Public service, means of rewarding it necessary in every state, ii. 330.
Punishment, considerations necessary to be observed in inflicting it, iv. 466; vi. 245. under the Saxon laws, extremely moderate, vii. 321.
Purveyance and receipt in kind, what, ii. 306. taken away by the 12th Charles II., ii. 306. revived the next year, ii. 306.
Pythagoras, his discipline contrasted with that of Socrates, vii. 179. why silence enjoined by him, vii. 179.
Raimond, Count of Toulouse, engages in the Crusade, vii. 372.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, abusive epithet applied to him by Lord Coke, xi. 175.
Reason, sound, no real virtue without it, iv. 24. never inconvenient but when it comes to be applied, vi. 326.
Reasoners, men generally the worse reasoners for having been ministers, i. 338.
Reformation, in government, should be early and temperate, ii. 280. and slow, iii. 456. different from change, v. 186. general observations on it, iii. 455; iv. 111; vi. 294; vii. 71. in England, has always proceeded upon the principle of reference to antiquity, iii. 272.
Reformation, the, observations on it, ii. 389. effects of it, iv. 319.
Reformers, English, character of them, iii. 430.
Regicide by establishment, what, v. 309.
Regicide Peace, Letters on, v. 233, 342, 384; vi. 9.
Religion, writers against it never set up any of their own, i. 7. effects of it on the colonists of America, ii. 122. the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort, iii. 350. the respect entertained for it in England, iii. 352. a strong sense of it necessary to those in power, iii. 354. mischievous consequences of changing it, except under strong conviction, iv. 453. the magistrate has a right to direct the exterior ceremonies of it, vii. 30. the Christian, in its rise overcame all opposition, vii. 25.
Religious opinions, not the only cause of enthusiasm, v. 361.
Repetition, of the same story, effect of it, iv. 328.
Report on the Affairs of India, Ninth, viii. 1. Eleventh, viii. 217. on the Lords' Journals, xi. 1. Vindication of, this Report from the Animadversions of Lord Thurlow, xi. 149.
Representation, ought to include both the ability and the property of a state, iii. 297. virtual, what, iv. 293. natural, what, v. 284. of America in the British Parliament, project of, i. 372. consideration of its difficulties, i. 373. of England, and that of France in the National Assembly, compared, iii. 481.
Representation to his Majesty on the Speech from the Throne, ii. 537.
Representative, his duty to his constituents, ii. 95, 281, 357.
Republican government, remarks on, iv. 109.
Reputation, public, how to be secured, ix. 341.
Resemblance, pleasing to the imagination, i. 87.
Responsibility of ministers of state, nature of it, iii. 501; v. 507.
Revenge, observations on, xi. 179.
Revenue, great importance of it to a state, iii. 534. its administration the sphere of every active virtue, iii. 535.
Revolution of 1688, diminished influence of the crown at that time how compensated, i. 445. principles of it contained in the Declaration of Right, iii. 252. the subversion of the old, and the settlement of the new government, inseparably combined in it, iv. 80. grounds of it, iv. 121. contrasted with the French Revolution, iii. 225.
Revolution in France, Reflections on the, iii. 231. general observations on it, iii. 220. characterized as a revolution of doctrine and theoretic dogma, iv. 319. contrasted with the English Revolution of 1688, iii. 225.
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