rom office, 450.
Enters Parliament again, 451.
His Spectator papers, 454.
Contributes to the Guardian; his tragedy of Cato, 457.
Again Chief Secretary of Ireland, 465.
Friendship with Swift, 466.
His comedy The Drummer played; starts the Freeholder, 467.
His quarrel with Pope, 469.
Accused of retaliating on Pope, 474.
Marries the Dowager Countess of Warwick, 476.
Becomes Secretary of State, 477.
His troubles with Steele, 479.
Answers Steele's arguments against the bill for limiting the number
of the Peers, 481.
Dedicates his works to Craggs, 482.
His piety, 483.
Death, 484.
His services to literature, 486.

Addison, Rev. Lancelot, life, iii. 399.

Adiaphorists, the, ii. 68.

Aeschylus, Quintilian's opinion of, i. 42.
His use of the supernatural, 106.

Afghanistan, monarchy of, analogous to that of England in the
sixteenth century, ii. 80.

Aikin, Lucy, her life of Addison reviewed, iii. 396.

Aix, island of, captured, ii. 276.

Aix-la-Chapelle, treaty of, iii. 270.

Akenside, his Epistle to Curio, ii. 222.

Albigensian Crusade, iii. 9-11.

Alexander the Great, compared with Clive, ii. 760.

Alfieri, Vittorio, first to appreciate Dante, i. 6.
Influenced by the school of Plutarch, 256.
Comparable to Cowper, 591.

Alphabetical writing, the greatest of human inventions, ii. 460.
Comparative views of its value by Plato and Bacon, 460, 461.

Anabaptists, their origin, ii. 72.

Anacharsis, reputed contriver of the potter's wheel, ii. 447.

Anaverdy Khan, governor of the Carnatic, ii. 685.

Angria, his fortress of Gheriah, reduced by Clive, ii. 700.

Anne, Queen, her political and religious inclinations as Queen,
ii. 176.
Changes in her government in 1710, 177.
Relative estimation by the Whigs and the Tories of her reign,
178-186.

Annus Mirabilis, Dryden's, i. 215.

Anytus, first briber of Athenian judges, ii. 431.

Apostolical succession, claimed by Mr. Gladstone for the Church of
England, ii. 645.

Aquinas, Thomas, ii. 482.

Archimedes, his slight estimate of his inventions, ii. 457.

Archytas, rebuked by Plato, ii. 457.

Arcot; Nabob of, his relations with England, ii. 685-692.
His claims recognized by the English, 687.

Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Walpole's administration, ii. 241.

Ariosto, rises above Petr