N.
Nabobs, class of Englishmen to whom the name was applied, 280 283.
Names, in Milton, their significance, 214 ; proper, correct spelling of, 173
Naples, 347
Napoleon, his policy and actions as first Consul, 513 514 525 283 280 ; his treatment of Barer, 514 516 518 522 520 ; his literary style, 515 ; his opinion of Barère's abilities, 524 525 ; his military genius, 293 294 ; his early proof of talents for war, 297 ; his hold on the affections of his subjects, 14 ; devotion of his Old Guard surpassed by that of the garrison of Arcot to Clive, 210 Mr. Hallam's parallel between him and Cromwell, 504 ; compared with Philip II. of Spain, 78 ; protest of Lord Holland against his detention, 213 ; threatens to invade England, 287 ; anecdotes respecting, 236 237 357 495 408
Nares, Rev. Dr., review of his Burleigh and his Times, 1 30
National Assembly. See Assembly.
National Debt, Southey's notions of, 153 155 ; effect of its abrogation, 154 England's capabilities in respect to it, 180
National feeling, low state of, after the Restoration, 525
Natural history, a body of, commenced by Bacon, 433
Nature, Dryden's violations of, 359 ; external, Dante's insensibility to, 72 74 ; feeling of the present age for, 73 ; not the source of the highest poetical inspiration, 73 74
Navy, its mismanagement in the reign of Charles II., 375
Negroes, their legal condition in the West Indies, 307 310 ; their religious condition, 311 313 ; their social and industrial capacities, 301 402 Major Moody s theory of an instinctive antipathy between them and the Whites, and its refutation, 305 307 ; prejudices against them in the United States, 368 361 ; amalgamation between them and the Whites, 370 373 ; their capacity and inclination for labor, 383 385 387 391 ; the Maroons of Surinam, 380 ; to: 388 ; inhabitants of Hayti, 390 ; to: 400 ; their probable fate, 404
Nelson, Southey's Life of, 136
"New Atalantis" of Bacon, remarkable passages in, 488
Newbery, Mr., allusion to his pasteboard pictures, 215
Newcastle, Duke of, his relation to Walpole, 178 191 ; his character, 191 ; his appointment as head of the administration, 226 ; his negotiations with Fox, 227 228 ; attacked in Parliament by Chatham, 229 ; his intrigues, 234 ; his resignation of office, 235 ; sent for by the king on Chatham's dismissal", leader of the Whig aristocracy, 239 ; motives for his coalition with Chatham, 240 ; his perfidy towards the king, 242 ; his jealousy of Fox, 242 ; his strong government with Chatham, 243 244 ; his character and borough influence, 472 ; his contests with Henry Fox, 472 ; his power and patronage, 7 8 ; his unpopularity after the resignation of Chatham, 34 35 ; he quits office, 35
Newdigate, Sir Roger, a great critic, 342
Newton, John, his connection with the slave-trade, 421 ; his attachment to the doctrines of predestination, 176
Newton, Sir Isaac, 207 ; his residence in Leicester Square, 252 Malbranche's admiration of him, 340 ; invented the method of fluxions simultaneously with Leibnitz, 324
"New Zealander" (the), 301 160 162 201 41 42
Niagara, conquest of, 244
Ninleguen, congress at, 59 ; hollow and unsatisfactory treaty of, 60
Nizam, originally a deputy of the Mogul sovereign, 59
Nizam al Mulk, Viceroy of the Deecan, his death, 211
Nonconformity. See Dissent in the Church of England.
Normandy, 77
Normans, their warfare against the Albigenses, 310
Norris, Henry, the nickname "Little Dickey" applied to him by Addison, 417
North, Lord, his change in the constitution of the Indian government, 35 ; his desire to obtain the removal of Hastings, 53 ; change in his designs, and its cause, 57 ; his sense, tact, and urbanity, 128 ; his weight in the ministry, 13 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 100 ; at the head of the ministry, 232 ; resigns, 235 ; forms a coalition with Fox, 239 ; the recognized heads of the Tory party, 243
Northern and Southern countries, difference of moral feeling in, 285 286
Novels, popular, character of those which preceded Miss Burney's Evelina, 319
November, fifth of, 247
Novum Organum, admiration excited by it before it was published, 388 ; and afterwards, 409 ; contrast between its doctrine and the ancient philosophy, 438 448 405 ; its first book the greatest performance of Bacon, 492
Nov, Attorney-General to Charles I, 456
Nugent, Lord, review of his Memorials of John Hampden and his Party, 427
Nugent. Robert Craggs, 13
Nuncomar, his part in the revolutions in Bengal, 19 20 ; his services dispensed with by Hastings, 24 ; his rancor against Mahommed Reza Khan, 25 ; his alliance with the majority of the new council, 42 43; his committal for felony, trial, and sentence, 45 40 ; his death, 48 49
O.
