his oratory, ib.; compared with Cowper's translation, ib., 141; his wise choice of blank verse, 143; his Latin names for Greek deities condemned, ib.; his version com- pared with Mr. Wright's, 144; instances of amplification, 145; high character of his translation, 151 Derby (14th Earl of), becomes Prime Minister in 1866, cxxv. 283; his government by a minority, ib.; his position as regards Reform, 284; favourable symptoms of his foreign policy, 296; Irish pro- spects, 298; his manly acceptance of office, 301; secessions from his Cabinet in 1867 on Reform, 586
his unfavourable influence in the House of Lords, cxxvi. 557; his unconstitutional dissolution in 1859, 562
his retirement from the premiership, cxxvii. 559; his po- litical career reviewed, 560; his influence in the House of Lords, 563
his conversation on Irish affairs with Sir John Hobhouse, cxxxiii. 324
Derby (Earl of, the present, b. 1826), his scheme for redeeming the land revenue of India, cxvii. 494
appointed Foreign Minister. in 1866, cxxiv. 297; critical period of his accession to office, ib.
his views on Reform early in 1867, cxxvi. 568; his language thereon on March 5, 571
Foreign Minister under Dis- raeli in 1874, cxxxix. 569; the natural head of the Whig party, ib.
Derby, the, best recorded time of the
De Sales (St. Francis), his supposed allusions to the Devotion of the Sacred Heart, cxxxix. 254 Desault (M., d. 1795), his visit to
the Dauphin in prison, cxviii. 129; his sudden death wrongly attrib- uted to poison, 131 Descartes (Réné, 1596-1650), cha- racter of his scepticism, cxxi. 440 influence of his writings on Berkeley, cxxxv. 16–22 De Tocqueville (Alexis C. H. Clerel, 1805-1859). See Tocqueville, De Deutsch (Mr.), his contributions to the Dictionary of the Bible, cxxi. 64
his article on the Talmud in the Quarterly Review, cxxxviii. 29 Devil, the, early popular nicknames of, cxi. 386
grotesque view of, in the Middle Ages, cxxi. 434 note; at the Reformation, ib. ; modern pul- pit allusions to, 436
double meaning of the word in Scripture, cxxii. 118 Devonshire (Earls of), their London
house before the Fire, cxxxi. 181 Dewangiri (Bhootan), surprise and recapture of, cxxv. 5; Sir W. Mansfield's opinion of the Bhoo- teas, 7 D'Ewes (Sir Symonds, 1602-1650), his antiquarian knowledge, cxii. 461; his MS. notes taken during debate, 462; his low estimate of Hampden, 475
Dialects, principles of their growth, cxv. 69; common origin of, 70; their spontaneous multiplication, 78; influence of writing upon, 79; Semetic and Turanian, 91 Diamonds, priority of, among mine- rals, cxxiv. 241; peculiar proper- ties of, and sources of supply, 247; specimens, ib. (see Koh-i- nur); decay in art of cutting, 248; varieties mentioned by Pliny, 249; rarity of the blue diamond, 258
chemical experiments on, cxxxii. 185; composition of, dis- covered by Davy, ib.
Diaz (Batholomew, 15th century), his discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, cxxviii. 228
Dibdin (Dr. T. F., 1775-1847), Lord Cockburn's sketch of, cxl. 270
(Charles, 1745-1814), his sea songs full of nautical blunders, cxiii. 107 note Dickens (Charles, 1812-1870), his genius worn out before his death, cxxxix. 384; identified with 'David Copperfield,' 388
(Colonel), his scheme for the irrigation of Berar, cxix. 126 Dickinson (Mr.), on the value of
Royal Plates in racing, cxx. 119 Dictionaries (English), predecessors of Dr. Johnson, cxxviii. 48; merits of his Dictionary, 49; mischief of minute etymology, 50; new sources of illustration, 51; Richardson's work, ib.; promiscuous sanction of words by the Philological So- ciety, 56; early vernacular terms, 57; limit of date as to use of words, 58; slang terms in Mr. Latham's dictionary, 59; modern scientific words, ib.; modern words formed by analogy, ib.; deriva- tions, 61; difficulties of defini- tions, 64; principles of quotation, 72. See Latham, R. G., and Wedywood, H.
