I.

I.Iconoclast, Milton's allusion to,264"Idler" (the),105Idolatry,225Illiad (the), Pope's and Tickell's translations,405408Bunyan and Milton by Martin, Illustrations of251Imagination, effect upon, of works of art,80333334; difference in this respect between the English and the Italians,80; its strength in childhood,331; in a barbarous age,335336; works of, early, their effect,336; highest quality of,37; master-pieces of, products of an uncritical age,325; or of uncultivated minds,343; hostility of Puritans to works of,346347; great strength of Milton's,213; and power of Bunyan's,256267Imhotf, Baron, his position and circumstances,13; character and attractions of his wife and attachment between her and Hastings,141556102Impeachment of Lord Kimbolton, Hampden, Pym and Hollis,477; of Hastings,116; of Melville,202; constitutional doctrine in regard to,260270Impey, Sir Elijah,6Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta,30; his hostility to the Council,45; remarks on his trial of Nuncomar,454066; dissolution of his friendship with Hastings,67; his interference in the proceedings against the Begums,91; ignorance of the native dialects,91; condemnation in Parliament of the arrangement made with him by Hastings,92Impostors, fertile in a reforming age,340Indemnity, bill of, to protect witnesses against Walpole,218India, foundation of the English empire in,24248Indies, the West. West Indies.Induction, method of, not invented by Bacon,470; utility of its analysis greatly overrated by Bacon,471; example of its leading to absurdity,471; contrasted with it priori reasoning,89; the only true method of reasoning upon political questions,48170747270; to:78Indulgences,814Infidelity, on the treatment of,171; its powerlessness to disturb the peace of the world,341Informer, character of,519Inquisition, instituted on the suppression of the Albigensian heresy,310; armed with powers to suppress the Reformation,323Interest, effect of attempts by government to limit the rate of,352Intolerance, religious, effects of,170Ireland, rebellion in, in164473; in175280Essex's administration in its condition under Cromwell's government,2527; its state contrasted with that of Scotland,101; its union with England compared with the Persian table of King Zolmk,101; reason of its not joining in favor of the Reformation,314330; danger to England from its discontents, Pitt's admirable policy towards,280281Isocrates,103Italian Language, Dante the first to compose in,50; its characteristics,50Italian Masque (the),218Italians, their character in the middle ages,287; their social condition compared with that of the ancient Greeks,312Italy, state of, in the dark ages,272; progress of civilization and refinement in,274275; seq; its condition under Cæsar Borgia,303; its temper at the Reformation,315; seq; its slow progress owing to Catholicism,340; its subjugation,345; revival of the power of the Church in,347J."Jackboot," a popular pun on Bute's name,41151Jacobins, their origin,11; their policy,458450; had effects of their administration,532534Jacobin Club, its excesses,345402400473475481488401; its suppression,502; its final struggle for ascendency,500James I.455; his folly and weakness,431; resembled Claudius Caesar,440; court paid to him by the English courtiers before the death of Elizabeth,382; his twofold character,383; his favorable reception of Bacon,383380; his anxiety for the union of England and Scotland,387; his employment of Bacon in perverting the laws,538; his favors and attachment to Buckingham,396308; absoluteness of his government,404; his summons of a Parliament,410; his political blunders,410411; his message to the Commons on the misconduct of Bacon,414; his readiness to make concessions to Rome,328James II., the cause of his expulsion,237; administration of the law in his time,520Vareist's portrait of him,251; his death, and acknowledgment by Louis XIV. of his son as his successor,102; favor towards him of the High Church party,303122; his misgovernment,304; his claims as a supporter of toleration,304308; his conduct towards Lord Rochester,307; lus union with Lewis XI V.,303; his confidential advisers,301; his kindness and munificence to Wycherley,378Jardine,.Mr., his work on the use of torture in England,304; note.Jeffreys, Judge, his