Oates, Titus, remarks on his plot, 295 300
Oc, language of Provence and neighboring countries, its beauty and richness, 308
Ochino Bernardo, 349 ; his sermons on fate and free-will translated by Lady Bacon, 349
Odd (the), the peculiar province of Horace Walpole, 161
"Old Bachelor," Congreve's, 389
Old Sarum, its cause pleaded by Junius, 38
Old Whig, Addison's, 417
Oleron, 509
Oligarchy, characteristics of, 181 183.
Olympic games, Herodotus' history read at, 331
Oniai. his appearance at Dr. Burney's concerts, 257 ; anecdote about, 59
Oinichund, his position in India, 238 ; his treachery towards Clive, 241 249
Omnipresence of the Deity, Robert Montgomery's reviewed, 199
Opinion, public, its power, 169
Opposition, parliamentary, when it began to take a regular form, 433
Orange, the Prince of, 46 ; the only hope of his country, 51 ; his success against the French. 52 ; his marriage with the Lady Mary, 60
Orators, Athenian, essay on, 139 157; in what spirit "their works should be read, 149 ; causes of their greatness found in their education, 149 ; modern orators address themselves less to the audience than to the reporters, 151
Oratory, how to be criticised, 149 ; to be estimated on principles different from those applied to other productions, 150 ; its object not truth but persuasion, 150 ; little of it left in modern days, 151 ; effect of the freedom of the press upon it, 151 ; practice and discipline give superiority in, as in the art of war, 155 ; effect of the division of labor upon, 154 ; those desirous of success in, should study Dante next to Demosthenes, 78 ; its necessity to an English statesman, 96 97 363 364 251 253
Orestes, the Athenian highwayman, 34 ; note.
Doloff, Count, his appearance at Dr. Burney's concert, 256
Orme, merits and defects of his work on India, 195
Orsiui, the Princess, 105
Orthodoxy, at one time a synonyme for ignorance and stupidity, 343
Osborne, Sir Peter, incident of Temple with the son and daughter of, 16 23
Osborne, Thomas, the bookseller, 131
Oswald, James, 13
Otway, 191
Ovid, Addison's Notes to the 2d and 3d hooks of his Metamorphoses, 328
Owen, Mr. Robert, 140
Oxford, 287
Oxford, Earl of. See Harley, Robert. Oxford, University of, its inferiority to Cambridge in intellectual activity, 343 344 ; its disaffection to the House of Hanover, 402 36 ; rose into favor with the government under Bute, 36
P.
Painting, correctness in, 343 ; causes of its decline in England after the civil wars, 157
Paley, Archdeacon, 261 Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his defence of the Church, 122 ; his reasoning the same as that by which Socrates confuted Aristodemus, 303 ; his views on "the origin of evil," 273 276
Pallas, the birthplace of Goldsmith, 151
Paoli, his admiration of Miss Burney, 271
Papacy, its influence, 314 ; effect of Luther's public renunciation of communion with it, 315
Paper currency, Southey's notions of, 151 152
Papists, line of demarcation between them and Protestants, 362 Papists and Puritans, persecution of, by Elizabeth, 439
Paradise, picture of, in old Bibles, 343 ; painting of, by a gifted master, 343
Paradise Regained, its excellence, 219
Paris, influence of its opinions among the educated classes in Italy, 144
Parker, Archbishop, 31 Parliaments of the 15th century, their condition, 479
Parliament, the, sketch of its proceedings, 470 540 Parliament of James I., 440 441 Charles I., his first, 443 444 ; his second, 444 445 ; its dissolution, 446 ; his fifth, 401
Parliament, effect of the publication of its proceedings, 180 Parliament, Long. See Long Parliament.
Parliamentary government, 251 253.
