pound words among the most ex- pressive in the language, 388. In- admissibility generally of new com- pounds, 338. Causes, 388. Variety and richness of our synonymes, 389. Our obligations to the Latin and Greek languages, 391. 393. Obso- lete words of our older writers, 392. Rudeness and vulgarity of many of the Saxon derivatives, 395. Effect
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of the exclusive study of classical literature in indisposing a man for relishing or writing idiomatic Eng- lish, 397. Copiousness and variety of the English language, 399. At- tention lately bestowed on the sub- ject, iii. 227. Researches of Dr. Latham, 228. Origin and history of the Anglo-Saxon language, 229. Formation of the English as a new language, 233. Probable causes of the change from Saxon to English, 233. Effects of the Conquest, 233. Rask's account of the change, 235., note. Grammatical changes in the Platt-Deutsch, 238. Period of the change from Anglo-Saxon to modern English, 242. Changes in the lan- guage principally grammatical, 242. Ellis's Specimens,' 243. Anglo- Norman political songs, 244. sion of French words, 244. mon's translation of Wace's Ro- mance of Brut,' 245. Ruggedness or the language anterior to the time of Chaucer, 245. Orthographical difficulties, 246., and note. Hume's remarks on the mixture of the French and English languages, 248. Dates of specimens of early English, 249. Robert of Gloucester, 250. Books where specimens may be consulted, 250., note. Sir John Mandeville, 251. Wicliffe, 251. Trevisas' translation of Hygden's Polychronicon,' 251. Pleadings in courts of justice ordered to be conducted in English, 251. French the court and fashionable language, 252. Date of English first taught in grammar schools, 254. John Cornewaile and Richard Pen- criche, 254. Orthography of Sir John Mandeville's Travels,' 255. Chaucer's English, 257, 258. The language of the latter half of the fourteenth century, 260. Cumber- someness of our early style, 261- 264. Caxton's remarks on its im- provements during his time, 265, 266. Benefits conferred by printing,
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mation of taste for classic authors, 266, 267. Purity and elegance of Sir Thomas More's works, 268. La- timer, 268. The English of the beginning and middle of the six- teenth century, 269. Sir John Cheke, 269. Roger Ascham, 269. Wilson's Rhetoric,' 269. Dr. Johnson's remarks on the language at the time of Elizabeth, 227. La- tinisms and the periodic style, 273. et seq. Jeremy Taylor, 275. 277. Extracts from Hooker and Milton, illustrative of the periodic style, 276., note. Refinement at the Restora- tion, 278. Affected Gallicisms in- troduced by the court of Charles II., 279, 280. Value of some of the words, 281. Adoption of extrava- gant colloquialisms, 281. 'Cavalier slang' of Roger L'Estrange and his contemporaries, 282. Dryden, 283. Commencement of the eighteenth century, 283. Addison, 283. Af- fectation of French phraseology, 283. Dr. Johnson, 285. Extravagant imi- tations of his style, 286, 287. The Germanised style, 288, 289. Evil of the multiplication of scientific terms, 290-292. Inundation of learned terms in the vulgar handicrafts, 292. Principal excellences of a language, 273. Epictetus, his observations on philoso- phy, iii. 39.
Erasmus, his labours in the cause of the Reformation, i. 162. Erdmann, his recent edition of Leib- nitz's works, i. 168.
Ernest Augustus, Prince, bishop of Osnaburg, i. 179.
Error, metempsychosis of, ii. 1. Essais sur la Bonté de Dieu,' of Leib- nitz, extract from, i. 203. Eucharist, doctrines of the Oxford Tractarian School respecting, ii. 87 -90. Views respecting the, main- tained by Dr. Pusey, 190. Their fallacy, 191. Views of the Fathers respecting, 191. And of the Eng- lish divines, 193.
'Euthyphro,' the, of Plato, i. 359. Evil, origin of, hypothsis of Leibnitz respecting, i. 196. His system in itself a contradiction, 197. Lord Brougham's observations on, 199, 200. Partial evil, universal good,' 202. Leibnitz's speculations re- specting the small quantity of evil compared with the vast amount of good in the universe, 204.
