'A BECKET, Thomas, vi. 356. Abolition of negro slavery, v. 521. Absentee tax, Irish, v. 437, objec-
tions to it, 438. Accidental things ought to be care-
fully distinguished from perma- nent causes and effects, v. 153. Account, capital use of, what, i. 362.
Act of Navigation, i. 401, 407. Acts of Grace, impolicy of them, ii. 141; of indemnity and oblivion, probable effects of them as a means of reconciling France to a monarchy, iii. 450. Addison, Mr., the correctness of his opinion of the cause of the grand effect of the rotund questioned, i. 102; his fine lines on hon- ourable political connexions, i. 375.
Address (proposed) to the king, 1777, by members of parliament, v. 460; to the British colonists in North America, 476. Administration, a short account of a late short one, i. 182; Duke of Cumberland's, in July, 1765, ib.; Lord Chatham's, July, 1766, ib.; Marquis of Rockingham's, 266, see Rockingham; state of pub- lic affairs at the time of its forma- tion, 267; idea of it respecting America, 279; remarks on its foreign negotiations, 290; cha- racter of a united administra-
tion, 299; of a disunited one, ib.; should be correspondent to the legislature, 279.
Admiration, difference between this and love, i. 132; the first source of obedience, ii. 303; one of the principles which interest us in the characters of others, vi. 178. Adrian, first contracts the bounds of the Roman empire, vi. 224. Advice, compulsive, from constitu-
ents, its authority first resisted by Mr. Burke, iii. 26. Adviser, duty of one, ii. 548. Agricola, Julius, character and con- duct of, vi. 213.
Aix, the Archbishop of, his offer of contribution why refused by the French National Assembly, ii. 392. Aix-la-Chapelle, the treaty of, re- marks on it, v. 302. Alderman, the office of, among the Saxons, vi. 290.
Alfred, notices of, vi. 257; charac- ter and conduct of, 262; his care and sagacity in improving the laws and institutions of Eng- land, 418. Allegiance, oath of, remarkable one taken by the nobility to King Stephen, vi. 349.
Alliance, one of the requisites of a good peace, i. 203; the famous Triple Alliance negotiated by Temple and De Witt, v. 301; 2 M
alliance between Church and State in a Christian common- wealth a fanciful speculation, vi. 115.
Alliances, Vattell on, iii. 460. Allies, the, remarks on their policy in respect to France, in 1792, iii. 400, 410.
Ambition, its effects on society, i. 84.
Ambition, one of the passions be- longing to society, i. 83; its nature and end, 84; misery of disappoint- ed ambition, 233; ought to be in- fluenced by popular motives, 335; influence of it, iii. 193; one of the natural distempers of a demo- cracy, 78; necessity and danger- ous tendency of violent restraints on it, iii. 78; not an accurate cal- culator, vi. 140.
America, trade of, relieved, i. 182; representation of discussed, 260; trade of, 278; advantage of to England, 404; nature of various taxes there, 247; eloquent de- scription of the rising glories of, in vision, 460; its rapidly in- creasing commerce, 458; temper and character of its inhabitants, 464; their spirit of liberty, whence, 464, 469; proposed tax- ation of by grant, instead of im- position, 489; danger of estab- lishing a military government there, v. 472; an European power, 290.
AMERICAN COLONIES:-
The measures adopted by the Rockingham Administration to conciliate the Americans, i. 183; want of attention to their con- cerns, 260; taxation of, and its consequences, 269; power of the British legislature over, asserted, 279; repeal of the Stamp Act, 282; speech on American taxa- tion, 283; effects of the tea tax, and reasons for its repeal, 400; policy of Lord Rockingham on the commercial regulations of
America, 412; reasons why Eng- land should not tax the colonies, 430, 478; a determination to do so, the prime cause of the quar- rel between the two countries, 482; great importance of adopt- ing a liberal policy towards Ame- rica, 451; basis of Mr. Burke's plan of conciliation, 453; grow- ing population of the colonies, 457; commercial importance of the colonies, 458; their agricul- ture and fisheries, 461; objec- tions to the use of military force for compelling obedience to ob- jectionable laws, 463, ii. 12; causes of American love of liber- ty, i. 464; available means of re- pressing disaffection in the colo- nies, 472; six propositions for conciliating the Americans, 489; objections to Lord North's plan of conciliation, 502, ii. 2; ad- dress to the king on the conduct of the government towards the colonies, v. 460.
American Stamp Act, i. 189; re- pealed, 276, 282; its origin and progress, 270; reasons of the re- peal, political, not commercial, 399, 414; good effects of the re- peal, 423.
American taxation, Burke's speech on, i. 382.
Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, i. 194. Anacharsis Cloots, v. 387. Ancestors, reverence due to them, ii. 306, iii. 114.
