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Henry the First, 43. Nor had the people in that age any representative beside the barons and other nobles, who did not sit in those assemblies by virtue of their birth or creation, but of the lands or baronies they held, ibid. The Gothick system of limited monarchy extinguished in all the nations of Europe, xiii. 167. 195.
Goverment. Never intended by Providence to be a mystery comprehended only by a few, vi. 55. Project for the improvement of, 217. A method for discovering plots and conspiracies against it, 220. The institutions of it owing to our gross defects in reason and in virtue, 307. Naturally and originally placed in the whole body, wherever the executive part of it lies, ii. 291. xvi. 191. The mixed form of it no Gothick invention, but has place in nature and reason, ii. 297. The corruptions that destroy it grow up with, and are incident to, every form of it, 320. The dissolution of it worse in its consequences in some conjunctures than it would be in others, 336. The sentiments of a church of England man concerning it, 364. By what means the great ends of it are provided for, 366. Why every species of it, though equally lawful, not equally expedient, 369. A great unhappiness in it, when the continuance of a war is for the interest of numbers, iii. 5. The nicest constitutions of it often like the finest pieces of clock work, xvii. 374. The Gothick governments in Europe, their conduct with their armies, iii. 58. Mr. Steele's account of the original of it examined, 291. Opinions in it right or wrong according to the humour and disposition of the times, x. 91. No duty in religion more easy than obedience to it, 92. Great breaches in its frame are like vices in a man, which seldom end but with himself, iv. 371. The two extremes of absolute submission and frivolous opposition to government, x. 82. An absolute, unlimited power in, xvi. 191. This supreme power can do more than it ought, but some things it cannot do, 192. The governments of Europe began with limited monarchies, xix. 103. Its progress in England, 104.
Governors. What their main design when sent to their governments, xi. 166.
Grafton (Charles Fitzroy, duke of). Generously granted a noli prosequi in the cause of a printer's persecution, ix. 343.
Graham (laird of Clavers). Created lord Dundee, major general of the forces in Scotland, x. 369. Ordered with his horse up to London by king James, on the invasion of the prince of Orange, 370. Acts no longer as colonel, on hearing the prince intended to place himself on the throne, 377. Goes incognito to the convention at Stirling, 381. Retires into the Highlands, 382. At the battle of Gillicranky, with only seventeen hundred foot, routs major general McCoy with five thousand men; but is killed by a random shot in the action, 386.
Graham (colonel James). The inventor of a set of words and phrases used in his time, viii. 249.
Grandeur, human, contemptibleness of, vi. 115.
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