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115. Pragmatical meddling with other men's matters
116. Oliver Cromwell-his speech to Sir Matthew Hale.
117. Toleration of Christianity under Valerian
119. The Emperor Majorian, his zeal in preserving the
ancient edifices of Rome
120. English and French Gardens.
121. Gaiety and good humour
122. Felicity and industry
123. M. Porcius Cato repulsed from the Consulship
124. Character of Justinian
125. Epitaphs
126. Universal happiness—plan for devising impossible
127.
True standard of the arts
128. Letter
129. Marie Antoinette
Warren Hastings-his appearance on his trial
Resentment
130.
131.
Our natural faculties limited
Human nature, by whom vilified
135. Of the true greatness of kingdoms
136. The force of custom in regard to a future life
137
Astronomy
138. Character of Oliver Cromwell
139. Benefits of learning
140.
How flatterers are to be avoided
141. Man's ingratitude
142. Indifference to outward circumstances
143. Character of Thomas Cromwell
144.
What kind of knowledge a student ought to attain
145. Ridicule, the talent of ungenerous tempers .
147. The original political state of the Roman Commons
148. Latter days of Oliver Cromwell
160. The estimate of an enemy as well as a friend de-
serves attention
161. Prospect of the ruins of Rome in the 15th century
162. Nelson.
R. South
E. Burke
E. Gibbon
7. Addison
S. Johnson
Sir H. Wotton
Lord Macaulay
Lord Bacon
Lord Clarendon
N. Machiavelli
W. Paley
Lord Bolingbroke
G. Burnet
I. Barrow
Funius
T. Arnold
D. Hume
166. Virtue requires trial and exercise
167. Visit to the site of the mansion of Cornelia
168. Impiety of Dionysius
169. The battle of Edge-hill, A.D. 1642
170. Effects of education upon character
171. The English Ambassador at the court of the Em-
176. Talent of ridicule in the possession of an ill-condi-
7. Milton
W. Robertson
183. Excess of care
184. Contemplation of death
185. Superficial, not sound learning inimical to Religion
186. The cavaliers, their claims on Royal favour.
187. Arguments of the Royalists .
188.
Character
196. Cæsar's passage of the Rubicon
197. Discipline in a regiment how best promoted
Sir R. Steele
W. Roscoe
C. Merivale
198. Sir W. Temple, his remonstrance with Charles II.. D. Hume
The Duke of York and Marshal Turenne
Sad issue of eminent merit
202. Learning insures immortality
.
203. Muley-Hascen restored to the kingdom of Tunis
Death of Lorenzo de' Medici.
216. Lady Jane Grey and Edward
217. Cortes appointed commander by Velasquez.
218. Introduction to History of England.
219. Profligacy of politicians in the reign of Charles II.
Charles the Fifth, his resignation of his dominions.
Bountifulness of nature
223. The battle of Salices, A.D. 377
224. Perception of the sublime
225. Vestiges of the past
226. Salutary innovation
240. Antiquity of the Jews, a great prerogative
241. Queen Elizabeth and the sovereignty of the United
244. Constitutions, when most to be commended.
Battle of Marston Moor, fought July, A.D. 1644
246. Cromwell and the title of King
245.
247. Reflection on the tombs in Westminster Abbey
R. Ascham
F. Addison
Bishop Hall
H. Coleridge
F. Ruskin
J. A. Froude
Lord Brougham
F. Selden
Sir W. Ralegh
A. Cowley
Conyers Middleton
Sir W. Scott
O. Goldsmith
A. Sydney
248. Fortune, mistaken notions concerning her
249. Constantine the Great-his vast prodigality.
250. Gradual development of the English Constitution
251. Enquiry into the nature of the understanding
252. National Assembly of France, their constraint
253. Augustus' resignation of his usurped power.
254.
Introduction to the apology for Smectymnus
255. Henry VIII. and the Emperor Charles V.
256 Orders of both Houses for subscribing money and
plate for the defence of the king refused, A.D. 1642
Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots.
The desire of communicating knowledge
257.
258.
259.
261.
The Emperor Julian-his initiation and fanaticism.
y 260. Considerations on death
Character of King Charles I..
262. Preference of the right hand, natural to man
263. Character of Queen Elizabeth
264. Atheists their foolish credulity concerning atoms Letter to Romilly on Fontenelle
265.
266. English taste for the Italian opera
267. Twofold type of character conimon among men
268. William the Third, coldness of his manners.
269. Trial of Algernon Sydney, A.D. 1683
270. Mischievous effects of unseasonable liberty
The reduction of Veii by M. Furius Camillus
Character of the Spanish inquisition.
271.
272.
273-
Paramount value of good counsellors to princes
274. Character of King Charles I.
275- Operations before the battle of Flodden-field
276. Prospect of death-pleasure of-to the righteous
277. Preparation for death
278. Eagerness for emigration in America
279. Character of an hyperbolical fop by Seneca
280-2. Devastation of the Carnatic by Hyder Ali Khan
283. Eloquence, how it differs from the other fine arts
284. Christians ought to live as they would die
285. The Gonfaloniere di Justicia at Florence
286.
Character of Charles II
287. Riches are unable to confer real happiness
288.
