Cyprus, account of the conquest of it by Richard I., vii. 428.

Danger and pain, the idea of them a source of the sublime, i. 110, 130.
  with certain modifications, delightful, i. 111.
  the danger of anything very dear to us removes for the time
    all other affections from the mind, iv. 95.

Darkness more productive of sublime ideas than light, i. 156.
  necessary to the highest degree of the sublime in building, i. 158. 
  Locke’s opinion concerning, i. 225.
  terrible in its own nature, i. 226.
  why, i. 227.

Davies, Sir John, his statement of the benefits of the extension
    of English constitutional law to Ireland, ii. 147; iv. 273.

Day, not so sublime as night, i. 158.

Debi Sing, his character and conduct, x. 69.

Debt, the interest of, not the principal, that which distresses
    a nation, i. 329.

Debts, civil, faults of the law with regard to, ii. 384.
  public, excessive, their tendency to subvert government, iii. 437.

Deceivers and cheats never can repent, iv. 9.

Declaration of Right, contains the principles of the Revolution
    of 1688, iii. 252.
  drawn by Lord Somers, iii. 254.
  proceeds upon the principle of reference to antiquity, iii. 273.

Defensive measures, though vigorous at first, relax by degrees, iv. 355.
  necessary considerations with regard to them, vi. 100.

Definitions, frequently fallacious, i. 81.

Deformity not opposed to beauty, but to the complete common form, i. 178.

Deity, power the most striking of his attributes, i. 143.

Delamere, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 31.

Delight, what, i. 107.
  distinguished from pleasure, i. 108.
  the misfortunes of others sometimes a source of, i. 118.
  the attendant of every passion which animates us to any active
    purpose, i. 119.
  how pain can be a cause of, i. 215.

Democracy, no example in modern times of a considerable one, iii. 396.
  an absolute one, not to be reckoned among the legitimate forms
    of government, iii. 396. 
  Aristotle’s observation on the resemblance between a democracy
    and a tyranny; iii. 397.
  the vice of the ancient democracies, what, iii. 508.
  the foodful nurse of ambition, iv. 104.

Departments in France, their origin, nature, and function, iii. 461, 465.

Depth thought to have a grander effect than height, i. 147.

Description, verbal, a means of raising a stronger emotion
    than painting, i. 133.

Desirable things always practicable, ii. 357.

Despotism, nature of, i. 446; ix. 458.

D’Espremenil, the illustrious French magistrate, murdered by
    the Revolutionists, vi. 40.

Dialogue, advantages and disadvantages of it as a mode of
    argumentation, vi. 9.