Part 59

Speech of Mr. Burke on American Taxation, ii. 1. at his Arrival at Bristol, ii. 85. at the Conclusion of the Poll, ii. 89. on Conciliation with America, ii. 99. on Economical Reform, ii. 265. previous to the Election in 1780, ii. 365. on Declining the Poll, ii. 425. on Mr. Fox's East India Bill, ii. 431. on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts, iii. 1. on the Army Estimates, iii. 211. on the Acts of Uniformity, vii. 3. on the Relief of Protestant Dissenters, vii. 21. on the Petition of the Unitarians, vii. 39. on the Middlesex Election, vii. 59. on Shortening the Duration of Parliaments, vii. 69. on Reform of the Representation of the Commons in Parliament, vii. 89. on the Powers of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels, vii. 105. on the Repeal of the Marriage Act, vii. 129. on Dormant Claims of the Church, vii. 137. in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, ix. 327-x. 145; x. 147-451; xi. 155-xii. 393.

Spelman, Sir Henry, his difficulties in the study of the law, vii. 477.

Spirituous liquors, beneficial effects of them, v. 164.

Spon, M., his curious story of Campanella, i. 212.

Spring, why the pleasantest of the seasons, i. 153.

Stability, one of the requisites of a good peace, i. 295.

Stafford, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 31. remarks on the prosecution, xi. 112.

Stamp Act, American, its origin, i. 385. repeal of it, i. 389; ii. 47. motives for the repeal, i. 391, 399. good effects of the repeal, i. 401; ii. 59.

Stanhope, General, extracts from his speech at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 127.

Starry heaven, why productive of the idea of grandeur, i. 154.

State, the, meaning of the term, iv, 248. consideration of its fitness for an oligarchical form, connected with the question of vesting it solely in some one description of citizens, iv. 251. not subject to laws analogous to those of physical life, v. 124, 234. the internal causes affecting the fortunes of states uncertain and obscure, v. 235. great irregularities in their rise, culmination, and decline, v. 235. in a conflict between equally powerful states, an infinite advantage afforded by unyielding determination, v. 243.

Statesmen, duties of, i. 436; v. 167. standard of one, iii. 440. difference between them and professors in universities, vii. 41.

Stephen, brief account of his reign, vii. 386.

Stonehenge, wherein an object of admiration, i. 153; vii. 179.

Stones, rude ones, why objects of veneration, vii. 185.

Strafford, Earl of, proceedings in his trial, xi. 14. 113.

Sublime, sources of it, i. 110. the strongest emotion of the mind, i. 110. in all things abhors mediocrity, i. 157.

Sublime and Beautiful, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the, i. 67. stand on very different foundations, i. 192. comparison between them, i. 205. on the efficient cause of them, i. 208.

Succession, hereditary, the principle of it recognized at the Revolution, iii. 252.

Succession, in visual objects, effects of it explained, i. 222.

Suddenness, a source of the sublime, i. 160.

Suffering, the force to endure, needful to those who aspire to act greatly, v. 250.

Sujah ul Dowlah, his character, xi. 373.

Sully, M. de, an observation of his on revolutions in great states, i. 441.

Superstition, nature of it, iii. 442.

Surplus produce, nature and application of it, iii. 444.

Sweetness, its nature, i. 235. relaxing, i. 237.

Swift, Dr., a saying of his concerning public benefactors, ii. 472.