N.B. The sign® prefixed intimates that the names following are those of the Interlocutors in a "Conversation."
Aboukir, lines on the battle of, i., 44
Absence, effects of, i., 113
Accent, wrongly applied by modern English writers, i., 200; alteration of, by Greek writers, ib.
Achilles, character of, i., 222
Acrive, Odysseus, Tersitza, and Trelawny, i., 387
Actors, French, difficulties they have to surmount, i., 93 Addison and Steele, ii., 151
Addison, his style, i., 197, 199; his harsh treatment of Steele, ii., 151; doubts as to his true character, ib., note Eschines and Phocion, i., 23
Eschylus, his contest with Sophocles, i., 145 and note Æsop and Rhodope, ii., 95, 193
Age, reflections on, i., 511
Agrarian laws of the Gracchi, i., 238
Ainsworth's Dictionary negligent and injudicious, ii., 170 Air, the, how impersonated in Mythology, i., 453 Alain, Maitre, his Somnium Vividarium, i., 36 Albani, the Cardinal Legate, and Picture-Dealers, ii., 4 Albigenses, the, i., 36
Alexander and the Priest of Hammon, i., 418
and Aristoteles, comparison between, 28; his conduct towards Aristoteles, 226, 232; compared with Epaminondas, 227; his death and tomb, 230 and note; his pretensions to a divine origin rebuked by the priest of Hammon, 418, et seq.
Alexander, the Emperor, and Capo d'Istria, i., 106 *Alexis and Peter the Great, i., 352
-, son of Peter the Great, his education, i., 352; dis- approved his father's attack on Poland and Sweden, 353; his sudden death, 354
*Alfieri and Salomon the Florentine Jew, i., 187 *Alpuente, Romero, and Lopez Banos, i., 211 denounced by the English minister, i., 560 Alum, use of, in rendering substances incombustible, i., 364 Ambition, definition of, i., 6; always disappointed, 370 America, North-West coast of, claim of Russia to, i., 108 American government, advantages of, i., 125, et seq. American war, reflections on, ii., 44
Amphibious, definition of the term, by M. Corbière, i., 383 Amusements formerly encouraged on Sundays, i., 4 and
⚫Anacreon and Polycrates, i., 270 Anachronisms, when allowable, ii., 215
Cimber, 249; Anacreon and Hylactor, 273; Thomas Payne, 296; Captain O'Mara's travels, 306, et seq.; Mr. Moyle's duel, &c., 310, 311; Sieur Dorcas, 325; Grand Duke Ferdinand, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 335; the Empe- ror Francis, 334; Prince Corsini, 336; Shelley and Byron, 340; General Monton, 343; the Pope and the wooden fish, 348; the Irishman's scourging, 350; Monna Tita Monalda, 361, et seq.; the defenders of Greece, 393, et seq.; the Prince of Policastro, 417; Sir Magnus Lacy, 454; Ternerin de Gisors, 414; Archbishop of Evora, 431; Fra Lope de Hornaches and Donna Immaculata's veil, 434; Díaz and the onions, 440; Croker and Lieu- tenant White, 448; Daniel Fogram the poacher, 519; the patriotic Scotchman, 525; William Penn and his father, 528; Peterborough and Ludlow, 552; the English- man and his fountain, ii., 5; the same and the picture- dealers, 7, et seq.; the Cardinal-Legate Albani and Titian's Holy Family, 16; Xenophanes and his horse, 18; the Gasteres, a fraternity of priests, 29; the miracle of Aulus of Pelusium, 32; Admiral Nichols, 57; Fra Filippo Lippi's captivity in Barbary, 81; Lord Thurlow, 158; Molière, 208; Michel-Angelo and the poet, 213; Ra- leigh, 240; Euthemedes and Thelymnia, 253 Anglican church, oppressive in collection of tythes, i., 535; Chinese opinion of, 129; approximation of its doctrines to those of Rome, ii., 111
*Anjou, Duke of, Queen Elizabeth, Cecil, and De La Motte Fenelon, ii.. 174
Aphanasia and Beniowski, i., 264
Apologue of Truth, written by Critobulus, i., 249 Archbishop of Paris and Talleyrand, ii., 237 *Arab Chieftain and Marshal Bugeaud, ii., 242
Architecture, Italian, i., 38-40; English, 40, 41; Greek, ib., 42; Chinese, ib.; Roman, ib., 41; Moorish, 41; Eliza- bethan, 41
