defended himself on the
pracparts
to Popery in France, iii.
Edmund Burke
, massacre of, iii.
420.
ployed by the National Assembly
cides at the public charge, vi. 106.
lence of wickedness during its connot recognized in the Gentoo code, xi.
resa to support great armies, v.
pression in India, iii. 107; ix. 491.
land not entitled to authority, vii.
tinuance, vii. 84.
? ? ? ? INDEX. 409
Bathurst, Lard, his imagined vision of the Bitterness, in description, a source of the
rising glories of America, ii. 114. sublime, i. 162.
Bayle, Mr. , an observation of his on relig- Blackness, effects of, i. 229.
ious persecution, vi. 333. Boadicea, Roman outrages against, vii.
Beauchamp, Lord, his bill concerning im- 197.
prisonment; Mr. Burke's course Boileau, his criticism on a tale in Ario3to,
with respect to it, ii. 382. vii. 154.
Beauty, a cause of love. i. 114, 165. Bolingbroke, Lord, animadversions on his
proportion not the cause of it in veg- philosophical works, i. 3.
etables, i. 166. some characteristics of his style, i. 7.
nor in animals, i. 170. a presumptuous and superficial writnor in the human species, i. 172.
beauty and proportion not ideas of a remark of his on the superiority of
the same nature, i. 181. a monarchy over other forms of govthe opposite to beauty not dispropor- tion or deformity, but ugliness, i. Boncompagni, Cardinal, character of
181. him, iv. 338.
fitness not the cause of beauty, i. 181. Borrower, the public, and the private
nor perfection, i. 187. lender, not adverse parties with
how far trle idea of beauty applicable contending interests, v. 455.
to the qualities of the mind, i. 188. Bouillon, Godfrey of, engages in the Cruhow far applicable to virtue, i. 190.
the real cause of beauty, i. 191.
beautiful objects, small, i. 191.
and smooth, i. 193.
and of softly varied contour, i. 194. Bouvines, victory of, important advanand delicate, i. 195. and of clear, mild, or diversified col- Brabanvons, mercenary troops in the time
ors, i. 196. of Henry II. , their character, vii. beauty of the physiognomy, i. 198. 420.
Begums of Oude, accused by the East
India Company of rebellion, ii. 475.
pretence for seizing their treasures,
xii. 33. reduced by Ostorius Scapula, vii. Benares; city of, the capital of the Indian 191.
Boulogne, fortress of, surrendered to France, v. 204.
Bribing, by means of it, rather than by being bribed, wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind, iii. 107.
account of its ancient inhabitants, vii. 170.
invaded by Claudius, vii. 191.
religion, ii. 477, 484. finally subdued by Agricola, vii. 199.
province of, its projected sale to the why not sooner conquered, vii. 202.
Nabob of Oude, xi. 259. nature of the government settled there
devastation of, during Mr. HIastings's by the Romans, vii. 205.
government, xi. 302, 347. first introduction of Christianity into,
the Rajah of, nature of his author- vii. 221.
ity, xi. 240. deserted by the Romans, vii. 223.
imprisoned by Mr. Hastings's order, entry and settlement of the Saxons
xi. 277. there, and their conversion to
the Ranny of, the soldiery incited by Christianity, vii. 227.
Mr. Hastings to plunder her, ii. 486. Britons, more reduced than any other
Benfield, Paul, his character and conduct, nation that fell under the German
iii. 97. power, vii. 232.
Bengal, extent and condition of, ii. 498. Brown, Dr. , effect of his writings on the
conquest of, by the Emperor Akbar, people of England, v. 239.
ix. 392. Buch, Captal de, his severe treatment of
era of the independent subahs of, ix. the Jacquerie in France, iv. 177.
392. Buildings, too great length in them, preera of the British empire in. ix. 393.
nature of the government exercised should be gloomy to produce an idea
there by Mr. Hlastings, xii. 211. of the sublime, i. 158.
Bengal Club, observations on the, iv. 324. Burke, Mr. , his sentiments respectingsevBidjegur, fortress of, taken by order of Mr. tHastings, xi. 291. party, iv. 66.
Biron,I)uchess of, murdered by the French and respecting a union of Ireland
regicides, vi. 41. with Great Britain, iv. 297.
er, iii. 398.
ernment, iii. 398.
sade, vii. 372.
