Address to the, in relation to the Measures of
Government
in the American Contest, vi.
Edmund Burke
34.
they are under its influence, iv. 192. Ireland, danger of a proposed tax upon, Imitation, one of the passions belonging i. 352.
to society, i. 122. early transmission thither of English
its source and use, i. 122. liberties and institutions, ii. 146. Impeachment, the great guardian of the Two Letters to Gentlemen of Bristol purity of the constitution, i. 495. relative to the Trade of Ireland,
Impey, Sir Elijah, (Chief Justice of Ben- ii. 247.
land, intended to retard the headHusbandry, classification cf laborers in,
tablished, v. 126.
mentary conduct with regard to it,. resolution of the House of Commons land until 1782, what, iv. 233.
long course of violence and oppresv. 144.
sion, ii. 193.
? gal,) accused of the official mur- concerning this accusation, x. 311. order to seize the treasures of the Begums of Oude, xii. 32.
tresses a nation, i. 329.
Mr. Burke's defence of his Parliader of Nundcomar, x. 218.
the plan for the government of Ireserves as bearer of Mr. Hastings's the true revolution there, that of 1782,
iv. 276.
state of religion there before the grant
of Pope Adrian IV. , vi. 342.
reduction of Ireland by Henry II. , vii. 410.
nature and previous condition of the
ii. 377.
acts as commissioner to seek affida-
vits against the Begums, xii. 82.
Indecision, the natural accomplice of vio- object of the grant, vi. 342.
lence, iv. 190. mutual importance of Ireland and
Indemnification, one of the requisites of Great Britain to one another, vi.
a good peace, i. 295. 420.
Indemnity and oblivion, acts of, their
probable effects as means of rec-
onciling France to a monarchy, iv.
460. country, vii. 410.
Independence of mind, always more or motives which led Adrian to comless influenced by independence of mission HIenry to reduce it, vii. fortune, vii. 78. 410, 413.
India, the people of, classification of them, the English laws said to have been
ix. 376; xi. 207. established there at its subjugation
Indians. British alliances with them in by John, vii. 449.
the American war denounced, vi. Irish language, names of the letters of it
171. taken from the names of several
Indifference, pleasure, and pain, viewed species of trees, vii. 412.
in relation to each other, as states Isocrates, observation of his, in one of his
of the mind, i. 103. orations against the Sophists, i. 5.
Indolence, the prevailing characteristic Italy, its original inhabitants of the same
of the class of elegant, weak-mind- race as the people of Northern Eued people, vii. 147.
Industry, effect of the Irish Popery laws its situation from a remote period,
in discouragS ing it, vi. 351. vii. 161.
Infinite, the artificial, consists in succession and uniformity of parts, i.
149, 220. Jacobinism by establishment, what, v.
Infinity, a source of the sublime, i. 148. 309.
in agreeable images, a cause of pleas- Jacobins, their character, iv. 437; v. 285
ure, i. 153. vi. 367.
Influence of the crown, operation of it, their great object, v. 39.
i. 444. Jacquerie, brief notice of the, iv. 177.
rope, vii. 161.
? ? ? 420 INDEX.
Jaffier Ali Khan, made Nabob of Bengal Labor, necessary, why, i. 215.
by the English, ix. 401. human labor called by the ancients
Jaghires, Indian, nature of them, xii. 9. instrumen tum vocale, v. 140.
