K.
Keith, Marshall, 235
Kenrick, William, 269
Kimbolton, Lord, his impeachment, 477
King, the name of an Athenian magistrate, 53 ; note.
"King's Friends," the faction of the, 79 82
Kit-Cat Club, Addison's introduction to the, 351
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, Addison's lines to him, 375
"Knights," comedy of the. 21
Kniperdoling and Robespierre, analogy between their followers, 12
Knowledge, advancement of society in, 390 391 132
L.
Labor, division of, 123 ; effect of attempts by government to limit the hours of, 362 Major Moody's new philosophy of, and its refutation, 373 398
Laboring classes (the), their condition in England and on the Continent, 178 ; in the United States, 180
Labourdonnais, his talents, 202 ; his treatment by the French government, 294
Laedaunon. See Sparta.
La Fontaine, allusion to, 393
Lalla Kookli, 485
Lally, Governor, his treatment by the French government, 294
Lamb, Charles, his defence cf the dramatists of the Restoration, 357 ; his kind nature, 358
Lampoons, Pope's, 408
Lancaster, Dr., his patronage of Addison, 326
Langton, Mr., his friendship with Johnson, 204 219 ; his admiration of Miss Burney, 271
Language, Drvden's command of, 367 ; effect of its cultivation upon poetry, 337 338 Latin, its decadence, 55 ; its characteristics, 55 Italian, Dante the first to compose in, 56
Languedoc, description of it in the twelfth century, 308 309 ; destruction of its prosperity and literature by the Normans, 310
Lansdowne, Lord, his friendship for Hastings, 106
Latimer, Hugh, his popularity in London, 423 428
Latin poems, excellence of Milton's, 211 Boileau's praise of, 342 343 Petrarch's, 96 ; language, its character and literature, 347 349
Latinity, Croker's criticisms on, 381
Laud, Archbishop, his treatment by the Parliament, 492 493 ; his correspondence with Strafford, 492 ; his character, 452 453 ; his diary, 453 ; his impeachment and imprisonment, 468 ; his rigor against the Puritans, and tenderness towards the Catholics, 473
Lauderdale, Lord, 417
Law, its administration in the time of James II., 520 ; its monstrous grievances in India, 64 69
Lawrence, Major, his early notice of Clive, 203, 241, ; his abilities, 203
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 305
Laws, penal, of Elizabeth, 439 440
Lawsuit, imaginary, between the parishes of St. Dennis and St. George-in-the-water, 100, 111
Lawyers, their inconsistencies as advocates and legislators, 414 415
Learning in Italy, revival of, 275 ; causes of its decline, 278
Legerdemain, 353
Legge, Et. lion. H. B., 230 ; his return to the Exchequer, 38 13 ; his dismissal, 28
Legislation, comparative views on, by Plato and by Bacon, 456
Legitimacy, 237
Leibnitz, 324
Lemon, Mr., his discovery of Milton's Treatise on Christian Doctrine, 202
Lennox, Charlotte, 24
Leo X., his character, 324 ; nature of the war between him and Luther, 327 328
Lessing, 341
Letters of Phalaris, controversy between Sir William Temple and Christ Church College and Bentley upon their merits and genuineness, 108 112 114 119
Libels on the court of George III., in Bute's time, 42
Libertinism in the time of Charles II., 517
Liberty, public, Milton's support of, 246 ; its rise and progress in Italy, 274 ; its real nature, 395 397 ; characteristics of English, 399 68 71 ; of the Seas, Barrere's work upon, 512
Life, human, increase in the time of, 177
Lincoln Cathedral, painted window in, 428
Lingard, Dr., his account of the conduct of James II. towards Lord Rochester, 307 ; his ability as a historian, 41 ; his strictures on the Triple Alliance, 42
Literary men more independent than formerly, 190-192; their influence, 193 194 ; abjectness of their condition during the reign of George IL, 400 401 ; their importance to contending parties in the reign of Queen Anne, 304 ; encouragement afforded to, by the Revolution, 336 ; see also Criticism, literary.
Literature of the Roundheads, 234 ; of the Royalists, 234 ; of the Elizabethan age, 341 346 ; of Spain in the 16th century, 80 ; splendid patronage of, at the close of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, 98 ; discouragement of, on the accession of the House of Hanover, 98 ; importance of classical in the 16th century, 350 Petrarch, its votary, 86 ; what its history displays in all languages 340 341 ; not benefited by the French Academy, 23
Literature, German, little known in England sixty or seventy years ago, 341
Literature, Italian, unfavorable influence of Petrarch upon, 59 60 ; characteristics of, in the 14th century, 278 ; and generally, down to Alfieri, 60
Literature, Royal Society of, 202, 9
"Little Dickey," a nickname for Norris, the actor, 417
Livy, Discourses on, by Machiavelli, 309 ; compared with Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 313 314 ; his characteristics as an historian, 402 403 ; meaning of the expression lactece ubertus, as applied to him, 403
Logan, Mr., his ability in defending Hastings, 139
Lollardism in England, 27
London, in the 17th century, 479 ; devoted to the national cause, 480 481 ; its public spirit, 18 ; its prosperity during the ministry of Lord Chatham, 247 ; conduct of, at the Restoration, 289 ; effects of the Great Plague upon, 32 ; its excitement on occasion of the tax on cider proposed by Bute's ministry, 50 University of, see University.
