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tence are custom-house terms. A cocket is a custom-house seal or certificate. A clearance is a permit for a vessel to sail.

spirit. Compare Æneid vi, 726, 727. Dryden's translation, 982-985:

One common soul

Inspires and feeds and animates the whole.

This active mind, infus'd through all the space,
Unites and mingles with the mighty mass.

[138]

land tax act. An act passed by Parliament each

year for raising revenue.

mutiny bill. A bill providing for the discipline of army and navy, passed by Parliament each year.

[139] profane herd. Horace, Odes, III, i, 1:

fanum vulgus. I hate the profane herd.

all in ali. 1 Corinthians xv, 28.

Odi pro

[141] In the first edition of this speech, which has been followed by almost all editors, this paragraph reads as follows: "Upon this resolution, the previous question was put, and carried;-for the previous question 270, against it 78." The Parliamentary History, however, gives the ayes as 78 and the nays as 270 and adds: "So it passed in the negative." All of the resolutions advocated by Burke in this speech failed of adoption. This result was brought about by an adverse vote on the "previous question." In America, "I move that the previous question be now put," stops debate at once, and a vote is immediately taken on the question "Shall the previous question be now put?" If the vote is adverse, debate may continue. But in England, if the vote is adverse to putting the previous question, debate cannot continue, and the previous question (which is the main question) is considered to be disposed of in the negative. By moving the "previous question" and then defeating the motion, Burke's opponents escaped the need of committing themselves on the main issues raised by his resolutions.

INDEX

Numbers in brackets refer to paragraphs; other numbers refer to pages.

Abeunt studia, etc., 53 [42].

Abrogated the ancient government

Art of Sinking In Poetry, The, p. 144
note to [57].

of Massachusetts, 58 [46] and p. 143 | Assemblies, colonial legislative, 49

note to [46].

Abstract ideas, 34 [14].
Abstract liberty, 48 [38].

Abstract right, 69 [61].

Act of union, 40 [25] and p. 141 note
to [25]; act of Henry the Eighth,
69 [62]; act of settlement, p 146
note to [79].

Acta parentum, etc., 40.
Acts, p. 144 note to [54].
Addison, p. 141 note to [25].

Address, 32 [11] and p. 141 note to
[11]; 69 [62] and p. 145 note to [62];
p. 147 note to [88].

Admit the people of our colonies into
an interest in the constitution, 73
[68]; 118 [137].

African trade, 37 [20] and p 141 note
to [20].

[39].

Auction of finance, 32 [10],109 [124],
111 [127].

Authority, legislative, 87 (88) and
p 147 note to [88].

Bacon, p. 144 note to 53.

Bar, 36 [17] and p. 141 note to [17].
Barrington, Judge, 87 [88] and p. 147
note to [88].

Bathurst, Lord, 40 [25] and p 141
note to [25].
Bengal, 118 [136].
Bibliography, 21.

Bills of pains and penalties, 32 [11].
and p. 141 note to [11].
Blown about by every wind, 26 [2]
and p. 138 note to [2].
Books of curious science, 64 [54].

Agriculture of the colonies, 42 [29]. Boston Port Bill, p. 138 note to [4];

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All in all, p. 151 note to [139].
America worth fighting for, 45 [31].
American financiers, 74 [70] and
p. 145 note to [70].

Ancient indulgence, 46 [35] and
p. 142 note to [35],
Ancient methods and forms, 32 [12]. |
Angola negroes, 65 [56] and p. 144
note to [56].
Arbuthnot, p. 144 note to [57].

Arnold, Matthew, p, 143 note to [40].

100 [109]; 101 [110], and p. 149 note
to [110].

Boundaries, shadowy, 31 [9] and
p. 139 note to [9].

British Empire, 26 [2] and p. 149 note
to [121]; source of wealth in the,
81 [79].

British strength, 46 [34] and p. 142
note to [34].

Brunswick, House of, 40 [25]. .
Burgoyne, General, p. 142 note to 45
[31].

Burn their books, 64 (54) and p 144
note to [54]

Burke, Edmund, born, 11; religion,
11; schooling, 11; college days, 11;
habits of reading 11; law student,
11; goes to London, 12; travels,
12; first publications, 12; marries,
12 Annual Register, 12; secretary
to Hamilton, 13; pensioned, 13,19:
literary club, 13; secretary to
Rockingham, 13; first election to
Parliament, 13; opposes the king's
policy, 13; the Wilkes case, 14;
elected member for Bristol, 15;
speeches on America, 15; opposed
to armed force, 15; refuses to obey
instructions, 15; member for Mal
ton, 16: disappointed by his party,
16; party services, 16; poverty and
debts, 16, 20; charges against
honesty of 16: irritability, 16: polì-
tical enemies, 16; refuses office
under Shelburne, 16; in opposition
with Fox, 16; Paymaster, 16, 17;
advocates reform in India, 16; im-
peaches Hastings, 17; opinions of
the French Revolution, 18; retires
from parliament, 19; death, 19:
Johnson's opinion of, 20; Mac-
aulay's opinion of, 20; permanent
value of speeches, 20;
opinion of, 20.

