ment after the
dissolution
of the Scotland, beneficial effects on trade of its
Commonwealth, vii.
Commonwealth, vii.
Edmund Burke
Reformation, in government, should be Responsibility of ministers of state, naearly and temperate, ii.
280.
and slow, iii. 456. Revenge, observations on, xi. 179.
different from change, v. 186. Revenue, great importance of it to a
general observations on it, iii. 455; state, iii. 534.
iv. 111; vi. 294; vii. 71. ~ its administration the sphere of every
in England, has always proceeded active virtue, iii. 535.
upon the principle of reference to Revolution of 1688, diminished influence
antiquity, iii 272. of the crown at that time how comReformation, the, observations on it, ii.
389. principles of it contained in the Deceffects of it, iv. 319. laration of Right, iii. 252. Reformers, English, character of them, the subversion of the old, and the
iii. 430. settlement of the new governRegicide by establishment, what, v. 309.
Regicide Peace, Letters on, v. 233, 342, iv. 80.
384; vi. 9. grounds of it, iv. 121.
Religion, writers against it never set up contrasted with the French Revoluany of their own, i. 7.
effects of it on the colonists of Amer- Revolution in France, Reflections on the,
ica, ii. 122. iii. 231.
the basis of civil society, and the general observations on it, iii. 220.
source of all good and of all com- characterized as a revolution of docfort, iii. 350.
the respect entertained for it in Eng- contrasted with the English Revoluland, iii. 352.
a strong sense of it necessary to those Revolution Society, correspond with the
in power, iii. 354. National Assembly of France, iii.
mischievous consequences of chang- 238.
ing it, except under strong convic- remarks on its principles and protion, iv. 453.
the magistrate has a right to direct Reynolds, Sir Joshua, on idiosyncrasy in
the exterior ceremonies of it, vii. taste and judgment, iv. 212.
30. Rich, need the consolations of religion,
the Christian, in its rise overcame all iii. 366.
opposition, vii. 25. - trustees for those who labor, v. 134.
? 481.
ents, ii. 95, 281, 357.
ture of it, iii. 501; v. 507.
pensated, i. 445.
ment, inseparably combined in it,
tion, iii. 225.
trine and theoretic dogma, iv. 319. tion of 1688, iii. 225.
ceedings, iii. 238.
? ? ? 428 INDEX.
Richard I. , brief account of his reign, Rota, in the French National Assembly,
vii. 425. effect of it, iv. 350.
parallel between him and Charles Rotund, noble effect of it, i. 150.
XII. of Sweden, vii. 436. accounted for, i. 150.
Richelieu, Cardinal, hated by Louis Rousseau, the secret of his principles of
XIII. , iii. 499. composition, iii. 459.
Rights, assumed, their consequences of a resemblance to him an object of
great moment in deciding on their rivalry to the leaders of the Navalidity, iv. 183.
Rights of Men, Jacobinical theory of, an- vanity his ruling passion, iv. 26.
imadversiong on it, iii. 307. brief character of him, iv. 27.
sophistically confounded with their totally destitute of taste, iv. 30.
power, iii. 313. morality of the passions in his NouRobespierre, his character, vi. 62.
Rochford, Lord, his remonstrance with character of his style, iv. 32.
regard to Corsica, i. 480. Russell, Baron, the first, his character,
Rockinghanm, Marquis of, Short Account v. 201.
of his Administration, i. 263. Russia, the Emperor of, the true policy
formation of his administration, i. of his government, v. 422.
379. Russian treaty of commerce, i. 410.
state of public affairs at the time,
i. 381.
character and conduct of it, i. 388. Sacheverell, Dr. , his impeachment carried
ideas of it with regard to America, on for the purpose of stating the
i. 403. grounds and principles of the Revhis Lordship's conduct in American
affairs, ii. 46. extracts from speeches of Managers
Rohilla nation, sale of it by the East India at his trial, iv. 122 - 146.
Company, ii. 449. proceedings in his trial, xi. 15.
Roland, character of him, v. 70. Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, reduces PalesRoman Catholics, Mr. Burke's defence of his Parliamentary conduct with re- defeated by Richard I. , vii. 429.
gard to them, ii. 388. Salaries, objections to a tax upon them,
Letter on the Penal Laws against, iv. ii. 283.
