Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches Volume Iv Part 28

Barere's proposal to utterly annihilate it.

Lysander, depressed by the const.i.tution of Lycyrgus.

Macflecnoe, of Dryden, character of the.

Machiavelli, character of his history.

Macpherson, his forgery of Fingal.

Threatens Dr Johnson.

Malkin, Sir Benjamin Heath, epitaph on.

Malthus, Mr, attacked by Mr Sadler.

Man, the contemplation of, the n.o.blest earthly object of man.

Marat, his murmurs against Barere.

His death.

Marcellus, the counterfeit oration for.

Marie Antoinette, Queen, Barere's account of the death of.

Brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal on the motion of Barere.

Her execution.

Martyn, Henry, epitaph on.

Maynooth, Speech on.

Medical science, Petrarch's invectives on the.

Melville, Lord, his impeachment.

Memoirs, popularity of, as compared with that of history.

"Memorial Antibritannique," the, of Barere.

Metaphors, Dante's.

Metcalfe, Lord, Epitaph on.

Mill, Mr, review of his Essays on Government, etc.

His utilitarianism.

False principles upon which his theory rests.

Precision of his arguments and dryness of his style.

His a priori method of reasoning.

Curious instances of his peculiar turn of mind.

His views of democracy, oligarchy, and monarchy.

His fallacies.

His proposed government by a representative body.

His proposal of universal suffrage, but for males only.

The effects which a general spoliation of the rich would engender.

His remarks on the influence of the middle rank.

Review of the Westminster Reviewer's defence of Mr Mill.

Milton, John, compared with Dante.

Milton, Mr John, and Mr Abraham Cowley, conversation between, touching the great Civil War.

His great modern epic.

Dryden's admiration for his genius.

Mirabeau, Souvenirs sur, etc., M. Dumont's review of.

M. Dumont's picture of Mirabeau in the National a.s.sembly.

Mirabeau compared to Wilkes.

And to the Earl of Chatham.

Mitford, Mr, criticism on his History of Greece.

His princ.i.p.al characteristic as a historian.

Errors of almost all the most modern historians of Greece.

Estimation in which the later ancient writers have been held.

Differences between Mr Mitford and the historians who have preceded him.

His love of singularity.

His hatred of democracy.

And love of the oligarchical form of government.

His illogical inferences and false statements.

His inconsistency with himself.

His deficiencies.

Charges of misrepresentation brought against him as a historian.

Monarchical form of government, Mr Mill's view of a.

Moncontour, the Battle of.

Mountain, sketch of the party in the French Convention so called.

Votes for the death of the King.

Its victory over the Girondists.

Tyranny of the Mountain.

Violence of public opinion against it.

Naseby, the Battle of.

National a.s.sembly, the French.

Mr Burke's character of them.

M. Dumont's picture of the a.s.sembly.

Nollekens, his cenotaph of Oliver Goldsmith in Westminster Abbey.

Nonconformists, relief of, by Charles II.

North, Lord, and the American difficulties.

Resignation of his ministry.