A priori reasoning, defects of, i. 385.
Absolute uselessness of in politi-
cal science, 394.

Abbé and Abbot, difference be-
tween, ii. 129.

Absalom and Achitophel, Dryden's,
i. 231.

Academy, the, character of its doc-
trines, ii. 450.
Addison, Joseph, birth and educa-
tion, iii. 400. Life at Magdalen
College, 401. Knowledge of the
Latin poets, 402. Poems of, 406.
Complimented by Dryden, 408.
Drawn into political life by
Charles Montague, 409. Pensioned
and sent abroad to study, 411. In-
troduced to Boileau, 413. Travels
in Italy, 416. Loses his pension,
422. Returns to England through
Germany, 423. Writes The Cam-
paign, 426. Publishes his Nar-
rative of Travels in Italy, 430.
Opera of Rosamond, 431. Not
fitted for prominence in Parlia-
ment, 433. Conversational gifts,
436. His timidity, 437. His
friends, 438. Goes to Ireland as
Chief Secretary, 441. Contributes
to the Tatler, 443. His humor
compared to that of Swift and
Voltaire, 445. Value of his es-
says in elevating literary taste,
447 Dismissed from office, 450.
Enters Parliament again, 451.
His Spectator papers, 454. Con-
tributes to the Guardian; his
tragedy of Cato, 457. Again
Chief Secretary of Ireland, 465.
Friendship with Swift, 466. His
comedy The Drummer played;
starts the Freeholder, 467. His
quarrel with Pope, 469. Accused
of retaliating on Pope, 474. Mar-

ries the Dowager Countess of
Warwick, 476. Becomes Secre-
tary of State, 477. His troubles
with Steele, 479. Answers Steele's
arguments against the bill for
limiting the number of the Peers,
481. Dedicates his works to
Craggs, 482. His piety, 483.
Death, 484. His services to lit-
erature, 486.

Addison, Rev. Lancelot, life, iii.
399.

Adiaphorists, the, ii. 68.
Eschylus, Quintilian's opinion of,
i. 42. His use of the supernatu-
ral, 106.
Afghanistan, monarchy of, analo-
gous to that of England in the
sixteenth century, ii. 80.
Aikin, Lucy, her life of Addison re-
viewed, iii. 396.

Aix, island of, captured, ii. 276.
Aix-la-Chapelle, treaty of, iii. 270.
Akenside, his Epistle to Curio, ii.

222.

Albigensian Crusade, iii. 9–11.
Alexander the Great, compared
with Clive, ii. 760.
Alfieri, Vittorio, first to appreciate
Dante, i. 6. Influenced by the
school of Plutarch, 256. Com-
parable to Cowper, 591.
Alphabetical writing, the greatest
of human inventions, ii. 460.
Comparative views of its value by
Plato and Bacon, 460, 461.
Anabaptists, their origin, ii. 72.
Anacharsis, reputed contriver of the
potter's wheel, ii. 447.
Anaverdy Khan, governor of the
Carnatic, ii. 685.

Angria, his fortress of Gheriah, re-
duced by Clive, ii. 700.
Anne, Queen, her political and re-

176. Changes in her government
in 1710, 177. Relative estimation
by the Whigs and the Tories of
her reign, 179–186.

Annus Mirabilis, Dryden's, i. 215.
Anytus, first briber of Athenian
judges, ii. 431.

Apostolical succession, claimed by
Mr. Gladstone for the Church of
England, ii. 645.

Aquinas, Thomas, ii. 482.
Archimedes, his slight estimate of

his inventions, ii. 457.
Archytas, rebuked by Plato, ii.
457.

Arcot, Nabob of, his relations with
England, ii. 685-692. His claims
recognized by the English, 687.
Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Wal-
pole's administration, ii. 241.
Ariosto, rises above Petrarch's influ-
ence, i. 5.

Aristotle, his unrivalled excellence
in analysis and combination, i. 40.
Value of his general propositions,
41. His enlightened and profound
criticism, 41. His authority im-
paired by the Reformation, ii.
454.

Arithmetic, comparative estimate

of, by Plato and by Bacon, ii.
456.

Arlington, Henry Bennet, Lord, his
character, ii. 523. His coldness

for the Triple Alliance, 530. His
impeachment, 546.

Arragon and Castile, their old insti-
tutions favorable to public liberty,
ii. 137.

Arrian, authenticity his only merit
as an historian, i. 251.
Art, rise of, in Italy, i. 148. Need
of skill for perfection in, 200.
Art of War, Machiavelli's, i. 175.
Arundel, Earl of, ii. 443.

Asaph-ul-Dowlah, prince of Oude,

taxed by Hastings, iii.

188.

Agrees to plunder the Begums,
189. Method used, 191.
Assemblies, deliberative, ii. 273.
Astronomy, comparative estimate
of, by Socrates and by Bacon, ii.

459.

Athenian Orators, On the, i. 40-
55.

45. Their taste and knowledge,
46. Method of education, 47.
Athens, eloquence at, i. 51. Pro-
gress of her oratory kept pace
with her decay, 52. Ostracismı at,
64. Her freedom and happiness,
68. Cruelty excusable, 69. Evil
of slavery, 71. Permanent effect
of her intellectual power, 80.
Attainder, act of, ii. 39, 40.
Aubrey, charges Bacon with corrup-

tion, ii. 425. Bacon's decision
against him after his present, 440.
Aurungzebe, his policy, iii. 680.