217. Sallust, remarks on his finely contrasted
mode of education necessary for their characters of Cresar and Cato, i.
clergy, iv. 229, 231. 189.
condition of their clergy before the Salt, monopoly of, by the French governrestraint on marriage, iv. 230. mischievous consequences of placing Santerre, his brutal conduct to Louis
the appointment of the Irish Ro- XVI. , vi. 101.
man Catholic clergy in the hands of Saracens, their fierce irruptions and conthe Lord Lieutenant, iv. 234.
Roman politics, under the Empire, dif- Savile, Sir George, his bill for the repeal
ferent from those which actuated of the statute of William III.
the Republic, vii. 203. against Papists, ii. 396.
tional Assembly, iv. 25.
velle Eloise, iv. 31.
olution, iv. 119.
tine, vii. 427.
ment, i. 332.
quests, vii. 328.
the legates, vii. 208. and partly elective, vii. 297.
military ways, character and purpose their laws wholly abolished in Engof them, vii. 211.
number and extent of the principal sources of them, vii. 487.
ones in Britain, vii. 211. Scarcity, Thoughts and Details on, v. 131.
revenues, nature of them, vii. 211. proper policy in respect to the poor,
three great changes in the govern- in times of, v. 156.
ment after the dissolution of the Scotland, beneficial effects on trade of its
Commonwealth, vii. 220. union with England, ii. 254.
Rome, ancient, destroyed by the disor- its Church establishment under the
ders of continual elections, vii. 80. Union, iv. 258.
and by its heavy taxes, vii. 213. Scripture, indefinite nature of subscrip
bounds of the empire first contracted tion to it, vii. 18.
by Adrian, vii. 214. Scythians, all Northern Europe originally
Rome, modern, its example a caution not inhabited by them, vii. 160.
to attempt to feed the people by Selden, his statement of the Parliamentathe hands of the magistrates, v. ry practice in the examination of 156. witnesses, xi. 108.
? dominion over the Britons and oth-
er conquered nations, methods by
which it was preserved, vii. 205.
procurators under the Emperors, why under their rule, the succession to the invested with greater powers than crown in England partly hereditary
his character, ii. 397.
Saxons, a brief account of their laws and institutions, vii. 291.
land since the Conquest, vii. 478.
? ? ? INDEX. 429
Self-preservation, the passions which con- Speech of Mr. Burke on the Nabob of Arcern it the strongest ones, i. 110.
the sublime an idea belonging to it, on the Army Estimates, iii. 211.
i. 164. on the Acts of Uniformity, vii. 3.
Senses, general remarks on them, i. 82. on the Relief of Protestant Dissent.
ought to be put under the tuition of ers, vii. 21.
the judgment, iii. 15. on the Petition of the Unitarians,
Serpent, why an object of idolatry, vii. vii. 39.
184. on the Middlesex Election, vii. 59.
Shakspeare, his description of the king's on Shortening the Duration of Parliaarmy in Henry IV. an example of
the sublime, i. 155 on Reform of the Representation of
Shelburne, Lord, animadversions on a the Commons in Parliament, vii. 89.
passage in a speech of his, ii. 544. on the Powers of Juries in ProsecuSilence, why enjoined by Pythagoras and
the Druids, vii. 178. on the Repeal of the Marriage Act,
Sirach, Son of, fine example of the sublime vii. 129.
from his Book of Wisdom, i. 155. on Dormant Claims of the Church,
Slaves, never so beneficial to their masters vii. 137.
as freemen, v. 147. in the Impeachment of Warren Hast.
Smells, a source of the sublime, i. 162. ings, ix. 327- x. 145; x. 147-451;
Smith, Sir Sydney, Captain, observations xi. 155-xii. 398.
on his case, v. 400. Spelman, Sir Henry, his difficulties in the
Smoothness, why beautiful, i. 234. study of the law, vii. 477.
Social nature, the, impels a man to prop- Spirituous liquors, beneficial effects of
agate his principles, v. 361. them, v. 164.
Society, Natural, A Vindication of, i. 1. Spon, M. , his curious story of Campadefinition of the term, i. 11.
notion of, how first introduced, i. 11. Spring, why the pleasantest of the seapolitical society, its nature and ori-
gin, i. 11; iii. 359; iv. 165. Stability, one of the requisites of a good
its continuance under a permanent peace, i. 295.
covenant, iii. 359; iv. 165. Stafford, Lord, proceedings in his trial,
the great purpose of it, what, vi. 333. xi. 31.
society and solitude compared, as remarks on the prosecution, xi. 112.
sources of pleasure or pain, i. 115. Stamp Act, American, its origin, i. 385.
