reproach them with having supported the wealthy, the great, and powerful, and of having oppressed the weak and feeble, in any of their judgments, or of having perverted justice, in any one instance whatever, through favor, through interest, or cabal. My Lords, if you must fall, may you so fall! But if you stand,--and stand I trust you will, together with the fortune of this ancient monarchy, together with the ancient laws and liberties of this great and illustrious kingdom,--may you stand as unimpeached in honor as in power! May you stand, not as a substitute for virtue, but as an ornament of virtue, as a security for virtue! May you stand long, and long stand the terror of tyrants! May you stand the refuge of afflicted nations! May you stand a sacred temple, for the perpetual residence of an inviolable justice! GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS, AND INDEX. GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOL. I. Advertisement to the Reader, Prefixed to the First Octavo Edition v Advertisement to the Second Octavo Edition xvii A Vindication of Natural Society: or, A View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial Society 1 A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful; with an Introductory Discourse concerning Taste 67 A Short Account of a late Short Administration 263 Observations on a late Publication, intituled, "The Present State of the Nation" 269 Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents 433 VOL. II. Speech on American Taxation, April 19, 1774 1 Speeches on Arrival at Bristol and at the Conclusion of the Poll, October 13 and November 3, 1774 81 Speech on moving Resolutions for Conciliation with America, March 22, 1775 99 Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the Affairs of America, April 3, 1777 187 Two Letters to Gentlemen of Bristol, on the Bills depending in Parliament relative to the Trade of Ireland, April 23 and May 2, 1778 247 Speech on presenting to the House of Commons a Plan for the Better Security of the Independence of Parliament, and the Economical Reformation of the Civil and other Establishments, February 11, 1780 265 Speech at Bristol previous to the Election, September 6, 1780 365 Speech at Bristol on declining the Poll, September 9, 1780 425 Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill, December 1, 1783 431 A Representation to his Majesty, moved in the House of Commons, June 14, 1784 537 VOL. III.