Long Parliament (the), controversy on its merits, 239 240 ; its first meeting, 457 ; ii.406; its early proceedings, 469 470 ; its conduct in reference to the civil war, 471 ; its nineteen propositions, 486 ; its faults, 490 494 ; censured by Mr. Hallam, 491 ; its errors in the conduct of the war, 494 ; treatment of it by the army, 497 ; recapitulation of its acts, 408 ; its attainder of Stratford defended, 471 ; sent Hampden to Edinburgh to watch the king, 479 ; refuses to surrender the members ordered to be impeached, 477 ; openly denies the king, 489 ; its conditions of reconciliation, 480
Lope, his distinction as a writer and a soldier, 81
Lords, the House of, its position previous to the Restoration, 287 ; its condition as a debating assembly in 177 420
Lorenzo de Medici, state of Italy in his time, 278
Lorenzo de Medici (the younger), dedication of Machiavelli's Prince to him, 309
Loretto, plunder of, 346
Louis XI., his conduct in respect to the Spanish succession, 80 99 ; his acknowledgment, on the death of James II., of the Prince of Wales as King of England, and its consequences, 102 ; sent an army into Spain to the assistance of his grandson, 109 ; his proceedings in support of his grandson Philip, 109 127 ; his reverses in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, 129 ; his policy, 309 ; character of his government, 308 311 ; his military exploits, 5 ; his projects and affected moderation, 36 ; his ill-humor at the Triple Alliance, 41 ; his conquest of Franche Comte, 42 ; his treaty with Charles, 53 ; the early part of his reign a time of license, 364 ; his devotion, 339 ; his late regret for his extravagance, 39 ; his character and person, 576 ; his injurious influence upon religion, 64
Louis XV., his government, 646 6 293
Louis XVI., 441 ; to: 449 455 150 67
Louis XVIII., restoration of, compared with that of Charles II., 282 ; seq.
Louisburg, fall of, 244
L'Ouverture, Toussaint, 366 390 392
Love, superiority of the. Romans over the Greeks in their delineations of, 83 ; change in the nature of the passion of, 84 ; earned by the introduction of the Northern element, 83
"Love for Love," by Congreve, 392 ; its moral, 402
"Love in a Wood," when acted, 371
Lucan, Dryden's resemblance to, 355
Lucian, 387
Luther, his declaration against the ancient philosophy, 446 ; sketch of the contest which began with his preaching against the Indulgences and terminated with the treaty of Westphalia, 314 338 ; was the product of his age, 323 ; defence of, by Atterbury, 113
Lysurgus, 185
Lysias, anecdote by Plutarch of his "speech for the Athenian tribunals," 117
Lyttleton, Lord, 54
M.
Maebomey, original name of the Burney family, 250 Machiavelli, his works, by Périer, 267 ; general odiousness of his name and works, 268 269 ; suffered for public liberty, 269 ; his elevated sentiments and just views, 270 ; held in high estimation by his contemporaries. 271 ; state of moral feeling ill Italy in his time, 272 ; his character as a man, 291 ; as a poet, 293 ; as a dramatist, 296 ; as a statesman, 291 300 309 313 309 ; excellence of his precepts, 311 ; his candor, 313 ; comparison between him and Montesquieu, 314 ; his style, 314 ; his levity, 316 ; his historical works, 316 ; lived to witness the last struggle for Florentine liberty, 319 ; his works and character misrepresented, 319 ; his remains dishonored till long after his death, 319 ; monument erected to his memory by an English nobleman, 319
Mackenzie, Henry, his ridicule of the Nabob class, 283
Mackenzie, Mr., his dismissal insisted on by Grenville, 70
Mackintosh, Sir James, review of his History of the Revolution in England, 251 335 ; comparison with Fox's History of James II., 252 ; character of his oratory, 253 ; his conversational powers, 256 ; his qualities as an historian, 250 ; his vindication from the imputations of the editor, 262 270-278; change in his opinions produced by the French Revolution, 263 ; his moderation, 268 270 ; his historical justice, 277 278 ; remembrance of him at Holland House, 425
Macleane, Colonel, agent in England for Warren Hastings, 44 53
Macpherson, James, 77 331 210 ; a favorite author with Napoleon, 515 ; despised by Johnson, 116
Madras, description of it, 199 ; its capitulation to the French, 202 ; restored to the English, 203
Maand, capture of, by the English army in 470 119
Mæandnus, of Samos, 132
Magazine, delightful invention for a very idle or a very busy man, 156 ; resembles the little angels of the Rabbinical tradition, 156 157
Magdalen College, treatment of, by James II., 413 Addison's connection with it, 327
