Dryden, the original of his Father Dominic, 41; his merits not adequately appreciated in his day, 124; alleged improvement in English poetry since his time, 151; the connecting link of the literary schools of James I. and Anne, 155; his poetical genius, 570; his excuse for the indecency and im- morality of his writings, 572, his generous ad- miration for the talents of others, 587; censure on him by Collier for his language regarding heathen divinities, 591; complimentary verses to him, by Addison, 704; obtained from Addison a critical preface to the Georgies, 706.
Dublin, Archbishop of, his work on Logic, 410. Dumont, M., his opinion that Burke's work on the Revolution had saved Europe, 318; the inter- preter of Bentham, 271.
Dundas, Mr, his character, and hostility to Hast- ings, 650, 665.
Dupleix, governor of Pondicherry, his gigantic schemes for establishing French influence in India, 505. 508-510, 513-516.
East India Company, its absolute authority in India, 3ro; its condition when Clive first went to India, 503, 504; its war with the French East India Company, 505, 506; increase of its power, 517; its factories in Bengal, 517; fortunes made by its servants in Bengal, 532. 533; its servants transformed into diplomatists and generals, 606; nature of its government and power, 609-611; rights of the Nabob of Oude over Benares ceded to it, 635; its financial embarrassments, 638. Ecclesiastical commission (the), 229. Ecclesiastics, fondness of the old dramatists for the character of, 234, 235-
Eden, pictures of, in old Bibles, 149; painting of, by a gifted master, 149, 150. Edinburgh, comparison of with Florence, 565. Education in England in the 16th century, 357; duty of the government in promoting it, 498. Education in Italy in the 14th century, 32. Egerton, his charge of corruption against Bacon, 382: Bacon's decision against him after receiving his present, 389.
Egotism, why so unpopular in conversation, and so popular in writing, 158.
Elephants, use of, in war in India, 512.
Eliot, Sir John, 200-202; his Treatise on Govern- ment, 202; died a martyr to liberty, 203. Elizabeth (Queen), fallacy entertained respecting the persecutions under her, 54. 55; her penal laws, 55; arguments in favour of, on the head of persecution, apply with more force to Mary, 59, 60; condition of the working classes in her reign, 117, 118, 197; her rapid advance of Cecil, 225, 226; character of her government, 228-230. 231, 232, 237; a persecutor though herself indif- ferent, 235, 235; her carly notice of Lord Bacon. 356; her favour towards Essex, 360; factions at the close of her reign, 360, 361, 369; her pride and temper, 363 375; and death, 369; progress in knowledge since her days, 549; her Protestant- ism, 560.
Ellenborough, Lord, one of the counsel for Hast- ings on his trial, 659. Elphinston, Lord, 547.
Elwood, Milton's Quaker friend, allusion to, 28. Emigration of Puritans to America, 206. Emigration from England to Ireland under Crom- well, 429.
Empires, extensive, often more flourishing after a little pruning, 241. England, her progress in civilisation due to the people, 122; her physical and moral condition in the 15th century, 195, 196; never so rich and powerful as since the loss of her American colo- iies, 241; conduct of, in reference to the Spanish succession, 249, 250; successive steps of her pro- gress, 325, 326; influence of her revolution on the human race. 36. 343; her situation at the Resto- ration compared with France at the restoration of Louis XVIII, 326, 327; her situation in 1678, 330. 332. 334; character of her public men at the latter part of the 17th century, 421-423; difference in her situation under Charles II. and under the
Protectorate, 431; her fertility in heroes and statesmen, 503.
English (the), in the 16th century a free people, 229- 231; their character, 331. 334- English language, 551, 552. English plays of the age of Elizabeth, 148. "Englishman," Steele's, 736. Enlightenment, its increase in the world not neces- sarily unfavourable to Catholicism, 548, 549. Enthusiasts, dealings of the Church of Rome and the Church of England with them, 551-563. Epicureans, their peculiar doctrines, 395. Epicurus, the lines on his pedestal, 395- Epitaphs, Latin, 181.
Ercilla, Alonzo de, a soldier as well as a poet, 240. Essay on Government, Sir William Temple's, 439, Essays, Lord Bacon's value of them, 362. 372. 391. 412. 416, 417.
