43; we should endanger our-
selves rather than the public, ib.
Death not terrible to the great and
good, 271.

Debts forgiven, etc., 109, 110; gov-
ernors should hinder people from
running into debt, 112.
Deceit frees a man from being
bound by his promise, 18.
Decency (or gracefulness) observed

by a man only, 9; inseparable
from honesty, 48; is seen in all
the parts of honesty, ib.; two
sorts of it universal and particu-
lar, 49; draws the approbation
of all, 50; relates both to body
and mind, ib.; nothing decent
that is contrary to a man's
genius, 51; decency of living
according to universal nature,
50, 52; according to each man's
particular one, 55; according to
one's place or station in the
world, 58; is seen in our words,
actions, etc., 62; in our eyes,
hands, etc., 63.

Decorum of the poets, 49.
Defending more laudable than to
accuse, 96; to defend a guilty
person lawful, 97.

Define; the subject of a discourse
ought to be defined at the be-
ginning, 7.

Deliberation, five heads of it, 8; in

some cases sinful, 120, 129.
Demet. Phalereus, who he was, 2;
blames Pericles, 102.
Demetrius forsaken by the Macc-
donians, 86.

Demosthenes, a hearer of Plato, 2;
at what age he began his study,
94.
Desire of riches, etc.; see Avarice,
Ambition.

Despising different from having a
bad opinion of, 91.
Dicæarchus's book about the De-
struction of Men, 82.
Difficult subjects; see Study. Diffi-
culty makes a thing more honor-
able, 34.

134.

Dion taught by Plato, 75.
Dionysius, the Sicilian tyrant, 85.
Direct a wandering traveler, 28.
Discourse: variety in men's ways
of it, 55; not to be dressed up
with Greek expressions, 56; of
two sorts, 65, 95; common dis-
course should be easy, etc., ib. ;
free from passion, etc., 67; should
be agreeable to the subject we
discourse upon, 65, 69.
Disputing of two sorts, by reason
and by force, 21.
Dissimulation should be excluded,
138.

Dolus malus, what, 137; punished
by the civil laws, 139.
Donations to the people, when al-
lowable, 101, 102.

Doubt: we should do nothing of

which we doubt whether it is
honest or not, 18; in cases of
doubt ask experienced men's ad-
vice, 70.

Dunlop, John, quoted, 307.
Dreams evince the immortality of
the soul, 257; not prophetic,
289.

Duties: the whole subject of them
consists of two parts, 7; middle
and perfect ones, ib., 119, 120;
incumbent on us in every part
of our lives, 3; greater ones to
take place before less, 18; duty
to parents adorns a young man,

94.

Dymond, Jonathan, quoted, 24, 44,
56, 93, 97, 128, 154, 179.

EARTH, the, its diminutiveness in
the universe, 292; too wide to
be pervaded by fame, 296.
Edmonds, C. R., quoted, 226.
Education of youth a laudable em-
ployment, 73; makes many use-
ful men, etc., 75.

Edwards, Jonathan, quoted, 4.
Effeminacy to be avoided, 143;
see Niceness. Its signification,

54.

Health, how to be preserved, 112.
Heaven; a certain place in it as-
signed to patriots, 290; magni-
tude of 292; what constitutes a
cycle of the heavens, 298.
Hecaton the Rhodian, 139, 152.
Help; not to help the injured, if

we can, is injustice, 15.
Hercules sees too ways, 59; is
placed among the gods, 123.
Herillus exploded, 6.
Herodotus the historian, 92.
Hesiod's rule, 27.

Hire; the worst means of winning
men to our side, 84.
Honestum, whence it results, 11;
laudable in itself, ib.; would
make the world in love with it,
could it be seen, ib.; shows it-
self by its own brightness, 18;
entitles a man to our liberality,
26, 27, 106; more especially de-
serves our study, 80; naturally
pleases men, 89; is the same
with profit, 118, 128, etc.; hon-
est man, who, 146.

Honor; the desire of it tempts men
to injustice, 147.

Horace, quoted, 7, 123, 238, 266,
316.

Hortensius, ædile, 101; uses a false
will, 144.

Hospitality to be kept by great
men, 68; praised deservedly by
Theophrastus, 104.

Hostis, its signification among the
old Romans, 22.

Hot counsels and designs preferred
by some, 42.

House; of what sort becomes a
great man, 68; the master should
be an honor to his house, ib.
Humility requisite in prosperity, 47.
Hume, David, quoted, 9, 25, 56,
65, 120, 123, 143, 248.
Hunting; a manly recreation, 53.
Hypocrisy should be banished out

of the world, 138; repugnant to
friendship, 209.

JESTING, in what kind and degree
allowable, 53.

