cester Square, ii. 288; Malbranche's admira- | Orsini, the Princess, i. 248. tion of him, 326.
Niagara, conquest of, i. 308 Nichols, Dr., ii. 183.
Nimeguen, congress at, ii. 26; hollow and un- satisfactory treaty of, 26.
Nizam originally a deputy of the Mogul sove- reign, ii. 206.
Nizam al Mulk, Viceroy of the Deccan, his death, ii. 90.
Nonconformity. See Dissent and Church of England.
Normans, their warfare against the Albigenses, ii. 132.
Norris, Henry, the nickname "Little Dickey" applied to him by Addison, ii. 359. North, Lord, his change in the constitution of the Indian government, ii, 196; his desire to obtain the removal of Hastings, 203; change in his designs, and its cause, 205; his sense, tact, and urbanity, 235; his weight in the ministry, 366; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 403.
Northern and Southern countries, difference of moral feeling in, i. 36, 37.
Novels, popular, character of those which pre- ceded Miss Burney's Evelina, ii. 317. November, fifth of, i. 20.
Novum Organum, admiration excited by it be- fore it was published, i. 368; and afterwards, 377; contrast between its doctrine and the ancient philosophy, 390, 394-402; its first book the greatest performance of Bacon, 413. Noy, Attorney-General to Charles I., i. 203. Nugent, Lord, review of his Memorials of John Hampden and his Party, i. 190. Nugent, Robert Craggs, ii. 366. Nuncomar, his part in the revolutions in Bengal, ii. 189; his services dispensed with by Has- tings, 191; his rancour against Mahommed Reza Khan, 191; his alliance with the ma- jority of the new council, 200; his committal for felony, trial, and sentence, 200; his death,
Oates, Titus, remarks on his plot, i. 329-331. Oc, language of Provence and neighbouring countries, its beauty and richness, ii. 131. Ochino, Bernardo, his sermons on fate and free will translated by Lady Bacon, i. 352. Odd (the), the peculiar province of Horace Walpole, i. 272.
Old Bachelor, Congreve's, ii. 166. Old Sarum, its cause pleaded by Junius, ii. 197. Old Whig, Addison's, ii. 358.
Omai, his appearance at Dr. Burney's concerts, ii. 290.
Omichund, his position in India, ii. 102; his
treachery towards Clive, 103-106. Omnipresence of the Deity, Robert mery's, reviewed, i. 126. Opinion, public, its power, i. 275. Opposition, parliamentary, when it began to take a regular form, i. 193.
Orthodoxy, at one time a synonyme for igno- rance and stupidity, ii. 146.
Osborne, Sir Peter, incident of Temple with the son and daughter of, ii. 7. 11. Oswald, James, ii. 366. Otway, i. 123.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, i. 384, 385. Ovid, Addison's Notes to the 2nd and 3rd books of his Metamorphoses, ii. 321. Oxford, Earl of. See Harley, Robert. Oxford, ii. 303. 352.
Oxford, University of, its inferiority to Cam- bridge in intellectual activity, i. 349; its dis- affection to the House of Hanover, ii. 352. 376; rose into favour with the government under Bute, 376.
Owen, Mr. Robert, i. 101.
Painting, correctness in, i. 155; causes of its decline in England after the civil wars, 270. Paley, Archdeacon, Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his defence of the Church, ii. 52; his reason- ing the same as that by which Socrates con- futed Aristodemus, 129.
Paoli, his admiration of Miss Burney, ii. 296. Papacy, its influence, ii. 133; effect of Luther's public renunciation of communion with it, 134.
Paper currency, Southey's notions of, i. 106. Papists, line of demarcation between them and Protestants, i. 352.
Papists and l'uritans, persecution of, by Eliza- beth, i. 53.
Paradise, picture of, in old Bibles, i. 155; paint- ing of, by a gifted master, 155. Paradise Regained, its excellence, i. 8. Paris, influence of its opinions among the edu- cated classes in Italy, ii. 146. Parker, Archbishop, i. 233. Parliaments of the 15th century, their condi- tion, i. 70.