Essex, Earl of, 237; his character, popularity, and favour with Elizabeth, 360-362, 375; his political conduct, 361, 363; his friendship for Bacon, 361, 362, 355. 376; his conversation with Robert Cecil, 351, 362; pleads for Bacon's marriage with Lady Hatton, 363 379; his expedition to Spain, 362, his faults, 362, 363. 375; decline of his fortunes; 363; his administration in Ireland, 363; Bacon's faithlessness to him, 364; his trial and execution, 364 365 ingratitude of Bacon towards him, 354. 368, 376; feeling of King James towards him, 370; his resemblance to Buckingham, 375, 376. Essex, Earl of, (temp. Ch. I.), 219, 221. Etherege, Sir George, 571.
Euripides, Milton's admiration of him, 7; emenda- tion of a passage of, 165, note. Europe, state of, at the peace of Utrecht, 264, 265; want of union in, to arrest the designs of Louis XIV.. 433; the distractions of, suspended for a short time by the treaty of Nimeguen, 444; its progress during the last seven centuries, 55', Evelina, Madame D'Arblay's, specimens of her style from, 697-699- Evelyn, 431-438.
Evils, natural and national, 110.
Exchequer, fraud of the Cabal ministry in closing it, 441.
Fable (a) of Pilpay, 122, 123,
Fairfax, reserved for him and Cromwell to termin- ate the civil war, 220.
Falkland, Lord, his conduct in respect to the bill of attainder against Strafford, 66; his character as a politician, 73; at the head of the Constitu- tional Royalists, 214 Family Compact (the) between France and Spain, 264, 265, 756.
Favourites, royal, always odious, 760. Female Quixote (the), 699. Fénelon, standard of morality in his Telemachus, 573. 574-
Ferdinand II., his devotion to Catholicism, 560. Ferdinand VII., resemblance between him and Charles I. of England, 219. Fictions, literary, 28.
Fidelity, touching instance of, in the sepoys to wards Clive, 512.
Fielding, his contempt for Richardson, 673; case from his "Amelia, "analogous to Addison's treat- ment of Steele, 721.
Filicaja, Vincenzio, 717.
Finance, Southey's theory of, 107-109. Finch, Chief Justice to Charles I., 205; fled to Hol- lind, 210.
Fine arts (the), encouragement of in Italy in the 14th century, 33; causes of their decline in Eng- land after the civil war, 273; government should promote them, 497, 498.
Fletcher, the dramatist, 572. 577. Florence, state of, in the 14th century, 32, 33: its History, by Machiavelli, 50; compared with Edinburgh, 565.
Foote, Charles, his stage character of an Anglo- Indian grandee, 540; his mimicry, 693; his in- feriority to Garrick, 693. Forde, Colonel, 529, 530 Forms of government, 179.
Fox, the House of. See Holland, Lord.
Fox, Charles James, comparison of his History of James II. with Mackintosh's History of the Re- volution, 314; his style, 314, 315; characteristic of his oratory, 315; his bodily and mental constitu- tion, 597, 598; his companionship of arbitrary measures, and defiance of public opinion, 599; his change after the death of his father, 59; clamour raised against his India Bill, and his de- fence of it, 650; his alliance with Burke, and call for peace with the American republic, 651; his powerful party, 653; his conflicts with Pitt, 654; his motion on the charge against Hastings re specting his treatment of Cheyte Sing, 654. 655; his appearance on the trial of Hastings, 659; his rupture with Burke, 663.
Fox, Henry, sketch of his political character, 297. 31. 303; accepts office, 304, 305; directed to form an administration in concert with Chatham, 396. 309; applied to by Bate to manage the House of Commons, 762, 763; his private and public qualities, 763; became leader of the House of Commons, 763; obtains his promised pecrage,
France, illustration from the history of, since the Revolution, 86; her condition in 1712 and in 1832, 263; her state at the restoration of Louis XVIII, 327: enters into a compact with Spain against England, 756; her recognition of the indepen- dence of the United States, 739.