Nature and situation of the castle of Dumbarton
289. An African's speech
Sir T. Browne
7. Locke
J. Milton
G. Buchanan
290. Warren Hastings, brought to the Bar of the House
291. Virgil-his Æneid and its defects
292. Letter
293.
Advice to those living in bondage to the world
294. Sympathetic revenge a duty.
295.
The true test of a good government
296. Deliberations of the seven Magians
The wisest men think for themselves
297.
298. Man's happiness regulated by his own behaviour
Benefits of truthfulness
299.
300.
30L.
303.
304.
Advice to Prince Henry Frederick .
Lord Bacon, his demeanour at his impeachment
302. Effects of usurious transactions in the Carnatic
Prudence cannot always command success
The Earls of Lanrick and Lautherdale
305. Justice is slow-injury quick and rapid
306. Plato, his illustrations of moral instruction
307. Augustus Cæsar-character of his sovereignty
308. A mercenary war difficult to be sustained
309. Knowledge increases power
310. A walk upon the sea-shore
7. Taylor
Sir C. Bell
R. Bentley
Mirabeau
B. G. Niebuhr
W. H. Prescott
B. Jonson
H. Hallam
Lord Herbert
333-4. The being of God proved
335.
Mentem e caelesti demissam traximus arce
336. Our incapacity to discover all things in the world
337. Elizabeth, Queen of King Edward IV
338. Sickness of Queen Elizabeth.
339.
340.
34.
342.
343.
344.
A Jewish tradition concerning Moses
National troubles and personal happiness
National character,-its source and development
Reason and fancy
The men of the eighteenth Century
Alaric accepts a ransom from the Romans
345. Qualities requisite for good government
The probability of the Resurrection.
345.
347.
A letter from Sir William Temple
348.
349.
A letter from the Earl of Orford to General Churchill
Transformations of language.
350. Relation of the States of the Latin name to Rome.
Professions of latitudinarianism
351.
352. Pompey the Great-his miserable death
353.
Too high opinions of human nature.
354. Poverty-how regarded by poets and philosophers.
355. State of England after the Battle of Bosworth
356. Majorian-his epistle to the senate
357.
Virtue has not its full scope here
358-9. An ideal perfectly virtuous kingdom
Character of Sir Robert Walpole
361. Inequalities of fortune
362. Knowledge of first principles, how attained
363. Advantage of the uncertainty of death
364. The happiness of sentient beings
365. The Gentoos-their distribution into castes.
366. Wellington's attack at Salamanca, A. D. 1812
367. Adventure at the battle of Naseby, A. D. 1645
363. The Earl of Essex seizes Cirencester, A. D. 1643
369. Story of King Henry VII. and an astrologer
British Government in India, A.D. 1783
371. Painful memory of departed folly
397. Character
398. Massacre during the French Revolution
399. Foreign government of Italy
400. Life as a state of probation
401. Siege of Badajoz, A. D. 1812
402. Motion for the repeal of the American Stamp Act
403. The Villa Pliniana on the Lake of Como
404. Repulse of the Tlascalans by Cortes, A. D. 1519
405. The successive stages of intellectual progress
406. Death of Nicholas di Rienzi, A. D. 1354
407. Devoted patriotism
408. Disadvantages of an exalted reputation
409. Political discontents
410. Moderation in both circumstances
411-12. The highest prosperity a forerunner of decay
413. Charles V. in the expedition against Algiers
414. Letter
415. Letter to Mr Nicholls
416. The origin of mourning apparel
417-18. Character of Julius Cæsar
419. Emulation not to be confined to a narrow sphere
420. The sedatives of anger
421. Canning on the Spanish cause, A. D. 1809
422. Sir John Moore
423. Lord Raglan-his conduct in the Crimean campaign
424. Enterprising spirit of the Carthaginian government
425. Distinct species of oratory
426. The Sienese and Charles V. and Cosmo De' Medici
427. Death
428. Edwin and his pagan priesthood, A. D. 597
429. Parallel between Lysias and Isæus
430. Marshal Ney-his betrayal of the Bourbons
431. The Spaniards-justification of
432. Plato and Seneca on the uses of adversity
433. Warren Hastings
434. Preservation of the purity of a language-a great
benefit to society
435. A letter on the qualifications of an historian .
436. Proneness to look into futurity
437. Excellencies of the Greek and Roman historians
439. Empire of reason so called
What constitutes intemperateness
442. Spirit of the English Constitution
R. Southey
W. F. P. Napier
Sir W. Jones
H. H. Milman
H. Felton
438. Defeat and death of Valens, A. D. 378
440. Charles I.-his escape from Hampton Court
441.
443. The reality of what is truly before us
444. Pervading influence of ambition
J. Hughes
445. The English language-its gradual improvement
446. The retreat from Moscow
447. Scene in Rasselas
448. Description of the Campagna of Rome under even-
ing light
7. Ruskin
449. The ocean dried up
T. Burnet
450. The world a heap of ruins
451. Story of Malcolm III. king of Scotland
452. Of Agriculture
453. The praise of a country life
454. Qualification of women for rule
Lord Lyttelton
H. Vaughan