Argonauts, doubts respecting the, i., 227
Ariosto, his Orlando, i., 100; his merits, ii., 218; slowly acknowledged, 219
Aristocracy, hereditary, a definition of, i., 25; its nature, 139; in England, debased by Pitt, 188; in Rome, 237, 238; considered as a system of government, 522; mercantile, insecure, ii., 245
Aristocrats and democrats defined, i., 187 Aristophanes, his merits considered, i., 122 *Aristoteles and Callisthenes, i., 225
Anecdote of Porson at a rout, i., 27; the Japanese at Rouen, 38; the barbarity of an English General Officer, 43; the death of an English Officer, ib.; Sir Humphrey Hard- castle, 45; Mr. George Nelly, 47; the defective adminis tration of justice in Tuscany, 52, 63 and note; St. Isidore, ib.; a young Englishwoman in Italy, 55; Benedetto Sant Anna, 57; the sanctification of Labre, ib. ; the Marchese Riccardi's reliquary, 58; an Italian Peasant, 65; Anæ- destatos, the Athenian Orator, 88; the consecrated lamp, 111; Father Onesimo Sozzifante and Mr. Har- bottle, 117; Giacomo Pastrani and his picture, 118; Anco-Mazzio's image of the Virgin, ib.; Angiolina Cecci, 119; Ebenezer Bullock and his son Jonas, 131; the sailor and the Lord Chancellor, 134; old lady and the hemlock, 139; the itinerant preacher, 140; Don Britomarte Delciego, 143; Chloros, 147; the Duke of Marlborough's mince-pie, 149; Lord Tylney, 150; Florentine Russel, 170; Goffrido Piccoluomini and Leopoldina, 173; the sailor and his amber, 190; of an Irish lord, 223; Caspar Bacon, Lord, and Richard Hooker, i., 136 Scioppius, 235; Fœdirupa and Gentius, 242; Aquilius
-, his definition of happiness, i., 6 and note; com- parison between him and Alexander, 28; remarks on his style, 220, 221, 451, 461; ill-treated by Alexander, 226, 232; his "Polity" compared with Plato's scheme of government, 231 and note; his influence in Greece, ii., 220 Armour, defensive, its use in war considered, i., 183 Ascham Roger and Lady Jane Gray, i., 135 Arts, the, influence of Freedom on, ii. 56 Ashbourne, the village of, 572, 573, note Athens, her ancient excellence, i., 42; her resuscitation retarded, ib.; condition of, in the time of Pericles, 145, et seq.; of Aristoteles, 229; description of a procession at, 147 Athenian people, their levity, ii., 186 Austria, Emperor of, claim of precedence for, i., 1, note Ava, King of, and Rao-Gong-Fao, i., 490
comparison between, and Shakspeare, i., 15
censured, 49; originality a characteristic of his "Es- says," 224; commended by Barrow, 471; further remarks on, 474, et seq.; character of his works, ii., 236 Bagnesi, Saint Maria, her miraculous oil, i., 120 Bankruptcy Laws, proposal for their modification, i., 267 *Banos Lopez, and Romero Alpuente, i., 211 Baptism, its efficacy, i., 3, and note
Barbarian, origin of the term as used by the Greeks, i., 321 *Catharine, the Empress, and Princess Dashkof, i., 515 Barbary, captivity of Fra Filippo Lippi in, ii., 81
Baronets, pride of, i., 550
Barristers, their practices censured, i., 50
*Barrow and Newton, i., 470
character of his eloquence, i., 197
*Beatrice and Dante, ii., 152
Belief, its various action on various minds, i., 499; an aid to reason, ii., 17
Bells, baptism of, i., 261; their effects on the hearer, 327 Benedetto Sant-Anna Torbellini, anecdotes of, i., 57 Beniowski and Aphanasia, i., 264
Bentham, General, his improvement in gun-boats, i., 184 Bibiena, Cardinal, poisoned by Pope Leo, i., 190, and note Bible, the, translated by Valdo, i., 36; mischievous use made of, i., 131
Biography, uses of, i., 243
Bishops, election of, i., 53; translation of, ib.; their office in the House of Lords, 34; censurable for not opposing themselves to the practice of war, ii., 44
Blair, his "Grave" censured, i., 80
Blake, his great merits, i., 553
*Bloombury, Rev. Mr., Lord Coleraine, and Rev. Mr. Swan, i., 274
