EDUCATION, that commonly called liberal, wherein defective, iv. 117,
118.
its proper objects pointed out, 138.
one of its great secrets, to fix the attention of youth, 145.
private, why preferable to public, 210.
EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, formed a digest of the Saxon laws, iii. 349.
EDWARD I. dispute concerning the succession to the crown of Scotland
in his reign, iii. 367.
EDWARD III. a house of commons originating in his reign, iii. 340,
344.
ΕΙΡΗΝΑΡΧΙΑ, a Latin panegyric on Queen Elizabeth taught in schools,
iii. 239. n.
ELIZABETH, Queen, dialogue on the age of, iii. 167.
humour of magnifying her character, whence arising, 177.
her romantic spirit, 196.
examples of it, _ib._ n.
honours paid her at Kenelworth, 203.
superiority of poets in her reign, to what owing, 209.
language of that age, favourable to poetry, 210.
inquiry into the merits of her government, 219.
sketch of its history, 221, 222.
splendour of her reign how far owing to fortunate circumstances,
223.
her enthusiasm for her Protestant subjects, 225.
contending factions of Papists and Puritans, 226.
condition of the Continental powers, 230.
of Ireland, 231.
of Scotland, 233.
her prerogative uncontrouled, 234.
passion for letters in her reign, 236.
a Latin panegyric on her, taught in grammar-schools, 239. n.
spirit and genius of the nation roused by the dangers of the time,
241.
manners of her subjects debased by servility and insolence, 242.
her choice of ministers, _ib._
her personal qualities, 245.
her love for her people called in question, 250.
her foreign and domestic policy glanced at, 252.
her popularity in part ascribed to her vices, 255.
her cowardice, 256.
her avarice, 261.
her fondness for shew, 265.
sale of offices, 266.
reason why she did not marry, 271. n.
her government oppressive, 272.
two great events which cast an uncommon lustre over her reign, 274.
causes of her domestic successes, 275.
her character, 276.
vindicated, 279.
established the Reformation, iv. 31, 32.
exercised the dispensing power, 54.
her inclination for the fancies of chivalry, iv. 347.
EMPSON _and_ DUDLEY, how enabled to violate the constitution, iii.
379.
their proceedings sanctioned by Parliament, iv. 34.
ENGLAND, a constitutional history of, highly desirable, iii. 286,
288.
its monarchy by some declared to be absolute, 298, 299.
its lands were allodial in the Saxon times, 324.
how possessed, _ib._
introduction of feudal tenures at the conquest, why popular, 325.
origin of the struggles between the Church and the King, 331.
between the King and his Barons, 332.
never famous for the civility of its inhabitants, iv. 112.
early travel recommended as a cure for this defect, 113.
prejudices and low habits of our youth, 115.
liberal arts not much advanced, 127.
foreign nations to be emulated, 129.
qualifications for a Senator, 140.
another view of the state of the country, 151.
ideas of liberty connected with it, 153.
EPIC NARRATION, less restricted to truth than the drama, iv. 327.
ERASMUS, improved on the dialogue of Lucian, iii. 28.
ERUDITION, present state of, iv. 132.
ESPRIT, DE L’, remark on a work so called, iv. 89. n.
EUROPE, why not fit for an Englishman to travel in, iv. 200.
view of the Protestant Universities of, 212, 213.