ii. 237.

Marriage, beneficial results of the Christian doctrine concerning it,
v. 312.
endeavors of the French Constituent Assembly to desecrate it, v. 312.
ends for which it was instituted, vii. 131.
restraints upon it in the reign of King John, vii. 464.

Marriage Act, principles upon which it is grounded, vii. 131.

Mathematical and metaphysical reasoning, compared with moral, vii. 73.

Mazarin, Cardinal, not loved by Louis XIV., iii. 499.
bon-mot of a flatterer of his, on the match between Louis XIV.
and a daughter of Spain, vi. 20.

Mediterranean Sea, importance to England of keeping a strong
naval force there, v. 421.

Memorial to be delivered to Monsieur de M.M., Hints for a, iv. 307.

Merchants, English, their evidence, petitions, and consultations
respecting America, i. 399, 405, 406.
principles and qualities of, ii. 506.

Mercy, not opposed to justice, iv. 465; vi. 252.
consists not in the weakness of the means, but in the benignity
of the ends, vi. 168.

Metaphysician, nothing harder than the heart of a thorough-bred one,
v. 216.

Migration, in early times, caused by pasturage and hunting, vii. 171.
and by wars, vii. 171.

Military life, its attractions to those who have had experience of it,
v. 464.

Military and naval officers, the fortitude required of them, v. 468.

Militia, probable origin of it, vii. 422.

Milton, his admirable description of Death, i. 132.
his celebrated portrait of Satan, i. 135.
his description of the appearance of the Deity, i. 156.
example from him of the beautiful in sounds, i. 203.
of the power of words, i. 259.

Ministers, Prussian, infected with the principles of the
French Revolution, iv. 359.
British, to be controlled by the House of Commons, v. 57.
observations on their duty in giving information to the public, vi. 14.

Minority, Observations on the Conduct of the, in Parliament,
in the Session of 1792, v. 1.
power of a restless one, v. 285.

Mistletoe, veneration of the Druids for it, vii. 183.

Modes of life, injustice of sudden legislative violence to suc
as the laws had previously encouraged, iii. 439.

Modesty, heightens all other virtues, i. 188; v. 128.
but sometimes their worst enemy, v. 129.

Mogul, the Great, his grants to the East India Company, ii. 560; ix. 345.
sold by the Company, ii. 448.
the Company's treaties with him broken by them, ii. 452.
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