His answer to the attack of Atterbury.
Bible, the English translation of the, regarded as a specimen of
the beauty and power of the English language.
Billaud, M., becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
Opposes Robespierre.
Himself brought to trial.
Condemned to be removed to a distant place of confinement.
Transported to Guiana.
His subsequent life.
Bonaparte, Napoleon, his detestation of the cruel decree of the
Convention respecting English prisoners.
His return from Egypt, and assumption of absolute power as First
Consul.
His policy at this period.
Allows Barere to reside in Pairs.
Employs Barere as a writer and spy.
Establishes the Imperial government.
His opinion of Barere's journalism.
His defeat and abdication.
Boswell, James, becomes a member of The Club.
His character.
His life of Johnson.
Bourbon, Duke, character of the government of.
Bow Street, whiggery of.
Boyd, his translation of the Divine Comedy of Dante.
Boyle, Charles, his college edition of the letters of Phalaris.
The answer to Bentley attributed to him.
Boyse, the poet, his friendship with Samuel Johnson.
Brasidas, great only when he ceased to be a Lacedaemonian.
Brissot, the Girondist leader.
His trial.
Brissotines, the. See Girondists.
Buccaneer, the Last.
Bunyan, John, age in which he produced his Pilgrim's Progress.
His birth and early life.
His notions of good and evil.
Enlists in the parliamentary army.
Returns home and marries.
His fantasies and internal sufferings.
Thrown into gaol.
His prison life.
His intimate knowledge of the Bible.
His early writings.
His abhorrence of the Quakers.
His controversies.
His answer to Edward Fowler.
His dispute with some of his own sect.
His liberation from prison.
His Pilgrim's Progress.
His Holy War.
Difficulties of.
His death and burial-place.
Fame of his Pilgrim's Progress.
Burgundy, Duke of, his theory of good government.
Burke, Edmund, his character of the first French republic.
And of the French National Assembly.
His vindication of himself from the charge of inconsistency.
His part in The Club.
His position in the Whig opposition.
Burns, Robert, age in which he produced his works.
Butler, Samuel, character of his poetry.
Byron, Lord, his egotism and its success.
Caesar, accounts of his campaigns, regarded as history.
Camden, Lord, joins the Whig opposition.
Canning, George, popular comparison of, with Mr Pitt.
His activity in Pitt's cause.
Carey, his translation of the Divine Comedy of Dante.
Carmagnoles, the, of Barere.
Lord Ellenborough's.
Carmichael, Miss, or Polly, in Dr Johnson's house.
Carnot, M. Hippolyte, his part in the Memoirs of Bertrand Barere.
Carolan, his compositions.
Carrier, the tyrant of Nantes, placed under arrest.
Casti, character of his Animali Parlanti.
Catholicism, Roman, the most poetical of all religions.
Its great revival at the beginning of the thirteenth century.
Treaty concluded by Charles II. by which he bound himself to set
up Catholicism in England.
Catiline, Sallust's account of the Conspiracy of.
Cavendish, Lord John, becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Resigns.
Cervantes, delight with which his Don Quixote is read.
Charles II., King of England.
Influence of his residence abroad upon his character and tastes.
His treaty respecting Roman Catholics.
Chatham, first Earl of, compared by Mirabeau.
His declining years.
His last appearance in the House of Lords.
Chatham, second Earl of, his mismanagement of the Admiralty.
Chaumette, one of the accusers of the Girondists before the
Revolutionary Tribunal.
Christ Church, Oxford, cry of, against Bentley.
Christianity, effect of the victory of, over paganism.
Church of Ireland, Speech on.
Churchill, his insult to Johnson.
Civil War, the great.
Clarendon, his history of the Rebellion, charge of garbling it.
Classical writers, celebrity of the great.
Cleomenes, causes and results of his raving cruelty.
Clergyman, the Country, his Trip to Cambridge.
Club, The, formation of.
Members of the.
"Coalition," formation of the.
Universal disgust.
End of the Coalition.
Coates, Romeo, the actor.
Cock Lane Ghost, the.
Collot, d'Herbois, becomes a member of the Committee of Public
Safety.
Attacked in the streets.
Brought to trial.
Condemned by the Convention to be removed to a distant place of
confinement.
His end.
Condorcet, strength brought by him to the Girondist party.
His melancholy end.
Confidence in Ministry of Lord Melbourne.
Speech on.
Constantinople, empire of, its retrogression and stupefaction.
Convention, the French, of.
The Girondists.
The Mountain.
Character of the diplomatic language during the reign of the
Convention.
Copyright, Speeches on.