Parliament (the) of 1640, sketch of its pro- ceedings, i. 61-97.
Parliament of James I., i. 196, 197; Charles I., his first, 197, 198; his second, 198, 199; its dissolution, 199; his fifth, 205.
Parliament, effect of the publication of its pro- ceedings, i. 276. 280.
Parliament, Long. See Long Parliament. Parliamentary opposition, its origin, i. 193. Parliamentary reform, ii. 370. Parr, Dr., ii. 235.
Parties, analogy in the state of, in 1704 and 1826, ii. 331: state of, in the time of Milton, i. 25; in England in 1710, 259–262; mixture of, at George II.'s first levee, after Walpole's resignation, ii. 363.
Montgo-Partridge, his wrangle with Swift, ii. 340. Party, illustration of the use and abuse of, il. 392; power of, during the Reformation and the French revolution, i. 224. Pascal, Blaise, ii. 45. 130. Patronage of literary men, i. 122; less necessary than formerly, 123, 124.
Orange, the Prince of, ii. 20; the only hope of his country, 22; his success against the French, 23; his marriage with the Lady" Mary, 26.
Oratory, its necessity to an English statesman, ii. 222.
Orloff, Count, his appearance at Dr. Burney's concert, ii. 290.
Orme, merits and defects of his work on India,
Ormond, Duke of, i. 249, 250.
Patriots" (the), in opposition to Sir R.Wal- pole, i. 279; their, remedies for state evils, 282.
Paul IV., Pope, his zeal and devotion, ii. 135. 138.
Paulet, Sir Amias, i. 354.
Paulician theology, its doctrines and prevalence among the Albigenses, ii. 132; in Bohemia and the Lower Danube, 133.
Peacham, Rev. Mr., his treatment by Bacon, i. | Pitt, William, (the first). See Chatham, Earl 369, 370.
Peers, new creations of, i. 74; impolicy of limit- Pitt, William, (the second), his admiration for
ing the number of, ii. 358.
Pelham, Henry, his character, i. 284; his death, 299.
Pelhams (the), their ascendency, i. 283; their
accession to power, 297; feebleness of the opposition to them, 297. See also Newcastle, Duke of.
Peninsular War, Southey's, i. 100. Penseroso and Allegro, Milton's, i. 6. People (the), comparison of their condition in the 16th and 19th centuries, 116, et seq. ; their welfare not considered in partition treaties,
Pepys, his praise of the Triple Alliance, ii. 19,
Pericles, his distribution of gratuities among the members of the Athenian tribunals, i. 382. Périer, M., translator of the works of Machia- velli, i. 28.
Persecution, religious, in the reign of Elizabeth, i. 53, 54; its reactionary effects upon churches and thrones, 61; in England during the pro- gress of the Reformation, 226. Personation, Johnson's want of talent for, 189. Personification, Robert Montgomery's pen- chant for, i. 130.
Peshwa, authority and origin of, ii. 206. Peterborough, Earl of, his expedition to Spain, i. 250; his character, 250. 256, 257; his suc- cesses on the north-east coast of Spain, 252- 254; his retirement to Valencia thwarted, 256; returns to Valencia as a volunteer, 256; his recall to England, 256.
Petition of Right, its enactment, i. 198; viola- tion of it, 198.
Petrarch, i. 5; the first restorer of polite let- ters into Italy, 32; interest excited by his loves, 164.
Phalaris, Letters of, controversy upon their merits and genuineness, ii. 46-48. Philarchus for Phylarchus, i. 171. Philip II. of Spain, extent and splendour of his empire, i. 236, et seq.
Philip III. of Spain, his accession, i. 246; his character, 246. 248; his choice of a wife, 248; is obliged to fly from Madrid, 254; surrender of his arsenal and ships at Carthagena, 255; defeated at Almenara, and again driven from Madrid, 257; forms a close alliance with his late competitor, 262; quarrels with France, 262; value of his renunciation of the crown of France, 262, 263. Philip le Bel, ii. 133.
