Poor-rates (the), lower in manufacturing than in agricultural districts.146Pope, his independence of spirit,191; his translation of Homer's description of a moonlight night,338; relative "correctness" of his poetry,338Byron's admiration of him,351; praise of him, by Cowper,351; his character, habits, and condition,404; his dislike of Bentley,113; his acquaintance with Wycherley,381; his appreciation of the literary merits of Congreve,406; the originator of the heroic couplet,333; his condensation in consequence of its use,152; his testimony to Addison's conversational powers,366; his Rape of the Lock his best poem,394; his Essay on Criticism warmly praised in the Spectator,394; his intercourse with Addison,394; his hatred of Dennis,394; his estrangement from Addison,403; his suspicious nature,403408; his satire of Addison,409411; his Messiah translated into Latin verse by Johnson,175Popes, review of Ranke's History of the,299Popham, Major,84Popish Plot, circumstances which assisted the belief in,294298Popoli, Duchess of, saved by the Earl of Peterborough,116Porson, Richard,259260Port Royal, its destruction a disgrace to the Jesuits and to the Romish Church,333Portico, the doctrines of the school so called,441Portland, Duke of,241278Porto Carrero, Cardinal,9498Lewis XIV.'s opinion of him,104; his disgrace and reconciliation with the Queen Dowager,121Portrait-painting,385338Portugal, its retrogression in prosperity compared with Denmark,340Posidonius, his eulogy of philosophy as ministering to human comfort,436Post Nati, the great case in the Exchequer Chamber, conducted by Bacon,387367; doubts upon the legality of the decision,387Power, political, religions belief ought not to exclude from,303Pratt, Charles,13Chief Justice,86; created Lord Camden, and intrusted with the seals.91Predestination, doctrine of,317Prerogative royal, its advance,485; in the16th century,172; its curtailment by the Revolution,170; proposed by Bolingbroke to be strengthened,171; see also Crown.Press, Milton's defence of its freedom,262; its emancipation after the Revolution,530; remarks on its freedom,169270; censorship of, in the reign of Elizabeth,15; its influence on the public mind after the Devolution,330; upon modern oratory,150Pretsman, Mr.,225Prince, The, of Machiavelli, general condemnation of it,207; dedicated to the younger Lorenzo de Medici; compared with Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 013.Printing, effect of its discovery upon writers of history,411; its inventor and the date of its discovery unknown,444Prior, Matthew, his modesty compared with Aristophanes and Juvenal,352Prisoners of war, Barêre's proposition tor murdering,490-495.Private judgment, Milton's defence of the right of,202Mr. Gladstone's notions of the rights and abuses of,102103Privileges of the House of Commons, change in public opinion in respect to them,330See also Parliament.Privy Council, Temple's plan for its reconstitution, iv. 04; Mr. Courtenay's opinion of its absurdity contested,577Barillon's remarks upon it,7Prize compositions necessarily unsatisfactory,24Progress of mankind in the political and physical sciences,271277; in intellectual freedom,302; the key of the Baconian doctrine,430; how retarded by the unprofitableness of ancient philosophy,430405; during the last250; years,302Prometheus,38Prosperity, national,150Protector (the), character of his administration,248Protestant nonconformists in the reign of Charles I., their intolerance,473Protestantism, its early history,13; its doctrine touching the right of private judgment,104; light which Ranke has thrown upon its movements,300301; its victory in the northern parts of Europe,314; its failure in Italy,315; effect of its outbreak in any one part of Christendom,317; its contest with Catholicism in France, Poland, and Germany,325331; its stationary character,348349Protestants and Catholics, their relative numbers in the10th century,25Provence, its language, literature, and civilization in the12th century,308309; its poets the teachers of Petrarch,85Prussia, king of, subsidized by the Pitt and Newcastle ministry,245; influence of Protestantism upon her,339; superiority of her commercial system,4849Prynne,452459Psalnianazur, George,185Ptolemaic system,229Public opinion, its power,168Public spirit, an antidote against bad government,18; a safeguard against legal oppression,18Publicity (the), of parliamentary proceedings, influence of,108; a remedy for corruption,22Pulci, allusion to,279Pulteney, William, his opposition to Walpole,202; moved