Parliamentary opposition, its origin, 433
Parliamentary reform, 131 21 22 233 237 239 241 410 425
Parr, Dr., 120
Milton, Parties, state of, in the time of Milton, 257 ; in England, 171 130 ; analogy in the state of, 1704 and 182 353 ; mixture of, at George II.'s first levee after Walpole's resignation, 5
Partridge, his wrangle with Swift, 374
Party, power of, during the Reformation and the French Revolution, 11 14 ; illustrations of the use and the abuse of it, 73
Pascal, Blaise, 105 300 ; was the product of his age, 323 Patronage of literary men, 190 ; less necessary than formerly, 191 352 ; its injurious effects upon style, 352 353
"Patriots" (the), in opposition to Sir R. Walpole, 170 179 ; their remedies for state evils, 181 183 Patriotism, genuine, 396
Paul IV., Pope, his zeal and devotion, 318 324
Paulet, Sir Amias, 354
Paulieian theology, its doctrines and prevalence among the Albigenses, 309 ; in Bohemia and the Lower Danube, 313
Pauson, the Greek painter, 30 ; note.
Peacham, Rev. Mr., his treatment by Bacon, 389 390
Peers, new creations of, 486 ; impolicy of limiting the number of, 415 410
Pelham, Henry, his character, 189 ; his death. 225
Pelhams (the), their ascendency, 188 ; their accession to power, 220 221 ; feebleness of the opposition to them, 222 ; see also Newcastle, Duke of.
Pembroke College, Oxford, Johnson entered at, 174 175
Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, Pitt entered at, 225
Péner, M.. translator of the works of Machiavelli, 207
Peninsular War, Southey's, 137
Penseroso and Allegro, Milton's, 215
Pentathlete (a), 154
People (the), comparison of their condition in the 10th and 19th centuries, 173 ; their welfare not considered in partition treaties, 91 92
Pepys, his praise of the Triple Alliance, 44 ; note.
Pericles, his distribution of gratuities among the members of the Athenian tribunals, 420 ; the substance but not the manner of his speeches transmitted by Thucydides, 152
Persecution, religious, in the reign of Elizabeth, 439 440 ; its reactionary effect upon churches and thrones, 456 ; in England during the progress of the Reformation, 14
Personation, Johnson's want of talent for, 423
Personification, Robert Montgomery's penchant for, 207
Persuasion, not truth, the object of oratory, 150
Peshwa, authority and origin of, 59
Peterborough, Earl of, his expedition to Spain, 110 ; his character, 110 123 124 ; his successes on the northeast coast of Spain, 112 119 ; his retirement to Valencia thwarted, 123 ; returns to Valencia as a volunteer, 123 ; his recall to England, 123
Petition of Right, its enactment, 445 ; violation of it, 445
Petrarch, characteristics of his writings, 56 57 88 90-96, 211 ; his influence upon Italian literature to Altieri's time unfavorable, 59 ; criticism upon, 80-99; his wide celebrity. 80 ; besides Cervantes the only modern writer who has attained an European reputation, 80 ; the source of his popularity to be found in his egotism, 81 82 ; and the universal interest felt in his theme, 82 85 365 ; the first eminent poet wholly devoted to the celebration of love, 85 ; the Provençal poets his masters, 85 ; his fame increased by the inferiority of his imitators, 86 ; but injured by their repetitions of his topics, 94 ; lived the votary of literature, 86 ; and died its martyr, 87 ; his crowning on the Capitol, 86 87 ; his private history, 87 ; his inability to present sensible objects to the imagination, 89 ; his genius, and his perversion of it by his conceits, 90 ; paucity of his thoughts, 90 ; his energy of style when lie abandoned amatory composition, 91 ; the defect of his writings, their excessive brilliancy, and want of relief, 92 ; his sonnets, 93 95 ; their effect upon the reader's mind, 93 ; the fifth sonnet the perfection of bathos, 93 ; his Latin writings over-estimated by himself and his contemporaries, 95 96 413 ; his philosophical essays, 97 ; his epistles, 98 ; addressed to the dead and the unborn, 99 ; the first restorer of polite letters into Italy, 277
Petty, Henry, Lord, 296
Phalaris, Letters of, controversy upon their merits and genuineness, 108 112 114 119
Philarehus for Phylarehus, 381
