thing decent that is contrary to a
man's genius, 51; decency of living
according to universal nature, 50,
52; according to each man's par-
ticular one, 55; according to one's
place or station in the world, 58;
is seen in our words, actions, &c.,
62; in our eyes, hands, &c. 63.
Decorum of the poets, 49.
Defending more laudable than to ac-
cuse, 96; to defend a guilty person
lawful, 97,
Define;
the subject of a discourse
ought to be defined at the begin-
ning, 7.
Deliberation, five heads of it, 8; in
some cases sinful, 120, 129.
Doubt: we should do nothing of
which we doubt whether it is ho-
nest or not, 18; in cases of doubt
ask experienced men's advice, 70.
Dunlop, John, quoted, 307.
Dreams evince the immortality of
the soul, 257; not prophetic, 289.
Duties: the whole subject of them
consists of two parts, 7; middle
and perfect ones, ibid., 119, 120;
incumbent on us in every part of
our lives, 3; greater ones to take
place before less, 18; duty to pa-
rents adorns a young man, 94.
Dymond, Jonathan, quoted, 24, 44,
56, 93, 97, 128, 154, 179.
Demet. Phalereus, who he was, 2; EARTH, the, its diminutiveness in the
blames Pericles, 102.
Demetrius forsaken by the Macedo-
nians, 86.
Demosthenes, a hearer of Plato, 2;
at what age he began his study, 94.
Desire of riches, &c.; see Avarice,
Ambition.
Despising different from having a
bad opinion of, 91.
Dicæarchus's book about the De-
struction of Men, 82.
Difficult subjects; see Study. Dif
ficulty makes a thing more honour-
able, 34.
Diogenes and Antipater dispute, 134.
Dion taught by Plato, 75.
Dionysius, the Sicilian tyrant, 85.
Direct a wandering traveller, 28.
Discourse: variety in men's ways of
it, 55; not to be dressed up with
Greek expressions, 56; of two
sorts, 65, 95; common discourse
should be easy, &c. ibid.; free
from passion, &c. 67; should be
agreeable to the subject we dis-
course upon, 65, 69.
Disputing of two sorts, by reason
Dissimulation should be excluded,
138.
Dolus malus, what, 137; punished
by the civil laws, 139.
Donations to the people, when al-
lowable, 101, 102.
universe, 292; too wide to be per-
vaded by fame, 296.
Edmonds, C. R., quoted, 226.
Education of youth a laudable em-
ployment, 73; makes many use-
ful men, &c., 75.
Edwards, Jonathan, quoted, 4.
Effeminacy to be avoided, 143; see
Niceness. Its signification, 54.
Eloquence preferable to acute think-
ing, 75; its great force, &c., 80;
its downfall in Rome, 105; gives
one opportunities of obliging ma-
ny, 106.
Empedocles, 182.
Enemies, by the old Romans called
strangers, 22; justice to be kept
towards them, 20, 23, 160; dif-
ference of carriage to be observed
toward them, 23; none to be
reckoned enemies, but who take
up arms against the state, 44.
Ennius, quoted, 16, 28.
Epicurus ruins all virtue, 3, 166;
makes happiness consist in plea-
sure, 167; endeavours to explain
this away but in vain, ibid.
Estate, how to be gotten, bettered,
&c. 43, 112, 113; it is a scandal
to ruin it by neglect, 103; what
the best that can be left to a son,
60.
Evenness of temper, a part of cou-
rage, 47.
Evils: the least to be chosen, 115,
158, 160; those of body and for-
tune less than those of the soul,
122.
Euripides, quoted 149, 163.
Eurasia, what it signifies, 68.
Exacting to be avoided in dealings
with others, 103.
Exercise requisite to make men per-
fect, 32.
Extraordinary things move admira-
tion, 90.
FABIUS LABEO's (Q.) trick, 19; Fab.
Maximus's wise delaying, 43; his
subtilty and cunning, 54.
Fabricius's justice, 24, 119, 151.
Faith the foundation of justice, 15;
set up in the capitol next to Ju-
piter, 160; to be kept with ene-
mies, 161; see Oaths.
Fame, its transiency, 298.
