; in the zenith of prosperity and glory, [221] [222] ; his coalition with Newcastle, [7] ; his strength in Parliament, [13] ; jealousies in his cabinet, [25] ; his defects, [26] ; proposes to declare war against Spain oil account of the family compact, [29] ; rejection of his counsel, [30] ; his resignation, [30] ; the king's gracious behavior to him, [30] ; public enthusiasm towards him, [31] ; his conduct in opposition, [33] [46] ; his speech against peace with France and Spain, [49] ; his unsuccessful audiences with George III. to form an administration, [58] Sir William Pynsent bequeaths his whole property to him, [63] ; bad state of his health, [64] ; is twice visited by the Duke of Cumberland with propositions from the king, [68] [72] ; his condemnation of the American Stamp Act, [77] [78] ; is induced by the king to assist in ousting Rockingham, [86] ; morbid state of his mind, [87] [88] [95] [99] ; undertakes to form an administration, [89] ; is created Earl of Chatham, [91] ; failure of his ministerial arrangements, [91] [99] ; loss of his popularity, and of his foreign influence, [99] ; his despotic manners, [89] [93] ; lays an embargo on the exportation of corn, [95] ; his first speech in the Mouse of Lords, [95] ; his supercilious conduct towards the Peers, [95] ; his retirement from office, [100] ; his policy violated, [101] ; resigns the privy seal, [100] ; stale of parties and of public affairs on his recovery, [100] [301] ; his political relations, [101] ; his eloquence not suited to the House of Lords, [104] ; opposed the recognition of the independence of the United States, [107] ; his last appearance in the House of Lords, [108] [22] ; his death, [100] [230] ; reflections on his fall, [100] ; his funeral in Westminster Abbey, lit.; compared with Mirabeau, [72] [73]
Chatham, Earl of, (the second), [230] ; made First Lord of the Admiralty, [270]
Cherbourg, guns taken from, [245]
Chesterfield, Lord, his dismissal by Walpole, [204] ; prospectus of Johnson's Dictionary addressed to him, [187] [188] ; pulls it in the World, [194]
Cheyte Sing, a vassal of the government of Cennigal, [75] ; his large revenue and suspected treasure, [79] Hastings's policy in desiring to punish him. [80] ; to [85] ; his treatment made the successful charge against Hastings, [118]
Chillingworth, his opinion on apostolical succession, [172] ; became a Catholic from conviction, [306]
Chinese (the) compared to the Homans under Diocletian, [415] [416]
Chinsurab, Dutch settlement on the Hoogley, [230] ; its siege by the English and capitulation. [259]
Chivalry, its form in Languedoc in the [12]th century, [308] [309]
Cholmondeley, Mrs., [271]
Christchurch College. Oxford, its repute after the Revolution, [108] ; issues a new edition of the Letters of Phalaris, [108] [116] [118] ; its condition under Atterbury, [121] [122]
Christianity, its alliance with the ancient philosophy, [444] ; light in which it was regarded hv the Italians at the Reformation, [316] ; its effect upon mental activity; [416]
Church (the), in the time of James II., [520]
Church (the), Southey's Hook of, [137]
Church, the English, persecutions in her name, [443] High and Low Church parties, [362] [119] [120]
Church of England, its origin and connection with the state, [452] [453] [190] ; its condition in the time of Charles [1] , [166] ; endeavor of the leading Whigs at the Revolution to alter its Liturgy and Articles, [321] [178] ; its contest with the Scotch nation, [322] Mr. Gladstone's work in defence of it, [116] ; his arguments for its being the pure Catholic Church of Christ, [161] [166] ; its claims to apostolical succession discussed, [166] [178] ; views respecting its alliance with the state, [183] [193] ; contrast of its operations during the two generations succeeding the Reformation, with those of the Church of Rome, [331] [332]
Church of Rome, its alliance with ancient philosophy, [444] ; causes of its success and vitality, [300] [301] ; sketch of its history, [307] [349]
Churchill, Charles, [519] [42] [200]
Cicero, partiality of Dr. Middleton towards, [340] ; the most eloquent and skilful of advocates, [340] ; his epistles in his banishment, [361] ; his opinion of the study of rhetoric, [472] ; as a critic, [142]
Cider, proposal of a tax on, by the Bute administration, [50]
Circumstances, effect of, upon character, [322] [323] [325]
"City of the Violet Crown," a favorite epithet of Athens, [36] ; note.
