Volume II Part 21 (2/2)
His visions of heaven and h.e.l.l, 228
Longinus, his suicide, i. 219
Love terms Greek, in vogue with the Romans, i. 231, _note_
Lucan, failure of his courage under torture, i. 194.
His sycophancy, 194.
His cosmopolitanism, 240
Lucius, the bishop, martyrdom of, i. 454
Lucretius, his scepticism, i. 162.
His disbelief in the immortality of the soul, i. 182, _note_.
His praise of Epicurus, 197.
His suicide, 215.
On a bereaved cow, ii. 165
Lunatic asylums, the first, ii. 89
Luther's wife, her remark on the sensuous creed she had left, i. 52
Lyons, persecution of the Christians at, i. 441
Macarius, St., miracle attributed to, ii. 40, _note_.
His penances, 108, 109.
Legend of his visit to an enchanted garden, 158.
Other legends of him, 158, 159, 170, 220
Macedonia, effect of the conquest of, on the decadence of Rome, i. 169
Mackintosh, Sir James, theory of morals advocated by, i. 4.
Fascination of Hartley's doctrine of a.s.sociation over his mind, 29
Macria.n.u.s, persuades the Emperor Valerian to persecute the Christians, i.
455
Macrina Caelia, her benevolence to children, ii. 77
Magdalen asylums, adversaries of, ii. 98, and _note_
Mallonia, virtue of, ii. 309
Malthus, on charity, ii. 92, _note_
Mandeville, his ”Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue.” His thesis that ”private vices are public benefits,” i. 7.
His opposition to charity schools, ii. 98
Manicheans, their tenets, ii. 102.
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