Francis, Sir Philip, councillor under the Regulat- ing Act for India, 618; his character and talents, 618; probability of his being the author of the Letters of Junius, 618, 619; his opposition to Hastings, 620, 627; his patriotic feeling, and re- conciliation with fastings, 630; his opposition to the arrangement with Sir Elijah Impey, 633; re- newal of his quarrel with Hastings, 633; duel with Hastings, 633; his return to England, 635; his en- trance into the House of Commons and Character there, 651, 654; his speech on Mr Fox's motion relating to Cheyte Sing, 654, 655; his exclusion from the committee selected to conduct the im- peachment of Hastings, 657. Francis, the Emperor, 750.
Franklin, Benjainin, 549; his admiration for Miss Burney, 678.
Franks, rapid fall of their dominion after the death of Charlemagne, 507- Frederic the Great, his birth, 793; his father, 793; his father's cruelty to him, 793, 724; his education, 794; his correspondence with Voltaire, 797; his accession to the throne, 797; death of Charles VI, 793; Maria Theresa,798, 799; war with Aus- tria, Boo; occupation of Silesia, 801; peace, 803; Frederic's associates at Potsdam, 809; Votaire, 811, 812; the Seven Years' War, 821; frightful state of the kingdom, 833, 834. Frederic II. 553.
Free inquiry, right of, in religious matters, 488-490. French Revolution (the), and the Reformation, analogy between, 226-228,
Funds, national. See National Debt.
Garden of Eden, pictures of, in old Bibles, 149; painting of by a gifted master, 149. 150. Garrick, David, his acquaintance with Johnson, 173; his power of amusing children, 671; his friendship for Crisp, 673, 674; his advice as to Crisp's tragedy of Virginia, 673; his power of imitation, 693-
Garth, his epilogue to Cato, 731.
Gay, sent for by Addison on his deathbed to ask his forgiveness, 743.. Geneva, Addison's visit to, 712.
Genoa, Addison's admiration of, 710; its decay owing to Catholicism, 565. "Gentleman Dancing-Master," its production on the stage, 581; its best scenes suggested by Calderon, 585.
Geometry, comparative estimate of by Plato and by Bacon, 398, 399.
George I., his accession, 264. George II., political state of the nation in his time, 94; his resentment against Chatham for his oppo- sition to the payment of Hanoverian troops, 209; compelled to admit him to office, 300; his efforts for the protection of Hanover, 304; his relations towards his ministers, 309-311; reconciled to Chatham's possession of power, 750; his death, 750; his character, 750, 751.
George III., his accession the commencement of a new historic era, 94. 744 750; cause of the dis contents in the early part of his reign, 95; his partiality to Clive, 544; bright prospects at his accession, 628, 745. 751; his interview with Miss Burney, 630; his opinions of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Shakspeare, 60, 631; his partizanship for Hastings, 66; his illness and the view taken of it in the palace, 687; the history of the first ten years of his reign but imperfectly known, 744 ; his characteristics, 751, 752; his favour to Lord Bute, 752; his notions of government, 753; slighted for Chatham at the Lord Mayor's dinner, 757: receives the resignation of Bute, and appoints George Grenville his successor, 766, 707; his treatment by Grenville, 769; increase of his aver- sion to his ministers, 770; his illness, 772; disputes between him and his ministry on the regency question, 772; inclined to enforce the American Stamp Act by the sword, 776; the faction of the "King's friends," 778, 779; his unwilling consent to the repeal of the Stamp Act, 279,780; dis- misses Rockingham, and appoints Chathamn his successor, 781, 782.
Ghosts, Johnson's belief in, 178.
Gibbon, his alleged conversion to Mahommedanism, 163; his success as a historian, 313, 314; his pre- sence at Westminster Hall at the trial of Hast- ings, 658; unlearned his native English during his exile, 696.
Gibraltar, capture of, by Sir George Rooke, 253- Giffard, Lady, sister of Sir William Temple, 433- 435 461; her death, 467.
Gittord, Byron's admiration of, 153. Gladstone, W. E., review of "The State in its Re- lations with the Church," 468-502; quality of his mind, 459; grounds on which he rests his case for the defence of the Church, 471; his doctrine that the duties of government are paternal, 472; spe- cimen of his arguments, 473, 474; his argument that the profession of a national religion is im- perative, 475. 476 478; inconsequence of his rea- soning, 480-484.