Phillipeaux, Abbé, his account of Addison's mode of life at Blois, ii. 325.
Philips, John, author of the Splendid Shilling, ii. 333; specimen of his poetry in honour of Marlborough, 333; the poet of the English vintage, 382.
Philips, Sir Robert, i. 379. Phillipps, Ambrose, ii. 338.
Philosophy, ancient, its characteristics, i. 389, 390; its stationary character, 392. 399; its alliance with Christianity, 392, 393; its fall, 393, 394; its merits compared with the Ba- conian, 399, 400; reason of its barrenness, 407, 408.
Philosophy, moral, its relation to the Baconian system, i. 402.
Philosophy, natural, the light in which it was viewed by the ancients, i. 389-393; chief peculiarity of Bacon's, 389, 390.
Pindar and the Greek drama, i. 8.
Hastings, ii. 227. 231; his asperity towards Francis, 228; his speech in support of Fox's motion against Hastings, 231, 232; his motive, 233; his eloquence, 235; his combination with Fox against Addington, 241.
Pius V., his bigotry, ii. 79; his austerity and zeal, 138.
Pius VI., his captivity and death, ii. 148; his funeral rites long withheld, 148. Plagiarism, instances of R. Montgomery's, i. 127, 128.
Plain Dealer, Wycherley's, its appearance and merit, ii. 160. 165; its libertinism, 165. Plassey, battle of, ii. 102-105; its effect in England, 109.
Plato, comparison of his views with those of Bacon, i. 394-399; excelled in the art of dia- logue, ii. 45.
Plautus, his Casina, i. 41. Plays, English, of the age of Elizabeth, i. 154. Plebeian, Steele's, ii. 358. Plomer, Sir T., one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial, ii. 235.
Plutarch, his evidence of gifts being given to judges in Athens, i. 382; his anecdote of Ly- sias's speech before the Athenian tribunals, ii.
Poetry, definition of, i. 4; character of South- ey's, 101; character of Robert Montgomery's, 126-132; wherein that of our times differs from that of the last century, 152; laws of, 154, 155, 156; unities in, 154; its end, 156; alleged improvements in, since the time of Dryden, 157; the interest excited by Byron's, 163; Dr. Johnson's standard of, 186; Addison's opinion of Tuscan, ii. 334.
Poland, contest between Protestantism and Catholicism in, ii. 139. 143. Pole, Cardinal, i. 223.
Politeness, definition of, i. 183. Politian, allusion to, i. 125.
Pondicherry, ii. 91; its occupation by the Eng- lish, 206.
Poor (the), their condition in the 16th and 19th centuries, i. 116, et seq.; in England and on the Continent, 118-120. Poor-rates (the), lower in manufacturing than in agricultural districts, i. 104.
Pope, his independence of spirit, i. 123; his translation of Homer's description of a moon- light night, 153; relative "correctness" of his poetry, 153; Byron's admiration of him, 159; praise of him, by Cowper, 159; his cha racter, habits, and condition, 181, 182; his dislike of Bentley, 456; his acquaintance with Wycherley, ii. 162, 163; his appreciation of the literary merits of Congreve, 173; the originator of the heroic couplet, 323; his testimony to Addison's talking powers, 337; his Rape of the Lock his best poem, 349; his prologue to Cato, 349; his Essay on Criti- cism warmly praised in the Spectator, 349; his intercourse with Addison, 349; his hatred of Dennis, 349; his estrangement from Addi- son, 351; his suspicious nature, 353; his satire of Addison, 355, 356.
Popes, review of Ranke's History of the, ii. 127-149.
Popish Plot, circumstances which assisted the belief in, i. 329-331.
Popoli, Duchess of, saved by the Earl of Peter- borough, i. 253.
