ought to be
connected
with and de-
pendent on the people, i.
pendent on the people, i.
Edmund Burke
479; xi.
240.
dation, i. 409. imprisoned by order of Mr. Hastings,
Canterbury, dispute between the suffra- xi. 277.
gan bishops of the province and Christendom, the several states of, have
the monks of the Abbey of St. all been formed slowly and without
Austin, vii. 446. any unity of design, v. 373.
Cantons, French, their origin, nature, and Christianity, original intr'oduction of, into function, iii. 462, 461, 471. Britain, vii. 221.
Cantoo Baboo, Mr. IIastings's banian, x. Church, the, has power to reform her doc19. Canute, his character and conduct, vii. Church establishment in England, obser276. remarks on his code of laws, vii. 483. the provision made for its clergy by
Capital, monopoly of, not an evil, v. 151. the state, iii. 361.
Care, appearance of, highly contrary to education of its clergy contrasted with our ideas of magnificence, i. 154. that of the Roman Catholic clergy,
Carnatic, the extent, nature, and condi- iv. 231.
tion of the country, ii. 492; iii. 65. eulogy on it, vi. 401; vii. 36, 56.
dreadful devastation of it by Hyder Cicero, remarks on his orations against
Ali Khan, iii. 62. Verres, xii. 349.
Caste, consequences of losing it in India, Circumstances, importance of them in all x. 89. political principles, iii. 240; vii. 55.
Castile, different from Catalonia and Ara- Citizens, not to be listened to, in matters gon, iv. 340. relating to agriculture, v. 146.
Castles, great numbers of them built in Civil list, debts due on it, request for a
the reign of Stephen, vii. 389. supply for discharging them, how
Casuistry, origin and requisites of, iv. 168. made, i. 508.
danger of pursuing it too far, iv. 168. plan of economy relative to it, ii.
Catholics, Letter to an Irish Peer on the 350.
Penal Laws against, iv. 217. Civil society, great purpose of, vi. 333.
Celsus, his opinion that internal remedies Civil vicinity, law of, what, v. 322.
were not of early use proved to be Civil wars corrupt the morals of the
erroneous, vii. 184. people, ii. 203.
Cerealis, extract from his fine speech to the Gauls, iv. 272.
Change and reformation, distinction beFrance to a monarchy, iv. 460.
tween, v. 186.
terest us in them, vii. 148.
istrate, v. 146.
tice of his predecessors, ii. 279.
rites of the Church of England in
? trine, discipline, and rites, vii. 7. vations on it, iii. 352.
? ? ? INDEX. 411
Clamor, justifiable when it is caused by Commons, the Iouse of- Continued.
abuse, vii. 121. general observations on its privileges
Clarendon, Constitutions of, vii. 403. and duties, ii. 544.
Claudius, the Emperor, invades Britain, the collective sense of the people to
vii. 191. be received from it, ii. 545.
Clavering, Sir John, eulogy on him, x. its powers and capacities, ii. 552.
246; xii. 348. cannot renounce its share of authorClear expression, different from a strong one. i. 260. its composition, iii. 289.
Clearness not necessary for affecting the the most powerful and most corrupt.
passions, i. 133. ible part of the constitution, vii.
Clergy, convocation of, a part of the con- 62.
stitution, ii. 226. a superintendence over the doctrines
observations on the provision made and proceedings of the courts of
by the state for them, iii. 364, 448. justice, one of its principal objects,
Roman Catholic, in France, character vii. 107.
of them before the Revolution, iii. concise view of its proceedings on the
424. East India question, ii. 559.
laws of William and Anne respecting Commonwealths, not subject to laws analthe Popish clergy, vi. 317. review of the state of the clergy in 124, 234.
England down to the reign of Hen- Communes, in France, their origin, nary II. , vii. 398.
Clive, Lord, sent to India, ix. 438. Compurgators, in Saxon law, what,'ii.
his conduct there, ix. 439. 318.
Clootz, Anacharsis, his masquerade em- Condorcet, brief character of him, iv. 356,
bassy to the Constituent Assembly 372.
of France, vi. 49. extract from a publication of his, iv.
Coke, Lord, ingenious quotation in his 356.
Reports, i. 5. Confidence, unsuspecting, in government,
his observation on discretion in judi- importance of it, ii. 234.
cature, iv. 292. of mankind, how to be secured, v.
Colonies, commercial, mode of levying 414.
commended by patriots in the comfrom Great Britain than they send
monwealths of antiquity, i. 527.
derly handled, vii. 54.
acter of, i. 395. Conquest cannot give a right to arbitrary
Address to, vi. 183. power, ix. 456.