? importance of it to England, v. 204.
beauty of the eye, i. 198.
the beautiful in feeling, i. 201.
the beautiful in sounds, i. 203.
physical effects of beauty, i. 232. Brissot, his character and conduct, iv. 371.
Bede, the Venerable, brief account of him Preface to his Address to his Conand his works, vii. 250. Bedford, the first earl of, who, v. 201. Britain, invasion of, by Coesar, vii. 165.
tages of it to France, vii. 458.
stituents, v. 65.
judicial to grandeur of effect, i. 152.
eral leading members of the Whig
? ? ? 410 INDEX.
Burke, Mr. - Continued.
respecting acts of indemnity and
oblivion as a means of reconciling
his animadversions on the conduct of Characters of others, principles which inMr. Fox, v. 7. his pathetic allusion to his deceased Charity, observations on, v. 146.
son, v. 207. not to be interfered with by the magBurnet, Bishop, his statement of the methods which carried men of Charles I.
defended himself on the pracparts to Popery in France, iii. 430. Bute, Earl of, his resignation, i. 381. his ill-judged attempt to establish the
his successors recommended by him,
i. 381. Scotland, vii. 8.
supposed head of the court party Charles II. obliged by the sense of the
called " King's Men. " i. 467. nation to abandon the Dutch war,
ii. 219.
brief character of him, iv. 37.
Caesar, Julius, his policy with respect to his government compared with that
the Gauls, vii. 163. of Cromwell, iv. 467.
his invasion of Germany, vii. 164. Charles XII. of Sweden, parallel between
and of Britain, vii. 165. him and Richard I. of England, vii.
Calais, lost by the surrender of Boulogne, 436.
v. 204. Charters are kept when their purposes are
Calamity, its deliberations rarely wise, maintained, ii. 565.
iii. 540. Chatham, Lord, his character, ii. 61.
public calamity often arrested by the Cheselden, Mr. , his story of a boy who seasonable energy of a single man, was couched for a cataract, i. 226.
v. 124. Chester, the County Palatine of, admitted
Caligula undertakes an expedition against to representation in Parliament in Britain, vii. 190. the reign of Henry VIII. , ii. 150.
Calonne, M. de, remarks on his work, Chesterfield, Lord, his conduct (when
"L'Etat de la France," iii. 479. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland) with
extract from it, iii. 549. respect to the Roman Catholics,
Campanella, curious story concerning iv. 235.
him, i. 212. Cheyt Sing, Rajah of Benares, nature of
Canada Bills, convention for their liqui- his authority, ii. 479; xi. 240.
dation, i. 409. imprisoned by order of Mr. Hastings,
Canterbury, dispute between the suffra- xi. 277.
gan bishops of the province and Christendom, the several states of, have
the monks of the Abbey of St. all been formed slowly and without
Austin, vii. 446. any unity of design, v. 373.
Cantons, French, their origin, nature, and Christianity, original intr'oduction of, into function, iii. 462, 461, 471. Britain, vii. 221.
Cantoo Baboo, Mr. IIastings's banian, x. Church, the, has power to reform her doc19. Canute, his character and conduct, vii. Church establishment in England, obser276. remarks on his code of laws, vii. 483. the provision made for its clergy by
Capital, monopoly of, not an evil, v. 151. the state, iii. 361.
Care, appearance of, highly contrary to education of its clergy contrasted with our ideas of magnificence, i. 154. that of the Roman Catholic clergy,
Carnatic, the extent, nature, and condi- iv. 231.
tion of the country, ii. 492; iii. 65. eulogy on it, vi. 401; vii. 36, 56.
dreadful devastation of it by Hyder Cicero, remarks on his orations against
Ali Khan, iii. 62. Verres, xii. 349.
Caste, consequences of losing it in India, Circumstances, importance of them in all x. 89. political principles, iii. 240; vii. 55.
Castile, different from Catalonia and Ara- Citizens, not to be listened to, in matters gon, iv. 340. relating to agriculture, v. 146.
Castles, great numbers of them built in Civil list, debts due on it, request for a
the reign of Stephen, vii. 389. supply for discharging them, how
Casuistry, origin and requisites of, iv. 168. made, i. 508.
danger of pursuing it too far, iv. 168. plan of economy relative to it, ii.
Catholics, Letter to an Irish Peer on the 350.
Penal Laws against, iv. 217. Civil society, great purpose of, vi. 333.
