Locke, John, quoted, 14.
Love of themselves and offspring
in all animals, 10; love a stronger
motive to obedience than fear,
85, 86; how to be gained of the
people, 89; by what we are to
judge of men's love to us, 27;
we should do most for those by
whom we are loved most, ib.;
general love, and that of friend-
ship, how far necessary, 86.
Lucullus magnificent in building,

68.

Lycurgus the lawgiver of Sparta,

39.

Lying abominable, 72, 137; should
be banished from all commerce,
138; is inconsistent with the
character of a good man, 148.
Lysander enlarged the Spartan em-
pire, 38; crafty, 55; the Ephori
banished, 110.

Lysis, master of Epaminondas, 75.

MACEDONIANS desert Demetrius,
86; Paulus took the treasure of
Macedon, 109.

Mackintosh, Sir James, quoted, 3,
4, 7, 8, 29, 71.
Macknish, Dr. 288.

Magistrates' duties, 43, 44, 60, 108;
responsible for the acts of their
subordinates, 309; should prac-
tice rigor and impartiality, 313;
and discountenance calumny,

314.

Mamercus put by the consulship,

101.

Man, how different from brutes, 9,

53; not born for himself alone,
14; all things on earth made for
him, say the Stoics, ib.; we
should show a respect for all
men, 50; and desire to be
thought well of by them, ib.;
some are men in name only, 53;
men may be allowed some orna-
ments; but must avoid niceness,
63; naturally love society, 74,
75; do the most good and harm
to one another, 80-82; to pro-
cure their love the chief of virtue,

15

Metellus accused by Marius; and
Africanus's dissent, 45.
Metrodorus's opinion about happi-
ness, 166.

Milo got great honor, 101.
Milton, John, quoted, 16, 106, 160,
179.

Mind of man always in motion, 13;

consists in reason and appetite,
52, 64; decency to be kept in its
motions, 63; filthiness of the
mind more loathsome than of the
body, 160.

Moderation, what, 69; is best in
most things, 64.

Modesty, bashfulness, etc., 48; the
duties of them different from
those of justice, 50; forbids to
do or name some things, 63; the
Cynics argue against it, ib.;
nothing virtuous or becoming
without it, 72; sets off elo-
quence, especially in young men,

95.

Money; see Hire, Riches, etc.;
those tried with fire, who have
withstood its temptations, 91;
how best laid out, 100, 102, 103;
bad money should not be put
away, 154.

Montaigne, quoted, 162.

Moral duties, a most useful and |
comprehensive subject, 2, 116;
who have a right to discourse
about them, 2.

Motion, philosophy of, 300, etc.
Motives drawing men to favor us,
etc., 83.

Musicians discover the least faults
in music, 70.

NASICA murdered T. Gracchus, 39.
Nature should be taken for a guide,

and then we can not err, 49,
218; pleasures, etc., unworthy
man's nature, 53; variety of
men's particular natures, 54;
every one should follow his own
nature, and how far, 55; nothing
becoming that is contrary to it,
ib.; its great influence on our
actions, ib.; has greater sway
than fortune, 60; directs to
modesty, 62; is both a human
and divine law, 122; enjoins
each man to help another, 124;
always desires what is becom-
ing, 128; to live according to
nature the Stoical chief good,

Offense; a fear of giving offense, &
cause of injustice, 16; a cause of
mismanagement in civil and mili-
tary affairs, 43; it is the duty of
modesty not to give offense, 51,
nothing to be done that may of-
fend the eyes and ears, 63.
Old age to be reverenced, 60, 72;
the duties of it, 61; the, of Cicero
beguiled by writing a treatise on
that subject, 217; tolerable to
men of regulated minds, 219; of
Quintus Maximus, 221; of Plato,
Isocrates, and Gorgias, 222; of
Ennius, 223; four causes why it
is thought miserable, 223; has
its appropriate employments,
224; does not necessarily im
pair memory, 225, nor intellect,
226, nor studies, 227; does not
require the strength of youth,
228, 232; mellows the voice,
229; its vigor preserved by
temperance, 232; can enjoy
modern conviviality, 237, 238;
the last act of a play, 262.
Opinion of the world concerning us
not to be neglected, 50.
Oratory and philosophy to be join.
ed, 1.

Order in our words and actions, 69-
Orestes gives a dinner to the people,
101.