Jekyl, Sir Joseph, his character, iv. 130. that on which the farmer is most to
extracts from his speech at the rely for the repayment of his captrial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 130,
131, 132, 136, 137, 142, 143. Laborer and employer, always an implied
Jews, a source of great revenue to Wil- contract between them, v. 137.
liam the Conqueror, vii. 351. the first and fundamental interest
Job, observations on its sublime repre- of the laborer, what, v. 140.
sentation of a vision in the night, Laboring poor, impropriety of the expresi. 137.
its sublime descriptions of the war- Lacedemonians, at the head of the aristohorse, the wild ass, and the unicorn
and leviathan, i. 140. La Fontaine, has not one original story,
John, King of England, brief account of vii. 145.
his reign, vii. 437. Lancaster, Duchy and County Palatine
Judge, duty of one, xi. 104. of, severed from the crown by
Judges, ought to be the very last to feel Henry IV. , ii. 296.
the necessities of the state, ii. 351. Landed estate of the crown, remarks on
Judgment and wit, difference between it, ii. 299.
them, i. 87. Landed interest, policy of the French Rethe senses should be put under the
tuition of the judgment, iii. 15. Landed property, the firm basis of every
a coarse discrimination the greatest stable government, v. 491.
enemy to accuracy of judgment, v. Lanfranc, character of him, vii. 363.
143. Langton, Stephen, his appointment to the
Juridical and legislative acts, difference see of Canterbury through the inbetween them, vii. 63.
Juries, an institution of gradual forma- oath administered by him to King
tion, vii. 115. 'John on his absolution, vii. 455.
not attributable to Alfred, vii. 264. Law's Mississippi scheme, character of
never prevalent amongst the Saxons, it, iii. 554.
vii. 264. Law of neighborhood, what, v. 321.
Jurisprudence, nature and importance of Law, remarks on the study of it, ii.
the science, iii. 357. 125.
abrogation of it in France at the Rev- Laws, reach but a very little way, i. 470.
olution, v. 307. their severity tempered by trial by
state of the study of it in England, jury, i. 499.
vii. 476. superseded by occasions of public
whole frame of it altered since the necessity, ii. 329.
Conquest, vii. 478. bad ones the worst sort of tyranny,
Justice is slow, injury quick and rapid, ii. 395.
x. 151; xi. 181. laws and manners, a knowledge of
general observations on it, xii. 393, what belongs to each the duty of
395. a statesman, v. 167.
civil laws not all merely positive, v.
321.
Keppel, Lord, character of him, v. 222. two things requisite to the solid esKilkenny, Statutes of, prove the ancient tablishment of them, vi. 321.
power of the king of England, iv. 50.
Address to the, in relation to the Measures of Government in the American Contest, vi. 161.
Kings, naturally lovers of low company, cause of this difference, vii. 481. ii. 337. of Canute the Great, remarks on
in what sense the servants of the them, vii. 483.
people, iii. 269. of Edward the Confessor, so called,
language until the Norman Con quest, vii. 481.
of other Northern nations, written in Latin, vii. 481.
King's Men, or King's Friends, charac- vii. 484.
ter of the court corporation so ancient Saxon, review of their sanccalled, i. 466. tions, vii. 484. Knight-errantry, origin of it, vii. 390. sources of them. vii. 487.
ital, v. 140.
sion, v. 135, 466.
cratic interests of Greece, iv. 321.
public with regard to it, iv. 323.
fluence of the Pope, vii. 447, 451.
? existence in Ireland of the spirit equity and utility, the two foundaof the Popery laws, iv. 273. King, the things in which he has an in- ought to be in unison with manners,
dividual interest, i. 485. vii. 27.
nature of his office, iii. 497. of England, Essay towards an Hisjust powers of the king of France, iv. 49. of England, written in the native
tions of them, vi. 323.
tory of the, vii. 475.
? ? ? INDEX. 421
Laws, Gentoo, sources of them, ix. 482. Letter of Mr. Burke to Thomas Burgh,
Mahometan, sources of them, ix. 480; Esq. , in Vindication of his Parliaxi. 216.
prevent unlawful gratification, iv. to John Merlott, Esq. , on the same
256. subject, vi. 235.
Lawsuit, observations on that comedy, to the Lord Chancellor and others,
vii. 152. with Thoughts on the Executions
Learning, an attention to it necessary to of the Rioters in 1780, vi. 239.
