Situation. See Position.
Sleep and death, brothers, 348, 378. sleep, what, 378.
Social sympathy, 291. state, 370. Socrates, 284, 307, 379, 380. Sophocles, 348.
Soul, its three great principles, 280. itself not visible, but known from its opera- tions, ibid. immortal, 283.
Space, of place and time, connected with motion, how, 364.
Sphere, has no position, or situation, though it occupy place, 343, 345. Spontaneous, how it differs from forced, 368. what it is, and what constitutes it, 368, 369, 370.
Stat and sedet, peculiar uses of them, 378. Statius, 383.
Stoics, 254, 269, 369. account of the state of their writings in the time of Simplicius, 323.
Strife, its utility, 321. Stuart, 383.
Sublunary, meaning of the word, 269. Substance and attribute, 255, 381. general
and particular, 255. at the head of the predicaments, 257. substance natural, how continued, or carried on, 259. sub- stance, its properties, considered logically, 268. has no contraries within itself, ibid. but susceptible of them all, ibid. Substantial form, what, 275, 297, 298. 362. Suidas, 286.
Sun, his relations and duties, 317. a cause of generation, 321. presides over his proper system, 349.
Supreme Being, 279, 281, 290, 296, 322, 326, 334, 341, 350, 380. EVOTOιxía, 264. See Co-arrangement. Sydenham, his elegant translation of Plato, 350, 378.
Syllogisms, 251, 252, 374.
Sylva, matter, 270, 321. sylvæ, miscel- lanies, 383.
Systems of nature, four: one, which ad- mitted no God, 286. a second, which supposed gods, that gave themselves no trouble, 287. a third, which only em- ployed them on difficult occasions, ibid. a fourth, which supposed Divine Pro- vidence never to cease for a moment, ibid.
Thales, his idea concerning the magnet, 376. fine sentiment about Providence, ibid. 287.
Themistius, 266. his idea of matter, 268, 269, 290. Theognis, 265,
Thrasea Pætus, 248, 358. Tibullus, 311.
Timæus, 270, 271, 272, 292. Time, place, both of them quantities, 303, 335. time, how distinguished from other quantities continuous, 304. distinction, a peculiar one belonging to time and place, ibid. time infinitely divisible in power, but not in act, ibid. having a genus, and a difference, may be defined, 335. its use in life, and human affairs, 336. connection with human affairs ge- nerates when, 335, 337.
Tragedy and comedy made out of the same letters, 350.
Transition. See Motion.
Truth, all truth, good, 374. its union with taste, in fine writing, 383. all truth, similar and congenial, 247, 383. conse- quence of this in the forming of cha- racters, 247. in the elegance of composi- tion, 383.
Typhoeus, the giant, his positions finely enumerated by Ovid, when he describes how the island Sicily was thrown upon him, 345.
Vanbrugh, sir John, his elegant reply, and his predicting the fine taste of garden- ing, now at its height in Great Britain, 353.
Varro, 264. his account of four predica- ments, ibid.
Vegetative life, described, 375. See Na-
Velleius Paterculus, 248.
Venus wedded to Vulcan, the fable ex-
plained, 250. her motion as a goddess, 308. her appearance, 311.
Utility of these arrangements or predica- ments, 253, 258, 381, 382, 383. Verbs transitive, and neuter, where to be found among the predicaments, 327. Verulam, lord, 272.
Virgil, 275, 280, 281, 287, 288, 292, 301,
302, 308, 311, 317, 320, 324, 328, 332, 336, 339, 340, 347, 348, 354, 358. 361, 374, 375, 376, 378, 379. Virtue, Pleasure, and Hercules, 326. moral virtue, 296.
Unifying comprehension, the property of mind, 289, 290. Union, 262, 321, 322.
Volition and perception, their objects coin- cide, where, 374.
Ὑποκείμενον and ὕλη, how they differ, 269. Upton, 248, 287.
Wallis, 335, 342, 351.
Wants, their efficacy, 316, 317,322. source of connection, 369. founded on percep- tion, 373. the source of animal motion, ibid. lead to arts and industry, 379. to have few wants is great; to have none, divine, ibid.
When, connected with time, 335. its na- ture and character, 337. coincides with where, ibid. an enlarged when, and a pre- cise one, both of them relative to each in- dividual, 338. use of the precise when, in computation of distant time, ibid. Where, connected with place, 335. its na- ture and character, 337. coincides with when, ibid. where and when called by Simplicius brothers, ibid. an enlarged where, and a precise one, both of them
relative to each individual, 338. use of the precise where, in computing distant places, ibid. compared with quantity, 337.