Gleig, Rev. G. R., review of his Life of Warren Hastings, 602-667. Godfrey, Sir E., 333.
Godolphin, Lord, his conversion to Whiggism, 261; engages Addison to write a poem in honour of the battle of Blenheim, 714, 715-
Godolphin and Marlborough, their policy soon after the accession of Queen Anne, 713.
Goezman, his bribery as a member of the parlia- ment of Paris by Beaumarchais, 390. Goldsmith, 171; unjust to estimate him by his His- tory of Greece, 603. Goordas, son of Nuncomar, his appointment as treasurer of the household, 613. Goree, conquest of, 310. Gorhambury, the country residence of Lord Bacon, 380.
Government, various forms of, 179; changes in its form sometimes not felt till long after, 242; the science of, experimental and progressive. 62. 321, 322; examination of Mr Gladstone's treatise on the Philosophy of, 468-500; doctrines of Southey on the duties and ends of, stated and examined, 110-114, its conduct in relation to in- fidel publications, 115; its proper functions, 575.
Grafton, Duke of, Secretary of State under Lord
Rockingham, 775; First Lord of the Treasury under Chatham, 782, 783; joined the Bedfords, 787.
Granby, Marquis of, his character, 531.
Grand Alliance (the) against the Bourbons, 250. Grand Remonstrance, debate on and passing of it, 213-
Granville, Lord. See Carteret, Lord.
Gray, his want of appreciation of Johnson, 673; his Latin verses, 709; his unsuccessful application for a professorship, 761.
"Great Commoner," the designation of Lord Chatham, 313. 748.
Greece, its history compared with that of Italy, 35: its degradation and rise in modern times, 147, 148; instances of the corruption of judges in the ancient commonwealths of, 305; its literature,
Greek drama, its origin, 7; compared with English plays of the age of Elizabeth, 147. Grecks, their social condition compared with that of the Italians of the middle ages, 43; their posi- tion and character in the 12th century, 552; difference between them and the Romans, 37. Gregory XIII, his austerity and zeal, 558. Grenville, George, his character, 755.756; entrusted with the lead in the Commons under the Bute administration, 758; his support of the proposed tax on cider, 755; his nickname of "Gentle Shep- herd," 766; appointed prime minister, 767; his opinions, 767; character of his public acts, 767: his treatment of the king, 769; his deprivation of Henry Conway of his regiment, 770; proposed the imposition of stamp duties on the North Amer- ican colonies, 771; his embarrassment on the question of a regency, 772; his triumph over the king, 774; superseded by Lord Rockingham and his friends, 775; popular demonstration against him on the repeal of the Stamp Act, 779; des- crted by the Bedfords, 787; his pamphlet against the Rockinghams, 737; his reconciliation with Chatham, 737, 788; his death, 783.
Grenvilles (the), 743; Richard Lord Temple at their head, 742
Greville, Fulk, patron of Dr Burney, his character, G69.
Grey, Earl, 650, 660. 663.
Grey, Lady Jane, her high classical acquirements,
Habeas Corpus Act, 454 458.
Hale, Sir Matthew, his integrity, 222. 373, Ha ifax, Lord, a trimmer both by intellect and by constitution, 455; compared with Shaftesbury, 455. 456; his political tracts, 456; his oratorical powers, 457; the king's dislike to him, 437; his recommendation of Addison to Godolphin, 714; sworn of the Privy Council of Queen Anne, Hallam, Mr. review of his Constitutional History of England, 51-99; his qualifications as a historian, 52; his style, 54, 53; character of his Constitu tional History, 53; his impartiality, 53, 54 85: his description of the proceedings of the third parh ument of Charles I, and the incasures which followed its dissolution, 61; his remarks on the impeachment of Stralford, 64, 65; on the proceed- ings of the Long Parliament, and on the ques ton of the justice of the civil war, 67-78; his opinion on the nineteen propositions of the Long Parliament, 74; on the veto of the crown on act's
of parliament, 75; on the control over the army, 75. 76; on the treatment of Laud, and on his cor- respondence with Strafford, 76, 77; on the exe. cution of Charles I, 79; his parallel between Cromwell and Napoleon, 82-84; his character of Clarendon, 89, 90.