Colors, soft and cheerful ones unfit to pro- Conscience, a tender one ought to be tenduce grand images, i. 158. Comedy, observations on, vii. 150. Constantine the Great, changes made by
Aristotle's distinction between it and him in the internal policy of the
tragedy, vii. 153. Roman Empire, vii. 220.
Comines, Philip (le, his remarks on the Constantinople, anecdote of the visit of an
English civil wars, vi. 252. English country squire to, v. 387.
Commerce and liberty, the two main anecdote of the Greeks at the taking
sources of power to Great Britain, of, vi. 96.
ii. 87. Constituents, in England, more in the
great increase of, in America, ii. 112. spirit of the constitution to lessen
Common law, nature of the, vii. 462. than to enlarge their number, i.
Common Pleas, court of, its origin,vii. 466. 370.
Commons, the House of, observations on their duty to their representatives,
its nature and character, i. 491. ii. 370.
what qualities recommend a man to compulsive instruction from them
a seat in it, in popular elections, i. first rejected by Mr. Burke, iv. 95.
497. points in which they are incompecan never control other parts of the
themselves are controlled by their Constitution, a, cannot defend itself, vi.
constituents, i. 503. 100.
ought to be connected with and de-
pendent on the people, i. 508. ~
has a collective character, distinct
from that of its members, ii. 66.
uents, ii. 95. 371, 520.
consequences of disgracing the frame and constitution of the state, vii.
103.
the English, a change in it, an imduty of the members to their constit-
mense and difficult operation, i.
ity, iii. 258.
ogous to those of physical life, v.
ture, and function, iii. 462, 464, 472.
? taxes in them, an important and
difficult consideration, i. 354.
American, import ten times more
in return, i. 393. the Whig connection in Queen Anne's Colonists, the British, in America, char- reign, i. 529.
Connections, party, political, observations on them, i. 527, 530.
tent to instruct their representagovernment, unless the members
tives, vii. 74, 75.
? ? ? 412 INDEX.
Constitution - Continued.
English, changes in it to be attempted 369.
only in times of general confusion, Curfew, origin and policy of the, vii.
i. 371. 354.
eulogy on it, iii. 561; v. 210: vii. 100. Curiosity, the first and simplest emotion
the whole scheme of it to prevent any of the human mind, i. 101.
one of its principles from being general observations on it, i. 101.
carried to an extreme, iv. 207. Custom, considered in relation to deformnot struck out at a heat, iv. 209.
commendation of it by Montesquieu, not the cause of pleasure, i. 180.
iv. 212. Cyprus, account of the conquest of it by
the only means of its subversion, Richard I. , vii. 428.
what, v. 49, 52.
Calnstitutional Society, The, its nature
and design, iii. 236. Danger and pain, the idea of them a
Conti, Prince de, his character and con- source of the sublime, i. 110, 130.
duct, iv. 436. with certain modifications, delight.
Contract, an implied one, always, be- ful, i. gll.
tween the laborer and his employ- the danger of anything very dear to
er, v. 137. us removes for the time all other
Contracting parties, not necessary that affections from the mind, iv. 95.
they should have different inter- Darkness more productive of sublime
ests, v. 139. ideas than light, i. 156.
Control and exercise of authority together necessary to the highest degree of
contradictory, iv. 164. the sublime in building, i. 158.
Convocation of the clergy, though a part Locke's opinion concerning, i. 225.
of the constitution, now called for terrible in its own nature, i. 226.
form only, ii. 226. why, i. 227.
Conway, General, moves the repeal of the Davies, Sir John, his statement of the
American Stanlp Act, ii. 52. benefits of the extension of EngCornwallis, Lord, (Baron,) proceedings in
his trial, xi. 30. ii. 147; iv. 273.
Cornwallis, Lord, (Marquis,) his evidence Day, not so sublime as night, i. 158.
at the trial of Warren Hastings, Debi Sing, his character and conduct, x.
xii. 359. 63.
Coronation oath, its obligations with re- Debt, the interest of, not the principal,
spect to Roman Catholics, iv. 259. that which distresses a nation, i.
Corporate bodies, their usefulness as in- 329.
struments, iii. 441. Debts, civil, faults of the law with regard
more under the direction of the state to, ii. 384.
than private citizens, iii. 447. public, excessive, their tendency to
Corruption, of nature and example, what subvert government, iii. 437.
the only security against, ii. 238. Deceivers and cheats never can repent,
in pecuniary matters, the suspicion iv. 9.
of it how to be avoided, iii. 95. Declaration of Right, contains the princiCossim, Ali Khan, his character and con-
duct, ix. 405. 252.
