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INDEX TO BOTH VOLUMES.

A

Abbés, correction of the opinion as
to their being always Priests, ii.

102.

Abdel Kader, Bugeaud's treaty with
him, ii. 70.

Abyssinian Monarchs, reference to
Messrs. Abadie's account of them,
i. 397.

Academy, (French) its institution
and object, i. 399, 400.

Acre, its former and recent siege, ii.
140.

Adda, quotation respecting the Irish
who fell in battle there, ii. 25.
Adrets, Baron Des, anecdote respect-
ing his cruelty, ii. 295.

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the rival of Montluc, ii. 295 n.
Advocates, (French) numbers passed
in review, ii. 245.

ALBERT, (Prince) article on him and
the Saxon family, ii. 250.

his Catholic kinsmen, ii. 256-7.
Alboa, Count d', correction of the
name. Omission by Mr. Holmes
of his ancestor, Jacques d'Albon,
Maréchal de St. André, as an am-
bassador, i. 405.
Albret, family of, different from that
of Albert, ii. 530.
Aldus, some account of the Aldine
family, i. 431 n.

Algeria, the claims of its natives to
military reputation, the birth-place
of Hannibal, ii. 70-1.
Alison, observations on his History
of Europe, i. 240-1.
-several of his inaccuracies pointed
out, i. 250-254.

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Alva, Duke of, error of Mr. Greene
relative to him, ii. 556.
Ambassadors, French, a catalogue by
Mr. Holmes of them at the En-
glish court, referred to, and obser-
vations of the author, i. 371.
Ambassadress, mention of one to
Poland, i. 411.

Americans, Johnson's inexcusable
language towards them in their
war of independence, ii. 338.
Ames, his History of the English
press, and mention of the price of
books in the middle ages, i. 417.
Anglican church confined to England
and the United States, i. 439.

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Arago, his "Eloges Historiques" of
Carnot and of Watt, ii. 201.
Archer, Rev. Dr., a plagiarism in his
sermon on Good Friday, i. 71.
Archimedes, absorbed in mathemati-
cal study; murdered without being
allowed to solve his studied pro-
blem, ii. 4.

Ariosto, resemblance to Berni noted,
and their extravagance in expres-
sion similar to the Irish in oratory,
i. 203.
Aristotle, his observations on physi-

cal temperament, in relation to the
intellect, i. 162.

Arnauld, Antoine, (first of the name)
patriarch of the Arnaulds, i. 492.

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- Angélique, described by the arch-
bishop of Paris, i. 493.
Arnauld, distinguished members of
the family, and their works against
Protestantism, i. 493.

Artaud de Montor, (Chevalier), his
familiar acquaintance with the
Duchess of Devonshire, i. 73.
Asia, its enervating climate, not
wholly unproductive of military
fame, numerous instances cited, ii.
71.

Askew, Dr. spurious date of an early

Oxford impression imposed upon
him, i. 455.

Atheists exculpated by Lord Broug-
ham from the crime of blasphemy,
i. 7.

Augsburg, Confession of, adopted in
Sweden in 1529, i. 449.
Authors, Latin, natives of foreign
countries claimed by Rome, ii. 425.
Ayen, Duc d', his witty sayings,
immolation of his family under
Robespierre, ii. 361.

B

Bacon, Lord, preferably quotes the
vulgate in his works, i. 420.
- defence of, by Mr. Montague,
ii. 282.

Barry, (See Dubarry.)
Barthélemy, mistake of Mr. White,
who confounds the uncle and
nephew of that name, ii. 372.
Bâle, Lord Cloncurry's stay there;
the writer there at the same time;
anecdote of Royal and Republican
Officers, ii. 140.
Bassompièrre, his mémoires, i. 395.
Bastardy, traced in royal and noble
blood, i. 345.

Bayle, admission in France of his
will, though a relapsed Huguenot,
eatrasted with English illiberality
towards relapsed papists, ii. 228-9.
Bazancourt, General, his widow the
possessor of a perfect autograph
copy of Rousseau's
"Nouvelle
Heloise," i. 136.

deplores his appointment as one of
the judges of the Duke d'Enghien,
i. 136.
Beauharnais, Family of, origin of the
name-change of name discussed,
and date, i, 293.

