Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches Volume Iv Part 25

His Deserted Village.

His She Stoops to Conquer.

His Histories.

His arts of selection and condensation.

His intimacy with the great talkers of the day.

His conversational powers.

How regarded by his a.s.sociates.

His virtues and vices.

His death.

His cenotaph in Westminster Abbey.

His biographers.

His part in The Club.

Gomer Chephoraod, King of Babylon, apologue of.

Goodnatured Man, the, of Oliver Goldsmith.

Government of India, Speech on.

Government, proper conditions of a good.

Review of Mr Mill's Essays on, etc.

His chapter on the ends of government.

And on the means.

His view of a pure and direct democracy.

Of an oligarchy.

And of a monarchy.

Deduction of a theory of politics in the mathematical form.

Government according to Mr Mill only necessary to prevent men from plundering each other.

His argument that no combination of the three simple forms of government can exist.

His remarks on the British const.i.tution.

His hope for mankind in the government of a representative body.

The real security of men against bad government.

Mr Mill's views as to the qualifications of voters for representatives.

The desire of the poor majority to plunder the rich minority.

Effects which a general spoliation of the rich would produce.

Method of arriving at a just conclusion on the subject of the science of government.

Mr Bentham's defence of Mr Mill's Essays.

Deduction of the theory of government from the principles of human nature.

Remarks on the Utilitarian theory of government.

Mode of tracking the latent principle of good government.

Checks in political inst.i.tutions.

Power.

Const.i.tution of the English government.

Greece, review of Mr Mitford's History of.

Gross ignorance of the modern historians of Greece.

The imaginative and critical schools of poetry in.

Greeks, domestic habits of the.

Change in their temper at the close of the Peloponnesian war.

Character of their fas.h.i.+onable logic.

Causes of the exclusive spirit of the Greeks.

Hall, Robert, his eloquence.

Hamlet, causes of its power and influence.

Happiness, principle of the greatest, of the greatest number examined.

The most elevated station the principle is ever likely to attain.

The Westminster Reviewer's defence of the "greatest happiness principle."

Hayley, his translation of the Divine Comedy of Dante.

Heat, Lord Bacon's mode of tracking the principle of.

Hebert, the Jacobin, his vile character.

Accuses the Girondists before the Revolutionary Tribunal.

Hebrides, Johnson's visit to the.

Herodotus, character of his history.

His faults.

Character of the people for whom the book was composed.

His history compared with that of Thucydides.

Herodotus regarded as a delineator of character.

Heron, Robert, his drama of News from Camperdown.

Hervey, Henry, his kindness to Samuel Johnson.

History, Mr Mitford's views of.

The true domain of history.

Qualifications necessary for writing.

The history of Herodotus.

That of Thucydides.

Johnson's remarks on history.

Xenophon's history.

Polybius and Arrian.

Character of the historians of the Plutarch cla.s.s.

English cla.s.sical a.s.sociations and names compared with those of the ancients.

Spirit excited in England and in France by the writers of the Plutarch cla.s.s.

Livy.

Caesar.

Sall.u.s.t.

Tacitus.

Merits and defects of modern historians.

Froissart, Machiavelli, and Guicciardine.

Effect of the invention of printing.

Causes of the exclusiveness of the Greeks and Romans.

Effect of the victory of Christianity over paganism.