Latin in Scotland, former extensive use of, 148-spoken by innkeepers, ib. Law, ancient, 114-tendency of legal study in England, ib.-philosophy of law, 115-pedigree of the law of modern Europe, 117-origin of law, 118-Homer's Oéμiores, 118-Hebrew law, 119 Rooles d'Oleron, the earliest maritime law, 119-era of codes, 120-agencies for the improve- ment of law, 120-definition of legal fiction, ib.-judicial interpretation, how a legal fiction, 121-examples of it as an improving agency, 122- future amelioration must be by direct legislation, 123-two aids in exploring the origin of laws, 124- French legists enthusiasts for natural law, 129-Rousseau contemplated not the law, but the state of nature, 129-law of nations, 132-Grotius and Byn- kershoek on the law of nations, 133 -Roman jus belli, 134-occupancy by first discoverers, 134.
Leibnitz's controversy with Newton,
Light, theories of, 423.
Literary labour, fallacy respecting, 539. Literature of knowledge and that of power distinguished, 223.
Londonderry's (Marchioness of) ame- lioration of miners, 363.
Long's (G.) Roman Lives of Plutarch,
Macaulay's (Lord) arguments against democracy, 257.
M'Grigor (Sir James), services of, 168.
Mackworth's (H.) services as mining in- spector, 367.
Madness. Coleridge's definition of, 323. Maine (H. S.) on Ancient Law,' 114- character of the book, 118. Manchouria, commerce of Russia with,
Manin's Letter to the Republicans of Italy,' 221.
Mathematics among the pitmen, 300. Mazzini, plots of, 221.
Middle ages misrepresented, 71.
Milton, influence of early English poetry
Mining college, suggestion for a local,
Miracles grander developments of Na- ture, 377 essential distinction be- tween miracles and ordinary opera- tions of Nature, 381-not an inter- ruption but an extension of natural laws, 399. (See Immutability of the Laws of Nature.') Monachism, Montalembert on West-
ern, 35-parallels to, 40-enormous number of Egyptian monks, 42- monachism introduced at Rome by Athanasius, 44-characters of Jerome and Augustine, 45-of Benedict, 46- his rule the general law of mona- chism, 47-unreasonableness of mo- nastic obedience, 48-Pope Gregory the First, ib.-revival of Christianity in England due to him, 49-mona- chism in Spain, 52-rule of Columban, 55-its inferiority to the Benedictine rule, 56-a main objection to monkery, 58-no part of the Church's proper organisation, 59-not peculiar to Christianity, ib.-picture of monastic luxury, 61-inestimable services of the earlier monks, 63-their labours, 64-source of the wealth of monas- teries, 66-reasons against the re- vival of monachism, 69.
Mongol, wandering habits of the, 189. Montaigne's debt to Plutarch, 461. Montalembert (Comte de), his devotion to the Pope, 36-peculiar notion on biography, 37-his work on Mona- chism a covert attack on the Empire, 39-considers the middle ages misre- presented, 71. (See 'Monachism.') Moral philosophy absorbed in meta- physics, 131.
Morton (Regent), saying of a jester to, 142-transaction with Lord Somer- ville, 143-hangs two poets, ib.—mi- nisters hanged by, ib.
N. Napoleon (Louis), Cavour's opinion of, 231-fears of defeat previously to the battle of Magenta, 233. Neptune (the planet) discovered inde- pendently by Adams and Leverrier,
Plutarch, Amyot's translation, 461- Sir T. North's, 462- Shakspeare's Roman plays due to North's Plutarch, 465-proofs, ib.-Dryden's transla- tion, 467-his coadjutors, .-the Langhornes' translation, 469-par- ticulars of Plutarch's life, 470-Long's translation of select Roman Lives, ib. -Plutarch's personal character, 472 -a Neo-Platonist, 473-remarks on his Parallels, ib.-considered as an historical writer, 476-his genius as a biographer, 478-vivid moral por- traiture his achievement, 481-supe- riority to Cornelius Nepos and Sue- tonius, ib.-compared with Tacitus, ib.-influence on modern biography,
Pope and Dryden's versification com- pared, 91.
Popery and Puritanism, alliance of, 176. Portuguese navigators of the fifteenth century, 135.
Newton (Sir I.), his popular fame, 401 -Lagrange's observation respecting, 402-the intellectual greatness and moral littleness of his age contrasted, 405-Leibnitz's saying respecting him, 407-his boyhood, 408-early discovery and application of fluxions, b.-optical discoveries, 409-law of gravitation asserted by Hooke, Wren, and Halley before Newton, 415- mythical nature of the apple-tree story, ib.-axiom respecting first dis- coverers, ib.his controversy with Leibnitz, 417-their independent dis- covery of the infinitesimal calculus, 5.-Vossius's partial anticipation of Newton's decomposition of white light, 421-different refrangibility of coloured rays the most original of his discoveries, 422-undulatory and emission theories of light, 423- extensive experiments in alchemy, Quotation, peculiarity in the French 425-a man of one pursuit at one time, 427-his reserve respecting his discoveries accounted for, ib.-con- cealment of the fluxional method, 429-results alone published by phi- losophers of his age, 430-theological tenets, 431-remarkable habit of mind, 432-refutation of the notion of his insanity, ib.-Lord Brougham's address at Grantham, 434. Norris (Mr.) on
North's (Sir T.) translation of Plu- tarch, 462.
Novara, consequences of the battle of,
Pretender, personal description of the first, 150. Primogeniture, English law of, 127.
