Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches Volume Iv Part 20

Beatrice, Dante's love of.

Beauclerc, Topham, a member of the Literary Club.

Bentham, Mr, his defence of Mr Mill.

His merits and shortcomings.

Examination of his views.

His account of the manner in which he arrived at the "greatest happiness principle."

Testimony to his merits.

Bentinck, Lord William, inscription on the statue of, at Calcutta.

Bentley, Richard, his dissertation on the letters of Phalaris.

His answer to the attack of Atterbury.

Bible, the English translation of the, regarded as a specimen of the beauty and power of the English language.

Billaud, M., becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety.

Opposes Robespierre.

Himself brought to trial.

Condemned to be removed to a distant place of confinement.

Transported to Guiana.

His subsequent life.

Bonaparte, Napoleon, his detestation of the cruel decree of the Convention respecting English prisoners.

His return from Egypt, and a.s.sumption of absolute power as First Consul.

His policy at this period.

Allows Barere to reside in Pairs.

Employs Barere as a writer and spy.

Establishes the Imperial government.

His opinion of Barere's journalism.

His defeat and abdication.

Boswell, James, becomes a member of The Club.

His character.

His life of Johnson.

Bourbon, Duke, character of the government of.

Bow Street, whiggery of.

Boyd, his translation of the Divine Comedy of Dante.

Boyle, Charles, his college edition of the letters of Phalaris.

The answer to Bentley attributed to him.

Boyse, the poet, his friends.h.i.+p with Samuel Johnson.

Brasidas, great only when he ceased to be a Lacedaemonian.

Brissot, the Girondist leader.

His trial.

Brissotines, the. See Girondists.

Buccaneer, the Last.

Bunyan, John, age in which he produced his Pilgrim's Progress.

His birth and early life.

His notions of good and evil.

Enlists in the parliamentary army.

Returns home and marries.

His fantasies and internal sufferings.

Thrown into gaol.

His prison life.

His intimate knowledge of the Bible.

His early writings.

His abhorrence of the Quakers.

His controversies.

His answer to Edward Fowler.

His dispute with some of his own sect.

His liberation from prison.

His Pilgrim's Progress.

His Holy War.

Difficulties of.

His death and burial-place.

Fame of his Pilgrim's Progress.

Burgundy, Duke of, his theory of good government.

Burke, Edmund, his character of the first French republic.

And of the French National a.s.sembly.

His vindication of himself from the charge of inconsistency.

His part in The Club.

His position in the Whig opposition.

Burns, Robert, age in which he produced his works.

Butler, Samuel, character of his poetry.

Byron, Lord, his egotism and its success.

Caesar, accounts of his campaigns, regarded as history.

Camden, Lord, joins the Whig opposition.

Canning, George, popular comparison of, with Mr Pitt.

His activity in Pitt's cause.