ΤΟ

Addison, 195

ADD

Egina, slaves in, 421

Eschines, 376, 398, 404, 411
Agathocles, cruelties of, 405

Agriculture, in Greece and Italy, 412
Alexander VI., character of, by Guic-
ciardin, 29

Alexander the Great, 103; his suc-

cessors jealous of balance of power,
350; treasures amassed by his suc-
cessors, 361

Alexandria, ancient, greatness of, 429
America, discovery of mines a stimulant
to industry, 313
Ammianus Marcellinus, 429
Anacharsis the Scythian, remark of, 312
Ancients, instance of their outspoken-
ness, 189; war caused by their want
of politeness, 191; rude custom, of,
193; slavery among, 387, f; pay of
their public servants, 388; supposed
to be ignorant of balance of power,
350; infanticide among, 396; their
soldiers all married, 401; their battles
more destructive than modern battles,
401; cold-blooded butcheries of, 404,
405; insecurity of property among,
406; cause of their political disorders,
409; inferior to the moderns, 410;
their populousness, 414, f.- See
Greece, Rome

Annandale, Hume tutor to Marquis of,
47

Antigonus, anecdote of, 181

Antipater, repartee of, 226
Appian, his account of the treasures of
the Ptolemies, 343; quoted, 394, 399,
402, 416, 436, 438

ATH

Ariosto, 192; as a poet, 270
Aristides the Sophist, 440

Aristocracy, power of in a state, 100;
Venetian and Polish, ib.; best form
of, 101

Aristophanes, 391
Aristotle, 431, 433

Armies, ancient, 290, f.; employment of
mercenaries, 310; cost of Roman, ib.;
cost, &c. of Cromwell's army, 418;
Philip of Macedon's, 424, 425; &
model army, 486

Arrian, his vanity, 188; cited, 104,
361, 410

Arts and Sciences: cultivation of the
liberal arts, 93; the product of free
nations, 157; decline of in Greece,
158; progress of in Rome and Flor-
ence, ib.; in France, 159; in England,
ib.; rise and advancement of, 174, f.;
causes, ib.; caution needed in tracing
history of, 176; impossible, except
under free government, 177, 179;
discouraging causes, 180; conditions
favourable to, 181; influence of
monarchy and republic on, 185; de-
pend on refined taste, ib.; commence-
ment of their decline, 195; emulation
in, 196; French literature a hin-
drance to German, ib.; influence on
temper, 223; refinements in, 299, f.,
305; increase power of nations, 303;
flourishing state of in England, 306;
favourable to liberty, ib.; innocent
luxury beneficial, 307

Astronomy, discouraging to ambition,
227

Athenæus, 418, 419, 421, 422, 440

ATH

Athenians, pay enormous interest on
loans, 163; their taste formed by
orators, 169; tyranny of, 406
Athens, plague of, 228; prohibition to
export figs, 331; money amassed by,
341, 361; singular customs, 375, f.;
slavery at, 390; the Thirty Tyrants,
404; greatness of, 418; population
and extent, 419; census of, 421
Attalus of Pergamus, praised for infan-
ticide, 396

Atticus, makes a poor figure in Cicero,

189

Austria, empire of, 353

Authors, ancient, their licentiousness,
188

Autobiography, Hume's, Adam Smith's
share in it, 80; hostile criticism,
81

Bacon, Lord, 253, 297

Balance of Power, 348, f.; anxiety as to
in Greece, 349; founded on common
sense, 352

Banks, doubt as to benefit of, 311;

effect of, 339; in Scotland, 340
Batavians, the ancient, 250
Belgium, ancient, population of, 437
Bentivoglio, Cardinal, 255
Berkeley, Dr., 35, 253
Berne, money lent by, 342
Boccaccio, 228

Bolingbroke, Lord, Hume's opinion of,

74; his eloquence, 173
Boswell, passages cited from, 83
Britain, ancient, marriage in, 232; bar-
barous condition of, 436

CRO

Charles VIII. of France, his invasion of
Italy, 303

China, progress of Confucianism in,
183; commerce of, 296; infanticide
in, 396

Chios, number of slaves in, 421
Christian Religion, 131, f.; a system of
speculative opinions, 132; priesthood
promotes hatred and discord, 132,
133

Christians, Early, charged with bigotry

and imprudence, 132

Cicero, 29, 161, 254, 357, 386, 411, 418,
428; proscribed by Mark Antony,
102; a party man, 134; dissatisfied
with his own eloquence, 164; with
that of Demosthenes, 165; a rhetori-
cal flight, 166; the finest gentleman
of his age, 188; his scepticism and
vanity, 189; De Oratore, ib.; his
solace for deafness, 226; his epilogues,
260; as an orator, 261

Civil Liberty, 156; England an example
of, 97; involved in liberty of press,
Clarendon, Lord, 264

98

Clephane, Dr., Hume's letter to, 56
Clergy. See Priest, Priesthood, Chris-
tian Religion

Climate, alterations in, 433, f.

