Bolingbroke quoted, i. 24, 40.

Boulanvilliers quoted, i. 543. ii. 413.
Brasidas, his saying, ii. 423.

Brumoy, Pere, quoted, ii. 399.

C

CESAR quoted, i. 394, 437, 438, 520, Note (K.) ii. 399, 408.

his account of the number slaughtered in his wars, i. 532, Note
(FF.)

Cambyses, his extravagance, ii. 427.

Capitolinus quoted, i. 484.

Caprice, an attribute of the Deity in popular religions, ii. 432.

Carlisle, Earl of, quoted, i. 26.

Cartes, Des, quoted, i. 239. ii. 456, Note (D.)

Carthage, its size and number of its inhabitants, i. 430.

Carthaginians, their human sacrifices, ii. 487, Note (BBB.) ·

Catholics, Roman, genius of their religion, i. 72.

led into absurdities, ii. 428.

Cato de Re Rustica, quoted, i. 387.

Cato of Utica, his speech to Cæsar, i. 269.

Cause and effect, its ideas, whence, ii. 24, &c. Its definition, 77,
459. Note (G.)

Causes, moral, how far they contribute to national characters, i, 194 )

physical, how far, i. 203.

Causation, a reason of association, ii. 22, 51, &c.

Cavalier party, i. 63.

Cervantes, his merit, i. 188, quoted, 230.

Chance, what, ii. 57. Its influence in society, 111.

Characters, national, i. 195, &c.

Charles XII. of Sweden, his character, ii. 295.

Chastity, its merit, whence, ii. 244.

Cheerfulness, its merit, whence, ii. 286.

China, its excellence and defects, i. 115.

Christian religion founded in faith, not in reason, ii. 131.

Cicero quoted, i. 17, 87, 94, 98, 171, 341, 380, 400, 408, 417, 420,

439, 522, Note (O.) ii. 52, 215, 218, 354, 373, 431.

City, reasons which limit the greatness of every city, i. 430.

Cleanliness, its merit, whence, ii. 303.

Clergy, why no friends to liberty, i. 59.

Cold, greater in ancient times, i. 431, 432.

Colonesi and Orsini, parties in modern Rome, i. 51.

Columella quoted, i. 305, 383, 388, 389, 434, 439, 525, Note (T.)

Comitia centuriata et tributa, their different powers, î. 367.

Commerce, its advantages, i. 252. Foreign, its advantages, 259, 260.

Commonwealth, perfect idea of it, i. 492.

Companionable qualities, ii. 298, &c.

Comparison, its effect, i. 74. necessary to forming the taste, 234.
Compte, Pere le, quoted, ii. 398.

Condé, Prince of, a saying of his, i. 113.

Confucius, his disciples deists, i. 71.

Congreve, his character, i. 190.

Conjunction frequent, constant, the only circumstance from which we

know cause and effect, ii. 70, 77, &c.

Connection necessary, our idea of it, ii. 60, &c.

Constantine, Emperor, his innovation, i. 343.

Constitution, British, i. 24, 47, &c.

Contiguity, a reason of association, ii. 20, 49.

Contract, original, i. 442, &c.

Conventions, whether the source of justice, ii. 344, &c.

Conviction, strongest, but not more general, in theism, ii. 427, 428.

Corn distributed in Rome, i. 425, 426.

Corneille, his character, i. 190.

Corpus juris civilis quoted, i. 385, 527, Note (Y.)

Courage, how far national, i. 206.

-- its merit, whence, ii. 290.

Country party, i. 26, 59, 66.

Court party, ibid.

Creation or formation of the world enters not into the primitive religion,
i. 465.

Credit, public, its abuses, i. 246, 347, &c.

Curtius, Quintus, quoted, i. 206, 346, 538, Note (NN.) ii. 400, 407.
Custom or habit the source of experimental reasoning, ii. 46.

the great guide of life, ii. 44.

Customs, some remarkable ones, i. 363, &c.

Cyrus boasts of his drunkenness, i. 208.

D

Darius Hystaspes records his ability in drinking on his tomb-stone, i.
209.