Angles, in buildings, prejudicial to their grandeur, i. 103. Anglesey, formerly Mona, vi. 210. Anglo-Saxons, vi. 240.
Animals, proportion not the cause of beauty in, i. 117; their cries capable of conveying great ideas, i. 110.
Anniversaries, festive, advantages of, iii. 387.
Anselm, appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, after the death of Lanfranc, vi. 338; supports
Henry I. against his brother Ro- bert, 342. Apparitions, singular inconsistency in the ideas of the vulgar con- cerning them, vi. 200. Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs," iii. 337. Arbitrary power steals upon a peo- ple by lying dormant for a time, or by being rarely exercised, ii. 10.
Arcot. See Nabob of Arcot. Areopagus, court and senate of, re- marks on them, ii. 477. Ariosto, a criticism of Boileau on, vi. 181.
Aristocracy, affected terror of an extension of power by, in the reign of George II., i. 322; in- fluence of the aristocracy, 323; too much spirit, not a fault of it, ib.; general observations on it, ii. 410; character of a true na- tural one, iii. 86; regulations in some states with respect to it, 303, 304; must submit to the domin- ion of prudence and virtue, v. 80; character of the aristocracy of France before the Revolution, ii. 379, y. 380; differs from a des- potism only in name, i. 25; a true natural one, an essential part of society, iii. 85. Aristotle, his caution against the delusion of demanding geometri- cal accuracy in moral arguments, i. 501; his observations on the re- semblance between a democracy and a tyranny, ii. 396; his dis- tinction between tragedy and comedy, vi. 181; his natural phi- losophy alone unworthy of him, 251; his system entirely follow- ed by Bede, ib.
Armies yield a precarious and un- certain obedience to a senate, ii. 480; on standing armies, iii. 277. Army commanded by General Monk, character of it, 543. Army estimates, Burke's speech on those of 1790 iii. 269.
Art, every work of, only great as it deceives, i. 104.
Arthur, King, vi. 238. Articles of Impeachment against Warren Hastings, iv. 220, v. 62, and Appendix, 63.
Articles, the Thirty-Nine, vi. 97. Artist, a true one effects the noblest designs by easy methods, i. 104. Artois, Comte d', character of him, iii. 428.
Ascendency, Protestant, in Ireland, remarks on, vi. 66.
Asers, race of, origin, character, and conduct of, vi. 234. Assassination, recommended and employed by the National Assem- bly of France, ii. 542; the dread- ful effects of, in case of war, 542, 543.
Assiento, the, i. 207. Assignats, French, issues of, 504, 510.
Association, political, advantages of, i. 374, ii. 37; effects of early ones, i. 144.
Astonishment, origin and nature of the passion, i. 88, 149. Atheism, by astonishment, what, v. 207; against our reason, ii. 362; schools of, set up by the French regicides at the public charge, v.
Atheists, modern, contrasted with
those of antiquity, iii. 377. Athenian republic, the, i. 27. Athenians at the head of the demo-
cratic interests of Greece, v. 351. Athens, the plague of, wickedness remarkably prevalent during its continuance, vi. 141.
Auckland, Lord, his pamphlet on politics, v. 355. Augustine, introduced Christianity among the Anglo-Saxons, vi. 237; state of religion in Britain when he arrived there, 238.
Aulic council, remarks on, v. 74. Austria, began in the reign of Ma- Iria Theresa to support great ar- mies, v. 250; treaty of 1756 2 M 2
with France deplored by the French in 1773, 251; policy as to her subjects, iii. 384. Authority, the people the natural control on it, iii. 78; the control and exercise of it, contradictory, ib.; the monopoly of it an evil, v. 96; the only firm seat of it in public opinion, ii. 27; v. 464. Avarice, effects of it, iii. 193.
Bacon, Lord, a remark of his ap- plied to the Revolution in France, v. 111.
Bacon, Nicholas, his work on the Laws of England not entitled to authority, vi. 415.
Bail, method of giving it, introduced by Alfred, vi. 260; advantage of it, ib.
Ball, Dr., his notions of the rights of men, iii. 88.
Ball, the Abbé John, remarks on his conduct, iii. 427.
Ballot, all contrivances by it unfit to prevent a discovery of the in- clinations, ii. 476.
Bank paper in England owing to the flourishing condition of com- merce, ii. 501.
Bankruptcies, inferences to be drawn from, v. 344. Bards, origin and character of, vi. 198.
Bartholomew, St., massacre of, ii.
Bases, the three, of the new French government, ii. 443.
Bathurst, Lord, his imagined vision of the rising glories of America, i. 460.
Bayle, his observation on religious persecution, vi, 29. Beauchamp, Lord, his Bill, Mr. Burke's vindication of his con- duct with respect to it, ii. 140. Beautiful, the, compared with the sublime, i. 141, 169; efficient cause of, 143.