Civil privileges and political power identical, [311]
Civil War (the), Cowley and Milton's imaginary conversation about, [112] [138] ; its evils the price of our liberty, [243] ; conduct of the Long Parliament in reference to it, [470] [495] [496]
Civilization, only peril to can arise from misgovernment, [41] [42] England's progress in, due to the people, [187] ; modern, its influence upon philosophical speculation, [417] [418]
Clarendon, Lord, his history, [424] ; his character, [521] ; his testimony in favor of Hampden, [448] [468] [472] [41] [493] ; his literary merit, [338] ; his position at the head of affairs, [29] [31] [37] [38] ; his faulty style, [50] ; his opposition to the growing power of the Commons, [73] ; his temper, [74] ; the charge against Christ-Churchmen of garbling his history, [130]
Clarke, Dr. Samuel, [303]
Clarkson, Thomas, [309]
Classics, ancient, celebrity of, [139] ; rarely examined on just principles of criticism, [139] ; love of, in Italy in the [14]th century, [278]
Classical studies, their advantages and defects considered, [347] [354]
Clavering, General, [35] ; his opposition to Hastings, [40] [47] ; his appointment as Governor General, [54] ; his defeat, [56] ; his death, [57]
Cleveland, Duchess of, her favor to Wycherly and Churchill, [372] [373]
Clifford, Lord, his character, [47] ; his retirement, [55] [56] ; his talent for debate, [72]
Clive, Lord, review of Sir John Malcolm's Life of, [194] [298] ; his family and boyhood, [196] [197] ; his shipment to India, [198] ; his arrival at Madras and position there, [200] ; obtains an ensign's commission in the Company's service, [203] ; his attack, capture, and defence of Arcot, [215] [219] ; his subsequent proceedings, [220] [221] [223] ; his marriage and return to England,224; his reception, [225] ; enters Parliament, [226] ; return to India, [228] ; his subsequent proceedings, [228] [236] ; his conduct towards Ormichund, [238] [241] 247, [248] ; his pecuniary acquisitions, [251] ; his transactions with Meer Jaffier, [240] [246] [254] ; appointed Governor of the Company's possessions in Bengal, [255] ; his dispersion of Shah Alum's army, [256] [257] ; responsibility of his position, [259] ; his return to England, [260] ; his reception, [260] [261] ; his proceedings at the India House, [263] [265] [269] ; nominated Governor of the British possessions in Bengal. [270] ; his arrival at Calcutta, [270] ; suppresses a conspiracy, [275] [276] ; success of his foreign policy, [276] ; his return to England, [279] ; his unpopularity and its causes, [279] [285] ; invested with the Grand Cross of the Bath, [292] ; his speech in his defence, and its consequence, [289] [290] [292] ; his life in retirement, [291] ; reflections on his career, [296] ; failing of his mind, and death by his own hand, [296]
Clizia, Machiavelli's, [298]
Clodius, extensive bribery at the trial of, [421]
"Clouds" (the), of Aristophanes, [383]
Club-room, Johnson's, [425] [159]
Coalition of Chatham and Newcastle, [243]
Cobham, Lord, his malignity towards Essex, [380]
Coke, Sir E., his conduct towards Bacon, [357] [406] ; his opposition to Bacon in Peacham's case, [389] [390] ; his experience in conducting state prosecutions, [392] ; his removal from the Bench, [406] ; his reconciliation with Buckingham, and agreement to marry his daughter to Buckingham's brother, [406] ; his reconciliation with Bacon, [408] ; his behavior to Bacon at his trial, [427]
Coleridge, relative "correctness" of his poetry, [339] Byron's opinion of him, [352] ; his satire upon Pitt, [271]
Coligni, Caspar de, reference to, [67]
Collier, Teremy, sketch of his life, [393] [396] ; his publication on the profaneness of the English stage, [396] [399] ; his controversy with Congreve, [401]
Colloquies on Society, Southey's, [132] ; plan of the work. [141] [142]
Collot, D'llerbois, [475] [489] [49]S, [501] [504] [506] [508] [510]
Colonies, [83] ; question of the competency of Parliament to tax them, [77] [78]
Comedy (the), of England, effect of the writings of Congreve and Sheridan upon, [295]
Comedies, Dryden's, [360]
Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, [350]-411; how he exercised a great influence on the human mind, [351]
Conimes, his testimony to the good government of England, [434]
Commerce and manufactures, their extent in Italy in the 14th century, [270] ; condition of, during the war at the latter part of the reign of George II., [247]
Committee of Public Safety, the French, [403] [475] [503]
Commons, House of, increase of its power, [532] ; increase of its power by and since the Revolution, [325]
Commonwealth, [335]
Conceits of Petrarch, [89] [90] ; of Shakspeare and the writers of his age, [342] [344] [347]
Coudé, Marshal, compared with Clive, [237]
Condensation, had effect of enforced upon composition, [152]
Contians, Admiral, his defeat by Hawke, [245]
Congreve, his birth and early life, [387] ; sketch of his career at the Temple, [388] ; his "Old Bachelor," [389] "Double Dealer," [39] ; success of his "Love for Love," [391] ; his "Mourning Bride," [392] ; his controversy with Collier, [397] [400] [403] ; his "Way of the World," [403] ; his later years, [404] [405] ; his position among mem of letters, [400] ; his attachment to Mrs. Bracegirdle, [407] ; his friendship with the Duchess of Marlborough, [408] ; hi; death and capricious will, [408] ; his funeral in Westminster Abbey, [409] ; cenotaph to his memory at Stowe, [409] ; analogy between him and Wycherley, [410]
