Stones, rude ones, why objects of vener-
ation, vii. 185.

Strafford, Earl of, proceedings in his trial,
xi. 14, 113.

Sublime, sources of it, i. 110.

the strongest emotion of the mind, i.
110.

in all things abhors mediocrity, i. 157.
Sublime and Beautiful, A Philosophical
Inquiry into the Origin of our
Ideas of the, i. 67.

stand on very different foundations,
i. 192.

comparison between them, i. 205.
on the efficient cause of them, i. 208.
Succession, hereditary, the principle of it
recognized at the Revolution, iii.

252.

Succession, in visual objects, effects of it
explained, i. 222.

Suddenness, a source of the sublime, i.
160.

Suffering, the force to endure, needful to
those who aspire to act greatly, v.

250.

Sujah ul Dowlah, his character, xi. 373.
Sully, M. de, an observation of his on
revolutions in great states, i. 441.
Superstition, nature of it, iii. 442.
Surplus produce, nature and application
of it, iii. 444.

Sweetness, its nature, i. 235.
relaxing, i. 237.

Swift, Dr.. a saying of his concerning
public benefactors, ii. 472.

Sympathy, observations on it, i. 117; v.
398.

Taille, nature of, i. 330, 333.
Talents, eminent, obscure and vulgar vi-
ces sometimes blended with, iv. 26.
Tallien, the regicide, his sanguinary bru-
tality, vi. 102.

Tamerlane, his conquests in Hindostan,
ix. 388.

remarks on his Institutes, ix. 467;
xi. 214.

Tanistry, what, vii. 297.

Taste, discourse concerning it, i. 79.
definition of it, i. 81.

want of it, whence, i. 95.

a wrong or bad one, what, i. 95.
a good one, i. 96.

of no mean importance in the regu-
lation of life, iv. 30.

Taxes, mode of levying them in commer-

cial colonies an important and dif-
ficult consideration, i. 354.
nature of several in America, i. 355.
colonial, Lord North's project of a
ransom of them by auction, ii. 171.
the great contests for freedom in
England chiefly upon the question
of taxing, ii. 120.

taxes on different establishments, re-
marks concerning them, i. 368.
upon salaries, ii. 283.

details of English taxes, v. 476.

Terror, sometimes a source of delight, i

119.

how, i. 214.

an effect of the sublime, i. 130.
its physical effects, i. 211.

Test Act, observations on it, iv. 264.
Thanes, brief account of them, vii. 300.
Theatre, general observations on the, iii.
338.

prosperous condition of it in England,
v. 485.

made an affair of state in the French
Republic, vi. 104.

Theodorus, Archbishop of Canterbury,
brief account of him, vii. 249.

his services to the cause of letters in
England, vii. 249.

Three Seals, the history of the affair so
called, ix. 408.

Time blends the conquered with the con-
querors, iv. 272.

Toleration, true, exemplified, iii. 431.
ought to be tender and large, iv.
258.

favorable to, and a part of Christian
ity, vii. 25.

not a virtue of the ancient heathens,
vii. 31.

Toulon, fleet of, injudicious measures of
the English government with re-
gard to it, iv. 445.

Townshend, Charles, character of him,
ii. 64.

Trade, sometimes seems to perish when it
only assumes a different form, i.
313.

quickly and deeply affected by taxes,
i. 391.

tests of the state of it, what, v. 493.
Board of, its character and history,
ii. 340.

Tragedy, observations on the effects of,
i. 120.

its subjects and passions, vii. 150.
great personages everywhere made
the objects of it, xi. 308.
Transmigration of souls, origin of the
doctrine, vii. 181.

Treasurer's staff, Lord Coke's account of
the purpose of it, ii. 354.

Trent, Council of, its wise introduction
of the discipline of seminaries for
priests, iv. 231.

Triangle, the poorest of all figures in its
effect, i. 152.

Triennial Parliaments, evils of them, vii.

79.

Trinoda necessitas, in Saxon law, what,
vii. 325.

Turkey, power sought there with avidity,
notwithstanding the danger and in-
security of its tenure, vii. 82.
Tyranny, aggravated by contumely, il
484.

the desire and design of it often lurk
in the claim of an extravagant lib-
erty, iv. 115.

never learns moderation from the ill

success of first oppressions, x. 83.

Ugliness, the opposite to beauty, but not
to proportion and fitness, i. 199.
consistent with the sublime, i. 199.
Uniformity and succession of parts con-
stitute the artificial infinite, i.
149.
Universal, nothing of this nature can be
rationally affirmed on any moral or
political subject, iv. 80.

Use, to be carefully attended to in most
works of art, i. 154.

use and habit not causes of pleasure.
i. 180.