Didot (M.), his contributions to French orthography, cxxix. 535 Didron (M.), his Manuel d'Icono- graphie Chrétienne,' cxl. 211 Digest of law, distinguished from a Code, cxxvi. 368; definition of, 374
Dilke (Sir Charles Wentworth, b.
1843), his 'Greater Britain,' cxxix. 455; his wide area of travel, ib. ; brief period of his journey, ib.; his generalisations too rapid and sweeping, ib.; on British enter- prise in America, 458; his account of Michigan University. 459; on California and San Francisco, 460;
voyage to Pitcairn's Island, 461; visit to Hokitika, 462; his account of New Zealand, 463; of New South Wales, 465; on the physi- cal qualities of the Australians, ib.; on Protectionism in America and Australia, 466; his prejudice against coloured races, 469; his account of Tasmania, 470; on the failure of Protestant missionaries in India, 475; on the brutality of English loafers,' 478; as- cribes caste to custom, 479; sa- tisfactory impressions left by his work, 480; his literary merits, 485
his Radical theories of Free Church and Free School, cxxxix. 279; his recent speech at Pimlico thereon, ib note
Dinant, copper manufacture at, in the 15th century, cxix. 544; pil- laged and burnt by Charles the Bold, 548 Dingbijah Singh (Rajah), his pro- tection of the four fugitives from Cawnpore, cxxxiii. 106 Diocletian (Emperor of Rome, 245– 313), story of his interview with a Druidess, cxviii. 46; her pro- phecy fulfilled, 47
Diogo Cam, his voyages to Africa, cxxviii. 225
Dion Cassius, discovery of parent
MS. of, cxxxvii. 92
Dionysius (the Thracian), his empi-
rical system of grammar, cxv. 74 Dioptric system, the, cxv. 179. See Lighthouses
Dioscorides (Pedacius), the Codex
Cæsareus of, cxxxvii. 72 Diplomatic Service, the, cxxxix. 68; Reports of Committees on, ib.; want of popular appreciation la- mented by Earl Clarendon, ib.; hostility to, of job-hunters, 69; of tourists abroad, ib.; of specu- lators, 70; personal requirements, ib.; state of, at the beginning of
this century, 71; disadvantageous contrast now, ib. ; examinations of candidates in 1855, 72; hard conditions imposed on attachés, 73; second examinations, ib. 74; failure of new plan of Committee of 1861, ib.; reforms of the Committee of 1870, ib.; open competition no test, 75; social requirements for efficiency, ib.; 'cramming,' 76; encouragement of special subjects, ib.; study of public law, 77; new regulation thereon, ib. 78; insufficient premiums on difficult languages, ib.; 'block' in the service, 79; Mr. Morier's memorandum thereon, 80; suggestions of the Committee of 1871, 82; heads of missions and 'outsiders,' 83; real cause of the 'block,' 84; classes of second and third secretaries, ib.; the Committee's scheme of relief, 85; inequalities of various posts, ib.; removals from one mission to another, 86; hardships and expense of remote missions, 87; severity of new regulations thereon, ib.; reports of heads of missions on their subordinates, 88; the recommendation condemned, 89
Dipsomania, the disease, cxxxvii.