Country, love of, remarks on, xi. 422. drawn by Lord Somers, iii. 254.
Credit and power incompatible, i. 368. proceeds upon the principle of referCrimes, the acts of individuals, not of de- ence to antiquity, iii. 273. nominations, ii. 418. Defensive measures, though vigorous at
according to the criminal law, what, first, relax by degrees, iv. 355.
vi. 340. necessary considerations with regard
Cromwell, brief character of him, iii. 294. to them, vi. 100.
his principle in the appointment of Definitions, frequently fallacious, i. 81.
judges, iv. 13. Deformity not opposed to beauty, but to
his conduct in government, iv. 37. the complete common form, i. 178.
his government compared with that Deity, power the most striking of his atof Charles II. , iv. 467.
(ross, the effect of it not so grand in ar- Delamere, Lord, proceedings in his trial,
chitecture as that of the parallelo- xi. 31.
gram, i. 150. Delight, what, i. 107.
Crown, the influence of it:, what, i. 444. distinguished from pleasure, i. 108.
inheritable nature of it, iii. 258. the misfortunes of others sometimes
this principle maintained at the Rev- a source of, i. 118.
olution, iii. 254. the attendant of every passion which
the only legitimate channel of com- animates us to any active purpose,
munication with other nations, v. i. 119.
10. how pain can be a cause of, i. 215.
Crusade, origin and progress of the, vii.
ity and beauty, i. 179.
? lish constitutional law to Ireland,
ples of the Revolution of 1688, iii.
tributes, i. 143.
? ? ? INDEX. 413
Democracy, no example in modern times Double cabinet, project of a, in the Engof a considerable one, iii. 396. an absolute one, not to be reckoned nature and design of it, i. 454.
among the legitimate forms of gov- mischievous influence of it, i. 478.
ernment. iii. 396. how recommended at court, i. 485.
Aristotle's observation on the resem- its operation upon Parliament, i. 490.
blance between a democracy and a singular doctrine propagated by it,
tyranny, iii. 397. i. 525.
the vice of the ancient democracies, Drama, Hints for an Essay on the, vii.
what, iii.
dation, i. 409. imprisoned by order of Mr. Hastings,
Canterbury, dispute between the suffra- xi. 277.
gan bishops of the province and Christendom, the several states of, have
the monks of the Abbey of St. all been formed slowly and without
Austin, vii. 446. any unity of design, v. 373.
Cantons, French, their origin, nature, and Christianity, original intr'oduction of, into function, iii. 462, 461, 471. Britain, vii. 221.
Cantoo Baboo, Mr. IIastings's banian, x. Church, the, has power to reform her doc19. Canute, his character and conduct, vii. Church establishment in England, obser276. remarks on his code of laws, vii. 483. the provision made for its clergy by
Capital, monopoly of, not an evil, v. 151. the state, iii. 361.
Care, appearance of, highly contrary to education of its clergy contrasted with our ideas of magnificence, i. 154. that of the Roman Catholic clergy,
Carnatic, the extent, nature, and condi- iv. 231.
tion of the country, ii. 492; iii. 65. eulogy on it, vi. 401; vii. 36, 56.
dreadful devastation of it by Hyder Cicero, remarks on his orations against
Ali Khan, iii. 62. Verres, xii. 349.
Caste, consequences of losing it in India, Circumstances, importance of them in all x. 89. political principles, iii. 240; vii. 55.
Castile, different from Catalonia and Ara- Citizens, not to be listened to, in matters gon, iv. 340. relating to agriculture, v. 146.
Castles, great numbers of them built in Civil list, debts due on it, request for a
the reign of Stephen, vii. 389. supply for discharging them, how
Casuistry, origin and requisites of, iv. 168. made, i. 508.
danger of pursuing it too far, iv. 168. plan of economy relative to it, ii.
Catholics, Letter to an Irish Peer on the 350.
Penal Laws against, iv. 217. Civil society, great purpose of, vi. 333.
Celsus, his opinion that internal remedies Civil vicinity, law of, what, v. 322.
were not of early use proved to be Civil wars corrupt the morals of the
erroneous, vii. 184. people, ii. 203.
Cerealis, extract from his fine speech to the Gauls, iv. 272.
