Democracy, no example in modern times of a considerable one, iii. 396. an absolute one, not to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government, iii. 396. Aristotle's observation on the resemblance between a democracy and a tyranny; iii. 397. the vice of the ancient democracies, what, iii. 508. the foodful nurse of ambition, iv. 104. Departments in France, their origin, nature, and function, iii. 461, 465. Depth thought to have a grander effect than height, i. 147. Description, verbal, a means of raising a stronger emotion than painting, i. 133. Desirable things always practicable, ii. 357. Despotism, nature of, i. 446; ix. 458. D'Espréménil, the illustrious French magistrate, murdered by the Revolutionists, vi. 40. Dialogue, advantages and disadvantages of it as a mode of argumentation, vi. 9. Difference in taste, commonly so called, whence, i. 89. Difficulty, a source of greatness in idea, i. 153. its disciplinary uses, iii. 453. political difficulties, ill consequences of attempting to elude them, iii. 454. Dignity, national, no standard for rating the conditions of peace, v. 257. Dimension, greatness of, a powerful cause of the sublime, i. 147. necessary to the sublime in building, i. 152. but incompatible with beauty, i. 242. Dinagepore, Rajah of, account of him, xii. 318. Diogenes, anecdote of him, iv. 61. Directory, the, by whom settled, vii. 13. rejected at the Restoration, vii. 13. Disappointment, what, i. 108. Discontents, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present, i. 433. produced by a system of favoritism, i. 469. Discretion, Lord Coke's remark on, iv. 292. Discretionary powers of the monarch, should be exercised upon public principles, i. 469. Discrimination, a coarse, the greatest enemy to accuracy of judgment, v. 143. Dissenters, observations on the Test Act, in reference to them, iv. 264. Distress, great, never teaches wise lessons to mankind, iv. 10. Distrust, advantages of, iv. 443. Disunion in government, mischief of, i. 425. Divorce, observations on, v. 313. Domesday Book, origin, and nature of it, vii. 354. Double cabinet, project of a, in the English court, i. 447. nature and design of it, i. 454. mischievous influence of it, i. 478. how recommended at court, i. 485. its operation upon Parliament, i. 490. singular doctrine propagated by it, i. 525. Drama, Hints for an Essay on the, vii. 143. Dramatic writing, difficulty of, vii. 145. origin of, vii. 149. Druids, some account of their origin, character, and functions, vii. 176. the opinion that their religion was founded on the unity of the Godhead, confuted, vii. 185. Dryden, his translation of a passage in Virgil, v. 391. Du Bos, his theory of the greater effect of painting than of poetry on the passions, controverted, i. 134. Dunkirk, demolition of, i. 412. Dunning, Mr., brief character of, ii. 398.