unce, that, among aose bones lie near nas left a more staina more splendid name.
indemnify ourselves for part of what attached adherents we had lost, at the expense of those son. foreign enemies who had hoped to profit The Duke by our domestic dissensions. Lord notice of a Rockingham, therefore, and those who against th acted with him, conceived that the tilities w wisest course now open to England during was to acknowledge the independence from of the United States, and to turn her gr whole force against her European enemies.
Chatham, it should seem, ought have taken the same side. Before Fr had taken any part in our quarre' the colonies, he had repeated with great energy of language that it was impossible to cor rica, and he could not with maintain that it was ea France and Americ America alone. Bu
powered his judg blind to his ow very circumsta paration of th it to him al dismemb
ifference between, i. 236. acter of its doctrines, i. 391.
t, court architect to George III.,
his relations with Swift and Tickell, 351, 352; removed to the Board of Trade, 352; pro- duction of his Drummer, 352; his Free, holder, 352; his estrangement from Pope, 353, 354; his long courtship of the Countess Dowager of Warwick and union with her 356; takes up his abode at Holland House, 357; appointed Secretary of State by Sun- derland, 357; failure of his health, 257.359; resigns his post, 357; receives a pension, 357; his estrangement from Steele and other friends, 358; advocates the bill for limiting the number of Peers, 358; refutation of a calumny upon him, 359; entrusts his works to Tickell, and dedicates them to Craggs, 359; sends for Gay on his death-bed to ask his forgiveness, 359; his death and funeral, 360; Tickell's elegy on his death, 360; superb edition of his works, 360; his monument in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, 561. Addison, Dr. Lancelot, sketch of his life, ii. 319, Adiaphorists, a sect of German Protestants, i.
Adultery, how represented by the dramatists of the Restoration, i. 192. Advancement of Learning, by Bacon, its publi- cation, i. 369.
Afghanistan, the monarchy of, analogous to that of England in the 16th century, i. 228; bravery of its inhabitants, ii. 194, 195; the English the only army in India which could compete with tliem, 194; their devastations in India, 88.
Joseph, review of Miss Aikin's life 1. 317-361; his character, 318, 319; etch of his father's life, 319; his birth and early life, 319, 320; appointed to a scholar- ship in Magdalene College, Oxford, 320; his classical attainments, 320, 321; his Essay on the Evidences of Christianity, 321. 357; con- tributes a preface to Dryden's Georgics, 323; his intention to take orders frustrated, 324, 325; sent by the government to the Conti- nent, 326; his introduction to Boileau, 325; leaves Paris and proceeds to Venice, 328; his residence in Italy, 328-330; composes his Epistle to Montague (then Lord Halifax), 330; his prospects clouded by the death of William III., 330; becomes tutor to a young English traveller, 330; writes his Treatise on Medals, 330; repairs to Holland, 330; returns to England, 330; his cordial reception and in- troduction into the Kit Cat Club, 330; his pecuniary difficulties, 331; engaged by Go- dolphin to write a poem in honour of Marl-Eschylus and the Greek drama, i. 7-12. borough's exploits, 332; is appointed to a Commissionership, 332; merits of his "Cam- paign," 332; criticism of his Travels in Italy; 321. 334; his opera of Rosamond, 334; is made Under-Secretary of State, and accom- panies the Earl of Halifax to Hanover, 335; his election to the House of Commons, 335; his failure as a speaker, 335; his popularity and talents for conversation, 336, 337; his timidity and constraint among strangers, 337; his favourite associates, 337-339; becomes Chief Secretary for Ireland under Wharton, 339; origination of the Tatler, 340, 341; his characteristics as a writer, 340-342; com- pared with Swift and Voltaire as a master of the art of ridicule, 341, 342; his pecuniary losses, 343; loss of his Secretaryship, 344; resignation of his Fellowship, 344; encourage- ment and disappointment of his advances to- wards a great lady, 344; returned to Parlia- Allegories of Johnson and Addison, i. 133. ment without a contest, 344; his Whig Ex-Allegory, difficulty of making it interesting, i. aminer, 344; intercedes with the Tories on behalf of Ambrose Phillipps and Steele, 344; his discontinuance of the Tatler and com- mencement of the Spectator, 345; his part in the Spectator, 345; his commencement and discontinuance of the Guardian, 347; his Cato, 328. 347; his intercourse with Pope, 349, 350; his concern for Steele, 349; begins a new series of the Spectator, 350; appointed Secretary to the Lords Justices of the Coun. cil on the death of Queen Anne, 350; again appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, 351;
Agricultural and manufacturing labourers, com- parison of their condition, i. 103, 104. Agujari, the singer, ii. 290. Aikin, Miss, review of her Life of Addison, ii. 317-361.
