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.