*Blucher and Sandt, ii., 45
*Boccaccio and Petrarca, i., 360
Chaucer, and Petrarca, i., 402
his story of Monna Tita Monalda, i., 361; of the Prince of Policastro, 416 Boileau, criticism on his poetry, i., 93, et seq.; estimate of his merits, 108
*Boleyn, Anne, and Henry VIII., i., 233
her character, i., 233, note; large sums buted by her in charity, i., 235 and note *Bonaparte and the President of the Senate, i., 89 Books, English, small number of early, i., 150; importa- distrition of, in Spain, prohibition of proposed, ii., 436 Borgia, Cæsar, his character, ii., 52
*Bossuet and the Duchess of Fontanges, i., 318
Cato. revered but not loved, i., 368
Catholic, the import of the term, i., 30
Catholics, reasons why they should not be admitted to power, i., 31, 32
Catholicism. See Church of Rome
*Cecil and Queen Elizabeth, i., 27
Queen Elizabeth, Duke of Anjou, and De La Motte Fenelon, ii., 174
Celibacy, reason why it was imposed on the Romish priest- hood, i., 65, 442
Cellularius, Michael, his censure of Leo IX., i., 2, note Censorship in France, i., 384
Cervantes attacked the worship of the Virgin, i., 53 Charity sometimes injudicious, ii., 101 Chateaubriand, his conduct as a minister, i., 214, 398; his "Spirit of Christianity," 398
Charles I., the policy of his death discussed, i., 20, et seq.; objections to his canonization, ii., 103 *Chatham, Lord, and Lord Chesterfield, i., 217 Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Petrarca, i., 402
character of his poetry, i., 81; resembled only by Burns and Keats, 337; his tale of Sir Magnus Lucy, 404; his high merit, ii., 164
*Chesterfield, Lord, and Lord Chatham, i., 217
success of his government in Ireland, i., 217 Chiabrera, character of his works, i., 93 Children of criminals, plan for their care and employment, i., 52 Children, pleasure received from, i., 250; in new and old countries, 545
*China, Emperor of, and Tsing-ti, ii., 117
his opposition to Quietism, 319 and note; ungene- Christianity, questionable professions of, i., 3; benefits rous conduct toward Fenelon, 320, note *Boulter, Archbishop, and Philip Savage, i., 377
(Primate of Ireland), his munificent charity, i.,
Bows, their use in war considered, i., 182, et seq. Boxley, Abbot of, and Richard I., i., 1
Bozzaris, Nito, and Kitzo, their noble efforts in the cause of liberty, i., 394, et seq.
*Brooke, Lord, and Sir Philip Sidney, i., 4
" notice of his character, i., 4, note
Bruis, Pierre, a reformer of the Church of Rome, i., 36 Brutus, Marcus, his character, i., 236
*Bugeaud, Marshal, and Arab Chieftain, ii., 242 Burial refused to heretics, i., 122
*Burnet, Bishop, and Humphrey Hardcastle, i., 45 Burns, Porson's opinion of his poetry, i., 73; resembles Chaucer, 337; lines on, by the Author, 339
Byron, his poems criticised, i,, 68, 69, 103, 338; his charac- ter, 340
derived from it by literature, 19; Chinese, opinions of, 121, 127, et seq.; character of modern, 132; conduct of its professors, ii., 17, et seq., 86, 200; illustrated by the story of Xenophanes and his horse, 18; its doctrines objected to by Lucian, 20, et seq.; borrowed from the priests of Isis, 23; its connection with persecution, 112; asserted to be extinct by Missionary tracts circulated in China, 117 Christmas, should be celebrated in April, i., 119 Churches, true meaning of the term, i., 180, 536; dignities in, forbidden by the Gospel, 537
Church Establishments, strictures on, i., 523, 533, et seq. Church going, reflections on, ii., 107
