monument of Chatham, and from above, his effigy, graven by a cunning hand, seems still, with eagle face and outstretched arm, to bid England be of good cheer, and to hurl defiance at her foes. The generation which reared that memorial of him has disappeared. The time has come when the rash and indiscriminate judgments which his contemporaries passed on his character may be calmly revised by history. And history, while, for the warning of vehement, high, and daring natures, she notes his many errors, will yet deliberately pronounce, that, among the eminent men whose bones lie near his, scarcely one has left a more stainless, and none a more splendid name.
Abbé and abbot, difference between, II. 115.
Academy, character of its doctrines, III. 97.
Adam, Robert, court architect to George III., V. 198. Addison, Joseph, review of Miss
Aikin's life of, V. 68-161; his character, V. 70; sketch of his fa- ther's life, V. 71; his birth and early life, V. 72; appointed to a scholarship in Magdalene Col- lege, Oxford, V. 73; his classical attainments, V. 74; his Essay on the Evidences of Christianity, V. 76, 154; contributes a preface to Dryden's Georgics, V. 80; his in- tention to take orders frustrated, V. 81; sent by the government to the Continent, V. 84; his intro- duction to Boileau, V. 85; leaves Paris and proceeds to Venice, V. 89; his residence in Italy, V. 90— 95; composes his Epistle to Mon- tague (then Lord Halifax), V. 94; his prospects clouded by the death of William III, V. 95; becomes tutor to a young English traveller, V. 95; writes his Treatise on Me- dals, V. 95; repairs to Holland, V. 96; returns to England, V. 96; his cordial reception and introduc- tion into the Kit Cat Club, V. 96;
his pecuniary difficulties, V. 96; engaged by Godolphin to write a poem in honour of Marlborough's exploits, V. 99; is appointed to a Commissionership, V. 99; merits of his "Campaign," V. 100; cri- ticism of his Travels in Italy, V. 75, 103; his opera of Rosamond, V. 104; is made Undersecretary of State, and accompanies the Earl of Halifax to Hanover, V. 105; his election to the House of Com- mons, V. 106; his failure as a speaker, V. 106; his popularity and talents for conversation, V. 109; his timidity and constraint among strangers, V. 110; his fa- vourite associates, V. 111-114; becomes Chief Secretary for Ire- land under Wharton, V. 114; ori- gination of the Tatler, V. 116; his characteristics as a writer, V. 118 -122; compared with Swift and Voltaire as a master of the art of ridicule, V. 119; his pecuniary losses, V. 125; loss of his Secre- taryship, V. 125; resignation of his Fellowship, V. 125; encourage- ment and disappointment of his advances towards a great lady, V. 125; returned to Parliament without a contest, V. 125; his Whig Examiner, V. 126; inter- cedes with the Tories on behalf
of Ambrose Phillipps and Steele, V. 126; his discontinuance of the Tatler and commencement of the Spectator, V. 127; his part in the Spectator, V. 128; his commence- ment and discontinuance of the Guardian, V. 131; his Cato, III. 348. V. 91, 131; his intercourse with Pope, V. 135; his concern for Steele, V. 137; begins a new series of the Spectator, V. 138; appointed secretary to the Lords Justices of the Council on the death of Queen Anne, V. 138; again ap- pointed Chief Secretary for Ire- land, V. 139; his relations with Swift and Tickell, V. 141; removed to the Board of Trade, V. 142; production of his Drummer, V. 142; his Freeholder, V. 142; his estrangement from Pope, V. 143; his long courtship of the Countess Dowager of Warwick and union with her, V. 152; takes up his abode at Holland House, V. 152; appointed Secretary of State by Sunderland, V. 153; failure of his health, V. 153; resigns his post, V. 153; receives a pension, V. 153; his estrangement from Steele and other friends, V. 154; advocates the bill for limiting the number of Peers, V. 155; refutation of a calumny upon him, V. 156; en- trusts his works to Tickell, and dedicates them to Craggs, V. 158; sends for Gay on his death-bed to ask his forgiveness, V. 159; his death and funeral, V. 160; Tickell's elegy on his death, V. 160; superb edition of his works, V. 160; his monument in Poet's Corner, West- minster Abbey, V. 161.
Addison, Dr. Lancelot, sketch of his life, V. 71.
Adiaphorists, a sect of German Pro- testants, II. 87, 108.
Adultery, how represented by the dramatists of the Restoration, IV. 150. Advancement of Learning, by Ba- con, its publication, III. 49. Eschylus and the Greek drama, I. 14-26. Afghanistan, the monarchy of, ana-
logous to that of England in the 16th century, II. 98; bravery of its inhabitants, IV. 240-244; the English the only army in India which could compete with them, IV. 241; their devastations in In- dia, IV. 13.
Agricultural and manufacturing la- bourers, comparison of their con- dition, I. 228, 229.
Agujari, the singer, V. 8.
Aikin, Miss, review of her Life of Addison, V. 68-161. Aix, its capture, II. 266. Akenside, his Epistle to Curio, II. 211.
Albigenses, IV. 107-109.
Alexander the Great, compared with Clive, IV. 95, 96.
Alfieri and Cowper, comparison be- tween them, I. 331-333. Allahabad, IV. 238, 239. Allegories of Johnson and Addison, II. 3.
Allegory, difficulty of making it in- teresting, II. 3.
Allegro and Penseroso, I. 13. Alphabetical writing, the greatest of human inventions, III. 108; comparative views of its value by Plato and Bacon, III. 108, 109. America, acquisitions of the Catho- lic Church in, IV. 98; its capabi- lities, IV. 98.
American colonies, British, war with them, IV. 266; act for imposing stamp duties upon them, V. 220; their disaffection, V. 230; revival of the dispute with them, V. 253;
progress of their resistance, V. 256.
