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Edgworth (col. Ambrose, and his son Talbot), xiv. 234.
Education. The manner of educating children in Lilliput, vi. 56. The necessity of it, ii. 412. The consequences of its defects to many noble families, v. 123. Is usually less in proportion as the estate the children are born to is greater, x. 50. Not above a thousand male human creatures in England and Wales of good sense and education, xvi. 278. Of females, not half that number, ibid. What too frequently the consequence of a liberal one, xii. 239.
Edward (the Black Prince). When he appeared great, xvi. 331.
Edward (the Confessor);. First introduced a mixture of the French tongue with the Saxon, v. 66. In his time the English gentry began to affect the French language and manners, in compliance with their king, who had been bred in Normandy, xvi. 8. He was the first of our princes who attempted to cure the king's evil by touching; and was the first who introduced what we now call the common law, ibid.
Edwyn sir (Humphry, lord mayor in 1698). Went in his formalities to a conventicle, with the insignia of his office, ii. 201.
Elections. Dexterity of the whig ministry in deciding them, iii. 54. Absurdities attending them; 1st. that any who dissent from the national church should have the privilege of voting; 2d. that an election should be any charge either to the candidate or to the ministry; 3d. that the qualification which entitles a freeholder to vote still remains forty shillings only, though that sum was fixed when it was equal to twenty pounds at present: 4th, that representatives are not elected ex vicinio, but a member perhaps chosen for Berwick, whose estate is at the Land's End; and many persons returned for boroughs who do not possess a foot of land in the kingdom; and, 5th, that decayed boroughs should retain their privilege of sending members, who in reality represent nobody, x. 304-306.
Elegy. On Mr. Demar, a rich usurer, vii. 170. A quibbling one on judge Boat, 260. A tragical one, called Cassinus and Peter, viii. 95. A satirical one on the duke of Marlborough, vii. 238.
Elizabeth (queen). Relation of the Riot intended on her Birthday, xviii. 85. Mixed money coined by her, for the payment of the army in Ireland, in the time of Tyrone's rebellion, ix. 25. Her character, ii. 280. Her birthday usually a day of dissipation, xviii. 92. Particularly so in 1679, which was intended to be imitated in 1711, 95. Her circumstances much resembled those of queen Anne, 157. Some account of her conduct, ibid. Could not resist the artifices of the earl of Leicester; yet would never suffer his openest enemies to be sacrificed to his vengeance, xvi. 300.
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