oulon, fleet of, injudicious measures of the English government
with regard to it, iv. 445.
Townshend, Charles, character of him, ii. 64.
Trade, sometimes seems to perish when it only assumes a
different form, i. 313.
quickly and deeply affected by taxes, i. 391.
tests of the state of it, what, v. 493.
Board of, its character and history, ii. 340.
Tragedy, observations on the effects of, i. 120.
its subjects and passions, vii. 150.
great personages everywhere made the objects of it, xi. 308.
Transmigration of souls, origin of the doctrine, vii. 181.
Treasurer's staff, Lord Coke's account of the purpose of it, ii. 354.
Trent, Council of, its wise introduction of the discipline of
seminaries for priests, iv. 231.
Triangle, the poorest of all figures in its effect, i. 152.
Triennial Parliaments, evils of them, vii. 79.
Trinoda necessitas, in Saxon law, what, vii. 325.
Turkey, power sought there with avidity, notwithstanding the
danger and insecurity of its tenure, vii. 82.
Tyranny, aggravated by contumely, ii. 484.
the desire and design of it often lurk in the claim of an
extravagant liberty, iv. 115.
never learns moderation from the ill success of first oppressions, x. 83.
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,
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