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ABBÉ and Abbot, difference between, V.

Abingdon, James Bertie, Earl of, i. 462.
Deprived of the Lord Lieutenancy of
Oxfordshire, ii. 131. Proposed for the
Chancellorship of the University of
Oxford, 206. Joins William of Orange,
266.

Abjuration Bill, iii. 248, 249. Debate
upon, in the Lords, 251, 252.
Absalom and Achitophel of Dryden, cha-
racter of it, v. 120.

Absolute Government, theory of, v. 310.
Absolute Rulers, v. 280.

Academy, character of its doctrines, vi. 207.
Academy, the French, its services to litera-
ture, vii. 577.

Act of Grace, iii. 252. Exceptions to,
253. Was the act of William III.
alone, 253, 254.

Adam, Robert, court architect to George
III., vi. 231.
Adda, Ferdinand, Count of, Papal Nuncio

in England, i. 538. Advises James II.
to proceed legally, and with modera-
tion, 563 and note. Consecrated at St.
James's Palace, ii. 87. Procession in
honour of, at Windsor, 88. His report
of the acquittal of the bishops, 179
note. His escape from England, 316.
Addington, Henry, formation of his ad-
ministration, vii. 399. His position as
Prime Minister, 399. Resigns, 404.
Raised to the peerage, 406.

Addison, Joseph, i. 374 note. His picture

of a Dissenting minister, ii. 475 note.
Review of Miss Aikin's life of him, vii.
52-122. His character, 53, 55. Sketch
of his father's life, 54. His birth and
early life, 55, 56. Appointed to a
scholarship in Magdalene College, Ox-
ford, 56. His classical attainments, 56,
58. His Essay on the Evidences of
Christianity, 58, 115. Contributes a
preface to Dryden's Georgics, 61. His
intention to take orders frustrated, 62, 64.
Sent by the government to the Conti-
nent, 65. His introduction to Boileau,

65.

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to

Leaves Paris and proceeds to
Venice, 69. His residence in Italy,
69-72. Composes his Epistle
Montague (then Lord Halifax), 72.
His prospects clouded by the death of
William III., 72. Becomes tutor to a
young English traveller, 73. Writes
his Treatise on Medals, 73. Repairs to
Holland, 73. Returns to England, 73.
His cordial reception and introduction
into the Kit Cat Club, 73. His pecu-
niary difficulties, 73. Engaged by Go-
dolphin to write a poem in honour of
Marlborough's exploits, 75. Is appointed
to a commissionership, 76. Merits of
his "Campaign," 76. Criticism of his
Travels in Italy, 57, 79. His opera of
Rosamond, 79. Is made Under Secre-
tary of State, and accompanies the
Earl of Halifax to Hanover, 81. His
election to the House of Commons, 81.
His failure as a speaker, 81. His
popularity and talents for conversation,
82, 84. His timidity and constraint
among strangers, 84. His favourite
associates, 84-87. Becomes Chief Se-
cretary for Ireland under Wharton,
87. Origination of the Tatler, 89, 90.
His characteristics as a writer, 89-92.
Compared with Swift and Voltaire as a
master of the art of ridicule, 90, 91.
His pecuniary losses, 93. Loss of his
Secretaryship, 95. Resignation of his
Fellowship, 95. Encouragement and
disappointment of his advances towards
a great lady, 95. Returned to Parlia-
ment without a contest, 95. His Whig
Examiner, 93. Intercedes with the
Tories on behalf of Ambrose Phillipps
and Steele, 96. His discontinuance of
the Tatler and commencement of the
Spectator, 96. His part in the Spec-
tator, 96. His commencement and dis-
continuance of the Guardian, 100. His
Cato, 69, 100. His intercourse with
Pope, 102, 104. His concern for Steele,
104. Begins a new series of the Spec-
tator, 104. Appointed Secretary to the

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Lords Justices of the Council on the
death of Queen Anne, 105. Again ap-
pointed Chief Secretary for Ireland,
106. His relations with Swift and
Tickell, 106, 108. Removed to the
Board of Trade, 108. Production of
his Drummer, 109. His Freeholder,
109. His estrangement from Pope,
109, 111. His long courtship of the
Countess Dowager of Warwick and
union with her, 115. Takes up his
abode at Holland House, 115. Ap-
pointed Secretary of State by Sunder-
land, 116. Failure of his health, 116,
120. Resigns his post, 116. Receives
a pension, 116. His estrangement from
Steele and other friends, 117. Advocates
the bill for limiting the number of
Peers, 118. Refutation of a calumny
upon him, 119. Entrusts his works to
Tickell, and dedicates them to Craggs,
119. Sends for Gay on his death-bed
to ask his forgiveness, 120. His death
and funeral, 121. Tickell's elegy on
his death, 121. Superb edition of his
works, 121. His monument in Poet's
Corner, Westminster Abbey, 122.
Addison, Dr. Lancelot, sketch of his life,
vii. 54.