Celsus, his opinion that internal remedies Civil vicinity, law of, what, v. 322.
were not of early use proved to be Civil wars corrupt the morals of the
erroneous, vii. 184. people, ii. 203.
Cerealis, extract from his fine speech to the Gauls, iv. 272.
Change and reformation, distinction beFrance to a monarchy, iv. 460.
tween, v. 186.
terest us in them, vii. 148.
istrate, v. 146.
tice of his predecessors, ii. 279.
rites of the Church of England in
? trine, discipline, and rites, vii. 7. vations on it, iii. 352.
? ? ? INDEX. 411
Clamor, justifiable when it is caused by Commons, the Iouse of- Continued.
abuse, vii. 121. general observations on its privileges
Clarendon, Constitutions of, vii. 403. and duties, ii. 544.
Claudius, the Emperor, invades Britain, the collective sense of the people to
vii. 191. be received from it, ii. 545.
Clavering, Sir John, eulogy on him, x. its powers and capacities, ii. 552.
246; xii. 348. cannot renounce its share of authorClear expression, different from a strong one. i. 260. its composition, iii. 289.
Clearness not necessary for affecting the the most powerful and most corrupt.
passions, i. 133. ible part of the constitution, vii.
Clergy, convocation of, a part of the con- 62.
stitution, ii. 226. a superintendence over the doctrines
observations on the provision made and proceedings of the courts of
by the state for them, iii. 364, 448. justice, one of its principal objects,
Roman Catholic, in France, character vii. 107.
of them before the Revolution, iii. concise view of its proceedings on the
424. East India question, ii. 559.
laws of William and Anne respecting Commonwealths, not subject to laws analthe Popish clergy, vi. 317. review of the state of the clergy in 124, 234.
England down to the reign of Hen- Communes, in France, their origin, nary II. , vii. 398.
Clive, Lord, sent to India, ix. 438. Compurgators, in Saxon law, what,'ii.
his conduct there, ix. 439. 318.
Clootz, Anacharsis, his masquerade em- Condorcet, brief character of him, iv. 356,
bassy to the Constituent Assembly 372.
of France, vi. 49. extract from a publication of his, iv.
Coke, Lord, ingenious quotation in his 356.
ployed by the National Assembly
cides at the public charge, vi. 106.
lence of wickedness during its connot recognized in the Gentoo code, xi.
resa to support great armies, v.
pression in India, iii. 107; ix. 491.
land not entitled to authority, vii.
tinuance, vii. 84.
? ? ? ? INDEX. 409
Bathurst, Lard, his imagined vision of the Bitterness, in description, a source of the
rising glories of America, ii. 114. sublime, i. 162.
Bayle, Mr. , an observation of his on relig- Blackness, effects of, i. 229.
ious persecution, vi. 333. Boadicea, Roman outrages against, vii.
Beauchamp, Lord, his bill concerning im- 197.
prisonment; Mr. Burke's course Boileau, his criticism on a tale in Ario3to,
with respect to it, ii. 382. vii. 154.
Beauty, a cause of love. i. 114, 165. Bolingbroke, Lord, animadversions on his
proportion not the cause of it in veg- philosophical works, i. 3.
etables, i. 166. some characteristics of his style, i. 7.
nor in animals, i. 170. a presumptuous and superficial writnor in the human species, i. 172.
beauty and proportion not ideas of a remark of his on the superiority of
the same nature, i. 181. a monarchy over other forms of govthe opposite to beauty not dispropor- tion or deformity, but ugliness, i. Boncompagni, Cardinal, character of
181. him, iv. 338.
fitness not the cause of beauty, i. 181. Borrower, the public, and the private
nor perfection, i. 187. lender, not adverse parties with
how far trle idea of beauty applicable contending interests, v. 455.
to the qualities of the mind, i. 188. Bouillon, Godfrey of, engages in the Cruhow far applicable to virtue, i. 190.
the real cause of beauty, i. 191.
beautiful objects, small, i. 191.
and smooth, i. 193.
and of softly varied contour, i. 194. Bouvines, victory of, important advanand delicate, i. 195. and of clear, mild, or diversified col- Brabanvons, mercenary troops in the time
ors, i. 196. of Henry II. , their character, vii. beauty of the physiognomy, i. 198. 420.