Paley, Dr., quoted, 5. 14, 19, 24,
32, 46, 71, 95, 97, 271
Panatius, 7; left his work about

duties unfinished, 117, 127.
Paradoxes, why so called, 263.
Parts; men have several parts to
be acted, 54, 58; parts of the
body well fitted by nature, 62.
Pascal, Blaise, quoted, 12.
Passion; injuries done in a passion

less heinous than in cold blood,
16; should be governed by rea-
son, 52, 64, 68, 82; disturb both
body and mind, 52; to be shun-
ned in discourse, 67; nothing
can be like that is done in a
passion, 66.

Pausanias, Spartan general, 38
Paulus had all the riches of Mace-
don, 109.

Paulus Emilius appears in vision

to his son Scipio Africanus the
younger, 291.

Pericles's answer to Sophocles, 69;
is blamed by Palerius, 102.
People caressed, etc., 100.
Peripatetics differ little from the
Academics, 2, 121; have a right
to treat about duties, 2; require
a mediocrity, and say anger was
given us to good purposes, 46;
theirs a most noble and ancient
philosophy, 79.

Perjury, when a man is guilty of
it, 162.
Phæton, 156.

Phalaris, 86, 125.

Philip of Macedon, above his son
in good-nature, 47; advises his
son to speak kindly to the people,
95; rebukes him for giving
them money, 99.
Philip's harangues in his tribune-

ship, 107; his ill counsel, 151.
Philosophers, unjust in minding
only their studies, 17; relinquish
the public, ib.; their method of
rooting out frauds, 141; none
may assume that name without
giving rules about duty, 2; their
study commended, 78; philos-
ophy a comfort in affliction, 77;

a rich and plentiful soil, 116; the
meaning of the word, 78.

Phulus, 176.

Pirates ought to have no faith kept
with them, 162; can not be
without justice, 91.

Place, its influence on our actions,
69.

Plato might have made an excel-
lent orator, 2; his saying, that
men are not born for themselves
only, 14; his mistake about the
philosophers, 17; his two rules
about government, 44; his say-
ing about ambition, ib.; his ex-
cellent saying about prudence,
33; his fable of Gyges, 130;
quoted, 11, 51; his arguments
for the pre-existence of the
human soul, 256.

Plays and recreations, how far al-
lowable, 53; play at even and
odd, etc., 147.

Players choose the parts fittest for
them, 57; their respect to mod-
esty, 63.

Pleasures of body beneath a man,
54.

Pleasures are alluring mistresses,
90; are contrary to honesty,
168; may serve to give a relish
to actions, ib.; should not be re-
garded in eating, etc., 54; con-
sist in virtue, 268.
Plutarch, quoted, 106.
Poetical decorum, 49; poets set
their works out to be viewed, 70.
Polybius the historian, 165.
Pompey Sextus, a geometrician,

13.

Pompey the Great; his party un-

successful, 94; his magnificent
shows to the people, 101.
Pomponius the tribune, 164.
Pontius, C., the Samnite, 108.
Pope Alexander, quoted, 230.
Popilius, a Roman commander, 22.
Popular expressions to be used, 90.
Posterity, impartiality of their ver-
dict, 323.

Power; the desire of it draws men
to injustice, 149.

in virtue, 33.

Precepts insufficient without exer.
cise, ib.

Present things more acceptable for
a time, 102.

Pride in prosperity to be avoided,

47.

Private men should be kept in their
estates, 38.

Procreation; the love of it natural
to all animals, 9.
Prodigal, who, 100.

Profit, the same with honesty, 80,
121, 128, 134; moves all men,
128, 159, the appearance of it
makes men act contrary to duty,
133; ought to be rejected, ib.;
every thing honest profitable,
and every thing profitable hon-
est, 128.

Promises not always binding, 18,
155, 156.

Property, its original, 14.
Prudence; the duties resulting

from, 12; consists in the knowl-
edge of truth, and is most natu-
ral to man, ib.; of but little
worth without justice, 74; differ-
ent from craft, 33, 80, 143; a
definition of it, 74; makes men
confide in us, if joined, etc., 89.
Public officers should be free from
passion, etc., 36, 45, 319; should
see that what they undertake
be honest, 44; remember Plato's
two rules, ib.; a description of a
good one, 44, 313; should be
courteous, affable, etc., ib.; do
the bravest actions, 47; should
guard their eyes as well as hands,
69, 307; not to be resisted, 72;
public and private life compared,
37.

Puffendorf, quoted, 137.
Punishment; rules to be observed
about them, 46.
Pyrrho can give no rules about
duty, 6, 79.
Pyrrhus, his speech upon giving
up the prisoners, 23; a deserter
offers to poison him, 24, 151.

234.

Pythias, a banker, 137.

RALEIGH, SIR WALTER, quoted,
280.