Socrates, his discipline contrasted with repeal of it, i. 389; ii. 47.
that of Pythagoras, vii. 179. motives for the repeal, i. 391, 399.
Solitude, something may be done in it for good effects of the repeal, i. 401;
society, v. 125. ii. 59.
Somers, Lord, the Declaration of Right Stanhope, General, extracts from his
drawn by him, iii. 254. speech at the trial of Dr. SachevSophia, the Princess, why named in the
Act of Settlement as the root of in- Starry heaven, why productive of the idea
heritance to the kings of England, of grandeur, i. 154.
iii. 262. State, the, meaning of the term, iv. 248.
Sophia, St. , Church of, anecdote of the consideration of its fitness for an oliGreeks assembled there, at the
taking of Constantinople, vi. 96. question of vesting it solely in some
Sound, a source of the sublime, i. 159. one description of citizens, iv. 251.
grand effect of a single one of some not subject to laws analogous to
strength repeated after intervals, those of physical life, v. 124, 234.
i. 160. the internal causes affecting the fora low, tremulous, intermitting one tunes of states uncertain and obproductive of the sublime, i. 160. scure, v. 235. the beautiful in sounds, i. 203. great irregularities in their rise, culSpain, how likely to be affected by the mination, and decline, v. 235.
? revolution in France, iv. 339. in a conflict between equally powernot a substantive power, iv. 385. Speech of Mr. Burke on American Tax- afforded by unyielding determinaation, ii. 1.
at his Arrival at Bristol, ii. 85. Statesmen, duties of, i. 436; v. 167.
at the Conclusion of the Poll, ii. 89. standard of one, iii. 440.
on Conciliation with America, ii. 99. difference between them and profes. on Economical Reform, ii. 265. sors in universities, vii. 41.
previous to the Election in 1780, ii. Stephen, brief account of his reign, vii. 365. 386.
cot's Debts, iii. 1.
ments, vii. 69.
tions for Libels, vii. 105.
nella, i. 212. sons, i. 153.
erell, iv. 127.
garchical form, connected with the
ful states, an infinite advantage tion, v. 243.
on Declining the Poll, ii. 425. Stonehenge, wherein an object of admiraon Mr.
and slow, iii. 456. Revenge, observations on, xi. 179.
different from change, v. 186. Revenue, great importance of it to a
general observations on it, iii. 455; state, iii. 534.
iv. 111; vi. 294; vii. 71. ~ its administration the sphere of every
in England, has always proceeded active virtue, iii. 535.
upon the principle of reference to Revolution of 1688, diminished influence
antiquity, iii 272. of the crown at that time how comReformation, the, observations on it, ii.
389. principles of it contained in the Deceffects of it, iv. 319. laration of Right, iii. 252. Reformers, English, character of them, the subversion of the old, and the
iii. 430. settlement of the new governRegicide by establishment, what, v. 309.
Regicide Peace, Letters on, v. 233, 342, iv. 80.
384; vi. 9. grounds of it, iv. 121.
Religion, writers against it never set up contrasted with the French Revoluany of their own, i. 7.
effects of it on the colonists of Amer- Revolution in France, Reflections on the,
ica, ii. 122. iii. 231.
the basis of civil society, and the general observations on it, iii. 220.
source of all good and of all com- characterized as a revolution of docfort, iii. 350.
the respect entertained for it in Eng- contrasted with the English Revoluland, iii. 352.
a strong sense of it necessary to those Revolution Society, correspond with the
in power, iii. 354. National Assembly of France, iii.
mischievous consequences of chang- 238.
ing it, except under strong convic- remarks on its principles and protion, iv. 453.
the magistrate has a right to direct Reynolds, Sir Joshua, on idiosyncrasy in
the exterior ceremonies of it, vii. taste and judgment, iv. 212.
30. Rich, need the consolations of religion,
the Christian, in its rise overcame all iii. 366.
opposition, vii. 25. - trustees for those who labor, v. 134.
? 481.
ents, ii. 95, 281, 357.
ture of it, iii. 501; v. 507.
pensated, i. 445.
ment, inseparably combined in it,
tion, iii. 225.
trine and theoretic dogma, iv. 319. tion of 1688, iii. 225.
ceedings, iii. 238.
? ? ? 428 INDEX.