Congreve and Sheridan, effect of their works upon the comedy of England, [295] ; contrasted with Shakspeare, [295]
Conquests of the British arms in [175] [244] [245]
Constance, council of, put an end to the Wickliffe schism, [313]
Constantinople, mental stagnation in, [417]
Constitution (the), of England, in the [15]th and [18]th centuries, compared with those of other European states, [470] [477] ; the argument that it would he destroyed by admitting the dews to power, 307, [308] ; its theory in respect to the three branches of the legislature, [25] [20] [410]
Constitutional government, decline of. on the Continent, early in the [17]th century, [481]
Constitutional History of England, review of llaltam's, [433] [543]
Constitutional Royalists in the reign of Charles L, [474] [483]
Convention, the French, [449] [475]
Conversation, the source of logical inaccuracy, [148] [383] [384] ; imaginary, between Cowley and Milton touching the great Civil War, [112] [138]
Conway, Henry, vi. 02; Secretary of State under Lord Rockingham, [74] ; returns to his position under Chatham, [91] [95] ; sank into insignificance [100]
Conway, Marshal, his character, [200]
Cooke, Sir Anthony, his learning, [349]
Cooperation, advantages of. [184]
Coote, Sir Eyre, [1] ; his character and conduct in council, [62] ; his great victory of Porto Novo, [74]
Corah, ceded to the Mogul, [27]
Corday, Charlotte, [400]
Corneille, his treatment by the French Academy, [23]
"Correctness" in the fine arts and in the sciences, [339] [343] ; in painting. [343] ; what is meant by it in poetry, [339] [343]
Corruption, parliamentary, not necessary to the Tudors, [108] ; its extent in the reigns of George I. and II. [21] [23]
Corsica given up to France, [100]
Cossimbazar, its situation and importance, [7]
Cottabus, a Greek game, [30] ; note.
Council of York, its abolition, [409]
Country Wife of Wycherley, its character and merits, [370] ; whence borrowed, [385]
Courtenay, Rt. Hon. T. P., review of his Memoirs of Sir William Temple, [115] ; his concessions to Dr. Lingard in regard to the Triple Alliance, [41] ; his opinion of Temple's proposed new council, [65] ; his error as to Temple's residence, [100]
Cousinhood, nickname of the official members of the Temple family, [13]
Covenant, the Scotch, [460]
Covenanters, (the), their conclusion of treaty with Charles I., [460]
Coventry, Lady, [262]
Cowley, dictum of Denham concerning him, [203] ; deficient in imagination, [211] ; his wit, [162] [375] ; his admiration of Bacon, [492] [493] ; imaginary conversation between him and [21] ; about the Civil War, [112] [138]
Cowper, Earl, keeper of the Great Seal, [361]
Cowper, William, [349] ; his praise of Pope, [351] ; his friendship with Warren Hastings, [5] ; neglected, [261]
Cox, Archdeacon, his eulogium on Sir Robert Walpole, [173]
Coyer, Abbé, his imitation of Voltaire, [377]
Crabbe, George, [261]
Craggs, Secretary, [227] ; succeeds Addison, [413] Addison dedicates his works to him, [418]
Cranmer, Archbishop, estimate of his character, [448] [449]
Crebillon, the younger, [155]
Crisis, Steele's, [403]
Crisp, Samuel, his early career, [259] ; his tragedy of Virginia, [261] ; his retirement and seclusion, [264] ; his friendship with the Burneys, [265] ; his gratification at the success of Miss Burney's first work, [269] ; his advice to her upon her comedy, [273] ; his applause of her "Cecilia," [275]
Criticism, Literary, principles of, not universally recognized, [21] ; rarely applied to the examination of the ancient classics, [139] ; causes of its failure when so applied, [143] ; success in, of Aristotle, [140] Dionysius, [141] Quintilian, [141] [142] Longinus, [142] [143] Cicero, [142] ; ludicrous instance of French criticism, [144] ; ill success of classical scholars who have risen above verbal criticism, [144] ; their lack of taste and judgment, [144] ; manner in which criticism is to be exercised upon oratorical efforts, [149] [151] ; criticism upon Dante, [55] [79] Petrarch, [80]-99; a rude state of society, favorable to genius, but not to criticism, [57] [58] [325] ; great writers are bad critics, [76] [328] ; effect of upon poetry, [338] ; its earlier stages, [338] [339] ; remarks on Johnson's code of, [417]
Critics professional, their influence over the reading public, [196]
Croker, Mr., his edition of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, reviewed, [368] [426]
Cromwell and Charles, choice between, [496]
Cromwell and Napoleon, remarks on Mr. Hallam's parallel between, [504] [510]
Cromwell, Henry, description of, [17]
Cromwell, Oliver, his elevation to power, [502] ; his character as a legislator, [504] ; as a general, [504] ; his administration and its results, [509] [510] ; embarked with Hampden for America, but not suffered to proceed, [459] ; his qualities, [496] ; his administration, [286] [292] ; treatment of his remains, [289] ; his ability displayed in Ireland, [25] [27] ; anecdote of his sitting for his portrait, [2]
Cromwell, Richard, [15]
Crown (the) veto by, on Acts of Parliament, [487] [488] ; its control over the army, [489] ; its power in the [16]th century, [15] ; curtailment of its prerogatives, [169] [171] ; its power predominant at beginning of the [17]th century, [70] ; decline of its power during the Pensionary Parliament, [71] ; its long contest with the Parliament put an end to by the Revolution, [78] ; see also Prerogative.