the address to the king on the marriage of the Prince of Wales,210; his unpopularity,218; accepts a peerage,219; compared with Chatham,93Pundits of Bengal, their jealousy of foreigners,98Punishment, warning not the only end of,404Punishment and reward, the only means by which government can effect its ends,303Puritanism, effect of its prevalence upon tlie national taste,302347; the restraints it imposed,300; reaction against it,307Puritans (the), character and estimate of them,253257; hatred of them by James I,455; effect of their religious austerity,109Johnson's contempt for their religious scruples,411; their persecution by Charles I.,451; settlement of, in America,459; blamed for calling in the Scots,405; defence of them against this accusation,405; difficulty and peril of their leaders,470; the austerity of their manners drove many to the royal standard,481; their position at the close of tlie reign of Elizabeth,302303; their oppression by Whitgift,330; their faults in the day of their power and their consequences,307368; their hostility to works of the imagination,340347Puritans and Papists, persecution of, by Elizabeth,430Eym, John, his influence,407Lady Carlisle's warning to him,478; his impeachment ordered by the king,477Pynsent, Sir William, his legacy to Chatham,63Pyramid, the Great, Arab fable concerning it,347; how it looked to one of the French philosophers who accompanied Napoleon,58"Pyrenees (the), have ceased to exist,"99Q.Quebec, conquest of, by Wolfe, iii.Quince, Peter, sense in which he uses the word "translated,"405406Quintilian, his character as a critic,141142; causes of his deficiencies in this respect,141; admired Euripides,141R.Rabbinical Learning, work on, by Rev. L. Addison,325Racine, his Greeks far less "correctly" drawn than those of Shakspeare,338; his Iphigenie an anachronism,338; passed the close of his life in writing sacred dramas,300Raleigh, Sir Walter, i36; his varied acquirements,96; his position at court at the close of the reign of Elizabeth,364; his execution,400"Rambler" (the),190Itamsav, court painter to George III.,4LRamus,447Ranke, Leopold, review of his History of the Popes,299349; hisqualifications as an historian,299347Rape of the Lock (the), Pope's best poem,394; recast by its author,403404Rasselas, Johnson's,19G,197Reader, Steele's,403Reading in the present age necessarily desultory,147; the least part of an Athenian education,147148.Reasoning in verse, Drvden's,300308Rebellion, the Great, and the Revolution, analogy between them,237247Rebellion in Ireland in 1840,473Reform, the process of, often necessarily attended with many evils,13; its supporters sometimes unworthy,13Reform Bill,235; conduct of its opponents,311Reform in Parliament before the Revolution,539; public desire for,541; policy of it,542131; its results,5450Reformation (the), Milton's Treatise of,204; the history of the Reformation much misrepresented,439445; party divisions caused by it,533; their consequences,534; its immediate effect upon political liberty in England,435; its social and political consequences,10; analogy between it and the French Revolution,1011; its effect upon the Church of Rome,87; vacillation which it produced in English legislation,344; auspices under which it commenced,313; its effect upon the Roman court,323; its progress not effected by the event of battles or sieges,327Reformers, always unpopular in their own age,273274Refugees,300Regicides of Charles L, disapproval of their conduct,240; injustice of the imputations cast on them,240247Regium Donum,170Regulating Act, its introduction by Lord North, and change which it made in the form of the Indian government,355203; power which it gave to the Chief Justice,67Reign of Terror,475500Religion, national establishment of,100; its connection with civil government,101; sey.; its effects upon the policy of Charles I., and of the Puritans,108; no disqualification for the safe exercise of political power,300; the religion of the English in the10th century,2731; what system of, should be taught by a government,188; no progress made in the knowledge of natural religion, since the days of Thales,302; revealed, not of the nature of a progressive science,304; injurious influence of Louis XIV. upon, iii. 04; of slavery in the West Indies,311313Remonstrant, allusion to Milton's Animadversions on the,204Rent,400Representative government, decline of,485Republic, french, Burke's character of,402Restoration (the), degenerated character of our statesmen and politicians in the times succeeding