Richard I. , brief account of his reign, Rota, in the French National Assembly,
vii. 425. effect of it, iv. 350.
parallel between him and Charles Rotund, noble effect of it, i. 150.
XII. of Sweden, vii. 436. accounted for, i. 150.
Richelieu, Cardinal, hated by Louis Rousseau, the secret of his principles of
XIII. , iii. 499. composition, iii. 459.
Rights, assumed, their consequences of a resemblance to him an object of
great moment in deciding on their rivalry to the leaders of the Navalidity, iv. 183.
Rights of Men, Jacobinical theory of, an- vanity his ruling passion, iv. 26.
imadversiong on it, iii. 307. brief character of him, iv. 27.
sophistically confounded with their totally destitute of taste, iv. 30.
power, iii. 313. morality of the passions in his NouRobespierre, his character, vi. 62.
Rochford, Lord, his remonstrance with character of his style, iv. 32.
regard to Corsica, i. 480. Russell, Baron, the first, his character,
Rockinghanm, Marquis of, Short Account v. 201.
of his Administration, i. 263. Russia, the Emperor of, the true policy
formation of his administration, i. of his government, v. 422.
379. Russian treaty of commerce, i. 410.
state of public affairs at the time,
i. 381.
character and conduct of it, i. 388. Sacheverell, Dr. , his impeachment carried
ideas of it with regard to America, on for the purpose of stating the
i. 403. grounds and principles of the Revhis Lordship's conduct in American
affairs, ii. 46. extracts from speeches of Managers
Rohilla nation, sale of it by the East India at his trial, iv. 122 - 146.
Company, ii. 449. proceedings in his trial, xi. 15.
Roland, character of him, v. 70. Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, reduces PalesRoman Catholics, Mr. Burke's defence of his Parliamentary conduct with re- defeated by Richard I. , vii. 429.
gard to them, ii. 388. Salaries, objections to a tax upon them,
Letter on the Penal Laws against, iv. ii. 283.
217. Sallust, remarks on his finely contrasted
mode of education necessary for their characters of Cresar and Cato, i.
clergy, iv. 229, 231. 189.
condition of their clergy before the Salt, monopoly of, by the French governrestraint on marriage, iv. 230. mischievous consequences of placing Santerre, his brutal conduct to Louis
the appointment of the Irish Ro- XVI. , vi. 101.
man Catholic clergy in the hands of Saracens, their fierce irruptions and conthe Lord Lieutenant, iv. 234.
Roman politics, under the Empire, dif- Savile, Sir George, his bill for the repeal
ferent from those which actuated of the statute of William III.
the Republic, vii. 203. against Papists, ii. 396.
tional Assembly, iv. 25.
velle Eloise, iv. 31.
olution, iv. 119.
tine, vii. 427.
ment, i. 332.
quests, vii. 328.
the legates, vii. 208. and partly elective, vii. 297.
military ways, character and purpose their laws wholly abolished in Engof them, vii. 211.
number and extent of the principal sources of them, vii. 487.
ones in Britain, vii. 211. Scarcity, Thoughts and Details on, v. 131.
revenues, nature of them, vii. 211. proper policy in respect to the poor,
three great changes in the govern- in times of, v. 156.
ment after the dissolution of the Scotland, beneficial effects on trade of its
Commonwealth, vii. 220. union with England, ii. 254.
Rome, ancient, destroyed by the disor- its Church establishment under the
ders of continual elections, vii. 80. Union, iv. 258.
and by its heavy taxes, vii. 213. Scripture, indefinite nature of subscrip
bounds of the empire first contracted tion to it, vii. 18.
by Adrian, vii. 214. Scythians, all Northern Europe originally
Rome, modern, its example a caution not inhabited by them, vii. 160.
to attempt to feed the people by Selden, his statement of the Parliamentathe hands of the magistrates, v. ry practice in the examination of 156. witnesses, xi. 108.
? dominion over the Britons and oth-
er conquered nations, methods by
which it was preserved, vii. 205.
procurators under the Emperors, why under their rule, the succession to the invested with greater powers than crown in England partly hereditary
his character, ii. 397.
Saxons, a brief account of their laws and institutions, vii. 291.
land since the Conquest, vii. 478.
? ? ? INDEX. 429
Self-preservation, the passions which con- Speech of Mr. Burke on the Nabob of Arcern it the strongest ones, i. 110.
the sublime an idea belonging to it, on the Army Estimates, iii. 211.
i. 164. on the Acts of Uniformity, vii. 3.