Hamilton, Gerard, his celebrated single speech, 304; his effective speaking in the Irish Par- liament, 722. Hammond, Henry, uncle of Sir William Temple, his designation by the new Oxonian sectaries, Hampden, John, his conduct in the ship-money affair approved by the Royalists, 62; effect of his loss on the Parliamentary cause, 78, 222; review of Lord Nugent's Memorial of him, 192-222; his public and private character, 193, 194; Baxter's testimony to his excellence, 194; his origin and early history, 194; took his seat in the House of Commons in 1621, 195; joined the opposition to the Court, 195; his first appearance as a public man, 198; his first stand for the fundamental prin- ciple of the Constitution, 200; committed to pri- Son, 200; set at liberty, and re-elected for Wen- dover, 200; his retirement, 201; his remembrance of his persecuted friends, 201; his letters to Sir John Eliot, 201; Clarendon's character of him as a de- bater, 201. 210; letter from him to Sir John Eliot, 202; his acquirements, 193. 202; death of his wife, 203; his resistance to the assessment for ship- money, 205, 206; Strafford's hatred of him, 206; his intention to leave England, 206; his return for Buckinghamshire in the fifth parliament of Charles I., 207; his motion on the subject of the king's message, 203; his election by two consti- tuencies to the Long Parliament, 209; character of his speaking, 210; his opinion on the bill for the attainder of Strafford, 212; Lord Clarendon's testimony to his moderation, 212; his mission to Scotland, 212; his conduct in the House of Com mons on the passing of the Grand Remonstrance, 213; his impeachment ordered by the king, 214- 216; returns in triumph to the House, 217, his re- solution, 217, 219; raised a regiment in Bucking hamshire, 219; contrasted with Essex, 220; his encounter with Rupert at Chalgrove, 221, his death and burial, 221, 222; effect of his death on his party, 222,
Hanover, Chatham's invective against the favour shown to, by George II., 299
Harcourt, French ambassador to the court of Charles II. of Spain, 246.
Hardwicke, Earl of, 749; High Steward of the Uni- versity of Cambridge, 759; his views of the policy of Chatham, 755-
Harley, Robert, 173; his accession to power (in 1710), 262; censure on him by Lord Mahon, 262, his kindness for men of genius, 594; his unsuc cessful attempt to rally the Tories in 1997, 718; his advice to the queen to dismiss the Whigs, 726. Harrison's Introduction to Holinshed, on the con dition of the working classes in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 117
Hastings, Warren, review of Mr Gleig's Memoirs of his Life, 602-667; his pedigree, 603, 64; his birth, and the death of his father and mother, 604; taken charge of by his uncle and sent to Westminster school, 605; sent as a writer to Ben- gal, 605; his position there, 605; events which originated his greatness, 656; becomes a member of council at Calcutta, 606; his character in pecuniary transactions, 607, 647, 64; his return to England, generosity to his relations, and loss of his moderate fortune, 607, 6-3; his plan for the cultivation of Persian literature at Oxford, 68; his interview with Johnson, 603; his appointment as member of Council at Madras, and voyage to Indi, 608; his attachment to the Barons Im holl, 609; his judgment and vigour at Madras, 609; his nomination to the head of the government at Bengal, 609; his relation with Nuncomar, G11, 612; his embarrassed finances and means to re- lieve them, 614. 635; his principle of dealing with his neighbours and the excuse for him, 614; h's proceedings towards the Nabob and the Great Mogul, 614; his sale of territory to the Nabob of Oude, 615; his refusal to interfere to stop the barbarities of Sujah Dowlah, 617; his great talents for administration, 618. 644; his dis putes with the members of the new council. 620 ;
his measures reversed, and the powers of govern ment taken from him, 620; charges preferred against him, 621; his painful situation, and ap- peal to England, 622; examination of his con- duct, 624, 6-5; his letter to Dr Johnson, 625; his condemnation by the directors, 636; his resigna- tion tendered by his agent and accepted, 626; his marriage and reappointment, 627, 628; his importance to England at that conjuncture, 628, 629, 633; his duel with Francis, 633; his great in- fluence, 634: his financial embarrassment and designs for relief, 634 636; his transactions with and measures against Cheyte Sing, 636; his perilous situation in Benares, 639; his treatment of the Nabob Vizier, 649, 641; his treatment of the Begums of Oude, 641-643; close of his ad- ministration, 644; remarks on his system, 644-648 ; his reception in England, 648; preparations for his impeachment, 649-653; his defence at the bar, of the House, 654; brought to the bar of the Peers, 657; his appearance on his trial, his coun sel, and his accusers, 658, 659; his arraignment by Burke, 660; narrative of the proceedings against him, 660-663; expenses of his trial, 664; his last interference in politics, 665; his pursuits and amusements at Daylesford, 665, 666; his ap pearance and reception at the bar of the House of Commons, 666; his reception at Oxford, 666; sworn of the Privy Council, and gracious recep- tion by the Prince Regent, 667; his presentation to the Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia, 667; his death, 667; summary of his character, 667.
