in Parliament, xii. 4952; lost speech of, xxii. 9303; on Marlborough's faults, 9410
Bolivar, General, xiii. 5530 Bomba, King of Naples, xvii. 7266 Bonaparte, and Livingston, vii. 2815; makes overtures to England, 2826; maligned, 2871; Carnot against, viii. 3157; aggressions of, 3405; power of, 3412; exhortation of, quoted by Pitt, 3416, 3417; re- venge of, 3418; proclamation, 3421; characterized by Pitt, 3425; and Peltier, ix. 3585; and Moreau, 3625, 3628; governed badly, 3667; life of, 3781; addresses to army, 3782-88; farewell to the Old Guard, 3788; plots against America, 3816; victories of, x. 4050; threatens an Irish invasion, xii. 4842; sagacious prediction of, xiv. 5712; quoted, xiv. 5888, 5999, xvii. 7042, xxv. 10558; anecdote of, xiv. 5967; his aggres- sive policy, xv. 6375; passing away, xvi. 6796; and English fighting, 6877; and the emerald vase of Genoa, 6940; career, described by Sumner, xvii. 7034; seen by Thack- eray, 7156; as Gulliver, 7181; and glory, xxi. 8891; geography of, 8970; and Lafayette, xxiii. 9699. See also Napoleon
Bond, the, in South Africa, xxv. 10848 Boniface, Damiani's sermon on, iii. 1242-46
Books, theory of, xiv. 5932; use of, 5933; choice of, Lubbock on the, xxiii. 9761
Bordereau, Dreyfus, xxv. 10911 Border ruffians, xiii. 5611 Boreas, legend of, xix. 7946 Borgo, Count Pozzodi, quoted, ix. 3911, 3913
Borodino, horrors of, xvii. 7035 Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, life of, iv. 1558; "On the Prince of Condé," 1558-71; and Fénelon, 1636 Boston, iv. 1682, v. 1950, 1955, vi. 2496, 2539, vii. 2629, 2778; Eng- land's treatment of, xi. 4365; the sun of liberty, xiv. 5815; declara- tion of, xviii. 7776; culture at, xx. 8375; besieged, 8390; threatened, 8674; siege of, begun, 8688; mur- der of Quakers in, xxi. 9023; free-
thinking in, xxiv. 10157; a sea- blown city, 10161; free library, xxv. 10817; massacre at, 10914 Boudinot, Elias, life of, vii. 2658; ora- tion before the Cincinnati, 2658-
74 Bourassa, Henri, criticised, xxiv. 10459
Bourbon, House of, v. 1864, 1867, 1935, 1943, vii. 2857, 2883; resto- ration of, viii. 3434, xii. 4929, xiii. 5388, xxiii. 9700 Bourdaloue, Louis, life of, iv. 1611; "The Passion of Christ," 1611-28 Bourinot, John George, Dawson on, xxii. 9545, 9550; life of, xxiii. 10068
Boutwell, George Sewall, life of, xviii. 7769; "The Progress of American Independence," 7769-83; cited,
xxi. 8793 Boycotting, increase of, in Ireland, xv. 6405
Bracton, Lord Chief-Justice, quoted, xix. 8281
Bradford, William, and his journal, XXI. 8889
Bradlaugh, Charles, life of, xxii. 9586; at the bar of the House of Commons, 9586-93
Braganza, House of, ix. 3839, 3840 Brahmin, the, on Christianity, xii. 4841
Brazil and Portugal, ix. 3840 et seq. Bread-and-Butter Party, xv. 6335 Breath, meaning of, xix. 7859 Breckinridge, John Cabell, life of, xix.
8239; "Address Preceding the Re- moval of the Senate," 8239-47 Bribery, i. 340, ii. 540, 585, vi. 2359, 2614; French, viii. 3407
Brigandage, in Greece, xii. 4828, xx. 8728; political, xxii. 9278 Bright, John, life of, xvi. 6814; "The "Trent' Affair," 6814-46; "The Southern Confederacy," 6846–64; "The Canadian Fortifications," 6864-71; "Foreign Policy," 6872- 6900; "Slavery in America," 6901- 12; cited, xx. 8348; and Garrison compared, xxi. 9035; on redistri- bution, xxii. 9262; on the Russian war, quoted, 9321; insulted, xxiv. 10294
Bristol, Earl of, iv. 1503
Britain, Great, future of, v. 2022; | jealousy of, vii. 2818. See also England.