Aix, its capture, i, 307. Akenside, his Epistle to Curio, i. 281. Albigenses, ii. 132, 133. Alexander the Great, compared with Clive, ii.
Alfieri and Cowper, comparison between them, Allahabad, ii. 192, 193.
Allegro and Penseroso, i. 6. Alphabetical writing, the greatest of human inventions, i. 396; comparative views of its value by Plato and Bacon, 396, 397. America, acquisitions of the Catholic Church in, ii. 128; its capabilities, 128. American colonies, British war with them, ii. 205; act for imposing stamp duties upon them, 388; their disaffection, 393; revival of the dispute with them, 403; progress of their re- sistance, 405.
Abbé and abbot, difference between, i. 236. Academy, character of its doctrines, i. 391. Adam, Robert, court architect to George III., ii. 378.
his relations with Swift and Tickell, 351, 352; removed to the Board of Trade, 352; pro- duction of his Drummer, 352; his Free, holder, 352; his estrangement rom Pope, 353, 354; his long courtship of the Countess Dowager of Warwick and union with her 356; takes up his abode at Holland House, 357; appointed Secretary of State by Sun- derland, 357; failure of his health, 257.359; resigns his post, 357; receives a pension, 357; his estrangement from Steele and other friends, 358; advocates the bill for limiting the number of Peers, 358; refutation of a calumny upon him, 359; entrusts his works to Tickell, and dedicates them to Craggs, 359; sends for Gay on his death-bed to ask his forgiveness, 359; his death and funeral, 360; Tickell's elegy on his death, 360; superb edition of his works, 360; his monument in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, 561. Addison, Dr. Lancelot, sketch of his life, ii. 319. Adiaphorists, a sect of German Protestants, i.
Adultery, how represented by the dramatists of the Restoration, i. 192. Advancement of Learning, by Bacon, its publi- cation, i. 369.
Afghanistan, the monarchy of, analogous to that of England in the 16th century, i. 228; bravery of its inhabitants, ii. 194, 195; the English the only army in India which could compete with tliem, 194; their devastations in India, 88.