Wilton house, its valuable marbles, 347. Wisdom, book of, 375.
Words, things, ideas, all respect simple terms, and how, 252, 253.
World, one city or commonwealth, 316, 317. a theatre, 320. made by reason and design, 340.
Xenophon, the speech he when dying, 280, 283. the earth's justice, 317. sure, and Hercules, 326. 380.
gives to Cyrus his account of of Virtue, Plea- quoted, 379,
Zyv, Zwa, the first applied to plants, or vegetables; the latter not applied, and why, 372.
INDEX TO PHILOLOGICAL INQUIRIES.
ABASSIDE, caliphs, 479. illustrious race,
ibid. extinguished, when, 495, 496. Abelard, Peter, and Heloisa, 508. Abulfeda, Arabian historian, account of of him, 480. quoted, passim. Abulpharagius, Arabian historian, account him, 480. quoted, passim.
Academy, the place where Plato taught, 461.
Academy, New, by Arcesilas and Car- neades, 461.
Accent, differs from quantity, how, 405. accurately distinguished, anciently, ibid. prevailed at length over quantity, 408, 515. samples of its force, 409, 410. Accentual quantity, used even by classic writers, and by whom, and how far, 411. prevails in English verse, and in that of all the other modern languages, 411,
412. Accumulation, exemplified, 402, 403. cause or reason of its force, 403, 404. Accuracy, important every where, but where most so, 425.
Acrostics, chronograms, wings, altars, eggs, &c. finely described, 520, 521. Acts of the Apostles, 464.
Addison, his elegant comedy, 446. superior to Swift, both in diction and wit and philanthropy, 538. fine comment on Mil- ton, 394.
Admiration, upon what founded,401. foolish, how cured, 453.
Adrian, a capital benefactor to Athens, 464. Elian, 525.
Eneas Sylvias (afterward pope Pius the Second) deplores the taking of Constan- tinople, and describes its state, imme- diately previous to that fatal event, 476. schines, the Socratic, 452. Affability, see Saladin, 480.
Antiphona, described, 549. Arabians, 478-496. their national cha- racter, 478, 482. favoured medicine and astrology, 492, 494, 495. had no ideas of civil liberty, 495, 543. their poetry 484-487. loved allegory, 485. their degeneracy, 496.
Arabian poetry. See Poetry. Aratus, 464. Arcesilas, 461. Aristophanes, 469.
Aristotle, father of criticism, 389. quoted, 401, 402, 404, 406, 407, 408, 413, 415, 416, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 434, 436, 437, 438, 439, 440, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445, 446, 449, 451, 452, 460, 461, 462, 467, 470, 487, 496, 501, 508, 518, 519, 530, 540.
Arrian's Epictetus, 397.
Agriculture, in Arabian Spain, how excel- Ashley, Honourable Maurice Ash. Cowper,
Alaric takes Rome, 465.
Albigeois, cruelty of the crusaders towards them, 502. See Beziers-Inquisition. Alcidamas, his fine metaphor in describing the Odyssey, 441.
Alexander the Great, 463.
Alexandrian library, burnt, 458, 478. Alexius, Greek emperor, 530.
Allegro and Penseroso of Milton, 403. See Accumulation.
Alliteration, 414. examples of, from Latin,
ibid. from Greek, 415. from old English, ibid. from English less ancient, ibid. 416. from modern English, 416. Almamun, caliph, the great patron of litera- ture, 479, 488.
his fine translation of the Cyropædia, 395.
Astrology, 492, 494, 495. Atheism, what leads to it, 538. Athenæus 463, 467.
Athens, a place of education, 464. of phi- losophical retreat, ibid. St. Paul there, ibid. besieged by Alaric, 465. how saved, and by whom, ibid. taken, and by whom, 466. present character of its inhabitants, from Spon, Wheeler, and Stuart, 467. Athenians, 459. their high taste, when it began, ibid. survived their empire, 460, 463.
Attica, still famous for olives and honey, 467. Atticus. See T. Pomponius. Averroes, 479. his patience, 491. his com- ment upon Aristotle, 496.
Augustus, 464.
Avicenna, 479.
Aulus Gellius, his enigma, 444.
Bacon, Roger, thought a magician, why, 499. Bacon, Lord Verulam, his judgment upon strange stories, 466.
