Navigation, Act of, its policy, i. 378; ii. 30, 38.
Navy, the great danger of economical ex- periments upon it, i. 345.
Necessity, the plea of, remarks on it, v. 450.
Negro Code, Sketch of a, vi. 262. Negro slaves, denunciation of attempts to
excite insurrections among them in the colonies by proclamations of the English governors, vi. 171. Neighborhood, the law of, what, v. 321. Newfoundland, view of the trade with it, i. 320.
Newspapers, powerful influence of them in the diffusion of French princi- ples, iv. 327.
Night, a cause of the sublime, i. 132, 158. Norman conquest, extraordinary facility of it, vii. 287.
attempt to account for it, vii. 288.
the great era of the English laws, vii. 487.
Normandy, reunion of it to the crown of France, vii. 445.
North, Lord, observations on his charac- ter, v. 182; vi. 216, 223. Novelty, the first and simplest source of pleasure to the mind, i. 101.
the danger of indulging a desire for it in practical cases, iv. 76. Nundcomar, accuses Mr. Hastings of cor- ruption, x. 24.
Nuzzer, or Nuzzerana, what, x. 171.
Oak, the, why venerated by the Druids, vii. 183.
Oath, the Coronation, observations upon it in reference to the Roman Catho- lics, iv. 260.
Obscurity, generally necessary to the ter- rible, i. 132.
why more affecting than clearness, i. 135.
Obstinacy, though a great and very mis- chievous vice, closely allied to the masculine virtues, ii 66. Office, men too much conversant in it rarely have enlarged minds, ii. 38. in feudal times, the lowest offices often held by considerable persons,ii.303. the reason of this, ii. 304. Officers, military and naval, nature of the fortitude required of them, v. 468. Opinion, popular, the support of govern- ment, ii. 224; vi. 165; vii. 91. an equivocal test of merit, v. 183. the generality of it not always to be judged of by the noise of the ac- clamation, v. 286.
Opinions, men impelled to propagate their
own by their social nature, v. 361. their influence on the affections and passions, v. 403; vii 44.
the most decided often stated in the form of questions, vi. 28. the interest and duty of government to attend much to them, vii. 44.
Oppression, the poorest and most illiter ate are judges of it, iv. 281.
Orange, Prince of, (afterwards William III.,) extracts from his Declara- tion, iv. 147.
Ordeal, purgation by, vii. 314. Oude, extent and government of, under Sujah ul Dowlah, xi. 373.
Pain, pleasure, and indifference, their mu- tual relation as states of the mind, i. 103.
nature and cause of pain, i. 210. how a cause of delight, i. 215. Paine, Thomas, remarks on his character, v. 111; vi. 60.
Painting and poetry, their power, when due to imitation, and when to sym- pathy, i. 123.
Pandulph, the Pope's legate, his politic
dealing with King John, vii. 451. parallel between his conduct to King John and that of the Roman con- suls to the Carthaginians in the last Punic war, vii. 453.
Papal power, uniform steadiness of it in the pursuit of its ambitious pro- jects, vii. 449.
Papal pretensions, sources of their growth and support, vii. 384. Papal States, how likely to be affected by the revolution in France, iv. 337. Parliament, remarks on it, i. 491. the power of dissolving it, the most critical and delicate of all the trusts vested in the crown, ii. 553. disadvantages of triennial parlia- ments, vii. 79.
Parliaments of France, character of them,
Parliament of Paris, observations on its subversion, xii. 396.
Parliamentary disorders, ideas for the cure of them, i. 516.
Parsimony, a leaning towards it in war may be the worst management, i. 310.
Party divisions, inseparable from free gov- ernment, i. 271.
definition of the term, party, i. 530. evils of party domination, vi. 390. Passions, all concern either self-preser- vation or society, i. 110.
final cause of the difference between those belonging to self-preservation and those which regard the society of the sexes, i. 113.
those which belong to self-preserva- tion turn upon pain and danger, i. 125. nature and objects of those belonging to society, i. 125.
a control over them necessary to the existence of society, iv. 52. strong ones awaken the faculties, v. 287.
vehement passion not always indica- tive of an infirm judgment, v. 407.
mere general truths interfere very little with them, vi. 326. passions which interest men in the characters of others, vii. 148. Pasturage and hunting, weaken men's ties to any particular habitation, vii. 171.