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Beauveau, Madame de, Louis XIV's
earliest seductress, ii. 377.
Bedemar, Marquis de, the work
Squittinio della Liberta Veneta,"
why attributed to him; his subse-
quent fortunes, i. 264-6.
Beloe, his anecdotes of Literature
quoted, i. 456.

- his imputed robbery of books,
ii. 392.

Bernard, Saint, his maxim in advo-
cacy of the principles of religious
conversion by persuasion not by
force, i. 522.

Berne, Canton of, its adoption of the
creed of Zuinglius, in 1528, i. 451.
Berners, Lord, his translation of
Froissard, valuable from its rarity,
ii., 28.

Berni, his poetry, i. 203.

Bernis, Cardinal de, Frederick's satir-

ical lines upon him, another cause
of the seven years' war, ii., 211.
Berri, Duchess of, Marshal Bugeaud's
mission to convey her out of
France after her confinement, ii.

72.
Bertholet, results to France of his
scientific pursuits, though not a
Frenchman-anecdote respecting
him in Egypt, ii. 423–4.
Berwick, Duke of, remarkable coin-
cidence with Wellington, as res-
torers of the Bourbons in Spain,
i. 364.

- his victory at Almanza, ii. 40.
Beza, his licentious poems, published
on the eve of his becoming a Cal-
vinist, and not expurgated for
many years; other Calvinist refor-
mers joined in the publication, ii.

539.

- his profligate life, while preparing
to become a Calvinist, ii. 540.
specimens of his poetry, ii. 540.
Bianchini, Joseph, his defence of the
Vulgate, i. 426.

Bianconi, allusion to a sketch of his

life by himself, ii. 100.
BIBLE, the, Anglican version, errors
of, i. 80.

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- Vulgate Catholic, admittedly the
best translation of, i. 80.

charge of the Vulgate's assump-
tion of typographical infallibility
refuted-its authenticity as a
standard of reference defined by
the Council of Trent-errors of
impression in authorised Angli-
can translation, i. 230.

variance between Sixtine and
Clementine editions, explanation
of, ii. 287.

Latin, number of successive
editions previous to Luther-its
estimation by the learned, i. 420.
- Parisian Polyglot, Le Jay's, its
publication, i. 202.

Complutensian Polyglot, its his-
tory, i. 232-432.

Antwerp Polyglot, i. 433.

English, its publication preceded
by the establishment of Protes-
tantism, which consequently it
could not have produced, i. 442.
authorised version acknowledged
to be incorrect, ii. 288.

translation of, into Italian, French
and German, more grammatical
than the English, i. 425.

- Jewish, none in modern version
until lately, i. 428.

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- Mazarine, the first great effort of
the press, i. 428.

multiplied editions of, and its
extensive circulation throughout
Europe, chiefly in those coun-
tries that have continued Catho-
lic, i. 467.

Alchuine, manuscript, its great
value, i, 415-467.
-costly manuscript copies of, not
rare in the monasteries of the me-
diæval era, i. 467.

translated into the style of Virgil
for the use of English schools; its
gross corruptions, i. 471.
Bibliographia, Sacra, Lelong's, seve-
ral versions of the Bible discovered
since its publication in 1723, i. 428.
his estimation of the Compluten.
sian Polyglot, i. 482.
Bigamy, allowed by heads of the
reformation in 1540, to Philip of
Hesse Cassel, ii. 261.

-the first in Rome, avowed by
Marc Antony, ii. 385.
Bignon, his history of French diplo-

macy from 1792 to 1815, written at
the request of Napoleon in his will;
his prejudice in regard to England,
i. 187-8.

- partiality of his history shown,
note i. 236.

Biographie, Universelle, consulted as
a guide on French subjects; but
erroneous on most others, ii. 233-4.
Biography, notices of its numerous
productions, its scope contrasted
with history, ii. 314-15.

Biron, Duke of, an account of his
death, i. 382.

- his exclamation at his execution
in 1793, ii. 61.

Blackstone, his evidence of the igno-
rance of reading in former times,
i. 415.

