American Congress, see Congress; Journals of, see Journals of the American Congress. American financiers, 39, 109. American imports, duties on, see import duties.
American love of freedom, lii, lx, 19-25.
American Mutiny Act, 107. American revenue impossible, see
American Revolution, John Fiske, see Fiske.
American Taxation, Speech on, see Speech, etc.
Americans, descendants of Eng- lishmen, 19-21. Analogy, Butler, see Butler. Anarchy is found tolerable, 98. ancient commonwealths, 92. And the rude swain, etc., see rude swain.
Andrews, E. B., History of the United States, xiv, lxix. Anglesey, 114.
Anne, Queen, xiii, 87. Annual Register, viii, xv, xxii, lxx, 79, 80, 81, 83, 85, 88, 89, 94, 98, 108, 113, 114, 120; Burke's con- nection with, xxiv, lxiv, lxviii, lxix.
Anstey, Christopher, New Bath Guide, xiii.
antechamber of the noble lord, 124. Anti-Jacobin, lxvii.
Antiquarian Society, American, see American, etc.
anti-slavery movement, xiii. Antoinette, Marie, Burke's de- scription of, li, lv.
Appalachian Mountains, 29, 99. Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, xxxix, xliv, lxvii, 112, 117. Arabia, liii, 25.
Arbuthnot, Dr., 102. archers, 113.
Arcot, Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts, see Speech, etc. Arginusae, battle of, 101. Argumentation, Principles of, see Baker.
Aristophanes, IOI.
Aristotle, 63, 81, 123.
arm is not shortened, 115. Armada, III.
as broad and general as the air, 93.
as great and as flagrant, 120. Asia, li.
assemblies, colonial, dissolved, xxi, 26, 107; form of, 21, 92, 93; their competency, 53.
atheism, Burke's dread of, xxix,
Athenaid, Glover, 87.
attack upon judiciary, see judi- ciary.
attorney-general, 119.
auction of finance, lix, 8, 65, 84, see also ransom by auction. auspicate, 126. auspicious, 88.
austerity of the Chair, 79. Austrian family, III. aversion from, 93.
Bacon, Francis, lvi, 95; Essay on, Macaulay, see Macaulay. Baker, G. P., Principles of Argu- mentation, lviii.
Bancroft, George, History of the United States, viii, xiv, lxix, 79,
86, 99, 101, 102, 110, 113, 120,
Barclay, David, 124. Barré, Colonel, xviii. Barrington, Daines, 48, 114. Barry, James, befriended by Burke, xlii.
barter and compromise, see com- promise.
Bath Guide, New, Christopher Anstey, see Anstey. Bathurst, Lord, 14, 87. Beaconsfield, 1; Burke's pur- chase of, xxvi, lxv; Lord, title to have been given to Burke, xli.
Bee, Goldsmith, lxiv.
before the committee, 124.
beggar subjects into submission, 31.
Bengal, 1, 71; famine, 125. Bentham, Jeremy, xlvi. Bible, 81, 87, 88, 95, 99, 100, 107, 108, 113, 115, 116, 117, 123, 126, 127; Burke's quotations from, lv.
Birmingham, xvi.
Birrell, Augustine, Obiter Dicta, Second Series, xxiv, lxix. Black Hole of Calcutta, Ixiv. Blackstone, Sir William, Commen- taries, lxv, 23, 94. Blake, William, lxiv, lxvi. blind usages, 92.
blown about by every wind of
fashionable doctrine, see wind. blue ribbon, 84.
Bolingbroke, Lord, lxiii, lxiv.
Bonaparte, Napoleon, Italian cam- paign, lxvii; puts down rising of 13th Vendémiaire, lxvii. Book of Common Prayer, see Common Prayer.
books of curious science, 31, 100. Boston, xx, 94, 98; Massacre, xx, lxv; motion to withdraw troops from, see Chatham; Port Bill, xx, lxv, 58, 59, 68, 102, 106, 120; Tea Party, see Tea Party.
Boswell's Life of Johnson, xi, xxv, xliii, lxvii, lxix. boundaries, 83. Brazil, 17.
break the American spirit, 91. Breton, Cape, see Cape. Brissot's Address, Preface to, see Preface, etc.
Bristol chooses Burke as repre- sentative, xxx, lxv; refuses to reëlect Burke, xxxii, lxvi. British Eloquence, Select, C. A. Goodrich, see Goodrich. British strength, 91.
broad and general as the air, see as broad.
Brougham, Lord, Inquiry into the Colonial Policy of the European Powers, liii; Statesmen of the Time of George the Third, lxix, 84.
Bryce, James, American Common- wealth, 93.
Buckle, H. T., History of Civiliza- tion in England, lxix. Bunker Hill, battle of, lxv. burgesses, 46, 50, 51, 114. Burgoyne, General, 90, 91.
