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cal romance, as distinguished from
'nstory, v. 163.

... Mr. Mitford's views of, vii. 700.
True domain of history, 700-702.
..ifications necessary for writing, v.
, vi. 77, 82, 84. The history of
Ferodotus, v. 123. That of Thucy-
Johnson's remark on his-

des, 128.

y, 128. Xenophon's history, 134.
olybius and Arrian, 135. Character
the historians of the Plutarch class,
150, 136. English classical associa-
ons and names compared with those of
e ancients, 137. Spirit excited in
ngland and in France by the writers
of the Plutarch class, 139. Livy, 140.
Cesar, 141. Sallust, 141. Tacitus,
142. Merits and defects of modern
historians, 144, 146. Froissart, Ma-
chiavelli, and Guicciardini, 145. Effect
of the invention of printing, 146.
Caus s of the exclusiveness of the
Greeks and Romans, 146-149. Effect
of the victory of Christianity over pa-
ganism, 149. Establishment of the
balance of moral and intellectual in-

e in Europe, 151. The species of
sentation which abounds most

historians, 152. Hum
Mitford, 153. Neglect of,

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the art of narration, 153. Effect of his-
torical reading compared to that pre-
duced by foreign travel, 157. Character
of the perfect historian, 157. Instruc-
tion derived from the productions of
such a writer, 160.

History, as distinguished from historical
romance, v. 164. Its uses, 535. John-
son's contempt for it, 535.

History of the Popes of Rome during the
16th and 17th centuries, review of
Ranke's, vi. 454-489.

Hoare, Roger, of Bridgewater, i. 509.
Hobbes, Thomas, i. 142. His influence on
the two succeeding generations, vi. 185.
Malbranche's opinion of him, vii. 65.
Hoche, General, refuses to obey the cruel
decree of the Convention, vii. 172.
Hodges, Colonel Robert, iii. 147.
Hogarth's Morning, i. 280 note.
Hohenlohe, Prince, vi. 458.

Holbach, Baron, his supper parties, vi. 488.
Holderness, Earl of, his resignation of
office, vii. 220.

Holkar, origin of the House of, vi. 583.
Holland, war with (1667), i. 150. Pros-
perity of, 158. A member of the Triple
Alliance, 159. Coalition of France and
England against, 169. Government of,
170. Repulses the French invasion,
172. Makes peace with England, 176.
Constitution of, 427. Religious parties
in, ii. 3. French invasion; the Prince
of Orange, afterwards William III,
appointed Stadtholder, 18. Political
works printed in, 81. Constitution of,
200. Politics of, 215. State of feeling
in, on William's success, 348. Re-
joicings, 400. Expenses of William's
expedition repaid to, 427. Zeal of, in
the war against Lewis XIV., iii. 566.
Allusion to the rise of, v. 644. Go-
verned with almost regal power by John
de Witt, vi. 267. Its apprehensions of
the designs of France, 270. Its defen-
sive alliance with England and Sweden,
272, 274.

Holland House, beautiful lines addressed
to it, vi. 541. Its interesting associa-
tions, 541. Addison's abode and death
there, vii. 115-121.

Holland, Lord, review of his opinion as re-
corded in the journals of the House of
Lords, vi. 534-542. His family, 635,
His public life, 537. His philanthropy,
541. Feelings with which his memory
is cherished, 541. His hospitality at
Holland House, 542. His winning
manners and uprightness, 542. His
last lines, 542.

Hollis, Denzil, impeachment of, i. 85.
Committed to prison by Charles I., v.
552. His impeachment, 573.

HOL

Holloway, one of the judges at the trial
of the bishops, ii. 169. Delivers his
opinion, 176. Dismissed from the
bench, 204.
Holmes, Abraham, execution of, i. 503.
Holt, Sir John, Recorder of London; his
dismissal, ii. 90. Consulted in the case
of the bishops, 170. Appointed Chief
Justice of the King's Bench, 415. His
conduct at the trial of Crone, iii. 272.
Presides at the trial of Preston and
Ashton, 380. Consulted on the Bill for
excluding Papists from public trusts in
Ireland, 463. In the case of Whitney,
the highwayman, 594.

Holwell, Mr., his presence of mind in the
Black Hole, vi. 408. Cruelty of the
Nabob to him, 409.

Holyrood Palace, sacked by rioters, ii.
351.

Holy War, Bunyan's, vii. 307.

Home, John, putronage of, by Bute, vii.