cruelty,303Jenyns, Soanie, his notion of happiness in heaven,378; his work on the "Origin of Evil" reviewed by Johnson,270152195Jerningham, Mr. his verses,271Jesuitism, its theory and practice towards heretics,310; its rise,320; destruction,343; its fall and consequences',344; its doctrines,348340Jesuits, order of, instituted by Loyola,320; their character,320321; their policy and proceedings,322323; their doctrines,321322; their conduct in the confessional,322; their missionary activity,322Jews (the), review of the Civil Disabilities of,307323; argument that the Constitution would be destroyed by admitting them to power,307310; the argument that they are aliens,313; inconsistency of the law in respect to them,309313; their exclusive spirit a natural consequence of their treatment,315; argument against them, that they look forward to their restoration to their own country,317323Job, the Book of,216Johnson, Dr. Samuel, life of,172220; review of Croker's edition of Boswell's life of,368425; his birth and parentage,172; his physical and mental peculiarities,172173170307408; his youth,173174253; entered at Pembroke College, Oxford,174; his life there,175; translates Pope's "Messiah" into Latin verse,175; quits the university without a degree,175; his religious sentiments,177411; his early struggles,177178; his marriage,178; opens a school and has Garrick for a pupil,179; settles in London,179; condition of men of letters at that time,179180398404; his privations,404181; his manners,181271; his connection with the "Gentleman's Magazine,"182; his political bigotry,183184213412413333; his "London,"184185; his associates,185180; his life of Savage,187214; undertakes the Dictionary,187; completes it,193194; his "Vanity of Human Wishes,"188189; his "Irene,"179190; his "Tatler,"190-192; Mrs. Johnson dies,193; his poverty,195; his review of Jenyns' "Nature and Origin of Evil,"195270; his "Idler,"195; his "Basselas,"190197; his elevation and pension,198405; his edition of Shakspeare,199202; made Doctor of Laws,202; his conversational powers,202; his "Chib,"203200425; his connection with the Thrales,200207270; broken by Mrs. Thrale's marriage with Piozzi,210217; his benevolence,207208271; his visit to the Hebrides,209210420; his literary style,187192211213215219423313; his "Taxation no Tyranny,"212; his Lives of the Poets,213215219; his want of financial skill,215; peculiarity of his intellect,408; his credulity,409200; narrowness of his views of society,140418; his ignorance of the Athenian character,140; his contempt for history,421; his judgments on books,414410; his objection to Juvenal's Satires,379; his definitions of Excise and Pensioner,333198; his admiration of the Pilgrim's Progress,253; his friendship for Goldsmith,159170; comparison of his political writings with those of Swift,102; his language about Clive,284; his praise of Congreve's "Mourning Bride,"391392400; his interview with Hastings,12; his friendship with Dr. Burney,254; his ignorance of music,255; his want of appreciation of Gray,201214; his fondness for Miss Burney and approbation of her book.271219; his injustice to Fielding,271; his sickness and death,275218219; his character,219220; singularity of his destiny,426; neglected by Pitt's administration in his illness and old age,218200Johnsonese,314423Jones, Inigo,318Jones, Sir William,383Jonson, Ben,299; his "Hermogenes,"358; his description of Lord Bacon's eloquence,859; his verses on the celebration of Bacon's sixtieth year,408409; his tribute to Bacon,433; his description of humors in character,303; specimen of his heroic couplets,334Joseph II., his reforms,344Judges (the), condition of their tenure of office,480; formerly accustomed to receive gifts from suitors,420425; how their corruption is generally detected,430; integrity required from them,50Judgment, private, Milton's defence of the right of,262Judicial arguments, nature of,422; bench, its character in the time of James II.,520Junius, Letters of, arguments in favor of their having been written by Sir Philip Francis,36; seq.; their effects,101Jurymen, Athenian,33; note.Juvenal's Satires, Johnson's objection to them,379; their impurity,352; his resemblance to lin'd en,372; quotes the Pentateuch,414; quotation from, applied to Louis XIV.,59