Paulus, observation of his on law, vi. 324. Peace, requisites of a good one, i. 295.
the steps taken to bring one about always an augury of what it is likely to be, v. 251.
a ground of peace never laid until it is as good as concluded, v. 260. an arrangement of peace in its nature a permanent settlement, v. 349. Penal statute of William III. against the Papists, repeal of it, ii. 391. People, accurate idea of the term, iv.
evils of an abuse of it, iv. 411. the temper of the people the first study of a statesman, i. 436. in seasons of popular discontent, something generally amiss in the government, i. 440.
the people have no interest in disor- der, i. 441.
generally fifty years behindhand in their politics, i. 442.
a connection with their interests a necessary qualification of a minis- ter, i. 474.
sense of the people, how to be ascer- tained by the king, i. 475. should show themselves able to pro- tect every representative in the performance of his duty, i. 503. liberty cannot long exist where they are generally corrupt, ii. 242. the people of England love a mitigat- ed monarchy more than even the best republic, iv. 149.
danger of teaching them to think
lightly of their engagements to their governors, iv. 162.
the natural control on authority, iv. 164.
dangerous nature of a power capa- ble of resisting even their erroneous choice of an object, vi. 296. points on which they are incompetent to give advice to their representa- tives, vii. 74, 75.
Perfection not the cause of beauty, i. 187.
Persecution, religious, an observation of Mr. Bayle concerning it, vi. 333. general observations on it, vi. 394. Persecutor, a violent one, frequently an unbeliever in his own creed, vi. 86.
Peshcush, what, x. 171.
Peters, Hugh, remarks on a passage in a sermon of his, iii. 318.
Petition of Right, rests the franchises of the subject not on abstract right, but on inheritance, iii. 273.
Philosophical inquiries, how to be con- ducted, i. 70.
use of them, i. 72. Philosophy, Lord Bolingbroke's, animad- versions on it, i. 4.
Physic, the profession of it, in anciert times, annexed to the priesthood, vii. 183.
Physiognomy, has a considerable share in the beauty of the human species, i. 198.
Pilgrimages of the Middle Ages, benefits of them, vii. 247.
Pitt, Mr., remarks on his conduct in 1784, v. 57.
his Declaration on the war with the French Republic, v. 278; vi. 21. eulogy of it, v. 279, 390; vi. 22. and of his speech on that war, v. 390. Place Bill, proposed remedy for parlia mentary disorders, i. 518. Plagues, in Athens and in London, wick edness remarkably prevalent dur ing their continuance, vii. 84. Pleasure and pain, observations on them, i. 102.
pleasure, pain, and indifference, their mutual relation, as states of the mind, i. 103.
Poetry, more powerful than painting in moving the passions, i. 134. does not depend for its effect on raising ideas or sensible images of things, i. 246, 255.
this exemplified, i. 252.
affects rather by sympathy than im
dramatic poetry strictly imitation, i. 257.
descriptive poetry operates chiefly by substitution, i. 257.
Poland, character of the revolution there, iv. 195.
contrasted with the revolution in France, iv. 198.
Policy, a refined one, the parent of con- fusion, ii. 106.
inseparable from justice, iii. 438. Political connection, how regarded by the ancient Romans, i. 528.
England governed by one in the reign of Queen Anne, i. 529. general observations on, i. 530. Political economy, had its origin in Eng- land, v. 192.
Political system, an unwise or mischiev- ous one not necessarily of short du- ration, iv. 353.
Politician, duties of one, iii. 557, 559. Politics, ought to be adjusted to human nature, i. 398.
different in different ages, i. 442. unsuitable to the pulpit, iii. 246. Polybius, anecdote concerning him, iv. 285.
Poor, the laboring, their poverty owing
to their numbers, v. 134.
proper compassion for them, v. 135, 466.
Poorunder, treaty of, broken by Mr. Hastings, xii. 382.
Pope, the, his dispute with Henry I., vii. 384.
his pretext for giving Henry II. a commission to conquer Ireland, vii. 413.
his excommunication of King John, vii. 449.
treatment of him by the French Rev- olutionists, . 418.
Popery Laws, Tract on the, vi. 299. Popular election, a mighty evil, vii. 72. Popular opinion, an equivocal test of merit, v. 183.
Population, rapid increase of it in Amer- ica, ii. 110.
state of it, a standard by which to estimate the effects of a govern- ment on any country, iii. 400. view of that of France, at different periods, iii. 400.
comparative effects of peace and war on it, as regards the higher classes, v. 472. Power, all sublimity some modification of it, i. 138.
incompatible with credit, i. 368. the civil power, when it calls in the
aid of the military, perishes by the assistance it receives, i. 484. arbitrary power steals upon a peo- ple by being rarely exercised, ii. 201.
persons possessed of power ought to have a strong sense of religion, iii. 354.
the ability to use it for the great and lasting benefit of a country test of statesmanship, iii. 441. not willingly abandoned by its pos- sessors, iv. 11.
dissensions in the commonwealth
mostly concerning the hands in which it is to be placed, iv. 163. necessity of teaching men to restrain the immoderate exercise and inor- dinate desire of it, iv. 163. active power never willingly placed by legislators in the hands of the multitude, iv. 164.
danger of a resumption of delegated
power by the people, iv. 168.
does not always accompany proper- ty, iv. 349.
the possession of it discovers a man's true character, v. 362.
men will incur the greatest risks for the sake of it, vii. 82. originates from God alone, ix. 456. the supreme power in every consti- tution must be absolute, ix. 460. ends to which a superintending, con- trolling power ought to be directed, xi. 417.