Change and reformation, distinction beFrance to a monarchy, iv. 460.
tween, v. 186.
terest us in them, vii. 148.
istrate, v. 146.
tice of his predecessors, ii. 279.
rites of the Church of England in
? trine, discipline, and rites, vii. 7. vations on it, iii. 352.
? ? ? INDEX. 411
Clamor, justifiable when it is caused by Commons, the Iouse of- Continued.
abuse, vii. 121. general observations on its privileges
Clarendon, Constitutions of, vii. 403. and duties, ii. 544.
Claudius, the Emperor, invades Britain, the collective sense of the people to
vii. 191. be received from it, ii. 545.
Clavering, Sir John, eulogy on him, x. its powers and capacities, ii. 552.
246; xii. 348. cannot renounce its share of authorClear expression, different from a strong one. i. 260. its composition, iii. 289.
Clearness not necessary for affecting the the most powerful and most corrupt.
passions, i. 133. ible part of the constitution, vii.
Clergy, convocation of, a part of the con- 62.
stitution, ii. 226. a superintendence over the doctrines
observations on the provision made and proceedings of the courts of
by the state for them, iii. 364, 448. justice, one of its principal objects,
Roman Catholic, in France, character vii. 107.
of them before the Revolution, iii. concise view of its proceedings on the
424. East India question, ii. 559.
laws of William and Anne respecting Commonwealths, not subject to laws analthe Popish clergy, vi. 317. review of the state of the clergy in 124, 234.
England down to the reign of Hen- Communes, in France, their origin, nary II. , vii. 398.
Clive, Lord, sent to India, ix. 438. Compurgators, in Saxon law, what,'ii.
his conduct there, ix. 439. 318.
Clootz, Anacharsis, his masquerade em- Condorcet, brief character of him, iv. 356,
bassy to the Constituent Assembly 372.
of France, vi. 49. extract from a publication of his, iv.
Coke, Lord, ingenious quotation in his 356.
Reports, i. 5. Confidence, unsuspecting, in government,
his observation on discretion in judi- importance of it, ii. 234.
cature, iv. 292. of mankind, how to be secured, v.
Colonies, commercial, mode of levying 414.
commended by patriots in the comfrom Great Britain than they send
monwealths of antiquity, i. 527.
derly handled, vii. 54.
acter of, i. 395. Conquest cannot give a right to arbitrary
Address to, vi. 183. power, ix. 456.
Colors, soft and cheerful ones unfit to pro- Conscience, a tender one ought to be tenduce grand images, i. 158. Comedy, observations on, vii. 150. Constantine the Great, changes made by
Aristotle's distinction between it and him in the internal policy of the
tragedy, vii. 153. Roman Empire, vii. 220.
Comines, Philip (le, his remarks on the Constantinople, anecdote of the visit of an
English civil wars, vi. 252. English country squire to, v. 387.
Commerce and liberty, the two main anecdote of the Greeks at the taking
sources of power to Great Britain, of, vi. 96.
ii. 87. Constituents, in England, more in the
great increase of, in America, ii. 112. spirit of the constitution to lessen
Common law, nature of the, vii. 462. than to enlarge their number, i.
Common Pleas, court of, its origin,vii. 466. 370.
Commons, the House of, observations on their duty to their representatives,
its nature and character, i. 491. ii. 370.
what qualities recommend a man to compulsive instruction from them
a seat in it, in popular elections, i. first rejected by Mr. Burke, iv. 95.
497. points in which they are incompecan never control other parts of the
themselves are controlled by their Constitution, a, cannot defend itself, vi.
constituents, i. 503. 100.
ought to be connected with and de-
pendent on the people, i. 508. ~
has a collective character, distinct
from that of its members, ii. 66.
uents, ii. 95. 371, 520.
consequences of disgracing the frame and constitution of the state, vii.
103.
the English, a change in it, an imduty of the members to their constit-
mense and difficult operation, i.
ity, iii. 258.
ogous to those of physical life, v.
ture, and function, iii. 462, 464, 472.
? taxes in them, an important and
difficult consideration, i. 354.
American, import ten times more
in return, i. 393. the Whig connection in Queen Anne's Colonists, the British, in America, char- reign, i. 529.
Connections, party, political, observations on them, i. 527, 530.
tent to instruct their representagovernment, unless the members
tives, vii. 74, 75.
? ? ? 412 INDEX.
Constitution - Continued.