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- attributes the repeal of laws
against witchcraft to Louis XIV. a
Catholic Prince, i. 529.

Blood, the circulation of, Servetus'
allusion to it, works of the various
writers upon it noticed, i. 275.
Boccacio, his intimacy with Petrarch,
ii. 306.

Bodin, his opinions, and unpublished
work, i. 195.

Boerhaave, profits of his practice; his
fame; his prescription for Lord
Chesterfield, ii. 225.

Bohemia, comparative numbers of
catholics and protestants in, i. 452.
Boileau, his satire stigmatising Bussi
Rabutin, ii. 383.

Boleyn, Anne, disproved to be the
daughter of Henry VIII. by their
relative ages, ii. 251 n.

- her death contrasted with Queen
Catherine's, ii. 262-3.
Bomberg, Daniel, his four editions of
the Hebrew Bible, i. 433.
Books, high price of them before the
invention of printing-some writ-
ten in letters of gold, i. 416.

- Sought when prohibited, depre-
ciated when permitted, ii. 538.
Borghese, Prince, Lord Cloncurry's
error respecting his inability to
sign his name, ii. 154.

Borgia, Cæsar, some account of him,
i. 342-3.

Borgia, Mr. Macaulay's inadverten-
cies respecting the family of;
genealogy of the family, ii. 218 n.
Borgo, Pozzo di, his eminence as a
diplomatist, i. 386.

A member of the French Legisla-
tive assembly, not of the conven-
tion, ii. 534.

Brienne, Count de, his travels, ii. 542.
Borrow, total failure of the object of

his" Bible in Spain," a mission for
which he was utterly unqualified,
ii. 43-44.

Bossuet, his "Exposition de la doc-
trine de L'Eglise" referred to; his
work approved by Pope Innocent
XI., and Cardinals Bona and
Chizi, i. 185.

Bossut, Lord Brougham's error re-
specting him; his mathematical
works, ii. 449-50.

Boswell, his pre-eminence as a Bio-
grapher, ii. 312-13.

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his want of general talent; John-
son's fame indebted to his book;
his first introduction to Johnson in
1763, ii. 328.

Bouchard, M., his testimony to the
acknowledgment of the articles of
faith of the Council of Trent by
the Gallican Church, i. 184.
Boucher, his exultation on the an-
nouncement of the assassination
of Henry III. of France, i. 193.
Boufflers, Madame de, her attempts
to reconcile Hume and Rousseau
perversely refused by the latter, i.
130.

Bouhours, his work recommended by

Lord Chesterfield to his son; Dry-
den's opinion of him, ii. 318.
Bourbon, Louis de, ambassador to
Henry V. of England, i. 372.
Bourke, General Count, anecdote res-
pecting him, in 1795, ii. 187.
Boyne, Battle of the, description of,
and its importance, ii. 14-15.
Brandenburg, Albert of, his conduct
towards the Catholics, in 1525, i.
448.

Brienne, Loménie De, an account of
his family, i. 382.

BRIGADE, THE IRISH IN FRANCE, its
history and biographical anecdotes
of its most distinguished members,
ii. 1.
Brougham, Lord, his attack on Ca-
tholicism, i. 2.

his excuse for the impiety of
Voltaire refuted, i. 2-3.

his exculpation of Atheism, i. 6.
his sources of information not
quoted, i. 7.

his inaccuracy, i. 9.

- falsely extols the toleration as-
serted to prevail, but not existing
in England, by Voltaire, i. 14.
misrepresents the cause of Vol-
taire's quarrel with La Beaumelle,

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- his remarkable omissions of facts,
i. 48.

- character of his acquaintance with
the French language, i. 111.

- his misrepresentations concerning
J. J. Rousseau, i. 114.

- a long series of his historical errors
detailed, from p. 163 to 223, vol. ii.
- similarity of his character with
that of Rousseau, in the rapid fluc-
tuation of his sentiments, i. 161.
- compliment of Pope to Boling-
broke applied to him; his splendid
acquirements and talents; exem-
plification of a great orator, as
delineated by Cicero, ii. 163-4.

