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The historic method, fitting in with certain dominant conceptions in the region of natural science, is bringing men round to a way of looking at society for which Burke's maxims are exactly suited; and it seems probable that he will be more frequently and more seriously referred to within the next twenty years than he has been within the whole of the last eighty.

INDEX.

Addison, 18, 19
America, Account of the European
Settlements in, 20

American taxation, speech on, 9,
80
American War of Independence,

60-61, 78-86; attitude of the
nation, 78-79; Burke's pam-
phlets, 80-85; great argument
of the war party, 83
Annual Register, 21, 28, 35
Assembly, Letter to a Member of
the National, 184-186

Ballitore, 4, 5, 7
Barré, 98

Barri, Madame du, 69
Barry, 32, 114
Battersea, 11

Beaconsfield, 32, 35, 72, 110, 121,
206

Beaconsfield, Lord, 198
Bedford, Duke of, 37, 47
Beggar's Opera, The (Gay), 111,

118

Bolingbroke, 12-14, 49, 52-53
Bristol, 73, 74, 75, 77, 95
Bristol, Letter to the Sheriffs of,
81, 168

Brocklesby, Dr., 115-116
Brunswick, Duke of, 191
Burgoyne, General, 87, 88
Burke, Edmund-birth, 3-4; father
and mother, 4, 8; school-days,
4-5; career at Dublin Univer-
sity, 5-8; friendship with R.

217

Shackleton, 6, 34, 122; at
Middle Temple, 8; nine obscure
years, 8; first steps in litera-
ture, 9; unfounded rumours, 11;
marriage, 11-12; his first book,
the Vindication, 12-17; Essay
on the Sublime and Beautiful,
17-19; goes to Ireland with
Hamilton, 22; receives a pen-
sion from Irish treasury, 26;
and resigns it, 27; becomes
private secretary to Lord Rock-
ingham, 28; becomes member
for Wendover, 30; purchases
Beaconsfield, 32; the mystery
of his means, 32-35; never free
from debt, 35-36; pamphlet on
the Present Discontents, 47-61;
credited with the letters of
Junius, 47-48, 62-63; defence
of party system, 53-54; pro-
posed remedies, 55-58; love of
the constitution, 58-61; asked
to go out to India, 63-64; acts
as whip to Rockingham party,
64-66; pays a visit to Paris,
67-70; leaves Wendover, 72; is
elected for Bristol, 73-75; his
view of a member's duty to his
constituents, 75-76; American
War, 78-86; Burke's speeches
and writings on it, 80-81,
84; economical reform, 88-96;
Burke's object, 89-90; speech
on economical reform, 94; loses
his seat at Bristol, 95; his

208
Bute, Lord, 28

exclusion from high office, and its | Burney, Fanny, 116, 117, 187, 188,
reasons, 96-97, 102, 138, 142;
becomes Paymaster in Rocking-
ham Ministry, 96; joins the
Coalition, 101; speech on Fox's
India Bill, 104; fall of the
Whigs, 105; Burke's friends: |
Barry, 32, 114; Garrick, 35,
106; Reynolds, 107-108; John-
son, 108-112; Dowdeswell,
112; Crabbe, 112-114; Emin,
114-115; Arthur Young, 120-
121; relations to women, 116-
117; friendship for Fox, 119;
impeachment of Warren Hast-
ings, 127-136; the Regency Bill,
137; violence in the debates,
140; Reflections on the French
Revolution, see French Revolu-
tion; opposes Fox, 150; rupture
with Fox, 179-182; resentment
of his party, 183; mission to
Calonne, 183-184; advocates
interference in French affairs,
184-185; his final policy, 186-
187; execution of Louis, 191;
the dagger scene, 192-193;
intervention in Irish affairs, 197-|
198; leaves Parliament, 198;
his son's death, 198; accepts a
pension, 199-200; Letters on
a Regicide Peace, 201-204;
Burke's inconsistency, 204; de-
cline and death, 205-206.

Calonne, 183-184
Camden, Lord, 42
Canada Bill, the, 180, 181
Carter, Mrs., 116
Catholic Emancipation, 77
Cavendish, Lord John, 65
Chatham, Earl of, 31, 58
Clerical Petition, the, 167
Clive, 134-135

Coalition, the, 100-105, 117
Coleridge, S. T., 144, 145, 167,
174, 214
Constitutional Society, the, 55, 58
Crabbe, 112-114

True title to lasting fame,
1-3; conservatism, 52, 147,
167; sensibility, 130-132, 160-
162; as an orator, 208-210;
as a writer, 211-216; style,
212-213; literary influence,
213-216.

Burke, Garret, 4, 35
Burke, Mrs. (mother), 4, 8
Burke, Mrs. (wife), 12
Burke, Richard (brother), 33
Burke, Richard (son), 67, 96, 184,
197, 198

Burke, William, 29, 30, 33, 34,
37, 142

Crosby, Lord Mayor, 43-44
Curwen, Mr., 182

De Maistre, Joseph, 165-166, 214
Dictionary, Johnson's, 9
Diderot, 68, 106, 110
Dissenters, Bill for relief of, 71
Dodsley, 21, 28, 32
Dowdeswell, William, 112
Drama, Hints for an Essay on the,
20

Dryden, 213

Du Deffand, Madame, 67, 70

East India Company, 63, 102-105
Economic reform, 88-96; Burke's

object, 89-90; the royal house-
hold, 91-92; administration of
Crown estates, 92-93; office of
Paymaster, 93-94; speech on,
94