Baber, founder of the Mogul Em-
pire, iii. 679.

Bacon, Lady, mother of Francis
Bacon, ii. 368.
Bacon, Francis, review of Basil
Montagu's new edition of his
works, ii. 357-497. His father,
362-368. His mother distin-
guished as a linguist, 368. His
early years, 371-374. His services
refused by Government, 374, 375.
His admission at Gray's Inn, 375.
His legal attainments, 375, 376.
Sat in Parliament in 1593, 377.
Part he took in politics, 378. His
friendship with the Earl of Essex,
382-389. Examination of his
Conduct to Essex, 390-397. Influ-
ence of King James on his for-
tunes, 399. His servility to Lord
Southampton, 400. Influence his
talents had with the public, 400.
His distinction in Parliament and
in the courts of law, 402.
literary and philosophical works,
402. His "Novum Organum,"
and the admiration it excited, 403.
His work of reducing and recom-
piling the laws of England, 403.
His tampering with the judges on
the trial of Peacham, 404-408.
Attaches himself to Buckingham,
410. His appointment as Lord
Keeper, 413. His share in the
vices of the administration, 414.
His animosity towards Sir Edward
Coke, 419. His town and country
residences, 420, 421. His titles of
Baron Verulam and Viscount St.
Albans, 421, 422. Report against

His

him of the Committee on the

Courts of Justice, 424. Nature of
the charges, 425. Overwhelming
evidence to them, 426, 427. His
admission of his guilt, 427. His
sentence, 428. Examination of
Mr. Montagu's arguments in his
defence, 429-440. Mode in which
he spent the last years of his life,
441, 442. His death, 443. Chief
peculiarity of his philosophy, 444-
455. His views compared with
those of Plato, 456–465. To what
his wide and durable fame is
chiefly owing, 469. His frequent
treatment of moral subjects, 472.
His views as a theologian, 474.
Vulgar notion of him as inventor
of the inductive method, 475.
Estimate of his analysis of that
method, 475-484. Union of au-
dacity and sobriety in his temper,
484. His amplitude of compre-
hension, 485. His freedom from
the spirit of controversy, 487. His
eloquence, wit, and similitudes,
487, 488. His disciplined imagi-
nation, 490. His boldness and
originality, 491. Unusual order
in the development of his facul-
ties, 492. Specimens of his two
styles, 493. Value of his Essays,
494. His greatest performance
the first book of the Novum Or-
ganum, 495. Contemplation of
his life, 496, 497.

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, ii. 362–368.

Character of the class of states-
men to which he belonged, 363.
Classical acquirements of his wife,
368.

Baconian philosophy, its chief pecul-
iarity, ii. 444. Its essential spir-
it, 448. Its method and object,
455, 456. Comparative views of
Bacon and Plato, 456-465. Its
beneficent spirit, 462, 465, 468,
469. Its value compared with
ancient philosophy, 465-478.
Banim, Mr., defends James II. as a
supporter of toleration, ii. 330.
Barcelona, captured by Peterbor-
ough, ii. 161-164.

Barère, Bertrand, Mémoires de, re-

viewed, iii. 487-590. Approached
nearest to the idea of universal

depravity, 489. His natural dis-
position, 490. Greatest liar known,
493. His false account of Marie
Antoinette's death, 494. Of the
proceedings against the Girond-
ists, 497. Birth and education,
499. Marriage, 500. First visit
to Paris, 501. Elected to the
States General, 502. Position
there, 503. Becomes a justice,
507. Chosen to the second "con-
vention, 510. At first a Girondist,
515. Accused of royalist sym-
pathies, 518. A federalist, 520.
Opposes the Jacobins, 521. On
the Committee of Public Safety,
522. Supports the Girondists
against the Paris authorities, 523.
Feeling of parties toward, 526.
Goes over to the Jacobins and ac-
cuses the prominent Girondists,
527. Raves against Marie Antoi-
nette, 528. Style of oratory, 529.
His bloodthirsty ferocity, 539.
Sensual excesses, 541. His delight
in murder, 543. Urges war with-
ont quarter, 546. Admitted to
the Jacobin club, 547. Urges the
strengthening of the Revolution-
ary Tribunal, 553. Deserts Robes-
pierre, 554. Attacked in the
convention, 559. Arrested, 561.
Enmity shown him on his way to
the prison at Oléron, 563. Es-
capes, 564. The Council of Five
Hundred refuses to seat him, 565.
Scorned but employed by Bona-
parte, 568. Perhaps employed as
a censor, 571. His rôle of spy,
573. Reports on public opinion,
575. His newspaper, 576. His
reports refused a reading, 579.
His double treason, 580. Becomes
a royalist in 1814, 580. Exiled,
582. Turns Jacobin under Louis
Philippe, 583. His ignorance and
hatred of the English, 587. His
professions of Christianity, 589.
Barillon, M., French ambassador, his
opinion of the council proposed by
Sir William Temple, ii. 556, 564.
Barwell, Mr., made councillor in
India, iii. 144. Supports Hast-
ings, 148.

Baxter, Richard, his testimony to
the excellence of Hampden, ii. 4.