231.

cor-

Homer, difference between his poetry and
Milton's, v. 9. One of the most "
rect" poets, 397. Pope's translation
of his description of a moonlight night,
398. His descriptions of war, vii. 76–
78. Intense desire to know something
of him, 620. Quintilian's criticisms
on, 661. His inappropriate epithets,
v. 106. His description of Hector at
the Grecian wall, 112.

Hooker, Richard; his tenets, i. 62. His
faulty style, vi. 280.

Hoole, the metaphysical tailor, specimen

of his heroic couplets, vii. 60. His
friendship with Dr. Johnson, 333.
Hooper, Bishop, i. 40.

Hopkins, Ezekiel, Bishop of Londonderry,
ii. 510. Withdraws to England, 550.
His death, iii. 290.

Horace, Bentley's notes on, vi. 322. His
comparison of poems to certain paint-
ings, vii. 667.

Horatius, viii. 463.

Hosein, son of Ali, festival in memory of,

vi. 397. Legend of his death, 397.
Hospitals, objects of, vi. 373.
Houblon, Sir John, Governor of the Bank
of England, iv. 247.

Hough, John, elected president of
Magdalene College, ii. 103. Sentence
of deprivation against, 104. His inter-
view with Penn, 110, 111. Appears
before the special Commissioners, 111.
His protest, 111.

Houghton, John; his Collection, iv. 171.
Hounslow Heath, camp on, i. 601. The
camp broken up, ii. 208. Review of vo-
lunteer cavalry, by Queen Mary, iii. 311.
A resort of highwaymen, iv. 412.
House of Commons (the), increase of its

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power, v. 230, 231, 236. Change in
public feeling in respect to its privileges,
234. Its responsibility, 236. Com-
mencement of the practice of buying
of votes in, vi. 19. Corruption in, not
necessary to the Tudors, 19. Increase
of its influence after the Revolution, 23.
How to be kept in order, 20. Speech
on the exclusion of the judges from the
House, viii. 429.

Howard's "Committee," ii. 97.

Howard, Edward, his "British Princes,"
iii. 111 note.

Howard, Lord, of Escrick, i. 410 note.
Howard, Philip, Cardinal, i. 365.
Howard, Sir Robert, iii. 110. His share
in the debate on the Corporation Bill,
208.

Howe, John, an eminent dissenting
preacher; leaves England, i. 521, 522
and note. Returns to England, ii. 51.
Refuses to join the Court party, 51.
His efforts for a coalition with the
Church, 147.

Howe, John, Vice-Chamberlain to Queen
Mary, ii. 417. His violence and intem-
perance, iii. 123. His attack on Lord
Caermarthen (Leeds), 124. On Lord
Halifax, 124. His parliamentary at-
tack upon Bishop Burnet, 639. Become
a Tory, iv. 67. His speech against the
war, 199. His statement of distress in
Gloucestershire, 267. His violence on
the subject of the Dutch guards, 460.
His invectives against Lord Somers,
514. Violent resolutions moved by
him in regard to the Irish forfeitures,
526, 527. His contest for Gloucester-
shire (1701), 551.

Huddlestone, John, a monk, i. 340. Ab-
solves Charles II., 342.

Huguenots, persecution of, i. 582. Their
exiles, 534. Their treatment by James
II., 581. Collection for, in England,
582. Which is frustrated by James,
584. Huguenots in Schomberg's army
in Ireland, iii. 128. Conspiracy among
them, 138. At the battle of the Boyne,

290.

Hume, David; his prediction of ruin from
the National Debt, iii. 617. Charges
brought against him as an historian, v.
152. His description of the violence of
parties before the Revolution, vi. 128.
Hume, Sir Patrick. See Polwarth, Lord.
Humières, Marquess of, ii. 231. His re-

pulse by the British troops at Walcourt,
iii. 147. His army threatens the in
vasion of England, 278.

Humour, that of Addison compared with
that of Swift and Voltaire, vii. 90, 91.
Hungarians, their incursions into Lom-
bardy, vi. 389.

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Hungerford, William Prince of Orange re-
ceives James II.'s commissioners at, ii.
298.

His

Hunt, Leigh, review of his edition of the
Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Con-
greve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, vi. 490–
532. His merits and faults, 490.
qualifications as an editor, 490. His
appreciation of Shakspeare, Spenser,
Dryden, and Addison, 490.
Hunt, a smuggler; his cottage a resort of
Jacobites, iv. 208, 209.

Huntingdon, Earl of, a Jacobite; his
house searched, iii. 540.
Huntingdon, Countess of, vi. 479.
Huntington, William, vi. 443.
Hutchinson, Mrs., vi. 262.

Huy, taken by the French, iv. 20. Re-
taken, 105.