British Empire, imperilled, v. 2042, vii. 2686; built on the eternal laws of freedom and justice, xxiv. 10446 name tarnished, vii. 2653; Treaty, viii. 3477, ix. 3577 Brooks, Phillips, commemoration ser- mon on (Potter), xx. 9811; life of, xxiii. 9886; "The Beauty of a Life of Service," 9886-9905; "Abra- ham Lincoln," 9905-23; "The Christ in whom Christians Be- lieve, 9923-45; "True Liberty," 9945-61
Preston Smith, assault of, on Sumner, xvii. 6995; life of, xix. 8085; "On the Sumner Assault, 8085-89. See also Sumner. Brougham, Lord, life of, x. 4141; "Against Pitt and War with Amer- ica," 4142-48; "Closing Argument for Queen Caroline," 4148-59; "On Negro Emancipation," 4160-85; on Grattan, xx. 8472; cited, xxii. 9303; quoted, 9308, 9325; and Demosthe- nes, 9319; on slavery, 9320 Brown, A. G., threat of, xviii. 7712
Benjamin Gratz, life of, xxi. 8867; "Slavery in its National As- pects," 8867-86
John, life of, xiii. 5611; words to Governor Wise, 5611; last speech, 5612, 5613; action of, xiv. 5753; no Republican, xvi. 6626; insurrection ridiculous, 6629; eu- logist of, 6809; "And the Spirit of Fifty-nine" (Phillips), 6913; and Garrison, 6966; "Body lies a moul- dering in the grave, " xxi. 8870; and John E. Cook, 8983; charac- terized, 8983 Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, xvii. 7122, xxiii. 9750
Browning, full of wholesome fer- ment, xix. 8008; quoted, 8010, XXV. 10786
Mrs., quoted, xxiv. 10127 Brownson, Orestes Augustus, life of, xiv. 5884; "On Liberal Studies, 5884-5905
Brunelle, Dr., quoted, xxiv. 10400 Brutus, of France, viii. 3467
Marcus Junius, in banishment,
iii. 915; called on Cicero, 948; op- posed by Calenus, 1068; glorified, 1072; instanced, viii. 3280; com- pared to Moreau, ix. 3630; spir- itual ancestor of Puritans, xxi. 8903 Brutus, Decimus, virtue of, iii. 1002; praise of, 1047; freed from danger, 1086
a Texan, xiii. 5443 Bryan, William Jennings, quoted, xxi. 8618; and imperialism, 8909; eloquence of, xxiv. 10312; Bourke Cockran's reply to, xxv. 10806; life of, 10935; "The Cross of Gold, 10935-45; at Madison Square Gar- den, 10945-66
Bryanism a great danger, xxi. 8913 Bryant, William Cullen, life of, xii. 5201; welcome to Louis Kossuth, 5201-4; at the founding of the Metropolitan Art Museum, 5205- 10; fiftieth anniversary of the Mer- cantile Library Association, 5211- 15; quoted, xvi. 6671; funeral ora- tion on (Bellows), xviii. 7435 Bryce, cited, xv. 6533 Buccleuch, Duke of, cited, xiv. 6063 Buchanan, James, life of, xii. 4958;
inaugural address, 4958-68; me3- sage criticised, xv. 6175; cited, xvi. 6565; Judge Bingham's arraign- ment of, xviii. 7569; piratical doc- trines of, 7711; quoted, 7712; treatment of Charleston, 7850; as- sailed by Burlingame, xix. 8182; cited, on slavery, xxi. 9051 Buckle, Henry Thomas, on down- trodden liberties, quoted, xxi. 9010, 9021
Budget, French, of 1865, xiii. 5373 Buell, General, on Garfield, xxi. 9154 Buffalo, McKinley's last speech at, XXV. 10513
Bugeaud, Thomas, Governor of Al- giers, quoted, xvii. 7111 Bulgaria, partition of, xv. 6387; dis- satisfied with Russia, xviii. 7540; Sultan suzerain of, 7540
Bull, Ole, Björnson on, xxii. 9503 Buller, Charles, quoted, xi. 4346; work of, xx. 8530 Bulwer-Lytton,