Bagdad, when founded, and by whom, 495. when taken, ibid. 496. Banquet, imperial, at Constantinople, part of its ceremonial, 471. Barbarians, Western Latins, 499. Barons, Counts, &c. Barbarians, Persians so called, both by the old Greeks and modern Arabians, 484. Barons, 499, 531. See Counts, Barbarians, &c.
Barrington, his valuable book, 528. Battle, trials by, 455, 531. Bayle, 495.
Beauty, natural or inanimate, whence de- rived, 525, 526. See Tempe, 525. Virgil, and Horace, ibid. Milton, 526. Leland, 527. Sannazarius, ibid. Petrarch, ibid. Cyrus, 528. Philip le Bell, ibid. Bede, 497.
Beginners, advice to, 404, 405, 449, 450. Beings, aerial, fighting for their friends:
Minerva and Achilles; Castor and Pol- lux; St. George, St. Demetrius, and St. Mercury; Peter de Paz, 465. Bentley, his strange idea of conjecture, 397. his strange treatment of the Paradise Lost, 398. his fine tract De Metris Terentianis, 411. Bessario, 477.
Carter, Mrs., excellent translator, why, 395. Catastrophe, in dramas, difficult, 433. how it is effected often in tragedy, ibid. how in comedy, ibid. lame expedients in both, ibid. happy catastrophe suited for comedy, 429, 430. unhappy for tragedy, ibid. Cave, the author, 456, 508. Cause, always exists, but not always ap- parent, 401. should always be traced, otherwise all is darkness, ibid.
Cebes, perfect MS. of his work in the king of France's library, 545, 546. Ceremonial of the Byzantine court, 471. eluded, how, and by whom, 490. Chance, nothing happens by, 388, 399, 401. Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, 524. Chaucer, genealogy of English poets from
him, 518. his language obsolete, his wit and learning excellent, ibid. his litera- ture and philosophy, ibid. 519. takes from Aristotle, and how, 519. Chivalry, 530.
Christianus Fredericus Matthæi, a learned professor in the university of Moscow, 549, 550.
Church, 470. its superior knowledge, both in the East and West, whence, 529. its humanity, 531.
Cicero, a critic, first in rank among the Romans, 390. his tract De Oratore, ibid. quoted, 407, 408, 412, 413, 417, 418, 419, 438, 460, 461, 462, 463, 464, 465, 471, 475, 476, 501, 508. Cimabue, the first Italian painter, taught by Greeks, 514.
Bezieres, sacked by the crusaders in a pe- Circulation, providential, 539.
culiar way, 502.
Boccaccio, 490.
Boethius, translated into Greek, by whom, 470.
Bohadin, Arabian historian, account of him, 480. extracts from his history, 480- 484. and again, 511, 512.
Bombast style, prior to the classical, why, 400.
Books, corrupted in how many ways, 396. Bossu, 434, 439.
Brown's Fasciculus Rerum, &c. a curious book, 498.
Brutus and Cassius, 458, 463. Buckingham, duke of, a critic, 392. Cæsar, his clemency to the Athenians, 463. Caliphate, its splendour, 479, 485, 489. its extinction, 496.
Caliphs, instances of their affability, resent- ment, munificence, public works, 487- 490. story of the caliph and his physi- cian Honaïn, 493. of the same and his physician Bactish, ibid. of another caliph and his physician, ibid. 494. mean end of the last reigning caliph, 495.
Classes of men in letters, during the middle age, three, 456.
Classics, their value, 398. Climate, its effect, 532.
Coffee, a council of divines held upon it, 542. Comic poetry, subsequent to tragic and epic, why, 400. Commentators, 391, 457. Commodianus, a bad poet, 408. samples of his bad verses, ibid. 409. Commodus, 464.
Composition, numerous, 389, 390, 399, 405 -408.
Concatenation. See Accumulation.
Conjecture, critical, 397. its misuse, ibid. 398. and use, 398.
Constantine, founder of the city called after him, 470, 476.
Constantine Porphyrogenitus, his book of the ceremonial of the Byzantine court, 471. remarkable instances of it, ibid. Constantinople, 454, 470. Latin MSS. were probably preserved in its libraries, 471. sacked by the Barbarians. See Nicetas, and 502.
Cambalu, supposed the modern Pekin, de- Contemplation, noblest species of, 539. Conversation. See Saladin, 481. See also 493, 494.
Carrion-crows, know what they like, 452.