Fannius, C. and Scævola and C. Læ-
lius, interlocutor in the dialogue
on Friendship, 171, &c.
Fathers often followed in course of
life by their sons, 58; rules to be
observed in imitating them, 66;
whether to be accused by their
sons, should they plot against the
state, 153.
Fear, one cause of injustice, 15;
promises made through fear not
binding, 19; an improper way of
getting men to be of our side, and
'the ill consequences of it, 85, 87.
Fecial law of the Romans, 22, 163.
Fides derived by the Stoics, 15; ex
fide bona, a form in law, 142.
Fighting, when laudable, 41.
Fimbria judge in a case, 146.
Flatterers to be avoided, 47: estates
got by flattery, scandalous, 145.
Flattery condemned, 211.
Force and fraud, the two ways of in-
juring men, the latter more odious,
32; a courageous man cannot be
forced, 165.
Forms in judgment, 138; the
neral form or rule, 122.
Fortune must yield to nature, 60;
her influence upon the good or ill
success of actions, 83; blind and
blinds her votaries, 193; every
man master of his own, 279; se-
ditions will never be wanting while
men hope to make their fortunes
by them, 88; to be transported
with good or ill fortune shows a
mean spirit, 61.
Foster, John, quoted, 40, 279, 295.
Freedom, wherein it consists, 35.
Fretfulness upon unseasonable visits,
&c. to be avoided, 46.
Friends necessary for all, 88; all com-
mon among friends, 28; the coun-
sel of friends should be asked, 47;
men are born for their friends, as
well as themselves, ib.; corrections,
counsel, &c. due among friends,
32; how much may be done for
the sake of a friend, 132; Damon
and Pinthias two friends, ibid.;
closeness of union between friends,
31.
Friendship makes many become one,
31; is cemented by likeness or
manners, ibid.; to be broken off
by little and little, 60; of C. Læ-
lius and P. Scipio, 170, 214; su-
perior to relationship, 180; exists
between but few, ibid.; a union of
sentiment, 180; adorns prosperity,
and solaces adversity, 181; of
Orestes and Pylades, 182; founded
on virtue, 184, 185, 204; and sin-
cerity, 197; subverted by avarice
and ambition, 186; does not ex-
cuse injustice, 188, 189; the great-
est of blessings, 190; this univer-
sally admitted, 204; care to be
employed in contracting it, 195;
old friendships better than new,
198; description of, 201; ruined
by flattery, 208.
GAIT should not be too slow, &c. 63.
Generals of the Romans delivered to
their enemies, 163.
Genius; see Nature.
Geometricians' method, 127.
Genteel jests, 53; carriage, 63.
Glory made up of three ingredients,
89; Cicero wrote two books about
it, 88; must be used with discre-
tion, and what the shortest cut to
it, 92, 94; not to be gotten by
counterfeit, 92; but by justice, 93;
cannot be durable unless founded
upon virtue, 107; inconsistent with
wickedness, 151.
Gods; duties to them to be performed
first, 76; how their favour may be
procured, 80; they never hurt,
ibid.; are never angry, 160.
Godwin, William, quoted 24, 120,
126, 153, 160, 292, 313.
Good fortune; it is a sign of a low
spirit to be transported with it, 61.
Good men, so called from justice, 13,
91; who, 139, 145; very hard to
be found, ibid. ; it is always profit-
able to be one, ibid.; good men
desire honesty, not secrecy, 130.
Good-will; see Love.
Government of a state like the office
of a guardian, 44; the several
duties of those that govern, 108.
Gownsmen as useful as soldiers, 39,
40.
Gracchus, father of the two Gracchi,
93; his sons justly slain, ibid.;
ruined by their levelling princi-
ples, 110; Tiberius, 187, 188.
Gratidianus, 141.
Gratitude a most necessary duty, in
which we should imitate fruitful
fields, 27; all people hate one that
is not grateful, 103.
Greatness of soul natural to man, 11;
what it appears in, 10; inclines
men to a mbition, 34; is often too
hot, 27; usually made most ac-
count of in the world, 33; neces-
sary for statesmen more than
philosophers, 36; its description,
and how it differs from greatness
of understanding, 41; seen even
in a retired life, 48; is savageness
if not accompanied with justice,
75; see Courage.