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- his sketches of orators and states-
men eulogised, ii. 181-2.

his overstrained literary labours;
admonition to him, ii. 283.

his error in his criticisms of a line
of Johnson's, ii. 323.

Brown, Field Marshal, account of his

birth and education; his subse-
quent military career; error of
O'Conor respecting him; Frede-
rick's eulogy of him; his adven-
ture in Limerick, in company with
the father of the author; his death,
ii. 74-76.

Browne, M. Wogan, his literary
habits and library; publication by
him, and others, of old Italian
tales; purchase of his own copy
by the writer; price paid for a
vellum copy, ii. 150-1.

Brune, Marshal, author owed his life
to him, i. 236 n.

Brunet, his remarks in his "Manuel
du Libraire" of the omissions in
Panzer, i. 435.

Brutus, comparison between him and
Cato, ii. 184-5.

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superior to him, yet various au-
thors named as his equals, ii. 345.
Buchaut, his lines on vanished hap-
piness, ii. 373.

Buchon, his edition of Froissard the
best yet published, ii. 28.
Buckingham, Duke of, his supposed
intrigue with Anne of Austria, i.
218-19.

Buckland, Dr., his work on Geology
discussed, and certainty that had
it been published at the time of
Galileo, it would have exposed him
at least to equal danger, i. 181.
Bugeaud, Marshal, account of honors
paid to his remains; his Irish
maternal descent; history of his
family; his entry into life; his agri-
cultural pursuits; his military ca-
reer; his death, ii. 63-73.
Buonaparte, vide Napoleon,
Burke, his opinion of Voltaire as a
writer, i. 47.

- his tract on Popery laws, ii. 26.
-the authorship of Junius falsely
attributed to him; his style of
writing; Prior's life of him; his
relationship to the author, ii. 103-7.
-estimate of him as a literary and
public character, ii 236.
Burnet, Bishop, his assertions res-
pecting the Protestant influence
of the Bible refuted, i. 446.
- permission of Polygamy by him,
ii. 261.

Burney, Doctor of Music, his disser-
tation on counterpoint, ii. 552.
Burns, the French provincial poets
not to be compared to him, ii. 297.
Bussi-Rabutin, his statement of the
impious scene exhibited by Vi-
vonne and others at Roissi; his
profane song not applicable to
La Valliére; his satire, "Histoire
Amoureuse des Gaules;" his im-
prisonment in the Bastille, ii. 378-9.
his profligacy and impiety, ii.
383-4.
Butler, his "Hora Biblica" quoted;
his erroneous statement relative to
Houbigant's Hebrew Bible, i. 434.
Byron, Lord, his portraiture of Rous-
seau's perverted talents, i. 105.

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Cæsar, his style arraigned by Asinius
Pollio, as also his facts; his elo-
quence admired by Cicero, ii. 521-2.
Calderon, his prolific works; surrep-

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debates in the Peers, in 1751, upon
the reformation of, ii. 438-9.
Calmet, Dom, his commentaries on
the Bible and other Biblical works,
i. 438.

Calvinism, the countries to which it
extends, i. 439.

Calvin, his defence of the punish-
ment by death for heresy, i. 276.
- his compositions in his native
tongue inferior to those of Comines
and Amyot, i. 491.

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his Latin diction entitled to praise,
i. 492.

- merits of his work "Christianæ
Religionis Institutio" exaggerated,
i. 492.

asserts the right of the State to
repel heresy by penal inflictions, i.
500.

- contemplated, it was said, with
satisfaction, Servetus proceeding to
execution, i. 502.

- endeavours to inflict, but mistakes
the means of prolonging the pain
of death of Servetus, i. 502.

- his draconian code; severity of
its enactments, i. 529.

Camisard, origin of the word, ii. 39.
Camoens, notice of him, i. 284 n.
CAMPBELL'S LIFE OF PETRARCH, ii.
299.

Campbell, Lord, his error in Latin
prosody, ii. 346.

Cardinals, fourteen of the College of,
not Priests, ii. 513.
Carlostadt, his incitement against
Catholic worship in 1522, i. 447.
Carlyle T., corruptions of his style, i.
520.

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