Calamity, public, 29 [7].

Fox's

Clouds and darkness, 39, [25] and
p. 141 note to [25].

Cockets and clearances, p. 150 note
to [137].

Coke, Sir Edward, 67 [59] and p. 144
note to [59].

Colonies, number of people in, 34
[15]; no narrow system of govern.
ment suited to, 35 [16]; commerce
of, 35-42 [17-28]; agriculture of, 42
[29], fisheries of, 43 [30]; owe
nothing to English care, 44 [30];
are worth fighting for, 45 [31];
temper and character of, 47 [37 et.
seq.] legislative assemblies of, 49
[39]; religion of, 50 [40] and p. 143
note to [40]; education in, 52 [42];
distance from England, 54 [43];
65 [57], 88 [89]; three ways to deal
with, 59 [40 et. seq.]; proposal to
give up, 60 [47]; proposal to prose.
cute as criminals, 66 [58-59]; as
civil litigant and culprit, 69 [61];
the complaint of, 71 [65]; have
further views, 74 [70] and p. 145
note to [70]; legal competency of,
89 [91], 94[99]; reimbursed, 95[101];
should be admitted to an interest
in the constitution, 73 [68],118[137].
Colony agents, 31 [10] and p. 140 note
to [10]; 111 [127].
Commerce, 35-42 [17-28].

Committee of the whole, p. 139 note
to [5].

Carolina, spirit of liberty tn. 52 [41]. | Comparative state, 36 [19] and p. 141
Changes in parliament, 27 [4]

note to [19].

Charity, Reman, 13 [29] and p. 142 Complexions, 45 [31] and p. 142 note

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Civil litigant, the colonies as, 69 [61] | Connecticut, 101 [111] and p. 149 note

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Constitution, an interest in the, 73
[68], 118 [137]; the English, 78 [78]
and p. 146 note to [78].

Education in the colonies, 52 [42].
Edward the First, 81 [80] and p. 146
note to [80].

Cords of man, 107 [120] and p. 149 Elizabeth, Queen, 80 [79].

note to [120].
Corinthians, p. 148, 151, notes to [95],
[139].

Corn, 43 [29] and p. 142 note to [29].
Council, the Privy,p. 148 note to [99].
County Palatine, p. 147 note to [84].
Courts, 103 [114]; of admiralty, 103
[115] and p. 149 note to [115].
Criminal prosecution of colonies, 66
[58-59].

Cromwell, p. 146 note to [79].
Culprit, the colonies as, 69 [61] and

p. 145 note to [61].

Culture and Anarchy, p. 143 note to
[40].

Daniel, p, 151 note to [137].

Empire, British, 26 [2] and p 149
note to [121]; distracted, 30 [8];
how composed, 66 [59-61]; concord
of this, 73 [67]; source of wealth
in British, 81 [79]; compromise in,
107 [120]; unity of, 108 [121], of
Germany, 114 [130] and p 150 note
to [130]; how held together, 119
[137], 121 [139].

Enfranchisement of slaves, 64 [55]
and p. 144 note to [55].

Ephesians, pp. 138. 145 notes to [2],

[67].

Event, 25 [1] and 127.

Ex vi termini, 67 [60] and p. 145 note
to [60].

Davenant, 37 [19] and p. 141 note to Experiments, pernicious, 59 [47].

[19].

Davis, Sir John, 79 [79] and p. 149

note to [79].

Davis's Straits, 43 [30].

Experimentum in

[124].

corpore vili, 109

Exodus, p 148 note to [95].

Export trade to the colonies, 36-39.

Day-star, 84 [83] and p. 147 ́note to Extent, treasury, p, 150 note to [130].

[83].

Deceive the burthen 42 [28] and p.

142 note to [28].

De jure, de facto, 105 [119].
Delicate, 26 [2], 127.

Discord, fomented from principle,
30 [9] and p. 139 n te to [9]; ruling
by, 31 [9] and p. 139 note to [9].
Disreputably, 29 [6] and p. 139 note
to [6].

Dissidence of dissent, 50 [40].

Falkland Island, 43 [30] and p. 142
note to [30].

Falsify the pedigree, 63 [53].
Fashionable doctrine, 27 [2] and p.
138 note to [2].

Fiction lags after truth, 42 [27].
Financiers, American, 74 [70] and
p. 145 note to [70].

First lords of trade, p. 148 note to
[99].

Distance of the colonies from Eng- Fisheries of the colonies. 43 [30].

land, 54 [43].

Doctrine, fashionable, 27 [2] and p.
138 note to [2].

Dryden, p. 151 note to [137].
Dunmore, Lord, 57 [45] and p. 143
notes to [45] and to p. 144 [55].
Durham, 86 [87].

Ease, would retract, p. 150 note to
[134].

Force, objections to, 45-46 [32-36].
Foreign enemy, 46 [34] and p. 142
note to [34]; p. 150 note to [136].
Former unsuspecting confidence, 31
[9] and p. 140 note to [9].
Form of sound words, 91 [95] and
p, 148 note to [95].
Fresh principles, 27 [2].
Front, 32 [11] and p. 141 note to[11].
35 [16].

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