Aix, the Archbishop of, his offer of contribution, why refused by the French National Assembly, iii. 390. Aix-la-Chapelle, the treaty of, remarks on, v. 441. Akbar, the Emperor, obtains possession of Bengal, ix. 392 Alfred the Great, character and conduct of, vii. 261. his care and sagacity in improving the laws and institutions of England, vii. 482. Allegiance, oath of, remarkable one taken by the nobility to King Stephen, vii. 388. Alliance, one of the requisites of a good peace, i. 295. the famous Triple Alliance negotiated by Temple and De Witt, v. 438. alliance between Church and State in a Christian commonwealth, a fanciful speculation, vii. 43. Ambition, one of the passions belonging to society, i. 124. nature and end of, i. 124. misery of disappointed, i. 335. ought to be influenced by popular motives, i. 474. influence of, iii. 107. one of the natural distempers of a democracy, iv. 164. legislative restraints on it in democracies always violent and ineffectual, iv. 164. not an exact calculator, vii. 82. virtue of a generous ambition for applause for public services, x. 176. America, advantage of, to England, i. 297. nature of various taxes there, i. 355. project of a representation of in Parliament, its difficulties, i. 372. its rapidly increasing commerce, ii. 112. eloquent description of rising glories of, in vision, ii. 115. temper and character of its inhabitants, ii. 120. their spirit of liberty, whence, ii. 120, 133 proposed taxation of, by grant instead of imposition, ii. 154. danger in establishing a military government there, vi. 176. American Stamp Act, its origin, i. 385. repeal of the, i. 265, 389. reasons of the repeal, ii. 48. good effects of the repeal, i. 401; ii. 59. Ancestors, our, reverence due to them, iii. 562; iv. 213. Angles, in buildings, prejudicial to their grandeur, i. 151. Animals, their cries capable of conveying great ideas, i. 161. Anniversaries, festive, advantages of, iv. 369. Anselm, appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, vii. 373. supports Henry I. against his brother Robert, vii. 377. Apparitions, singular inconsistency in the ideas of the vulgar concerning them, vii. 181. Arbitrary power, steals upon a people by lying dormant for a time, or by being rarely exercised, ii. 201. cannot be exercised or delegated by the legislature, ix. 455. not recognized in the Gentoo code, xi. 208. Arbitrary system, must always be a corrupt one, x. 5. danger in adopting it as a principle of action, xi. 322. Areopagus, court and senate of, remarks on the, iii. 507. Ariosto, a criticism of Boileau on, vii. 154.