Bees, a perpetual figure of good governaunce, 312
Bodies, co-operative, to be formed of a due proportion
of old and young, 251
Books, to be watched as well as men, 19
contain the image of men’s wits, 239
BRITAIN, Roman Conquest of, 94
CARE will sometimes betray to the appearance of neg-
ligence, 154
Cavaliers, 156
Cheerfulness, two perpetual sources of, 60
CICERO, bis skill in philosophy inferior to that in ora-
tory, 38; his fondness for glory, 43
Civil injuries, 268
Climate, influence of, 89
Colonies, the British, 453, 89
Comedy, to be a short composition, 258
Commander, character of a good, 130
Conception, mental, 318
Condition of the people a criterion of the government,
278
Contemplation, pleasure of, 196
Contrivance of the lacteal system in viviparous ani-
mals, 69
Covenants, 336
CREATOR, men insensible to his goodness, 120
Custom has a twofold operation, 334
DEATH closes a man's reputation, 230
contemplation of, 155, 179
Debt, a calamity, 77, 162; why insolvent debtors de-
serve imprisonment, 113
Decency, deserving of praise, 46
Delay, advantage of in composition, 17
Democracy more favourable to public virtue than are
other forms of government, 327; the ancient de-
mocracies, 260
DEMOSTHENES, his political object, 335
Duty, sense of, independent of admiration, 26; what
is the duty of a father, 93
EDUCATION, 167
Elections to Parliament must be free, 246
Elements, natural, their various uses, 317
Eloquence, the study of, 221
what are the requisites for, 63
Employment in trades variable, 315
Envy of virtue generally in those who want virtue, 323
EPAMINONDAS, a scholar and warrior, 35
EPICTETUS, his view concerning the treatment of an
enemy, 13
Epitaphs, their principal intention, 106
Exercise necessary to some minds, as to bodies, 16
Expectation prepareth applause with the weak judg-
ment, and prejudice with the stronger, 199
FAME, desire of, inseparable from virtue, 45, 125
Felicity shews the ground where industry builds a
fortune, 200
Flattery, 307, 319
Fortune, 255, 180
Free Will, 305
French Governors, how chosen, 247
Friendship, value of, 3, 133
Friends often flatter us, 136
GARDENS, English and French, compared, 102
Gentlemen, the true character of, 242
Glory, natural passion for, 43
Goodness, how discerned, 275; never despised in good
earnest, 237; few great men have died in honour, if
void of goodness, 73
Good humour, 103
Government, principles of, in the goods of mind or
fortune, 322
Gratitude, 325
Greeks, compared with the Romans, 241
Guilt, 326
Habits of virtue to be cultivated in this life, 115, 117
Happiness, its attainment the end of all human in-
dustry, 227; wherein it consists, 107
Harmony, 285
HESIOD, his division of mankind, 29
History, speaks to our passions, 219
its true use, 219
should either convey pleasure or utility, 297
contemporary, a matter of deep interest, 86
qualifications of an historian, 177
HOLLAND, taxation of houses in, unfair, 234
HOMER, always great, 223
his notion concerning the state of the soul after
death, 244
Honour, the reflection of a man's own actions, 228
HORACE, what he instructs us in, 45
compared with JUVENAL, 47
Human nature, the proper object of human reason, 40
to be left to herself, 51
when represented in its proper dignity,
114
how viewed by the Stoics, 12
Human character, excellencies in, ought to elevate
Learning, community in, 90
the disgraces it receives from politicians, 135
Letters, 84, 73, 92, 108, 130
Levellers, remonstrance with, 180
Lex scripta aut non scripta, which is the better, 261
Liberty, loss of, 154
Life is but a Penelope's web, 129
never set about in good earnest, 162
its difficulties, 187
uncertainty of, 189
Love of our country, a lesson of reason, 229
MAN, a compound of contrarieties, 268
his condition exposed to fears, 282
his superiority to the rest of the creation, 289
threefold division of, in regard of moral virtue, 29
Memory, advantages of, 190, 344
Minister, character of a wise, 109
Misfortunes, folly of anticipating, 188
Moral Discipline, 348
NATIONS, not enough if they are wealthy, 320
held together by correspondence in laws, 317
Nature seldom extinguished, 322; nature's pattern
followed in the conduct of the state, 265;
ition
of, 151; doeth nothing in vain, 184; vanity of out-
ward form in, 185
Natural capacities, the search of, 175
Natural history, 271
NELSON, his death, 128
Novelty, 81
ODES, the Olympic, 285
Officers, their spirit upholds order in a regiment, 167
Opinion, 322, 323; difference in, 183
Ostracism, 320
PARENTS, duty of, 25
Passions, the province of human action, 231
Past and present, 89
Patriotism, 264
Peace, those who wish for, consist of two classes, 298
Philosophy leads to religion, 165
Plato, 257, 350
Pleasure, particular view of, 137
PLUTARCH, a saying of his, 101
Poets, the true, 277
the most ancient in all countries considered the
best, 252
Poetry, great charm of, 37; true source of, 346
Portian Law, when violated, 40
Pragmatical meddling with other men's concerns, 195
Praise, when to be given, 291
owes its value to its scarcity, 256
of God, advantage of, 24
Pride, characteristic of the ENGLISH, 288
Prosecutors, duty of, 24
Reason and passion proportionate in strength, 3
and the affections, 79
Reasoning, man's most appropriate intellectual occu-
pation, 321
Reform, when perilous, 79
Religion, business of, 25
necessary to happiness, 7
the only fit study, 246
not to be taken on trust, 318
Remedies, how to be applied, 294
Republics, unfavourable to shining merit, 320
Resentment, 111
Ridicule, moderns excel the ancient in, 123
dangerous in an ill-natured man, 149
ROME, her greatness founded on fortune and virtue, 39
most prosperous under AUGUSTUS, 44
her fallen state, 137
ROMANS, averse to naval affairs, 263
jealous of liberty, 40
their decline, 42
the Roman plebs, 127
Royalists, arguments of, 158
Saxons, their heathenism unlike that of the ROMANS,
254
Seditions, their matter twofold, 28
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