Datames, the only barbarian, a general, i. 271.

Decency, its merit, whence, ii. 303.

Debt, public, its advantages, i. 349.

its disadvantages, i. 350, 351.
Deists united with the independents, i. 72.

Delicacy of passion, how hurtful, i. 3, &c.

of taste, how advantageous, i. 3, 4, 5, what it is, 229, whence

its merit, ii. 296.

Democracy, without a representative, hurtful, i. 13, 14.

Demosthenes, his character, i. 99, quoted, 99, 321, 332, 364, 366, 380,

384, 394, 408, 420, 530, Note (CC.) 533, Note (HH.)

Desire, aversion, ii. 184.

Diodorus Siculus, his character, i. 532, Note (EE.)

superstitious, yet not a theist, ii, 401.

quoted, i. 207, 254, 321, 333, 395, 396, 399, 401,

402, 404, 406, 407, 109, 413, 416, 418, 422, 423, 427, 432, 437,
443, 511, Note (A.) 514, Note (D.) 540, Note (QQ.) ii. 218, 396,
399, 400, 446, 447.

Diogenes Laertius, quoted, i. 413, ii. 407.

Diogenes, the Cynic, his character, ii. 378, 379.

Dion Cassius quoted, i. 304.

Dionysius Halycarnassæus quoted, 187, 514, Note (I.) 404, 425, ii. 394,

403.

Dionysius the tyrant, his massacres, i. 401.

his army, i. 254, 416.

Discretion, its merit, whence, ii. 293.

Division of property, useful, i. 396.

Domestic situation of ancients and moderns, i. 377, 378.

Dorians and Ionians, i. 207.

Dryden quoted, i. 196, ii. 431.

Dubos, Abbé, quoted, i. 212, 313, 431, 440.

E

ECLECTICS, a sect, i. 116.

Egyptians, why persecutors, ii. 420.

Egyptian religion, a difficulty in it, ii. 431.

and Jewish resembling it, ii. 488, Note (CCC.)

Elizabeth, Queen, whether her resurrection could be proved, ii. 129.
Eloquence, i. 91, &c.

Empires, great, destructive, i. 338.

Energy, its idea, ii. 64, 65.

English, their national character, whence, i. 201.

Enthusiasm, defended and explained, i. 67, &c.

Envy, whence, ii. 192.

Epaminondas, his character, ii. 477, Note (GG.)

Epictetus, his idea of virtue, ii. 355, his superstition, ii. 437.
Epicurus, his apology, ii. 135, &c.

Epicurean, i. 131.

Ergastula, very frequent anciently, i. 379.

Euclid treats not of the beauty of the circle, i. 162.

Euripides quoted, ii. 372, 395.

Europe, its advantages from its situation, i. 115.

Evidence, natural and moral, of the same kind, ii. 90.

Exchange helps to keep the balance of trade, i. 311.

Exchange, difficult to know whether for or against a nation, i. 312.

Exiles in Greece, how numerous, i. 401.

Experience, source of all our reasoning with regard to fact, ii. 26, &c.
why we reason from experience, ii. 31.

often the same with what we call reason, ii. 451, Note (B.)
Exposing children, i. 391, approved by Seneca, ibid.

F

FACT, matters of, one object of reason, ii. 23.

Factions, violent and bloody, among the ancients, i. 399.

Fairies, modern, equivalent to the vulgar deities of antiquity, ii. 398.

Fame, why desired, ii. 183.

Fenelon, his ethics, i. 228.

Flattery, its influence in religion, ii. 410.

Florus quoted, i. 390.

Flux and reflux of theism and polytheism, ii. 417, &c.

Fontaine, La, quoted, ii. 376.

Fontenelle, censure of his pastorals, i. 190.

quoted, i. 6, 172, 213, ii. 337, 399.

Frenchman of merit, ii. 366.

their first question with regard to a stranger, ii. 298.

Fregosi and Adorni, parties of Genoa, i. 51.

Frugality, its merit, whence, ii. 273.

