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116.
115. Pragmatical meddling with other men's matters
Oliver Cromwell-his speech to Sir Matthew Hale.
Toleration of Christianity under Valerian
Political hatred
117.
118.
119. The Emperor Majorian, his zeal in preserving the
147.
Indifference to outward circumstances
Character of Thomas Cromwell
What kind of knowledge a student ought to attain
Ridicule, the talent of ungenerous tempers.
Letter to the Duke of Grafton
The original political state of the Roman Commons
148. Latter days of Oliver Cromwell
149. Agriculture
150. Argument for love of God
151. Prospect of death
152.
The danger of procrastination
153.
The virtue of a commander
154.
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
Junius
T. Arnold
D. Hume
155.
Character of John Hampden.
Character of the Barbarians
156. Sylla, apparent inconsistency in his character
157. Cicero
158. Certain imputations against learning
159.
Cardinal Wolsey
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
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-
Conyers Middleton
Lord Herbert
R. Southey
Long's Plutarch J. Taylor
J. 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
189. Intellect of Adam in Paradise
190. Cicero, his want of fortitude
191.
Death of Lorenzo de Medici
192. Extravagance
193.
194.
195.
196.
.
Want of earnestness about life
Dissemination of falsehood
Character of William Villiers, Lord Viscount Grand-
Cæsar's passage of the Rubicon
197. Discipline in a regiment how best promoted
198. Sir W. Temple, his remonstrance with Charles II. .
Cortes appointed commander by Velasquez.
Introduction to History of England.
219. Profligacy of politicians in the reign of Charles II..
Cicero
220.
221.
222.
223.
Charles the Fifth, his resignation of his dominions
Bountifulness of nature
The battle of Salices, A.D. 377
224. Perception of the sublime
225. Vestiges of the past
226. Salutary innovation
227. London after the battle of the Boyne
The arts and sciences.
Antiquity of the Jews, a great prerogative
241. Queen Elizabeth and the sovereignty of the United
242.
243.
244.
245.
Provinces
Norman Conquest, extraordinary facility of.
Character of Caius Marius
Constitutions, when most to be commended.
Battle of Marston Moor, fought July, A.D. 1644
246. Cromwell and the title of King
247. Reflection on the tombs in Westminster Abbey
C. Burke
Sir R. Steele
Lord Bolingbroke W. Roscoe Sir R. Steele
C. Merivale
R. Ascham
Bishop Hall
W. Roscoe
H. Coleridge
1. Barrow
J. Ruskin
7. A. Froude
Lord Brougham
J. Selden
Sir W. Ralegh
A. Cowley
Sir W. Scott
O. Goldsmith
A. Sydney
248. Fortune, mistaken notions concerning her
249.
252.
Constantine the Great-his vast prodigality.
250. Gradual development of the English Constitution
251. Enquiry into the nature of the understanding
National Assembly of France, their constraint
253. Augustus' resignation of his usurped power.
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
257. Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots.
258. The desire of communicating knowledge
254.
259.
260.
The Emperor Julian-his initiation and fanaticism
Considerations on death
261. 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
265. Letter to Romilly on Fontenelle
266. English taste for the Italian opera
267. Twofold type of character common among men
268. William the Third, coldness of his manners.
269. Trial of Algernon Sydney, A.D. 1683
270.
271.
272.
273.
Mischievous effects of unseasonable liberty
The reduction of Veii by M. Furius Camillus
Character of the Spanish inquisition.
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.
287.
288.
Character of Charles II
Riches are unable to confer real happiness
Nature and situation of the castle of Dumbarton
289. An African's speech
290.
Warren Hastings, brought to the Bar of the House
291. Virgil-his Æneid and its defects
Advice to those living in bondage to the world
294 Sympathetic revenge a duty
295. The true test of a good government
296.
297.
208.
299.
300.
301.
302.
303.
304.