Begums of Oude, accused by the East
India Company of rebellion, ii. 475.
pretence for seizing their treasures,
xii. 33. reduced by Ostorius Scapula, vii. Benares; city of, the capital of the Indian 191.
Boulogne, fortress of, surrendered to France, v. 204.
Bribing, by means of it, rather than by being bribed, wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind, iii. 107.
account of its ancient inhabitants, vii. 170.
invaded by Claudius, vii. 191.
religion, ii. 477, 484. finally subdued by Agricola, vii. 199.
province of, its projected sale to the why not sooner conquered, vii. 202.
Nabob of Oude, xi. 259. nature of the government settled there
devastation of, during Mr. HIastings's by the Romans, vii. 205.
government, xi. 302, 347. first introduction of Christianity into,
the Rajah of, nature of his author- vii. 221.
ity, xi. 240. deserted by the Romans, vii. 223.
imprisoned by Mr. Hastings's order, entry and settlement of the Saxons
xi. 277. there, and their conversion to
the Ranny of, the soldiery incited by Christianity, vii. 227.
Mr. Hastings to plunder her, ii. 486. Britons, more reduced than any other
Benfield, Paul, his character and conduct, nation that fell under the German
iii. 97. power, vii. 232.
Bengal, extent and condition of, ii. 498. Brown, Dr. , effect of his writings on the
conquest of, by the Emperor Akbar, people of England, v. 239.
ix. 392. Buch, Captal de, his severe treatment of
era of the independent subahs of, ix. the Jacquerie in France, iv. 177.
392. Buildings, too great length in them, preera of the British empire in. ix. 393.
nature of the government exercised should be gloomy to produce an idea
there by Mr. Hlastings, xii. 211. of the sublime, i. 158.
Bengal Club, observations on the, iv. 324. Burke, Mr. , his sentiments respectingsevBidjegur, fortress of, taken by order of Mr. tHastings, xi. 291. party, iv. 66.
Biron,I)uchess of, murdered by the French and respecting a union of Ireland
regicides, vi. 41. with Great Britain, iv. 297.
er, iii. 398.
ernment, iii. 398.
sade, vii. 372.
? importance of it to England, v. 204.
beauty of the eye, i. 198.
the beautiful in feeling, i. 201.
the beautiful in sounds, i. 203.
physical effects of beauty, i. 232. Brissot, his character and conduct, iv. 371.
Bede, the Venerable, brief account of him Preface to his Address to his Conand his works, vii. 250. Bedford, the first earl of, who, v. 201. Britain, invasion of, by Coesar, vii. 165.
tages of it to France, vii. 458.
stituents, v. 65.
judicial to grandeur of effect, i. 152.
eral leading members of the Whig
? ? ? 410 INDEX.
Burke, Mr. - Continued.
respecting acts of indemnity and
oblivion as a means of reconciling
his animadversions on the conduct of Characters of others, principles which inMr. Fox, v. 7. his pathetic allusion to his deceased Charity, observations on, v. 146.
son, v. 207. not to be interfered with by the magBurnet, Bishop, his statement of the methods which carried men of Charles I.
defended himself on the pracparts to Popery in France, iii. 430. Bute, Earl of, his resignation, i. 381. his ill-judged attempt to establish the
his successors recommended by him,
i. 381. Scotland, vii. 8.
supposed head of the court party Charles II. obliged by the sense of the
called " King's Men. " i. 467. nation to abandon the Dutch war,
ii. 219.
brief character of him, iv. 37.
Caesar, Julius, his policy with respect to his government compared with that
the Gauls, vii. 163. of Cromwell, iv. 467.
his invasion of Germany, vii. 164. Charles XII. of Sweden, parallel between
and of Britain, vii. 165. him and Richard I. of England, vii.
Calais, lost by the surrender of Boulogne, 436.
v. 204. Charters are kept when their purposes are
Calamity, its deliberations rarely wise, maintained, ii. 565.
iii. 540. Chatham, Lord, his character, ii. 61.
public calamity often arrested by the Cheselden, Mr. , his story of a boy who seasonable energy of a single man, was couched for a cataract, i. 226.
v. 124. Chester, the County Palatine of, admitted
Caligula undertakes an expedition against to representation in Parliament in Britain, vii. 190. the reign of Henry VIII. , ii. 150.