Hation, Lady, 363; her manners and temper, 363; her marriage with Sir Edward Coke, 363.
Havannah, capture of, 757-
prehensions of the designs of France, 433; its de. fensive alliance with England and Sweden, 436,
437- Holland House, beautiful lines addressed to it, 6or; its interesting associations, 601, 602; Addi- son's abode and death there, 739-743-
Holland, Lord, review of his opinions as recorded in the journals of the House of Lords, 596-602; his family, 597. 598; his public life, 569-601; his philanthropy, 601; feelings with which his memory is cherished, 601, 602; his hospitality at Holland House, 602; his winning manners and upright- ness, 602; his last lines, 602.
Hollis, Mr, committed to prison by Charles I., 201; his impeachment, 214
Holwell, Mr, his presence of mind in the Black Hole, 519; cruelty of the Nabob to him, 519. Home, John, patronage of, by Bute, 761. Homer, difference between his poetry and Milton's, 6; one of the most "correct" poets, 147; Pope's translation of his description of a moonlight night, 147; his descriptions of war 715- Hooker, his faulty style, 439.
Hoole, specimen of his heroic couplets, 705. Horace, Bentley's notes on, 466, Hosein, son of Ali, festival to his memory, 512; legend of his death, 512.
Hospitals, objects for which they are built, 497. Hough, Bishop, 707.
House of Commons (the), increase of its power, 94 95.97; change in public feeling in respect to its privileges, 96; its responsibility, 06, 07: con mencement of the practice of buying of votes in, 278; corruption in, not necessary to the Tudors, 277; increase of its influence after the Revolu tion, 278; how to be kept in order, 278.
Hawke, Admiral, his victory over the French fleet Hume, David, his description of the violence of
under Conflans, 310.
Heathcote, Sir Gilbert, 730.
"Heathens" (the), of Croinwell's time, 25.
Heathfield, Lord, 658.
Hebrew writers (the), resemblance of Eschylus to, 7-
Hebrides (the), Johnson's visit to, 182; his letters from, 183.
Hedges, Sir Charles, Secretary of State, 717. Helvetius, allusion to, 3.
Henry IV. of France, 478; twice abjured Protes- tantism from interested motives, 560.
Henry VII, effects of his accession, 94.
parties before the Revolution, 346.
Humour, that of Addison compared with that of Swift and Voltaire, 725, 726.
Hungarians, their incursions into Lombardy, 507. Hunt, Leigh, review of his edition of the Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, 570-596; his merits and faults, 570; his qualifications as an editor, 570; his appreciation of Shakspeare, Spenser, Dryden, and 'Addison,
Huntingdon, Countess of, 563. Huntingdon, William, 541. Hutchinson, Mrs, 428.
Henry VIII, 60; his position between the Catho- Hyde, Mr, his conduct in the House of Commons, lic and Protestant parties, 234.
Hephzibah, an allegory so called, 191. Heresy, remarks on, 480-484.
Heroic couplet (the), its mechanical nature, 705; specimen from Ben Jonson, 705; from Hoole, 75, its rarity before the time of Pope, 705. Hesiod, his complaint of the corruption of the judges of Ascra, 385. Hesse Darmstadt, Prince of, commanded the land forces sent against Gibraltar in 1704, 253; accom- panies Peterborough on his expedition, 254; his death at the capture of Monjuich, 255. High Commission Court, its abolition, 210. Highgate, death of Lord Bacon at, 391. Hindoo Mythology, 550.