Iconoclast, Milton's allusion to,264

"Idler" (the),105

Idolatry,225Illiad (the), Pope's and Tickell's translations,405408

Bunyan and Milton by Martin, Illustrations of251Imagination, effect upon, of works of art,80333334; difference in this respect between the English and the Italians,80; its strength in childhood,331; in a barbarous age,335336; works of, early, their effect,336; highest quality of,37; master-pieces of, products of an uncritical age,325; or of uncultivated minds,343; hostility of Puritans to works of,346347; great strength of Milton's,213; and power of Bunyan's,256267

Imhotf, Baron, his position and circumstances,13; character and attractions of his wife and attachment between her and Hastings,141556102

Impeachment of Lord Kimbolton, Hampden, Pym and Hollis,477; of Hastings,116; of Melville,202; constitutional doctrine in regard to,260270

Impey, Sir Elijah,6Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta,30; his hostility to the Council,45; remarks on his trial of Nuncomar,454066; dissolution of his friendship with Hastings,67; his interference in the proceedings against the Begums,91; ignorance of the native dialects,91; condemnation in Parliament of the arrangement made with him by Hastings,92

Impostors, fertile in a reforming age,340

Indemnity, bill of, to protect witnesses against Walpole,218

India, foundation of the English empire in,24248

Indies, the West. West Indies.

Induction, method of, not invented by Bacon,470; utility of its analysis greatly overrated by Bacon,471; example of its leading to absurdity,471; contrasted with it priori reasoning,89; the only true method of reasoning upon political questions,48170747270; to:78

Indulgences,814

Infidelity, on the treatment of,171; its powerlessness to disturb the peace of the world,341

Informer, character of,519

Inquisition, instituted on the suppression of the Albigensian heresy,310; armed with powers to suppress the Reformation,323

Interest, effect of attempts by government to limit the rate of,352

Intolerance, religious, effects of,170

Ireland, rebellion in, in164473; in175280Essex's administration in its condition under Cromwell's government,2527; its state contrasted with that of Scotland,101; its union with England compared with the Persian table of King Zolmk,101; reason of its not joining in favor of the Reformation,314330; danger to England from its discontents, Pitt's admirable policy towards,280281

Isocrates,103

Italian Language, Dante the first to compose in,50; its characteristics,50

Italian Masque (the),218

Italians, their character in the middle ages,287; their social condition compared with that of the ancient Greeks,312

Italy, state of, in the dark ages,272; progress of civilization and refinement in,274275; seq; its condition under Cæsar Borgia,303; its temper at the Reformation,315; seq; its slow progress owing to Catholicism,340; its subjugation,345; revival of the power of the Church in,347

"Jackboot," a popular pun on Bute's name,41151

Jacobins, their origin,11; their policy,458450; had effects of their administration,532534

Jacobin Club, its excesses,345402400473475481488401; its suppression,502; its final struggle for ascendency,500

James I.455; his folly and weakness,431; resembled Claudius Caesar,440; court paid to him by the English courtiers before the death of Elizabeth,382; his twofold character,383; his favorable reception of Bacon,383380; his anxiety for the union of England and Scotland,387; his employment of Bacon in perverting the laws,538; his favors and attachment to Buckingham,396308; absoluteness of his government,404; his summons of a Parliament,410; his political blunders,410411; his message to the Commons on the misconduct of Bacon,414; his readiness to make concessions to Rome,328

James II., the cause of his expulsion,237; administration of the law in his time,520Vareist's portrait of him,251; his death, and acknowledgment by Louis XIV. of his son as his successor,102; favor towards him of the High Church party,303122; his misgovernment,304; his claims as a supporter of toleration,304308; his conduct towards Lord Rochester,307; lus union with Lewis XI V.,303; his confidential advisers,301; his kindness and munificence to Wycherley,378

Jardine,.Mr., his work on the use of torture in England,304; note.

