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ff, Baron, meets Hastings, iii. 124. Agrees to divorce his wife, 126. Imhoff, Baroness, her attachment to Warren Hastings, iii. 125. Marries him, 163. _See_ Hastings, Mrs. Warren. Impey, Sir Elijah, a schoolmate of Hastings, iii. 118. Sent to India as Chief Justice, 148. Sentences Nuncomar, 153. His conduct reprehensible, 156. Attempts to enforce the English law in India, 168. Bought off by Hastings, 172. His conduct in the plundering of the Begums of Oude, 193. Recalled to England, 194. India, foundation of the British Empire in, ii. 277, 280. Early conduct of the English in, iii. 122. Their government in, 127. Regulating act for, 144. English law not suited to, 168. Advantages to the conquerors of the double governments in, 181. Induction, reasoning by, not invented by Bacon, ii. 475. Utility of its analysis greatly overrated by Bacon, 476. Example of its leading to absurdity, 479. Ireland, rebellion in, in 1640, ii. 41. Essex's administration in, 386, 387. Its condition under Cromwell's government, 519-521. Its state contrasted with that of Scotland, 639. Its union with England compared with the Persian fable of King Zohak, 640. Italian writers, criticisms on the principal, i. 1-39. Dante, 1-22. Petrarch, 23-39. Italy, her condition after the fall of Rome, i. 144. Freedom maintained during the Middle Ages, 145. Magnitude of her commerce, 147. Progress of learning in, 148. Art attains its zenith in, under Lorenzo the Magnificent, 150. Decline of martial vigor, 151. Use of mercenary soldiers in, 154. Peculiar system of fashionable morality produced in, 156. Character of her statesmen, 160. Corruption of her politics, 168. Feeling in, against the League of Cambray, 171. Effect of the Reformation in, iii. 15. Italy, Narrative of Travels in, Addison's, iii. 430. Jacobins, their origin, ii. 72. As a party in the French convention, urge the execution of the king, iii. 516. Supported by the Paris mob, 519. Condemn Marie Antoinette, 528. And the Girondists, 532. Begin the Reign of Terror, 533. Incapacity of their leaders, 537. Attack on Robespierre's faction, 553. End of their power, 556, 563. James I., his folly and weakness, ii. 11. Resembled Claudius Caesar, 12. Court paid to hi
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