Cornelius Nepos, 465. Counts, 530. their employ, 531. Barons and Barbarians. Critics, modern, philosophical, 392. torical, 392-395. corrective, 396. Critics, young, advised in two respects, as to the conduct of their judgment, 404, 405.
Critics, English, enumerated, 394. Criticism, its origin, 388, 389. its objects, 389. the philosophical, chap. i. and iii. 392. the historical, chap. ii. and iii. 392, 393. the corrective, chap. v. philoso- phical critics enumerated, chap. i. his- torical critics enumerated, 391. correc- tive critics enumerated, chap. v. criticism has been misused, 397. yet defended, 398. its three species repeated, 399. Crusades, 455. Baldwin's crusade, 472. when they began, 501. accounts of them, 503, 530, 531.
Crusaders, their destructive barbarity, 472
-475. their character by Nicetas, 475. Crusaders, their cruelty, 474, 502. (See Bezieres and Constantinople.) causes of their cruelty, 506. murdered all the Mahometans, when they took Jerusa- lem, 482, 483. never mended, but grew worse, 475, 501, 532.
Cupping, described in an enigma, 444. Curiosity, cautioned against, and why, 438. Custom, its force, 483.
Cyclopes, their brutality, whence, 532. Cyropædia of Xenophon, finely translated, 395.
Dante, 518. Del-Rio, 465.
Demetrius of Phalera, a critic, 389. his character as such, ibid. quoted, 408, 416, 420.
Despotism, Oriental, 495, 543. Aiávola. See Sentiment. Diction, its species described, 439-445. the vulgar, 439. the obscure, ibid. the elegant, ibid. the metaphorical, 440- 443.
Dictionaries, writers of, 393, 394. Dido, restless, while others rest, 401. Diodorus Siculus, when entire, 469. Diogenes Laert. 389, 460, 461. Dion, Chrysost. Oratio, 549.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus a critic, 389, 418. his character as such, ibid. quoted,
Discovery, dramatic, àvayvápiois, described, 429, 431, 446.
Domestic stories, their force, 447. Dramatic piece, defined, 427. its consti- tuent parts, how many and what, 427, 428. which of these parts appertain to the poet, which to other artists, 428. dramatic piece often fails in the fable, 432. more often admired for other merits,
433. may be justly admired for those other merits, 446, 447. yet to be per- fect, must be complete in every part, 446. illustrated from painting, 447. English drama capable of improvement, and how, ibid.
Drummer, comedy. See Addison. Dryden, 406, 410, 416, 438, 442, 443, 530. Duck, civilian, 501. Durfey, 453.
Ecclesiastes, quoted, 538. Ecclesiastics. See Church. Edgcumb, mount, 526, 528. Education, places of, same in England be fore the conquest as now, 501. plan of education during the time of Edward the Confessor, ibid. during the time of Henry the Sixth, 524. perhaps began from Venerable Bede, 506. Edward, Confessor. Normandy.
See William duke of
Egitha, queen, and wife to Edward the Confessor, an accomplished woman, both in knowledge and in virtue, 500, 501. Elements of natural beauty, four, 525, 526. of the universe, as few, ibid.
Eloquence, the noblest, where to be found, 390.
Emanuel Martin, a critic, 393. Empiric, story of, 394. Eneas, 402, 403, 539.
English authors quoted, why, 400. English Drama, may be improved, how,447. English language, its praise, 394. why
quoted, 400. its quantity, for the greater part, accentual, yet sometimes syllabic, 411, 412.
Enigmas, 444. from Aristotle, ibid. from Aulus Gellius, ibid.
Ennius, his alliteration, 416.
Epic and tragic poetry, prior to comic, why, 400. Epictetus, 460.
Epicurus, short sketch of his doctrine, 461. his gardens, 462.
Epopee comic, where to be found, 433. Ερμέρα κλαι. See Mercury and Hercules. Escurial Library, account of its Arabic MSS., 540-543.
Eugenius, the Greek translator of the Georgics, 550.
Euripides, 398, 438, 450, 452, 457, 469. Eustathius, commentator upon Homer, 470. Eustratius, commentator upon Aristotle,470. Fables, dramatic, their species, 428, &c. tragic fable, 430-432. comic fable, 429, 432. good fables, rare, 432. fable of the Fatal Curiosity described, 431. super- latively excellent, ibid. tragic fable, the soul of tragedy, and why, 432. where to be found, 447, 449. fable, manners, and sentiment, estimated by Horace, 447. Fabricius, 457, 465, 468, 469, 470, 472. 473, 474, 475, 507, 517, 546.
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