Addison, Joseph, review of Miss Aikin's life of, ii. 317-361; his character, 318, 319; sketch of his father's life, 319; his birth and early life, 319, 320; appointed to a scholar- ship in Magdalene College, Oxford, 320; his classical attainments, 320, 321; his Essay on the Evidences of Christianity, 321. 357; con- tributes a preface to Dryden's Georgics, 323; his intention to take orders frustrated, 324, 325; sent by the government to the Conti- nent, 326; his introduction to Boileau, 325; leaves Paris and proceeds to Venice, 328; his residence in Italy, 328-330; composes his Epistle to Montague (then Lord Halifax), 330; his prospects clouded by the death of William III., 330; becomes tutor to a young English traveller, 330; writes his Treatise on Medals, 330; repairs to Holland, 330; returns to England, 330; his cordial reception and in- troduction into the Kit Cat Club, 330; his pecuniary difficulties, 331; engaged by Go- dolphin to write a poem in honour of Marl-Eschylus and the Greek drama, i. 7—12. borough's exploits, 332; is appointed to a Commissionership, 332; merits of his "Cam- paign," 332; criticism of his Travels in Italy; 321. 334; his opera of Rosamond, 334; is made Under-Secretary of State, and accom- panies the Earl of Halifax to Hanover, 335; his election to the House of Commons, 335; his failure as a speaker, 335; his popularity and talents for conversation, 336, 337; his timidity and constraint among strangers, 337; his favourite associates, 337-339; becomes Chief Secretary for Ireland under Wharton, 339; origination of the Tatler, 340, 341; his characteristics as a writer, 340-342; com- pared with Swift and Voltaire as a master of the art of ridicule, 341, 342; his pecuniary losses, 343; loss of his Secretaryship, 344; resignation of his Fellowship, 344; encourage- ment and disappointment of his advances to- wards a great lady, 344; returned to Parlia- Allegories of Johnson and Addison, i. 133. ment without a contest, 344; his Whig Ex-Allegory, difficulty of making it interesting, i. aminer, 344; intercedes with the Tories on behalf of Ambrose Phillipps and Steele, 344; his discontinuance of the Tatler and com- mencement of the Spectator, 345; his part in the Spectator, 345; his commencement and discontinuance of the Guardian, 347; his Cato, 328. 347; his intercourse with Pope, 349, 350; his concern for Steele, 349; begins a new series of the Spectator, 350; appointed Secretary to the Lords Justices of the Coun. cil on the death of Queen Anne, 350; again appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, 351;
Agricultural and manufacturing labourers, com- parison of their condition, i. 103, 104. Agujari, the singer, ii. 290. Aikin, Miss, review of her Life of Addison, ii. 317-361.
Aix, its capture, i, 307. Akenside, his Epistle to Curio, i. 281. Albigenses, ii. 132, 133. Alexander the Great, compared with Clive, ii. 127.
Alfieri and Cowper, comparison between them, i. 158. Allahabad, ii. 192, 193.
Allegro and Penseroso, i. 6. Alphabetical writing, the greatest of human inventions, i. 396; comparative views of its value by Plato and Bacon, 396, 397. America, acquisitions of the Catholic Church in, ii. 128; its capabilities, 128. American colonies, British war with them, ii. 205; act for imposing stamp duties upon them, 388; their disaffection, 393; revival of the dispute with them, 403; progress of their re- sistance, 405.
Anabaptists, their origin, i. 221.
Anacharsis, reputed contriver of the potter's wheel, i. 390.
Anaverdy Khan, governor of the Carnatic, ii. 90, 91.
Angria, his fortress of Gheriah reduced by Clive, ii. 97.
Anne, Queen, her political and religious incli- nations, i. 259; changes in her government in 1710, 259; relative estimation by the Whigs and the Tories of her reign, 260-262. 264; state of parties at her accession, ii. 331, 332; dismisses the Whigs, 343; change in the conduct of public affairs consequent on her death, 351.
Antioch, Grecian eloquence at, ii. 128. Anytus, 382.
Apostolical succession, Mr. Gladstone claims it for the Church of England, ii. 71–82. Aquinas, Thomas, i. 407.
Arab fable of the Great Pyramid, ii. 148. Arbuthnot's Satirical Works, ii. 342. Archimedes, his slight estimate of his inven- tions, i. 395.
Archytas, rebuked by Plato, i. 395,
Arcot, Nabob of, his relations with England, ii. 91-94. 126; his claims recognised by the English, 91.
Areopagitica, Milton's allusion to, i. 27. Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Walpole's ad- ministration, i. 290.
Ariosto, compared with Tasso, ii. 138. Aristodemus, ii. 129. Aristophanes, ii. 150.
Aristotle, his authority impaired by the Refor- mation, i. 393.
Arithmetic, comparative estimate of by Plato and by Bacon, i. 394, 395.
Arlington, Lord, his character, ii. 13; his cold- ness for the Triple Alliance, 16; his impeach- ment, 24.
Armies in the middle ages, how constituted, i. 35. 70; a powerful restraint on the regal power, 70; subsequent change in this respect, 71.
