Part 58

Jacobins, their origin, ii. 72. As a party in the French convention, urge the execution of the king, iii. 516. Supported by the Paris mob, 519. Condemn Marie Antoinette, 528. And the Girondists, 532. Begin the Reign of Terror, 533. Incapacity of their leaders, 537. Attack on Robespierre's faction, 553. End of their power, 556, 563.

James I., his folly and weakness, ii. 11. Resembled Claudius Cæsar, 12. Court paid to him by the English courtiers before the death of Elizabeth, 398. His twofold character, 398. His favorable reception of Bacon, 399. His anxiety for the union of England and Scotland, 402. His employment of Bacon in perverting the laws, 403. His favors and attachment to Buckingham, 410, 411. Absoluteness of his government, 417. Summons Parliament, 422. His political blunders, 422, 423. His message to the Commons on the misconduct of Bacon, 425.

James II., death of, i. 151. Acknowledgment by Louis XIV. of his son as his successor, 152. The favorite of the High Church party, 328. His misgovernment, 329. His claims as a supporter of toleration, 329-332. His conduct toward Lord Rochester, 332. His union with Louis XIV., 333. His confidential advisers, 334. See York, Duke of.

Jardine, Mr., on the use of torture in England, ii. 408, note.

Jeffreys, Judge, cruelty of, ii. 329.

Jenyns, Soame, his Origin of Evil reviewed by Johnson, ii. 195.

Jesuit Order, its theory and practice regarding heretics, ii. 334. Its spirit and methods, iii. 20. Fall of, 41.

Jews, civil disabilities of, protested against, i. 641-655. Christianity of the government no barrier to removing their disabilities, 642. Political exclusion a form, not a fact, 644. Their aloofness merely a result of persecution, 646. Justice demands their fair treatment, 655.

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, his view of history, i. 243. Croker's Boswell's Johnson reviewed, 691-742. Disdain of a French lady's library, 693. Observations on Gibbon, 697. Sells the Vicar of Wakefield, 698. Dates of his university degrees, 699. Epigram of, censured, 701. Greatness of Boswell's life of, 711. Our intimate knowledge of, 716. His arrival in London, 717. Small hope of patronage, 720. Early poverty and misery, 721. Last of the Grub Street hacks, 724. Kindness of, 725. Disregard of small grievances, 726. Mixture of credulity and skepticism, 727. Sentiments on religion, 728. On politics, 730. Judgments on books, 731. How formed, 732. His opinion of certain works, 733. Observation of men and manners, 734. Remarks on society narrow, 735. Contempt of foreigners, 736. Of travel and history, 738. Mannerisms, 739. His singular destiny, 742. Friend of Dr. Burney, iii. 337. Fondness for Fanny Burney, 351.

Jones, Sir William, his distichs on a lawyer's division of time, i. 704.

Jonson, Ben, on Bacon's eloquence, ii. 378. Verses on the celebration of Bacon's sixtieth year, 421. Tribute to Bacon, 442.

Junius, probably Philip Francis, iii. 145.

Juvenal, Johnson's aspersions on, i. 700.

Keith, George, Earl Marischal of Scotland, at the court of Frederic the Great, iii. 279. Killed at Hochkirchen, 319.

Kimbolton, Lord, impeached, ii. 45.

King's Friends, a party under George III., iii. 659.

Kniperdoling and Robespierre, analogy between their followers, ii. 72.

Knowledge, advancement of society in, ii. 178, 301.

Labor, division of, ii. 606.

Labourdonnais, his talents, ii. 677. His treatment by the French government, 757.

Lacedæmon, causes of the silent but rapid downfall of, i. 54, note.

La Fontaine, his character, i. 713.

Lalla Rookh, similes in, ii. 489.

Lally, Governor, ii. 758.

Lamb, Charles, defends the dramatists of the Restoration, iii. 53.

Las Torres, Count of, ii. 164, 165.

Latimer, Hugh, his popularity in London, ii. 433, 438.

Latin tongue in Dante's time, i. 1.