T.Tacitus, characteristics of, as a writer of history,406408; compared with Thucydides,407409; unrivalled in h is delineations of character,407; as among ancient historians in his dramatic power,408; contrasted, in this respect, with Herodotus, Xenophon, and Plutarch,408409Tale, a Roman, Fragments of,119Talleyrand,515; his fine perception of character,12; picture of him at Holland House,425Tallien,497499Tasso,353354; specimen from Hoole's translation,334Taste, Drvden's,366368Tatler (the), its origination,373; its popularity,380; change in its character,384; its discontinuance,385Taxation, principles of,154155Teignmouth, Lord, his high character and regard for Hastings,103Telemachus, the nature of and standard of morality in,359; iii. Off-62.Telephus, the hero of one of Euripides' lost plays,45; note.Tempest, the great, of170359Temple, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty in the Duke of Devonshire's administration,235; his parallel between Byng's behavior at Minorca and the king's behavior at Oudenarde,238; his resignation of office,30; supposed to have encouraged the assailants of Bute's administration,42; dissuades Pitt from supplanting Grenville,69; prevents Pitt's acceptance of George III.'s offer of the administration,72; his opposition to Rockingham's ministry on the question of the Stamp Act,79; quarrel between him and Pitt,8990; prevents the passage of Fox's India Bill,240247Temple, Sir William, review of Courtenay's Memoirs of,1115; his character as a statesman,371213; his family,1314; his early life,15; his courtship of Dorothy Osborne,1617; historical interest of his love-letters,18192223; his marriage,24; his residence in Ireland,25; his feelings towards Ireland,2728; attaches himself to Arlington,2930; his embassy to Munster,33; appointed resident at the court of Brussels,33; danger of his position,35; his interview with DeWitt,36; his negotiation of the Triple Alliance,3941; his fame at home and abroad,45; his recall, and farewell of De Witt,47; his cold reception and dismissal,4849; style and character of his compositions,4950; charged to conclude a separate peace with the Dutch,56; offered the Secretaryship of State,58; his audiences of the king,5960; his share in bringing about the marriage of the Prince of Orange with the Lady Mary,60; required to sign the treaty of Nimeguen,60; recalled to England,61; his plan of a new privy council, 04,7679; his alienation from his colleagues,9590; his conduct on the Exile Question,97; leaves publie life, and retires to the country,98; his literary pursuits,99; his amanuensis, Swift,101; his Essay on Ancient and Modern Learning,105108; his praise of the Letters,107115; his death and character,113115Terentianus,142Terror, reign of. See Deign of Terror.Test Act (the),270Thackeray, Dev. Francis, review of his Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, etc.,194250; his style and matter,194195; his omission to notice Chatham's conduct towards Walpole,218Thales,302Theatines,318Theology, characteristics of the science of,302300Theramenes, his tine perception of character,12Thrale, Mrs.,389; her friendship with Johnson,200207; her marriage with Piozzi,210217; lier position and character,270; her regard tor Miss Burney,270Thucydides, his history transcribed by Demosthenes six times,147; character of the speeches introduced into his narrative,152388389; the great difficulty of understanding them arises from their compression,153; and is acknowledged by Cicero,153; lies not in the language but in the reasoning,153; their resemblance to each other,153; their value,153; his picturesque style compared to Vandyke's,380; description of it,388; has surpassed all rivals in the art of historical narration,389; his deficiencies,390; his mental characteristics,391393; compared with Herodotus,385; with Tacitus,407409Thurlow, Lord, sides against Clive,292; favors Hastings,107117121130; his weight in the government,107235; becomes unpopular with his colleagues,237; dismissed,241; again made Chancellor,247Tiberius,407408Ticked, Thomas, Addison's chief favorite,371; his translation of the first hook of the Iliad.405408; character of his intercourse with Addison,407; appointed by Addison Undersecretary of State,415Addison intrusts his works to him, 418; his elegy on the death of Addison,421; his beautiful lines upon Holland House,423Timlal, his character of the Karl of Chatham's maiden speech,210Tinville, Fouquier,482489503Toledo, admission of the Austrian troops into,170110Toleration, religious, the safest policy for governments,455; conduct of James IL as a professed supporter of it,304308Tories, their popularity and ascendancy in171129; description of them during the sixty years following the Devolution,141; of Walpole's time,200; mistaken reliance by James II. upon them,310; their principles and conduct after the Devolution,332; contempt into which they had fallen (1754),220Clive unseated by their vote,227; their joy on the accession of Anne,352; analogy between their divisions in1704 and in1820,353; their attempt to rally in1707,302; called to office by Queen Anne in1710,382; their conduct on occasion of the tirst representation of Addison's Cato,391392; their expulsion of Steele, from the House of Commons,390; possessed none of the publie patronage in the reign of George L,4; their hatred of the House of Hanover,2415; paucity of talent among them,5; their joy on the