Christianity, vii. 246. to Rt. Hon. IHenry Dundas, with the
contributed, in the early ages, to the Sketch of a Negro Code, vi. 255.
temporal power of the clergy, vii. to the Chairman of the Buckingham399.
Lechmere, Mr. , extracts from his speeches Reform, vi. 291.
at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. to William Smith, Esq. , on Catholic
122, 124, 142. Emancipation, vi. 361.
Legislation, important problem in, v. 166. to Richard Burke, Esq. , on Protestant
Legislative an(l juridical acts, the differ- Ascendency in Ireland, vi. 385.
ence between them, vii. 63. on the Affairs of Ireland in 1797, vi.
Legislative right, not to be exercised with- 413.
out regard to the general opinion on Mr. Dowdeswell's Bill for explainof those who are to be governed,
Legislators, bound only by the great prin- Libel, the elements of a, vii. 113.
ciples of reason and equity, and the Libelling, not the crime of an illiterate
general sense of mankind, ii. 196. people, vii. 111.
character of a true legislator, iii. 456. Liberty and commerce, the two main
duties of legislators, v. 166; vi. 319. sources of power to Great Britain,
the mode of proceeding of the ancient ii. 87.
legislators, iii. 476. mistakes about liberty, ii. 228.
Legislature, the true end of it, what, ii. cannot long exist among a people
225; iii. 457. generally corrupt, ii. 242.
its power of regulating the succes- necessity of regulating it, iii. 240, 559.
sion to the crown, iv. 134. how far men are qualified for it, iv.
Leland, Dr. , his book (View of Deistical 51.
Writers) the best on the subject, the distinguishing part of the British
vii. 34. constitution, iv. 97.
Length, too great, in buildings, prejudi- its preservation the peculiar duty of
cial to grandeur of effect, i. 152. the House of Commons, iv. 97.
Letter of Mr. Burke to the Sheriffs of Bris- order and virtue necessary to its extol, on American Affairs, ii. 187.
to Gentlemen of Bristol, on the Trade a constitution uniting public and
of Ireland, ii 249, 258. private liberty with the elements
to a Member of the National Assem- of a beneficent and stable governbly, on French Afftirs, iv. 1. ment, an elaborate contrivance, iv.
istence, iv. 97.
trasted, vi. 389.
to the Empress of Russia, vi. 113. Lindisfarne, brief account of, vii. 250.
to Sir Charles Bingham, on the Irish Liturgy of the Established Church, alAbsentee Tax, vi. 121.
to Hon. Charles James Fox, on tl, quieting of discontent, vii. 13.
American War, vi. 135. Locke, Mr. , his opinion concerning pleasto the Marquis of Rockingham, on the ure and pain, i. 105. Plans of the Opposition in refer- his opinion concerning darkness, i.
ence to the American War, vi. 151. 225.
to Rt. lion. Edmund S. Pery, on the Longinus, an observation of his on the
Relief of the Roman Catholics of effect of sublime passages in poets
Ireland, vi. 197. and oratprs, i. 124.
to a Peer of Ireland, on the Penal
Laws against Irish Catholics, iv.
to Sir Hercules Langrishe, on the
Roman Catholics of Ireland, iv.
241; vi. 375. King John, vii. 472.
to William Elliot, Esq. , on a Speech Light, how a cause of the sublime, i. 15g. in the House of Lords, in the Debate when excessive, resembles darkness
211.
partial freedom and true liberty con217.
review of the causes of the revolution in favor of liberty in the reign of
concerning Lord Fitzwilliam,v. 107.
to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks up-
on himself and his Pension, v. 171.
on a Regicide Peace, v. 233, 342, 384; Limerick, treaty of, observations on two vi. 1. of its articles, vi. 345.
in its effects, i. 157.
light and riant colors opposed to the sublime, i. 159.
mentary Conduct relative to IreLawful enjoyment, the surest method to
shire Meeting, on Parliamentary
ing the Powers of Juries in Proseii. 224.
land, vi. 209.
teration of it ineffectual for the
cutions for Libels, vii. 123.
