Accidental things ought to be carefully dis-
tinguished from permanent causes
and effects, v. 234.

Account, capital use of an, what, i. 511.
Act of navigation, i. 378; ii. 30, 38.
Acts of grace, impolicy of, ii. 386.
Acts of indemnity and oblivion, probable

effects of, as a means of reconciling
France to a monarchy, iv. 460.
Addison, Mr., the correctness of his opin-

ion of the cause of the grand effect
of the rotund questioned, i. 150.
his fine lines on honorable political
connections, i. 529.
Administration, Short Account of a Late
Short, (Marquis of Rockingham's,)
i. 263.

censures on that administration, i.
379.

state of public affairs at the time of
its formation, i. 381.

character and conduct of it, i. 388.
idea of it respecting America, i. 397.
remarks on its foreign negotiations,
i. 412.

character of a united administration,
i. 419.

of a disunited one, i. 425.

the administration should be corre-
spondent to the legislature, i. 471.
Admiration, the first source of obedience,
iv. 251.

one of the principles which interest
us in the characters of others, vii.
148.

Adrian, first contracts the bounds of the
Roman Empire, vii. 214.

Advice, compulsive, from constituents, its
authority first resisted by Mr.
Burke, iv. 95.
Adviser, duty of an, iv. 42.
Agricola, Julius, character and conduct
of, vii. 199.

Aix, the Archbishop of, his offer of con-
tribution, why refused by the
French National Assembly, iii.
390.
Aix-la-Chapelle, the treaty of, remarks
on, v. 441.

Akbar, the Emperor, obtains possession
of Bengal, ix. 392.

Alliance, one of the requisites of a good
peace, i. 295.

the famous Triple Alliance negotiated
by Temple and De Witt, v. 438.
alliance between Church and State in
a Christian commonwealth, a fanci-
ful speculation, vii. 43.

Ambition, one of the passions belonging
to society, i. 124.

nature and end of, i. 124.
misery of disappointed, i. 335.
ought to be influenced by popular
motives, i. 474.
influence of, iii. 107.

one of the natural distempers of a
democracy, iv. 164.

legislative restraints on it in democ-
racies always violent and ineffect-
ual, iv. 164.

not an exact calculator, vii. 82.
virtue of a generous ambition for ap

plause for public services, x. 176.
America, advantage of, to England, i. 297.
nature of various taxes there, i. 355.
project of a representation of in Par-
liament, its difficulties, i. 372.
its rapidly increasing commerce, ii.

112.

eloquent description of the rising glo-
ries of, in vision, ii. 115.

temper and character of its inhab-
itants, ii. 120.

their spirit of liberty, whence, ii. 120,
133.

proposed taxation of, by grant in-
stead of imposition, ii. 154.

danger in establishing a military gov-
ernment there, vi. 176.

American Stamp Act, its origin, i. 385.
repeal of the, i. 265, 389.

reasons of the repeal, ii. 48.

good effects of the repeal, i. 401; ii.

59.

Ancestors, our, reverence due to them,

ii. 562; iv. 213.

Angles, in buildings, prejudicial to their
grandeur, i. 151.

Animals, their cries capable of convey-
ing great ideas, i. 161.
Anniversaries, festive, advantages of, iv.
369.

Anselm, appointed Archbishop of Can-
terbury, vii. 373.

supports Henry I. against his brother
Robert, vii. 377.

Apparitions, singular inconsistency in the
ideas of the vulgar concerning
them, vii. 181.

Arbitrary power, steals upon a people by

lying dormant for a time, or by
being rarely exercised, ii. 201.
cannot be exercised or delegated by
the legislature, ix. 455.

not recognized in the Gentoo code, xi.
208.

Arbitrary system, must always be a cor-
rupt one, x. 5.

danger in adopting it as a principle
of action, xi. 322.
Areopagus, court and senate of, remarks
on the, iii. 507.