Adiaphorists, a sect of German Protest-

ants, v. 591, 608.

Adultery, how represented by the drama-

tists of the Restoration, vi. 560.
Advancement of Learning by Bacon, its
publication, vi. 172.

schines, compared by Mr. Mitford to
Demosthenes, vii. 696, 697.
Eschylus and the Greek drama, v. 11–19.
Eschylus, his works, how regarded by
Quintilian, vii. 661.

Afghanistan, the monarchy of, analogous
to that of England in the 16th century,
v. 600. Bravery of its inhabitants, vi.
563, 566. The English the only army
in India which could compete with
them, 564. Their devastations in India,
390.

Agesilaus, depressed by the constitution
of Lycurgus, vii. 690.
Aghrim, battle of, iii. 437-439.
Agriculture, state of, in 1685, i. 243-247.
Reform of, 320.

Agricultural and manufacturing labourers,
comparison of their condition, v. 338,

340.

Agujari, the singer, vii. 6.

Aikenhead, Thomas, condemned to death,
iv. 309. Executed, 309.
Aikin, Miss, review of her life of Addison,
vii. 52, 122.

Ailesbury, Countess of, her death from
terror, iv. 297.

Ailesbury, Earl of, his account of Charles

ALL

II.'s death, i. 343 note. Takes the
oath of allegiance to William, ii. 423.
Takes part in Jacobite plots, iii. 260.
His protest against the rejection of the
Place Bill, 629. His connexion with Ja-
cobite conspirators, iv. 158. Sent to the
Tower; his dealings with Porter, 255.
Aix, its capture, vi. 70.

Ajax, the prayer of, in the Iliad, vii. 662.
Akbar Khan, his death and power, iii. 467.
Akenside, his Epistle to Curio, vi. 28.
Albemarle, George Monk, Duke of, his
character, i. 115. Marches to London,
115. Declares for a free Parliament,
116. His sea service, 255.
Albemarle, Christopher Monk, Duke of
son of the above, i. 450. Marches
against Monmouth; his retreat, 451.
Proclaimed a traitor by Monmouth, 458.
Chancellor of Cambridge University, ii.

94.

Albemarle, Arnold Van Keppel, Earl of,
his character, iv. 389. Becomes a fa-
vourite of William III.; his elevation
to the Peerage; Portland's jealousy of
him, 389. Forfeited Irish property
bestowed on him, 522. Dispatched with
William's last instructions to the Hague,
552. His return, 555. Present at the

King's death-bed, 555.
Albeville (White), Marquis of, i. 559.
His meanness and corruption, ii. 65.
James II.'s envoy at the Hague, 230,
238. Insulted by the populace at the
Hague, 348.

Albigensians, vi. 462, 463; their move-
ment premature, i. 35.

Aldrich, Henry, Dean of Christchurch, i.
259. A member of the Ecclesiastical
Commission, iii. 172. His mode of in-
structing the youths of his college, vii.
284. Employs Charles Boyle to edit
the Letters of Phalaris, 284.
Alexander the Great, compared with Clive,

vi. 452.

Alexander VIII., Pope, iii. 148. James's
embassy to, 149.

Alfieri, Vittorio, character of his works.

vii. 605. Comparison between his works
and those of Cowper, v. 406.

Alford, Gregory, Mayor of Lyme, gives
the alarm of Monmouth's landing, i.
450.

Allahabad, vi. 561-562.

Allegiance, oath of, difficulties in regard
to, ii. 476-482. The houses of Parlia-
ment differ, 486.

Allegories of Johnson and Addison, v. 446.
Allegory, difficulty of making it interest-
ing, v. 446.

Allegro and Penseroso, v. 10.

Alleine, Joseph, i. 456.

Allibone, Richard, a Roman Catholic;