Funding, the dangerous tendency of, i. 348.

G

GALLANTRY of civility, i. 124.

of intrigues, ii. 376.

Gamesters and sailors why superstitious, ii. 394.

Gaul, number of its inhabitants, i. 437.

Gee, Mr quoted, i. 308.

General rules, their influence, ii. 190, 244.

Genoa, its government and bank, i. 21.

Getes, immortal, their faith, ii. 397, 415.
Golden age not susceptible of justice, ii. 227.

Good sense, how far essential to taste, i. 236.

Georgius Leontinus, his eloquence, i. 514, Note (D.)

Government, origin of, i. 32. Perpetual struggle between authority
and liberty in all governments, 35. Violent innovations dangerous
to government, 456. Sometimes prove happy in the issue, instanced
in the reign of Henry VIII. and Charles I. ibid.
Greece, its advantages from its situation, i. 116,
its whole military force, i. 425.

-- numbers of its inhabitants, i. 435.
Grotius quoted, ii. 481, Note (PP.)
Guelf and Ghibelline parties, i. 52.
Guicciardin quoted, i. 270. ii. 356.
Gustavus Vasa, i. 60.

H

HARDOUIN, Pere, quoted, i. 536.

Harrington, his Oceana censured, i. 493.
quoted, i. 42, 85, 493.

Heliogabalus, a conic stone, ii. 407.

Henry IV. of France, his character, ii. 294.

a saying of his, i. 525, Note (S.) ́

Henry IV. and VII. of England, their title, i. 452.
Helvetia, its inhabitants, i. 438.

Hereditary right, how important, i. 481.

Heresy, appellation of, rests commonly on the side of reason; examples,

426.

Hero-worship, ii. 404.

Herodian quoted, i. 428, 436, 464. ii. 407.

Herodotus quoted, i. 407, 418, 424. ii. 291, 399, 400, 416, 427, 441,
44-4.

Hertha, goddess of the Saxons, ii. 405.

Hesiod, not a theist properly speaking, ii. 400.

inconsistency in his theology, ii. 413.

quoted, i. 386, ii. 401, 405, 413, 486, Note (YY.)

Hiero, king of Syracuse, his policy, i. 335.

Hirtius quoted, i. 400.

Homer, his character, i. 228. His ethics, í. 223, ii. 291. Inconsistency
of his theology, ii. 413, quoted, ii. 399, 406, 413.

Homer and Hesiod, canonical books of ancient Paganism, ii. 400.
Honesty the best policy, ii. 320.

Hope and fear defended, ii. 169, 170.

Horace quoted, 84, 108, 121, 127, 189, 243, 383, 432, 539, Note (00.)

ii. 174, 256, 357, 372, 430.

Hostis, its signification in old Latin,

Human life, general idea of it, i. 176.

nature, its dignity, i. 73.

Humility, its causes, ii. 177.

522, Note (O.)

Husbandmen, what proportion they bear to manufacturers, i. 252.

Hutchinson, Mr, quoted, i. 357.

Hyde de Religione Veterum Persarum, quoted, ii. 415, 421.

I

JASENISTS, their genius, i. 72. ii. 463, 464.

Ice, reports of it not credible to an Indian, ii. 114.

Ideas, their association, ii. 21, &c. 49.

their origin, ii. 15, &c.

Idolatry, its origin from polytheism, ii. 405.

Jesuits, their refinements, ii. 471.

Jews, their national character, whence, ii. 488, Note (CCC.)

- reason of their insurrection, ii. 432.

Jewish religion and Egyptian resembling, ii. 488, Note (CCC.)

Ignorance of causes, the origin of polytheism, ii. 390.

Immaculate conception, a popular opinion, ii. 412.

Immortality of the soul, on what founded, ii. 143.

Impiety of popular religions, ii. 439.

Impressions, what, ii. 16.

Impotence and barrenness, ii, 281.

Incest, whence its crime, ii. 245.

Independents, their genius, i. 69.

Indians justly incredulous with regard to ice, ii. 111

Industry, its merit, whence, ii. 273.