Prejudice, cannot be created, vi. 368. Prerogative, remarks on the exercise of it, ii. 225.
Presbyterianism, remarks on it, iv. 452.
Prescription, part of the law of Nature iii. 433.
the most solid of all titles, and the most recognized in jurisprudence, vi. 412; vii. 94.
Present State of Affairs, Heads for Consid- eration on the, iv. 379.
Price, Dr. Richard, observations on his sermon on the Love of our Coun- try, iii. 244, 301, 304, 316. Price of commodities, how raised, v. 142. danger of attempting to raise it by authority, v. 143.
Primogeniture, right of, operation of the Popery Laws in taking it away, vi. 302.
Principal of a debt, cannot distress a na- tion, i. 329.
Principalities, the, proposal to unite them to the crown, ii. 298. Privations, all general ones great, i. 146. Profit, an honorable and fair one, the best security against avarice and rapa- city, ii. 335. Projects, new, requirements of men of sense with respect to them, i. 367. Property,. ought greatly to predominate over ability in the representation, iii. 298.
importance of the power of perpetu- ating it in families, iii. 298. not always accompanied with power, iv. 349.
Proportion, what, i. 166.
not the cause of beauty in vegetables, i. 166.
nor in animals, i. 170.
nor in the human species, i. 172. whence the idea of proportion, as the principal component of beauty, arose, i. 178.
Prosperity, discovers the real character of a man, iv. 22.
a prejudice in favor of it, however obtained, iv. 425.
Protestant, the state so declared at the Revolution, with a qualification, iv. 257.
Protestant ascendency, observations on, vi. 391.
Protestant Association, the, animadver- sions on it, ii. 389, 415. Protestantism, at no period established, undefined, in England, iv. 258. Protestants, errors of the early, ii. 390.
misconduct of those in the South of France at the Revolution, iv. 452. Provisions, trade of, danger of tampering with it, v. 133.
Prudence, the first in rank of the politi- cal and moral virtues, iv. 81. its decisions differ from those of ju- dicature, iv. 251.
its rules and definitions rarely ex- act, never universal, v. 241. Psalms, and Prophets, crowded with in- stances of the introduction of the terrible in Nature to heighten the awe of the Divine presence, i. 144.
Public affairs, state of them previous to the formation of the Rockingham administration, i. 381.
Public men, not all equally corrupt, ii. 240.
Public service, means of rewarding it necessary in every state, ii. 330. Punishment, considerations necessary to be observed in inflicting it, iv. 466; vi. 245.
under the Saxon laws, extremely moderate, vii. 321.
Purveyance and receipt in kind, what, ii. 306.
taken away by the 12th Charles II., ii. 306.
revived the next year, ii. 306. Pythagoras, his discipline contrasted with that of Socrates, vii. 179.
why silence enjoined by him, vii. 179.
Raimond, Count of Toulouse, engages in the Crusade, vii. 372.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, abusive epithet ap- plied to him by Lord Coke, xi. 175. Reason, sound, no real virtue without it, iv. 24.
never inconvenient but when it comes to be applied, vi. 326. Reasoners, men generally the worse rea- soners for having been ministers, i. 338.
Reformation, in government, should be early and temperate, ii. 280. and slow, iii. 456. different from change, v. 186. general observations on it, iii. 455; iv. 111; vi. 294; vii. 71. in England, has always proceeded upon the principle of reference to antiquity, iii. 272. Reformation, the, observations on it, ii. 389.
Reformers, English, character of them, iii. 430.
Regicide by establishment, what, v. 309. Regicide Peace, Letters on, v. 233, 342, 384; vi. 9.
Religion, writers against it never set up any of their own, i. 7.
effects of it on the colonists of Amer- ica, ii. 122.
the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all com- fort, iii. 350.
the respect entertained for it in Eng- land, iii. 352.
a strong sense of it necessary to those in power, iii. 354.
mischievous consequences of chang- ing it, except under strong convic- tion, iv. 453.
the magistrate has a right to direct the exterior ceremonies of it, vii. 30.
the Christian, in its rise overcame all opposition, vii. 25.
Representation, ought to include both the ability and the property of a state, iii. 297.
virtual, what, iv. 293. natural, what, v. 284.
of America in the British Parliament, project of, i. 372.
consideration of its difficulties, i. 373.
of England, and that of France in the National Assembly, compared, iii.
481. Representation to his Majesty on the Speech from the Throne, ii. 537. Representative, his duty to his constitu- ents, ii. 95, 281, 357.