?
they are under its influence, iv. 192. Ireland, danger of a proposed tax upon, Imitation, one of the passions belonging i. 352.
to society, i. 122. early transmission thither of English
its source and use, i. 122. liberties and institutions, ii. 146. Impeachment, the great guardian of the Two Letters to Gentlemen of Bristol purity of the constitution, i. 495. relative to the Trade of Ireland,
Impey, Sir Elijah, (Chief Justice of Ben- ii. 247.
land, intended to retard the headHusbandry, classification cf laborers in,
tablished, v. 126.
mentary conduct with regard to it,. resolution of the House of Commons land until 1782, what, iv. 233.
long course of violence and oppresv. 144.
sion, ii. 193.
? gal,) accused of the official mur- concerning this accusation, x. 311. order to seize the treasures of the Begums of Oude, xii. 32.
tresses a nation, i. 329.
Mr. Burke's defence of his Parliader of Nundcomar, x. 218.
the plan for the government of Ireserves as bearer of Mr. Hastings's the true revolution there, that of 1782,
iv. 276.
state of religion there before the grant
of Pope Adrian IV. , vi. 342.
reduction of Ireland by Henry II. , vii. 410.
nature and previous condition of the
ii. 377.
acts as commissioner to seek affida-
vits against the Begums, xii. 82.
Indecision, the natural accomplice of vio- object of the grant, vi. 342.
lence, iv. 190. mutual importance of Ireland and
Indemnification, one of the requisites of Great Britain to one another, vi.
a good peace, i. 295. 420.
Indemnity and oblivion, acts of, their
probable effects as means of rec-
onciling France to a monarchy, iv.
460. country, vii. 410.
Independence of mind, always more or motives which led Adrian to comless influenced by independence of mission HIenry to reduce it, vii. fortune, vii. 78. 410, 413.
India, the people of, classification of them, the English laws said to have been
ix. 376; xi. 207. established there at its subjugation
Indians. British alliances with them in by John, vii. 449.
the American war denounced, vi. Irish language, names of the letters of it
171. taken from the names of several
Indifference, pleasure, and pain, viewed species of trees, vii. 412.
in relation to each other, as states Isocrates, observation of his, in one of his
of the mind, i. 103. orations against the Sophists, i. 5.
Indolence, the prevailing characteristic Italy, its original inhabitants of the same
of the class of elegant, weak-mind- race as the people of Northern Eued people, vii. 147.
Industry, effect of the Irish Popery laws its situation from a remote period,
in discouragS ing it, vi. 351. vii. 161.
Infinite, the artificial, consists in succession and uniformity of parts, i.
149, 220. Jacobinism by establishment, what, v.
Infinity, a source of the sublime, i. 148. 309.
in agreeable images, a cause of pleas- Jacobins, their character, iv. 437; v. 285
ure, i. 153. vi. 367.
Influence of the crown, operation of it, their great object, v. 39.
i. 444. Jacquerie, brief notice of the, iv. 177.
rope, vii. 161.
? ? ? 420 INDEX.
Jaffier Ali Khan, made Nabob of Bengal Labor, necessary, why, i. 215.
by the English, ix. 401. human labor called by the ancients
Jaghires, Indian, nature of them, xii. 9. instrumen tum vocale, v. 140.
Jekyl, Sir Joseph, his character, iv. 130. that on which the farmer is most to
extracts from his speech at the rely for the repayment of his captrial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 130,
131, 132, 136, 137, 142, 143. Laborer and employer, always an implied
Jews, a source of great revenue to Wil- contract between them, v. 137.
liam the Conqueror, vii. 351. the first and fundamental interest
Job, observations on its sublime repre- of the laborer, what, v. 140.
sentation of a vision in the night, Laboring poor, impropriety of the expresi. 137.
