Part 30

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.