Corday, Charlotte, her murder of Marat.
Corn Laws, Speech on.
Corneille, attempts of the Academy to depress the rising fame of.
Cornwallis, General, his surrender to the Americans.
Cottabus, the Athenian game of.
Couthon, becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
His execution.
Cowley, Mr Abraham, and Mr John Milton, conversation between,
touching the great Civil War.
Criticism, verbal.
Improvement of the science of criticism.
The critical and poetical faculty distinct and incompatible.
Cyrus, Xenophon's Life of, its character.
Dante, criticism on.
His first adventure in the popular tongue.
Influences of the times in which he lived upon his works.
His love of Beatrice.
His despair of happiness on earth.
Close connection between his intellectual and moral character.
Compared with Milton.
His metaphors and comparisons.
Little impression made by the forms of the external world upon
him.
Fascination revolting and nauseous images had for his mind.
His use of ancient mythology in his poems.
His idolatry of Virgil.
Excellence of his style.
Remarks upon the translations of the Divine Comedy.
His veneration for writers inferior to himself.
How regarded by the Italians of the fourteenth century.
Danton, character of.
His death.
David, M. d'Angers, the sculptor, his part in the Memoirs of
Bertrand Barere.
De Foe, effect of his Robinson Crusoe on the imagination of the
child and the judgment of the man.
Demerville, the Jacobin, betrayed by his friend Barere.
Democracy, a pure.
Mr Mill's view of a pure and direct.
Demosthenes, compared by Mr Mitford to Aeschines.
His irresistible eloquence.
Denham, Sir John, character of his poetry.
Denis, St, Abbey of, laid waste by Barere.
"Dennis, St, and St George, in the Water, some Account of the
Lawsuit between the Parishes of."
Deserted Village of Oliver Goldsmith.
Desmoulins, Camille, his attack on the Reign of Terror.
Reply of Barere.
Desmoulins, Mrs, in Dr Johnson's house.
Despotic rulers.
Theory of a despotic government.
Dies Irae.
Dionysius, his criticisms.
Diplomatic language used by the French Convention.
Directory, the Executive, of France, formation of.
Dissenters, persecution of the, by the Cavaliers.
Relieved by Charles II.
Prosecutions consequent on the enterprise of Monmouth.
The Dissenters courted by the government of James II.
Dissenters' Chapels Bill, Speech on.
Divine Comedy of Dante, the great source of the power of the.
Remarks on the translations of the.
Djezzar Pasha, his cruelty.
Doddington, Bubb, his kindness to Samuel Johnson.
Don Quixote, delight with which it is read.
Dorset, Earl of, his poetry.
Drama, the old English.
Compared with that of Athens and France.
Causes of the excellence of the English drama.
Superiority of dramatic to other works of imagination.
Extinction of the drama by the Puritans.
The drama of the time of Charles II.
Dryden's plays.
Dryden, John, place assigned to him as a poet.
His merits and defects.
Influence exercised by him on his age.
Two parts into which his life divides itself.
His small pieces presented to patrons.
Character of his Annus Mirabilis.
His rhyming plays.
His impossible men and women.
His tendency to bombast.
His attempts at fairy imagery.
His incomparable reasonings in verse.
His art of producing rich effects by familiar words.
Catholicity of his literary creed.
Causes of the exaggeration which disfigure his panegyrics.
Character of his Hind and Panther.
And of his Absalom and Achitophel.
Compared with Juvenal.
What he would probably have accomplished in an epic poem.
Compared with Milton.
Dubois, Cardinal, his mode of dealing with public petitions.
Dumont, M., review of his Souvenirs sur Mirabeau.
Services rendered by him to society.
His interpretation of Bentham's works.
His view of the French Revolution.
His efforts to instruct the French in political knowledge.
Sketch of the character of Mirabeau.
Of Sieyes and Talleyrand.
And of his own character.
Dumourier, his Girondist sympathies.
His defection.
Dundas, Henry, Lord Advocate, commencement of his friendship with
Pitt.
Dunning, Mr, joins the Whig opposition.
Duroc, General, his letter to Barere.
Eady, Dr, his advertisements.
Edinburgh Election, speech at.
Education, Speech on.
Education, the, of the Athenians.
Defects of their conversational education.
Egotism, the pest of conversation.
Zest given by it to writing.
Eleusinian mysteries, the.
Ellenborough, Lord, his Carmagnoles.
Ellis, Welbore.
England, revolution in the poetry of.
Mr Mill's remarks on the British Constitution.
His view of the constitution of the English Government.