415 and note; institutions for victims of, 417
Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, its female lodging-house closed, cxxii. 367
Discount, distinguished from interest, cxxvii. 269
Disease, relations of, with the blood, cxxxvi. 228; spread of zymotic diseases, 229; origin of fever, 230; pus-corpuscles, 232 (see Blood); disease-germs, 233; communication of infection, 234; Dr. Sanderson's experiments on diseasegerms, 235; contagion of cholera,
b.; value of disinfectants, 236; vitality of germs, ib.; Dr. Beale
on infectious fevers, 238; consumptive diseases, b.; 'phthinoplasm,' 239; public importance of scientific research, 243 Disestablishment, recent meaning of the term, applied to Churches, cxxviii. 276 (see Church of England); foreign tendencies in favour of, 283
Disraeli (Isaac, 1767-1848), on the perpetuation of great names in streets, cxxxi. 190
on fugitive poetry, cxl. 358 Disraeli (Right Hon. Benjamin, b. 1805), his financial policy in 1859, cxx. 568; on the phantom of an United Italy,' 572; his championship of church-rates, 590
his speech at Oxford on modern theology, cxxi. 588 and
on the promotion of landlord influence through peasant suffrage, cxxii. 280
his proposal of 'lateral reform,' cxxiii. 292
his speeches on Parliamentary Reform, 1848-1866, cxxv. 269 sqq.; his notions of a Third Estate, 289; his politics revealed in his literary works, 582; ideal in hiз 'Dardanian Dream,' 583; humiliates his party in 1866 on Reform, ib.; his position compared with that of Sir Robert Peel, 584; his mischievous Resolutions on Reform in 1867, 590; his vague language on Household Suffrage, 592
appropriates Mr. Bright's ideas on Reform in 1867, cxxvi. 543; on 'spouters of stale sedition,' 555; deprecates the dependence of Ministries on their Reform policy, 563; claims Household Suffrage as his original creed, 566568; his unprincipled policy, ib., 572
succeeds Lord Derby as Premier, cxxvii. 559; his mar
vellous career, 564; his theore- tical study of English politics, 565; his histrionic art, ib.; anec- dote of his invectives against Peel, 566; his talent for caustic lan- guage, 567; his success as a lite- rary statesman, ib., 568; want of purpose in his policy, 569; specu- lations thereon, 570; his small in- fluence on practical legislation, 571; his administrative inexpe- rience, 572; novelty of his pre- miership, ib.; his abandonment of Tory traditions, 573; his views on democracy, 574; his letter to Lord Dartmouth in 1868, ib.; coquets with the Irish priesthood, 575; his scheme of a Roman Catholic University in Ireland, 576; his defence of the Irish Church, ib.; his political incon- sistencies, 579; reasons why his government cannot last, 580 Disraeli (Right Hon. Benjamin),
his Radical tone of thought, cxxviii. 558; his opinions on the suffrage in 1865, 559 note; his sudden conversion in 1867, ib., 560; his qualities as Prime Minis- ter, 567; his Irish policy in 1868 rejected, 568, 572; his unconsti- tutional retention of office, 573
his novel 'Lothair,' cxxxii. 275; literary offer recently refused, ib.; his political relations with literature, 276; on Papal conver- sions in England, 277 (see Lo- thair); fantastic character of his political novels, 278; his use of living characters, 279; unreality of his social satire, ib.; his pre- ference of high life' examined, ib.; on the influences of the Holy Land, 283; prophetical verses on Italian freedom, 287
compared, as a party-leader, with Mr. Gladstone, cxxxiv. 569 his preference for early
Toryism, cxxxv. 250
Disraeli (Right Hon. Benjamin), his refusal of office in 1873, cxxxvii. 579; his multifarious policies, ib.; weakness of his party in statesmen, 580
his installation as Lord Rector of Glasgow University, cxxxix. 284; his political speeches on the occasion, ib.; compared to an automaton chess-player, 286; his accession to office in 1874, 549; his indistinct Irish policy, 552; his discovery of modern Toryism in the lowest stratum of society, 560; his vast powers of observation, 567; his skilful for- mation of his Ministry, ib.
