A.

A priori reasoning, ii. 8-10, 20, 24,

59.

Abbé and abbot, difference between,
iii. 76.

Academy, character of its doctrines,
iii. 441.

Academy, French, (the), i. 23; has
been of no benefit to literature, 23;
its treatment of Corneille and Vol-
taire, 23, 24; the scene of the fiercest
animosities, 23.

Academy of the Floral Games, at
Toulouse, v. 436, 437.
Acting, Garrick's, quotation from
Fielding illustrative of, i. 332; the
true test of excellence in, 333.
Adam, Robert, court architect to
George III., vi. 41.

Addington, Henry, speaker of the
House of Commons, vi. 282; made
First Lord of the Treasury, 282;
his administration, 282, 284; cool-
ness between him and Pitt, 285,
286; their quarrel, 287; his resig-
nation, 290; v. 141, 142; raised to
the Peerage, vi. 293.

Addison, Joseph, review of Miss Ai-
kin's life of, v. 321-422; his char-
acter, 323, 324; sketch of his fa-
ther's life, 324, 325; his birth and
early life, 325-327: appointed to
a scholarship in Magdalene Col-
lege, Oxford, 327; his classical at-
tainments, 327-330; his Essay on
the Evidences of Christianity, 330;
his Latin poems, 331, 332; con-
tributes a preface to Dryden's
Georgies, 335: his intention to take

orders frustrated, 335; sent by the
government to the Continent, 333;
his introduction to Boileau, 340;
leaves Paris and proceeds to Ven-
ice, 344, 345; his residence in Italy,
345-350; composes his Epistle to
Montague (then Lord Halifax),
350; his prospects clouded by the
death of William III., 351; be-
comes tutor to a young English
traveller, 351; writes his Treatise
on Medals, 351; repairs to Hol-
land, 351; returns to England,
351; his cordial reception and in-
troduction into the Kit Cat Club,
351; his pecuniary difficulties, 352;
engaged by Godolphin to write a
poem in honour of Marlborough's
exploits, 354, 355; is appointed to
a Commissionership, 355; merits
of his "Campaign," 356; criticism
of his Travels in Italy, 329, 359:
his opera of Rosamond, 361; is
made Undersecretary of State, and
accompanies the Earl of Halifax to
Hanover, 361, 362; his election to
the House of Commons, 362; his
failure as a speaker, 362; his popu ·
larity and talents for conversation,
365-367; his timidity and con-
straint among strangers, 367; his fa-
vorite associates, 368-371; becomes
Chief Secretary for Ireland under
Wharton, 371; origination of the
Tatler, 373, 374; his characteri3-
tics as a writer, 373-378; compared
with Swift and Voltaire as a mas-
ter of the art of ridicule, 377, 379;
his pecuniary losses, 382, 383; loss
of his Secretaryship, 382; resigua

tion of his Fellowship, 383; en-
couragement and disappointment
of his advances towards a great
ady, 383; returned to Parliament
without a contest, 383; his Whig
Examiner, 384; intercedes with
the Tories on behalf of Ambrose
Phillipps and Steele, 384; his dis-
continuance of the Tatler and com-
mencement of the Spectator, 384;
his part in the Spectator, 385; his
commencement and discontinuance
of the Guardian, 389; his Cato, 345,
390, 394; ii. 365, 366; his inter-
course with Pope, 394, 395; his con-
cern for Steele, 396; begins a new
series of the Spectator, 397; ap-
pointed secretary to the Lords Jus-
tices of the Council on the death
of Queen Anne, 397; again ap-
pointed Chief Secretary for Ire-
land, 399; his relations with Swift
and Tickell, 399, 400; removed to
the Board of Trade, 401; produc-
tion of his Drummer, 401; his
Freeholder, 402; his estrangement
from Pope, 403, 404; his long court-
ship of the Countess Dowager of
Warwick and union with her, 411,
412; takes up his abode at Ho land
House, 412; appointed Secretary
of State by Sunderland, 413; fail-
ure of his health, 413, 418; resigns
his post, 413; receives a pension,
414; his estrangement from Steele
and other friends, 414, 415; advo-
cates the bill for liming the num-
ber of Peers, 415; refutation of a
calumny upon him, 417; intrusts
his works to Tickell, and dedi-
cates them to Craggs, 418; sends
for Gay on his death-bed to ask his
forgiveness, 418, 419; his death
and funeral, 420; Tickell's elegy
on his death, 421; superb edition
of his works, 421; his monument
in Poet's Corner, Westminster Ab-
bey, 422; praised by Dryden, i.
369.