Fox, Charles James, his scrupulosity in argument, iii. 99. Foxton, F. J., his Popular Chris- tianity,' ii. 250. Strictures on his book, 308. See Reason and Faith. France, communist and socialist the-
ories of, ii. 401. Social condition of, contrasted with that of England, 452. Franciscan friars, Locke's account of a dinner at a monastery of, iii. 108. French language, the, fixed by the writings of Pascal, i. 251, 252. Its imperfections at this period, 252. The court and fashionable language in England, iii. 252. Affected Gal- licisms introduced by the court of Charles II., 279. French phraseo- logy at the beginning of the eigh- teenth century, 283.
Froissart compared with Fuller, i. 41. Froude, J. A., his Nemesis of Faith,' 250. Strictures on his works, 308.
See Reason and Faith.
Fuller, Rev. T., father of Thomas Ful- ler, i. 4.
Fuller, Thomas, late republication of his works, i. 1. Coleridge's opinion of him as a writer, 1. Fuller not fairly dealt with by posterity, 2. Characteristics of his works, 3. His birth and parentage, 3. His first work, 4. His preferment and marriage, 4. His History of the Holy War,' 5. His Church His- tory,' 5. His Holy and Profane State,' 5. Sentence of sequestration pronounced against him, 6. His friends in misfortune, 6. He col- lects materials for his Worthies of England,' 6. His appointment as chaplain to the princess Henrietta Maria, 6. His anecdote of the siege of Exeter, 6. His Pisgah-sight of Palestine,' &c., 7. His second marriage, 8. His examination before the Court of Triers,' 8. His later works and subsequent preferments, 9. His death, 9. Publication of his Worthies of England,' 10. Activity of his sug-
gestive faculty, 11. Coinpared with Burke and Jeremy Taylor, 11. Interest of his style even in dry geographical and chronological de- tails, 12. Specimens, 12., note. Wit the principal attribute of his genius, 13. Examples of his wit, 14. His quirkish reasons,' 17. Satire not a feature in his wit, 18. Jesting the natural expression of his emotions, 21. His reply to Hey- lyn's Examen Historicum,' 21., His droll way of relating the most tragical parts of his His- tories,' 22. His account of the principal conspirators in the Gun- powder Plot, 22. His wisdom, 24. His limits within which wit and humour may be lawfully used, 24, His imagination, 25. His quaint ness, 27. Best specimens of his quaint style, 30. May be con- sidered the master of the quaint school of the seventeenth century, 30. Compared with Jeremy Tay- lor, Donne, and Browne, 31. His style more idiomatic than any of his contemporaries, 31. Illustration from hisEssay on Tombs,' 32.
His observations on Fancy, 33. Chief characteristics of his his- torical works, 36, 37. Of his Worthies of England,' 37. his Church History,' 37. 'Histories,' generally, 39. Com- pared with Herodotus and Frois- sart, 41. His character in a moral and religious point of view, 43. Chargeable with flattery, 44. Anec- dotes of his extraordinary memory, 45. His oddities in composition, 46, 47. Charles Lamb's opinion of Fuller's writings, 47. Rev. A. Russell's Memorials of the Life and Works,' of Fuller, 47., note.
Galileo, his recantation, i. 142. Geology, Leibnitz considered as the founder of, i. 179. 191. Geometry, algebraical, foundation of, by Descartes, iii. 4. 17.
George, Elector of Hanover, his ac- cession to the throne of England, i.
German scholars, their criticisms, i.
German philosophy, danger of young minds falling into the cloudy re- gions of, ii. 318., note. Sir J. Mackintosh's irritation at the ac- cursed German philosophy,' 96. Enigmas of the 'unconditioned,' 111. German books, causes of the mortality even of some of their best, i. 490. Their prodigal references, 491. Gibbon, his method of reading books, i. 462. His estimate of the losses to literature in the destruction of the Alexandrian library, 479, 480. His rationalism, ii. 205. His re- marks on the formation of Italian language, iii. 241.