Greek and Latin to be joined, 1; to
bring Greek into discourse ridicu-
lous, 56; Greeks deceitful and
treacherous, 311.
Grotius, quoted, 14, 22.
Guardian, the, quoted, 124.
Guthrie, Wm., quoted, 13, 36, 87,
289, 296, 300, 305.
Guilty persons may sometimes be
defended, 97.
Gyge's ring, 19, 130, 147.
HALL, Robert, quoted, 29, 30, 31,
62, 177, 184, 203, 215, 251,
302.
Hannibal cruel, 21; sends ten to
Rome after the fight at Cannæ,
23, 166.
Hastiness, the passion should not
through haste outrun reason, 52.
Hate able to ruin the greatest power,
85, 87.
Haughtiness in prosperity to be
avoided, 47.
Health, how to be preserved, 112.
Heaven; a certain place in it assigned
to patriots, 290; magnitude of,
292; what constitutes a cycle of
the heavens, 298.
Hecaton the Rhodian, 139, 152.
Help; not to help the injured, if we
can, is injustice, 15.
Hercules sees two ways, 59; is
placed among the gods, 123.
Herillus exploded, 6.
Herodotus the historian, 92.
Hesiod's rule, 27.
Hire; the worst means of winning
men to our side, 84.
Honestum, whence it results, 11,
laudable in itself, ibid.; would
make the world in love with it,
could it be seen, ibid.; shows
itself by its own brightness, 18;
entitles a man to our liberality,
26, 27, 106; more especially de-
serves our study, 80; naturally
pleases men, 89; is the same
with profit, 118, 128, &c.; honest
man, who, 146.
Honour; the desire of it tempts men
to injustice, 147.
Horace, quoted, 7, 123, 238, 266,
Hortensius, ædile, 101; uses a false
will, 144.
Hospitality to be kept by great men,
68; praised deservedly by Theo- | Interest draws one way, and honesty
phrastus, 104.
Hostis, its signification among the
old Romans, 22.
another, 8; no base thing can be
any man's interest, 146; should
be measured by justice, 150.
Hot counsels and designs preferred Isocrates, contrary to Aristotle, 2.
by some, 42.
House; of what sort becomes a
great man, 68; the master should
be an honour to his house, ibid.
Humility requisite in prosperity, 47.
Hume, David, quoted, 9, 25, 56, 65,
120, 123, 143, 248.
Hunting; a manly recreation, 53.
Hypocrisy should be banished out of
the world, 138; repugnant to
friendship, 209.
JESTING, in what kind and degree
allowable, 53.
Immortality of the soul asserted,
174, 175; its return to heaven
the most ready in the case of the
virtuous and the just, 176, 302; if
the doctrine is false, death is no
evil, 177, 262; argued from the
uncompounded nature of the soul,
256; from the phenomena of
sleep, 257; held by the Italian
philosophers, 255; aspired after
by the greatest men, 260; glorious
hopes connected with it, 261;
brings about the re-union of the
good in heaven, 261.
Improvising; the practice of the
Greeks, 178.
Individuals; nothing to be done for
them that is a damage to the
public, 107; should not have in-
terests separate from the public,
Inheritance; the best a father can
leave to his son, is the fame of his
virtues, 60.
Injuries; two ways of doing them,
25; injuring others most con-
trary to nature, 122.
Injustice of two sorts, and the causes
of each, 15-17; the greatest,
which is done under the mask of
honesty, 25.
Innocent persons, never to be ac-
cused, 97.
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, quoted, 34,
35, 46, 58, 61, 206, 209, 219, 232,
246, 249, 266, 269, 284, 286, 296,
322, 369.
Justice the most splendid virtue, 13;
makes men be called good, ibid.,
91; the duties of it, 13; is altered
upon an alteration of the circum-
stances, 18; to be kept toward
those that have injured us, and
enemies, 21; toward the meanest,
such as slaves, 25; is the only way
of obtaining our ends, 80; makes
men trust us more than prudence,
89; no man just, who is afraid of
death, &c. 91; justice gets us all
the three ingredients of glory,
ibid.; is necessary for all men,
even pirates, ibid.; kings were at
first chosen, and laws made for the
sake of it, 92; no credit can be
lasting, that is not built upon it,
106;
is the queen of all virtues,
124; nothing profitable that is
contrary to it, 152, &c.
