ABB

Academy, character of its doctrines, ii.
371

Adam, Robert, court architect to George
III., iv. 292
Addison, Joseph, review of Miss Aikin's
life of, iv. 162-255. His character,
163, 166.
Sketch of his father's life,
165. His birth and early life, 166,
168. Appointed to a scholarship in
Magdalene College, Oxford, 167. His
classical attainments, 168, 170. His
Essay on the Evidences of Chris-
tianity, 170, 248. Contributes a
preface to Dryden's Georgics, 175.
His intention to take orders frustrated,
175, 178. Sent by the government
to the Continent, 179. His introduction
to Boileau, 179. Leaves Paris and
proceeds to Venice, 184. His residence
in Italy, 185-188. Composes his
Epistle to Montague (then Lord Hali-
fax), 188. His prospects clouded by
the death of William III., 189. Be-
comes tutor to a young English
traveller, 189. Writes his Treatise on
Medals, 190. Repairs to Holland,
190. Returns to England, 190. His
cordial reception and introduction into
the Kit-Cat Club, 190.

His pecu.

niary difficulties, 190. Engaged by
Godolphin to write a poem in honour
of Marlborough's exploits, 193. Is
appointed to a Commissionership, 193.
Merits of his "Campaign," 194.
Criticism of his Travels in Italy,
169, 197. His opera of Rosamond,
198. Is made Under-Secretary of

ADD

His

State, and accompanies the Earl of
Halifax to Hanover, 199. His elec-
tion to the House of Commons, 200.
His failure as a speaker, 200.
popularity and talents for conversa-
tion, 203, 204. His timidity and
constraint among strangers, 204. His
favourite associates, 203-208. Be-
comes Chief Secretary for Ireland
under Wharton, 208. Origination
of the Tatler, 211, 212. His cha-
racteristics as a writer, 212, 216.
Compared with Swift and Voltaire as
a master of the art of ridicule, 213,
214. His pecuniary losses, 218.
Loss of his Secretaryship, 219. Re-
signation of his Fellowship, 219.
Encouragement and disappointment of
his advances towards a great lady, 219.
Returned to Parliament without a con-
test, 219. His Whig Examiner, 219.
Intercedes with the Tories on behalf
of Ambrose Phillipps and Steele, 220.
His discontinuance of the Tatler and
commencement of the Spectator, 220.
His part in the Spectator, 221. His
commencement and discontinuance of
the Guardian,225. His Cato, 184,225.
His intercourse with Pope, 229, 231.
His concern for Steele, 231. Begins
a new series of the Spectator, 232.
Appointed Secretary to the Lords
Justices of the Council on the death
of Queen Anne, 232. Again appointed
Chief Secretary for Ireland, 233.
His relations with Swift and Tickell,
234, 236. Removed to the Board of
Trade, 236. Production of his Drum-
mer, 236. His Freeholder, 236. His

ADD

estrangement from Pope, 237, 240.
His long courtship of the Countess
Dowager of Warwick and union with
her, 246. Takes up his abode at
Holland House, 246. Appointed
Secretary of State by Sunderland,
247. Failure of his health, 247, 252.
Resigns his post, 247. Receives a
pension, 248. His estrangement from
Steele and other friends, 248. Ad-
vocates the bill for limiting the num-
ber of Peers, 250. Refutation of a
calumny upon him, 251. Entrusts

his works to Tickell, and dedicates
them to Craggs, 252. Sends for Gay
on his death-bed to ask his forgive-
ness, 252. His death and funeral,
253. Tickell's elegy on his death,
254. Superb edition of his works,
254. His monument in Poets' Cor-
Westminster Abbey, 255
Addison, Dr. Lancelot, sketch of his life,
iv. 165

ner,

Adiaphorists, a sect of German Pro-
testants, ii. 7, 29

Adultery, how represented by the drama-

tists of the Restoration, iii. 309
Advancement of Learning, by Bacon, its

publication, ii. 372

Eschylus and the Greek Grammar, i.
14-26

Afghanistan, the monarchy of, analogous

to that of England in the 16th century,
ii. 19. Bravery of its inhabitants, iii.
315, 317. The English the only
army in India which could compete
with them, 313. Their devastations
in India, 86

Agricultural and manufacturing labour.
ers, comparison of their condition, i.
226, 229

Agujari, the singer, iv. 101

ARC

Allahabad, iii. 311
Allegories of Johnson and Addison,

i. 335

Allegory, difficulty of making it interest-
ing, i. 335

Allegro and Penseroso, i. 13
Alphabetical writing, the greatest of
human inventions, ii. 383. Compara-
tive views of its value by Plato and
Bacon, 383, 384