Greville's notice of in 1830, cxl. 530; his conduct during the session of 1874, 549 sqq.; comes forward as the champion of Pro- testantism, 568; his strange 'de- fence' of Lord Salisbury, 571; his chances of retaining power, 586 Dissenters. See Protestant Dis- senters
Dissenters' Marriage Act (1844), agi-
tation allayed by, cxxxvii. 141 note 'Divine Legation,' the, by Warbur- ton, cxxii. 15; its amusing cha- racter, 17; multifarious reading shown in it, ib.; basis of the argu- ment, 22
Divorce, early precedent cited by
Selden, cxxv. 89 and note; dis pensing power transferred from Pope to Parliament, ib. See Mar- riage, Law of
-Jewish doctrines of, cxxxviii.
Dixon (William Hepworth), his unsound advocacy of Lord Bacon's character, cxiii. 312; qualifies his misconduct to Essex, 315; on judi- cial torture, 337; exonerates Bacon from judicial corruption, 339 Dobereiner, his discovery of the dif-
fusion of gases, cxxx. 145 Dobson (Austin), his Vignettes in
Rhyme,' cxl. 381; his lines on Horace, ib. Dockyards, Pitt's scheme of fortifi- cation, cxvi, 141
Document, use of the word in Shakspeare, cxxx. 94
Dodwell (Henry, 1641-1711), his views on lay-baptism, cxxi. 172 note
Dodsworth (Rev. W.), his Tracta-
rian preachings, cxxxix. 63 Dogs, ancient breeds of, cxxviii. 418, 419; the Esquimaux kind, 420; vast antiquity of, ib.; the species compared with wolves, 421; affi- nity of, to jackals, ib.; their breeding capacities, 422; different breeds of, 423
use of, for truffle-hunting, cxxix. 363
taxes on, in England and
France, cxxxi. 383
Dol, town in Brittany, ancient menhir or stone-symbol at, cxx. 317 Doleman (R.), pamphlet published by, suppressed, exxxiv. 171; authors of the work, ib. Dolgoroukow (Prince Pierre), his 'Russia under Alexander II.,' cxi. 175; his exposure of maladminis- tration, 177; his suggestion for judicial reform, 183 Döllinger (Dr.), on the temporal power of the Pope, cxvi. 261 his theological eminence, 262; his eulogy of Pius IX., 270; his contempt for the Ita- lians, 273; on the low intellec- tual condition of the Papal States, 274; his proposed reformation of the Papacy, 280; on the divisions of Christendom, 287; his miscon- ception of religious life in England, 289; his theological candour, 290
his address at the Roman Catholic Congress at Munich, cxx. 304, 305
the leader of Catholic thought in Germany, exxxiv. 152;
his letter to the Archbishop of Munich against the Dogma of In- fallibility, 153; his excommunica- tion, 154
Döllinger (Dr.), on the causes of Uni- tarianism, cxxxvii. 214; his writ- ings inconsistent with Romanism, 533
Dolmen, prehistoric monuments in France, cxxvii. 79 sqq. Domenech (Abbé), cxv. 186 Domenichino Zampieri (1581-1641), his 'Martyrdom of St. Agnes,' cxxii. 79
Domesday Survey, contemporary in- dignation at, cxxi. 16; its histo- rical value, ib.; its picture of the transfer of land after the Conquest,
a new one needed, cxxxv. 285 Domitian (Titus Flavius, 51–96), character of his administration, cxix. 42
his buildings at Rome, CXXXV. 314 Donaldson (Sir Stuart), his evidence on Colonial defence, cxv. 113 Donatello (Tuscan sculptor, 1386- 1471), his statues for Or San Michele, cxxi. 539; plaster casts at South Kensington, ib. 540; his Realistic and Classical styles, ib.; equestrian statue at Padua, 541 Donati's Comet, cxl. 403, 405 Donatists, the, schism of, under Con-
stantine, cxi. 439, 441
Don Carlos. See Carlos, Don Don Juan (of Austria). See Juar,
Donne (Dr. John, 1573-1631), enters Oxford at the age of ten, cxxv. 59
Dean of St. Paul's, exxix. 193; his clandestine marriage, 194
-(W. Bodham), his able edi- tion of George III.'s Correspon- dence with Lord North, cxxvi. 3, 36
Donné (M.), his experiments on spon- taneous generation, cxxv. 403
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