Volume 12 — INDEX. (continued 2)
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nature of several in America, i. 355. colonial, Lord North's project of a ransom of them by auction, ii. 171. the great contests for freedom in England chiefly upon the question of taxing, ii. 120. taxes on different establishments, remarks concerning them, i. 368. upon salaries, ii. 283. details of English taxes, v. 476.
Terror, sometimes a source of delight, i. 119.
how, i. 214. an effect of the sublime, i. 130. its physical effects, i. 211.
Test Act, observations on it, iv. 264.
Thanes, brief account of them, vii. 300.
Theatre, general observations on the, iii. 338.
prosperous condition of it in England, v. 485. made an affair of state in the French Republic, vi. 104.
Theodorus, Archbishop of Canterbury, brief account of him, vii. 249.
his services to the cause of letters in England, vii. 249.
Three Seals, the history of the affair so called, ix. 408.
Time blends the conquered with the conquerors, iv. 272.
Toleration, true, exemplified, iii. 431.
ought to be tender and large, iv. 258. favorable to, and a part of Christianity, vii. 25. not a virtue of the ancient heathens, vii. 31.
Toulon, fleet of, injudicious measures of the English government with regard to it, iv. 445.
Townshend, Charles, character of him, ii. 64.
Trade, sometimes seems to perish when it only assumes a different form, i. 313.
quickly and deeply affected by taxes, i. 391. tests of the state of it, what, v. 493. Board of, its character and history, ii. 340.
Tragedy, observations on the effects of, i. 120.
its subjects and passions, vii. 150. great personages everywhere made the objects of it, xi. 308.
Transmigration of souls, origin of the doctrine, vii. 181.
Treasurer's staff, Lord Coke's account of the purpose of it, ii. 354.
Trent, Council of, its wise introduction of the discipline of seminaries for priests, iv. 231.
Triangle, the poorest of all figures in its effect, i. 152.
Triennial Parliaments, evils of them, vii. 79.
Trinoda necessitas, in Saxon law, what, vii. 325.
Turkey, power sought there with avidity, notwithstanding the danger and insecurity of its tenure, vii. 82.
Tyranny, aggravated by contumely, ii. 484.
the desire and design of it often lurk in the claim of an extravagant liberty, iv. 115. never learns moderation from the ill success of first oppressions, x. 83.
Ugliness, the opposite to beauty, but not to proportion and fitness, i. 199.
consistent with the sublime, i. 199.
Uniformity and succession of parts constitute the artificial infinite, i. 149.
Universal, nothing of this nature can be rationally affirmed or any moral or political subject, iv. 80.
Use, to be carefully attended to in most works of art, i. 154.
use and habit not causes of pleasure, i. 180.
Vanity, nature and tendency of, iv. 26.
Variation, beautiful, why, i. 239.
Vastness, a cause of the sublime, i. 147.
unity why necessary to it, i. 219.
Vattel, extracts from his Law of Nations, iv. 471.
Venice, its restrictions with respect to offices of state, iv. 249.
origin of the republic, vii. 331. acquires the island of Cyprus, vii. 428. the only state in Europe which benefited by the Crusades, vii. 428.
Verbal description, a means of raising a stronger emotion than painting, i. 133.
Vice, the instances rare of an immediate transition to it from virtue, i. 421.
Vices, obscure and vulgar ones sometimes blended with eminent talents, iv. 26.
in common society receive palliating names, xi. 177.
Vicinity, civil, law of, what, v. 322.
Virgil, his figure of Fame obscure, yet magnificent, i. 138.
remarks on his combination of images at the mouth of hell, i. 146. an example from him of the sublime effect of an uncertain light, i. 161. and of the cries of animals, i. 162. and of powerful smells, i. 163. his picture of the murder of Priam, i. 259. of the Harpies, v. 187
Virtue, how far the idea of beauty may be applied to it, i. 190.
description of the gradual extinguishment of it in public men, i. 421. will catch, as well as vice by contact, ii. 242. virtues which cause admiration, i. 188. virtues which engage the heart, i. 188.
