defend him; but in such cases, the writer's head rebelling against his heart, his genius utterly forsakes him, 300. When a ministry is at any charge in the election of senators, it is an acknowledgement of the worst designs, 305. An observation respecting new ones, xi. 48. What consequent to the loss of their places, 90. Why they should avoid all inquiry, and every thing that would embroil them, 128. Never talk politicks in conversation, xv. 390. Access to them usually converted by most men to their own single interest, xi. 292. Well disposed remembrancers the most useful servants to them in their leisure hours, 293. The faults of men who are most trusted in publick business difficult to be defended, xvi. 294. How far their choice should be left to the king, 268. Remarks on those of queen Anne, xiv. 322. Dr. Swift tells them, they would leave him Jonathan, as they found him, and that he never knew a ministry do any thing for those whom they made companions of their pleasures, 357. Stand on a very narrow bottom, between the whigs and the violent tories, 369. Dr. Swift their ablest champion, xv. 12. Their disinterestedness, xviii. 52. Their character and capacity, 80. Character of their predecessors, 97.
Ministry. Memoirs relating to the Change in the, iv. 276. Inquiry into the Behaviour of the, iv. 306. Objections against the change made in it answered, iii. 4. 9. 47. 138. 194. 197. Some of the facts that contributed to the change of it, 135. 138. Their tyranny over the conscience, 56. Ill consequences apprehended from the change of it, not in any proportion to the good ones, 97. What to be expected from the whig ministry, if again in power, 101. The severity of the whig, and the lenity of the tory ministry, with relation to libels against them, 102. The latter have their defects, as well as virtues, 114. But were the queen's personal voluntary choice, 144. What the greatest advantage received from the change of it, 174. The expedients by which the whig ministry escaped the punishments due to their counsels and corrupt management, 204. By what steps the tory ministry might have established themselves, iv. 364. xi. 146. 403. Overthrown by the disagreement between Harley and Bolingbroke, xiii. 345. Cleared from the charge of a design to bring in the pretender, iv. 349. 352. 366. One ministry, in general, seldom more virtuous than another, 370. Change of the whig ministry not designed by the queen to be carried so far as the church party expected, 374. That of the court of Britain described; under the characters of the emperor Regoge, king George I; Lelop-Aw, sir Robert Walpole; Nomptoc, Spencer Compton; Ramney, sir Thomas Hanmer, 180. A ministry may generally be judged of by the talents of those who are their advocates in print, x. 267.
A Minority. Is usually assiduous in attendance, watchful of opportunities, zealous to gain proselytes, and often successful, x. 203.