Philip II. of Spain, extent and splendor of his empire, 77
Philip III. of Spain, his accession, 98 ; his character, 98 104 ; his choice of a wife, 105 ; is obliged to fly from Madrid, 118 ; surrender of his arsenal and ships at Carthagena, 119 ; defeated at Alinenara, and again driven from Madrid, 126 ; forms a close alliance with his late competitor, 138 ; quarrels with France, 138 ; value of his renunciation of the crown of France. 139
Philip le Bel, 312
Philip, Duke of Orleans, regent of France, 63 66 ; compared with Charles II. of England, 64 65
Philippeaux, Abbe, his account of Addison's mode of life at Blois, 339
Philips, John, author of the Splendid Shilling, 386 ; specimen of his poetry in honor of Marlborough, 386 ; the poet of the English vintage, 50
Philips, Sir Robert, 413
Phillipps, Ambrose, 369
Philological studies, tendency of, 143 ; unfavorable to elevated criticism, 143
Philosophy, ancient, its characteristics, 436 ; its stationary character, 441 459 ; its alliance with Christianity, 443 445 ; its fall, 445 446 ; its merits compared with the Baconian, 461 462 ; reason of its barrenness, 478 479
Philosophy, moral, its relation to the Baconian system, 467
Philosophy, natural, the light in which it was viewed by the ancients, 436 443 ; chief peculiarity of Bacon's, 435
Phrarnichus, 133
Pilgrim's Progress, review of Southey's edition of the, 250 ; see also Bunyan.
Pilpav, Fables of, 188
Pindar and the Greek drama, 216 Horace's comparison of his imitators, 362
Pineus (the), 31 ; note.
Pisistratus, Bacon's comparison of Essex to him, 372
Pitt, William, (the first). (See Chatham, Earl of.)
Pitt, William, (the second.) his birth, 221 ; his precocity, 223 ; his feeble health, 224 ; his early training, 224 225 ; entered at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 225 ; his life and studies there, 225 229 ; his oratorical exercises, 228 229 ; accompanies his father in his last attendance in the House of Peers, 223 230 ; called to the bar, 230 ; enters Parliament, 230 ; his first speech, 233 ; his forensic ability, 2 14 ; declines any post that did not entitle him to a seat in the Cabinet, * 235 ; courts the Ultra-Whigs, 236 ; made Chancellor of the Exchequer, 247 ; denounces the coalition between Fox and North, 240 ; resigns and declines a place at the Treasury Hoard, 241 ; makes a second motion in favor of Parliamentary Reform, 241 ; visits the Continent, 242 ; his great popularity, 244 244 ; made First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 240 ; his contest with the opposition, 247 ; his increasing popularity in the nation, 248 ; his pecuniary disinterestedness, 249 257 208 ; reelected to Parliament, 24 ; the greatest subject that England had seen for many generations, 250 ; his peculiar talents, 250-257; his oratory, 254 255 128 ; the correctness of his private life, 258 ; his failure to patronize men of letters and artists, 259 202 ; his administration can be divided into equal parts, 202 ; his lirst eight years, 202 271 ; his struggle upon the question of the Regency, 205 207 ; his popularity, 207 208 ; his feelings towards France, 270 272 ; his change of views in the latter part of his administration not unnatural, 272 274 45 ; failure of his administration of military affairs, vi.275, 277 ; his undiminished popularity, 277 278 ; his domestic policy, 27S, 274 ; his admirable policy respecting Ireland and the Catholic Question, 289 281 ; his resignation, 281 ; supports Addington's administration. 284 ; grows cold in his support, 285 ; his quarrel with Addington. 287 ; his great debate with Fox upon the war question, 288 ; his coalition with Fox, 236 ; to: 242 410 191 ; his second administration, 292 ; his failing health, 294 ; his ill-success in the coalition against Napoleon, 294 295 ; his illness increases, 295 250 ; his death, 297 ; his funeral, 298 ; his debts paid from the public treasury, 298 ; his neglect of his private finances, 298 249 ; his character, 299 300 410 411 ; his admiration for Hastings, 107 110 117 ; his asperity towards Francis, 104 ; his speech in support of Fox's motion against Hastings, 117 ; his motive, 119 ; his position upon the question of Parliamentary Reform, 410