Edward George, Baron, life of, xiv. 5906; "The Crimean War," 5906-26; predic- tion of, xvi. 6835
Bunker Hill, battle of, v. 2048, vii. 2675; Monument, Webster's ora- tion on, xi. 4356; claimed, xii. 5191; no defeat, xvi. 6918; bat- tle of, crucial contest, xx. 8389; Monument oration, quotation from, XXV. 10704
Bunsen, Chevalier, on the English Reformation, xviii. 7807; quoted, xxiv. 10176
Bunyan, John, life of, iv. 1572; "The Heavenly Footman," 1572- 97; influence of, xvii. 7302 Bürger, Gottfried August, xvii. 7039 Burges, Tristam, life of, ix. 3820; rebuke to Randolph, 3820-35 Burgoyne, General John, v. 2001; characterized, 2008; surrender of, xvi. 6647, xxiii. 9693
Burke, Edmund, v. 2113; on concili- ation with America, 2114-92; im- peachment of Warren Hastings, vi. 2193-2492; friend of Windham, vii. 2963; praised by Sheridan, viii. 3111; sentiments praised by Brougham, x. 4180; quoted by Webster, xi. 4335; by Everett, xii. 5139, 5172, 5178; by Macaulay, xiii. 5554; quoted, xv. 6197, 6546, xvi. 6657, xviii. 7805, xix. 8025, xxii. 9316, 9412, 9424, xxiv. 10138; and Grattan, xv. 6493; cited, 6474, 6525, xviii. 7700; and the Magda- len, xvii. 7167; on American inde pendence, xviii. 7787; of colossal stature, xx. 8472; on Unitarians, xxi. 8788; and Garfield, 9165; "the fourth Englishman," xxii. 9464; on love of gain, 9512; on the laws of Great Britain, cited, 9623; lecture on (Birrell), xxv. 10660; as an ora- tor, 10700
Burney, Fanny, diary of, cited, xvii. 7183
Burns, Robert, Emerson ɔn, xiv. 5994; quoted, xxv. 10692 Burnside, General, infamy of, xxi
Burr, Aaron, ix. 3710; trial of, x. 3955 et seq.
Bushnell, Horace, life of, xiv. 5763; "On the Outside Saints," 5763-75 Bute, Earl of, v. 2085, 2087, 2096, 2105; hated, xvii. 7169; incapacity of, xix. 8026 Butler, Benjamin Franklin, life of, xviii. 7848; "Character and Re- sults of the War," 7848-78
Samuel, Bishop, on property, xix. 8205; quoted, xx. 8347, xxii. 9510; xxiii. 9811
Senator, compared to Don Qui- xote, xvii. 7001; defended, 7013 Butt, Isaac, inventor of phrase "Home Rule, xv. 6460
Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, anecdote of, xv. 6164; quoted, xxii. 9318 Bynkershoek, Cornelis van, defines war, xvii. 7026
Byron, Lord, quoted, xiii. 5350; xx. 8728, xxii. 9358, xxiii. 9761, xxiv. 10290
Byzantium, gratitude of, i. 272; siege of, ii. 514, 569
Cadmus, invention of, x. 4255 Cadoudal, conspiracy of, ix. 3625 Cæsar, Caius Julius, speech on the treatment of the Catilinarian con- spirators, ii. 729-34; clemency of, iii. 895; acts of, disapproved by Cicero, 920; death of, approved, 947, 951; friends of, 976; genius of, 996; cited, 999, 1020, 1040; rewarded, 1052; folly of, 1054; imperator, 1099; army of, iv. 1759, vii. 2635; against Catiline, viii. 3301; conspirators against, 3468; and Grant compared, xxiii. 9712 Cairnes, Professor, prophecy of, xxiv. 10310
Calabar, tragedy of, viii. 3445
Calamity, advantageous, xxiii. 9754 Calcutta, Black Hole of, vi. 2262 Calf, the fatted, and the Southern prodigal, xvii. 7429