Pisistratus, Bacon's comparison of Essex to Portico, the doctrines of the school so called,
Porto Carrero, Cardinal, i. 243-245; Louis | XIV.'s opinion of him, 248; his disgrace and reconciliation with the Queen Dowager, 254. Port Royal, its destruction a disgrace to the Jesuits and to the Romish Church, ii. 146, Portugal, its retrogression in prosperity com- pared with Denmark, ii. 145. Posidonious, his eulogy of philosophy as minis- tering to human comfort, i. 389. Post Nati, the great case in the Exchequer Chamber, conducted by Bacon, i. 368; doubts upon the legality of the decision, 368. Power, political, religious belief ought not to exclude from, i. 140.
Pratt, Charles, ii. 366; Chief Justice, 397; created Lord Camden, and entrusted with the seals, 399.
Predestination, doctrine of, i. 144. Prerogative, royal, its advance, i. 73; in the 16th century, 226. 228; its curtailment by the Revolution, 275; proposed by Bolingbroke to be strengthened, 276. See also Crown. Press, Milton's defence of its freedom, i. 26; its emancipation after the Revolution, 92; remarks on its freedom, 114; censorship of in the reign of Elizabeth, 226; its influence on the public mind after the Revolution, ii.
324. Prince, The, of Machiavelli, general condem- nation of it, i. 28; dedicated to the younger Lorenzo de Medici, 46; compared with Mon- tesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 48.
Princes, royal, right of Parliament to direct their education and marriage, i. 74. Printing, its inventor, and the date of its dis- covery unknown, ii. 392.
Prior, Matthew, his modesty compared with Aristophanes and Juvenal, ii. 150. Private judgment, Milton's defence of the right of, i. 26; Mr. Gladstone's notions of the rights and abuses of, ii. 65-71. Privileges of the House of Commons, change in public opinion in respect to them, i. 95. See also Parliament.
Privy Council, Temple's plan for its reconsti- tution, ii. 28; Mr. Courtenay's opinion of its absurdity contested, 28. 33; Barillon's remarks upon it, 29.
Progress of mankind in the political and phy- sical sciences, i. 319-321; in intellectual freedom, 358, the key of the Baconian doc- trine, 389; how retarded by the unprofitable- ness of ancient philosophy, 390-397; during the last 250 years, ii. 128. Prosperity, national, i. 108.
Protector (the), character of his administra- tion, i. 21.
Protestant Nonconformists in the reign of Charles I., their intolerance, i. 210. Protestantism, its early history, i. 226; its doctrine touching the right of private judg- ment, ii. 71; light which Ranke has thrown upon its movements, 128, 129; its victory in the northern parts of Europe, 134; its failure in Italy, 134; effect of its outbreak in any one part of Christendom, 134. 139; its contest with Catholicism in France, Po- land, and Germany, 139-141; its stationary character, 148, 149. Protestants and Catholics, their relative num- bers in the 16th century, i. 230. Provence, its language, literature, and civilisa- tion in the 12th century, ii. 131, 132. Prussia, king of, subsidised by the Pitt and Newcastle ministry, i. 308; influence of Pro- testantism upon her, ii. 145. Prynne, i. 201. 204.
Public opinion, its power, i. 276.
Public spirit an antidote against bad govern- ment, i. 228, 229; a safeguard against legal oppression, 228, 229.
Publicity (the) of parliamentary proceedings, influence of, i. 275; ii. 370. Pulci, allusion to, i. 33. Pulteney, William, his opposition to Walpole, i. 289; moved the address to the king on the marriage of the Prince of Wales, 292; his unpopularity, 296; accepts a peerage, 296; compared with Chatham, ii. 400. Pundits of Bengal, their jealousy of foreigners, ii. 223.
Punishment, warning not the only end of, i. 64. Punishment and reward, the only means by which government can effect its ends, ii. 155. Puritanism, effect of its prevalence upon the national taste, ii. 154; the restraints it im- posed, 156; reaction against it, 156.
Puritans (the), character and estimate of them, i. 23-26; hatred of them by James I., 60; effect of their religious austerity, 114; John- son's contempt for their religious scruples, 184; their persecution by Charles I., 201; settlement of, in America, 204; blamed for calling in the Scots, 207; defence of them against this accusation, 207; difficulty and peril of their leaders, 211; the austerity of their manners drove many to the royal stan- dard, 217; their position at the close of the reign of Elizabeth, 357; violent outbreak of public feeling against them at the Restora- tion, ii. 120: their oppression by Whitgift, 141; their faults in the day of their power, and their consequences, 156, 157. Puritans and Papists, persecution of, by Eliza- beth, i. 53.