Church of Rome, the, idol worship in, i., 3, note; marriages between uncle and niece, aunt and nephew, sanctioned by, 33, 56, 137; its extravagant claims, 35 and note; notice of early reformers of, 34, 36; fratricide protected by, 36; mischiefs occasioned by, 37, note; its composition, 37; its characteristics, 55, 56; conduct of its partizans, 65; a support to the throne, 67; tenets of, discussed by Middleton and Magliabechi, 114; abuses in, first exposed by the lower clergy, 128; power of the clergy, 433, note; jealous of the Greek church, 442; why its priests must be opposed to the civil magistrate, 523; evils produced by its doctrines, 524, 533, 534; approximation of its doc- trines to those of the Anglican church, ii., 111 Church property, proper mode of dealing with it, ii., 178 *Cicero, Marcus Tullius, and Quinctus, i., 236
his opinion of the immortality of the soul, i., 240; his preference for a private life, 244, note; his change of opinions, ib. and 245; remarks on his character, 248, note; an inaccuracy in his style noticed, 367
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, and Quinctus, reflections on the "Conversation" between them, i., 252, note Circumcision, its efficacy, i., 3
Citron wood, probably mahogany, ii., 246 Clarendon, character of his "History," ii., 113
desired by Pitt to be his successor in power, i., 371; Clemens, Jacques, his defence of his attempt to murder the
Capital punishments, i., 48, 554
Prince of Orange, i., 31, 32
*Coelho, Dona Juana, and Philip II., ii., 149
Capital offences, proposition of Romilly to diminish the Coleraine, Lord, Rev. Mr. Bloombury, and Rev. Mr. Swan,
i., 274 his death-bed, i., 274, et seq. Coleridge, Porson's remarks on, i., 16
*Colonna, Vittoria, and Michel- Angelo Buonarotti, ii., 213 *Colocotroni (the elder) and Maurocordato, i., 181 Comedies, English and Italian, i., 185
Comedy, Milton's advice to Marvel on the construction of a, i., 120, et seq.; among the ancients, 122, 123 Commons, House of, first appointment of a Speaker of the, 10, note; placed in opposition to the Barons by Henry IV., i., 10
Composition, obscurity the greatest fault in, i., 509; quota- tion to be avoided in, ii., 26
"Comus," Milton's, criticised, ii., 165
Confession, effects of, i., 54; of Mademoiselle Fontanges, 318; the practice censured, 551; of Talleyrand, ii., 239 "Constantia and Tancredi, ii., 79
taken prisoner by Tancredi, ii., 79; her parent- age, ib., note
Constitution, character of the English, i., 133 and note; a, proposed by the Pope to Portugal, i., 349
Constitutionalists (of Spain), plan proposed by Ferdinand for destroying them, i., 438
Content and Happiness contrasted, i., 6
Controversial writings, reason and origin of, i., 504 *Corbière and Villèle, i., 382
Corinna, why preferred to Pindar, i., 14
Corinth, destruction of, ii., 246
Cork, recommended as a substitute for iron armour, i., 184 *Cornelia and Tasso, ii., 182
Cornelia (mother of the Gracchi), her letter to her son Caius, i., 239; her house and garden at Misenus described, i, 242; her mode of life, 243
Corsini, Prince, his parsimony, i., 336 Correggio, character of his works, ii., 13 Cortes, of Spain, i., 139
Death, the punishment of, considered, i., 48, 554; the fear of, to be cast aside, 499
Deathbed repentance futile, ii., 117
Dead, the, respect for, among the English, i., 327; treatment of in Italy, ib.
De Lille, the Abbé, and Walter Landor, i., 90 Democracy, opposed to quiet, i., 549; advantages of, 550; ii., 55
Democrats and Aristocrats described, i., 187 Democritus, his style, i., 87; first proposed the theory of colours, ib., note
* Demosthenes and Eubulides, i., 84, 357
his style of oratory, i., 25, 26, 27, 85, 88, 358; compared with Milton, 74
Despot, proper punishment of a, i., 132 Despotism, when most secure, i., 140; protected by the institution of a Peerage, i., 216
Destiny, the supreme power, i., 321 Devil, the, belief in considered, i., 179
* Dewah, Walker, Hattaji and Gonda, ii., 225 Diaz, Juan, his assassination, i., 36
Dialogue, the, as a mode of communicating knowledge, con- sidered, i., 245, et seq.