it,512513; low standard of political morality after it,512; violence of party and low state of national feeling after it,525: that of Charles II. and of Lewis XVIII. contrasted.283284; its effects upon the morals and manners of the nation,367308Retrospective law, is it ever justifiable?403404400; warranted by a certain amount of public danger,470"Revels, Athenian," scenes from,30Review, New Antijacobin (the). See Antijacobin Review.Revolution (the), its principles often grossly misrepresented,235; analogy between it and the "Great Rebellion,"237247; its effect on the character of public men,520; freedom of the press after it,530; its effects,530; the fruit of a coalition,410; ministerial responsibility since,531; review of (Mackintosh's History of,251335Revolution, the French, its history,440-513; its character,273275; warnings which preceded it,44044150340427428; its social and political consequences,1011205200532534430; its effects on the whole salutary,404167; the excesses of its development,4144; differences between the first and the second,515; analogy between it and the Reformation,1011Dumont's views upon it,41434440; contrasted with the English,405008,70Revolutionary tribunal, (the). See Tribunal.Reynolds, Sir Joshua,126Rheinsberg,150Rhyme introduced into English plays to please Charles II.,349Richardson,298Richelieu, Cardinal,338Richmond, Duke of,107Rigby, secretary for Ireland,12Rimini, story of,74Riots, public, during Grenville's administration,70Robertson, Dr.,472215Scotticisms in his works,342Robespierre,340; analogy between his followers and those of Kniperdoling,12420470480; false accusations against,431; his treatment of the Girondists,473474; one of the Committee of Safety,475; his life attempted,489; the division in the Committee, and the revolution of the ninth Thermidor,497499; his death,500; his character,501Robinson, Sir Thomas,228Rochefort, threatening of,244Rochester, Earl of,307114335Rockingham, Marquess of, his characteristics,73; parallel between his party and the Bedfords,73; accepts the Treasury,74; patronizes Burke,75; proposals of his administration on the American Stamp Act,78; his dismissal,88; his services,8889; his moderation towards the new ministry,93; his relation to Chatham,102; advocated the independence of the United States,100; at the head of the Whigs,232; made First Minister,235; his administration,23(i,237; his death,237Rockingham and Bedfords, parallel between them,73Sir Thomas,273Uohillas, description of them,29; agreement between Hastings and Stirajah Dowlali for their subjugation,3031Roland, Madame,43452453473Homans (the), exclusiveness of,413410; under Diocletian, compared to the Chinese,415416Romans and Greeks, difference between,287; in their treatment of woman,8384Roman Tale (a), fragments of,119; game, called Duodeeim Scriptæ,4; note,; name for the highest throw on the dice,13; note.Home, ancient, bribery at,421; civil convulsions in, contra-ted with those in Greece,189190; literature of,347349Rome, Church of, its encroaching disposition,295296; its policy,308; its antiquity,301; see also Church of Home.Hooke, Sir George, his capture of Gibraltar,110; his fight with a French squadron near Malaga,110; his return to England,110Rosamond, Addison's opera of,361Roundheads (the), their literature,234; their successors in the reign of George I. turned courtiers,4Rousseau, his sufferings,365Horace Walpole's opinion of him,156Rowe, his verses to the Chloe of Holland House,412Roval Society (the), of Literature,20-29.Royalists (the), of the time of Charles I.,257; many of them true friends to the Constitution,483; some of the most eminent formerly in opposition to the Court,471Royalists, Constitutional, in the reign of Charles I.,471481Rumford, Count,147Rupert, Prince,493; his encounter with Hampden at Chalgrove,493Russell, Lord,526; his conduct in the new council,96; his death,99Russia and Poland, diffusion of wealth in, as compared with England,182Rutland, Earl of, his character,411412Ruyter, Admiral de,51Rymer,417
Poor-rates (the), lower in manufacturing than in agricultural districts.146
Pope, his independence of spirit,191; his translation of Homer's description of a moonlight night,338; relative "correctness" of his poetry,338Byron's admiration of him,351; praise of him, by Cowper,351; his character, habits, and condition,404; his dislike of Bentley,113; his acquaintance with Wycherley,381; his appreciation of the literary merits of Congreve,406; the originator of the heroic couplet,333; his condensation in consequence of its use,152; his testimony to Addison's conversational powers,366; his Rape of the Lock his best poem,394; his Essay on Criticism warmly praised in the Spectator,394; his intercourse with Addison,394; his hatred of Dennis,394; his estrangement from Addison,403; his suspicious nature,403408; his satire of Addison,409411; his Messiah translated into Latin verse by Johnson,175
