Part 61

Ugliness, the opposite to beauty, but not to proportion and fitness, i. 199. consistent with the sublime, i. 199.

Uniformity and succession of parts constitute the artificial infinite, i. 149.

Universal, nothing of this nature can be rationally affirmed or any moral or political subject, iv. 80.

Use, to be carefully attended to in most works of art, i. 154. use and habit not causes of pleasure, i. 180.

Vanity, nature and tendency of, iv. 26.

Variation, beautiful, why, i. 239.

Vastness, a cause of the sublime, i. 147. unity why necessary to it, i. 219.

Vattel, extracts from his Law of Nations, iv. 471.

Venice, its restrictions with respect to offices of state, iv. 249. origin of the republic, vii. 331. acquires the island of Cyprus, vii. 428. the only state in Europe which benefited by the Crusades, vii. 428.

Verbal description, a means of raising a stronger emotion than painting, i. 133.

Vice, the instances rare of an immediate transition to it from virtue, i. 421.

Vices, obscure and vulgar ones sometimes blended with eminent talents, iv. 26. in common society receive palliating names, xi. 177.

Vicinity, civil, law of, what, v. 322.

Virgil, his figure of Fame obscure, yet magnificent, i. 138. remarks on his combination of images at the mouth of hell, i. 146. an example from him of the sublime effect of an uncertain light, i. 161. and of the cries of animals, i. 162. and of powerful smells, i. 163. his picture of the murder of Priam, i. 259. of the Harpies, v. 187

Virtue, how far the idea of beauty may be applied to it, i. 190. description of the gradual extinguishment of it in public men, i. 421. will catch, as well as vice by contact, ii. 242. virtues which cause admiration, i. 188. virtues which engage the heart, i. 188.

Visual objects of great dimensions, why sublime, i. 217. effects of succession in them explained, i. 222.

Voters, more in the spirit of the English constitution to lessen than to enlarge their number, i. 370.

Wages, the rate of them has no direct relation, to the price of provisions, v. 136.

Wales, misgovernment of, by England, for two hundred years, ii. 148. alteration of the system in the reign of Henry VIII., ii. 150.

Wales, Frederick, Prince of, project of government devised in his court, i. 447. means adopted for its introduction and recommendation to popular favor, i. 451, 453. nature of the party formed for its support, i. 459. name of this party, i. 466. and of the new system, i. 466.

Walpole, Mr., (afterwards Sir Robert,) his character, iv. 128. extract from his speech in the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 129. forced into the war with Spain by popular clamor, v. 288. fault in his general proceeding, v. 289.

War, its original may be very far from being its principal purpose, i. 298. not easily reconciled with economy, i. 310. the ground of a political war, laborers and manufacturers not capable of conceiving, v. 38. of England with the French Republic, a war with an armed doctrine, v. 250. can never be carried on long against the will of the people, v. 283. general observations on, v. 318. the power of making it, why put under the discretion of the crown, v. 335. principle of the law of nations with regard to it, vi. 349.

Warwick, Earl of, proceedings in his trial, xi. 32.

Water, why venerated by the Druids, vii. 182.

Weakness, human, in adversity, never pitied by those who applaud prosperous folly and guilt, iv. 183.

Wealth, internal, consists in useful commodities as much as in gold and silver, i. 321. of a country, a standard by which to estimate the character of the government, iii. 402. can never rank first in England, iv. 327. ought always to be the servant of virtue and public honor, v. 242. remark of a foreigner on the display of it in the shops in London, v. 496.

Whigs, the great connection of, in the reign of Queen Anne, i. 529. the impeachment of Dr. Sacheverell, for what purpose carried on by them, iv. 119. statement of the principles of the new Whigs, iv. 120, 151. opinion of the new, with respect to the power of the people over the commonwealth, iv. 161. Appeal from the New to the Old, iv. 57.

Wilkes, Mr., his contest with the court party, i. 497. pretence for punishing him, i. 500.