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Giffard, Lady, sister of Sir William Temple, ii. 528, 529, 586, 597.

Gifford, Mr., the poet, admired by Byron, ii. 594.

Girondists, eminent men among, iii. 512. Refuse to sanction any excesses, 514. Oppose equivocally the king's execution, 515. Accused of federalism, 519. Their leaders condemned by Barère, 527. Their trial, 531. Executed, 532.

Gladstone, W. E., his book The State in its Relations with the Church, reviewed, ii. 600-669. Quality of his mind, 603. His grounds for the defence of the church, 605. His doctrine that the duties of government are paternal, 609. Specimen of his arguments, 610-613. His argument that the profession of a national religion is imperative, 611, 613, 617. The consequence of his reasoning, 620-628. Shrinks from the suggestion of persecution, 624. Fails to meet the consequences of his theory, 635. Considers difference of opinion unnatural, 641. Claims that the succession of the Anglican church was not broken in the Reformation, 645. Believes in unity in doctrine, 296.

Gleig, Rev. G. R., his Life of Warren Hastings reviewed, iii. 114.

Glover's Leonidas, compared with Fénelon's Telemachus, ii. 116.

Godfrey, Sir E., ii. 323.

Godolphin, Lord, becomes a Whig, ii. 176. Comes into power with Anne, iii. 423. Induces Addison to commemorate Blenheim, 426. Dismissed, 449.

Goëzman, bribed by Beaumarchais, ii. 440, 441.

Goldsmith, Oliver, character, i. 713. Pleasantry about Johnson, 740.

Goordas, Nuncomar's son, iii. 134.

Goree, conquest of, ii. 216.

Gorhambury, Bacon's country residence, ii. 421, 442.

Government, must be adapted to its body politic, i. 62. Aims of, according to James Mill, 386. His reasoning against aristocratic and monarchical, 387, 388. Combinations of the simple forms of, considered, 395. Folly of Mill's conclusion, 398. Representative, 403. Its weak points, 404. Correctives for the evil tendencies of representative, 410. Influence of the middle class on, 415. Theory of, deduced from principles of human nature in only one way, 419. Must be founded on experience, 421. Absurdity of utilitarian principle of, 468. Sensible view of monarchic, 472. Of constitutional, 475. Religion as the basis of, according to Southey, 520.

Grafton, Duke of, First Lord of the Treasury in Chatham's last ministry, iii. 669. Condition of that ministry after Chatham's retirement, 678.

Granby, Marquis of, his character, ii. 728.

Grand Alliance against the Bourbons, ii. 152.

Grand Remonstrance, Debate on, ii. 43.

"Great Commoner," the designation of the elder Pitt, ii. 281.

Greatest Happiness Principle, i. 418. Its uselessness, 452. Restated and assailed, 483. Not demonstrated in its later form by Mr. Bentham, 487.

Greece, review of Mr. Mitford's History of, i. 56-82. Errors of the historians of, 57, 58. Partly caused by their high estimation of later classic writers, 59. Military history of, 152. Progress of literature in, 204. All education oral in, 242. Absence of progress in political science in, 265. Instances of the corruption of judges in the ancient commonwealths of, ii. 431.

Greek Drama, derived from the Ode, i. 95.

Greeks, their attitude toward women, i. 25. See Athenians.

Grenville, George, opposed to Pitt's war policy, iii. 613. Heads Bute's ministry in the Commons, 619. Supports Bute's excise bill, 634. Insulted by Pitt, 635. Becomes First Lord of the Treasury, 637. His characteristics, 638. Attacks Wilkes, 639, 642. Conduct toward the king, 644. His Stamp Act and Regency Bill, 647, 648. His vehement opposition to the repeal of the former, 663. Conciliation with Chatham, 680. Death, 681.

Grey, Lady Jane, her high classical acquirements, ii. 368.

Guadaloupe, fall of, ii. 276.

Guicciardini, ii. 64.

Guise, Henry, Duke of, his conduct compared to that of Essex, ii. 389.