Visual objects of great dimensions, why sublime, i. 217.
effects of succession in them explained, i. 222.
Voters, more in the spirit of the English constitution to lessen than to enlarge their number, i. 370.
Wages, the rate of them has no direct relation, to the price of provisions, v. 136.
Wales, misgovernment of, by England, for two hundred years, ii. 148.
alteration of the system in the reign of Henry VIII., ii. 150.
Wales, Frederick, Prince of, project of government devised in his court, i. 447.
means adopted for its introduction and recommendation to popular favor, i. 451, 453. nature of the party formed for its support, i. 459. name of this party, i. 466. and of the new system, i. 466.
Walpole, Mr., (afterwards Sir Robert,) his character, iv. 128.
extract from his speech in the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 129. forced into the war with Spain by popular clamor, v. 288. fault in his general proceeding, v. 289.
War, its original may be very far from being its principal purpose, i. 298.
not easily reconciled with economy, i. 310. the ground of a political war, laborers and manufacturers not capable of conceiving, v. 38. of England with the French Republic, a war with an armed doctrine, v. 250. can never be carried on long against the will of the people, v. 283. general observations on, v. 318. the power of making it, why put under the discretion of the crown, v. 335. principle of the law of nations with regard to it, vi. 349.
Warwick, Earl of, proceedings in his trial, xi. 32.
Water, why venerated by the Druids, vii. 182.
Weakness, human, in adversity, never pitied by those who applaud prosperous folly and guilt, iv. 183.
Wealth, internal, consists in useful commodities as much as in gold and silver, i. 321.
of a country, a standard by which to estimate the character of the government, iii. 402. can never rank first in England, iv. 327. ought always to be the servant of virtue and public honor, v. 242. remark of a foreigner on the display of it in the shops in London, v. 496.
Whigs, the great connection of, in the reign of Queen Anne, i. 529.
the impeachment of Dr. Sacheverell, for what purpose carried on by them, iv. 119. statement of the principles of the new Whigs, iv. 120, 151. opinion of the new, with respect to the power of the people over the commonwealth, iv. 161. Appeal from the New to the Old, iv. 57.
Wilkes, Mr., his contest with the court party, i. 497.
pretence for punishing him, i. 500.
Will and duty contradictory terms, iv. 165.
duty not subject to will, iv. 165.
William of Normandy, the extraordinary facility of his conquest of England explained, vii. 288.
his numerous followers accounted for, vii. 333. brief account of his reign, vii. 335. view of his revenue, vii. 346. his character, vii. 362.
William Rufus, brief account of his reign, vii. 364.
William III., his elevation to the throne an act not of choice, but of necessity, iii. 254.
his judicious appointments to the vacant bishoprics, iv. 14. the spirited address of the Commons to him respecting the war with France, v. 296. the Grand Alliance against France his masterpiece, v. 297. his indomitable perseverance in pressing this measure, v. 299. address of the House of Lords respecting it, v. 300.
Wintoun, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 22.
Wisdom of the Son of Sirach, example of the sublime from that book, i. 155.
Wishes, vehement, the discovery of them generally frustrates their attainment, v. 252.
Wit and judgement, difference between them, i. 87.
Words, the proper medium for conveying the affections of the mind, i. 133.
affect us in a manner very different from natural objects, painting, or architecture, i. 246. three sorts of them, i. 247. general words before ideas, i. 249. effect of them, i. 250. may affect without raising images, i. 252. this exemplified in the case of the poet Blacklock, i. 252. and of Saunderson, the mathematician, i. 253. how words influence the passions, i. 258. the only means by which many ideas have ever been at all presented to the senses, i. 259. the source of a great part of the mischiefs that vex the world, vi. 397. the world much influenced by them, xi. 172.
Writers, when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind, iii. 380