Pym, John, his influence, i. 208; Lady Carlisle's warning to him, 212; his impeachment or- dered by the king, 212.
Pynsent, Sir William, his legacy to Chatham, ii. 387.
Pyramid, the Great, Arab fable concerning it, ii. 148.
Rabbinical learning, work on, by Rev. L. Ad- dison, ii. 319.
Racine, his Greeks far less "correctly" drawn than those of Shakspeare, i. 153; his Iphigé nie an anachronism, 153; passed the close of his life in writing sacred dramas, ii. 325. Raleigh, Sir Walter, i. 235; his varied acquire- ments, 235; his position at Court at the close of the reign of Elizabeth, 358; his execution, 373.
Ramsey, Court painter to George III., ii. 378. Ramus, i. 393.
Ranke, Leopold, review of his History of the Popes, ii. 127 149; his qualifications as an historian, 127. 148.
Rape of the Lock (the), Pope's best poem, ii. 349; recast by its author, 353. Reader, Steele's, ii. 352.
Rebellion, the Great, and the Revolution, ana- logy between them, i. 16. 20. Rebellion in Ireland in 1640, i. 210.
Reform, the process of, often necessarily at-
tended with many evils, i. 225; its supporters | Robinson, Sir Thomas, i. 300, 301. sometimes unworthy, 225.
Reform in Parliament before the Revolution, i. 96; public desire for, 96; policy of it, 96. ii. 369.
Reform Bill, i. 303; conduct of its opponents, 336.
Reformation (the), its history much misrepre-
sented, i. 54-56; party divisions caused by it, 93; their consequences, 93; its immediate effect upon political liberty in England, 194. 195; its social and political consequences, 225, 226; its effect upon the Church of Rome, 240; vacillation which it produced in English legislation, 349; auspices under which it commenced, ii. 134; its effect upon the Roman court, 137; its progress not affected by the event of battles or sieges, 139; ana- logy between it and the French Revolution, i. 225, 226; Milton's treatise of, 27. Reformers, always unpopular in their own age, i. 320.
Regicides of Charles I., disapproval of their conduct, i. 20, 21; injustice of the imputa- tions cast on them, 20, 21. Regium Donum, ii. 75.
Regulating Act, its introduction by Lord North, and change which it made in the form of the Indian government, ii. 196. 203. 208; power which it gave to the Chief Justice, 210. Religion, national establishment of, i. 110; its connection with civil, government, 110, et seq.; its effects upon the policy of Charles I., and of the Puritans, 114; no disqualification for the safe exercise of political power, 141; the religion of the English in the 16th century, 232, 233; what system of, should be taught by a government, ii. 80; no progress made in the knowledge of natural religion, since the days of Thales, 129; revealed, not of the nature of a progressive science, 129. Remonstrant, allusion to Milton's Animadver- sions on the, i. 27. Representative government, decline of, i. 73. Restoration (the), degenerated character of our statesmen and politicians in the times succeeding it, i. 84, 85; low standard of poli- tical morality after it, 86; violence of party and low state of national feeling after it, 90; that of Charles II. and of Louis XVIII. contrasted, 324, 325; its effects upon the morals and manners of the nation, ii. 156, 157.
Retrospective law, is it ever justifiable? i. 64, 65. 79; warranted by a certain amount of public danger, 209.
Revolution (the), its principles often grossly misrepresented, i. 15; analogy between it and the "Great Rebellion," 16. 20; its effect on the character of public men, 91; freedom of the press after it, 92; its effects, 92; minis- terial responsibility since, 93; review of Mackintosh's History of, 310-326. Revolution, the French, its social and political consequences, i. 224, 225. 316, 317; warnings which preceded it, ii. 145-147. Reynolds, Sir Joshua, ii. 235. Richardson, ii. 292.