Calhoun, John Caldwell, interrupts Clay, x. 4078; life of, 4264; "Nul- lification and the Force Bill,” 4264- 75; on the slavery question, 4276- 4301; interrupts Webster, xi. 4471, 4681; Webster's reply to, 4542 et seq.; on the ordinance of 1787, 4672; and Webster, xiii. 5481; and nullification, xv. 6208; cited, xvi. 6773; and Garrison, 6969; criticised by Judge Bingham, xviii. 7577; quoted on war, xix. 8146; commemorated by Breckinridge, 8245; quoted, xx. 8647; tribute of, to Webster, xxi. 8892 California, "not worth a dollar" (Webster), xi. 4648; gold discov- eries in, 4659; no slavery in, 4690; communication with, in 1852, xiii. 5406; and George Bancroft, 5630- 52; a free State, xiv. 5738; pros- perity of, xvi. 6737; characterized, xviii. 7580; shipping business of, xx. 8739; and wheat, xxi. 8962; territory of, xxv. 10742 Calliaud, Major, vi. 2266 et seq. Calvary, holy ground, xxi. 8935 Calvin, John, life of, iv. 1363; "On Enduring Persecution, 1363-85 Cambon, Pierre Joseph, life of, viii. 3194; "The Crisis of 1793,"3194-99 Cambridge, x. 4137, xii. 5148 Camden, Earl (Charles Pratt), v. 1832,
Campoamor, Ramon de, life of, xviii. 7751; "Against the Press Law,' 7751-68
Campo Formio, treaty of, viii. 3414, 3423
Canada, and the United States, ix.
3923, xviii. 7505, xxii. 9218; com- pared, xx. 8536; and the ballot, xii. 5067; and Ireland, xv. 6495; fortifications of, xvi. 6864; inde- pendence of, 6869; confedera- tion of, xviii. 7488; policy of (Sir Leonard Tilley), 7835; science in, xix. 8166; in 1879, 8224; geo- V-Orations. Vol. 25
graphical position of, xxi. 8784; Liberal-Conservatives in (White), xxii. 9207; prose literature of (Dawson), 9538; histories of, 9552, xxiii. 10082; power of, xxiii. 9879; a factor in British Empire, 9884; its status, 9963; characteristics of, 9969; orators of, 10085; journalism in, 10008; settled by United Empire Loyalists, xxiv. 10271; sorrow in, at the death of A. Mackenzie, 10532
Canadian literature, xxiii. 10068 Canal, Erie, ix. 3736; Ohio, xi. 4453; inter-oceanic, xxii. 9445; Suez, the, xxiii. 10007; isthmian, must be built, xxv. 10519
Canby, General, death of, xviii. 7658 Cannæ, battle of, xx. 8603 Canning, George, vii. 2848, 2858, 2860; life of, ix. 3836; "On Af- fording Aid to Portugal," 3837-60; quoted, xii. 5103, xiv. 5921 Cánovas, xxi. 8806. See Castillo Cantankerosity, in Mr. Keitt's speech, xix. 8192
Cantoo Baboo, vi. 2244, 2367
Capet, Hugh, King of France, xiv. 5890
Capitals, selected for moral considera- tions, xvi. 6680
Capitol, at Washington, founded, xi. 4723
Caprivi, Count George Leo von, life of, xxii. 9394; "Colonial Posses- sions, "9394-9403
Caraffa, Cardinal, xii. 4957 Carlisle, Bishop of, and wine, xviii. 7735
Earl of, and America, xvii. 7162 Carlyle, Thomas, and Edward Irving, xii. 5046; life of, xiii. 5289; inau- gural address at Edinburgh Univer- sity, 5289-5325; and French his- tory, xiv. 5961; quoted, xix. 8271, xxv. 10693, 10788; early eloquence of, xx. 8323; not a great writer, 8330; and happiness, 8343 Carnage of modern warfare, xvi. 6858; God's daughter, xxii. 9409 Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguérite, life of, viii. 3157; "Against Im- perialism in France," 3157-64
Marie François Sadi, advocate of peace, xviii. 7526
Carolina. See North and South