Juvenal quoted, 210, 220, 279, 311,
324.
KINDNESSES should be done to honest
rather than great men, 106; not to
be done to one, by injuring an-
other, ibid.; see Benefits.
Kings formerly chosen for their jus-
tice, 92; no faith in case of a
kingdom, 16; justice violated for a
kingdom, 150; many treacherous,
and but few faithful to kings, ibid.
Knowledge, how desired, &c. by men,
10, 12; must give place to action,
74; is a barren accomplishment,
without justice, 75: that of honesty,
best, 78, 80, 118.
Knavery to be avoided, 80; few ac-
tions wholly free from it, 139.
See Dolus malus.
LACEDÆMONIANS, Plato's observation
of them, 33; ruined by Epami-
nondas, 43; forsaken by their allies,
86; murder their king Agis, &c.
110.
Lælius, C., chief speaker in the
dialogue on Friendship, 172, &c.
Lætorius's law, 138.
Lamartine, A. de, quoted, 298.
Language; see Discourse.
Largi, of two sorts, 100.
Latin to be joined with Greek, 1.
Laws, a malicious interpretation of
them a means of roguery, 19;
punish offenders according to jus-
tice, 46; why first invented, 92;
use the same language to all con-
ditions, ibid,; the knowledge of
them creditable at Rome, 104;
give a man opportunities of oblig-
ing, ibid., the end and design of
them, 122; how they root out
frauds, 142; the law of nations
different from that of particular
cities, ibid.; Roman law taken
from nature, and its excellence,
ibid.; law of nature takes in all
men, 124; law-suits to be avoided,
103.
Learners, how best corrected, 70.
Learning, who may be allowed to
give themselves up to the study of
it, 36; is a pleasure not a labour,
116.
Letters, how to be expressed, 65.
Levelling estates destructive, &c. 107.
Liberality, three cautions to be ob-
served in it, 25; must be governed
by justice, ibid.; to give to one
what is taken from another not
liberality, ibid.; to whom it should
be most shown, 26, 32, 104, 106;
moves the people's love, 98; con-
sists in doing kindnesses either
by money or labour; the latter
preferable, 15; has got no bottom
ibid.; how the liberal dispose of
their money, 16.
Liberty ought to be most of all con-
tended for, 35; wherein it consists,
ibid.; bites deeper after it has
been chained, 85.
Life of retirement, and that of public
business compared, 37; several
men take several ways of life, 58;
the difficulty of choosing a way of
life; and what chiefly to be re-
garded in it, 58, 59; should not
easily be changed, 60; how such
change should be made, ibid.
Little indecencies especially to be
avoided, 70; in the least things we
observe what is becoming, ibid.
Locke, John, quoted, 14.
Love of themselves and offspring in
all animals, 10; love a stronger
motive to obedience than fear,
85, 86; how to be gained of the
people, 89; by what we are to judge
of men's love to us, 27; we should
do most for those by whom we are
loved most, ibid.; general love,
and that of friendship, how far
necessary, 86.
Lucullus magnificent in building, 68.
Lycurgus the lawgiver of Sparta, 39.
Lying abominable, 72, 137; should
be banished from all commerce,
138; is inconsistent with the cha-
racter of a good man, 148.
Lysander enlarged the Spartan em-
pire, 38; crafty, 55; the Ephori
banished, 110.
Lysis, master of Epaminondas, 75
MACEDONIANS desert Demetrius,, 86;
Paulus took the treasure of Mace-
don, 109.
Mackintosh, Sir James, quoted, 3, 4,
7, 8, 29, 71.
Macknish, Dr., 288.
Magistrates' duties, 43, 44, 60, 108;
responsible for the acts of their
subordinates, 309; should practice
rigour and impartiality, 313; and
discountenance calumny, 314.
Mamercus put by the consulship,
101.
Man, how different from brutes, 9,
53; not born for himself alone,
14; all things on earth made for
him, say the Stoics, ibid.; we
should show a respect for all men,
50; and desire to be thought well
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