Mr Sadler's statement of the law of population in England.
The English Revolution compared with the French.
Mildness of the revolution caused by the Reform Bill.
Makes war against France.
Epistles, Petrarch's.
Epitaph on Henry Martyn.
Epitaph on Lord William Bentinck.
Epitaph on Sir Benjamin Heath Malkin.
Epitaph on Lord Metcalfe.
Euphuism in England.
Euripides, mother of.
His jesuitical morality.
How regarded by Quintillian.
Evil, question of the origin of, in the world.
Exclusion of Judges from the House of Commons, Speech on.
Federalism, the new crime of, in France.
Federalism as entertained by Barere.
Fenelon, his principles of good government, as shown in his
Telemachus.
Fluxions, discovery of the method of.
Fortune, remedies for Good and Evil, Petrarch's.
Fowler, Edward, John Bunyan's answer to.
Fox, Charles James, his character.
His great political error.
The King's detestation of him.
Becomes Secretary of State under the Duke of Portland.
His India Bill.
His speeches.
Fragments of a Roman Tale.
France, character of the poetry of.
Characteristics of the personifications of the drama of.
Spirit excited in France at the time of the Revolution by some of
the ancient historians.
Burke's character of the French Republic.
Population of.
Condition of the government of, in 1799.
Strictures of M. Dumont on the National Assembly.
Infancy of political knowledge of the French at the period of the
Revolution.
The English Revolution compared with the French.
Arguments against the old monarchy of France.
The first compared with the second French Revolution.
Causes of the first Revolution.
Condition of France for eighty years previous to the Revolution.
Causes which immediately led to that event.
Difficulties of the Constitution of 1791.
The war with the continental coalition.
Effect of the League of Pilnitz on the position of the King.
Formation and meeting of the Convention.
The two great parties of the Convention--the Girondists and the
Mountain.
Death of the King.
Policy of the Jacobins.
The new crime of federalism.
Defection of Dumourier and appointment of the Committee of Public
Safety.
Irruption of the mob into the palace of the Tuileries.
Destruction of the Girondists.
Establishment of the Reign of Terror.
Condition of France during the reign of Louis XIV.
And during that of Louis XV.
Fenelon's principles of good government.
His views incomprehensible to his countrymen.
Loss to France on the death of the Duke of Burgundy.
The Regency of Philip of Orleans.
The Duke of Bourbon.
Downward course of the monarchy, and indications of the
forthcoming revolution.
The Greek and Roman models of the French legislators.
Victories of France in 1794.
The memorable ninth of Thermidor.
Execution of Robespierre and his accomplices.
End of the Jacobin dominion in France.
Condition of the nation at this period.
Formation of the Constitution of 1795.
Bonaparte's return from Egypt and assumption of absolute power.
Political spies in France.
Defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.
The Chamber of Representatives.
The Royalist Chamber under the Bourbons.
Review of the policy of the Jacobins.
War declared by England against.
French Academy, its services to literature.
Froissart, character of his history.
Garrick, David, relation between him and his old master Johnson.
A member of the Literary Club.
Garth, Dr, insults Bentley and extols Boyle.
Gates of Somnauth, the Speech on.
Gaudet, the Girondist, his execution.
Gensonne, the Girondist leader.
His trial.
His death.
Geologist, Bishop Watson's description of a.
George III., his treatment of his ministers.
Georgics, Political.
Germaine, Lord George.
Gibbon, Edward, charges brought against him as a historian.
His part in The Club.
Girondists, or Brissotines, Barere's account of the proceedings
against the.
Sketch of the political party so called.
Its struggles with the Mountain.
Accusation brought against the leaders of the party.
Defeated by the Mountain.
Impeached by their late colleague Barere.
Their trial.
Their fate.
Goldsmith, Oliver, his birth and early life.
His first schoolmaster.
His personal appearance.
His college life.
Death of his father.
His attempts at the church, law, and physic.
His rambles on foot through Flanders, France, and Switzerland.
His disregard of truth.
His return to England, and desperate expedients to obtain a
living.
His literary drudgery.
Character of his works.
Introduced to Johnson.
One of the original members of The Club.
Removes from Breakneck Steps to the Temple.
Story of the publication of the Vicar of Wakefield.
His Traveller.
His Dramas.
His Deserted Village.
His She Stoops to Conquer.
His Histories.
His arts of selection and condensation.
His intimacy with the great talkers of the day.
His conversational powers.
How regarded by his associates.
His virtues and vices.
His death.
His cenotaph in Westminster Abbey.
His biographers.
His part in The Club.
Gomer Chephoraod, King of Babylon, apologue of.