Vanity, nature and tendency of, iv 26.
Variation, beautiful, why, i. 239.
Vastness, a cause of the sublime, i. 147.
unity why necessary to it, i. 219.
Vattel, extracts from his Law of Nations,
iv. 471.

Venice, its restrictions with respect to of
fices of state, iv. 249.

origin of the republic, vii. 331.
acquires the island of Cyprus, vii.
428.

the only state in Europe which bene-
fited by the Crusades, vii. 428.
Verbal description, a means of raising a
stronger emotion than painting, i.
133.

Vice, the instances rare of an immedi-
ate transition to it from virtue, i.
421.

Vices, obscure and vulgar ones sometimes
blended with eminent talents, iv.
26.

in common society receive palliating
names, xi. 177.

Vicinity, civil, law of, what, v. 322.
Virgil, his figure of Fame obscure, yet
magnificent, i. 138.

remarks on his combination of images
at the mouth of hell, i. 146.
an example from him of the sublime

effect of an uncertain light, i. 161.
and of the cries of animals, i. 162.
and of powerful smells, i. 163.

his picture of the murder of Priam, 1.
259.

of the Harpies, v. 187.
Virtue, how far the idea of beauty may be
applied to it, i. 190.

description of the gradual extin-
guishment of it in public men, i.
421.

will catch as well as vice by contact,
ii. 242.

virtues which cause admiration, i.
188.

virtues which engage the heart, i.
188.

Visual objects of great dimensions, why
sublime, i. 217.

effects of succession in them ex-
plained, i. 222.

Voters, more in the spirit of the English
constitution to lessen than to en-
large their number, i. 370.

Wages, the rate of them has no direct re-
lation to the price of provisions, v.
136.

Wales, misgovernment of, by England, for
two hundred years, ii. 148.

alteration of the system in the reign
of Henry VIII., ii. 150.

Wales, Frederick, Prince of, project of
government devised in his court,
i. 447.

means adopted for its introduction
and recommendation to popular
favor, i. 451, 453.

nature of the party formed for its sup-
port, i. 459.

name of this party, i. 466.

and of the new system, i. 466.

Walpole, Mr., (afterwards Sir Robert,)
his character, iv. 128.

extract from his speech in the trial
of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 129.
forced into the war with Spain by
popular clamor, v. 288.

fault in his general proceeding, v. 289
War, its original may be very far from
being its principal purpose, i. 298.
not easily reconciled with economy,

i. 310.

the ground of a political war, laborers
and manufacturers not capable of
conceiving, v. 38.

of England with the French Repub-
lic, a war with an armed doctrine,
v. 250.

can never be carried on long against
the will of the people, v. 283.

general observations on, v. 318.
the power of making it, why put un
der the discretion of the crown, v.
335.

principle of the law of nations with
regard to it, vi. 349.

Warwick, Earl of, proceedings in his trial,
xi. 32.

Water, why venerated by the Druids, vii.
182.

Weakness, human, in adversity, never
pitied by those who applaud pros-
perous foliy and guilt, iv. 183.
Wealth, internal, consists in useful com-
modities as much as in gold and
silver, i. 321.

of a country, a standard by which to
estimate the character of the gov-
ernment, iii. 402.

can never rank first in England, iv.
327.

ought always to be the servant of
virtue and public honor, v. 242.
remark of a foreigner on the display
of it in the shops in London, v.
496.

Whigs, the great connection of, in the
reign of Queen Anne, i. 529.
the impeachment of Dr. Sacheverell,
for what purpose carried on by
them, iv. 119.

statement of the principles of the new
Whigs, iv. 120. 151.

Wintoun, Lord, proceedings in his trial,
xi. 22.

Wisdom of the Son of Sirach, example of
the sublime from that book, i. 155.
Wishes, vehement, the discovery of them
generally frustrates their attain-
ment, v. 252.

Wit and judgment, difference between
them, i. 87.

Words, the proper medium for conveying
the affections of the mind, i. 133.
affect us in a manner very different
from natural objects, painting, or
architecture, i. 246.

three sorts of them, i. 247.
general words before ideas, i. 249.
effect of them, i. 250.

may affect without raising images, i.
252.

this exemplified in the case of the
poet Blacklock, i. 252.

and of Saunderson, the mathemati-
cian, i. 253.

how words influence the passions, i.
258.

the only means by which many ideas

have ever been at all presented to
the senses, i. 259.

the source of a great part of the mis
chiefs that vex the world, vi. 397.
the world much influenced by them,
xi. 172.

Writers, when they act in a body and
with one direction, have great in-
fluence on the public mind, iil
380.