Mathematical and metaphysical reasoning, compared with moral, vii. 73.

Mazarin, Cardinal, not loved by Louis XIV., iii. 499.
  bon-mot of a flatterer of his, on the match between Louis XIV.
    and a daughter of Spain, vi. 20.

Mediterranean Sea, importance to England of keeping a strong
    naval force there, v. 421.

Memorial to be delivered to Monsieur de M.M., Hints for a, iv. 307.

Merchants, English, their evidence, petitions, and consultations
    respecting America, i. 399, 405, 406.
  principles and qualities of, ii. 506.

Mercy, not opposed to justice, iv. 465; vi. 252.
  consists not in the weakness of the means, but in the benignity
    of the ends, vi. 168.

Metaphysician, nothing harder than the heart of a thorough-bred one,
    v. 216.

Migration, in early times, caused by pasturage and hunting, vii. 171.
  and by wars, vii. 171.

Military life, its attractions to those who have had experience of it,
    v. 464.

Military and naval officers, the fortitude required of them, v. 468.

Militia, probable origin of it, vii. 422.

Milton, his admirable description of Death, i. 132.
  his celebrated portrait of Satan, i. 135.
  his description of the appearance of the Deity, i. 156.
  example from him of the beautiful in sounds, i. 203.
  of the power of words, i. 259.

Ministers, Prussian, infected with the principles of the
    French Revolution, iv. 359. 
  British, to be controlled by the House of Commons, v. 57.
  observations on their duty in giving information to the public, vi. 14.

Minority, Observations on the Conduct of the, in Parliament,
    in the Session of 1792, v. 1.
  power of a restless one, v. 285.

Mistletoe, veneration of the Druids for it, vii. 183.

Modes of life, injustice of sudden legislative violence to suc
     as the laws had previously encouraged, iii. 439.

Modesty, heightens all other virtues, i. 188; v. 128.
  but sometimes their worst enemy, v. 129.

Mogul, the Great, his grants to the East India Company, ii. 560; ix. 345.
  sold by the Company, ii. 448.
  the Company’s treaties with him broken by them, ii. 452.
  conspiracy to murder his son, ix. 412.

Mohun, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 32.

Mona, the principal residence of the Druids in the beginning of
    Nero’s reign, vii. 195.
  reduced by Suetonius Paulinus, vii. 196.

Monarchy, preferred by Bolingbroke to other governments, iii. 398.
  one of its advantages, to have no local seat, iv. 431.

Monastic institutions, their important uses, iii. 440; vii. 244, 245.

Money, the value of it how to be judged, v. 454.

Moneyed companies, dangerous to tax great ones, i. 368.

Moneyed interest, when dangerous to a government, iii. 437.