Gilby, Colonel, his quarrel with Andrew Marvell, i. 58. Gladstone, W. E., examination of his modification of the theory of private judgment,' ii. 32., et seq. His 'Church Principles considered in their Results,' 58. Quoted on the Apostolic succession, 77., et seq. On the holy communion, 91. Fallacy of his views as to the ad- vance of catholic principles,' 159. -161. And that the Catholic Church is ONE and VISIBLE, 169, 170. Uncharitable spirit of his
principles, though he be not so, 178. His adherence to Dr. Pusey's views of the Eucharist, 187. His extra- ordinary remarks on the Tractarian party remaining in the Church, 242. His sentiments pernicious, 244. God, existence of, examination of the arguments for and against the, i. 295. Arguments of Descartes for the, iii. 54. Locke's favourite argu- ment for the, 138.
'Good Thoughts in Bad Times,' Fuller's, i. 30. 'Good Thoughts Fuller's, i. 30.
Goode, W., praise of his Divine Rule of Faith and Practice,' ii. 148. 'Gorgias,' the, of Plato, i. 304. Spirited translation of one or two scenes from the, 365. Government, civil, Locke's thoughts on, iii. 102.
Gospel, proofs of the originality and divinity of the, i. 261. Observa- tions of Pascal on the style of the,
Gray, Thomas, his estimate of the Socratic Dialogues,' i. 338. Gregory, his acquaintance with Leib- nitz, i. 178.
Greek language, its value in affording us nearly the whole of the techni- calities of physical science, i. 391, 392. No influence over the changes in the structure of the English lan- guage, 391.
Grey, Earl, his observations on the treatment of criminals, ii, 524. Grimm, his Deutsche Grammatik,' i. 400.
Grimstone, Sir Harbottle, Master of the Rolls, i. 60.
Guhrauer, Dr. G. E., notice of his 'Life of Leibnitz,' i. 163., et seq., 168. His observations on the con- troversy between Sir Isaac Newton and Leibnitz, 218, 219. 227, 228. His severity on Newton's using ciphers to conceal his fluxions, 231. Gunpowder plot, Fuller's account of the principal conspirators in the, i.
Gustavus Adolphus, reference to, iii. 122.
Hackmannus, Doctissimus, i. 167. Hallam, Henry, his slight allusion to
Fuller, i. 2. His injustice to the intellect of Luther, 107. His low estimate of Luther's eloquence, 119. His expression Antinomian para- doxes, in reference to Luther's doc- trine of justification by faith, 156. Eulogium on Mr. Hallam's work, 160. His description of the style of Pascal, 269. His observations on the plagiarisms of Descartes, iii. 19. His remarks on the origination of mathematical definitions, 46. His eulogium on Locke's Conduct of the Understanding,' 89. His remarks on the change of Anglo- Saxon to English, 242. His eulo- gium on Sir T. More's Life of Richard III.,' 268.
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Halley's comet, reference to, iii. 70. Hamilton, Sir W., his remarks on the 'innate ideas' of Descartes, iii. 50, 51. His Essay on the Philoso- phy of the Unconditioned,' 96. His observations on the identity of the views of Locke and Descartes, 146. His researches on the history of the theories of perception, 165. Happiness, the relations of, to suffer- ing, i. 265. Perilous ordeal of un- shaded happiness, 266. Its indisso- luble alliance with virtue, 323. Hare, Augustus William, eulogy on his Sermons,' i. 417. His excel. lences, 435. His sermons to a Country Congregation,' 435.
Ideas,' question of the precise sense attached by Locke to the word, iii. 163.
Identity, personal,' Locke's notion of, iii. 173.
Imagination, characteristics of Ful- ler's, i. 25.
'Immortal Trilogy,' the, of Plato, En- glish translation of, i. 303. Income-tax, readjustment of, a desi- rable financial reform, ii. 429.
'Index Expurgatorius,' the, of the Romish Church, iii. 331.
Indexes, their importance to the study of good works, i. 493.
Induction and deduction, observations on, i. 64., et seq.