Popes, review of Ranke's History of the,299
Popham, Major,84
Popish Plot, circumstances which assisted the belief in,294298
Popoli, Duchess of, saved by the Earl of Peterborough,116
Porson, Richard,259260
Port Royal, its destruction a disgrace to the Jesuits and to the Romish Church,333
Portico, the doctrines of the school so called,441
Portland, Duke of,241278
Porto Carrero, Cardinal,9498Lewis XIV.'s opinion of him,104; his disgrace and reconciliation with the Queen Dowager,121
Portrait-painting,385338
Portugal, its retrogression in prosperity compared with Denmark,340
Posidonius, his eulogy of philosophy as ministering to human comfort,436
Post Nati, the great case in the Exchequer Chamber, conducted by Bacon,387367; doubts upon the legality of the decision,387
Power, political, religions belief ought not to exclude from,303
Pratt, Charles,13Chief Justice,86; created Lord Camden, and intrusted with the seals.91
Predestination, doctrine of,317
Prerogative royal, its advance,485; in the16th century,172; its curtailment by the Revolution,170; proposed by Bolingbroke to be strengthened,171; see also Crown.
Press, Milton's defence of its freedom,262; its emancipation after the Revolution,530; remarks on its freedom,169270; censorship of, in the reign of Elizabeth,15; its influence on the public mind after the Devolution,330; upon modern oratory,150
Pretsman, Mr.,225
Prince, The, of Machiavelli, general condemnation of it,207; dedicated to the younger Lorenzo de Medici; compared with Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 013.
Printing, effect of its discovery upon writers of history,411; its inventor and the date of its discovery unknown,444
Prior, Matthew, his modesty compared with Aristophanes and Juvenal,352
Prisoners of war, Barêre's proposition tor murdering,490-495.
Private judgment, Milton's defence of the right of,202Mr. Gladstone's notions of the rights and abuses of,102103
Privileges of the House of Commons, change in public opinion in respect to them,330See also Parliament.
Privy Council, Temple's plan for its reconstitution, iv. 04; Mr. Courtenay's opinion of its absurdity contested,577Barillon's remarks upon it,7
Prize compositions necessarily unsatisfactory,24
Progress of mankind in the political and physical sciences,271277; in intellectual freedom,302; the key of the Baconian doctrine,430; how retarded by the unprofitableness of ancient philosophy,430405; during the last250; years,302
Prometheus,38
Prosperity, national,150
Protector (the), character of his administration,248
Protestant nonconformists in the reign of Charles I., their intolerance,473
Protestantism, its early history,13; its doctrine touching the right of private judgment,104; light which Ranke has thrown upon its movements,300301; its victory in the northern parts of Europe,314; its failure in Italy,315; effect of its outbreak in any one part of Christendom,317; its contest with Catholicism in France, Poland, and Germany,325331; its stationary character,348349
Protestants and Catholics, their relative numbers in the10th century,25
Provence, its language, literature, and civilization in the12th century,308309; its poets the teachers of Petrarch,85
Prussia, king of, subsidized by the Pitt and Newcastle ministry,245; influence of Protestantism upon her,339; superiority of her commercial system,4849
Prynne,452459
Psalnianazur, George,185
Ptolemaic system,229
Public opinion, its power,168
Public spirit, an antidote against bad government,18; a safeguard against legal oppression,18
Publicity (the), of parliamentary proceedings, influence of,108; a remedy for corruption,22
Pulci, allusion to,279
Pulteney, William, his opposition to Walpole,202; moved the address to the king on the marriage of the Prince of Wales,210; his unpopularity,218; accepts a peerage,219; compared with Chatham,93
Pundits of Bengal, their jealousy of foreigners,98
Punishment, warning not the only end of,404
Punishment and reward, the only means by which government can effect its ends,303
Puritanism, effect of its prevalence upon tlie national taste,302347; the restraints it imposed,300; reaction against it,307
