S.Sacheverell. Dr., his impeachment and conviction,130362121Sackville, the Earl of, (16th century,)36261Sackville, Lord George,13Sadler, Mr., his Law of Population reviewed,214249; his style,214215270305306; specimen of his verse,215; the spirit of his work,216217220270305; his objections to the Doctrines of Malthus.217218222228244271272; answer to them,219221; his law stated,222; does not understand the meaning of the words in which it is stated,224226,278279; his law proved to be not true,226227,231238280295; his views injurious to the cause of religion,228230; attempts to prove that the increase of population in America is chiefly owing to immigration,238239245249; refutes himself,239240; his views upon the fecundity of the English peers,240241298304; refutation of these arguments,241243; his general characteristics,249; his Refutation refuted,268306; misunderstands Paley's arguments,273274; the meaning of "the origin of evil,"274278; and the principle which he has himself laid down,295298St. Denis,484St. Dennis and St. George-in-the Water, parishes of, imaginary lawsuit between,100St. Ignatius. See Loyola.St. John, Henry, his accession to power in171130141; see also Bolingbroke, Lord.St. John, Oliver, counsel against Charles I.'s writ for ship-money,457464; made Solicitor-General,472St. Just,466470474,475,498,500St. Louis, his persecution of liberties,421St. Maloes, ships burnt in the harbor of,244St. Patrick,214St. Thomas, island of,381383Saintes,510Sallust, characteristics of, as a historian,404400; his conspiracy of Catiline has rather the air of a clever party-pamphlet, than of a history,404; grounds for questioning' the reality of the conspiracy,403; his character and genius,337Salmasius, Milton's refutation of,248Salvator Rosa,347Samson, Agonistes,215San Marino, visited by Addison,340Sanscrit,2898Satire, the only indigenous growth of Roman literature,348Savage, Richard, his character,180; his life by Johnson,187214Savile, Sir George,73Savonarola,316Saxony, its elector the natural head of the Protestant party in Germany,328; its persecution of the Calvinists,329; invasion by the Catholic party in Germamy337Schism, cause of, in England,334Schitab Roy,2324Schwellenberg, Madame, her position and character,283284297Science, political, progress of,271279334Scholia, origin of the House of,59Scotland, cruelties of James II. in,300311; establishment of the Kirk in,322159; her progress in wealth and intelligence owing to Protestantism,340; incapacity of its natives to hold land in England even after the Union300Scots (the), effects of their resistance to Charles I.,400401; ill feeling excited against them by Bute's elevation to power,3940; their wretched condition in the Highland, and Fletcher of Saltoun's views upon it,388389Scott, Major, his plea in defence of Hastings,105; his influence,100; his challenge to Burke,114Scott, Sir Walter,435; relative "correctness" of his poetry,338; his Duke of Rockingham (in "Peveril"),358Scotticisms in his works,342; value of his writings,428; pensioned by Earl Grey,201Seas, Liberty of the, Barêre's work upon,512Sedley, Sir Charles,353Self-denying ordinance (the),490Seneca, his work "On Anger,"437; his claims as a philosopher,438; his work on natural philosophy,412; the Baconian system in reference to,478Sevajee, founder of the Mahratta empire,59Seven Years' War,217245Seward, Mr.,271Sforza, Francis,280Shaltesbury, Lord, allusion to,20813; his character,8189; contrasted with Halifax,90Shakspeare, allusion to,20830; one of the most "correct" poets,337; relative "correctness" of his Troilus and Cressida,338; contrasted with Byron,359Johnson's edition of,417199342; his superlative merits,345; his bombast,301; his fairies' songs,304Shaw, the Lifeguardsman,357Shebbeare, Bute's patronage of,40Shelburne, Lord, Secretary of State in Chatham's second administration,91; his dismissal,100; heads one section of the opposition to North,233; made First Lord of the Treasury,237; his quarrel with Fox,239; his resignation,241Shelley, Percy Bysshe,257350Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,389; his