Talbot's

Hyde, Mr., his conduct in the House of
Commons, v. 563. At the head of the
Constitutional Royalists, 571. Voted
for Strafford's attainder, 572. See also
Clarendon, Lord.
Hyde, Ann, Duchess of York,
slanders against, i. 38.
Hyde, Lady Henrietta, ii. 490.
Hyder Ali, his origin and character, vi.
591. His invasion of the Carnatic, and
triumphant success, 591, 593; vii. 364.
His progress arrested by Sir Eyre Coote,
vi. 593.

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Iliad (the), Pope's and Tickell's transla-
tions, vii. 110, 113.

Illustrations of Bunyan and Milton by
Martin, v. 445.

Imagination, great strength of Milton's,

v. 7. Great power of Bunyan's, 450,
456.

Imagination and judgment, 89, 92. Power
of the imagination in a barbarous age,
92.

Imhoff, Baron, his position and circum-
stances, vi. 551, 552. Character and
attractions of his wife, and attachment
between her and Hastings, 552, 581.
Impeachment, question regarding, i. 405.
Impeachment of Lord Kimbolton, Hamp-
den, Pym, and Hollis, v. 573. Of
Hastings, vi. 621.
Impey, Sir Elijah, vi. 546. Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, 569.
His hostility to the Council, 574. Re-
marks on his trial of Nuncomar, 574-
576. Dissolution of his friendship with

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Hastings, 588. His interference in the
proceedings against the Begums, 605.
His ignorance of the native dialects,
605 note. Condemnation in Parlia-
ment of the arrangement made with
him by Hastings, 606.

Impostors, fertile in a reforming age, v.
405.

Incapacitation, Act of, iii. 79, 80.
Inclosure Acts, i. 245.

Indemnity Bill, dispute regarding, iii. 116.
Retarded by the Whigs, 202, 212. Mo-
tion for a committee rejected, 212.
Indemnity, Bill of, to protect witnesses
against Walpole, vi. 56.

Independents (the), i. 92; ii. 449.
India, debates upon the trade with, iii.
377. Ignorance regarding, in Eliza-
beth's and the following reigns, 467,
468. Trade with, 469. The trade
complained of by English clothiers, 476.
Resumed debates, 606; iv. 72. Diffi-
culties of private traders with, 374.
Montague's projected General Company,
375, 376. Violent opposition, 376.
Eager subscription to the New Com-
pany's loan, 378. Renewed agitation
of the subject, 449. Foundation of the
English empire in, vi. 72, 74. High civi-
lisation of its people, 381. Speech on
the government of India, viii. 111.
India Bill, Fox's, vii. 373.
Indian Ocean, piracy in, iv. 509.
Induction, method of, not invented by

Bacon, vi. 228. Utility of its analysis
greatly overrated by Bacon, 228. Ex-
ample of its leading to absurdity, 231.
"Indulgence," the, i. 146.

Indulgence, Declaration of (under Chas.
II.), i. 170. Its unpopularity, 173. Re-
voked, 174. Declaration of Indulgence
by James II., ii. 39. Its illegality, 41.
Was a boon to the Dissenters, 41, 42.
The second Declaration ordered to be
read in churches, 146. Remonstrance

of the bishops, 150, 151. The Declara-
tion read in only four London churches,
153. General resistance to, 157.
Indulgences, vi. 464.

Inferno, Dante's, character of the, v. 239;
vii. 610, 611.

Infidelity, on the treatment of, v. 385. Its
powerlessness to disturb the peace of
the world, vi. 484.

Innocent XI., Pope, his dispute with
Lewis, XIV., i. 363, 364. His advice
to James II., 364. His Jansenist ten-
dencies, 568. His moderation towards
England, 590. His dislike of the
Jesuits' proceedings in England, ii. 82.
His coldness to Lord Castlemaine, $5.
Abolishes the right of asylum at Rome,
218. His quarrels with Louis XIV.,

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(Com-

218, 219. His death, iii. 148.
pare Rome, Court of.)
Innocent XII, reconciles the Papacy to
Lewis XIV., iii. 565. His irresolute
conduct, 569, 570.

Inns, English, i. 300, 301.
Inquisition, instituted on the suppression

of the Albigensian heresy, vi. 463.
Armed with powers to suppress the Re-
formation, 472, 473.
Interest, effect of attempts by government
to limit the rate of, vi. 500.
Intolerance, religious, effects of, v. 356.
Inverness in 1689, iii. 60.

Investiture, lay, contests regarding, i. 45.
Invocation of saints, vi. 458.

Ipswich, mutiny of Scotch regiments at,
ii. 427.