Crusades (the), their beneficial effect upon Italy, [275]
Crusoe, Robinson, the work of an uneducated genius, [57] ; its effect upon the imaginations of children, [331]
Culpeper, Mr., [474]
Cumberland, the dramatist, his manner of acknowledging literary merit, [270]
Cumberland, Duke of, [260] ; the confidential friend rif Henry Fox, [44] ; confided in by George II., [67] ; his character, * [67] ; mediated between the King and the Whigs, [68]
D.
Dacier, Madame, [338]
D'Alembert, [23] Horace Walpole's opinion of him, [156]
Dallas, Chief Justice, one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial, [27]
Dauby, Earl, His connection with Temple, abilities and character, [57] ; impeached and sent to the Tower; owed his office and dukedom to his talent in debate, [72]
Danger, public, a certain amount of, will warrant a retrospective law, [470]
Dante, criticism upon, [55] [79] ; the earliest and greatest writer of his country, [55] ; first to attempt composition in the Italian language, [56] ; admired in his own and the following age, [58] ; but without due appreciation, [59] [329] [330] ; unable to appreciate himself, [58] Simon's remark about him, [58] ; his own age unable to comprehend the Divine Comedy, [59] ; bad consequence to Italian literature of the neglect of his style down to the time of Alfieri, [60] [61] ; period of his birth, [62] ; characteristics of his native city, [63] [64] ; his relations to his age, [66] ; his personal history, [60] ; his religious fervor, his gloomy temperament, [67] ; his Divine Comedy, [67] [220] [277] ; his description of Heaven inferior to those of Hell or Purgatory, [67] ; his reality, the source of his power, [68] [69] ; compared with Milton, [68] [69] [220] ; his metaphors and comparisons, [70] [72] ; little impressed by the forms of the external world, [72] [74] ; dealt mostly with the sterner passions, [74] ; his use of the ancient mythology, [75] [76] ; ignorant of the Greek language, [76] ; his style, [77] [78] ; his translators, [78] ; his admiration of writers inferior to himself, [329] ; of Virgil, [329] "correctness," of his poetry, [338] ; story from, [3]
Danton, compared with Barere, [426] ; his death, [481] [482]
D'Arblay, Madame, review of her Diary and Letters, [248] [320] ; wide celebrity of her name, [248] ; her Diary, [250] ; her family, [250] [251] ; her birth and education, [252] [254] ; her father's social position, [254]- [257] ; her first literary efforts, [258] ; her friendship with Mr. Crisp, [259] [265] ; publication of her "Evelina," [266] [268] ; her comedy, "The Witlings," [273] [274] ; her second novel, "Cecilia," [275] ; death of her friends Crisp and Johnson, [275] [276] ; her regard for Mrs. Dernny. [276] ; her interview with the king and queen, [277] [278] ; accepts the situation of keeper of the robes, [279] ; sketch of her life in this position, [279] [287] ; attends at Warren Hastings' trial, [288] ; her espousal of the cause of Hastings, [288] ; her incivility to Windham and Burke, [288] [289] ; her sufferings during her keepership, [290] [294] [300] ; her marriage, and close of the Diary, [301] ; publication of "Camilla," [302] ; subsequent events in her life, [302] [303] ; publication of "The Wanderer," [303] ; her death, [303] ; character of her writings, [303] [318] ; change in her style, [311] [314] ; specimens of her three styles, [315] [316] ; failure of her later works, [318] ; service she rendered to the English novel, [319] [320]
Dashwood, Sir Francis, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Bute, [36] ; his inefficiency, [51]
David, d'Angers, his memoirs of Barère reviewed, [423] [539]
Davies, Tom, [384]
Davila, one of Hampden's favorite authors, [450]
Davlesford, site of the estate of the Hastings family, [5] ; its purchase and adornment by Hastings, [142]
De Angmentis Scientiarium, by Bacon, [388] [433]
Debates in Parliament, effects of their publication, [538]
Debt, the national, effect of its abrogation, [153] England's capabilities in respect to it, [186]
Declaration of Bight, [317] "Declaration of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert Earl of Essex," by Lord Macon, [373]
Dedications, literary, more honest than formerly, [191]
Defoe, Daniel, [57]
De. Guignes, [256]
Delany, Dr., his connection with Swift, [276] ; his widow, and her favor with the royal family, [276] [277]
Delhi, its splendor during the Mogul empire, [204]
Delium. battle of, [21]
Demerville, [521]
Democracy, violence in its advocates induces reaction, [11] ; pure, characteristics of, [513] [514]
Democritus the reputed inventor of the arch, [438] Macon's estimate of him, [439]
Demosthenes, Johnson's remark, that he spoke to a people of brutes, [146] ; transcribed Thucydides six times, [147] ; he and his contemporary orators compared to the Italian Condottieri, [156] Mitford's misrepresentation of him, [191] [193] [195] 197; perfection of his speeches, [376] ; his remark about bribery, [428]
Denham, dictum of, concerning Cowley, [203] ; illustration from, [61]
Denmark, contrast of its progress to the retrogression of Portugal, [340]
Dennis, John, his attack upon Addison's "Plato", [393] Pope's narrative of his Frenzy, [394] [395]
"Deserted Village" (the), Goldsmith's, [162] [163]
Desmoulin's Camille, [483]
Devonshire, Duchess of, [126]
Devonshire, Duke of, forms an administration after the resignation of Newcastle, [235] Lord Chamberlain under Bute, [38] ; dismissed from his lord-lieutenancy, [47] ; his son invited to court by the king, [71]
Dewey, Dr., his views upon slavery in the West Indies, [393] [401]
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, reviewed, [248] [320]
Dice, [13] ; note.