Arms, British, successes of, against the French in 1758, i. 307-309.
Army (the), control of by Charles I. or by the Parliament, i. 74; its triumph over both, 77; danger of a standing army becoming an in- strument of despotism, 216.
Arne, Dr., set to music Addison's opera of Rosamond, ii. 335.
Arragon and Castile, their old institutions favourable to public liberty, i. 240. Art of War, Machiavelli's, i. 45.
Arundel, Earl of, i. 388.
Asia, Central, its people, ii. 193.
Asiatic Society, commencement of its career under Warren Hastings, ii. 223. Assemblies, deliberative, i. 306. Association. See Catholic Association. Astronomy, comparative estimate of by Socrates and by Bacon, i. 396.
Athenian comedies, their impurity, ii. 150; re- printed at the two Universities, 150. Athenians (the), Johnson's opinion of them, i. 187.
Attainder, an act of, warrantable, i. 209.
Atterbury, Bishop, his reply to Bentley to prove the genuineness of the Letters of Phalaris, ii. 47; reads the funeral service over the body of Addison, 360.
Attributes of God, subtle speculations touching them imply no high degree of intellectual culture, ii. 129, 130.
Aubrey, his charge of corruption against Bacon,
i. 379; Bacon's decision against him after his present, 386.
Augsburg, Confession of, its adoption in Swe- den, ii. 141.
Aurungzebe, his policy, ii. 88. Austen, Jane, notice of, ii. 312. Austin, Sarah, her character as a translator, ii. 127.149.
Austria, success of her armies in the Catholic cause, 551.
Authors, their present position, i. 122-125. Avignon, the Papal Court transferred from Rome to, ii. 133.
Baber, founder of the Mogul empire, ii. 87. Bacon, Lady, mother of Lord Bacon, i. 352. Bacon, Lord, review of Basil Montagu's new edition of the works of, i. 346-414; his mother distinguished as a linguist, 352; his early years, 353, 354; his services refused by government, 355, 356; his admission at Gray's Inn, 355; his legal attainments, 355; sat in Parliament in 1593, 356; part he took in poli- tics, 356; his friendship with the Earl of Essex, 359-363; examination of his conduct to Essex, 362-368; influence of King James on his fortunes, 366; his servility to Lord Southampton, 367; influence his talents had with the public, 367; his distinction in Par- liament and in the courts of law, 368; his literary and philosophical works, 368; his "Novum Organum," and the admiration it excited, 368; his work of reducing and re- compiling the laws of England, 369; his tampering with the judges on the trial of Peacham, 369-372; attaches himself to Buckingham, 372; his appointment as Lord Keeper, 373; his share in the vices of the administration, 374; his animosity towards Sir Edward Coke, 376, 377; his town and country residences, 376; his titles of Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, 377; re- port against him of the Committee on the Courts of Justice, 379; nature of the charges, 379, 380; overwhelming evidence to them, 380, 381; his admission of his guilt, 381; his sentence, 381; examination of Mr. Montagu's arguments in his defence, 381-387; mode in which he spent the last years of his life, 388, 389; chief peculiarity of his philosophy, 389 -394; his views compared with those of Plato, 394-399; to what his wide and durable fame is chiefly owing, 400; his frequent treat- ment of moral subjects, 402; his views as a theologian, 403; vulgar notion of him as in- ventor of the inductive method, 404; esti- mate of his analysis of that method, 404-408; union of audacity and sobriety in his temper, 408; his amplitude of comprehension, 408, 409; his freedom from the spirit of contro- versy, 409; his eloquence, wit, and simili- tudes, 410; his disciplined imagination, 411; his boldness and originality, 411; unusual development in the order of his faculties, 412; his resemblance to the mind of Burke, 412; specimens of his two styles, 412, 413; value of his Essays, 413; his greatest per- formance the first book of the Novum Or- ganum, 413; contemplation of his life, 413,
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his character, i. 349-
Baconian philosophy, its chief peculiarity, i.
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