Part 32

Literature, ancient, proper examination of. State of literature as a calling, in the last century.

Literature of Britain, the, Speech on.

Livy, his faults and merits as a historian.

London, blessing of the great fire of. Riots in, in 1780.

Longinus, criticism on his work on the "Sublime."

Louis XIV., his bitter lamentations of his former extravagances. His character as a king.

Louis XV., condition of France when he came to the throne.

Louis XVI., his character. His position in 1792. His death.

Louis XVIII., leniency of his government at the Restoration.

Love, honourable and chivalrous, unknown to the Greeks. The passion as delineated in the Roman poets. What is implied in the modern sense of the word love. Change undergone in the nature of the passion of love in the middle ages.

Lycurgus, his mistaken principles of legislation. His system of domestic slavery.

Lyons, cruelties of the Jacobins at. Barere's proposal to utterly annihilate it.

Lysander, depressed by the constitution of Lycyrgus.

Macflecnoe, of Dryden, character of the.

Machiavelli, character of his history.

Macpherson, his forgery of Fingal. Threatens Dr Johnson.

Malkin, Sir Benjamin Heath, epitaph on.

Malthus, Mr, attacked by Mr Sadler.

Man, the contemplation of, the noblest earthly object of man.

Marat, his murmurs against Barere. His death.

Marcellus, the counterfeit oration for.

Marie Antoinette, Queen, Barere's account of the death of. Brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal on the motion of Barere. Her execution.

Martyn, Henry, epitaph on.

Maynooth, Speech on.

Medical science, Petrarch's invectives on the.

Melville, Lord, his impeachment.

Memoirs, popularity of, as compared with that of history.

"Memorial Antibritannique," the, of Barere.