Goodnatured Man, the, of Oliver Goldsmith.
Government of India, Speech on.
Government, proper conditions of a good.
Review of Mr Mill's Essays on, etc.
His chapter on the ends of government.
And on the means.
His view of a pure and direct democracy.
Of an oligarchy.
And of a monarchy.
Deduction of a theory of politics in the mathematical form.
Government according to Mr Mill only necessary to prevent men
from plundering each other.
His argument that no combination of the three simple forms of
government can exist.
His remarks on the British constitution.
His hope for mankind in the government of a representative body.
The real security of men against bad government.
Mr Mill's views as to the qualifications of voters for
representatives.
The desire of the poor majority to plunder the rich minority.
Effects which a general spoliation of the rich would produce.
Method of arriving at a just conclusion on the subject of the
science of government.
Mr Bentham's defence of Mr Mill's Essays.
Deduction of the theory of government from the principles of
human nature.
Remarks on the Utilitarian theory of government.
Mode of tracking the latent principle of good government.
Checks in political institutions.
Power.
Constitution of the English government.
Greece, review of Mr Mitford's History of.
Gross ignorance of the modern historians of Greece.
The imaginative and critical schools of poetry in.
Greeks, domestic habits of the.
Change in their temper at the close of the Peloponnesian war.
Character of their fashionable logic.
Causes of the exclusive spirit of the Greeks.
Hall, Robert, his eloquence.
Hamlet, causes of its power and influence.
Happiness, principle of the greatest, of the greatest number
examined.
The most elevated station the principle is ever likely to attain.
The Westminster Reviewer's defence of the "greatest happiness
principle."
Hayley, his translation of the Divine Comedy of Dante.
Heat, Lord Bacon's mode of tracking the principle of.
Hebert, the Jacobin, his vile character.
Accuses the Girondists before the Revolutionary Tribunal.
Hebrides, Johnson's visit to the.
Herodotus, character of his history.
His faults.
Character of the people for whom the book was composed.
His history compared with that of Thucydides.
Herodotus regarded as a delineator of character.
Heron, Robert, his drama of News from Camperdown.
Hervey, Henry, his kindness to Samuel Johnson.
History, Mr Mitford's views of.
The true domain of history.
Qualifications necessary for writing.
The history of Herodotus.
That of Thucydides.
Johnson's remarks on history.
Xenophon's history.
Polybius and Arrian.
Character of the historians of the Plutarch class.
English classical associations and names compared with those of
the ancients.
Spirit excited in England and in France by the writers of the
Plutarch class.
Livy.
Caesar.
Sallust.
Tacitus.
Merits and defects of modern historians.
Froissart, Machiavelli, and Guicciardine.
Effect of the invention of printing.
Causes of the exclusiveness of the Greeks and Romans.
Effect of the victory of Christianity over paganism.
Establishment of the balance of moral and intellectual influence
in Europe.
The species of misrepresentation which abounds most in modern
historians.
Hume, Gibbon, and Mitford.
Neglect of the art of narration.
Effect of historical reading compared to that produced by foreign
travel.
Character of the perfect historian.
Instruction derived from the productions of such a writer.
Hoche, General, refuses to obey the cruel decree of the
Convention.
Holy War, Bunyan's.
Homer, intense desire to know something of him.
Quintillian's criticisms on.
His inappropriate epithets.
His description of Hector at the Grecian wall.
Hoole, the metaphysical tailor, his friendship with Samuel
Johnson.
Horace, his comparison of poems to certain paintings.
Hume, David, charges brought against him as a historian.
Hyder Aly, his successes.
Idler, Johnston's publication of the.
Imagination and judgment.
Power of the imagination in a barbarous age.
Inaugural Speech at Glasgow College.
India Bill, Fox's.
Inferno, Dante's, character of the.
Ireland, William Pitt the first English minister who formed great
designs for the benefit of Ireland.
Isocrates, his defence of oligarchy and tyranny.
Italian language, Dante's first work on the.
Italian Writers, Criticisms on the Principal.
Dante.
Petrarch.
Italy, revolution of the poetry of.
Monti's imitation of the style of Dante.
Jacobins of Paris, policy of the.
Excesses of the.
Materials of which the party was composed.
Their cruelties in Paris and in the provinces.
Review of the policy of the Jacobins.
Jacobite, Epitaph on a.
Jacobites, revival of their spirits in 1721.
Plan for a Jacobite insurrection.
Jenyns, Soame, Dr Johnson's review of his Inquiry into the Nature
and Origin of Evil.