Richelieu, Cardinal, ii. 144. Richmond, Duke of, ii. 406. Rigby, secretary for Ireland, ii. 366.
Riots, public, during Grenville's administra- tion, ii. 390.
Robertson, Dr., i. 404; Scotticisms in his works, ií. 327.
Robespierre, ii. 147; analogy between his fol- lowers and those of Kniperdoling, i. 225.
Rochefort, threatening of, i. 307. Rochester, Earl of, i. 335. 412. ii. 49. Rockingham, Marquess of, his characteristics, ii. 392; parallel between his party and the Bedfords, 392; accepts the Treasury, 392; patronises Burke, 392; proposals of his ad- ministration on the American Stamp Act, 394. 396; his dismissal, 398; his services, 398; his moderation towards the new mi- nistry, 400; his relation to Chatham, 404; advocated the independence of the United States, 405.
Rockinghams and Bedfords, parallel between them, ii. 392.
Roe, Sir Thomas, ii. 116.
Rohillas, description of them, ii. 192. Rome, ancient, bribery at, ii. 382. Rome, Church of, effect of the Reformation on it, i. 240; its encroaching disposition, 329; its policy, 335; its antiquity, ii. 128. See also Church of Rome.
Rooke, Sir George, his capture of Gibraltar, i. 250; his fight with a French squadron near Malaga, 250; his return to England, 250. Rosamond, Addison's opera of, ii. 334. Roundheads (the), their literature, i. 14; their successors in the reign of George I. turned courtiers, ii, 363.
Rousseau, his sufferings, i. 164; Horace Wal- pole's opinion of him, 269.
Rowe, his verses to the Chloe of Holland House, ii. 356.
Royalists (the) of the time of Charles I., i. 25; many of them true friends to the Constitu- tion, 72; some of the most eminent formerly in opposition to the court, i. 210. Royalists, constitutional, in the reign of Charles I., i. 210, 212.
Rupert, Prince, i. 218; his encounter with Hampden at Chalgrove, 219.
Russell, Lord, i. 90; his conduct in the new council, ii. 41; his death, 42. Russia and Poland, diffusion of wealth in, as compared with England, i. 119. Rutland, Earl of, his character, i. 378. Ruyter, Admiral de, ii. 22. Rymer, i. 186.
of literature, ii. 325; procures a pension for Addison, 325; made Lord President of the Council, 335.
Protestant party in Germany, ii. 140; its | Somers, Lord Chancellor, his encouragement persecution of the Calvinists, 140; invasion by the Catholic party in Germany, 143. Schism, cause of, in England, ii. 143. Schitab Roy, ii. 191.
Schwellenberg, Madame, her position and cha- racter, ii. 302, 303. 306. 308.
Science, political, progress of, i. 318. 322. 345. Scindia, origin of the House of, ii. 206. Scotland, cruelties of James II. in, i. 334. 341; establishment of the Kirk in, 341. ii. 68; her progress in wealth and intelligence owing to Protestantism, ii. 144.
Scots (the), effects of their resistance to Charles I., i. 204. et seq.; ill feeling excited against them by Bute's elevation to power, ii. 377, 378.
Scott, Major, his plea in defence of Hastings, ii. 194. 226; his influence, 226; his challenge to Burke, 230.
Scott, Sir Walter, i. 52; relative "correctness" of his poetry, 153; his Duke of Buckingham (in "Peveril"), 161; Scotticisms in his works, ii. 327.
Sea, mysterious horror of it entertained by the natives of India, ii. 209. Sedley, Sir Charles, ii. 150, 151. Self-denying ordinance (the), i. 78.
Seneca, his work "On Anger," i. 390; his claims as a philosopher, 390; his work on natural philosophy, 392; the Baconian sys- tem in reference to, 407.
Sevajee, founder of the Mahratta empire, ii. 206.
Seward, Mr., ii. 297.
Sforza, Francis, i. 36.
