ere, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 31.

Delight, what, i. 107.
distinguished from pleasure, i. 108.
the misfortunes of others sometimes a source of, i. 118.
the attendant of every passion which animates us to any active
purpose, i. 119.
how pain can be a cause of, i. 215.

Democracy, no example in modern times of a considerable one, iii. 396.
an absolute one, not to be reckoned among the legitimate forms
of government, iii. 396.
Aristotle's observation on the resemblance between a democracy
and a tyranny; iii. 397.
the vice of the ancient democracies, what, iii. 508.
the foodful nurse of ambition, iv. 104.

Departments in France, their origin, nature, and function, iii. 461, 465.

Depth thought to have a grander effect than height, i. 147.

Description, verbal, a means of raising a stronger emotion
than painting, i. 133.

Desirable things always practicable, ii. 357.

Despotism, nature of, i. 446; ix. 458.

D'Espremenil, the illustrious French magistrate, murdered by
the Revolutionists, vi. 40.

Dialogue, advantages and disadvantages of it as a mode of
argumentation, vi. 9.

Difference in taste, commonly so called, whence, i. 89.

Difficulty, a source of greatness in idea, i. 153.
its disciplinary uses, iii. 453.
political difficulties, ill consequences of attempting to
elude them, iii. 454.

Dignity, national, no standard for rating the conditions of peace, v. 257.

Dimension, greatness of, a powerful cause of the sublime, i. 147.
necessary to the sublime in building, i. 152.
but incompatible with beauty, i. 242.

Dinagepore, Rajah of, account of him, xii. 318.

Diogenes, anecdote of him, iv. 61.

Directory, the, by whom settled, vii. 13.
rejected at the Restoration, vii. 13.

Disappointment, what, i. 108.

Discontents, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present, i. 433.
produced by a system of favoritism, i. 469.

Discretion, Lord Coke's remark on, iv. 292.

Discretionary powers of the monarch, should be exercised upon
public principles, i. 469.

Discrimination, a coarse, the greatest enemy to accuracy of
judgment, v. 143.

Dissenters, observations on the Test Act, in reference to them, iv. 264.

Distress, great, never teaches wise lessons to mankind, iv. 10.

Distrust, advantages of, iv. 443.

Disunion in government, mischief of, i. 425.

Divorce, observations on, v. 313.

Domesday Book, origin, and nature of it, v