Part 58

Saracens, their fierce irruptions and conquests, vii. 328.

Savile, Sir George, his bill for the repeal of the statute of William III. against Papists, ii. 396. his character, ii. 397.

Saxons, a brief account of their laws and institutions, vii. 291. under their rule, the succession to the crown in England partly hereditary and partly elective, vii. 297. their laws wholly abolished in England since the Conquest, vii. 478. sources of them, vii. 487.

Scarcity, Thoughts and Details on, v. 131. proper policy in respect to the poor, in times of, v. 156.

Scotland, beneficial effects on trade of its union with England, ii. 254. its Church establishment under the Union, iv. 258.

Scripture, indefinite nature of subscription to it, vii. 18.

Scythians, all Northern Europe originally inhabited by them, vii. 160.

Selden, his statement of the Parliamentary practice in the examination of witnesses, xi. 108.

Self-preservation, the passions which concern it the strongest ones, i. 110. the sublime an idea belonging to it, i. 164.

Senses, general remarks on them, i. 82. ought to be put under the tuition of the judgment, iii. 15.

Serpent, why an object of idolatry, vii. 184.

Shakspeare, his description of the king's army in Henry IV. an example of the sublime, i. 155.

Shelburne, Lord, animadversions on a passage in a speech of his, ii. 544.

Silence, why enjoined by Pythagoras and the Druids, vii. 178.

Sirach, Son of, fine example of the sublime from his Book of Wisdom, i. 155.

Slaves, never so beneficial to their masters as freemen, v. 147.

Smells, a source of the sublime, i. 162.

Smith, Sir Sydney, Captain, observations on his case, v. 400.

Smoothness, why beautiful, i. 234.

Social nature, the, impels a man to propagate his principles, v. 361.

Society, Natural, A Vindication of, i. 1. definition of the term, i. 11. notion of, how first introduced, i. 11. political society, its nature and origin, i. 11; iii. 359; iv. 165. its continuance under a permanent covenant, iii. 359; iv. 165. the great purpose of it, what, vi. 333. society and solitude compared, as sources of pleasure or pain, i. 115.

Socrates, his discipline contrasted with that of Pythagoras, vii. 179.

Solitude, something may be done in it for society, v. 125.

Somers, Lord, the Declaration of Right drawn by him, iii. 254.

Sophia, the Princess, why named in the Act of Settlement as the root of inheritance to the kings of England, iii. 262.

Sophia, St., Church of, anecdote of the Greeks assembled there, at the taking of Constantinople, vi. 96.

Sound, a source of the sublime, i. 159. grand effect of a single one of some strength repeated after intervals, i. 160. a low, tremulous, intermitting one productive of the sublime, i. 160. the beautiful in sounds, i. 203.

Spain, how likely to be affected by the revolution in France, iv. 339. not a substantive power, iv. 385.