speech against Hastings, r.121; his encouragement to Miss Burney to write for the stage,273; his sarcasm against Pitt,210Sheridan and Congreve, effect of their works upon the Comedy of England,295; contrasted with Shakspeare,295Ship-money, question of its legality,157; seq.Shrewsbury, Duke of,397Sienna, cathedral of,319Sigismund of Sweden,329Silius Italicus,357Simonides, his speculations on natural religion,302Sismondi, M.,131; his remark about Dante,58Sixtus V.,321Skinner Cyriac,202Slave-trade,259Slavery in Athens,189; in Sparta,190; in the West Indies,303; its origin there,301305; its legal rights there.305310; parallel between slavery there and in other countries,311; its effects upon religion,311313; upon public opinion and morals,311320; who are the zealots for,320321; their foolish threats,322; effect of, upon commerce,323325; impunity of its advocates,32532G; its danger,328; and approaching downfall,329; defended in Major Moody's report,361373371; its approval by Fletcher of Saltoun,388389Smalridge, George,121122Smith, Adam,286Smollett, his judgment on Lord Carteret,188; his satire on the Duke of Newcastle,191Social contract,182Society, Mr. Southey's Colloquies on, reviewed,132Society, Royal, (the), of literature,20-29; its absurdity,20; dangers to be apprehended from it,20-23; cannot be impartial,2122; foolishness of its system of prizes,2321Dartmoor the first subject proposed by it for a prize,2131; never published a prize composition,25; apologue illustrating its consequences,2529Socrates, the first martyr of intellectual liberty,350his views of the uses of astronomy,152; his reasoning exactly the reasoning of Paley's Natural Theology,511303; his dialogues,381Soldier, citizen, (a), different from a mercenary,61187Somers, Lord Chancellor, his encouragement of literature,337; procures a pension for Addison,338; made Lord President of the Council,362Somerset, the Protector, as a promoter of the English Reformation,452; his fall,396Somerset, Duke of,415Sonnets, Milton's,233Petrarch's,9395Sophocles and the Greek Drama,217Soul,303Soult, Marshal, reference to,67Southampton, Earl of, notice of,384Southcote, Joanna,336Southern and Northern countries, difference of moral feeling in,285Southey, Robert, review of his Colloquies on Society,132; his characteristics,132134; his poetry preferable to his prose,136; his lives of Nelson and John Wesley,136137; his Peninsular War,137; his Book of the Church,137; his political system,140; plan of his present work,141; his opinions regarding the manufacturing system,146; his political economy,151; seq.; the national debt,153156; his theory of the basis of government,158; his remarks on public opinion,159160; his view of the Catholic claims,170; his ideas on the prospects of society,172; his prophecies respecting the Corporation and Test Acts, and the removal of the Catholic disabilities,173; his observations on the condition of the people in the16th and19th centuries,174; his arguments on national wealth,178180; review of his edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress,250; see also Bunyon.South Sea Bubble,200Spain,488; review of Lord Mahon's War of the Succession in,75; her state under Philip,79; her literature during the16th century,80; her state a century later,81; effect produced on her by bad government,85; by the Reformation,87; her disputed succession,8891; the Partition Treaty,9293; conduct of the French towards her,93; how affected by the death of Charles,98; seq.; designation of the War of the Spanish Succession,338; no conversions to Protestantism in,348Spanish and Swiss soldiers in the time of Machiavelli, character of,307Sparre, the Dutch general,107Sparta, her power, causes of its decline,155; note; defeated when she ceased to possess, alone of the Greeks, a permanent standing army, Mr. Milford's preference of over Athens,181; her only really great men,182; characteristics of her government,183184; her domestic institutions,184185; character of some of her leading men,185; contrasted with Athens,186187; slavery in,190Spectator (the), notices of it,385389,397Spelling of proper names,173Spencer, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty,277Spenser,251252; his allegory,75Spirits, Milton's, materiality of them,227Spurton, Dr.,494Spy, police, character of,519520Stafford, Lord, incident at his execution,300Stamp Act, disaffection of the American colonists on account of it,78; its repeal,8283Stanhope, Earl of,201Stanhope, General,115; commands in Spain (1707),125126Star Chamber,459; its abolition,468Staremberg, the imperial general in Spain (in170125128States, best government of,154Statesmanship, contrast of the Spanish and Dutch notions of,35Statesmen, the character of, greatly affected by that of the times,531; character of the first generation of professed statesmen that England produced,342348State Trials,293302325427Steele,366; his character,369Addison's treatment of him,370; his origination of the Tatler,374; his subsequent career,384355,401Stephens,.Tames, his Slavery in the British West Indies reviewed,303330; character of the work,303304; his parallel between their slave laws and those of other countries,311; has disposed of the arguments in its favor,313Stoicism, comparison of that of the Bengalee with the European,1920Strafford, Earl of,457; his character as a statesman,460; bill of attainder against him,462; his character,454; his impeachment attainder, and execution,468; defence of the proceedings agains him,470Strawberry Hill,146Stuart, Dugald,142"Sublime" (the). Longinus on,142Burke and Dugald Stewart on,142Subsidies; foreign, in the time of Charles II.,523Subsidizing foreign powers, Pitt's aversion to,231Succession in Spain, war of the,75; see also Spain.Sugar, its cultivation and profits,395390403Sujah Dowlah, Nabob Vizier of Oude,28; his flight,32; his death,85Sullivan, Mr., chairman of the East India Company, his character,265; his relation to Clive,270Sunderland, Earl of,201Secretary of State,302; appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,399; reconstructs the ministry in171413Supernatural beings, how to be represented in literature,6970Superstition, instance of, in the19th century,3Ü7.Supreme Court of Calcutta, account of,45Surajah Dowlah, Viceroy of Bengal, his character,231; the monster of the "Black Hole,"232; his flight and death,246251; investigation by the House of Commons into the circumstances of his deposition,28Surinam, the Maroons of,386Sweden, her part in the Triple Alliance,41; her relations to Catholicism,329Swift, Jonathan, his position at Sir William Temple's,101; instance of his imitation of Addison,332; his relations with Addison,399; joins the Tories,400; his verses upon Boyle,118119Swiss and Spanish soldiers in the time of Machiavelli, character of,307Sydney, Algernon,525; his reproach on the scaffold to the sheriff's,327Sydney, Sir Philip,36Syllogistic process, analysis of, by Aristotle,473
Sacheverell. Dr., his impeachment and conviction,130362121
Sackville, the Earl of, (16th century,)36261
Sackville, Lord George,13
Sadler, Mr., his Law of Population reviewed,214249; his style,214215270305306; specimen of his verse,215; the spirit of his work,216217220270305; his objections to the Doctrines of Malthus.217218222228244271272; answer to them,219221; his law stated,222; does not understand the meaning of the words in which it is stated,224226,278279; his law proved to be not true,226227,231238280295; his views injurious to the cause of religion,228230; attempts to prove that the increase of population in America is chiefly owing to immigration,238239245249; refutes himself,239240; his views upon the fecundity of the English peers,240241298304; refutation of these arguments,241243; his general characteristics,249; his Refutation refuted,268306; misunderstands Paley's arguments,273274; the meaning of "the origin of evil,"274278; and the principle which he has himself laid down,295298
St. Denis,484
St. Dennis and St. George-in-the Water, parishes of, imaginary lawsuit between,100
St. Ignatius. See Loyola.
St. John, Henry, his accession to power in171130141; see also Bolingbroke, Lord.