* Diogenes and Plato, i., 451
sketch of his life, i., 470; the wisest man of his time, ii., 27
Dispensations, price of, ii, 6 and note Dithyrambic verse, adapted to all modern languages except the French, i., 93
Dittany, its fabled effects, i., 138 and note Divorce, Milton's Treatise on, ii., 113
Dogs, their merits, ii., 212; variety of character in, 234 * Dominican, a, Milton and Galileo, ii., 234
*Cotes, Sir Firebrace, Duke de Richelieu, Lady Glengrin, Donne, Dr., his passion for Margaret Hayes, i., 574; lines and Mr. Normanby, i., 278
*Cotton, Walton, and Oldways, i., 572
- visits Oldways at Ashbourne, 572; verses by, 572, 573 Councils of the Church, the four Ecumenical, i., 30; of the Lateran, 32, 33; of Nicea, 33; at Rome in 610, ib.; of Chalcedon, ib.; at Constantinople, ib.
Courage of women, ii., 37
Cowley, treatment of, by Sir Humphrey Hardcastle, i., 45; comparison between him and Sir Humphrey as poets, 46 Cowper, his poetry commended, i., 79; compared with Dryden, 80; and Young, ib.
Crabbe, his poems criticised, i., 69
Criminals, plan for the care and employment of their children, I., 52
Critics, criticism on, i., 12, et seq.; their merits as com- pared with poets, 70; modern, 78
Criticism, rules of, i., 11, 12, 14; low state of, in Italy, ii.,
Critobulus, his Apologue of Truth, i., 249 * Cromwell, Oliver, and Walter Noble, i., 20
-, and Sir Oliver Cromwell, ii., 227
, not cruel, i., 23, note; protected the Valdenses, 553; his character, i., 554; ii., 108, 227, and note; his treatment of the fellows of Cambridge Univer- sity, 228
• Croker, King of the Sandwich Isles, Peel, and Interpreter,
his quarrel with Lieutenant White, i., 448 Curiosity, misapplication of the word, ii., 212; a feminine quality, ii., 93
Cybele, statue of, by Phidias, i., 145
on her, 575, 576; his marriage, 576; his style criticised, ib. * Donati, Gemma, and Dante, ii., 232 Drake took possession of California, i., 108 Drawing, arguments in defence of, i., 528 Dress, absurdity of that in the time of La Fontaine, ii., 213 Druids, their religion, i., 87; did not construct the altars called after them, ib.
Dutch nation, conduct of Louis XIV. towards the, in his wars, i., 148, and 150, note
Eboli, Princess, accusations of, by Philip II., 150 Economy of Lord Eldon, ii., 77, et seq.
Edgeworth, Miss, remarks on her writings, i., 170 Education, of kings, i., 22, ii., 255; Lord Chatham's opinions on, i., 217, 225; mode of, practised by Peter the Great, 352 *Edward I., King, and William Wallace, i., 448 Egypt, the Frenchin, i., 43; shepherd kings of. See Pelas- gians *Eldon and Encombe, ii., 76
his economy, ii., 77, et seq. Elections, in England, i., 549
*Elizabeth, Princess, and Princess Mary, ii., 90 *Elizabeth, Queen, and Cecil, i., 27
, Cecil, Duke of Anjou, and De la Motte
her age at her mother's death, i., 235, note; her opinion of parliaments, ii., 90; her vanity illus- trated by a Conversation" with Anjou, 174, et seq.; the first slave-trader, 202
Ellenborough, Lord, his Indian policy considered, ii., 40 Eloquence of Demosthenes, i., 84, 85, 358; of Pythagoras, 87; Democritus, ib.; Aristoteles, ib.; Pericles, ib.; decay of, at Athens, 88; over-estimated, 265 Emperor, true meaning of the term, ii., 112 *Encombe and Eldon, ii., 76
Cyclops" of Euripides and "Caliban" of Shakspeare, com- England, her continental wars ill conducted, i., 107; pared, 102, 105
resources misapplied, ib.; conduct of her public men, 325; respect for the dead shown in, 327; policy of an alliance between her and Greece, 393; her foreign policy condemned, 398; propositions to the court of, by Don Ferdinand, king of Spain, and Don John-Mary-Luis, king of Portugal, discussed by those potentates, 428; account of his visit to, by a Chinese, ii., 118, et seq. ; elections in, 119, 549; system of government, 567; policy of France towards, 191, et seq.
English constitution, anomalies in the, i., 258 English General Officer, barbarous conduct of an, at Albaro, near Genoa, 38, 43
English gentlemen, their high character, i., 188, 521 English government, under Henry VIII., i., 233, note English labourers, their condition inferior to those of Negro slaves, ii., 198
English ladies abroad, i., 55; adventure of one, ib.; com- pared with the Florentines, 56
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