266
INDEX.
Conscience. Why compared to a pair of breeches, ii. 90. What the word properly signifies, x. 43. Great evils occasioned by the wrong use of it as our director and guide, 44. What is, properly speaking, liberty of conscience, 45. When guided by religion, it is the only solid, firm foundation, for virtue, 46. Dr. Swift's sentiments on liberty of conscience, 168. Oliver Cromwell's, 169.
Constitution. The subversion of it in the Roman state, to what measures owing, ii. 326. Living upon expedients will in time destroy any, iii. 399. The knowledge of our constitution can only be attained by consulting the earliest English histories, xvi. 203. Our present constitution not fairly to be traced beyond Henry I, 204.
Controversy. A body of it with the papists, published by the London divines, not to be matched in the world, iv. 408. Pastors have more occasion for the study of it against freethinkers and dissenters than against papists, ibid.
Convents. The great wisdom of instituting them, ii. 393.
Conversation. Hints toward an Essay on, v. 227. Complete Collection of genteel and ingenious, viii. 239.
Conversation. An artificial method of it, vi. 213. Whence in general so low, v. 461. Wherein that called the agreeable consists, xvii. 384. Whence it languishes in the politest companies, viii. 241. An invention which has contributed to politeness in it of late years, 250. Few obvious subjects have been so slightly handled, v. 227. What the truest way to understand it, 228. The folly of talking too much generally exploded, ibid. To affect to talk of one's self a fault, 229. By what easy and obvious reflexion it may be curbed, ibid. Some faults in conversation none so subject to as men of wit, nor ever so much as when with each other, 230. The nature of it among the wits at Will's coffeehouse, 231. Raillery the finest part of it, but wholly corrupted, 232. Two faults in conversation, which appear different, yet arise from the same root, and are equally blamable, 233. The talent of telling stories agreeably not altogether contemptible, but subject to two unavoidable defects 234. Great speakers in publick seldom agreeable in private conversation, 235. Nothing spoils men more for it than the character of being wits, ibid. To what the degeneracy of it has, among other causes, been owing, 236. When at the highest period of politeness in England, and in France, 237. Good manners in, xvi. 324.
Convocation. Strangely adjourned, and why, iii. 72. The inconvenience of such an adjourning power in the archbishops, ibid. The excellent character of their prolocutor, 74. Bishop Burnet's
sentiments