America, acquisitions of the Catholic
Church in, iii. 172. Its capabilities,

173

American colonies, British war with
them, iii. 339. Act for imposing
stamp duties upon them, iv. 314.
Their disaffection, 325. Revival of
the dispute with them, 347. Progress
of their resistance, 351
Anabaptists, their origin, ii. 3
Anacharsis, reputed contriver of the
potter's wheel, ii. 369

Anaverdy Khan, governor of the Carna-
tic, iii. 89, 92

Angria, his fortress of Gheriah reduced
by Clive, iii. 105

Anne, Queen, her political and religious
inclinations, ii. 85. Changes in her
government in 1710, 85. Relative
estimation by the Whigs and the
Tories of her reign, 89-92, 94.
State of parties at her accession, iv.
191, 193. Dismisses the Whigs,
217. Change in the conduct of
public affairs consequent on her
death, 233

Antioch, Grecian eloquence at, iii. 172
Anytus, ii. 352

Apostolical succession, Mr. Gladstone
claims it for the Church of England,
iii. 48-71

Aquinas, Thomas, ii. 406

son, iv. 162-255

Aix, its capture, ii. 190

Akenside, his Epistle to Curio, ii. 133
Albigenses, iii. 181, 183
Alexander the Great, compared with
Clive, iii. 168

Alfieri and Cowper, comparison between
them, i. 316

215

Arbuthnot's Satirical Works, iv. 214
Archimedes, his slight estimate of his
inventions, ii. 379

Archytas, rebuked by Plato, ii. 379
Arcot, Nabob of, his relations with Eng-
land, iii. 92-97, 168. His claims
recognised by the English, iv. 19

ARE

Areopagitica, Milton's allusion to, i. 59
Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Walpole's
administration, ii. 154
Ariosto, compared with Tasso, iii. 194
Aristodemus, iii. 174
Aristophanes, iii. 219

Aristotle, his authority impaired by the
Reformation, ii. 376

Arithmetic, comparative estimate of, by
Plato and by Bacon, ii. 378, 381
Arlington, Lord, his character, ii. 448.
His coldness for the Triple Alliance,
455. His impeachment, 473
Armies in the middle ages, how consti-
tuted, i. 76, 154. A powerful re-
straint on the regal power, 154.
Subsequent change in this respect, 156
Arms, British, successes of, against the
French in 1758, ii. 190-193
Army (the), control of by Charles I. or
by the Parliament, i. 161. Its triumph
over both, 169. Danger of a stand-
ing army becoming an instrument of
despotism, 476

Arne, Dr., set to music Addison's opera
of Rosamond, iv. 199

Arragon and Castile, their old institu-
tions favourable to public liberty,
ii. 45

Art of War, Machiavelli's, i. 99
Arundel, Earl of, ii. 365

Asia, Central, its people, iii. 312
Asiatic Society, commencement of its
career under Warren Hastings, iii.
375

Assemblies, deliberative, ii. 187
Association. See Catholic Association
Astronomy, comparative estimate of by

Socrates and by Bacon, ii. 381
Athenian comedies, their impurity, iii.
219. Reprinted at the two Universi-
ties, 219

Athenians (the), Johnson's opinion of
them, i. 413

Attainder, an act of, warrantable, i. 461
Atterbury, Bishop, his reply to Bentley

to prove the genuineness of the Letters
of Phalaris, ii. 522. Reads the
funeral service over the body of Ad-
dison, iv. 254
Attila, iii. 172

BAC

Attributes of God, subtle speculations
touching them imply no high degree
of intellectual culture, iii. 175, 178
Aubrey, his charge of corruption against
Bacon, ii. 345. Bacon's decision
against him after his present, 361
Augsburg, Confession of, its adoption in
Sweden, iii. 199
Augustin, St., iii. 172
Aurungzebe, his policy, iii. 84.
Austen, Jane, notice of, iv. 149
Austen, Sarah, her character as a trans-
lator, iii. 171, 217

Austria, success of her armies in the
Catholic cause, unaltered, iii. 206
Authors, their present position, i. 268-

