The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 478 pages of information about The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12).

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 478 pages of information about The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12).

Rota, in the French National Assembly, effect of it, iv. 350.

Rotund, noble effect of it, i. 150.
  accounted for, i. 150.

Rousseau, the secret of his principles of composition, iii. 459.
  a resemblance to him an object of rivalry to the leaders of
    the National Assembly, iv. 25.
  vanity his ruling passion, iv. 26.
  brief character of him, iv. 27.
  totally destitute of taste, iv. 30.
  morality of the passions in his Nouvelle Eloise, iv. 31.
  character of his style, iv. 32.

Russell, Baron, the first, his character, v. 201.

Russia, the Emperor of, the true policy of his government, v. 422.

Russian treaty of commerce, i. 410.

Sacheverell, Dr., his impeachment carried on for the purpose of
    stating the grounds and principles of the Revolution, iv. 119.
  extracts from speeches of Managers at his trial, iv. 122-146.
  proceedings in his trial, xi. 16.

Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, reduces Palestine, vii. 427.
  defeated by Richard I., vii. 429.

Salaries, objections to a tax upon them, ii. 283.

Sallust, remarks on his finely contrasted characters of Caesar and Cato,
    i. 189.

Salt, monopoly of, by the French government, i. 332.

Santerre, his brutal conduct to Louis XVI., vi. 101.

Saracens, their fierce irruptions and conquests, vii. 328.

Savile, Sir George, his bill for the repeal of the statute of
    William III. against Papists, ii. 396.
  his character, ii. 397.

Saxons, a brief account of their laws and institutions, vii. 291.
  under their rule, the succession to the crown in England
    partly hereditary and partly elective, vii. 297.
  their laws wholly abolished in England since the Conquest, vii. 478.
  sources of them, vii. 487.

Scarcity, Thoughts and Details on, v. 131.
  proper policy in respect to the poor, in times of, v. 156.

Scotland, beneficial effects on trade of its union with England, ii. 254.
  its Church establishment under the Union, iv. 258.

Scripture, indefinite nature of subscription to it, vii. 18.

Scythians, all Northern Europe originally inhabited by them, vii. 160.

Selden, his statement of the Parliamentary practice in the
    examination of witnesses, xi. 108.

Self-preservation, the passions which concern it the strongest
    ones, i. 110.
  the sublime an idea belonging to it, i. 164.

Senses, general remarks on them, i. 82.
  ought to be put under the tuition of the judgment, iii. 15.

Serpent, why an object of idolatry, vii. 184.

Shakspeare, his description of the king’s army in Henry IV. an
    example of the sublime, i. 155.

Shelburne, Lord, animadversions on a passage in a speech of his, ii. 544.

Silence, why enjoined by Pythagoras and the Druids, vii. 178.

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