Rashness in giving up our assent
to be avoided, 12, 79; in our ac-
tions, 52.

Reason ought to be the governing
faculty in man, 52.

Rebukes in friendship, 32. See
Chiding.

Regularity; see Uniformity.
Regulus taken by the Carthagini-
ans, etc., 158, 252, etc.; not
really unhappy, 269.

Relations should be considered be-
fore other people, 25, 27.
Republic; Cicero wrote six books
about it, 102.

Respect should be had for all men,

51; especially those we converse
with, 63, 64, 67.

Retired people do very noble things,
47. See Life.

Revenge must be kept within
bounds, 20.

Rhetoricians omit some subjects,
64.

Riches, why desired, 15; neither
to be kept too close nor too open,
99; the best fruit of them, 100;
are too much respected, 107; to
be got not for ourselves alone,
139; are not profitable, if ac-
companied with infamy, 151;
the baggage of virtue, 265; of no
value in themselves, 286; a com-
parative term, 284. See Avarice,
Liberality.

Romans famous for courage, 33;
their ancient justice and kind-
ness to allies when changed, 86;
ruined by tyranny and oppres-
sion, 87.

Romulus did wrong in killing Re-
mus, 131; praised, 266; the sun
eclipsed at his death, 297.
Roscius Amerinus, defended by
Cicero, 98.

Rousseau, J. J., quoted, 122.

Rule; the desire of it natural to
men, 10; general rule or meas-
ure, 123,

Rutilius had the name of an hon-

est man, etc., 94; scholar of
Panatius, 117.

SALAMIS famous for a victory, 33.
Saguntines, not parricides, 274.
Salmacis, 33.

Scævola gives more than was asked

for an estate, 139; Pontifex
Max., 142, 169, 176.
Scipio, Africanus, his history and
glorious end, 173, 174.
Secrecy, nothing to be committed

out of hopes of it, 129, 130.
Self-love prevents men from seeing
their duty, 16; nature allows a
man to love himself first, 131,
122; but not to injure others for
the sake of self, 122, 124.
Seller, bound to tell the faults of
his goods, 134, 135, etc.; should
use no arts to enhance their
price, 139.

Seneca, quoted, 50, 218, 251.
Serious things to be handled seri-
ously, 65, 69.

Shakespeare, Wm., quoted, 210,
279, 294, 309.

Shows to the people how far al-
lowable, 100, 102.

Sincerity agreeable to man's na-
ture, 10.

Singing openly a great rudeness,

69.

Skeptics; their opinion, 79.
Slaves, how to be dealt with, 25,

86; tricks in selling them pun-
ished, 143; not to be trusted
with public concerns, 312.
Smith, Adam, quoted, 21, 67, 136,
192, 196.

Society: the principles, sorts, and
degrees of it, 28, 29; nothing
that men should be more con-
cerned for, 74; man by nature
sociable, 75; necessity not the
motive to society, ib.; duties of
it of several degrees, in what
order to be performed, 74; uni-

versal society, of what nature,

134.

Socrates facetious and droll, 54;
of extraordinary virtues, 72; his
shortest cut to glory, 92; used
to curse those that separate pro-
fit and honesty, 118; pronounc-
ed by the oracle the wisest of
men, 172, 173, 255; remark of,
244.

Solon, Athenian lawgiver, 38; his
craft, 54.

Sons should live as becomes tho
name of their ansestors, 39; do
not bathe with their fathers, 63.
Zopía, 74.

Sophocles the tragedian, 69, 238.
Soul's functions more noble than

the body's, 94; pre-existed, 256;
an emanation of the divine es-
sence, 255; immortal (see Im-
mortality), nothing more excel-
lent and divine, 268, 300; souls
of the wicked hover round the
earth for ages after death, 303.
South, Dr., quoted, 61, 267, 268,
270, 271, 280.

Spectator, the, quoted, 220, 229,
230, 241, 260.
Speech. See Discourse.

Spheres, the description of, 293;

music of, 294.

State, how to be supported, 85, 87,

152.

Stewart, Dugald, quoted, 6, 174,
206.

Styles of eloquence and philosophy
to be both cultivated, 1.
Stoics; Cicero follows them in this
book, 6; great admirers of deri-
vations, 15; their chief good,
etc., 118; aim at no embellish-
ment, 263.

Strangers' duties in a place, 62;
a difference to be made between
them, 72; should not be forbid
a city, 133.

Study not to be spent upon obscure
and difficult subjects, 13; the
end of it, ib.; should give place
to action, 13, 74, 76.
Suicide forbidden, 250, 292.