275

Avignon, the Papal Court transferred
from Rome to, iii. 183

BABER,

ABER, founder of the Mogul em-
pire, iii. 83

Bacon, Lady, mother of Lord Bacon,
ii. 287

Bacon, Lord, review of Basil Montagu's
new edition of the works of, ii. 275—
421. His mother distinguished as a
linguist, 287. His early years, 290,
293. His services refused by Govern-
ment, 294, 296. His admission at
Gray's Inn, 294. His legal attain-
ments, 294. Sat in Parliament in
- 1593, 296. Part he took in poli-
tics, 297. His friendship with the
Earl of Essex, 302-310. Exami-
nation of his conduct to Essex, 309-
322. Influence of King James on
his fortunes, 318. His servility to
Lord Southampton, 319. Influence
his talents had with the public, 320.
His distinction in Parliament and in
the courts of law, 322. His literary
and philosophical works, 322. His
"Novum Organum," and the admira-
tion it excited, 322. His work of
reducing and recompiling the laws of
England, 323. His tampering with
the judges on the trial of Peacham,
324-329. Attaches himself to
Buckingham, 330. His appointment

BAC

as Lord Keeper, 333. His share in
the vices of the administration, 334.
His animosity towards Sir Edward
Coke, 339, 341. His town and
country residences, 341. His titles
of Baron Verulam and Viscount St.
Albans, 342. Report against him of
the Committee on the Courts of Jus-
tice, 345. Nature of the charges,
345, 347. Overwhelming evidence
to them, 348. His admission of his
guilt, 349. His sentence, 349. Ex-
amination of Mr. Montagu's argu-
ments in his defence, 350-363.
Mode in which he spent the last years
of his life, 364, 367. Chief pecu-
liarity of his philosophy, 368-377.
His views compared with those of
Plato, 378-388. To what his wide
and durable fame is chiefly owing,
392.

His frequent treatment of
moral subjects, 395. His views as a
theologian, 397. Vulgar notion of
him as inventor of the inductive
method, 398. Estimate of his analy-
sis of that method, 398-408. Union
of audacity and sobriety in his temper,
408. His amplitude of comprehen-
sion, 409, 410. His freedom from
the spirit of controversy, 410. His
eloquence, wit, and similitudes, 412.
His disciplined imagination, 414.
His boldness and originality, 415.
Unusual development in the order of
his faculties, 416. His resemblance
to the mind of Burke, 416. Speci-
mens of his two styles, 417. Value
of his Essays, 418. His greatest
performance the first book of the
Novum Organum, 418. Contempla-
tion of his life, 420, 421
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his character, ii.
280-286

Baconian philosophy, its chief pecu-
liarity, ii. 366. Its essential spirit,
370. Its method and object differed
from the ancient, 377. Comparative
views of Bacon and Plato, 378-
388. Its beneficent spirit, 385, 387,
393. Its value compared with ancient
philosophy, 388, 399

BEG

Baillie, Gen., destruction of his detach-
ment by Hyder Ali, iv. 215
Balance of power, interests of the Popes
in preserving it, iii. 206
Banim, Mr., his defence of James II. as
a supporter of toleration, ii. 246
Banking operations of Italy in the 14th
century, i. 70

Bar (the), its degraded condition in the
time of James II., i. 192

Barbary, work on, by Rev. Dr. Addison,
iv. 165

Barcelona, capture of, by Peterborough,
ii. 73

Barretti, his admiration for Miss Burney,
iv. 115

Barillon, M., his pithy words on the new
Council proposed by Temple, ii. 483
Barlow, Bishop, iii. 236
Barrington, Lord, iv. 267
Barwell, Mr., iii. 319. His support of
Hastings, 323, 336, 338, 343
Bastille, Burke's declamation on its
capture, iii. 390

Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies,
Addison's, iv. 172

Bavaria, its contest between Protestant-

ism and Catholicism, iii. 196, 206
Baxter's testimony to Hampden's ex-
cellence, i. 424

Bayle, Peter, iii. 178

Beaumarchais, his suit before the Parlia-
ment of Paris, ii. 362
Beckford, Alderman, iv. 343
Bedford, Duke of, iv. 265. His views of
the policy of Chatham, 279, 291. Pre-
sents remonstrance to George III.,321
Bedford, Earl of, invited by Charles I.
to form an administration, i. 462
Bedfords (the), iv. 265. Their oppo-
sition to the Rockingham ministry on
the Stamp Act, 327. Their willing-
ness to break with Grenville on
Chatham's accession to office, 337.
Deserted Grenville and admitted to
office, 347. Parallel between them
and the Rockinghams, 323
Bedford House assailed by a rabble,
iv. 319

Begums of Oude, their domains and
treasures, iii. 365. Disturbances in