Ariosto, a criticism of Boileau on, vii. 154.
Aristocracy, affected terror at the growth
of the power of the, in the reign of
George II., i. 457.
influence of the, i. 457.

too much spirit not a fault of the, i.
458

general observations on the, iii. 415.
character of a true natural one, iv.
174.

regulations in some states with re-
spect to, iv. 250.

must submit to the dominion of pru-
dence and virtue, v. 127.
character of the aristocracy of France
before the Revolution, iii. 412; vi.
39.

Aristotle, his caution against delusive
geometrical accuracy in moral ar-
guments, ii. 170.

his observations on the resemblance
between a democracy and a tyran-
ny, iii. 397.

his distinction between tragedy and
comedy, vii. 153.

his natural philosophy alone un-
worthy of him, vii. 252.

his system entirely followed by Bede,
vii. 252.

Armies yield a precarious and uncertain
obedience to a senate, iii. 524.
remarks on the standing armies of
France and England, iii. 224.
Army commanded by General Monk,
character of it, iv. 36.

Art, every work of, great only as it de-
ceives, i. 152.

Artist, a true one effects the noblest de-
signs by easy methods, i. 152.
Artois, Comte d', character of, iv. 430.

Ascendency, Protestant, observations on
it, vi. 393.

Asers, their origin and conquests, vii. 228.
Assassination, recommended and em-
ployed by the National Assembly
of France, iv. 34.

the dreadful consequences of this
policy, in case of war, iv. 34.
Astonishment, cause and nature of, i
130, 217.

Atheism by establishment, what, v. 310.
ought to be repressed by law, vii. 35.
schools of, set up by the French regi-
cides at the public charge, vi. 106.
Atheists, modern, contrasted with those
of antiquity, iv. 355.
Athenians, at the head of the democratic
interests of Greece, iv. 321.
Athens, the plague of, remarkable preva-
lence of wickedness during its con-
tinuance, vii. 84.

Augustin, state of religion in Britain when
he arrived there, vii. 233.

introduced Christianity among the
Anglo-Saxons, vii. 235.

Aulic Council, remarks on the, v. 119.
Austria began in the reign of Maria The-
resa to support great armies, v.
368.

her treaty of 1756 with France, de-
plored by the French in 1773, v.
370.

Authority, its only firm seat in public
opinion, ii. 224; vi. 165.

the people the natural control on it,
iv. 164.

the exercise and control of it together

contradictory, iv. 164.

the monopoly of it an evil, v. 151.
Avarice, an instrument and source of op-
pression in India, iii. 107; ix. 491.

Bacon, Lord, a remark of his applied to
the revolution in France, v. 175.
his demeanor at his impeachment,
xi. 173.

Bacon, N., his work on the laws of Eng-
land not entitled to authority, vii.

479.

Bail, method of giving it introduced by
Alfred, vii. 265.

advantage of it, vii. 265.
Ball, John, abstract of a discourse of, iv.
178.

Ballot, all contrivances by it vain to pre.
vent a discovery of the inclinations,
iii. 507.

Balmerino, Lord, proceedings in his
trial, xi. 34.

Banian, functions and character of the,
ix. 363.

Bank paper in England, owing to the
flourishing condition of commerce,
iii 541.

Bards, the, character of their verses, vii.

178.

Bartholomew, St., massacre of, iii. 420.

Bathurst, Lord, his imagined vision of the
rising glories of America, ii. 114.
Bayle, Mr., an observation of his on relig-
ious persecution, vi. 333.
Beauchamp, Lord, his bill concerning im-
prisonment; Mr. Burke's course
with respect to it, ii. 382.