Hindoos, their character compared with other na tions, 61; their position and feeling towards the people of Central Asia, 615; their mendacity and perjury, 621; their view of forgery, 623; import ance attached by them to ceremonial practices, 623; their poverty compared with the people of England, 631; their feelings against English law,
208; at the head of the Constitutional Royalists, 213; voted for Strafford's attainder, 212. See also Clarendon, Lord.
Hyder Ali, his origin and character, 634; his inva- sion of the Carnatic, and triumphant success, 634, 635; his progress arrested by Sir Eyre Coote, 635.
Imagination, great strength of Milton's, 5; great power of Bunyan s, 187, 188. 192.
Imhoff, Baron, his position and circumstances, 68: character and attractions of his wife, and attach- ment between her and Hastings, 609, 627. Impeachment of Lord Kimbolton, Hampden, Pym, and Hollis, 214; of Hastings, 653 Impey, Sir Elijah, 605; Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court at Calcutta, 620; his hostility to the Council, 622; remarks on his trial of Nuncomar, 623, 624. 631; dissolution of his friendship with Hastings, 632; his interference in the proceed- ings against the Begums, 643; his ignorance of the native dialects, 643, note; condemnation in Parliament of the arrangement made with him by Hastings, 644.
Impostors, fertile in a reforming age, 153- Indemnity, bill of, to protect witnesses against Walpole, 299.
India, foundation of the English empire in, 310- 312; high civilisation of its people, 502. Induction, method of, not invented by Bacon, 407 utility of its analysis greatly overrated by Bacon
407, 409; example of its leading to absurdity, | Johnson, Dr Samuel, review of Croker's edition of
Infidelity, on the treatment of, 115; its powerless- ness to disturb the peace of the world, 566, Inquisition instituted on the suppression of the Al- bigensian heresy, 553; armed with powers to sup- press the Reformation, 558, 559.
Interest, effect of attempts by government to limit the rate of, 575.
Intolerance, religious, effects of, 115, 116. Invocation of saints, 550.
Ireland, rebellion in, in 1640, 212; Essex's Admin- istration in, 363; its condition under Cromwell's government, 428-430; its state contrasted with that of Scotland, 487; its union with England compared with the Persian fable of King Zohak, 487, 488; reason of its not joining in favour of the Reformation, 554. 561; danger to England from its discontents, 628.
Italians, their character in the middle ages, 37, 38; their social condition compared with that of the ancient Greeks, 48.
Italy, state of in the dark ages, 31, 32; progress of civilisation and refinement in, 30, et seq; its con dition under Cæsar Borgia, 44, 45; its temper at the Reformation, 554, et seq.; its slow progress owing to Catholicism, 565; its subjugation, 568; revival of the power of the Church in, 569.
"Jackboot," a popular pun on Bute's name, 761.
Jacobin Club, its excesses, 567. Jacobins, their origin, 227.
Jacobitism, Addison's opinion that travelling is the best cure for it, 711.
James I., 61; his folly and weakness, 197, 198; resembled Claudius Caesar, 198; court paid to him by the English courtiers before the death of Elizabeth, 368, 369; his twofold character, 369; his favourable reception of Bacon, 369-372; his anxiety for the union of England and Scotland, 371; his employment of Bacon in perverting the laws, 372; his favours and attachment to Buck- ingham, 375: absoluteness of his government, 378; his summons of a parliament, 381; his pol itical blunders, 381; his message to the Cominons on the misconduct of Bacon, 382; his readiness to make concessions to Rome, 560. James II., the causes of his expulsion, 16: admin- istration of the law in his time, 88; Varelst's por- trait of him, 186; his death, and acknowledgment by Louis XIV, of his son as his successor, 249; favour towards him of the High Church party, 335; his misgovernment, 335; his claims as a sup- porter of toleration, 336-339; his conduct towards Lord Rochester, 337; his union with Louis XIV., 338; his confidential advisers, 338; his kindness and munificence to Wycherley, 582. Jardine, Mr, his work on the use of torture in Eng- land, 374-
Jeffreys, Judge, his cruelty, 335.