accession of George III.,17; their political creed on the accession of George I.,2021; in the ascendent for the tirst time since the accession of the House of Hanover, 313; see Whigs.Tories and Whigs after the Devolution,530Tortola, island of,362; its negro apprentices,374376; its legislature,377; its system of labor,379Torture, the application of, by Bacon in Peacham's case,383394; its use forbidden by Elizabeth,393Mr. Jartline's work on the use of it,394; note.Tory, a modern,132; his points of resemblance and of difference to a Whig of Queen Anne's time,132133Toulouse, Count of, compelled by Peterborough to raise the siege of Barcelona,117Toussaint L'Ouverture,366390Townshend, Lord, his quarrel with Walpole and retirement from public life,203Townshend, Charles,13; his exclamation during the Earl of Bute's maiden speech,33; his opinion of the Rockingham administration,74Chancellor of the Exchequer in Pitt's second administration,91Pitt's overbearing manners towards him, 95, 96; his insubordination,97; his death,100Town Talk, Steele's,402Tragedy, how much it has lost from a notion of what is due to its dignity,20Tragedies, Dryden's, i.360361. Trainbands of the City (the),479480; their publie spirit,18Transubstantiation, a doctrine of faith,305Travel, its uses,420Johnson's contempt for it,420; foreign, compared in its effects to the reading of history,42G,427"Traveller" (the), Goldsmith's,1Treadmill, the study of ancient philosophy compared to labor in the,441Treason, high, did the articles against Strafford amount to?462; law passed at the Revolution respecting trials for,328Trent, general reception of the decisions of the council of,32Trial of the legality of Charles I.'s writ for ship-money,457; of Strafford, 468; of Warren Hastings,126Tribunals, the large jurisdiction exercised by those of Papal Rome,314Tribunal, Revolutionary, (the),496501Triennial Bill, consultation of William III. with Sir William Temple upon it,103Triple Alliance, circumstances which led to it,3438; its speedy conclusion and importance,4145Dr. Lingard's remarks on it,4243; its abandonment by the English government,49; reverence for it in Parliament,Truth the object of philosophy, history, fiction, and poetry, but not of oratory,150Tudors (tlie), their government popular though despotic,16; dependent on the public favor,2021; parallel between the Tudors and the Caesars not applicable,21; corruption not necessary to them,168Turgot, M.67; veneration with which France cherishes his memory,298427Turkey-carpet style of poetry,199Turner, Colonel, the Cavalier, anecdote of him,501Tuscan poetry, Addison's opinion of,360U.Union of England with Scotland, its happy results,160; of England with Ireland, its unsatisfactory results,160; illustration in the Persian fable of King Zohak,161United Provinces, Temple's account of, a masterpiece in its kind,50United States, happiness in, its causes,3940; growth of the population of,238239245249; their prejudices against negroes,368369Unities (the), in poetry,341Unity, hopelessness of having,161University, the London, essay upon,331360; objections to.331; their unreasonableness,332; the necessity of the institution,333334; religious objections,334335337; its great advantages,335; its locality,336; objections on that ground,338389; refutation of them,339; its freedom from the radical defects of the old universities,359; its future,360Universities, their principle of not withholding from the student works containing impurity,351352; change in tlie relations to government of Oxford and Cambridge in Bute's time,37; their jealousy of the London University,331348; religious differences in,338; their moral condition,339340; their glorious associations,341; radical defects of their system,342; their Wealth and Privileges,343344; character of their studies,344; objected to by Bacon and others,345; evils of their system of education,354; their prizes and rewards,355; idleness of their students,35535; character of their graduates,357; their fitness for real life,358359Usage, the law of orthography,173Uses, statute of,37Usurper (a), to obtain the affection of his subjects must deserve it,1415Utilitarians,5850525507,7879; their theory of government criticised,92131; their mental characteristics,92; the faults of their philosophy,93123130; its inutility,798790; their impracticability,100; the inaccuracies of their reasoning,119120; their summum barium,123; their disingenuousness,130131Utility, the key of the Baconian doctrine,430Uti. edit, the treaty of exasperation of parties on account of it,135130; dangers that were to be apprehended from it,137; state of Europe at the time,130; defence of it,139141
Tacitus, characteristics of, as a writer of history,406408; compared with Thucydides,407409; unrivalled in h is delineations of character,407; as among ancient historians in his dramatic power,408; contrasted, in this respect, with Herodotus, Xenophon, and Plutarch,408409
Tale, a Roman, Fragments of,119
Talleyrand,515; his fine perception of character,12; picture of him at Holland House,425
Tallien,497499
Tasso,353354; specimen from Hoole's translation,334
Taste, Drvden's,366368
Tatler (the), its origination,373; its popularity,380; change in its character,384; its discontinuance,385
Taxation, principles of,154155
Teignmouth, Lord, his high character and regard for Hastings,103
Telemachus, the nature of and standard of morality in,359; iii. Off-62.