Senses, general remarks on them, i. 82. on the Relief of Protestant Dissent.
ought to be put under the tuition of ers, vii. 21.
the judgment, iii. 15. on the Petition of the Unitarians,
Serpent, why an object of idolatry, vii. vii. 39.
184. on the Middlesex Election, vii. 59.
Shakspeare, his description of the king's on Shortening the Duration of Parliaarmy in Henry IV. an example of
the sublime, i. 155 on Reform of the Representation of
Shelburne, Lord, animadversions on a the Commons in Parliament, vii. 89.
passage in a speech of his, ii. 544. on the Powers of Juries in ProsecuSilence, why enjoined by Pythagoras and
the Druids, vii. 178. on the Repeal of the Marriage Act,
Sirach, Son of, fine example of the sublime vii. 129.
from his Book of Wisdom, i. 155. on Dormant Claims of the Church,
Slaves, never so beneficial to their masters vii. 137.
as freemen, v. 147. in the Impeachment of Warren Hast.
Smells, a source of the sublime, i. 162. ings, ix. 327- x. 145; x. 147-451;
Smith, Sir Sydney, Captain, observations xi. 155-xii. 398.
on his case, v. 400. Spelman, Sir Henry, his difficulties in the
Smoothness, why beautiful, i. 234. study of the law, vii. 477.
Social nature, the, impels a man to prop- Spirituous liquors, beneficial effects of
agate his principles, v. 361. them, v. 164.
Society, Natural, A Vindication of, i. 1. Spon, M. , his curious story of Campadefinition of the term, i. 11.
notion of, how first introduced, i. 11. Spring, why the pleasantest of the seapolitical society, its nature and ori-
gin, i. 11; iii. 359; iv. 165. Stability, one of the requisites of a good
its continuance under a permanent peace, i. 295.
covenant, iii. 359; iv. 165. Stafford, Lord, proceedings in his trial,
the great purpose of it, what, vi. 333. xi. 31.
society and solitude compared, as remarks on the prosecution, xi. 112.
sources of pleasure or pain, i. 115. Stamp Act, American, its origin, i. 385.
Socrates, his discipline contrasted with repeal of it, i. 389; ii. 47.
that of Pythagoras, vii. 179. motives for the repeal, i. 391, 399.
Solitude, something may be done in it for good effects of the repeal, i. 401;
society, v. 125. ii. 59.
Somers, Lord, the Declaration of Right Stanhope, General, extracts from his
drawn by him, iii. 254. speech at the trial of Dr. SachevSophia, the Princess, why named in the
Act of Settlement as the root of in- Starry heaven, why productive of the idea
heritance to the kings of England, of grandeur, i. 154.
iii. 262. State, the, meaning of the term, iv. 248.
Sophia, St. , Church of, anecdote of the consideration of its fitness for an oliGreeks assembled there, at the
taking of Constantinople, vi. 96. question of vesting it solely in some
Sound, a source of the sublime, i. 159. one description of citizens, iv. 251.
grand effect of a single one of some not subject to laws analogous to
strength repeated after intervals, those of physical life, v. 124, 234.
i. 160. the internal causes affecting the fora low, tremulous, intermitting one tunes of states uncertain and obproductive of the sublime, i. 160. scure, v. 235. the beautiful in sounds, i. 203. great irregularities in their rise, culSpain, how likely to be affected by the mination, and decline, v. 235.
? revolution in France, iv. 339. in a conflict between equally powernot a substantive power, iv. 385. Speech of Mr. Burke on American Tax- afforded by unyielding determinaation, ii. 1.
at his Arrival at Bristol, ii. 85. Statesmen, duties of, i. 436; v. 167.
at the Conclusion of the Poll, ii. 89. standard of one, iii. 440.
on Conciliation with America, ii. 99. difference between them and profes. on Economical Reform, ii. 265. sors in universities, vii. 41.
previous to the Election in 1780, ii. Stephen, brief account of his reign, vii. 365. 386.
cot's Debts, iii. 1.
ments, vii. 69.
tions for Libels, vii. 105.
nella, i. 212. sons, i. 153.
erell, iv. 127.
garchical form, connected with the
ful states, an infinite advantage tion, v. 243.
on Declining the Poll, ii. 425. Stonehenge, wherein an object of admiraon Mr.
