Chapter D

D'Antraigues, Count and Countess, their horrible assassination
Dancing assemblies, their mistaken arrangements
Death, how a source of consolation
Demon of war described
Devonshire, Duchess of, her amiable character
Demonology, its absurdities
Dead, the sympathy towards
Descendants, their numbers ascertained
Distilleries, the bad policy of encouraging them
Dimsdale, Sir Harry, Mayor of Garrat
Don Saltero, his museum
Dolland's achromatics, their misapplication
Dormitories of avarice described
Dreams, no prognostics
Dramas of real life
Druids, their impostures
Drunkenness, its pernicious effects
----, its cause
Dundas, his baneful orgies
Dunstan, Sir Jeffery, Mayor of Garrat

E.

East-Sheen, its pleasant sights
Earth, the, its primative state
Economy of a workhouse
----, political, its primary law
Education, obligation to make it universal
----, ---- to teach public duties
Egyptians, their absurd mythology
Ellenborough, Lord, his residence
Electricity, illustrations of
Election at Garrat, described
Eloquence of Pitt, recollections of
England, its exemplary road system
Enclosure Bill proposed
Enclosing parks, objections to
Entrails of animals, no prognostics
End of the world, phenomena leading to it
Erasmus, his character
Essex, cleanliness of its towns
Eternals, what are so
External species infinite in number
Excise system, its mischievous effects
Experience, a transcendent quality in a statesman
----, a chief test of truth
Eye, concert played on it

F.

Family group in a workhouse
Farming out the poor, its inhumanity
Fate and fatality, discussion on
Family of man, its necessary co-mixture
Fever of the brain, its mental hallucinations
Fertility, means of preserving
Ferdinand, cost of his restoration
Female education, discussion respecting
Fear, its operation on the mind
Females on fire, mode of extinguishing
Ferme ornee, described
Final causes, their nature
Fitness in nature, the primary law
Fires, mode of preventing
Fire-house, Hartley's
---- ----, interesting prospect from
Finance, Pitt's absurd system
Flame, when ungovernable
Food of a labouring family
Foot-paths, necessity for good ones
Fortune-telling, its errors exposed
Fox, Charles James, his patriotic character
---- ----, his death
Food distributed from religious houses
French Encyclopaedists, their oversight
France, its improvements under Napoleon
Free agency demonstrated
Fruit-trees, their general plantation recommended
Franklin, Dr. his electrical rods

G.

Gainsborough, his tomb and character
Garrat, mock mayor of
Galilean telescopes, preferred for telegraphs
Gardeners, their habits and slavery
Geometry, its connexion with nature
Geocentric phenomena, error relative
Generations, the law of their mixture
George III. his liberal views on education
Geological changes, their causes traced
Ghosts, vulgar belief in
Gipsies, interview with
Gluttony, lesson to
Goldsmid, Mr. his seat, character and history
Goodbehere, Alderman, his character
God, attributes of
Greeks, their mythological personification
Gravitation, its causes
Grief, its luxury described
Greatness, how best sustained
Grammars of Philosophy, &c. their merits
Great buildings, no standard of locality
---- men, their opinions no test of truth
Griffiths, Dr. anecdote of
Gradation of organized beings
Guelph, the Second, anecdote of

H.

Happiness, its production the test of worth
---- produced by employment
Haunted house, anecdotes of one
Harmony of relative existences
Harper, Sir John, mayor of Garrat
Hartley, David, Esq. his fire-house described
Hayley, Mr. his epitaph on Meyer
Handel and Haydn compared
Hamilton, Lady, her distresses
Hedge-rows ought to be productive
Heat, its causes
Heydegger, his entertainment
Herschell, Dr. his clustering power
Historical justice, no atonement for suffering
Hindoos, their absurd mythology
Houses, method of securing them against fire
Home Tourist, his expected modesty
Howard, Mr. his exemplary character
Horses, cruelty of tight-reining them
House of Commons, character of its majorities
Hoare, Mr. his residence
Hogarth, Mrs. anecdote of
----, Mr. his tomb and character
Horoscope, its supposed powers
House of God, its inadequacy

I.

Ignorance, the basis of superstition
Impress, its frightful tyranny
Infatuated nations characterized
Ingenuity superseded by taxation
Inclination of roads, determined
Instructors, clerical, their errors
Intellectual powers, their limited nature
---- philosophy, its indestructibility
Instincts of men compared
Iron-foundery, description of one
Isle of St. Peter's, its ancient boundaries and modern splendor

J.

Jews, their superstitious demonology
Juries, Special, their disgraceful character

K.

Kelvedon, its cleanliness
Kew Priory, described
---- Green, ditto
Kit-Cat Club, its house at Barnes Elms
----, pictures