Addison, Dr. Lancelot, sketch of his
life, v. 324, 325.
Adiaphorists, a sect of German Prot-
estants, iii. 7, 8.
Adultery, how represented by the
Dramatists of the Restoration, iv.

357.

Advancement of Learning, by Ba-
con, its publication, iii. 388.

Eschines, his character, i. 193, 194.
Eschylus and the Greek Drama, i
216-229.

Afghanistan, the monarchy of, anal
ogous to that of England in the
16th century, iii. 20; bravery of
its inhabitants, v. 29 et seq.; the
English the only army in India
which could compete with them,
30; their devastation in India, iv.
207.

Agricultural and manufacturing la-
borers, comparison of their con-
dition, ii. 145-148.
Agujari, the singer, v. 256.
Aiken, Miss, review of her Life of
Addison, v. 321-422.
Aix, its capture, iii. 244.
Akenside, his epistle to Curio, iii.

183.

Albigenses, iv. 310, 311.
Alcibiades, suspected of assisting at
a mock celebration of the Eleusin-
ian mysteries, i. 49, note.
Aldrich, Dean, vi. 113.
Alexander the Great compared with
Clive, iv. 297.

Alfieri, his greatness, i. 61; influence
of Dante upon his style, 61, 62;
comparison between him and Cow-
per, ii. 350; his Rosmunda con-
trasted with Shakspeare's Lady
Macbeth, i. 175; influence of Pla-
tarch and the writers of his school
upon, 401.
Allahabad, v. 27.
Allegories of Johnson and Addison,
ii. 252.

Allegory, difficulty of making it in-
teresting, ii. 252.

Allegro and Penseroso, i. 215.
Alphabetical writing, the greatest of
human inventions, iii. 453; com-
parative views of its value by
Plato and Bacon, 453, 454.
America, acquisitions of the Catholic
Church in, iv. 300; its capabilities,
301.

American colonies, British, war with
them, v. 57, 58; act for imposing
stamp duties upon them, vi. 65;
their disaffection, 76; revival of
the dispute with them, 105; prog-
ress of their resistance, 106.
Anabaptists, their origin, iii. 12.
Anacharsis, reputed contriver of the
potter's wheel, iii. 438.
Analysis, critical not applicable with

exactness to poetry, i. 325; but
grows more accurate as criticism
improves, 329.

Anaverdy Khan, governor of the
Carnatic, iv. 211, seq.
Angria, his fortress of Gheriah re-
duced by Clive, iv. 228.
Anne, Queen, her political and relig-
ious inclinations, iii. 130; changes
in her government in 1710, 130;
relative estimation by the Whigs
and the Tories of her reign, 133–
140; state of parties at her acces-
sion, v. 352, 353; dismisses the
Whigs, 381, 382; change in the con-
duct of public affairs consequent on
her death, 397; touches Johnson for
the king's evil, vi. 173; her cabi-
net during the Seven Years' War,
410.

Antijacobin Review, (the new), vi.
405; contrasted with the Antijac-
obin, 406, 407.
Antioch, Grecian eloquence at, iv.

301.

Anytus, iii. 420.

Apostolical succession, Mr. Gladstone
claims it for the Church of Eng-
land, iv. 166–178.
Apprentices, negro, in the West In-
dies, vi. 367, 374-376, 378-383.
Aquinas, Thomas, iii. 478.
Arab fable of the Great Pyramid,
iv. 347.

Arbuthnot's Satirical Works, v. 377.
Archimedes, his slight estimate of

his inventions, iii. 450.
Archytas, rebuked by Plato, iii. 449.
Arcot, Nabob of, his relations with
England, iv. 211-219; his claims
recognized by the English, 213.
Areopagitica, Milton's allusion to, i.

264.

Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Wal-
pole's administration, iii. 204.
Arimant, Dryden's, i. 357.
Ariosto, i. 60.

Aristodemus, i. 62; iv. 303.
Aristophanes, iv. 352; his clouds a

true picture of the change in his
countrymen's character, i. 383.
Aristotle, his authority impaired by
the Reformation, iii. 446; the most
profound critic of antiquity, i. 140,
141; his doctrine in regard to poe-
try, 40; the superstructure of his
treatise on poetry not equal to its
plan, 140.

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Arithmetic, comparative estimate of,
by Plato and by Bacon, iii. 448.
Arlington, Lord, his character, iv.

30; his coldness for the Triple Al-
liance, 37; his impeachment, 56.
Armies in the middle ages, how con-
stituted, i. 282, 478; a powerful
restraint on the regal power, 478;
subsequent change in this respect,
479.