Telephus, the hero of one of Euripides' lost plays,45; note.
Tempest, the great, of170359
Temple, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty in the Duke of Devonshire's administration,235; his parallel between Byng's behavior at Minorca and the king's behavior at Oudenarde,238; his resignation of office,30; supposed to have encouraged the assailants of Bute's administration,42; dissuades Pitt from supplanting Grenville,69; prevents Pitt's acceptance of George III.'s offer of the administration,72; his opposition to Rockingham's ministry on the question of the Stamp Act,79; quarrel between him and Pitt,8990; prevents the passage of Fox's India Bill,240247
Temple, Sir William, review of Courtenay's Memoirs of,1115; his character as a statesman,371213; his family,1314; his early life,15; his courtship of Dorothy Osborne,1617; historical interest of his love-letters,18192223; his marriage,24; his residence in Ireland,25; his feelings towards Ireland,2728; attaches himself to Arlington,2930; his embassy to Munster,33; appointed resident at the court of Brussels,33; danger of his position,35; his interview with DeWitt,36; his negotiation of the Triple Alliance,3941; his fame at home and abroad,45; his recall, and farewell of De Witt,47; his cold reception and dismissal,4849; style and character of his compositions,4950; charged to conclude a separate peace with the Dutch,56; offered the Secretaryship of State,58; his audiences of the king,5960; his share in bringing about the marriage of the Prince of Orange with the Lady Mary,60; required to sign the treaty of Nimeguen,60; recalled to England,61; his plan of a new privy council, 04,7679; his alienation from his colleagues,9590; his conduct on the Exile Question,97; leaves publie life, and retires to the country,98; his literary pursuits,99; his amanuensis, Swift,101; his Essay on Ancient and Modern Learning,105108; his praise of the Letters,107115; his death and character,113115
Terentianus,142
Terror, reign of. See Deign of Terror.
Test Act (the),270
Thackeray, Dev. Francis, review of his Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, etc.,194250; his style and matter,194195; his omission to notice Chatham's conduct towards Walpole,218
Thales,302
Theatines,318
Theology, characteristics of the science of,302300
Theramenes, his tine perception of character,12
Thrale, Mrs.,389; her friendship with Johnson,200207; her marriage with Piozzi,210217; lier position and character,270; her regard tor Miss Burney,270
Thucydides, his history transcribed by Demosthenes six times,147; character of the speeches introduced into his narrative,152388389; the great difficulty of understanding them arises from their compression,153; and is acknowledged by Cicero,153; lies not in the language but in the reasoning,153; their resemblance to each other,153; their value,153; his picturesque style compared to Vandyke's,380; description of it,388; has surpassed all rivals in the art of historical narration,389; his deficiencies,390; his mental characteristics,391393; compared with Herodotus,385; with Tacitus,407409
Thurlow, Lord, sides against Clive,292; favors Hastings,107117121130; his weight in the government,107235; becomes unpopular with his colleagues,237; dismissed,241; again made Chancellor,247
Tiberius,407408
Ticked, Thomas, Addison's chief favorite,371; his translation of the first hook of the Iliad.405408; character of his intercourse with Addison,407; appointed by Addison Undersecretary of State,415Addison intrusts his works to him, 418; his elegy on the death of Addison,421; his beautiful lines upon Holland House,423
Timlal, his character of the Karl of Chatham's maiden speech,210
Tinville, Fouquier,482489503
Toledo, admission of the Austrian troops into,170110
Toleration, religious, the safest policy for governments,455; conduct of James IL as a professed supporter of it,304308
Tories, their popularity and ascendancy in171129; description of them during the sixty years following the Devolution,141; of Walpole's time,200; mistaken reliance by James II. upon them,310; their principles and conduct after the Devolution,332; contempt into which they had fallen (1754),220Clive unseated by their vote,227; their joy on the accession of Anne,352; analogy between their divisions in1704 and in1820,353; their attempt to rally in1707,302; called to office by Queen Anne in1710,382; their conduct on occasion of the tirst representation of Addison's Cato,391392; their expulsion of Steele, from the House of Commons,390; possessed none of the publie patronage in the reign of George L,4; their hatred of the House of Hanover,2415; paucity of talent among them,5; their joy on the accession of George III.,17; their political creed on the accession of George I.,2021; in the ascendent for the tirst time since the accession of the House of Hanover, 313; see Whigs.