Shaftesbury, Lord, allusion to, i. 3. ii. 6; his cha- racter, 35,-37; contrasted with Halifax, 38. Shakspeare, allusion to, i. 3. 235; one of the most "correct" poets, 153; relative "cor- rectness" of his Troilus and Cressida, 153; contrasted with Byron, 162, 163; Johnson's observations on, 186.
Shaw, the Lifeguardsman, ii. 333. Shebbeare, Bute's patronage of, ii. 378. Shelburne, Lord, Secretary of State in Chat- ham's second administration, ii. 399; his dis- missal, 403.
Shelley, Percy Byssch, i. 135. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, ii. 165; his speech against Hastings, 233; his encouragement to Miss Burney to write for the stage, 297. Sheridan and Congreve, effect of their works upon the Comedy of England, i. 40; con- trasted with Shakspeare, 40.
Ship-money, question of its legality, i. 203. et seq. Shrewsbury, Duke of, ii. 350. Sidmouth, Lord, ii. 241.
Sienna, cathedral of, ii. 329.
Sigismund of Sweden, ii. 140.
Silius Italicus, ii. 333.
Somerset, the Protector, as a promoter of the English Reformation, i. 59; his fall, 372 Somerset, Duke of, ii. 358.
Sonnets, Milton's, i. 14.
Sophocles and the Greek drama, i. 7. Soul, ii. 129.
Soult, Marshal, reference to, ii. 389. Southampton, Earl of, notice of, i. 367. Southcote, Johanna, ii. 131. 143. Southern and Northern countries, difference of moral feeling in, i. 36, 37.
Southey, Robert, review of his Colloquies on Society, i, 98; his characteristics, 98, 99; his poetry preferable to his prose, 100; his lives of Nelson and John Wesley, 100; his Penin- sular War, 100; his Book of the Church, 100; his political system, 100; plan of his present work, 102; his opinions regarding the manufacturing system, 104; his political economy, 106, et seq.; the national debt, 107, et seq.; his theory of the basis of govern- ment, 109; his remarks on public opinion, 110, 111; his view of the Catholic claims, 114; his ideas on the prospects of society, 115. 120; his prophecies respecting the Cor- poration and Test Acts, and the removal of the Catholic disabilities, 115; his observa- tions on the condition of the people in the 16th and 19th centuries, 116; his arguments on national wealth, 118, 119; review of his edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 132. See also Bunyan.
South Sea bubble, i. 289. Spain, i. 216; review of Lord Mahon's War of the Succession in, 235; her state under Philip, 237; her literature during the 16th century, 238; her state a century later, 238; effect produced on her by the Reformation, 240; her disputed succession, 241, 242; the Parti- tion treaty, 242, 243; conduct of the French towards her, 243; how affected by the death of Charles, 245, et seq.; designation of the War of the Spanish Succession, ii. 144; no conversions to Protestantism in, ii. 148. Spanish and Swiss soldiers in the time of Ma- chiavelli, character of, i. 45.
Sparre, the Dutch general, i. 249. Spectator (the), notices of it, ii. 345-347. 349. Spenser, i. 133, 134.
Spirits, Milton's materiality of them, i. 11. Spurton, Dr., i. 219.
Stafford, Lord, incident at his execution, i. 331. Stamp Act, disaffection of the American colo- nies on account of it, ii. 394; its repeal, 396. Stanhope, Earl of, i. 289.
Stanhope, General, i. 252; commands in Spain (1707), 257, 258.
Simonides, his speculations on natural religion Star Chamber, i. 204. 206; its abolition, 208.
Staremberg, the imperial general in Spain (in 1707), i. 257, 258.
Statesmanship, contrast of the Spanish and Dutch notions of, ii. 16.
Statesmen, the character of, greatly affected by that of the times, i. 93; character of the first generation of professed statesmen that Eng- land produced, 349-351.
State Trials, i. 330. 332. 342, 385. Steele, ii. 337; his character, 338; Addison's treatment of him, 338; his origination of the Tatler, 340, 341; his subsequent career, 344. 347.352.
Steveens, George, ii. 296.
Stoicism, comparison of that of the Bengalee with the European ii. 189.
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