Elliot, Sir Gilbert, 137, 138, 140,
178

Emin, Joseph, 114-115

Fitzherbert, William, 28-29
Fitzwilliam, Lord, 100, 142
Flood, 7, 179-180

Fox, Charles, 82, 98, 99, 102, 104-
105, 119, 125, 137, 139, 142,
150, 179-182, 209

Francis, Sir Philip, 34, 160
Franklin, 45

French Affairs, Thoughts on, 186-
187

French Assembly, the, 163-164
French emigrants, 205
French king, death of the, 191-192
French Revolution, Reflections on
the, 82; Burke's early distrust,
145; his conservatism, 147-148;
his point of view, 148; origin
of the Reflections, 149; not an
improvisation, 151; effects of
its publication, 152-154; date
at which it was written, 154-155;
instances of Burke's foresight,
156-158; the social question,
159-160, 161-162; Burke's sensi-
bility, 160-162; his insufficient
knowledge, 162-163, 167; his
political mysticism, 166-168;
his method, 169-170; why the
book lives, 171-172; philosophi-
cal reaction, 172-174; Burke
compared with Sir T. More, 174-
175; and with Turgot, 175-176;
his misgivings, 177
Friends of the People, 169

Garrick, David, 34, 106

History of England, Abridgement
of the, 20
Holbach, 110
Holland, Lord, 93
Hume, 11, 17, 67, 106

India Bill, Fox's, 102-105, 127
Ireland, Burke in, 22, 26-28
Ireland, state of, in 1760, 22-25,
123-127, 196-197

Johnson, Dr., 8, 13, 17, 30, 48, 72,
108-112, 210, 212

Junius, letters of, 47-48, 62-63

Langrishe, Letter to Sir Hercules,
197-198

Langton, Bennet, 30, 111
Lespinasse, Mdlle., 68
Lessing, 18, 20
Literary Club, the, 106
Locke, 171

Lord George Gordon Riots, 87-88
Luttrell, Colonel, 42

Mackintosh, 162, 205-206
Malton, 73

Mansfield, Lord, 41, 60

Marie Antoinette, 69, 160-161,
172, 190, 212

George III., 45, 50, 62, 78, 105, Middlesex election, the, 40-43, 45,

119, 123, 136-137

Gibbon, 107, 117

Godwin, 13, 214

Goldsmith, 7, 17, 106

Grafton, Duke of, 62

Grattan, 179-180, 209

Gregories, the, 32-33

Grenville, George, 8, 28, 31, 120

Guibert, M. de, 68

Halifax, Lord, 22

57, 62

Mirabeau, 119, 153

Montesquieu, 49, 51
Moore, 140

More, Hannah, 111, 116, 117

More, Sir Thomas, 174-175

Nabob of Arcot, 128, 208

Nagle family, the, 4

Newcastle, Duke of, 28, 29

Noble Lord, Letter to a, 97, 200
North Briton, No. 45, 41

Hamilton, W. Gerard, 21-22, 26- North, Lord, 57, 62, 78, 87, 96,

27, 123

Hastings, Warren, 34, 127-136;
impeachment, 132-134; ac-
quittal, 134; effects of impeach-
ment, 135-136

101, 167, 210
Nugent, Dr., 11-12, 20
Nugent, Lord, 124

Oliver, Alderman, 43-44

Paine, Thomas, 162

66

Smith, Adam, 11, 49,

Parliament, the Unreported," 40- Stewart, Dugald, 18

45

Patriot King (Bolingbroke), 49
Paymaster, office of, 93-94, 96, 97,
101

Pitt, 28, 101, 123, 125-126, 179,

192, 193, 199
Portland, Duke of, 101, 139, 143
Powell and Bembridge, case of,
101-102

Present Discontents, pamphlet on,
47-61; breadth and power of
Burke's method, 51; defence
of party government, 53-55;
Burke's remedies, 55-58; his
love for the Constitution, 58-61,
82, 170

Present State of the Nation, 31
Price, Dr., 148, 149, 172
Priestley, 101, 207

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Robespierre, 185

Stone, Archbishop, 23, 26
Sublime and Beautiful, Inquiry
into the, 12, 17-19
Swift, Dean, 8, 48-49

Talbot, Lord, 90
Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, 113
Tone, Wolfe, 197
Tooke, Horne, 189
Townshend, Charles, 63
Trinity College, Dublin, Burke at,

5-8

Turgot, 175-176

Turk's Head, the, 110

United Irishmen, 196

Verney, Lord, 30, 33, 34
Vesey, Mrs., 117
Vindication of Natural Society,
12-17, 21, 159
Voltaire, 69

Wales, Prince of, 118, 180, 202
Waller, Edmund, 35, 121

Walpole, Horace, 21, 39, 70, 79,
101

Wendover, 30, 72

Weymouth, Lord, 45-46

Rockingham Cabinet, the, 57, 64- Whig Junto, the, 54

66, 96-98

Rockingham, Marquis of, 28, 29,
31, 35, 36, 58, 66, 73, 98
Rousseau, 15, 16, 69, 199
Russian armament, the, 179-180

Scarcity, Thoughts and Details on,

205

Shackleton, Abraham, 4-5
Shackleton, Richard, 6, 34, 122
Shelburne, Lord, 98, 99-100, 101
Sheridan, 99, 118, 137, 178
Slave-trade, Burke and the, 129

Whigs, Appeal from the New to
the Old, 183, 184, 189
Whigs, fall of the, 105
Whiteboyism, 24, 26
Wilberforce, 120, 129, 181
Wilkes, John, 41-45, 55, 57, 72
Windham, W., 138, 140, 143,
180, 181, 183, 194-195, 196
Woffington, Peg, 11
Wordsworth, 145, 214, 215

Young, Arthur, 35, 120, 121, 162-
163

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