Radicalism, its contempt of theory analysed, 32-empiricism of, 35. Raleigh (Sir W.), song by, 456. Ramsay (Dean), character of his volumes on Scottish character, 160. Ravenstein's comprehensive work on the Amoor, 203.
Reay (John), of Wallsend, his efforts for the improvement of the miners, 358.
Reeves' (Dr.) edition of Adamnan, 55. Reviewer, Photius the earliest known,
St. David's in Wales, pagan practice at,
Savoy and Nice, discussion of the an- nexation of, 234-baseness of the French Government respecting, 238. Scotland, price of provisions and liquors in, in 1770, 154-Scotch suppers,
Scottish character, Dean Ramsay's vo- lumes on, 161-anecdotes, ib.-Sab- bath observance, 163-masters and servants, 164-anecdotes of Highland regiments, 165-heroic fidelity of a soldier, 166-repartees, 167-con- vivial habits, ib.-heathenish sacri- fices in the 17th century, 169- heathenish observances, 170-sacri- fice of a cock by the peasantry, 171— 'muscular Christianity,' 171-super- stitions, 173-education of the pea- santry, 176-comparison of English and Scotch education, 177-injustice of Mr. Buckle's charges against the clergy, 177.
Secession (American), an appeal against the despotism of the majority, 268- an effect of Northern tariffs, 271-
cause of the pro-slavery majority,
Senior's (Mr.) conversations with De Tocqueville, 530. Shakspeare's Roman plays due to North's Plutarch, 464.
Shelley (Percy Bysshe), deficiencies of his biographers, 289-early sensitive- ness, 291-love of chemistry, 293- religion overthrown by Hume's Es- says, 294 pamphlet on the Ne- cessity of Atheism,' ib.-expulsion from Oxford, 295-first marriage, 297-correspondence with Godwin, 301-attempts to put his theories in practice in Ireland, ib.-his charity, 303-separation from his wife, 305- marriage with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 307-suicide of his first wife, 309-Lord Eldon's decree against his guardianship of his children, 311– final removal to Italy, 313- Revolt of Islam,' 314-his abhorrence of Christianity, 315-perfection of his lyrics, 316-acquaintance with Lord Byron, 317-drowned, and his body burnt, 318-vindication of the Quar- terly Review, 319-his character, 321-hostility to his family, 322- morbid emotions and sensations, 323 -his capital defect, 325-his pan- theism, 327.
Temperature in mines increases ac- cording to depth, 336. Thaumaturgic power. See' Immutability of the Laws of Nature.' Thudichum's (von) work on German
Communal Institutions' mended, 126.
Tilley's (Mr.) work on the Amoor reviewed, 202-hospitable reception at Nicholaivsk, ib.
Tocqueville's (Alexis de) opinions on American democracy, 254, 280- biography of, 517-family connec- tions and early life, 519-his po- litical system ethical, 521-theory of liberty, 523-opinion on the moral government of the world, 524- mission to investigate prison dis- cipline, 527- Democracy in Ame- rica,' 528-opinion on the dismem- berment of the American Union, 529 -political conduct under Louis Phi- lippe, 532-in the ministry of Odillon Barrot, 535-article on France before the Revolution, 537-English asso- ciates, 540-intellectual character and political philosophy, 543. Torture in Scotland, 145.
Unific principle, the first law of the intellect, 394.
Virgil, translations of, 73-first transla- tion by Caxton, 73-specimen of his amplifications, 74-Gawin Douglas's
translation, ib.-his metrical charac- ter of Caxton's version, 74-Earl of Surrey's fragments, 75-Phair and Twyne's translation, 76-examina- tion of Godwin's eulogy of it, 77— Webbe's English hexameters, 78- Stanyhurst's, ib.-Sir Thomas Wroth's, ib.-May's Georgics and Lisle's Ec- logues, 80-versions of Vicars and Sandys, 81-Sir John Denham's, 82 -Sir R. Fanshaw's, ib.-Ogilby's Virgil, 83-translations of neid, Book IV., by Waller, Sidney Godol- phin, Sir R. Howard, and Sir R. Sta- pylton, 84-translation by Sir W. Temple, 86-Dryden's plagiarisms from Caryll, 86-Virgil translated by the Earl of Lauderdale, 87-Bra- dy's translation, 89-Trapp's,_ib.- Andrews's, ib.-Strahan's, 90-Beres- ford's, ib.-Pitt's, 92-Beattie's Ec- logues, 93-old notion of translation, ib.-Archdeacon Wrangham's, 94- theory of translating poetry, 95- character of Dryden's translation, 95 -comparison of it with Pitt's and Symmons's, 96-with Warton's and Sotheby's, 97-reason of the failure of Sotheby and others, 98-Sotheby's versification, 99-his resemblance to Symmons, 101-Wordsworth's un-
finished translation, 102-Dr. Sew- ell's Georgics, 106-translation by Messrs. Kennedy, 108-Singleton's, ib.-Owgan's and Henry's, 109-com- parison of these four translators, 110 -considerations on the best mode of translating Virgil, 113.
Vossius's assertion on the composition of white light before Newton's dis- covery, 421.
Whitmore's (Wolryche) exertions for social improvement, 493. Wills, origin of making, 127. Women, Hebrew law of inheritance by,
Wordsworth and Euripides, De Quin- cey's comparison of, 30. Wotton's (Sir H.) Character of a Happy Life,' 454.
Yarkund on the Chinese frontier, de- scription of, 199.
Zealand (New), tribal rights in, 126.
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