Puritans (the), character and estimate of them,253257; hatred of them by James I,455; effect of their religious austerity,109Johnson's contempt for their religious scruples,411; their persecution by Charles I.,451; settlement of, in America,459; blamed for calling in the Scots,405; defence of them against this accusation,405; difficulty and peril of their leaders,470; the austerity of their manners drove many to the royal standard,481; their position at the close of tlie reign of Elizabeth,302303; their oppression by Whitgift,330; their faults in the day of their power and their consequences,307368; their hostility to works of the imagination,340347
Puritans and Papists, persecution of, by Elizabeth,430
Eym, John, his influence,407Lady Carlisle's warning to him,478; his impeachment ordered by the king,477
Pynsent, Sir William, his legacy to Chatham,63
Pyramid, the Great, Arab fable concerning it,347; how it looked to one of the French philosophers who accompanied Napoleon,58
"Pyrenees (the), have ceased to exist,"99
Quebec, conquest of, by Wolfe, iii.
Quince, Peter, sense in which he uses the word "translated,"405406
Quintilian, his character as a critic,141142; causes of his deficiencies in this respect,141; admired Euripides,141
Rabbinical Learning, work on, by Rev. L. Addison,325
Racine, his Greeks far less "correctly" drawn than those of Shakspeare,338; his Iphigenie an anachronism,338; passed the close of his life in writing sacred dramas,300
Raleigh, Sir Walter, i36; his varied acquirements,96; his position at court at the close of the reign of Elizabeth,364; his execution,400
"Rambler" (the),190
Itamsav, court painter to George III.,4L
Ramus,447
Ranke, Leopold, review of his History of the Popes,299349; his
qualifications as an historian,299347
Rape of the Lock (the), Pope's best poem,394; recast by its author,403404
Rasselas, Johnson's,19G,197
Reader, Steele's,403
Reading in the present age necessarily desultory,147; the least part of an Athenian education,147148.
Reasoning in verse, Drvden's,300308
Rebellion, the Great, and the Revolution, analogy between them,237247
Rebellion in Ireland in 1840,473
Reform, the process of, often necessarily attended with many evils,13; its supporters sometimes unworthy,13
Reform Bill,235; conduct of its opponents,311
Reform in Parliament before the Revolution,539; public desire for,541; policy of it,542131; its results,5450
Reformation (the), Milton's Treatise of,204; the history of the Reformation much misrepresented,439445; party divisions caused by it,533; their consequences,534; its immediate effect upon political liberty in England,435; its social and political consequences,10; analogy between it and the French Revolution,1011; its effect upon the Church of Rome,87; vacillation which it produced in English legislation,344; auspices under which it commenced,313; its effect upon the Roman court,323; its progress not effected by the event of battles or sieges,327
Reformers, always unpopular in their own age,273274
Refugees,300
Regicides of Charles L, disapproval of their conduct,240; injustice of the imputations cast on them,240247
Regium Donum,170
Regulating Act, its introduction by Lord North, and change which it made in the form of the Indian government,355203; power which it gave to the Chief Justice,67
Reign of Terror,475500
Religion, national establishment of,100; its connection with civil government,101; sey.; its effects upon the policy of Charles I., and of the Puritans,108; no disqualification for the safe exercise of political power,300; the religion of the English in the10th century,2731; what system of, should be taught by a government,188; no progress made in the knowledge of natural religion, since the days of Thales,302; revealed, not of the nature of a progressive science,304; injurious influence of Louis XIV. upon, iii. 04; of slavery in the West Indies,311313
Remonstrant, allusion to Milton's Animadversions on the,204
Rent,400
Representative government, decline of,485
Republic, french, Burke's character of,402
Restoration (the), degenerated character of our statesmen and politicians in the times succeeding it,512513; low standard of political morality after it,512; violence of party and low state of national feeling after it,525: that of Charles II. and of Lewis XVIII. contrasted.283284; its effects upon the morals and manners of the nation,367308
Retrospective law, is it ever justifiable?403404400; warranted by a certain amount of public danger,470
"Revels, Athenian," scenes from,30
Review, New Antijacobin (the). See Antijacobin Review.
