Critical and Historical Essays. Volume 3

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Томас Бабингтон Маколей

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Зарубежная классика

Год написания книги

2018

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A friend of liberty, 329.

At the head of the Constitutional Royalists, ii. 43.

Family Compact, the, between France and Spain, ii. 183.

Fénelon, standard of morality in his Telemachus, ii. 115-117.

The book not immoral, iii. 54 (#x2_x_2_i42).

Ferdinand VII., resemblance between him and Charles I. of England, ii. 55.

Feudal nobles, unimportant in Italy, i. 146.

Fielding, Henry, his description of Partridge at the play, quoted, i. 196.

Finch, Lord Keeper, a humble tool of Charles I., ii. 26.

His impeachment and flight to Holland, 37.

Fine arts, the, their decline in England after the civil war, ii. 199.

Government should promote them, 660.

Florence, its commercial preëminence, i. 148.

Its superiority of learning, 151.

Military reform in, 173.

Return of the Medici to, 174.

Machiavelli's History of, 184.

Last struggle for liberty of, 185.

Foote, Charles, his stage character of an Anglo-Indian grandee, ii. 747

Forde, Colonel, ii. 724, 727.

Fox, Henry (afterwards Lord Holland), his personality, ii. 258.

Accepts office, 264.

Relations with Newcastle, 261-267.

Directed to form an administration in concert with Chatham, 268.

Early history and career, iii. 104 (#x4_x_4_i39).

Made paymaster by Chatham, 601 (#x18_x_18_i76).

Continued by Bute, 623 (#x19_x_19_i21).

Employed by Bute to carry the Commons, 628 (#x19_x_19_i28).

Methods used, 631 (#x19_x_19_i34).

Made a peer, 637 (#x19_x_19_i44).

Fox, Charles James, son of the above, his success as a debater, ii. 249.

Comparison of his History of James II. with Mackintosh's History of the Revolution, 284.

His style, 285, 286.

Characteristic of his oratory, 287.

Championship of arbitrary measures and defiance of public opinion, iii. 106 (#x4_x_4_i41).

Change in his attitude after his father's death, 107 (#x4_x_4_i42).

Brings forward the Benares charge against Hastings, 216 (#x7_x_7_i8).

Speaks on the course of proceedings, 228 (#x7_x_7_i25).

France, from Louis XIV. to the Revolution, ii. 118-122.

Condition in 1712 and 1832, 180.

At the restoration of Louis XVIII., 311.

Austerity in, under Louis XIV., produces the immorality of the regency, iii. 59 (#x2_x_2_i51).

Turns to Prussia for help against England, 267 (#x8_x_8_i44).

Drawn into the combination against Frederic the Great, 295 (#x9_x_9_i20).

Makes peace, 328 (#x10_x_10_i12).

Assemblies in, in 1791, 505 (#x15_x_15_i71).

Constitution of 1791 fails, 503 (#x15_x_15_i68).

Cause of its failure, 509 (#x16_x_16_i7).

Convention of 1792, 510 (#x16_x_16_i8).

Justice of the abolition of the monarchy, 511 (#x16_x_16_i9).