cuted by violence, and consummated by devastation, th means are the sacrifice of the many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few. Knowledge has put a stop to chivalry, as she one day will to war, and Cervantes has laughed out of the field those self-constituted legislators that carried the sword but not the scales of justice, and who were mounted and mailed. I am no advocate for a return of this state of things; but when that heroic and chivalric spirit was abroad, when men volunteered on dangers for the good of others, without emolument, and laid down the sword when that for which they resorted to it was overcome, then indeed a measure of respect and admiration awaited them, and a feeling, honourable to both parties, was entertained. But is it not both absurd and ridiculous to transfer this respect and esteem to those who make a trade of warfare, and who barter for blood? who are as indifferent as the sword they draw, to the purposes for which it is drawn, who put on the badge of a master, wear his livery, and receive his pay. Where all is mercenary, nothing can be magnanimous; and it is impossible to have the slightest respect for an animated mass of machinery, that moves alike at the voice of a drum, or a despot: a trumpet, or a tyrant: a fife, or a fool. ness," ," and that poet who drank deepest of the sacred stream, has the following lines: They err who count it glorious to subdue Large countries, and in field great battles win, Till conqueror Death discovers them scarce men, Rolling in brutish vices and deformed, Violent or shameful death their due reward." Note.-The Figures refer not to the Page, but to the Articles. ANTITHESIS, defence of it, 1. Antiquity and ancestry, 113. Apostles, three great ones, 158. Age and Love, 259. Ancestry, its pride, 272. Bodies corporate, 76. British constitution, 208. Books, 248. Death, 110. Diogenes, why he used a lanthorn, 117, Diamond, 134. Delight, its cause, 143. Doubt, 146. Duels, 161. Death, a wonder, 186. Experience neglected, 25. Evil parturescent, 60. Education of the lower orders, 87. Effects and causes, 147. England's four powers, 155 Education, female, 175. Early impressions, 203. Extemporaneous harangues, 225. Coxcombs, grateful when, Preface, Excellence, 258. Enemies, how to get them, 275. Flattery, cuming, 75. Fashion its miseries, 187. French Revolution, 211. Great inen seldom pitied-why, 11. Great minds, 112. Gibbon, a mistake of his, 123. Grandfathers and grandmothers, 144. Gold-making an art not desire-[Public opinion, 58. able, 242. Happiness, 109. Hope, 114. Hatred, a cause of it, 127. Immortality of the soul, 62. Knavery-a mistake about it, 57. Love, its power, 125. Leyden Dr. an ode of his, 133. Light the best reformer, 168. Ladies, 205. Learned Dunces, 213. Priest and Physician, 79. Philosophers, when fools, choice ones, Lawyer, good excuse for a roguish Style, 34. one, 246. Memory, 29. Marriage, a feast, 47. Mistake, two common ones, 92 Mythology, antient, 100. Mysteries, matters of faith, 103. Men, who most proper, 128. Morality, 235. Revolutions, 276. Speeches, written, 22. Self-knowledge, 54. Seduction, 73. Statesmen, 159. Systems, 160. Society, 162. Slander, 172. Systems of human conduct, 199. Times present always abused, 101. Truth portionless, 130. Truth like a Dolphin, 130. Timotheus when he demanded a double fee, 132. Time assists Poets, 176. Magnanimity, 274. Nonsense puffed, 51. Threats, 220. Necessary things, 116. Unity of opinion, 121. Nobility, 120. Vanity differs from Pride, 66. Nations free only when they deserve Vanity a consolatory thing, 82. Voice of the People, 265. Works of merit not popular, when, 7. Women, what they never pardon, 23. Women Eastern, 96. Posterity, what has it done for Wealth, 152. |