Du Pin, M. de la Tour, his account of the state of the army in France, iii. 512. Durham, County Palatine of, admitted to representation in Parliament, in the reign of Charles II., ii. 152. Duty, effectual execution of it, how to be secured, ii. 353. determined by situation, ii. 465; iv. 167. people do not like to be told of it, iv. 163. not dependent on the will, iv. 165. Easter, whence the name derived, vii. 237. disputes about the time of celebrating it promote the study of astronomy and chronology, vii. 252. East India Company, origin of the, ix. 348. system of its service, ix. 350. a fundamental part of its constitution, that its government shall be a written one, ix. 369. two sources of its power, ix. 345. its negotiations with government, i. 362. observations on its charter, ii. 438. extent and population of its possessions, ii. 443, 444. observations on its conduct, ii. 446. its treatment of the nations indirectly subject to its authority, ii. 466. its administration in the countries immediately under its government, ii. 497. concise view of the proceedings of the House of Commons relative to it, ii. 559. East Indies, origin of the extensive British possessions there, ii. 560. Ecclesiastical investiture, origin and nature of, vii. 382. Economy and war not easily reconciled, i. 310. admirable system of, in France, under Necker, ii. 273. difficulty of attempting a plan of public economy, ii. 268. rules for a proper plan of, ii. 286. things prescribed by the principles of radical economy, ii. 310. distinction between economy and parsimony, v. 195. political economy, had its origin in England, v. 192. Education, effect of it on the colonists in America, ii. 124. description of a good one, iv. 24; xii. 280. Edward the Confessor, his character and conduct, vii. 278. Election, popular, of magistrates, importance of it to a state, i. 472. right of, what, i. 505. mischief of frequent elections, i. 517; vii. 75. the expense of them an important consideration, vii. 78. Elizabeth, sister of Louis XVI., murdered by the French regicides, vi. 41. Emphyteusis of the Romans, nature of it, vi. 354. Empires do not fall by their own weight, vi. 27. England, nature of its monarchy, ii. 288. eulogy on its constitution, v. 210; natural representation of its people, what it is, v. 284. its constant policy with regard to France, iv. 397. always necessarily the soul and head of any confederacy against France, iv. 397; v. 245. English History, An Abridgment of the, vii. 157. Enmity, when avowed, is always felt, vi. 57. Enthusiasm, excited by other causes besides religion, v. 361. Eostre, the name of a Saxon goddess,--whence the term Easter, vii. 237. Epicureans, the, why tolerated in their atheism by the supporters of the ancient heathen religions, vii. 31. their physics the most rational of the ancient systems, vii. 251. why discredited, vii. 251.