Deliberations of the seven Magians
The wisest men think for themselves
Man's happiness regulated by his own behaviour
Benefits of truthfulness
Advice to Prince Henry Frederick
Lord Bacon, his demeanour at his impeachment
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
311. Cardinal Wolsey, his character
312. Retrospect of life, suggestive of humility
313. Frederic, Count of Schomberg.
314 The Carnatic
315.
316.
Of Self-praise
Every man's business is no man's
Sir T. Browne
J. Locke
G. Buchanan
H. Mackenzie
E Gibbon
J. Taylor
Sir C. Bell
R. Bentley
Mirabeau
J. Addison
B. G. Niebuhr
W. H. Prescott
B. Jonson
H. Hallam
326. American hunting
327. Letter to H. Cromwell
328. Mental sufferings
329.
330.
331.
Excessive anxiety for life
The siege of Gloucester raised, A. D. 1643
Innate goodness of nature
332. Of Falsehood
333-4. The being of God proved
335.
336.
Mentem e caelesti demissam traximus arce
Our incapacity to discover all things in the world
337. Elizabeth, Queen of King Edward IV
338.
Sickness of Queen Elizabeth
339. A Jewish tradition concerning Moses
340.
341.
342.
National troubles and personal happiness
National character,-its source and development
Reason and fancy
343. The men of the eighteenth Century.
344.
Alaric accepts a ransom from the Romans
345. Qualities requisite for good government
346. The probability of the Resurrection
347. A letter from Sir William Temple
348. A letter from the Earl of Orford to General Churchill
349.
Transformations of language.
350. Relation of the States of the Latin name to Rome
35I.
Professions of latitudinarianism
352. Pompey the Great-his miserable death
353. Too high opinions of human nature
354. Poverty-how regarded by poets and philosophers.
Virtue has not its full scope here
358-9. An ideal perfectly virtuous kingdom
360. 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
368. 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
370.
372.
373.
374-
375.
376.
377.
Close of last speech against Warren Hastings
Character of King James the First.
Of Dissimulation
Gulliver and the ships of the Blefuscudians
Desire of perfection-not always commendable
Letter
378. Successive growth and decay of plants
379. Mustapha, heir to Solyman the Magnificent
380. Character of Henry VIII, king of England
381. Letter to his Mother on the loss of his Aunt
382. The evidences of Christianity
383. Proper employment of time
384. Effects of a life of labour on the poor
385. Prevalent fashion of censuring public officers
386. Lady Jane Grey accepts the crown
S. Parr
7. Hughes
E. Gibbons
J. Pearson Sir W. Temple
S. Johnson T. Arnold J. J. Blunt Conyers Middleton O. Goldsmith S. Johnson
Life as a state of probation
401. Siege of Badajoz, A. D. 1812
402.
403.
404.
Motion for the repeal of the American Stamp Act
The Villa Pliniana on the Lake of Como
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
Political discontents
409.
410.
411-12.
Moderation in both circumstances
The highest prosperity a forerunner of decay
Charles V. in the expedition against Algiers
413.
414.
415.
Letter to Mr Nicholls.
416. The origin of mourning apparel
417-18. Character of Julius Cæsar
419.
420.
421.
422.
423.
Emulation not to be confined to a narrow sphere
The sedatives of anger
Canning on the Spanish cause, A.D. 1809
Sir John Moore
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.
434. Preservation of the purity of a language-a great
Excellencies of the Greek and Roman historians
Defeat and death of Valens, A.D. 378
439. Empire of reason so called
440. Charles I.-his escape from Hampton Court
44I.
What constitutes intemperateness
442. Spirit of the English Constitution
443. The reality of what is truly before us
444. Pervading influence of ambition
445. The English language-its gradual improvement
446. The retreat from Moscow
447. Scene in Rasselas
F. Milton
H. Felton
7. Ruskin
J. Hughes
T. Burnet
Lord Lyttelton
H. Vaughan