Indulgences, observations on the, of the Roman Catholic Church, i. 151 -154. Heywood's satire on them, 154.
Infallibility, Romish. Infallibility the only limit to the right of private judgment, ii. 24 Question of, con- sidered, iii. 301., et seq.
Infinite, notion of Descartes respecting the, iii. 61.
Infinity, Locke's notion of our ideas of, iii. 160.
Innate ideas,' the, of Descartes, re-
marks on, iii. 38. Sir W. Hamilton's views respecting, 50. Leibnitz's doctrine of, compared with Locke's theory, 145. Controversy respect- ing, 145., et seq.
Inquisitions, patronage of, of the Church of Rome, iii. 331. Instinct, iii. 81. Sydney Smith's lec- ture on, 225.
Integral calculus, labours of Leibnitz on the, i. 226.
Internal Evidences of Christianity, i.
Irony of Andrew Marvell, i. 85. Of
the Platonic Socrates, observations on, 352, 353.
'Italian arts,' the, of the papal govern- ment, i. 139.
Italian language, origin of the forma- tion of the, iii. 241. 'Italitates,' of Rome, i. 139.
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Jeffrey, Lord, his remarks on the de- creasing popularity of works of genius as they accumulate, i. 477. His connection with the Edin- burgh Review,' iii. 197. His opinion of Sydney Smith's Ele- mentary Sketches of Moral Philo- sophy,' 198. His beautiful letter to Mrs. Smith, 198. His sweetness, frankness, and fearless love of truth, 199. His admirable essay on beauty, 220.
Jesters, Court, Fuller's remark on, i. 16.
Jesuits, Fuller's witty remark re- specting them, i. 14. Exposé of the doctrines of the, 257, 258. John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick- Lunenberg, his patronage of Leib- nitz, i. 178. His death, 179. Johnson, Dr., his definition of wit,
iii. 211. His remarks on the English language of the time of Elizabeth, 272. His style, 285. Imitators of his style, 286, 287. Jonson, Ben, his English grammar, iii, 242., note.
Jortin, his observations on Luther's
doctrine of justification by faith alone, i. 156.
Judgment, private, observations on the right of, ii, 1-57, Metempsychosis of error, 1. High Church Prin- ciples,' 3. Their opposition to the
Pro- right of private judgment, 3. pagandists of the doctrine of perse- cution, 4. Impossibility of their obtaining success, 5. What is meant by the right of private judgment'? 5-7. Modern advocates of the re- vival of persecution, 8, 9. city of their views, 10, 11. ments by which the principles of religious freedom were first estab- lished, 14. Locke's first letter on toleration, 17. Existence of the spirit of persecution until very lately, 21. The popish doctrine of the Church's infallibility the only effectual limit to the right of pri- vate judgment, 24. Claim of hy- brid Protestants to infallibility, 26. Their limit to the range of inquiry,' 27, 28. Mr. Gladstone's modification of the theory of private judgment,' 32., et seq. Criteria of the undivided Church, 36. Unthinking acqui- escence' the most desirable state of mind, according to the • Oxford Tracts,' 39., note. Impossibility of submission to this, 40., note. 'disease' of private judgment, wide spread and ineradicable, 42. Ar- guments on the right of private judgment, 43, 44. The dictates of of conscience the supreme guide Una- in matters of religion, 45. nimity in favour of the laws of practical morals, 48. Remarks of Bayle and Robert Hall, 49. The 'Oxford Tracts,' 51. Reflections on the advantages of the Right of Private Judgment,' 53. Impossi- bility of perfect uniformity of opinion, 55. The Bible, 56. Its plainness even to the most illiterate,
An infallible guide in all that is necessary to salvation, 57, 58. Views of the Tractarians of the right of private judgment, 155. Justification by faith, Luther's asser- tion of the doctrine, i. 131. Obser- vations on, 155., et seq. Oxford Tractarian views on, ii. 127.
Kant, his philosophy, iii. 95. Keill, Dr., his connection with the controversy between Sir Isaac Newton and Leibnitz, i. 221., et seq. Kemble, his Anglo-Saxon labours, i.
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