Stability, one of the requisites of a good peace, i. 295.

Stafford, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 31.
  remarks on the prosecution, xi. 112.

Stamp Act, American, its origin, i. 385.
  repeal of it, i. 389; ii. 47.
  motives for the repeal, i. 391, 399.
  good effects of the repeal, i. 401; ii. 59.

Stanhope, General, extracts from his speech at the trial
    of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 127.

Starry heaven, why productive of the idea of grandeur, i. 154.

State, the, meaning of the term, iv, 248.
  consideration of its fitness for an oligarchical form, connected with the
    question of vesting it solely in some one description of citizens,
    iv. 251.
  not subject to laws analogous to those of physical life, v. 124, 234.
  the internal causes affecting the fortunes of states uncertain
    and obscure, v. 235.
  great irregularities in their rise, culmination, and decline, v. 235.
  in a conflict between equally powerful states, an infinite advantage
    afforded by unyielding determination, v. 243.

Statesmen, duties of, i. 436; v. 167.
  standard of one, iii. 440.
  difference between them and professors in universities, vii. 41.

Stephen, brief account of his reign, vii. 386.

Stonehenge, wherein an object of admiration, i. 153; vii. 179.

Stones, rude ones, why objects of veneration, vii. 185.

Strafford, Earl of, proceedings in his trial, xi. 14. 113.

Sublime, sources of it, i. 110.
  the strongest emotion of the mind, i. 110.
  in all things abhors mediocrity, i. 157.

Sublime and Beautiful, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin
    of our Ideas of the, i. 67.
  stand on very different foundations, i. 192.
  comparison between them, i. 205.
  on the efficient cause of them, i. 208.

Succession, hereditary, the principle of it recognized at
    the Revolution, iii. 252.

Succession, in visual objects, effects of it explained, i. 222.

Suddenness, a source of the sublime, i. 160.

Suffering, the force to endure, needful to those who aspire to
    act greatly, v. 250.

Sujah ul Dowlah, his character, xi. 373.

Sully, M. de, an observation of his on revolutions in great
    states, i. 441.

Superstition, nature of it, iii. 442.

Surplus produce, nature and application of it, iii. 444.

Sweetness, its nature, i. 235.
  relaxing, i. 237.

Swift, Dr., a saying of his concerning public benefactors, ii. 472.

Sympathy, observations on it, i. 177; v. 398.

Taille, nature of, i. 330, 333.

Talents, eminent, obscure and vulgar vices sometimes blended with, iv. 26.

Tallien, the regicide, his sanguinary brutality, vi. 102.

Tamerlane, his conquests in Hindostan, ix. 388.
  remarks on his Institutes, ix. 467; xi. 214.