Arms, British, successes of, against
the French in 1758, iii. 244-247.
Army, (the) control of, by Charles
I., or by the Parliament, i. 489;
its triumph over both, 497; dan-
ger of a standing army becoming
an instrument of despotism, ii.

487.

Arne, Dr., set to music Addison's
opera of Rosamund, v. 361.
Arragon and Castile, their old institu-
tions favorable to public liberty
iii. 86.
Arrian, i. 395.

Art of War, Machiavelli's, i. 306.
Arundel, Earl of, iii. 434.
Asia, Central, its people, v. 28.
Asiatic Society, commencement of
its career under Warren Hastings,
v. 98.

Assemblies, deliberative, iii. 240.
Assembly, National, the French, iii.

46-48, 68-71, v. 443–446.
Astronomy, comparative estimate of

by Socrates and by Bacon, iii. 452.
Athenian jurymen, stipend of, i. 33,
note; police, name of, 34, note;
magistrates, name of, who took
cognisance of offences against re-
ligion, 53, note; orators, essay on,
139-157; oratory unequalled, 145;
causes of its excellence, 145; its
quality, 151, 153, 156; Johnson's
ignorance of Athenian character,
146, ii. 418; intelligence of the
populace, and its causes, i. 146-
149; books the least part of their
education, 147; what it consisted
in, 148; their knowledge necessari-
ly defective, 148; and illogical
from its conversational character,
149; eloquence, history of, 151,
153; when at its height, 153, 154;
coincidence between their progress
in the art of war and the art of
oratory, 155; steps by which
Athenian oratory approached to
finished excellence contemporane-

Athenians (the) grew more sceptical
with the progress of their civiliza-
tion, i. 383; the causes of their
deficiencies in logical accuracy,
383, 384; Johnson's opinion of
them, ii. 418.
Athens, the most disreputable part
of, i. 31, note; favorite epithet of,
36, note; her decline and its char-
acteristics, 153, 154; Mr. Mitford's
preference of Sparta over, 181;
contrasted with Sparta, 186, 187;
seditions in, 188; effect of slavery
in, 189; her liturgic system, 190;
period of minority in, 191, 192;
influence of her genius upon the
world, 200, 201.

Attainder, an act of, warrantable, ii.

471.

Atterbury, Francis, life of, vi. 112-
131; his youth, 112; his defence
of Luther, 113; appointed a royal
chaplain, 113; his share in the
controversy about the Letters of
Phalaris, 115-119; iv. 110; promi-
nent as a high-churchman, v. 119,
120; made Dean of Carlisle, 120;
defends Sacheverell, 121; made
Dean of Christ Church, 121; de-
sires to proclaim James II., 122;
joins the opposition, 123; refuses
to declare for the Protestant suc-
cession, 123; corresponds with the
Pretender, 123, 124; his private
life, 124, 125, 129; reads the funer-
al service over the body of Ad-
dison, 124; v. 420; imprisoned for
his part in the Jacobite conspiracy,
vi. 125; his trial and sentence,
126, 127; his exile, 128, 129; his
favor with the Pretender, 129, 130;
vindicates himself from the charge
of having garbled Clarendon's
history, 130; his death and burial,
131.

Attila, iv. 300.
Attributes of God, subtle speculations
touching them imply no high de-
gree of intellectual culture, iv.
303, 304.

Aubrey, his charge of corruption
against Bacon, iii. 413; Bacon's
decision against him after his
present, 430.

Augsburg, Confession of, its adoption
in Sweden, iv. 329.
Augustin, St., iv. 300.
Aurungzebe, his policy, iv. 205, 206.
Austen, Jane, notice of, v. 307,
308.
Austin, Sarah, her character as a
translator, iv. 299–349.
Austria, success of her armies in the
Catholic cause, iv. 337.
Authors, their present position, ii.
190-197.

Avignon, the Papal Court transferred
from Rome to, iv. 312.

Bacon, Lord, review of Basil Mon-
tagu's new edition of the works of,
iii. 336-495; his mother distin-
guished as a linguist, 349; his ear-
ly 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 1593, 359; part he
took in politics, 360; his friendship
with the Earl of Essex, 365-372;
examination of his conduct to Es-
sex, 373-384; influence of King
James on his fortunes, 383; his ser-
vility to Lord Southampton, 384;
influence his talents had with the
public, 386; his distinction in Par-
liament and in the courts of law,
388; his literary and philosophical
works, 388; his "Novum Orga-
num," and the admiration it ex-
cited, 388; his work of reducing
and recompiling the laws of Eng-
land, 389; his tampering with the
judges on the trial of Peacham,
389-394; attaches himself to Buck
ingham, 396; his appointment as
Lord Keeper, 399; his share in the
vices of the administration, 400;