Dionvsius, of Halicarnassus, [141] [413]
Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, [178] [143]
Discussion, free, its tendency, [167]
Dissent, its extent in the time of Charles I., [168] ; cause of, in England, [333] ; avoidance of in the Church of Rome, [334] ; see also Church of England.
Dissenters (the), examination of the reasoning of Mr. Gladstone for their exclusion from civil offices, [147] [155]
Disturbances, public, during Grenville's administration, [70]
Divine Right, [236]
Division of labor, its necessity, [123] ; illustration of the effects of disregarding it, [123]
Dodington, Mubb, [13] ; his kindness to Johnson, [191]
Donne, John, comparison of his wit with Horace Walpole's, [163]
Dorset, the Earl of, [350] ; the patron of literature in the reign of Charles IL, [400] [376]
Double Dealer, by Congreve, its reception, [390] ; his defence of its profaneness, [401]
Dougan, John, his report on the captured negroes, [362] ; his humanity, [363] ; his return home and death, [363] Major Morly's charges against him.
Dover, Lord, review of his edition of Horace Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Maim, [143] [193] ; see Walpole, Sir Horace.
Dowdeswell, Mr., Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Rockingham, [74]
Drama (the), its origin in Greece, [216] ; causes of its dissolute character soon after the Restoration, [366] ; changes of style which it requires, [365]
Dramas, Greek, compared with the English plays of the age of Elizabeth, [339]
Dramatic art, the unities violated in all the great masterpieces of, [341]
Dramatic literature shows the state of contemporary religious opinion, [29]
Dramatic Works (the), of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, review of Leigh Hunt's edition of, [350, ] [411]
Dramatists of the Elizabethan age, characteristics of, [344] [346] ; manner in which they treat religious subjects, [211]
Drogheda, Countess of, her character, acquaintance with Wycherley, and marriage, [370] ; its consequences, [377]
Dryden, John, review of his works, [321] [370] ; his rank among poets, [321] ; highest in the second rank of poets, 317; his characteristics, [821] ; his relations to his times, [321] [322] [351] ; greatest of the critical poets, [351] [317] ; characteristics of the different stages in his literary career, [352] ; the year [107]8 the date of the change in his manner, [352] ; his Annus Mirabilis, [353] [355] ; he resembles Lucan. [355] ; characteristics of his rhyming plays, [355] [301] 308; his comic characters, [350] ; the women of his comedies, [350] ; of his tragedies, [357] 358; his tragic characters, [350] [357] ; his violations of historical propriety, [358] ; and of nature, [351] ; his tragicomedies, [351] ; his skill in the management of the heroic couplets, [300] ; his comedies, [300] ; his tragedies, [300] 301; his bombast, [301] [302] ; his imitations of the earlier dramatists unsuccessful, [302] [304] ; his Song of the Fairies. [304] ; his second manner, [305] [307] ; the improvement in his plays, [305] ; his power of reasoning in verse, [300] [308] ; ceased to write for the stage, [307] ; after his death English literature retrograded, [307] ; his command of language, [307] ; excellences of his style, [308] ; his appreciation of his contemporaries, [309] ; and others, [381] ; of Addison and of Milton, [309] [370] ; his dedications, [309] [370] ; his taste, [370] [371] ; his carelessness, [371] ; the Hind and the Panther, [371] [372] Absalom and Ahithophel, [372] [83] [85] ; his resemblance to Juvenal and to Boileau, [372] [373] ; his part in the political disputes of his times, [373] ; the Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, [374] ; general characteristics of his style, [374] [375] ; his merits not adequately appreciated in his own day, [191] ; alleged improvement in English poetry since his time, [347] ; the connecting link of the literary schools of James I. and Anne, [355] ; his excuse for the indecency and immorality of his writings, [355] ; his friendship for Congreve and lines upon his Double Dealer, [390] ; censured by Collier, [398] [400] Addison's complimentary verses to him, [322] ; and critical preface to his translation of the Georgies, [335] ; the original of his Father Dominic, [290]
Dublin, Archbishop of, his work on Logic, [477]
Dumont, [51] , his Recollections of Mirabeau reviewed, [37] [74] ; his general characteristics, [37] [41] ; his view's upon the French Revolution, [41] [43] [44] [40] ; his services in it, [47] ; his personal character, [74] ; his style, [73] [74] ; his opinion that Burke's work on the French Revolution had saved Europe, [44] [204] ; as the interpreter of Ilentham, [38] [40] [153]
Dundas, Sir., his character, and hostility to Hastings, [108] [120] ; eulogizes Pitt, [234] ; becomes his most useful assistant in the House of Commons, [247] ; patronizes Burns, [231]
"Duodecim Seriptre," a Roman game, [4] ; note.
