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Critical and Historical Essays. Volume 3

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2018
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His marriage, 518.

His residence in Ireland, 518.

His feelings toward Ireland, 521.

Attaches himself to Arlington, 523, 525.

His embassy to Munster, 526.

Appointed resident at the Court of Brussels, 526.

Danger of his position, 528.

His interview with De Witt, 529.

His fame at home and abroad, 536.

His recall and farewell of De Witt, 538.

His cold reception and dismissal, 539.

Style and character of his compositions, 541.

Charged to conclude a separate peace with the Dutch, 547, 550.

Offered the Secretaryship of State, 548, 550.

His audiences of the king, 549, 554.

His share in bringing about the marriage of the Prince of Orange with the Lady Mary, 550.

Required to sign the treaty of Nimeguen, 550.

Recalled to England, 551.

His plan of a new privy council, 553-565.

His alienation from his colleagues, 580, 581.

His conduct on the Exclusion Question, 582.

Leaves public life and retires to the country, 583.

Swift, his amanuensis, 586.

His literary pursuits, 588.

His Essay on Ancient and Modern Learning, 590.

His Essay on the Letters of Phalaris, 592.

His death and character, 596-599.

Terror, Reign of, iii. 533 (#x16_x_16_i38).

Smallness of the leaders in, 537 (#x16_x_16_i43).

End of; the ninth Thermidor, 555 (#x17_x_17_i20).

Tessé, Marshal, ii. 165.

Thackeray, Rev. Francis, review of his Life of the Rt. Hon. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, etc., ii. 232-282.

His style and matter, 232, 233, 251.

His omission to notice Chatham's conduct toward Walpole, 252, 253.

Theramenes, his fine perception of character, ii. 507.

Thucydides, character of the speeches of the ancients, as transmitted to us by him, i. 51.

Difference of his history from that of Herodotus, 242.

Master of his art, 245.

His use of fictitious speeches, 246.

Inability to deduce principles from facts, 247.

General characteristics, 249.

Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, takes sides against Clive, ii. 756.

Espouses the cause of Hastings, iii. 207 (#x6_x_6_i67).

Tickell, Thomas, a friend of Addison, iii. 440 (#x13_x_13_i72).

His trouble with Pope over their rival translations of the Iliad, 471 (#x14_x_14_i53).

Tindal, Nicholas, his characterization of the Earl of Chatham's maiden speech, ii. 246.

Toledo, admission of the Austrian troops into, in 1705, ii. 167.

Toleration Act, the, its provisions, ii. 344, 345.

Toleration, religious, conduct of James II. as a professed supporter of, ii. 329, 332, 336.

Tories, their popularity and ascendency in 1710, ii. 175.
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