Immortality of the soul asserted,
174, 175; its return to heaven
the most ready in the case of the
virtuous and the just, 176, 302;
if the doctrine is false, death is
no evil, 177, 262; argued from
the uncompounded nature of the
soul, 256; from the phenomena
of sleep, 257; held by the Italian
philosophers, 255; aspired after
by the greatest men, 260; glori-
ous hopes connected with it,
brings about the re-union of the
good in heaven, 261.
Improvising; the practice of the
Greeks, 178.

Individuals; nothing to be done
for them that is a damage to the
public, 107; should not have
interests separate from the pub-
lic, 124.

Inheritance; the best a father can
leave to his son, is the fame of
his virtues, 60.

Injuries; two ways of doing them,
25; injuring others most con-
trary to nature, 122.
Injustice of two sorts, and the
causes of each, 15-17; the
greatest, which is done under
the mask of honesty, 25.
Innocent persons, never to be ac-
cused, 97.

Interest draws one way, and hon-

esty another, 8; no base thing
can be any man's interest, 146;
should be measured by justice,

150.

Isocrates, contrary to Aristotle, 2.

JOHNSON, Dr. Samuel, quoted, 34,
35, 46, 58, 61, 206, 209, 219,
232, 246, 249, 266, 269, 284,
286, 296, 322, 369.
Judges' duty, 97.

Justice, the most splendid virtue,
13; makes men be called good,
ib., 91; the duties of it, 13; is
altered upon an alteration of
the circumstances, 18; to be
kept toward those that have in-
jured us, and cuemies, 21; to-

ward the meanest, such as
slaves, 25; is the only way of
obtaining our ends, 80; makes
men trust us more than pru-
dence, 89; no man just who is
afraid of death, etc., 91; justice
gets us all the three ingredients
of glory, ib.; is necessary for all
men, even pirates, ib.; kings
were at first chosen, and laws
made for the sake of it, 92; no
credit can be lasting that is not
built upon it, 106; is the queen
of all virtues, 124; nothing prof-
itable that is contrary to it, 152,
etc.

Juvenal, quoted, 210, 220, 279,
311, 334.

KINDNESSES should be done to
honest rather than great men,
106; not to be done to one, by
injuring another, ib.; sco Bene-
fits.

Kings formerly chosen for their
justice, 92; no faith in case of a
kingdom, 16; justice violated for
a kingdom, 150; many treacher-
ous, and but few faithful to
kings, ib.

Knowledge, how desired, etc., by
men, 10, 12; must give place to
action, 74; is a barren accom-
plishment, without justice, 75;
that of honesty best, 78, 80, 118.
Knavery to be avoided, 80; few
actions wholly free from it, 133.
See Dolus malus.

LACEDEMONIANS, Plato's observ-

ation of them, 33; ruined by
Epaminondas, 43; forsaken by
their allies, 86; murder their
king Agis, etc., 110.

Lælius, C., chief speaker in the
dialogue on Friendship, 172, etc.
Lætorius's law, 138.

Lamartine, A. de, quoted, 298.
Language; see Discourse.
Largi, of two sorts, 100.
Latin to be joined with Greek, 1.
Laws, a malicious interpretation

of them a means of roguery, 19;
punish offenders according to
justice, 46; why first invented,
92; use the same language to
all conditions, ib.; the knowl-
edge of them creditable at Rome,
104; give a man opportunities
of obliging, ib.; the end and de-
sign of them, 122; how they
root out frauds, 142; the law of
nations different from that of
particular cities, ib.; Roman law
taken from nature, and its ex-
cellence, ib.; law of nature taken
in all men, 124; law-suits to be
avoided, 103.

Learners, how best corrected, 70.
Learning, who may be allowed to

give themselves up to the study
of it, 36; is a pleasure, not a
labor, 116.

Letters, how to be expressed, 65.
Leveling estates destructive, etc.,
107.

Liberality, three cautions to bo ob-

served in it, 25; must be govern-
ed by justice, ib.; to give to one
what is taken from another not
liberality, ib.; to whom it should
be most shown, 26, 32, 104, 106,
moves the people's love, 98; con-
sists in doing kindnesses either
by money or labor; the latter
preferable, 15; has got no bot-
tom, ib.; how the liberal dis-
pose of their money, 16.
Liberty ought to be most of all
contended for, 35; wherein it
consists, ib.; bites deeper after
it has been chained, 85.
Life of retirement, and that of pub-
lic business compared, 37; seve-
ral men take several ways of
life, 58; the difficulty of choosing
a way of life; and what chiefly
to be regarded in it, 58, 59;
should not easily be changed,
CO; how such change should be
made, ib.
Little indecencies especially to be
avoided, 70; in the least things
we observe what is becoming, ib.