Tories and Whigs after the Devolution,530
Tortola, island of,362; its negro apprentices,374376; its legislature,377; its system of labor,379
Torture, the application of, by Bacon in Peacham's case,383394; its use forbidden by Elizabeth,393
Mr. Jartline's work on the use of it,394; note.
Tory, a modern,132; his points of resemblance and of difference to a Whig of Queen Anne's time,132133
Toulouse, Count of, compelled by Peterborough to raise the siege of Barcelona,117
Toussaint L'Ouverture,366390
Townshend, Lord, his quarrel with Walpole and retirement from public life,203
Townshend, Charles,13; his exclamation during the Earl of Bute's maiden speech,33; his opinion of the Rockingham administration,74Chancellor of the Exchequer in Pitt's second administration,91Pitt's overbearing manners towards him, 95, 96; his insubordination,97; his death,100
Town Talk, Steele's,402Tragedy, how much it has lost from a notion of what is due to its dignity,20
Tragedies, Dryden's, i.360361. Trainbands of the City (the),479480; their publie spirit,18Transubstantiation, a doctrine of faith,305
Travel, its uses,420Johnson's contempt for it,420; foreign, compared in its effects to the reading of history,42G,427
"Traveller" (the), Goldsmith's,1
Treadmill, the study of ancient philosophy compared to labor in the,441
Treason, high, did the articles against Strafford amount to?462; law passed at the Revolution respecting trials for,328Trent, general reception of the decisions of the council of,32Trial of the legality of Charles I.'s writ for ship-money,457; of Strafford, 468; of Warren Hastings,126
Tribunals, the large jurisdiction exercised by those of Papal Rome,314
Tribunal, Revolutionary, (the),496501
Triennial Bill, consultation of William III. with Sir William Temple upon it,103
Triple Alliance, circumstances which led to it,3438; its speedy conclusion and importance,4145Dr. Lingard's remarks on it,4243; its abandonment by the English government,49; reverence for it in Parliament,
Truth the object of philosophy, history, fiction, and poetry, but not of oratory,150
Tudors (tlie), their government popular though despotic,16; dependent on the public favor,2021; parallel between the Tudors and the Caesars not applicable,21; corruption not necessary to them,168
Turgot, M.67; veneration with which France cherishes his memory,298427
Turkey-carpet style of poetry,199
Turner, Colonel, the Cavalier, anecdote of him,501
Tuscan poetry, Addison's opinion of,360
Union of England with Scotland, its happy results,160; of England with Ireland, its unsatisfactory results,160; illustration in the Persian fable of King Zohak,161
United Provinces, Temple's account of, a masterpiece in its kind,50
United States, happiness in, its causes,3940; growth of the population of,238239245249; their prejudices against negroes,368369
Unities (the), in poetry,341
Unity, hopelessness of having,161
University, the London, essay upon,331360; objections to.331; their unreasonableness,332; the necessity of the institution,333334; religious objections,334335337; its great advantages,335; its locality,336; objections on that ground,338389; refutation of them,339; its freedom from the radical defects of the old universities,359; its future,360
Universities, their principle of not withholding from the student works containing impurity,351352; change in tlie relations to government of Oxford and Cambridge in Bute's time,37; their jealousy of the London University,331348; religious differences in,338; their moral condition,339340; their glorious associations,341; radical defects of their system,342; their Wealth and Privileges,343344; character of their studies,344; objected to by Bacon and others,345; evils of their system of education,354; their prizes and rewards,355; idleness of their students,35535; character of their graduates,357; their fitness for real life,358359
Usage, the law of orthography,173
Uses, statute of,37
Usurper (a), to obtain the affection of his subjects must deserve it,1415
Utilitarians,5850525507,7879; their theory of government criticised,92131; their mental characteristics,92; the faults of their philosophy,93123130; its inutility,798790; their impracticability,100; the inaccuracies of their reasoning,119120; their summum barium,123; their disingenuousness,130131
Utility, the key of the Baconian doctrine,430
Uti. edit, the treaty of exasperation of parties on account of it,135130; dangers that were to be apprehended from it,137; state of Europe at the time,130; defence of it,139141