Dupleix, governor of Pondicherry, his gigantic schemes for establishing French influence in India, [202] [209] [212] [220] [222] [228] ; his death, [228] [294]
Duroc, [522]
E.
East India Companv, its absolute authority in India, [240] ; its condition when Clive lirst went to India, [198] [200] ; its war with the French East India Companv, [202] ; increase of its power, [220] ; its factories in Bengal, [230] ; fortunes made by its servants in Bengal, [205] [200] ; its servants transferred into diplomatists and generals, [8] ; nature of its government and power, [10] [17] ; rights of the Nabob of Oude over Benares ceded to it [75] ; its financial embarrassments, [80] Fox's proposed alteration in its charter, [244] [247]
Ecclesiastical commission (the), [100]
Ecclesiastics, fondness of the old dramatists for the character of, [29]
Eden, pictures of, in old Bibles, [343] ; painting of, by a gifted master, [343]
Edinburgh, comparison of with Florence, [340]
Education in England in the [18]th century, [354] ; duty of the government in promoting it, [182] [183] ; principles of should be progressive, [343] [344] ; characteristics of in the Universities, [344] [345] [355] [300] ; classical, its advantages and defects discussed, [340] ; to: [354]
Education in Italy in the [14]th century, [277]
Egerton, his charge of corruption against Bacon, [413] Bacon's decision against him after receiving his present, [430]
Egotism, why so unpopular in conversation, and so popular in writing, [81] [82] [305]
Elephants, use of, in war in India, [218]
Eleusinian mysteries, [49] [54] Alcibiades suspected of having assisted at a mock celebration of, [49] ; note; crier and torch-bearer important functionaries at celebration of, [53] ; note.
"Eleven" (the), police of Athens, [34] ; note.
Eliot, Sir John, [440]-448; his treatise oil Government, [449] ; died a martyr to liberty, [451]
Elizabeth (Queen), fallacy entertained respecting the persecutions under her, [439] [441] ; her penal laws, [441] ; arguments in favor of, on the head of persecution, apply with more force to Mary, [450] ; to: [452] ; condition of the working classes in her reign, [175] [437] ; her rapid advance of Cecil, [8] ; character of her government, [10] [18] [22] [32] ; a persecutor though herself indifferent, [31] [32] ; her early notice of Lord Bacon, [353] ; her favor towards Essex, [301] ; factions at the close of her reign, [302] [363] [382] ; her pride and temper, [370] [397] ; and death, [383] ; progress ill knowledge since her days, [302] ; her Protestantism, [328] [29]
Ellenborough, Lord, one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial, [127] ; his proclamations, [472]
Ellis, W., [235]
Elphinstone, Lord, [298]
Elwood, Milton's Quaker friend, allusion to, [205]
Emigration of Puritans to America, [459]
Emigration from England to Ireland under Cromwell, [20]
Empires, extensive, often more flourishing alter a little pruning, [83]
England, her progress in civilization due to the people, [190] ; her physical and moral condition in the [15]th century, [434] [435] ; never so rich and powerful as since the loss of her American colonies, [83] ; conduct of, in reference to the Spanish succession, [103] [104] ; successive steps of her progress, [279] [281] ; influence of her revolution on the human race, [281] [321] ; her situation at the Restoration compared with France at the restoration of Louis XVIII., [282] [284] ; her early situation, [290] [293] [301] ; character of her public men at the latter part of the [17]th century, [11] ; difference in her situation under Charles II., and under the Protectorate, [32] ; her fertility in heroes and statesmen, [170] ; how her history should be written by a perfect historian, [428] [432] ; characteristics of her liberty, [399] ; her strength contrasted with that of France, [24] ; condition of her middle classes, [423] [424]
English (the), in the [10]th century a free people, [18] [19] ; their character, [292] [300]
English language, [308]
English literature of that age, [341] [342] ; effect of foreign influences upon, [349] [350]
English plays of the ago of Elizabeth, [344] [340] [339] "Englishman," Steele's, [403]
Enlightenment, its increase in the world not necessarily unfavorable to Catholicism, [301]
Enthusiasts, dealings of the Church of Rome and the Church of England with them, [331] [330]
Epicureans, their peculiar doctrines, [443]
Epicurus, the lines on his pedestal, [444]
Epistles, Petrarch's, i. 08, [99] ; addressed to the dead and the unborn, [99]
Epitaphs, Latin, [417]
Epithets, use of by Homer, [354] ; by the old ballad-writers, [354]
Ereilla, Alonzo de, a soldier as well as a poet, [81]
Essay on Government, by Sir William Temple, [50] ; by James Mills, [5] [51]
Essays, Bacon's, value of them, [311] [7] [388] [433] [481] [491]
