Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches - Volume 4 by Thomas Badington Macaulay (e ink ebook reader txt) 📕

Sends his friend Demerville to the guillotine. Spies set to watch the spy. Ordered to quit Paris. Employed in the lowest political drudgery. His "Memorial Antibritannique" and pamphlets. His fulsome adulation of the Emperor. Causes of his failure as a journalist. Treated with contempt by Napoleon. His treachery to his Imperial master. Becomes a royalist on the return of the Bourbons. Compelled to leave France. Returns in July 1830. Joins the extreme left. His last years and death. Summary of his character. His hatred of England. His MS. works on divinity.

Barre, Colonel, joins the Whig opposition. Appointed by Pitt Clerk of the Pells.

Bearn, the constitution of.

Beatrice, Dante's love of.

Beauclerc, Topham, a member of the Literary Club.

Bentham, Mr, his defence of Mr Mill. His merits and shortcomings. Examination of his views. His account of the manner in which he arrived at the "greatest happiness principle." Testimony to his merits.

Bentinck, Lord William, inscription on the statue of, at Calcutta.

Bentley, Richard, his dissertation on the letters of Phalaris. His answer to the attack of Atterbury.

Bible, the English translation of the, regarded as a specimen of the beauty and power of the English language.

Billaud, M., becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety. Opposes Robespierre. Himself brought to trial. Condemned to be removed to a distant place of confinement. Transported to Guiana. His subsequent life.

Bonaparte, Napoleon, his detestation of the cruel decree of the Convention respecting English prisoners. His return from Egypt, and assumption of absolute power as First Consul. His policy at this period. Allows Barere to reside in Pairs. Employs Barere as a writer and spy. Establishes the Imperial government. His opinion of Barere's journalism. His defeat and abdication.

Boswell, James, becomes a member of The Club. His character. His life of Johnson.

Bourbon, Duke, character of the government of.

Bow Street, whiggery of.

Boyd, his translation of the Divine Comedy of Dante.

Boyle, Charles, his college edition of the letters of Phalaris. The answer to Bentley attributed to him.

Boyse, the poet, his friendship with Samuel Johnson.

Brasidas, great only when he ceased to be a Lacedaemonian.

Brissot, the Girondist leader. His trial.

Brissotines, the. See Girondists.

Buccaneer, the Last.

Bunyan, John, age in which he produced his Pilgrim's Progress. His birth and early life. His notions of good and evil. Enlists in the parliamentary army. Returns home and marries. His fantasies and internal sufferings. Thrown into gaol. His prison life. His intimate knowledge of the Bible. His early writings. His abhorrence of the Quakers. His controversies. His answer to Edward Fowler. His dispute with some of his own sect. His liberation from prison. His Pilgrim's Progress. His Holy War. Difficulties of. His death and burial-place. Fame of his Pilgrim's Progress.

Burgundy, Duke of, his theory of good government.

Burke, Edmund, his character of the first French republic. And of the French National Assembly. His vindication of himself from the charge of inconsistency. His part in The Club. His position in the Whig opposition.

Burns, Robert, age in which he produced his works.

Butler, Samuel, character of his poetry.

Byron, Lord, his egotism and its success.

Caesar, accounts of his campaigns, regarded as history.

Camden, Lord, joins the Whig opposition.

Canning, George, popular comparison of, with Mr Pitt. His activity in Pitt's cause.

Carey, his translation of the Divine Comedy of Dante.

Carmagnoles, the, of Barere. Lord Ellenborough's.

Carmichael, Miss, or Polly, in Dr Johnson's house.

Carnot, M. Hippolyte, his part in the Memoirs of Bertrand Barere.

Carolan, his compositions.

Carrier, the tyrant of Nantes, placed under arrest.

Casti, character of his Animali Parlanti.

Catholicism, Roman, the most poetical of all religions. Its great revival at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Treaty concluded by Charles II. by which he bound himself to set up Catholicism in England.

Catiline, Sallust's account of the Conspiracy of.

Cavendish, Lord John, becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer. Resigns.

Cervantes, delight with which his Don Quixote is read.

Charles II., King of England. Influence of his residence abroad upon his character and tastes. His treaty respecting Roman Catholics.

Chatham, first Earl of, compared by Mirabeau. His declining years. His last appearance in the House of Lords.

Chatham, second Earl of, his mismanagement of the Admiralty.

Chaumette, one of the accusers of the Girondists before the Revolutionary Tribunal.

Christ Church, Oxford, cry of, against Bentley.

Christianity, effect of the victory of, over paganism.

Church of Ireland, Speech on.

Churchill, his insult to Johnson.

Civil War, the great.

Clarendon, his history of the Rebellion, charge of garbling it.

Classical writers, celebrity of the great.

Cleomenes, causes and results of his raving cruelty.

Clergyman, the Country, his Trip to Cambridge.

Club, The, formation of. Members of the.

"Coalition," formation of the. Universal disgust. End of the Coalition.

Coates, Romeo, the actor.

Cock Lane Ghost, the.

Collot, d'Herbois, becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety. Attacked in the streets. Brought to trial. Condemned by the Convention to be removed to a distant place of confinement. His end.

Condorcet, strength brought by him to the Girondist party. His melancholy end.

Confidence in Ministry of Lord Melbourne. Speech on.

Constantinople, empire of, its retrogression and stupefaction.

Convention, the French, of. The Girondists. The Mountain. Character of the diplomatic language during the reign of the Convention.

Copyright, Speeches on.

Corday, Charlotte, her murder of Marat.

Corn Laws, Speech on.

Corneille, attempts of the Academy to depress the rising fame of.

Cornwallis, General, his surrender to the Americans.