Jeffreys, Judge, his cruelty,303

Jenyns, Soanie, his notion of happiness in heaven,378; his work on the "Origin of Evil" reviewed by Johnson,270152195

Jerningham, Mr. his verses,271

Jesuitism, its theory and practice towards heretics,310; its rise,320; destruction,343; its fall and consequences',344; its doctrines,348340

Jesuits, order of, instituted by Loyola,320; their character,320321; their policy and proceedings,322323; their doctrines,321322; their conduct in the confessional,322; their missionary activity,322

Jews (the), review of the Civil Disabilities of,307323; argument that the Constitution would be destroyed by admitting them to power,307310; the argument that they are aliens,313; inconsistency of the law in respect to them,309313; their exclusive spirit a natural consequence of their treatment,315; argument against them, that they look forward to their restoration to their own country,317323

Job, the Book of,216

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, life of,172220; review of Croker's edition of Boswell's life of,368425; his birth and parentage,172; his physical and mental peculiarities,172173170307408; his youth,173174253; entered at Pembroke College, Oxford,174; his life there,175; translates Pope's "Messiah" into Latin verse,175; quits the university without a degree,175; his religious sentiments,177411; his early struggles,177178; his marriage,178; opens a school and has Garrick for a pupil,179; settles in London,179; condition of men of letters at that time,179180398404; his privations,404181; his manners,181271; his connection with the "Gentleman's Magazine,"182; his political bigotry,183184213412413333; his "London,"184185; his associates,185180; his life of Savage,187214; undertakes the Dictionary,187; completes it,193194; his "Vanity of Human Wishes,"188189; his "Irene,"179190; his "Tatler,"190-192; Mrs. Johnson dies,193; his poverty,195; his review of Jenyns' "Nature and Origin of Evil,"195270; his "Idler,"195; his "Basselas,"190197; his elevation and pension,198405; his edition of Shakspeare,199202; made Doctor of Laws,202; his conversational powers,202; his "Chib,"203200425; his connection with the Thrales,200207270; broken by Mrs. Thrale's marriage with Piozzi,210217; his benevolence,207208271; his visit to the Hebrides,209210420; his literary style,187192211213215219423313; his "Taxation no Tyranny,"212; his Lives of the Poets,213215219; his want of financial skill,215; peculiarity of his intellect,408; his credulity,409200; narrowness of his views of society,140418; his ignorance of the Athenian character,140; his contempt for history,421; his judgments on books,414410; his objection to Juvenal's Satires,379; his definitions of Excise and Pensioner,333198; his admiration of the Pilgrim's Progress,253; his friendship for Goldsmith,159170; comparison of his political writings with those of Swift,102; his language about Clive,284; his praise of Congreve's "Mourning Bride,"391392400; his interview with Hastings,12; his friendship with Dr. Burney,254; his ignorance of music,255; his want of appreciation of Gray,201214; his fondness for Miss Burney and approbation of her book.271219; his injustice to Fielding,271; his sickness and death,275218219; his character,219220; singularity of his destiny,426; neglected by Pitt's administration in his illness and old age,218200

Johnsonese,314423

Jones, Inigo,318

Jones, Sir William,383

Jonson, Ben,299; his "Hermogenes,"358; his description of Lord Bacon's eloquence,859; his verses on the celebration of Bacon's sixtieth year,408409; his tribute to Bacon,433; his description of humors in character,303; specimen of his heroic couplets,334

Joseph II., his reforms,344

Judges (the), condition of their tenure of office,480; formerly accustomed to receive gifts from suitors,420425; how their corruption is generally detected,430; integrity required from them,50

Judgment, private, Milton's defence of the right of,262

Judicial arguments, nature of,422; bench, its character in the time of James II.,520

Junius, Letters of, arguments in favor of their having been written by Sir Philip Francis,36; seq.; their effects,101

Jurymen, Athenian,33; note.

Juvenal's Satires, Johnson's objection to them,379; their impurity,352; his resemblance to lin'd en,372; quotes the Pentateuch,414; quotation from, applied to Louis XIV.,59


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