Ireland, Norman conquest of, i. 10. Union
of, with England, 50. Long struggle
in, 51. Celtic population of, 52. Treated
as subject, 52. Continues Roman
Catholic, 53. Acknowledges Charles
II.; Cromwell's conquest of, 102. Un-
der Charles II. 146, 147. Lord Lieu-
tenancy of, 243. Roman Catholics in,
tolerated by the law, 619. Hostility of
races in, 620. Celtic population and
aristocracy, 621, 622. Old and new
English colonists, 622. Tyrconnel, Lord
Deputy, 642. Dismay of the English
colonists, 644. James II.'s scheme for
detaching it from England, ii. 119. Its
state at the time of the Revolution, 499.
502. The English colonists are appre-
hensive of massacre, 503. News of the
English Revolution arrives, 513. De-
vastation of, in 1689, 520. Destruction
of cattle, 522. Subjection of Protes-
tants in the south, 523. James II.'s
reception, 533. Persecution of Protes-
tants, 570. The spirit of the people
roused by James II.'s danger, iii. 133.
Campaign of 1691; the Pale, 418. Re-
vival of prosperity on the English side,
419. Severe measures against the
Papists, 420. The Jacobite part of the
island; anarchy and insecurity of pro-
perty, 422. Exhaustion after the war,
453. Subjection of the Celtic popula-
tion, 455. State of (1693), 614. Com-
plaints in, against James's second De-
claration, iv. 13. State of (1697), 305.
Whigs and Tories in, 306. Restrictions
imposed by the English Parliament on
the woollen manufactures of, 370. The
native Irish not concerned in the ques-
tion, 372, 373. Dependence of the
English colony on England, 373. Ques-
tion as to the disposal of the Irish for-
feitures, 519. Report of the commis-
sioners of the Commons on the subject,
520. Extravagant estimate of the value

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of the forfeited property, 521. Unfair
report of the commissioners, 522. The
commissioners take up the case of the
grant to Lady Orkney, 523. The Re-
sumption Bill, 526. Rebellion in, in
1640, v. 570. Essex's administration in,
vi. 158. Its condition under Cromwell's
government, 262, 266. Its state con-
trasted with that of Scotland, 357. Its
Union with England compared with the
Persian fable of King Zohak, 357. Rea-
son of its not joining in favour of the
Reformation, 465, 475. Danger to Eng-
land from its discontents, 583. William
Pitt the first English minister who
formed great designs for the benefit of
Ireland, vii. 397. Speech on the Re-
peal of the Union with Ireland, viii.
86. And on the State of Ireland, 245.
And on the Church of Ireland, 316.
Irish Church, the, i. 53, 623.
Irish emigrants in England, ii. 61
Irish exiles, iii. 453, 454.
"Irish night," the, ii. 316.

Irish rebellion (the), in the reign of Charles
I., i. 83.

Irish troops in England, dislike of, in

211. Disbanded; disarmed, 319. Irish
in the service of James II., their in-
efficiency from want of discipline, iii
288. Resolve to defend Limerick, 321
Their plundering excursions, 423, 424
Dissensions at Limerick, 424. Under
St. Ruth, 428. Volunteer for the
French service, 108. Destined to take
part in the French invasion of Eng
land, 536. Regarded by the English
with scorn and hatred, 538. Their bra
very at the battle of Marsiglia, iv. 38
Iron works, i. 248.
Islington, i. 274.

Isocrates, his defence of oligarchy and
tyranny, vii. 698, 699.
Italian language, Dante's first work on
the, vii. 601.

Italian masque, the, v. 12.

Italian writers, criticisms on the princi

pal, vii. 601. Dante, 601. Petrarch, 619.
Italians, their character in the middle
ages, v. 60. Their social condition
compared with that of the ancient
Greeks, 78.

Italy, revolution of the poetry of, v. 97.
Monti's imitation of the style of Dante,
96. State of Italy in the dark ages,
50. Progress of civilisation and refine-
ment in, 51 et seq. Its condition under
Cæsar Borgia, 71. Its temper at the
Reformation, vi. 465 et seq. Its slow
progress owing to Catholicism, 482. Its
subjugation, 486. Revival of the power
of the church in, 487.
Ivry, viii. 548.

