Ugliness, the opposite to beauty, but not to proportion and fitness,
    i. 199.
  consistent with the sublime, i. 199.

Uniformity and succession of parts constitute the artificial infinite,
    i. 149.

Universal, nothing of this nature can be rationally affirmed or any
    moral or political subject, iv. 80.

Use, to be carefully attended to in most works of art, i. 154.
  use and habit not causes of pleasure, i. 180.

Vanity, nature and tendency of, iv. 26.

Variation, beautiful, why, i. 239.

Vastness, a cause of the sublime, i. 147.
  unity why necessary to it, i. 219.

Vattel, extracts from his Law of Nations, iv. 471.

Venice, its restrictions with respect to offices of state, iv. 249.
  origin of the republic, vii. 331.
  acquires the island of Cyprus, vii. 428.
  the only state in Europe which benefited by the Crusades, vii. 428.

Verbal description, a means of raising a stronger emotion
    than painting, i. 133.

Vice, the instances rare of an immediate transition to it
    from virtue, i. 421.

Vices, obscure and vulgar ones sometimes blended with eminent
    talents, iv. 26.
  in common society receive palliating names, xi. 177.

Vicinity, civil, law of, what, v. 322.

Virgil, his figure of Fame obscure, yet magnificent, i. 138.
  remarks on his combination of images at the mouth of hell, i. 146.
  an example from him of the sublime effect of an uncertain light, i. 161.
  and of the cries of animals, i. 162.
  and of powerful smells, i. 163.
  his picture of the murder of Priam, i. 259.
  of the Harpies, v. 187

Virtue, how far the idea of beauty may be applied to it, i. 190.
  description of the gradual extinguishment of it in public men, i. 421.
  will catch, as well as vice by contact, ii. 242.
  virtues which cause admiration, i. 188.
  virtues which engage the heart, i. 188.

Visual objects of great dimensions, why sublime, i. 217.
  effects of succession in them explained, i. 222.

Voters, more in the spirit of the English constitution to lessen
    than to enlarge their number, i. 370.

Wages, the rate of them has no direct relation, to the price
    of provisions, v. 136.

Wales, misgovernment of, by England, for two hundred years, ii. 148.
  alteration of the system in the reign of Henry VIII., ii. 150.

Wales, Frederick, Prince of, project of government devised
    in his court, i. 447.
  means adopted for its introduction and recommendation to
    popular favor, i. 451, 453.
  nature of the party formed for its support, i. 459.
  name of this party, i. 466.
  and of the new system, i. 466.

Walpole, Mr., (afterwards Sir Robert,) his character, iv. 128.
  extract from his speech in the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 129.
  forced into the war with Spain by popular clamor, v. 288.
  fault in his general proceeding, v. 289.