its sublime descriptions of the war- Lacedemonians, at the head of the aristohorse, the wild ass, and the unicorn
and leviathan, i. 140. La Fontaine, has not one original story,
John, King of England, brief account of vii. 145.
his reign, vii. 437. Lancaster, Duchy and County Palatine
Judge, duty of one, xi. 104. of, severed from the crown by
Judges, ought to be the very last to feel Henry IV. , ii. 296.
the necessities of the state, ii. 351. Landed estate of the crown, remarks on
Judgment and wit, difference between it, ii. 299.
them, i. 87. Landed interest, policy of the French Rethe senses should be put under the
tuition of the judgment, iii. 15. Landed property, the firm basis of every
a coarse discrimination the greatest stable government, v. 491.
enemy to accuracy of judgment, v. Lanfranc, character of him, vii. 363.
143. Langton, Stephen, his appointment to the
Juridical and legislative acts, difference see of Canterbury through the inbetween them, vii. 63.
Juries, an institution of gradual forma- oath administered by him to King
tion, vii. 115. 'John on his absolution, vii. 455.
not attributable to Alfred, vii. 264. Law's Mississippi scheme, character of
never prevalent amongst the Saxons, it, iii. 554.
vii. 264. Law of neighborhood, what, v. 321.
Jurisprudence, nature and importance of Law, remarks on the study of it, ii.
the science, iii. 357. 125.
abrogation of it in France at the Rev- Laws, reach but a very little way, i. 470.
olution, v. 307. their severity tempered by trial by
state of the study of it in England, jury, i. 499.
vii. 476. superseded by occasions of public
whole frame of it altered since the necessity, ii. 329.
Conquest, vii. 478. bad ones the worst sort of tyranny,
Justice is slow, injury quick and rapid, ii. 395.
x. 151; xi. 181. laws and manners, a knowledge of
general observations on it, xii. 393, what belongs to each the duty of
395. a statesman, v. 167.
civil laws not all merely positive, v.
321.
Keppel, Lord, character of him, v. 222. two things requisite to the solid esKilkenny, Statutes of, prove the ancient tablishment of them, vi. 321.
power of the king of England, iv. 50.
Address to the, in relation to the Measures of Government in the American Contest, vi. 161.
Kings, naturally lovers of low company, cause of this difference, vii. 481. ii. 337. of Canute the Great, remarks on
in what sense the servants of the them, vii. 483.
people, iii. 269. of Edward the Confessor, so called,
language until the Norman Con quest, vii. 481.
of other Northern nations, written in Latin, vii. 481.
King's Men, or King's Friends, charac- vii. 484.
ter of the court corporation so ancient Saxon, review of their sanccalled, i. 466. tions, vii. 484. Knight-errantry, origin of it, vii. 390. sources of them. vii. 487.
ital, v. 140.
sion, v. 135, 466.
cratic interests of Greece, iv. 321.
public with regard to it, iv. 323.
fluence of the Pope, vii. 447, 451.
? existence in Ireland of the spirit equity and utility, the two foundaof the Popery laws, iv. 273. King, the things in which he has an in- ought to be in unison with manners,
dividual interest, i. 485. vii. 27.
nature of his office, iii. 497. of England, Essay towards an Hisjust powers of the king of France, iv. 49. of England, written in the native
tions of them, vi. 323.
tory of the, vii. 475.
? ? ? INDEX. 421
Laws, Gentoo, sources of them, ix. 482. Letter of Mr. Burke to Thomas Burgh,
Mahometan, sources of them, ix. 480; Esq. , in Vindication of his Parliaxi. 216.
prevent unlawful gratification, iv. to John Merlott, Esq. , on the same
256. subject, vi. 235.
Lawsuit, observations on that comedy, to the Lord Chancellor and others,
vii. 152. with Thoughts on the Executions
Learning, an attention to it necessary to of the Rioters in 1780, vi. 239.
Christianity, vii. 246. to Rt. Hon. IHenry Dundas, with the
contributed, in the early ages, to the Sketch of a Negro Code, vi. 255.
temporal power of the clergy, vii. to the Chairman of the Buckingham399.