Columella, 382, 389, 393, 394, 412, 434
Commerce, 287.-See Trade and Manu-
factures

Commodus, Emperor, 457

Commonwealth, idea of a perfect, 480,
482, f.; false opinion as to, 492;
probable duration of it, 493
Condé, Prince of, 181
Congreve, 241

Confucius, resemblance of the Quakers
to his followers, 149; progress of his
doctrines, 183

Constitution, British, 120, f.; power of

King, Lords, and Commons, ih.; influ-
ence of the Crown, 121; Hume's re-
marks on, 126

Contract, Original, 443; meaning of,
445; debated in France, 459
Convents, nurseries of superstition, 395;
reason why women become nuns, 396
Conway, General, 6

Corinth, great number of slaves in, 421
Corneille, 106, 241
Crassus, wealth of, 123

Credit, public, 360, f.

Cromwell, number and cost of his army,
418; plan of his parliament, 491
Crown, British, revenues of, 123; power
of on the increase, 125; prerogative
of, 465, f.; of Tudors and Stuarts
467; privileges usurped by Commons

468

CUS
Customs, some remarkable, 374, f.; at
Athens, 375, f.; ancient and modern,
385, f.; destructive of population, 402
Cyrus, the Younger, a toper, 257

Datames, remark of the ancients con-
cerning, 304

D'Aunoy, Madame, 236

Decelean war, desertion of slaves during,
420

Delicacy of passion. hurtful, 91; cure
for, 92

of taste, desirable, 92; favour-
able to love and friendship, 93; ex-
clusiveness of, 94

- French, 190

Democracy, effects of, 100; best form of,
101; the Athenian, 376; restoration
of, 403

Demosthenes pleading, 165; his daring
apostrophe, 166; his slaves. 391;
quoted, 342, 349, 375, 376, 377, 386,
390, 391, 398, 407, 410, 419, 420, 422
De Retz, Cardinal, 124, 171, 488
Dialogues concerning Natural Religion,

account of, 77; letters to Adam Smith,
78; A. Smith's objections to publish-
ing, 79; Hume's dispositions re-
garding, ib.; published by his nephew,

80

Diodorus Siculus, 104, 169, 256, 290,

399, 404, 405, 409, 411, 415, 416, 417,
422, 424, 429, 433, 436, 438, 440,
443

Diogenes Laertius, 415

Dionysius Halicarnassus, 239, 425

the Elder, 290, 417; butcheries
of, 404

Dissenters, the country party, 135
Dissertations, Hume's four, 60, 67;
mutilation of, 68, f.; Dr. Horne's re-
marks, ib.

Divorce, voluntary, 233, 237; reasons
against, 238, 239; ancient laws of
Rome, ib.

Douglas, Home's, 64; Hume's remarks
on, 64, 66

Du Bos, l'Abbé, 259, 335, 432, 439
Duelling, character of men of honour,

194

Dutch, the, first introduced the practice
of borrowing, 163; commerce of, 348;
cause of their industry, 357
Du Tot, 314

Eclectics, the Roman, 184
Editions of Hume's Works, list of, 85
Egypt, population when conquered by
Romans, 440
VOL. III.

FRA

Elliot, Gilbert, Hume's letter to, 52;
Elliot's reply, ib

Eloisa and Abelard, 238
Eloquence, ancient, 164; English, 165,
166 decline of, 167; difference of
ancient and modern, ib.; discourage-
ments of modern, 168; Roman and
Greek, ib.; causes of its decline, ib.;
conditions favouring it in ancient
times, 170; want of genius in modern,
ib.; of French sermons, superior to
English, 171; French lawyers, ih.;
English temper disadvantageous to,
ib.; false taste in, 172; common
opinion of, ib.; Attic, 173; Lysias
and Calvus compared with Demo-
sthenes and Cicero, ib.; Lord Boling-
broke, ib.

England, government of, a compromise,
96; liberty in, ib.; parties in, 107, f.,
117, 133, 136, 139; increase of vena-
lity, 306; cost of her army and fleet,
310; guardian of liberties of Europe,
353; wars with France, 354; her re-
venues, 366; her creditors, 373;
singular custom, 379; innovations of
Henry VIII. and Charles I., 453
Enthusiasm, true sources of, 145; its
consequences to society, 146; opposed
to priestly power, ib; religions arising
from, 148; its fury soon spent, ib.
Epicurean, the, 197, f.

Epirus, inhabitants sold by P. Æmilius,

424

Erskine, Sir H., 3

Essays, Moral and Political, Hume's,
40; their success, 41; preface to, ib.;
list of, 42; classification of, 43, f.
Ethics. See Morals.

Euxine, climate described by Ovid, 434;
by Tournefort, ib.

Euripides, the two wives of, 232

Factions, political and religious, 129, f.;
in ancient Greece, 404; in Ireland, ib.
Fanaticism, 148

Flamininus, Titus, his conference with
Philip of Macedon, 189

Fléchier, his funeral sermon on Marshal
Turenne, 171

Florus, 395

Fontenelle, 94, 227, 242, 260, 442
Fowler, Professor, on quoting Hume's
Treatise, 39

France, form of government, 95; under
Henri III. and IV., 98; disputes of
Molinists and Jansenists in, 150;
progress of the arts and sciences in,
159; of drama, ib.; of trade, 160,
336; abuses in government of, 162;