St. John, Oliver, counsel against Charles I.'s writ for ship-money,457464; made Solicitor-General,472
St. Just,466470474,475,498,500
St. Louis, his persecution of liberties,421
St. Maloes, ships burnt in the harbor of,244
St. Patrick,214
St. Thomas, island of,381383
Saintes,510
Sallust, characteristics of, as a historian,404400; his conspiracy of Catiline has rather the air of a clever party-pamphlet, than of a history,404; grounds for questioning' the reality of the conspiracy,403; his character and genius,337
Salmasius, Milton's refutation of,248
Salvator Rosa,347
Samson, Agonistes,215
San Marino, visited by Addison,340
Sanscrit,2898
Satire, the only indigenous growth of Roman literature,348
Savage, Richard, his character,180; his life by Johnson,187214
Savile, Sir George,73
Savonarola,316
Saxony, its elector the natural head of the Protestant party in Germany,328; its persecution of the Calvinists,329; invasion by the Catholic party in Germamy337
Schism, cause of, in England,334
Schitab Roy,2324
Schwellenberg, Madame, her position and character,283284297
Science, political, progress of,271279334
Scholia, origin of the House of,59
Scotland, cruelties of James II. in,300311; establishment of the Kirk in,322159; her progress in wealth and intelligence owing to Protestantism,340; incapacity of its natives to hold land in England even after the Union300
Scots (the), effects of their resistance to Charles I.,400401; ill feeling excited against them by Bute's elevation to power,3940; their wretched condition in the Highland, and Fletcher of Saltoun's views upon it,388389
Scott, Major, his plea in defence of Hastings,105; his influence,100; his challenge to Burke,114
Scott, Sir Walter,435; relative "correctness" of his poetry,338; his Duke of Rockingham (in "Peveril"),358Scotticisms in his works,342; value of his writings,428; pensioned by Earl Grey,201
Seas, Liberty of the, Barêre's work upon,512
Sedley, Sir Charles,353
Self-denying ordinance (the),490
Seneca, his work "On Anger,"437; his claims as a philosopher,438; his work on natural philosophy,412; the Baconian system in reference to,478
Sevajee, founder of the Mahratta empire,59
Seven Years' War,217245
Seward, Mr.,271
Sforza, Francis,280
Shaltesbury, Lord, allusion to,20813; his character,8189; contrasted with Halifax,90
Shakspeare, allusion to,20830; one of the most "correct" poets,337; relative "correctness" of his Troilus and Cressida,338; contrasted with Byron,359Johnson's edition of,417199342; his superlative merits,345; his bombast,301; his fairies' songs,304
Shaw, the Lifeguardsman,357
Shebbeare, Bute's patronage of,40
Shelburne, Lord, Secretary of State in Chatham's second administration,91; his dismissal,100; heads one section of the opposition to North,233; made First Lord of the Treasury,237; his quarrel with Fox,239; his resignation,241
Shelley, Percy Bysshe,257350
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,389; his speech against Hastings, r.121; his encouragement to Miss Burney to write for the stage,273; his sarcasm against Pitt,210
Sheridan and Congreve, effect of their works upon the Comedy of England,295; contrasted with Shakspeare,295
Ship-money, question of its legality,157; seq.
Shrewsbury, Duke of,397
Sienna, cathedral of,319
Sigismund of Sweden,329
Silius Italicus,357
Simonides, his speculations on natural religion,302
Sismondi, M.,131; his remark about Dante,58
Sixtus V.,321
Skinner Cyriac,202
Slave-trade,259
Slavery in Athens,189; in Sparta,190; in the West Indies,303; its origin there,301305; its legal rights there.305310; parallel between slavery there and in other countries,311; its effects upon religion,311313; upon public opinion and morals,311320; who are the zealots for,320321; their foolish threats,322; effect of, upon commerce,323325; impunity of its advocates,32532G; its danger,328; and approaching downfall,329; defended in Major Moody's report,361373371; its approval by Fletcher of Saltoun,388389
Smalridge, George,121122
Smith, Adam,286
Smollett, his judgment on Lord Carteret,188; his satire on the Duke of Newcastle,191
Social contract,182
Society, Mr. Southey's Colloquies on, reviewed,132
Society, Royal, (the), of literature,20-29; its absurdity,20; dangers to be apprehended from it,20-23; cannot be impartial,2122; foolishness of its system of prizes,2321Dartmoor the first subject proposed by it for a prize,2131; never published a prize composition,25; apologue illustrating its consequences,2529
Socrates, the first martyr of intellectual liberty,350his views of the uses of astronomy,152; his reasoning exactly the reasoning of Paley's Natural Theology,511303; his dialogues,381
Soldier, citizen, (a), different from a mercenary,61187
Somers, Lord Chancellor, his encouragement of literature,337; procures a pension for Addison,338; made Lord President of the Council,362
Somerset, the Protector, as a promoter of the English Reformation,452; his fall,396
Somerset, Duke of,415
Sonnets, Milton's,233Petrarch's,9395
Sophocles and the Greek Drama,217
Soul,303
Soult, Marshal, reference to,67
Southampton, Earl of, notice of,384
Southcote, Joanna,336
Southern and Northern countries, difference of moral feeling in,285
Southey, Robert, review of his Colloquies on Society,132; his characteristics,132134; his poetry preferable to his prose,136; his lives of Nelson and John Wesley,136137; his Peninsular War,137; his Book of the Church,137; his political system,140; plan of his present work,141; his opinions regarding the manufacturing system,146; his political economy,151; seq.; the national debt,153156; his theory of the basis of government,158; his remarks on public opinion,159160; his view of the Catholic claims,170; his ideas on the prospects of society,172; his prophecies respecting the Corporation and Test Acts, and the removal of the Catholic disabilities,173; his observations on the condition of the people in the16th and19th centuries,174; his arguments on national wealth,178180; review of his edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress,250; see also Bunyon.
