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