Mahon, Lord, Review of his History of the War of the Succession in Spain, 75 142 ; his qualities as an historian, 75 77 ; his explanation of the financial condition of Spain, 85 ; his opinions on the Partition Treaty, 90-92; his representations of Cardinal Porto Carrero, 104 ; his opinion of the peace on the conclusion of the War of the Spanish Succession, 131 ; his censure of Harley, 132 ; and view of the resemblance of the Tories of the present day to the Whigs of the Revolution, 132 135
Mahrattas, sketch of their history, 207 58 ; expedition against them, 60
Malaga, naval battle near, in 170 110
Malcolm, Sir John, review of his Life of Lord Clive, 194 299 ; value of his work, 190 ; his partiality for Clive, 237 ; his defence of Clive's conduct towards Ornichaud, 248
Mallet, David, patronage of by Bute, 41
Malthus, Mr., his theory of population, and Sadler's objections to it, 217 218 222 223 228 244 271 272
Manchester, Countess of, 339
Manchester, Earl of, his patronage of Addison, 338 350
Mandeville, his metaphysical powers, 208
Mandragola (the), of Maehiavelli, 293
Manilla, capitulation of, 32
Mannerism of Johnson, ii 423
Mansfield, Lord, his character and talents, 223 ; his rejection of the overtures of Newcastle, 234 ; his elevation, 234 12 ; his friendship for Hastings, 106 ; character of his speeches, 104
Manso, Milton's Epistle to, 212
Manufactures and commerce of Italy in the 14th century, 275 277
Manufacturing and agricultural laborers, comparison of their condition, 147 149
Manufacturing system (the), Southey's opinion upon, 145 ; its effect on the health, 147
Marat, his bust substituted for the statues of the Martyrs of Christianity, 345 ; his language about Barère, 458 466 ; his bust torn down, 502
Mareet, Mrs., her Dialogues on Political Economy, 207
March, Lord, one of the persecutors of Wilkes, 60
Maria Theresa, her accession to the throne, 164 ; her situation and personal qualities, 165 166 ; her unbroken spirit, 173 ; gives birth to the future emperor, Joseph II., 173 ; her coronation, 173 ; enthusiastic loyalty and war-cry of Hungary, 174 ; her brother-in-law, Prince Charles of Lorraine, defeated by Frederic the Great, at Chotusitz, 174 ; she cedes Silesia, 175 ; her husband, Francis, raised to the Imperial Throne, 179 ; she resolves to humble Frederic, 200 ; succeeds in obtaining the adhesion of Russia, 200 ; her letter to Madame Pompadour, 211 ; signs the peace of Hubertsburg, 245
Marie Antoinette, Barère's share in her death, 401 434 409 470
Marino, San, visited by Addison, 340
Marlborough, Duchess of, her friendship with Congreve, 408 ; her inscription on his monument, 409
Marlborough, Duke of, 259 ; his conversion to Whiggism, 129 ; his acquaintance with the Duchess of Cleveland,-and commencement of his splendid fortune, 373 ; notice of Addison's poem in his honor, 358
Marlborough and Godolphin, their policy, 353
Maroons (the), of Surinam, 386 ; to: 388
Marsh, Bishop, his opposition to Calvinistic doctrine, 170
Martinique, capture of, 32
Martin's illustrations of the Pilgrim's Progress, and of Paradise Lost, 251
Marvel, Andrew, 333
Mary, Queen, 31
Masque, the Italian, 218
Massinger, allusion to his "Virgin Martyr," 220 ; his fondness for the Roman Catholic Church, 30 ; indelicate writing in his dramas, 356
Mathematical reasoning, 103 ; studies, their advantages and defects, 346
Mathematics, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon, 451
Maximilian of Bavaria, 328
Maxims, general, their uselessness, 310
Maynooth, Mr. Gladstone's objections to the vote of money for, 179
Mecca, 301
Medals, Addison's Treatise on, 329 351
Medici, Lorenzo de. See Lorenzo de Medici.
Medicine, comparative estimate of the science of, by Plato and by Bacon, 454 456
Meer Cossim, his talents, 260 ; his deposition and revenge, 266
Meer Jatlier, his conspiracy, 240 ; his conduct during the battle of Plassey, 243 240 ; his pecuniary transactions with Clive, 251 ; his proceedings on being threatened by the Great Mogul, 250 ; his fears of the English, and intrigues with the Dutch, 258 ; deposed and reseated by the English, 266 ; his death, 270 ; his large bequest to Lord Clive, 279
Melanethon, 7
Melville, Lord, his impeachment, 292
Meinmius, compared to Sir Wm. Temple, 112
Memoirs of Sir "William Temple, review of, 1 115 ; wanting in selection and compression, 2
Memoirs of the Life of Warren Hastings, review of, 1 148
Memoirs, writers of, neglected by historians, 423
Memory, comparative views of the importance of, by Plato and by Bacon, 454
Menander, the lost comedies of, 375
Mendaeium, different species of, 430