Jewish Disabilities, Speech on.
Jews, the sacred books of the, unknown to the Romans.
Johnson, Dr Samuel, his contemptuous derision of the civilisation
of the Athenians.
His remark on history and historians.
Oliver Goldsmith introduced to.
Story of the publication of the Vicar of Wakefield.
Johnson's birth and early life.
His father.
Goes to Oxford.
His attainments at this time.
His struggles with poverty.
Becomes an incurable hypochondriac.
His literary drudgery.
His marriage.
His school near Lichfield.
Sets out for London.
Effect of his privations on his temper and deportment.
Engaged on the "Gentleman's Magazine."
His political opinions.
His Jacobite views.
His poem of London.
His associates.
His life of Richard Savage.
His dictionary.
His treatment by Lord Chesterfield.
His Vanity of Human Wishes compared with the Satire of Juvenal.
Relation between him and his pupil David Garrick.
Irene brought out.
Publication and reception of the Rambler.
Death of Mrs Johnson.
Publication of the Dictionary.
His review of Soame Jenyn's Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of
Evil.
His Idler.
Death of his mother.
Circumstances under which Rasselas was published.
His hatred of the Whigs.
Accepts a pension of three hundred a year.
His belief in ghosts.
Publication of his edition of Shakespeare's works.
Honours conferred upon him.
His colloquial talents.
His predominance in The Club.
His biographer, James Boswell.
The inmates of his house near Fleet Street.
His visit to the Hebrides.
His prejudice against the Scotch.
His exposure of Macpherson's forgery of Fingal.
His Taxation no Tyranny.
His lives of the Poets.
His declining years.
His death.
Johnson, Michael of Lichfield.
Jones, Sir William, his part in the Literary Club.
Judgment and imagination.
Julian, the Emperor, his partiality for the Greek language.
Jurisprudence, Mr Bentham's reduction of, to a science.
Juryman, the stipend of an Athenian.
Just, Saint, expatiates on the guilt of Vergniaud and Petion.
Becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
His doom.
His execution.
Juvenal compared with Dryden.
His satire compared with that of Samuel Johnson.
King, the, in the Athenian democracy.
Kleber, General, refuses to obey the cruel decree of the
Convention.
Lacedaemon, causes of the silent but rapid downfall of.
The development of merit prevented by the laws of.
Her foreign policy and domestic institutions.
Her government compared with that of Athens.
Her helots.
Langton, Bennet, a member of the Literary Club.
Latin works of Petrarch, the.
Lebon, the Jacobin, his crimes defended by Barere.
Placed under arrest.
Levett, Robert, the quack doctor.
Liberty, how regarded by the later ancient writers.
How regarded by historians of the Plutarch class.
Peculiar and essentially English character of English liberty.
Political, views with which it was regarded by the French
legislators of the Revolution.
Lies, various kinds of.
Lincoln Cathedral, story of the painted window of.
Literary Magazine, Johnson's contributions to the.
Literature, on the Royal Society of.
Literature, ancient, proper examination of.
State of literature as a calling, in the last century.
Literature of Britain, the, Speech on.
Livy, his faults and merits as a historian.
London, blessing of the great fire of.
Riots in, in 1780.
Longinus, criticism on his work on the "Sublime."
Louis XIV., his bitter lamentations of his former extravagances.
His character as a king.
Louis XV., condition of France when he came to the throne.
Louis XVI., his character.
His position in 1792.
His death.
Louis XVIII., leniency of his government at the Restoration.
Love, honourable and chivalrous, unknown to the Greeks.
The passion as delineated in the Roman poets.
What is implied in the modern sense of the word love.
Change undergone in the nature of the passion of love in the
middle ages.
Lycurgus, his mistaken principles of legislation.
His system of domestic slavery.
Lyons, cruelties of the Jacobins at.
Barere's proposal to utterly annihilate it.
Lysander, depressed by the constitution of Lycyrgus.
Macflecnoe, of Dryden, character of the.
Machiavelli, character of his history.
Macpherson, his forgery of Fingal.
Threatens Dr Johnson.
Malkin, Sir Benjamin Heath, epitaph on.
Malthus, Mr, attacked by Mr Sadler.
Man, the contemplation of, the noblest earthly object of man.
Marat, his murmurs against Barere.
His death.
Marcellus, the counterfeit oration for.
Marie Antoinette, Queen, Barere's account of the death of.
Brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal on the motion of
Barere.
Her execution.
Martyn, Henry, epitaph on.
Maynooth, Speech on.
Medical science, Petrarch's invectives on the.
Melville, Lord, his impeachment.