South, not attacked by Webster, xi. 4486; extraordinary ideas of, 4501; doctrine examined, 4544; revolutionary measures in, 4582; Congressmen of, in the First Con- gress, 4610; and Webster, xii. 4983; doctrine republican, 4997; will secede, xiii. 5440
Caroline, Queen of England, defended
by Brougham, x. 4148 Carpenter, Matthew Hale, life of, xxi. 8767; "Mission and Future Policy of the United States," 8767-80
- William Henry, History of Mas- sachusetts quoted, xxi. 9022 Carrier, Jean Baptiste, instanced, ix. 3608
Carroll, Charles, commemorated by Webster, xi. 4424
Carthage, vii. 2965; god of, xxv. 10931 Cartier, Sir George E., quoted, xxiv. 10360
Cartwright, Richard John, life of,
xxiii. 9876; "The Services of a Patriotic Militia," 9876-82; "What the Liberal Party has done for Can- ada," 9883-85; quoted, 9976 Cary, Henry, translation of, i. 101 Cass, Lewis, life of, x. 4249; "On the Spirit of the Age," 4249-61; interrupts Webster, xi. 4623; cited by Corwin, xii. 5188, 5189; con- demned by Mann, xiii. 5336 Cassagnac, Adolphe Granier de, on Dreyfus, xxv. 10907
Caste, characteristics of, vi. 2242, 2437; pride of, xiii. 5642 Castelar, Emilio, life of, xxii. 9469; "A Plea for Republican Institu- tions," 9469-76; "In the Campo Santo of Pisa, 9477-79; "The Political Oath,' 9480-86; quoted, xxiii. 9754
Castillo, Antonio Cánovas del, life of, xxi. 8805; "On Constitutional Re- form," 8806-14 Castlereagh, Viscount, a "Titled Mis- creant, XX. 8463 Castles for homes, xvii. 7109 Catania, the innkeeper of, xii. 4823 Catherine II. of Russia, v. 2045, ix. 3916
Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, xviii. 7811
Catholicism, Sheil in defence of, xii 4946; assailed, xvi. 6727; and the Indians, xxii. 9385; faults of, 9484 Catiline, Lucius Sergius, life of, ii. 669; speech to the conspirators, 669-73; his character, 683; his life, 685; his associates, 699; six classes of conspirators, 702; at- tacked by Cicero, 677-755 Cato, Marcus Porcius, life of, ii. 656; defence of the Rhodians, 656-58; in support of the Oppian Law, 658-64; on the treatment of the Catilinarian conspirators, 735-39; quoted, xiv. 5816; suicide of, xxii. 9476
Caucus, King, xxi. 9133
Caudine Forks, battle of, v. 2004 Cavour, Count Camillo Benso di, life of, xvi. 6678; "Rome and Italy,' 6678-85
Caxton, William, king's printer, xxii. 9545
Celsus, and Christ's doctrines, xxiv. 10443
Celts, an inferior race, xviii. 7672 Censorship, sterile, ix. 3647 Centennials, xxii. 9595 Centralization, predicted, xviii. 7456; evils of, 7555; fatal, xx. 8693 Cerasus, unjust treatment of, i. 182,
Cervera, fleet of, destroyed, xxv. 10516
Chabrias, victory of, i. 239
Chærepho, associate of Socrates, i. 72 Chalcedon, ii. 620 note
Chalmers, Thomas, life of, x. 4196; "Fury not in God," 4196-4209 Chamberlain, Joseph, life of, xxiii. 9992; "On Liberal Aims," 9993- 10011
Champlain, Samuel de, as an author, xxii. 9539; quoted, xxiii. 9984; and the Iroquois, xxiv. 10158 Chance, war depends on, xvii. 7042 Chancery, court of, abolished, xiii. 5302; remodelled, 5303
Chandler, Zachariah, life of, xvii. 7428; campaign speech, 7428-34 Channing, William Ellery, life of, x. 4210; "Character of Christ," 4210- 31
Chapin, Edwin Hubbell, life of, xviii. 7460; "Nicodemus, the Seeker after
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