Essex, Earl of, [30] ; his character, popularity and favor with Elizabeth, [301] [304] [373] ; his political conduct, [304] ; his friendship for Bacon, [305] [300] [373] [397] ; his conversation with Robert Cecil, [305] ; pleads for Bacon's marriage with Lady Hatton, [308] [400] ; his expedition to Spain, [307] ; his faults, [308] [309] [397] ; decline of his fortunes, [308] ; his administration in Ireland, [309] Bacon's faithlessness to him, [309] [371] ; his trial and execution, [371] [373] ; ingratitude of Bacon towards him, [309] [380] [398] ; feeling of King James towards him, [384] ; his resemblance to Buckingham, [397]
Essex, Earl of, (Ch. I.,) [489] [491]
Etherege. Sir George, [353]
Eugene of Savoy, [143]
Euripides, his mother an herb-woman, [45] ; note; his lost plays, [45] ; quotation from, [50] [51] ; attacked for the immorality of one of his verses, [51] ; note; his mythology, [75] Quintilian's admiration of him, [141] Milton's, [217] ; emendation of a passage of, [381] ; note; his characteristics, [352]
Europe, state of, at the peace of Utrecht, [135] ; want of union in, to arrest the designs of Lewis XIX., [35] ; the distractions of, suspended for a short time by the treaty of Nimeguen, [60] ; its progress during the last seven centuries, [307]
Evelina, Madame D'Arblay's, specimen of her style from, [315] [310]
Evils, natural and national, [158]
Exchequer, fraud of the Cabal ministry in closing it, [53]
Exclusiveness of the Greeks, [411] [412] ; of the Romans, [413] [410]
F.
Fable (a), of Pilpay, [188]
Fairfax, reserved for him and Cromwell to terminate the civil war, [491]
Falkland, Lord, his conduct in respect to the bill of attainder against Strafford, [400] ; his character as a politician, [483] ; at the head of the constitutional Royalists, [474]
Family Compact (the), between France and Spain, [138] [29]
Fanaticism, not altogether evil, [64]
Faust, [303]
Favorites, royal, always odious, [38]
Female Quixote (the), [319]
Fenelon, the nature of and standard of morality in his Telemachus, [359]
Ferdinand II., his devotion to Catholicism, [329]
Ferdinand VII., resemblance between him and Charles I. of England, [488]
Fictions, literary, [267]
Fidelity, touching instance of, in the Sepoys towards Clive, [210]
Fielding, his contempt for Richardson, [201] ; case from his "Amelia," analogous to Addison's treatment of Steele, [370] ; quotation from, illustrative of the effect of Garrick's acting, [332]
Filieaja Vincenzio, [300]
Finance, Southev's theory of, [150]- [155]
Finch, Chief Justice to Charles I., [450] ; tied to Holland, [409]
Fine Arts (the), encouragement of, in Italy, in the [14]th century, [277] ; causes of their decline in England after the civil war, [157] ; government should promote them, [184]
Fletcher, the dramatist, [350] [308] [352]
Fletcher, of Saltona, [388] [389]
Florence, [63] [64] ; difference between a soldier of, and one belonging to a standing army, [61] ; state of, in the [14]th century, [276]-277; its History, by Maehiavelli, [317] ; compared with Edinburgh, [340]
Fluxions, [324]
Foote, Charles, his stage character of an Anglo-Indian grandee, [282] ; his mimicry, [305] ; his inferiority to Garrick, [306]
Forms of government, [412] [413]
Fox, the family of, [414] [415]
Fox, Henry, sketch of his political character, [224] [229] [415] ; directed to form an administration in concert with Chatham, [235] ; applied to by Bute to manage the House of Commons, [43] [44] ; his private and public qualities, [45] ; became leader of the House of Commons, [46] ; obtains his promised peerage, [54] ; his unpopularity, [417]
Fox, Charles James, comparison of his History of James II. with Mackintosh's History of the Revolution, [252] ; his style, [254] ; characteristic of his oratory, [25]G; contrasted with that of Pitt, [25]G; his bodily and mental constitution, [415] [417] [232] ; his championship of arbitrary measures, and defiance of public opinion, [418] ; his change after the death of his father, [418] ; clamor raised against his India Bill, and his defence of it, [107] [244] 246; his alliance with Burke, and call for peace with the American republic, [110] ; his powerful party, [114] ; his conflicts with Pitt, [115] ; his motion on the charge against Hastings respecting his treatment of Cheyte Sing, [117] ; his appearance on the trial of Hastings, [127] [128] ; his rupture with Burke, [136] ; introduces Pitt, when a youth, in the House of Lords, and is struck with his precocity, [229] ; his admiration of Pitt's maiden speech, [233] ; puts up his name at Brookes's, [233] ; becomes Secretary of State, [235] ; resigns, [237] ; forms a coalition with North, [238] [241] Secretary of State, but in reality Prime Minister, [241] ; loses popularity, [243] ; resigns, [246] ; leads the opposition, [247] ; maintains the constitutional doctrine in regard to impeachments, 269, [270] ; fails to lead his party to favor the French Revolution, [273] ; his retirement from political life, [278] [284] ; opposes Pitt in regard to declaring war against France, [288] ; combines with him against Addington, [290] ; the king refuses to take him as a minister, [291] ; his generous feeling towards Pitt, [296] ; opposes the motion for a public funeral to Pitt, [297]