Calonne, M. de, remarks on his work, Chesterfield, Lord, his conduct (when
"L'Etat de la France," iii. 479. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland) with
extract from it, iii. 549. respect to the Roman Catholics,
Campanella, curious story concerning iv. 235.
him, i. 212. Cheyt Sing, Rajah of Benares, nature of
Canada Bills, convention for their liqui- his authority, ii. 479; xi. 240.
dation, i. 409. imprisoned by order of Mr. Hastings,
Canterbury, dispute between the suffra- xi. 277.
gan bishops of the province and Christendom, the several states of, have
the monks of the Abbey of St. all been formed slowly and without
Austin, vii. 446. any unity of design, v. 373.
Cantons, French, their origin, nature, and Christianity, original intr'oduction of, into function, iii. 462, 461, 471. Britain, vii. 221.
Cantoo Baboo, Mr. IIastings's banian, x. Church, the, has power to reform her doc19. Canute, his character and conduct, vii. Church establishment in England, obser276. remarks on his code of laws, vii. 483. the provision made for its clergy by
Capital, monopoly of, not an evil, v. 151. the state, iii. 361.
Care, appearance of, highly contrary to education of its clergy contrasted with our ideas of magnificence, i. 154. that of the Roman Catholic clergy,
Carnatic, the extent, nature, and condi- iv. 231.
tion of the country, ii. 492; iii. 65. eulogy on it, vi. 401; vii. 36, 56.
dreadful devastation of it by Hyder Cicero, remarks on his orations against
Ali Khan, iii. 62. Verres, xii. 349.
Caste, consequences of losing it in India, Circumstances, importance of them in all x. 89. political principles, iii. 240; vii. 55.
Castile, different from Catalonia and Ara- Citizens, not to be listened to, in matters gon, iv. 340. relating to agriculture, v. 146.
Castles, great numbers of them built in Civil list, debts due on it, request for a
the reign of Stephen, vii. 389. supply for discharging them, how
Casuistry, origin and requisites of, iv. 168. made, i. 508.
danger of pursuing it too far, iv. 168. plan of economy relative to it, ii.
Catholics, Letter to an Irish Peer on the 350.
Penal Laws against, iv. 217. Civil society, great purpose of, vi. 333.
Celsus, his opinion that internal remedies Civil vicinity, law of, what, v. 322.
were not of early use proved to be Civil wars corrupt the morals of the
erroneous, vii. 184. people, ii. 203.
Cerealis, extract from his fine speech to the Gauls, iv. 272.
Change and reformation, distinction beFrance to a monarchy, iv. 460.
tween, v. 186.
terest us in them, vii. 148.
istrate, v. 146.
tice of his predecessors, ii. 279.
rites of the Church of England in
? trine, discipline, and rites, vii. 7. vations on it, iii. 352.
? ? ? INDEX. 411
Clamor, justifiable when it is caused by Commons, the Iouse of- Continued.
abuse, vii. 121. general observations on its privileges
Clarendon, Constitutions of, vii. 403. and duties, ii. 544.
Claudius, the Emperor, invades Britain, the collective sense of the people to
vii. 191. be received from it, ii. 545.
Clavering, Sir John, eulogy on him, x. its powers and capacities, ii. 552.
246; xii. 348. cannot renounce its share of authorClear expression, different from a strong one. i. 260. its composition, iii. 289.
Clearness not necessary for affecting the the most powerful and most corrupt.
passions, i. 133. ible part of the constitution, vii.
Clergy, convocation of, a part of the con- 62.
stitution, ii. 226. a superintendence over the doctrines
observations on the provision made and proceedings of the courts of
by the state for them, iii. 364, 448. justice, one of its principal objects,
Roman Catholic, in France, character vii. 107.
of them before the Revolution, iii. concise view of its proceedings on the
424. East India question, ii. 559.
laws of William and Anne respecting Commonwealths, not subject to laws analthe Popish clergy, vi. 317. review of the state of the clergy in 124, 234.
England down to the reign of Hen- Communes, in France, their origin, nary II. , vii. 398.
Clive, Lord, sent to India, ix. 438. Compurgators, in Saxon law, what,'ii.
his conduct there, ix. 439. 318.
Clootz, Anacharsis, his masquerade em- Condorcet, brief character of him, iv. 356,
bassy to the Constituent Assembly 372.
of France, vi. 49. extract from a publication of his, iv.
Coke, Lord, ingenious quotation in his 356.