Beauty, observations on, i. 77, 113;
natural proportion not the cause of it, 114; nor customary pro- portion, 116; beauty and propor- tion not ideas of the same nature, 124; the opposite to beauty not disproportion, or deformity, but ugliness, 124; fitness not the cause of beauty, 125; nor per- fection, 129; how far the ideas of beauty may be applied to fa- culties of the mind, 130; now far they may be applied to vir- tue, ib.; the real cause of beauty, ib.; beautiful objects small and smooth, 132, 133; and gradually varied, 133; and delicate, 133, 134; and of mild or diversified colours, 135; beauty acts by re- laxing the solids of the whose sys- tem, 160; of the sex, a percep- tion of, enters into the idea of love, ib.
Becket, Thomas à, vi. 356. Bede, the Venerable, brief account of him, vi. 250.
Bedford, Duke of, answers to, v. 67, 110; title by which he holds his grants, 131; the first Earl, who, ib.
Beer, brewed in England, i. 219. Begums, the East India Company suspect them of rebellion, ii. 204; plundered by order of Mr. Hast- ings, 202.
Benares, the capital of the Indian religion, ii. 206; the Rajah's right and title, v. 235; his expulsion, 256; second revolution in, 275; third, 280; Warren Hastings's design on, 244.
Benfield, Mr. Paul, iii. 185, 211; his character and conduct, 146. Bengal, extent and condition of, ii. 221; internal trade of, iv. 55. Bengal Club, observations on it, iii. 354.
Bernard, governor in Massachu- setts, i. 402, 412. Bigotry, effects of, vi. 39. Bingham, letter to Sir Charles, on the Irish absentee tax, v. 437.
Biron, Duchess of, murdered by the French regicides, v. 382. Bitterness, in description, a source of the sublime, i. 111. Blacklock, the poet, i. 174.
Blackness, the effects of, on the
Boadicea, her character and con- duct, vi. 212.
Board of Trade and Plantations, ii. 109.
Board of works, cost of it, ii. 89. Boileau, his criticism on a tale in Ariosto, vi. 186. Bolingbroke's works, remarks on their character and tendency, i. 2; Burke's letter to him, in vin- dication of natural society, 6; animadversions on his philoso- phy, 2; some characters of his style, 5; a presumptuous and superficial writer, ii. 397; a re- mark of his on the superiority of a monarchy over other forms of government, ib.
Borrower, the public, and the pri- vate lender not adverse parties with contending interests, v. 313. Boston Port Bill, i. 497, ii. 11. Botetourt, Lord, i. 395. Bovines, victory of, important ad-
vantages of it to France, vi. 400. Brabancons, mercenary troops in the time of Henry II., their cha- racter, vi. 373.
Bribing, by means of it, rather than
by being bribed, wicked politi- cians bring ruin on mankind, ii. 192.
Bridgewater (Duke of) Canal, v. 341.
Brissot, his character and conduct, iii. 388, 433; preface to his ad- dress to his constituents, 511; ap- pendix to it, 529.
Bristol, Burke's speeches at, i. 439; addresses to the electors of, ii. 127.
Britain, invasion of by Cæsar, vi.
188; account of its ancient in- habitants, 192; invaded by Clau-
dius, 207; reduced by Ostorius Scapula, 208; finally subdued by Julius Agricola, 213; why not sooner conquered, 215; nature of the government settled there by the Romans, 218; first intro- duction of Christianity in, 229; deserted by the Romans, 231; entry and settlement of the Saxons, and their conversion to Christianity, 233.
British colonists in North America, address to. See AMERICAN COLO-
Britons, more reduced than any
other nation that fell under the German power, vi. 237.
Brown, Dr., effect of his writings
on the people of England, v. 157. Buche, Captal de, his severe treat- ment of the Jacquerie in France, iii. 87.
Buckinghamshire meeting, letter to the, vi. 1.
Building, the sublime in, i. 103; management of light in, 108, Buildings, too great length in them prejudicial to grandeur of effect, i. 104; should be gloomy, to pro- duce an idea of the sublime, 107. Bullion, trade of, secured, i. 203. Burgh, Thos., Burke's letter to, vindicating his conduct on Irish affairs, v. 491.
Burke, Mr., his sentiments respect- ing several leading members of the Whig party, iii. 5; and re- specting an union of Ireland with Great Britain, 338; and respect- ing acts of indemnity as a means of reconciling France to a mon- archy, 450; his animadversions on the conduct of Mr. Fox, 469; his pathetic allusion to his de- ceased son, v. 135; declines the poll at Bristol, ii. 170; vin- dication of his public conduct, i. 256, ii. 127; and of his pension, 131.
Burke, Richard, Letter to, on the Catholic Question, vi. 61.
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