English, changes in it to be attempted 369.
only in times of general confusion, Curfew, origin and policy of the, vii.
i. 371. 354.
eulogy on it, iii. 561; v. 210: vii. 100. Curiosity, the first and simplest emotion
the whole scheme of it to prevent any of the human mind, i. 101.
one of its principles from being general observations on it, i. 101.
carried to an extreme, iv. 207. Custom, considered in relation to deformnot struck out at a heat, iv. 209.
commendation of it by Montesquieu, not the cause of pleasure, i. 180.
iv. 212. Cyprus, account of the conquest of it by
the only means of its subversion, Richard I. , vii. 428.
what, v. 49, 52.
Calnstitutional Society, The, its nature
and design, iii. 236. Danger and pain, the idea of them a
Conti, Prince de, his character and con- source of the sublime, i. 110, 130.
duct, iv. 436. with certain modifications, delight.
Contract, an implied one, always, be- ful, i. gll.
tween the laborer and his employ- the danger of anything very dear to
er, v. 137. us removes for the time all other
Contracting parties, not necessary that affections from the mind, iv. 95.
they should have different inter- Darkness more productive of sublime
ests, v. 139. ideas than light, i. 156.
Control and exercise of authority together necessary to the highest degree of
contradictory, iv. 164. the sublime in building, i. 158.
Convocation of the clergy, though a part Locke's opinion concerning, i. 225.
of the constitution, now called for terrible in its own nature, i. 226.
form only, ii. 226. why, i. 227.
Conway, General, moves the repeal of the Davies, Sir John, his statement of the
American Stanlp Act, ii. 52. benefits of the extension of EngCornwallis, Lord, (Baron,) proceedings in
his trial, xi. 30. ii. 147; iv. 273.
Cornwallis, Lord, (Marquis,) his evidence Day, not so sublime as night, i. 158.
at the trial of Warren Hastings, Debi Sing, his character and conduct, x.
xii. 359. 63.
Coronation oath, its obligations with re- Debt, the interest of, not the principal,
spect to Roman Catholics, iv. 259. that which distresses a nation, i.
Corporate bodies, their usefulness as in- 329.
struments, iii. 441. Debts, civil, faults of the law with regard
more under the direction of the state to, ii. 384.
than private citizens, iii. 447. public, excessive, their tendency to
Corruption, of nature and example, what subvert government, iii. 437.
the only security against, ii. 238. Deceivers and cheats never can repent,
in pecuniary matters, the suspicion iv. 9.
of it how to be avoided, iii. 95. Declaration of Right, contains the princiCossim, Ali Khan, his character and con-
duct, ix. 405. 252.
Country, love of, remarks on, xi. 422. drawn by Lord Somers, iii. 254.
Credit and power incompatible, i. 368. proceeds upon the principle of referCrimes, the acts of individuals, not of de- ence to antiquity, iii. 273. nominations, ii. 418. Defensive measures, though vigorous at
according to the criminal law, what, first, relax by degrees, iv. 355.
vi. 340. necessary considerations with regard
Cromwell, brief character of him, iii. 294. to them, vi. 100.
his principle in the appointment of Definitions, frequently fallacious, i. 81.
judges, iv. 13. Deformity not opposed to beauty, but to
his conduct in government, iv. 37. the complete common form, i. 178.
his government compared with that Deity, power the most striking of his atof Charles II. , iv. 467.
(ross, the effect of it not so grand in ar- Delamere, Lord, proceedings in his trial,
chitecture as that of the parallelo- xi. 31.
gram, i. 150. Delight, what, i. 107.
Crown, the influence of it:, what, i. 444. distinguished from pleasure, i. 108.
inheritable nature of it, iii. 258. the misfortunes of others sometimes
this principle maintained at the Rev- a source of, i. 118.
olution, iii. 254. the attendant of every passion which
the only legitimate channel of com- animates us to any active purpose,
munication with other nations, v. i. 119.
10. how pain can be a cause of, i. 215.
Crusade, origin and progress of the, vii.
ity and beauty, i. 179.
? lish constitutional law to Ireland,
ples of the Revolution of 1688, iii.
tributes, i. 143.
? ? ? INDEX. 413
Democracy, no example in modern times Double cabinet, project of a, in the Engof a considerable one, iii. 396. an absolute one, not to be reckoned nature and design of it, i. 454.
among the legitimate forms of gov- mischievous influence of it, i. 478.
ernment. iii. 396. how recommended at court, i. 485.
Aristotle's observation on the resem- its operation upon Parliament, i. 490.
blance between a democracy and a singular doctrine propagated by it,
tyranny, iii. 397. i. 525.
the vice of the ancient democracies, Drama, Hints for an Essay on the, vii.
what, iii.