Beauty, a cause of love, i. 114, 165.
proportion not the cause of it in veg-
etables, i. 166.

nor in animals, i. 170.

nor in the human species, i. 172.
beauty and proportion not ideas of
the same nature, i. 181.
the opposite to beauty not dispropor-
tion or deformity, but ugliness, i.
181.

fitness not the cause of beauty, i. 181.
nor perfection, i. 187.

how far the idea of beauty applicable

to the qualities of the mind, i. 188.
how 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.
and delicate, i. 195.

and of clear, mild, or diversified col-
ors, i. 196.

beauty of the physiognomy, i. 198.
beauty of the eye, i. 198.

the beautiful in feeling, i. 201.
the beautiful in sounds, i. 203.
physical effects of beauty, i. 232.
Bede, the Venerable, brief account of him
and his works, vii. 250.
Bedford, the first earl of, who, v. 201.
Begums of Oude, accused by the East

India Company of rebellion, ii. 475.
pretence for seizing their treasures,
xii. 33.

Benares, city of, the capital of the Indian

religion, ii. 477, 484.

province of, its projected sale to the
Nabob of Oude, xi. 259.
devastation of, during Mr. Hastings's
government, xi. 302, 347.

the Rajah of, nature of his author-
ity, xi. 240.

imprisoned by Mr. Hastings's order,

xi. 277.

the Ranny of, the soldiery incited by
Mr. Hastings to plunder her, ii. 486.
Benfield, Paul, his character and conduct,
iii. 97.

Bengal, extent and condition of, ii. 498.
Conquest of, by the Emperor Akbar,
ix. 392.

era of the independent subahs of, ix.
392.

era of the British empire in. ix. 393.
nature of the government exercised
there by Mr. Hastings, xii. 211.
Bengal Club, observations on the, iv. 324.
Bidjegur, fortress of, taken by order of
Mr. Hastings, xi. 291.

Biron, Duchess of, murdered by the French
regicides, vi. 41.

Bitterness, in description, a source of the
sublime, i. 162.

Blackness, effects of, i. 229.

Boadicea, Roman outrages against, vil.

197.

Boileau, his criticism on a tale in Ariosto,
vii. 154.

Bolingbroke, Lord, animadversions on his
philosophical works, i. 3.

some characteristics of his style, i. 7.
presumptuous and superficial writ-
er, iii. 398.

a

a remark of his on the superiority of
a monarchy over other forms of gov-
ernment, iii. 398.

Boncompagni, Cardinal, character of
him, iv. 338.

Borrower, the public, and the private
lender, not adverse parties with
contending interests, v. 455.
Bouillon, Godfrey of, engages in the Cru-
sade, vii. 372.

Boulogne, fortress of, surrendered to
France, v. 204.

importance of it to England, v. 204.
Bouvines, victory of, important advan
tages of it to France, vii. 458.
Brabançons, mercenary troops in the time
of Henry II., their character, vii.
420.

Bribing, by means of it, rather than by
being bribed, wicked politicians
bring ruin on mankind, iii. 107.
Brissot, his character and conduct, iv. 371.
Preface to his Address to his Con-
stituents, v. 65.

Britain, invasion of, by Cæsar, vii. 165.
account of its ancient inhabitants,
vii. 170.

invaded by Claudius, vii. 191.
reduced by Ostorius Scapula, vii.
191.

finally subdued by Agricola, vii. 199.
why not sooner conquered, vii. 202.
nature of the government settled there
by the Romans, vii. 205.

first introduction of Christianity into,
vii. 221.

deserted by the Romans, vii. 223.
entry and settlement of the Saxons
there, and their conversion to
Christianity, vii. 227.

Britons, more reduced than any other
nation that fell under the German
power, vii. 232.

Brown, Dr., effect of his writings on the
people of England, v. 239.
Buch, Captal de, his severe treatment of
the Jacquerie in France, iv. 177.
Buildings, too great length in them, pre-
judicial to grandeur of effect, i. 152.
should be gloomy to produce an idea
of the sublime, i. 158.

Burke, Mr., his sentiments respecting sev-
eral leading members of the Whig
party, iv. 66.

and respecting a union of Ireland
with Great Britain, iv. 297.