Fragments of a Roman 'Pale, [1] [19]
France, her history from the time of Louis XIV. to the Revolution, [63] [68] ; from the dissolution of the National Assembly to the meeting of the Convention, [446] [449] ; from the meeting of the Convention to the Reign of Terror, [449]475; during the Reign of Terror, [475] [500] ; from the Revolution of the ninth of Thermidor to the Consulate, [500]-513; under Napoleon, [513] [528] ; illustration from her history since the revolution, [514] ; her condition in [171]2 and [183] [134] ; her state at the restoration of Louis XVIII., [283] ; enters into a compact with Spain against England, [29] ; recognizes the independence of the United States, [105] ; her strength contrasted with that of England, [24] ; her history during the hundred days, [529] [530] ; after the Restoration, [429]
Francis, Sir Philip, councillor under the Regulating Act for India, [35] ; his character and talents, [35] 36; probability of his being the author of the Letters of Junius, [36] ; to: [39] ; his opposition to Hastings, [40] [56] ; his patriotic feeling, and reconciliation with Hastings, [62] ; his opposition to the arrangement with Sir Elijah Impey, [69] ; renewal of his quarrel with Hastings, [69] ; duel with Hastings, [70] ; his return to England, [74] ; his entrance into the House of Commons and character there, [109] [117] ; his speech on Mr. Fox's motion relating to Cheyte Sing, [118] ; his exclusion from the committee on the impeachment of Hastings, [123] [124]
Francis, the Emperor, [14]
Franklin, Benjamin, Dr., his admiration for Miss Burney, [211]
Franks, rapid fall after the death of Charlemagne, [205] [200]
Frederic I., [150]
Frederic II., iv. 011.
Frederic the Great, review of his Life and Times, by Thomas Campbell, [148] [248] ; notice of the House of Brandenburgh, [140] ; birth of Frederic, [152] ; his lather's conduct to him, [153] ; his taste for music, [153] ; his desertion from his regiment. [155] ; his imprisonment, [155] ; his release, [155] ; his favorite abode, [150] ; his amusements, [150] ; his education, [157] ; his exclusive admiration for French writers, [158] ; his veneration for the genius of Voltaire, [100] ; his correspondence with Voltaire, [101] ; his accession to the throne, [102] ; his character little understood, [103] ; his true character, [103] [104] ; he determines to invade Silesia, [100] ; prepares for war, [108] ; commences hostilities, [108] [105] ; his perfidy, [109] ; occupies Silesia, [171] ; his first battle, [171] ; his change of policy, [174] ; gains the battle of Chotusitz, [174] Silesia ceded to him, [175] ; his whimsical conferences with Voltaire, [170] ; recommences hostilities, [177] ; his retreat from Bohemia, [177] ; his victory at Hohenlfiedberg, [178] ; his part in the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, [179] ; public opinion respecting his political character, [179] ; his application to business, [179] ; his bodily exertions, [180] [181] ; general principles of his government, [182] ; his economy, [183] ; his character as an administrator, [184] ; his labors to secure to his people cheap and speedy justice, [185] ; religious persecution unknown under his government, [180] ; vices of his administration, [180] ; his commercial policy, [187] ; his passion for directing and regulating, [187] ; his contempt for the German language, [188] ; his associates at Potsdam, [189] [190] ; his talent for sarcasm, [192] ; invites Voltaire to Berlin, [190] ; their singular friendship, [197] ; seq.; union of France, Vustna and Saxony, against him, [212] ; he anticipates his ruin, [213] ; extent of his peril, [217] ; he occupies Saxony, [217] ; defeats Marshal Bruwn at Lowositz, [218] ; gains the battle of Prague, [219] ; loses the battle of Kolin, [220] ; his victory, [229] ; its effects, [231] ; his subsequent victories, [232] [248]
Frederic William I., [150] ; his character, [150] ; his ill-regululated mind, [151] ; his ambition to form a brigade of giants, [151] ; his feeling about his troops, [152] ; his hard and savage temper, [152] ; his conduct to his son Frederic, [153] [155] ; his illness and death, [102]
Free inquiry, right of, in religious matters, [102] [103]
French Academy (the), [23] ; seq.
French Republic, Burke's character of, [402]
French Revolution (the). See Revolution, the French.
Funds, national. See National Debt.
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]