Anabaptists, their origin, II. 90. Anacharsis, reputed contriver of the potter's wheel, III. 94.
Anaverdy Khan, governor of the Carnatic, IV. 16, 17.
Angria, his fortress of Gheriah re- duced by Clive, IV. 32. Anne, Queen, her political and reli- gious inclinations, II. 164; changes in her government in 1710, II. 164; relative estimation by the Whigs and the Tories of her reign, II. 165-170, 174; state of parties at her accession, V. 95; dismisses the Whigs, V. 123; change in the conduct of public affairs conse- quent on her death, V. 138. Antioch, Grecian eloquence at, IV.
Apostolical succession, Mr. Glad- stone claims it for the Church of England, III. 298-322.
Aquinas, Thomas, III. 131.
Arab fable of the Great Pyramid, IV. 141.
Arbuthnot's Satirical Works, V. 120. Archimedes, his slight estimate of his inventions, III. 105.
Archytas, rebuked by Plato, III. 104.
Arcot, Nabob of, his relations with England, IV. 17-24, 94; his claims recognised by the English, IV. 17. Areopagitica, Milton's, allusion to, I. 58.
Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Wal- pole's administration, II. 230. Ariosto, compared with Tasso, IV. 120.
Aristodemus, IV. 100. Aristophanes, IV. 145.
Aristotle, his authority impaired by the Reformation, III. 101.
Arithmetic, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon, III. 103, 104. Arlington, Lord, his character, III. 173; his coldness for the Triple Alliance, III. 180; his impeach- ment, III. 197.
Armies in the middle ages, how constituted, I. 75, 153; a power- ful restraint on the regal power, I. 153; subsequent change in this respect, I. 155.
Arms, British, successes of, against the French in 1758, II. 266-269. Army (the), control of, by Charles I. or by the Parliament, I. 162; its triumph over both, I. 170; danger of a standing army becoming an instrument of despotism. II. 71. Arne, Dr., set to music Addison's opera of Rosamond, V. 105. Arragon and Castile, their old in- stitutions favourable to public liberty, II. 124.
Art of War, Machiavelli's, I. 99. Arundel, Earl of, III. 90.
Asia, Central, its people, IV. 239. Asiatic Society, commencement of its career under Warren Hastings, IV. 303.
Assemblies, deliberative, II. 263. Association. See Catholic Associa- tion.
Astronomy, comparative estimate of, by Socrates and by Bacon, III. 107. Athenian comedies, their impurity, IV. 145; reprinted at the two Uni- versities, IV. 145.
Athenians (the), Johnson's opinion of them, I. 395.
Attainder, an act of, warrantable, II. 56.
Atterbury, Bishop, his reply to Bentley to prove the genuineness of the Letters of Phalaris, III. 246; reads the funeral service
over the body of Addison, V. 160.
Attributes of God, subtle specula-
tions touching them imply no high degree of intellectual cul- ture, IV. 100-103.
Aubrey, his charge of corruption against Bacon, III. 72; Bacon's decision against him after his present, III. 87.
Augsburg, Confession of, its adop-
tion in Sweden, IV. 125. Augustin, St., IV. 98.
Aurungzebe, his policy, IV. 11. Austen, Jane, notice of, V. 56. Austin, Sarah, her character as a translator, IV. 97, 143.
Austria, success of her armies in the Catholic cause, IV. 131. Authors, their present position, I. 268-272.
Avignon, the Papal Court trans- ferred from Rome to, IV. 109.
Baber, founder of the Mogul empire, IV. 10.
Bacon, Lady, mother of Lord Bacon, III. 13.
Bacon, Lord, review of Basil Mon- tagu's new edition of the works of, III. 1-146; his mother dis- tinguished as a linguist, III. 13; his early years, III. 16-19; his services refused by government, III. 20-21; his admission Gray's Inn, III. 20; his legal at- tainments, III. 21; sat in Parlia- ment in 1593, III. 22; part he took in politics, III. 23; his friendship with the Earl of Essex, III. 31-35; examination of his conduct to Es- sex, III. 36-47; influence of King James on his fortunes, III. 44; his servility to Lord Southampton,
III. 45; influence his talents had with the public, III. 46; his dis- tinction in Parliament and in the courts of law, III. 48; his literary and philosophical works, III. 48; his "Novum Organum," and the admiration it excited, III. 48; his work of reducing and recompiling the laws of England, III. 48; his tampering with the judges on the trial of Peacham, III. 50-55; at- taches himself to Buckingham, III. 56; his appointment as Lord Keeper, III. 59; his share in the vices of the administration, III. 60; his animosity towards Sir Ed- ward Coke, III. 65-67; his town and country residences, III. 67, 68; his titles of Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, III. 68; re: port against him of the Committee on the Courts of Justice, III. 71; nature of the charges, III. 71, 72; overwhelming evidence to them, III. 73; his admission of his guilt, III. 75; his sentence, III. 75; examination of Mr. Montagu's ar- guments in his defence, III. 75-. 88; mode in which he spent the last years of his life, III. 89-91; chief peculiarity of his philoso- phy, III. 92-103; his views com- pared with those of Plato, III. 104-115; to what his wide and durable fame is chiefly owing, III. 117; his frequent treatment of moral subjects, III. 121; his views as a theologian, III. 122; vulgar notion of him as inventor of the inductive method, III. 124; esti- mate of his analysis of that me- thod, III. 124-134; union of au- dacity and sobriety in his temper, III. 134; his amplitude of com- prehension, III. 134, 135; his free- dom from the spirit of contro- versy, III. 135; his eloquence,
« ElőzőTovább » |