Burke, Edmund, a troublesome colleague, xxxv; accused of dis- honesty, xxv, xxvi, xxxv; ac- quaintance with literature, lv, lvi; acquaintance with the clas- sics, lvi; advocates economical reform, xxxiv; advocates reform in India, xxxv-xxxvii, xl, xliv; agent for New York, xxxii, lxv, lxix; aim at utilitarian effect, xlvi, xlvii; appeals to love of right, xliv; arrival in London, lxiii; attitude in the Wilkes contest, xxvi, xxvii; attitude toward America, xxxii-xxxiv, xl; attitude toward Ireland, xxxi, xl, xli, xliv; attitude toward parliamentary reform, xxviii, xxxiv; attitude toward the French Revolution, xxxviii, xxxix, xl; birth, xxii, lxiii; col- lege life, xxii, xxiii, lxiii; com- mended by Chatham, xxv; con- servatism, xxviii, xxix, xxxiv, xxxvi, xxxix, xlvii, xlviii, 51, 117; Correspondence, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxvii, xxviii, xxix, xxx, xlii, xliv, lxviii, 79, 96; dies, xli, lxvii; dread of atheism, xxix, xxx; ef- forts to keep the Rockingham Whigs united, xxviii, xxix; elected member for Bristol, xxx, lxv; elected to Parliament, xxv, lxv, 80; enthusiasm for study, xxiii; establishes school for children of French émigrés, xlii; excluded from cabinet, XXXV; failure to control temper, XXXV; faults, xliii; friendship with Dr. Johnson, xi, xlii, xliii; graduation from college, lxiii;
grief over death of son, xliii; improvidence, xxvi; in Ireland, xxiv, lxiv; in London, xxiii, xxiv, xxxv; in the Literary Club, xii, xxiv, lxv; indebted to Rocking- ham, xxvi; independent of con- stituents, xxxi, xxxii; liberality, xlv, xlvi; life of, xxi-xliii; loses seat at Bristol, xxxii, lxvi; love of justice, xliv; marriage, xliii, lxiv; member for Wendover, xxv, lxv, 80; method of con- structing paragraphs, lvi, lvii; method of quoting, Ivi; offered Indian commissionership, xxviii; opposed to commercial restric- tion, xxxi; opposed to theories, xxxiv, xxxvi, xlvi, xlvii, 9, 57; opposed to use of force, xxvii, xxxii, xxxvi, lx, 17, 18, 31, 32, 100, 101; oratory, xlviii-li; Pay- master of the Forces, xxxv, lxvi; personality, xli, xlii; philan- thropy, xlii; political tracts, xxv; power of his imagination, xliv, 1, lii, liv; prosecution of Hastings, xxxvii, xxxviii, xli, xlv, xlix, lxvi, lxvii; purchase of Beaconsfield, xxvi, lxv; quarrels with Fox, xxxviii, lxvii; quar- rels with Hamilton, xxiv; quar- rels with Sheridan, lxvii; re- ceives a pension, xli; relations with Richard and William Burke, xxvi, xxxv; reliance on experience, xlvii, lvi, lix, 18, 41, 57, 65; religion, xxii; retires from Parliament, xli, lxvii; school days, xxii; secretary to Lord Rockingham, xxv, lxv; Select Works, edited by E. J.
Payne, vii, xlviii, liii, lxviii, 81, 92, 93, 95, IO1; speaks against the Stamp Act, xxv; Speeches, edited by F. G. Selby, viii, xiv, Ixviii, 95; statesmanship, xliii- xlviii; study of Irish history, xxiii; study of law, xxiii; style, li-lvii; substantial reputation, xxx; success on entering Parlia- ment, xxv; supported by mer- cantile organizations, xxx; sus- pected of being Junius, xxvii; travels, xxiii; use of connectives, lvi; visit to France, xxix, xxx, lxv; work on Annual Register, xxiv, lxiv, lxviii, lxix. Burke, Morley, xxii, xxiv, xxvii, xxviii, xl, xliii, xlviii, lxviii. Burke, Richard, brother of Ed- mund, xxvi, xxxv.
Burke, Richard, son of Edmund, dies, xli, xliii, lxiv, lxvii; un- popularity, xliii.
Burke, William, xxvi, xxxv. Burns, Robert, lxiv, lxvi.
but three ways, 99.
Bute ministry, lxiv. Butler's Analogy, lxiii.
Byron, Lord, born, lxvi.
Calcutta, Black Hole of, see Black Hole.
Cambridge arsenal, 113. Camden, Lord, 85. Canada, xviii.
Candide, Voltaire, lxiv. Cannae, IOI. Canute, 95.
Cape Breton, 54, 119. capital, 85.
Carlyle, Thomas, birth, lxvii.
Carnarvon, 114.
Carnatic, lii.
Carolinas, effects of slavery there,
Casius, Mount, 37.
Castle of Otranto, Walpole, lxv. Castlereagh, Lord, 84. Castor, 113.
Catholic Question, Letters on, see First Letter, Second Letter, etc. Catholics, disabilities of, xli, xliv. Cato, Addison, 107.
Cause of the Present Discontents, Thoughts on, see Thoughts, etc. cautions us, 123.
Century Dictionary, 83. Chair, 79.
Chair of the American Committee, 81.
changed the people, 112.
character and circumstances of people, see temper and cir- cumstances. chargeable, 100.
charity, Roman, see Roman char- ity.
Charles the Fifth, III.
Charles the First, 112.
Charles the Second, 112, 122. Charleston, xx.
Charlestown, 113.
Charter of Massachusetts abro-
gated, see Massachusetts. Chatham, Earl of, xiii, xviii, xix, lxvi, lxx, 95, 122; advocates American cause, 61; commends Burke's speeches, xxv; leader of the New Whigs, see New Whigs; motion to withdraw troops from Boston, 109, 124; Essay on, Macaulay, Ixix.
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