Lechmere, Mr. , extracts from his speeches Reform, vi. 291.
at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. to William Smith, Esq. , on Catholic
122, 124, 142. Emancipation, vi. 361.
Legislation, important problem in, v. 166. to Richard Burke, Esq. , on Protestant
Legislative an(l juridical acts, the differ- Ascendency in Ireland, vi. 385.
ence between them, vii. 63. on the Affairs of Ireland in 1797, vi.
Legislative right, not to be exercised with- 413.
out regard to the general opinion on Mr. Dowdeswell's Bill for explainof those who are to be governed,
Legislators, bound only by the great prin- Libel, the elements of a, vii. 113.
ciples of reason and equity, and the Libelling, not the crime of an illiterate
general sense of mankind, ii. 196. people, vii. 111.
character of a true legislator, iii. 456. Liberty and commerce, the two main
duties of legislators, v. 166; vi. 319. sources of power to Great Britain,
the mode of proceeding of the ancient ii. 87.
legislators, iii. 476. mistakes about liberty, ii. 228.
Legislature, the true end of it, what, ii. cannot long exist among a people
225; iii. 457. generally corrupt, ii. 242.
its power of regulating the succes- necessity of regulating it, iii. 240, 559.
sion to the crown, iv. 134. how far men are qualified for it, iv.
Leland, Dr. , his book (View of Deistical 51.
Writers) the best on the subject, the distinguishing part of the British
vii. 34. constitution, iv. 97.
Length, too great, in buildings, prejudi- its preservation the peculiar duty of
cial to grandeur of effect, i. 152. the House of Commons, iv. 97.
Letter of Mr. Burke to the Sheriffs of Bris- order and virtue necessary to its extol, on American Affairs, ii. 187.
to Gentlemen of Bristol, on the Trade a constitution uniting public and
of Ireland, ii 249, 258. private liberty with the elements
to a Member of the National Assem- of a beneficent and stable governbly, on French Afftirs, iv. 1. ment, an elaborate contrivance, iv.
istence, iv. 97.
trasted, vi. 389.
to the Empress of Russia, vi. 113. Lindisfarne, brief account of, vii. 250.
to Sir Charles Bingham, on the Irish Liturgy of the Established Church, alAbsentee Tax, vi. 121.
to Hon. Charles James Fox, on tl, quieting of discontent, vii. 13.
American War, vi. 135. Locke, Mr. , his opinion concerning pleasto the Marquis of Rockingham, on the ure and pain, i. 105. Plans of the Opposition in refer- his opinion concerning darkness, i.
ence to the American War, vi. 151. 225.
to Rt. lion. Edmund S. Pery, on the Longinus, an observation of his on the
Relief of the Roman Catholics of effect of sublime passages in poets
Ireland, vi. 197. and oratprs, i. 124.
to a Peer of Ireland, on the Penal
Laws against Irish Catholics, iv.
to Sir Hercules Langrishe, on the
Roman Catholics of Ireland, iv.
241; vi. 375. King John, vii. 472.
to William Elliot, Esq. , on a Speech Light, how a cause of the sublime, i. 15g. in the House of Lords, in the Debate when excessive, resembles darkness
211.
partial freedom and true liberty con217.
review of the causes of the revolution in favor of liberty in the reign of
concerning Lord Fitzwilliam,v. 107.
to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks up-
on himself and his Pension, v. 171.
on a Regicide Peace, v. 233, 342, 384; Limerick, treaty of, observations on two vi. 1. of its articles, vi. 345.
in its effects, i. 157.
light and riant colors opposed to the sublime, i. 159.
mentary Conduct relative to IreLawful enjoyment, the surest method to
shire Meeting, on Parliamentary
ing the Powers of Juries in Proseii. 224.
land, vi. 209.
teration of it ineffectual for the
cutions for Libels, vii. 123.
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