Republican government, remarks on, iv. 109.
Reputation, public, how to be secured, ix. 341.
Resemblance, pleasing to the imagina- tion, i. 87.
Responsibility of ministers of state, na- ture of it, iii. 501; v. 507. Revenge, observations on, xi. 179. Revenue, great importance of it to a state, iii. 534.
its administration the sphere of every active virtue, iii. 535.
Revolution of 1688, diminished influence of the crown at that time how com- pensated, i. 445.
principles of it contained in the Dec- laration of Right, iii. 252.
the subversion of the old, and the settlement of the new govern- ment, inseparably combined in it,
Richard I., brief account of his reign, vii. 425.
parallel between him and Charles XII. of Sweden, vii. 436. Richelieu, Cardinal, hated by Louis XIII., iii. 499.
Rights, assumed, their consequences of great moment in deciding on their validity, iv. 183.
Rights of Men, Jacobinical theory of, an- imadversions on it, iii. 307.
sophistically confounded with their power, iii. 313.
Robespierre, his character, vi. 62. Rochford, Lord, his remonstrance with regard to Corsica, i. 480.
Rockingham, Marquis of, Short Account of his Administration, i. 263. formation of his administration, i. 379.
state of public affairs at the time, i. 381.
character and conduct of it, i. 388. ideas of it with regard to America, i. 403.
his Lordship's conduct in American affairs, ii. 46.
Rohilla nation, sale of it by the East India Company, ii. 449.
Roland, character of him, v. 70. Roman Catholics, Mr. Burke's defence of
his Parliamentary conduct with re- gard to them, ii. 388.
Letter on the Penal Laws against, iv. 217.
mode of education necessary for their clergy, iv. 229, 231.
condition of their clergy before the restraint on marriage, iv. 230. mischievous consequences of placing the appointment of the Irish Ro- man Catholic clergy in the hands of the Lord Lieutenant, iv. 234.
Roman politics, under the Empire, dif- ferent from those which actuated the Republic, vii. 203.
dominion over the Britons and oth-
er conquered nations, methods by which it was preserved, vii. 205. procurators under the Emperors, why invested with greater powers than the legates, vii. 208.
military ways, character and purpose of them, vii. 211.
number and extent of the principal ones in Britain, vii. 211. revenues, nature of them, vii. 211. three great changes in the govern- ment after the dissolution of the Commonwealth, vii. 220.
Rome, ancient, destroyed by the disor- ders of continual elections, vii. 80. and by its heavy taxes, vii. 213. bounds of the empire first contracted by Adrian, vii. 214.
Rome, modern, its example a caution not to attempt to feed the people by the hands of the magistrates, v. 156.
Rota, in the French National Assembly, effect of it, iv. 350.
Rotund, noble effect of it, i. 150.
accounted for, i. 150.
Rousseau, the secret of his, principles of composition, iii. 459.
a resemblance to him an object of rivalry to the leaders of the Na- tional Assembly, iv. 25. vanity his ruling passion, iv. 26. brief character of him, iv. 27.
totally destitute of taste, iv. 30. morality of the passions in his Nou- velle Éloise, iv. 31.
character of his style, iv. 32.
Russell, Baron, the first, his character, v. 201.
Russia, the Emperor of, the true policy of his government, v. 422. Russian treaty of commerce, i. 410.
Sacheverell, Dr., his impeachment carried
on for the purpose of stating the grounds and principles of the Rev- olution, iv. 119.
extracts from speeches of Managers
at his trial, iv. 122–146. proceedings in his trial, xi. 15.
Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, reduces Pales- tine, vii. 427.
defeated by Richard I., vii. 429. Salaries, objections to a tax upon them, ii. 283.
Sallust, remarks on his finely contrasted characters of Cæsar and Cato, i. 189.
Salt, monopoly of, by the French govern- ment, i. 332.
Santerre, his brutal conduct to Louis XVI., vi. 101.
Saracens, their fierce irruptions and con- quests, vii. 328.
Savile, Sir George, his bill for the repeal of the statute of William III. against Papists, ii. 396.
his character, ii. 397.
Saxons, a brief account of their laws and institutions, vii. 291.
under their rule, the succession to the crown in England partly hereditary and partly elective, vii. 297. their laws wholly abolished in Eng-
land since the Conquest, vii. 478. sources of them, vii. 487. Scarcity, Thoughts and Details on, v. 131. proper policy in respect to the poor, in times of, v. 156.
Scotland, beneficial effects on trade of its union with England, ii. 254.
its Church establishment under the Union, iv. 258.
Scripture, indefinite nature of subscrip tion to it, vii. 18.
Scythians, all Northern Europe originally inhabited by them, vii. 160.
Selden, his statement of the Parliamenta- ry practice in the examination of witnesses, xi. 108.
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