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, 189 190 ; literature of, 347 349
Rome, Church of, its encroaching disposition, 295 296 ; 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, 365 Horace 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., 471 481
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, 411 412
Ruyter, Admiral de, 51
Rymer, 417
S.
Sacheverell. Dr., his impeachment and conviction, 130 362 121
Sackville, the Earl of, (16th century,) 36 261
Sackville, Lord George, 13
Sadler, Mr., his Law of Population reviewed, 214 249 ; his style, 214 215 270 305 306; specimen of his verse, 215 ; the spirit of his work, 216 217 220 270 305 ; his objections to the Doctrines of Malthus. 217 218 222 228 244 271 272 ; answer to them, 219 221 ; his law stated, 222 ; does not understand the meaning of the words in which it is stated, 224226, 278 279 ; his law proved to be not true, 226 227, 231 238 280295; his views injurious to the cause of religion, 228 230 ; attempts to prove that the increase of population in America is chiefly owing to immigration, 238 239 245 249 ; refutes himself, 239 240 ; his views upon the fecundity of the English peers, 240 241 298 304 ; refutation of these arguments, 241 243 ; his general characteristics, 249 ; his Refutation refuted, 268 306 ; misunderstands Paley's arguments, 273 274 ; the meaning of "the origin of evil," 274 278 ; and the principle which he has himself laid down, 295 298
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 in 171 130 141 ; see also Bolingbroke, Lord.
St. John, Oliver, counsel against Charles I.'s writ for ship-money, 457 464 ; made Solicitor-General, 472
St. Just, 466 470 474,475,498, 500
St. Louis, his persecution of liberties, 421
St. Maloes, ships burnt in the harbor of, 244
St. Patrick, 214
St. Thomas, island of, 381 383
Saintes, 510
Sallust, characteristics of, as a historian, 404 400 ; 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
Satire, the only indigenous growth of Roman literature, 348
Savage, Richard, his character, 180 ; his life by Johnson, 187 214
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 Germamy 337
Schism, cause of, in England, 334
Schwellenberg, Madame, her position and character, 283 284 297
Science, political, progress of, 271 279 334
Scholia, origin of the House of, 59
Scotland, cruelties of James II. in, 300 311 ; establishment of the Kirk in, 322 159 ; her progress in wealth and intelligence owing to Protestantism, 340 ; incapacity of its natives to hold land in England even after the Union 300
Scots (the), effects of their resistance to Charles I., 400 401 ; ill feeling excited against them by Bute's elevation to power, 39 40 ; their wretched condition in the Highland, and Fletcher of Saltoun's views upon it, 388 389
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"), 358 Scotticisms 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
Seward, Mr., 271
Sforza, Francis, 280
Shaltesbury, Lord, allusion to, 208 13 ; his character, 81 89 ; contrasted with Halifax, 90
Shakspeare, allusion to, 208 30 ; one of the most "correct" poets, 337 ; relative "correctness" of his Troilus and Cressida, 338 ; contrasted with Byron, 359 Johnson's edition of, 417 199 342 ; 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, 257 350
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, 301 305 ; its legal rights there. 305 310 ; parallel between slavery there and in other countries, 311 ; its effects upon religion, 311 313 ; upon public opinion and morals, 311 320 ; who are the zealots for, 320 321 ; their foolish threats, 322 ; effect of, upon commerce, 323 325 ; impunity of its advocates, 325 32G; its danger, 328 ; and approaching downfall, 329 ; defended in Major Moody's report, 361 373 371 ; its approval by Fletcher of Saltoun, 388 389
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, 21 22 ; foolishness of its system of prizes, 23 21 Dartmoor the first subject proposed by it for a prize, 21 31 ; never published a prize composition, 25 ; apologue illustrating its consequences, 25 29
Socrates, the first martyr of intellectual liberty, 350 his views of the uses of astronomy, 152 ; his reasoning exactly the reasoning of Paley's Natural Theology, 511 303 ; his dialogues, 381
Soldier, citizen, (a), different from a mercenary, 61 187
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, 233 Petrarch's, 93 95
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, 132 134; his poetry preferable to his prose, 136 ; his lives of Nelson and John Wesley, 136 137 ; 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, 153 156 ; his theory of the basis of government, 158 ; his remarks on public opinion, 159 160 ; 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 the 16th and 19th centuries, 174 ; his arguments on national wealth, 178 180 ; 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 the 16th century, 80 ; her state a century later, 81 ; effect produced on her by bad government, 85 ; by the Reformation, 87 ; her disputed succession, 88 91 ; the Partition Treaty, 92 93 ; 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, 183 184 ; her domestic institutions, 184 185; character of some of her leading men, 185 ; contrasted with Athens, 186 187 ; slavery in, 190
Spectator (the), notices of it, 385389, 397
Spelling of proper names, 173
Spencer, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty, 277
Spenser, 251 252 ; his allegory, 75
Spirits, Milton's, materiality of them, 227
Spurton, Dr., 494
Spy, police, character of, 519 520
Stafford, Lord, incident at his execution, 300
Stamp Act, disaffection of the American colonists on account of it, 78 ; its repeal, 82 83
Stanhope, Earl of, 201
Stanhope, General, 115 ; commands in Spain (1707), 125 126
Star Chamber, 459 ; its abolition, 468
Staremberg, the imperial general in Spain (in 170 125 128
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, 342 348
Steele, 366 ; his character, 369 Addison's treatment of him, 370 ; his origination of the Tatler, 374 ; his subsequent career, 384 355, 401
Stephens,.Tames, his Slavery in the British West Indies reviewed, 303 330 ; character of the work, 303 304 ; 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, 19 20
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, 142 Burke 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, 395 390 403
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, 201 Secretary of State, 302 ; appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 399 ; reconstructs the ministry in 171 413
Supernatural beings, how to be represented in literature, 69 70
Superstition, instance of, in the 19th 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, 246 251 ; 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, 118 119
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