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"JACKBOOT," a popular pun on

Bute's name, vii. 232, 245.
Jacobin Club, its excesses, vi. 486.
Jacobins, their origin, v. 594. Their po-
licy, vii. 148. Their excesses, 149, 151.
Materials of which the party was com-
posed, 159, 160. Their cruelties in
Paris and in the provinces, 160. Re-
view of their policy, 200.
Jacobite, epitaph on a, viii. 592.
Jacobites, English and Irish, ii. 536, 537.
Their want of sympathy, 538. Their
plots on William III.'s departure for
Ireland, iii. 260. Gatherings in the
North, 262. Their secret printing
presses, 313. Their "Form of prayer
and humiliation," 314. Which is as-
cribed to the nonjuring prelates, 315.
Disclose the designs of Marlborough,
495. Prepare for insurrection in the
northern counties, 554. Division in,
iv. 5. (See Compounders. Noncom-
pounders.) Their presses and writings,
30, 33. Their addresses to the sailors,
34. Resume their plots, 206. Their
dismay at the Treaty of Ryswick, 324.
Their indignation against Lewis XIV.,
324 and note. Their attempt to pro-
claim James III. in London, 546. Re-
vival of their spirits in 1721, vii. 292.
Plan for a Jacobite insurrection, 292.
Jacobites in Scotland, their party in the

Convention, iii. 21, 26. Their plan of
secession to Stirling frustrated, 26, 28.
Their loss of weight in the Convention,
30. Take the oath of allegiance to Wil-
liam III., 337. Meeting of conspirators,
363. Their advice to James II.,
364.

Jacobitism, Addison's opinion that travel-
ling is the best cure for it, vii. 76.
Jamaica, earthquake in, iii. 591.
James I., his zeal for the English Church,

i. 52. His diminished importance, not-
withstanding the extension of his do-
minions, 54. His character and admin-
istration; consequences of his conduct,
55. Adopts the doctrine of divine
right, 56. His kingcraft, 57. His
death, 66. His conduct in regard to
monopolies, iv. 466. His views of the
necessities of the Catholics, v. 177.
His folly and weakness, 547, 548. Re-
sembled Claudius Cæsar, 548. Court
paid to him by the English courtiers
before the death of Elizabeth, vi. 167.
His twofold character, 167. His favour-
able reception of Bacon, 168-171. His
anxiety for the union of England and
Scotland, 170. His employment of
Bacon in perverting the laws, 171. His
favours and attachment to Buckingham,
176, 178. Absoluteness of his govern-

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ment, 182. His summons of a parlra-
ment, 187. His political blunders, 187,
188. His message to the Commons on
the misconduct of Bacon, 188. His
readiness to make concessions to Rome,
474.

James, Duke of York, afterwards James

II., his character, i. 134. Becomes a
Roman Catholic, 161. Resigns the post
of Lord High Admiral, 175. Marries
Mary of Modena, 182. Retires to Brus-
sels, 188. Sent into Scotland, 199.
Attempt to exclude him from the suc-
cession (see Exclusion Bill). His go-
vernment of Scotland, 212, 213. His
advice to Charles II., 216. His conduct
in Charles II.'s illness, 337, 338. Pro-
cures a Roman Catholic priest, 340.
His account of Charles's death, 344
note. His speech to the Privy Council,
345. Proclaimed King, 346. His min-
istry at the commencement of his reign,
348.

352.

Shows favour to Jeffreys, 350,
Calls a parliament, 355. His
apologies to Barillon, 356. Receives
money from France, 357, 360. Sends
Lord Churchill as ambassador to France,
360. His subjection to Lewis XIV.,
360. Innocent XI.'s advice to him, 364.
His fluctuating policy, 365. Hears
mass publicly, 367. His coronation,

368.

Omissions in the religious ser-
vices, 369. Tory addresses to, 371. His
hatred of the Puritans, 386, 387. His
feeling towards the Quakers, 391. Li-
berates Quaker and Roman Catholie
prisoners, 396. His speech to Parlia-
ment, 400. Prepares for the defence of
Scotland against Argyle, 425. His in-
terview with the Dutch ambassadors,
426. Takes measures against Mon-
mouth, 451. Adjourns Parliament,
455. Reviews the regiments from Hol-
land, 463. Arrests suspected persons,
463. His interview with Monmouth,
483. With Earl Grey, 484. His par-
tial conduct to the leading rebels, 513-
514. His power at its height, 523.
His treaty with Holland, 524. Domestic
policy, 524. His army, 525. His de-
signs in favour of Popery, 526. Impo-
licy of his proceedings, 529, 530. Vio-
lates the Test Act, 531. Dismisses
Halifax, 531. General discontent against,
531, 532. Embarrassed by proceedings
in France, 535. His speech to Parlia
ment, 536. Parliamentary opposition
to, 537, 542. Reprimands the Commons,
544. Attends a sitting of the Peers,
548. Prorogues Parliament, 549. Pub-
lishes papers of Charles II., 556. Par-
ties in his court, 563. His mode of
arguing, 569. His blind reliance on the

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