South Sea Bubble,200
Spain,488; review of Lord Mahon's War of the Succession in,75; her state under Philip,79; her literature during the16th century,80; her state a century later,81; effect produced on her by bad government,85; by the Reformation,87; her disputed succession,8891; the Partition Treaty,9293; conduct of the French towards her,93; how affected by the death of Charles,98; seq.; designation of the War of the Spanish Succession,338; no conversions to Protestantism in,348
Spanish and Swiss soldiers in the time of Machiavelli, character of,307
Sparre, the Dutch general,107
Sparta, her power, causes of its decline,155; note; defeated when she ceased to possess, alone of the Greeks, a permanent standing army, Mr. Milford's preference of over Athens,181; her only really great men,182; characteristics of her government,183184; her domestic institutions,184185; character of some of her leading men,185; contrasted with Athens,186187; slavery in,190
Spectator (the), notices of it,385389,397
Spelling of proper names,173
Spencer, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty,277
Spenser,251252; his allegory,75
Spirits, Milton's, materiality of them,227
Spurton, Dr.,494
Spy, police, character of,519520
Stafford, Lord, incident at his execution,300
Stamp Act, disaffection of the American colonists on account of it,78; its repeal,8283
Stanhope, Earl of,201
Stanhope, General,115; commands in Spain (1707),125126
Star Chamber,459; its abolition,468
Staremberg, the imperial general in Spain (in170125128
States, best government of,154
Statesmanship, contrast of the Spanish and Dutch notions of,35
Statesmen, the character of, greatly affected by that of the times,531; character of the first generation of professed statesmen that England produced,342348
State Trials,293302325427
Steele,366; his character,369Addison's treatment of him,370; his origination of the Tatler,374; his subsequent career,384355,401
Stephens,.Tames, his Slavery in the British West Indies reviewed,303330; character of the work,303304; his parallel between their slave laws and those of other countries,311; has disposed of the arguments in its favor,313
Stoicism, comparison of that of the Bengalee with the European,1920
Strafford, Earl of,457; his character as a statesman,460; bill of attainder against him,462; his character,454; his impeachment attainder, and execution,468; defence of the proceedings agains him,470
Strawberry Hill,146
Stuart, Dugald,142
"Sublime" (the). Longinus on,142Burke and Dugald Stewart on,142
Subsidies; foreign, in the time of Charles II.,523
Subsidizing foreign powers, Pitt's aversion to,231
Succession in Spain, war of the,75; see also Spain.
Sugar, its cultivation and profits,395390403
Sujah Dowlah, Nabob Vizier of Oude,28; his flight,32; his death,85
Sullivan, Mr., chairman of the East India Company, his character,265; his relation to Clive,270
Sunderland, Earl of,201Secretary of State,302; appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,399; reconstructs the ministry in171413
Supernatural beings, how to be represented in literature,6970
Superstition, instance of, in the19th century,3Ü7.
Supreme Court of Calcutta, account of,45
Surajah Dowlah, Viceroy of Bengal, his character,231; the monster of the "Black Hole,"232; his flight and death,246251; investigation by the House of Commons into the circumstances of his deposition,28
Surinam, the Maroons of,386
Sweden, her part in the Triple Alliance,41; her relations to Catholicism,329
Swift, Jonathan, his position at Sir William Temple's,101; instance of his imitation of Addison,332; his relations with Addison,399; joins the Tories,400; his verses upon Boyle,118119
Swiss and Spanish soldiers in the time of Machiavelli, character of,307
Sydney, Algernon,525; his reproach on the scaffold to the sheriff's,327
Sydney, Sir Philip,36
Syllogistic process, analysis of, by Aristotle,473