Cottabus, the Athenian game of.

Couthon, becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety. His execution.

Cowley, Mr Abraham, and Mr John Milton, conversation between, touching the great Civil War.

Criticism, verbal. Improvement of the science of criticism. The critical and poetical faculty distinct and incompatible.

Cyrus, Xenophon's Life of, its character.

Dante, criticism on. His first adventure in the popular tongue. Influences of the times in which he lived upon his works. His love of Beatrice. His despair of happiness on earth. Close connection between his intellectual and moral character. Compared with Milton. His metaphors and comparisons. Little impression made by the forms of the external world upon him. Fascination revolting and nauseous images had for his mind. His use of ancient mythology in his poems. His idolatry of Virgil. Excellence of his style. Remarks upon the translations of the Divine Comedy. His veneration for writers inferior to himself. How regarded by the Italians of the fourteenth century.

Danton, character of. His death.

David, M. d'Angers, the sculptor, his part in the Memoirs of Bertrand Barere.

De Foe, effect of his Robinson Crusoe on the imagination of the child and the judgment of the man.

Demerville, the Jacobin, betrayed by his friend Barere.

Democracy, a pure. Mr Mill's view of a pure and direct.

Demosthenes, compared by Mr Mitford to Aeschines. His irresistible eloquence.

Denham, Sir John, character of his poetry.

Denis, St, Abbey of, laid waste by Barere.

"Dennis, St, and St George, in the Water, some Account of the Lawsuit between the Parishes of."

Deserted Village of Oliver Goldsmith.

Desmoulins, Camille, his attack on the Reign of Terror. Reply of Barere.

Desmoulins, Mrs, in Dr Johnson's house.

Despotic rulers. Theory of a despotic government.

Dies Irae.

Dionysius, his criticisms.

Diplomatic language used by the French Convention.

Directory, the Executive, of France, formation of.

Dissenters, persecution of the, by the Cavaliers. Relieved by Charles II. Prosecutions consequent on the enterprise of Monmouth. The Dissenters courted by the government of James II.

Dissenters' Chapels Bill, Speech on.

Divine Comedy of Dante, the great source of the power of the. Remarks on the translations of the.

Djezzar Pasha, his cruelty.

Doddington, Bubb, his kindness to Samuel Johnson.

Don Quixote, delight with which it is read.

Dorset, Earl of, his poetry.

Drama, the old English. Compared with that of Athens and France. Causes of the excellence of the English drama. Superiority of dramatic to other works of imagination. Extinction of the drama by the Puritans. The drama of the time of Charles II. Dryden's plays.

Dryden, John, place assigned to him as a poet. His merits and defects. Influence exercised by him on his age. Two parts into which his life divides itself. His small pieces presented to patrons. Character of his Annus Mirabilis. His rhyming plays. His impossible men and women. His tendency to bombast. His attempts at fairy imagery. His incomparable reasonings in verse. His art of producing rich effects by familiar words. Catholicity of his literary creed. Causes of the exaggeration which disfigure his panegyrics. Character of his Hind and Panther. And of his Absalom and Achitophel. Compared with Juvenal. What he would probably have accomplished in an epic poem. Compared with Milton.

Dubois, Cardinal, his mode of dealing with public petitions.

Dumont, M., review of his Souvenirs sur Mirabeau. Services rendered by him to society. His interpretation of Bentham's works. His view of the French Revolution. His efforts to instruct the French in political knowledge. Sketch of the character of Mirabeau. Of Sieyes and Talleyrand. And of his own character.

Dumourier, his Girondist sympathies. His defection.

Dundas, Henry, Lord Advocate, commencement of his friendship with Pitt.

Dunning, Mr, joins the Whig opposition.

Duroc, General, his letter to Barere.

Eady, Dr, his advertisements.

Edinburgh Election, speech at.

Education, Speech on.

Education, the, of the Athenians. Defects of their conversational education.

Egotism, the pest of conversation. Zest given by it to writing.

Eleusinian mysteries, the.

Ellenborough, Lord, his Carmagnoles.

Ellis, Welbore.

England, revolution in the poetry of. Mr Mill's remarks on the British Constitution. His view of the constitution of the English Government. Mr Sadler's statement of the law of population in England. The English Revolution compared with the French. Mildness of the revolution caused by the Reform Bill. Makes war against France.

Epistles, Petrarch's.

Epitaph on Henry Martyn.

Epitaph on Lord William Bentinck.

Epitaph on Sir Benjamin Heath Malkin.

Epitaph on Lord Metcalfe.

Euphuism in England.

Euripides, mother of. His jesuitical morality. How regarded by Quintillian.

Evil, question of the origin of, in the world.

Exclusion of Judges from the House of Commons, Speech on.

Federalism, the new crime of, in France. Federalism as entertained by Barere.

Fenelon, his principles of good government, as shown in his Telemachus.

Fluxions, discovery of the method of.

Fortune, remedies for Good and Evil, Petrarch's.

Fowler, Edward, John Bunyan's answer to.

Fox, Charles James, his character. His great political error. The King's detestation of him. Becomes Secretary of State under the Duke of Portland. His India Bill. His speeches.

Fragments of a Roman Tale.

France, character of the poetry of. Characteristics of the personifications of the drama of. Spirit excited in France at the time of the Revolution by some of the ancient historians. Burke's character of the French Republic. Population of. Condition of the government of, in 1799. Strictures of M. Dumont on the National Assembly. Infancy of political knowledge of the French at the period of the Revolution. The English Revolution compared with the French. Arguments against the old monarchy of France. The first compared with the second French Revolution. Causes of the first Revolution. Condition of France for eighty years previous to the Revolution. Causes which immediately led to