Part 46

Arundel, Earl of, ii. 443.

Asaph-ul-Dowlah, prince of Oude, taxed by Hastings, iii. 188. Agrees to plunder the Begums, 189. Method used, 191.

Assemblies, deliberative, ii. 273.

Astronomy, comparative estimate of, by Socrates and by Bacon, ii. 459.

Athenian Orators, On the, i. 40-55.

Athenians, oratory unequalled, i. 45. Their taste and knowledge, 46. Method of education, 47.

Athens, eloquence at, i. 51. Progress of her oratory kept pace with her decay, 52. Ostracism at, 64. Her freedom and happiness, 68. Cruelty excusable, 69. Evil of slavery, 71. Permanent effect of her intellectual power, 80.

Attainder, act of, ii. 39, 40.

Aubrey, charges Bacon with corruption, ii. 425. Bacon's decision against him after his present, 440.

Aurungzebe, his policy, iii. 680.

Baber, founder of the Mogul Empire, iii. 679.

Bacon, Lady, mother of Francis Bacon, ii. 368.

Bacon, Francis, review of Basil Montagu's new edition of his works, ii. 357-497. His father, 362-368. His mother distinguished as a linguist, 368. His early years, 371-374. His services refused by Government, 374, 375. His admission at Gray's Inn, 375. His legal attainments, 375, 376. Sat in Parliament in 1593, 377. Part he took in politics, 378. His friendship with the Earl of Essex, 382-389. Examination of his conduct to Essex, 390-397. Influence of King James on his fortunes, 399. His servility to Lord Southampton, 400. Influence his talents had with the public, 400. His distinction in Parliament and in the courts of law, 402. His literary and philosophical works, 402. His "Novum Organum," and the admiration it excited, 403. His work of reducing and recompiling the laws of England, 403. His tampering with the judges on the trial of Peacham, 404-408. Attaches himself to Buckingham, 410. His appointment as Lord Keeper, 413. His share in the vices of the administration, 414. His animosity towards Sir Edward Coke, 419. His town and country residences, 420, 421. His titles of Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, 421, 422. Report against him of the Committee on the Courts of Justice, 424. Nature of the charges, 425. Overwhelming evidence to them, 426, 427. His admission of his guilt, 427. His sentence, 428. Examination of Mr. Montagu's arguments in his defence, 429-440. Mode in which he spent the last years of his life, 441, 442. His death, 443. Chief peculiarity of his philosophy, 444-455. His views compared with those of Plato, 456-465. To what his wide and durable fame is chiefly owing, 469. His frequent treatment of moral subjects, 472. His views as a theologian, 474. Vulgar notion of him as inventor of the inductive method, 475. Estimate of his analysis of that method, 475-484. Union of audacity and sobriety in his temper, 484. His amplitude of comprehension, 485. His freedom from the spirit of controversy, 487. His eloquence, wit, and similitudes, 487, 488. His disciplined imagination, 490. His boldness and originality, 491. Unusual order in the development of his faculties, 492. Specimens of his two styles, 493. Value of his Essays, 494. His greatest performance the first book of the Novum Organum, 495. Contemplation of his life, 496, 497.

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, ii. 362-368. Character of the class of statesmen to which he belonged, 363. Classical acquirements of his wife, 368.

Baconian philosophy, its chief peculiarity, ii. 444. Its essential spirit, 448. Its method and object, 455, 456. Comparative views of Bacon and Plato, 456-465. Its beneficent spirit, 462, 465, 468, 469. Its value compared with ancient philosophy, 465-478.

Banim, Mr., defends James II. as a supporter of toleration, ii. 330.

Barcelona, captured by Peterborough, ii. 161-164.

Barère, Bertrand, Mémoires de, reviewed, iii. 487-590. Approached nearest to the idea of universal depravity, 489. His natural disposition, 490. Greatest liar known, 493. His false account of Marie Antoinette's death, 494. Of the proceedings against the Girondists, 497. Birth and education, 499. Marriage, 500. First visit to Paris, 501. Elected to the States General, 502. Position there, 503. Becomes a justice, 507. Chosen to the second convention, 510. At first a Girondist, 515. Accused of royalist sympathies, 518. A federalist, 520. Opposes the Jacobins, 521. On the Committee of Public Safety, 522. Supports the Girondists against the Paris authorities, 523. Feeling of parties toward, 526. Goes over to the Jacobins and accuses the prominent Girondists, 527. Raves against Marie Antoinette, 528. Style of oratory, 529. His bloodthirsty ferocity, 539. Sensual excesses, 541. His delight in murder, 543. Urges war without quarter, 546. Admitted to the Jacobin club, 547. Urges the strengthening of the Revolutionary Tribunal, 553. Deserts Robespierre, 554. Attacked in the convention, 559. Arrested, 561. Enmity shown him on his way to the prison at Oléron, 563. Escapes, 564. The Council of Five Hundred refuses to seat him, 565. Scorned but employed by Bonaparte, 568. Perhaps employed as a censor, 571. His rôle of spy, 573. Reports on public opinion, 575. His newspaper, 576. His reports refused a reading, 579. His double treason, 580. Becomes a royalist in 1814, 580. Exiled, 582. Turns Jacobin under Louis Philippe, 583. His ignorance and hatred of the English, 587. His professions of Christianity, 589.

Barillon, M., French ambassador, his opinion of the council proposed by Sir William Temple, ii. 556, 564.

Barwell, Mr., made councillor in India, iii. 144. Supports Hastings, 148.

Baxter, Richard, his testimony to the excellence of Hampden, ii. 4.

Beatrice, Dante's devotion to, i. 11.

Beaumarchais, his suit before the Parliament of Paris, ii. 440, 441.

Bedford, Duke of, head of a Whig faction, iii. 600. Opposed to Pitt's war policy, 613. His party compared to Rockingham's, 654.

Bedford, Earl of, invited by Charles I. to form an administration, ii. 40.

Bellasys, General, ii. 156.

Belphegor, Machiavelli's, i. 168.

Benares, its wealth, iii. 178, 179. Relation of the English to, 180. Revolution in, on the arrest of Cheyte Sing, 185. Conquered and added to British dominion, 187.