Revolution (the), its principles often grossly misrepresented,235; analogy between it and the "Great Rebellion,"237247; its effect on the character of public men,520; freedom of the press after it,530; its effects,530; the fruit of a coalition,410; ministerial responsibility since,531; review of (Mackintosh's History of,251335
Revolution, the French, its history,440-513; its character,273275; warnings which preceded it,44044150340427428; its social and political consequences,1011205200532534430; its effects on the whole salutary,404167; the excesses of its development,4144; differences between the first and the second,515; analogy between it and the Reformation,1011Dumont's views upon it,41434440; contrasted with the English,405008,70
Revolutionary tribunal, (the). See Tribunal.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua,126
Rheinsberg,150
Rhyme introduced into English plays to please Charles II.,349
Richardson,298
Richelieu, Cardinal,338
Richmond, Duke of,107
Rigby, secretary for Ireland,12
Rimini, story of,74
Riots, public, during Grenville's administration,70
Robertson, Dr.,472215Scotticisms in his works,342
Robespierre,340; analogy between his followers and those of Kniperdoling,12420470480; false accusations against,431; his treatment of the Girondists,473474; one of the Committee of Safety,475; his life attempted,489; the division in the Committee, and the revolution of the ninth Thermidor,497499; his death,500; his character,501
Robinson, Sir Thomas,228
Rochefort, threatening of,244
Rochester, Earl of,307114335
Rockingham, Marquess of, his characteristics,73; parallel between his party and the Bedfords,73; accepts the Treasury,74; patronizes Burke,75; proposals of his administration on the American Stamp Act,78; his dismissal,88; his services,8889; his moderation towards the new ministry,93; his relation to Chatham,102; advocated the independence of the United States,100; at the head of the Whigs,232; made First Minister,235; his administration,23(i,237; his death,237
Rockingham and Bedfords, parallel between them,73
Sir Thomas,273Uohillas, description of them,29; agreement between Hastings and Stirajah Dowlali for their subjugation,3031
Roland, Madame,43452453473
Homans (the), exclusiveness of,413410; under Diocletian, compared to the Chinese,415416
Romans and Greeks, difference between,287; in their treatment of woman,8384
Roman Tale (a), fragments of,119; game, called Duodeeim Scriptæ,4; note,; name for the highest throw on the dice,13; note.
Home, ancient, bribery at,421; civil convulsions in, contra-ted with those in Greece,189190; literature of,347349
Rome, Church of, its encroaching disposition,295296; its policy,308; its antiquity,301; see also Church of Home.
Hooke, Sir George, his capture of Gibraltar,110; his fight with a French squadron near Malaga,110; his return to England,110
Rosamond, Addison's opera of,361
Roundheads (the), their literature,234; their successors in the reign of George I. turned courtiers,4
Rousseau, his sufferings,365Horace Walpole's opinion of him,156
Rowe, his verses to the Chloe of Holland House,412
Roval Society (the), of Literature,20-29.
Royalists (the), of the time of Charles I.,257; many of them true friends to the Constitution,483; some of the most eminent formerly in opposition to the Court,471
Royalists, Constitutional, in the reign of Charles I.,471481
Rumford, Count,147
Rupert, Prince,493; his encounter with Hampden at Chalgrove,493
Russell, Lord,526; his conduct in the new council,96; his death,99
Russia and Poland, diffusion of wealth in, as compared with England,182
Rutland, Earl of, his character,411412
Ruyter, Admiral de,51
Rymer,417