Jemmy Twitcher," a nickname of the Earl of Sandwich, 770.
Jenyns, Soame, his notion of happiness in heaven,
Jerningham, Mr, his verses, 678.
Jesuitism, its rise, 557; its destruction of Port Royal, 566; its fall and consequences, 567, 568; its doctrines, 569; its theory and practice towards heretics, 338.
Jesuits, order of, instituted by Loyola, 557; their character, 557; their policy and proceedings, 557, 558; their doctrines, 557; their conduct in the confessional, 557; their inissionary activity, 557, 55, 561.
Jews (the), review of the Civil Disabilities of, 134- 141; argument that the Constitution would be destroyed by admitting them to power, 134 136; the argument that they are aliens, 136, 137; in- consistency of the law in respect to them, 135. 136; their exclusive spirit a natural consequence of their treatment, 137: argument against them, that they look forward to their restoration to their own country, 138-141. Job, the book of, 7. 549.
Boswell's Life of, 160-185; his Lives of the Poets, 151; his objection to Juvenal's Satires, 164; his peculiarities, 172. 177: condition of literary men at the time of his settling in London, 173-175; his difficulties, 175; his elevation, 175, 176; peculiarity of his intellect, 177; his credulity, 177, 178; his religious sentiments, 178; his opinion on forms of government, 179; his judgments on books, 179- 181; narrowness of his views of society. 181, 182; his visit to the Hebrides, 182; his style, 183, 184. 697; his club-room, 184; singularity of his destiny, 185; desultoriness of his studies, 186; his admira- tion of the Pilgrim's Progress, 186; his bigotry, 348; his definitions of Excise and Pensioner, 348; comparison of his political writings with those of Swift, 462; language he held of Lord Clive, 541; his praise of Congreve's "Mourning Bride." 588. 594; his interview with Hastings, 668; his friend- ship with Dr Burney, 670; his ignorance of music, 670; his want of appreciation of Gray, 673; his position with the Thrales, 677; his fondness for Miss Burney, and approbation of her book, 677, 678; his injustice to Fielding, 677; his irritability, 678; his benevolence, 678; his death, 680. Johnsonese, 183. Jones, Inigo, 609.
Jonson, Ben, 42; his " Jones, Sir William, 166, 167. description of Lord Bacon's eloquence, 359; his Hermogenes," 156; his verses on the celebration of Bacon's sixtieth year, 380; his tribute to Bacon, 391; his descrip- tion of humours in character, 694; specimen of his heroic couplets, 705.
Joseph II., his reforms, 567.
Judges (the), condition of their tenure of office, 74; formerly accustomed to receive gifts from suitors, 385-387; how their corruption is generally detected, 389, 390; integrity required from them, 625.
Judgment, private, Milton's defence of the right Judicial bench, its character in the time of James of, 26.
Junius, Letters of, arguments in favour of their Juvenal's Satires, Johnson's objections to them, having been written by Sir Philip Francis, 618, 619; their effects, 787. 164; their impurity, 570.
Kimbolton, Lord, his impeachment, 214. "King's Friends," the faction of the, 777-780, 783. Kit-Cat Club, Addison's introduction to the, 713. Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 273; Addison's lines to him, Kniperdoling and Robespiere, analogy between "Knights," comedy of the, 427. their followers, 227.
Knowledge, advancement of society in, 262.
Labour, division of, 471; effects of attempts by government to limit the hours of, 575- Labouring classes (the), their condition in England and on the Continent, 118-120; in the United States, 119, 120.
Labourdonnais, his talents, 505, 506; his treatment Lalla Rookh, 414. by the French government, 545. La Fontaine, allusion to, 171.
Lally, Governor, his treatment by the French
Lamb, Charles, his defence of the dramatists of the government, 545- Lancaster, Dr, his patronage of Addison, 702. Restoration, 573-575; his kind nature, 573. Lampoons, Pope's, 738. Langton, Mr, his admiration of Miss Burney, 678. Languedoc, description of it in the 12th century, Lansdowne, Lord, his friendship for Hastings, 551, 552; destruction of its prosperity and liter- ature by the Normans, 552.
Latimer, Hugh, his popularity in London, 387, 388.
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