Shaftsbury, Lord, his system contrary to the author’s, [205].
Refuted by his own character, [210].
Remarks upon him for jesting with revealed religion, [292], [519].
For holding joke and banter to be the best and surest touchstone to try the worth of things by, [296].
For pretending to try the scriptures by that test, ibid.
Was the first who held that virtue required no self-denial, [337].
Encomiums on him, [296], [519].
Shame, a definition of it, [27].
What makes us ashamed of the faults of others, [28].
The symptoms of it, [29].
The usefulness of it to make us sociable, [30] to [33].
Its real passion in our nature, [328].
The struggle between the fear of it and that of death, is the cause of the great concern of men of honour, in the affair of duelling, [325], [328].
The same fear of shame that may produce the most worthy actions, may be the cause of the most heinous crimes, [349].
Shame, the sense of, the use that is made of it in the education of children, [315].
Is not to be augmented without increasing pride, ibid.
Ships are the contrivance of many ages,361.
Who has given the rationale of working and steering them, [362], [363].
Simile, a, to illustrate the treatment that has been given to the Fable of the Bees, [333], [335].
Sighing described, [373].
Signs and gestures, the significancy of them, [466], [467].
Confirm words, [469].
Would not be left off after the invention of speech, ibid.
Added to words are more persuading than speech alone, ibid.
Sociable, man not so from his good qualities, [213], to [219].
What it is that makes us sociable, ibid.
Sociableness, the love of our species not the cause of it, [387], [391].
Erroneous opinions about it, [388], [389].
Reasons commonly given for man’s sociableness, ibid.
Great part of man’s sociableness is lost if neglected in his youth [390].
What it consists in, [392], [393], [394].
The principle of it is the work of Providence, [393].
Mutual commerce is to man’s sociableness what fermentation is to the vinosity of wine, [395].
Sociableness in a great measure owing to parents, [463].
Social System, the manner of it in judging of state-ministers and politicians, [187].
Of the piety of princes, [288].
Of foreign wars, ibid. [289].
Of luxury, ibid.