Chapter XVII: Part 17

Irving, on the habit of criticising government, 25;
small returns from his writings, 133;
an observation on Goldsmith, 187;
modesty and diffidence of, 239;
called a vagabond by a neighbor, 239;
stealing his own apples, 239;
of elaborating humor, 316;
circumstances under which he composed the History of New York, 319.

Isocrates, timidity of, 262.

Jameson, Mrs., a story related by, 172.

Java, flowers, fruits, and trees of, 301.

Jeffreys, portrait and conduct of, 189;
influence over Sir Matthew Hale, 247.

Jenner, persecution of, 202.

Jenyns, described by Cumberland, 236.

Jerome, St., legend of St. John recorded by, 359.

Jerrold, Douglas, his dislike of the theatre behind the scenes, 1;
of the practical benevolence of a London tradesman, 81;
ambitious to write a treatise on philosophy, 261;
the Caudle Lectures, 316.

Jews, curious persecution of the, 203.

Joan of Arc, Shakespeare's and Schiller's, 174.

Johnson, reply to Boswell as to the indecency of a statue, 1;
his opinion of remarks by Orrery and Delany on Swift, 2;
his hatred of baby-talk, 50;
a remark on marriage, 62;
opinion of feeling people, 98;
opinion of levelers, 105;
Life of, at first slow of sale, 133;
Cumberland on, 142;
how he was once made happy, 143;
opinion of Milton's sonnets, 146;
criticises Swift, Gray, and Sterne, 146;
opinion of Lycidas, 147;
a neglect of the great, 151;
of Shakespeare, 152;
Dr. Campbell's estimate of, 153;
remark to Mrs. Macaulay, 168;
version of Pope's Messiah, 176;
reviewer's remark on, 190;
painter's confession to, 199;
of Demosthenes Taylor, 212;
tribute to Savage, 236;
poverty and companionships of, 243;
belief in ghosts, 243;
a peculiarity of, 244;
a famous speech of Pitt, 248;
speeches of Chesterfield, 248;
collected sermons, 248;
a number of the Rambler, 248;
Ramblers written rapidly, 248;
confidence in Psalmanazar, 250;
bigotry of, 257;
learned Dutch after he was seventy, 267;
first acting of Goldsmith's comedy, 270;
melancholy of, 316;
of Pope and his writings, 317;
of Young and his writings, 317;
of the Christian religion, 370.

Jones, Paul, and Thomson's Seasons, 261.

Joubert, a thought of, 1;
his habit as a writer, 127.

Journalism, impersonal, 241.

Judkins, Juke, reminiscences of, 81.

Junius, warns the king, 298.

Jupiter and Cupid, 296;
imaginary proclamation by, 374.

Kane, Dr., curious experience with the Esquimaux, 102;
of frost in the Arctic region, 301.

Kant, a curious fact of, 251.

Kean, Edmund, wretchedness of his early life, 124;
how he studied and slaved, 131.

Kemble, John, reply to Northcote, 15;
as to his new readings of Hamlet, 131.

Kempis, Thomas a, of simplicity and purity, 345;
of charity and humility, 372;
of amending our own faults, 374.

King, Dr., on toleration, 383.

Kinglake, care in the composition of Eothen, 128.

Kingsley, Charles, of his father, 151.

Kneller, Sir Godfrey, remark to a sitter, 13.

Knives and forks, ridiculed by Ben Jonson and Beaumont and Fletcher, 202.

Knowledge reserved, 240.

Kotzebue, relating to, 257.

Labor, life's blessing, 121.

La Bruyere, of judging men, 2;
of diversity, 6;
some thoughts of, 24;
on the mixture of good and evil, 73;
eloquent passage of, 219.

La Fontaine, always copying and recopying, 126;
dull and stupid in conversation, 260.

Lais, the courtezan, saying of, 41.

Lamartine, a strange statement relating to, 256.

Lamb, remark on covetousness, 73;
dissection of meanness, 81;
anecdote of George Dyer, 88;
doing good by stealth, 89;
story of an India-house clerk, 100;
care in composition, 127;
anecdote of, 134;
criticises Faust, 146;
tribute to Manning, 150;
essay on the Origin of Roast Pig, 169;
could spit upon Howard's statue, 260;
first acting of Mr. H., 272;
hopeful letter to Manning, 273;
hisses his own bantling, 274;
another letter to Manning, not so hopeful, 275;
poor Elia, 275;
constitutional melancholy of, 316.

Lamb, Mary, Hazlitt's estimate of, 267.

Landor, eyes of critics on one side, 4;
of Shakespeare and Milton, 152;
of Cromwell and Milton, 152;
of the estimation of the great by their contemporaries, 153;
of Swift, Addison, Rabelais, La Fontaine and Pascal, 315;
of Aspasia and Pericles, 347;
the falsehood of life, 364;
of looking down on ourselves, 372.

Lansdowne, phrenologist's judgment of, 188.

Lardner, curious facts of, 266.

La Rochefoucauld, his Maxims criticised by Sterling, 2;
reference to his Maxims, 12;
care in composition, 129;
an unselfish, brave, humane man, 234.

Last Rose of Summer, 204.

Latimer, Tenterden-Steeple and Goodwin Sands, 18.

Laud, cruelty of, 363.

Lavater, judgment of Lord Anson, 189;
duped by Cagliostro, 258.

Lay, Benjamin, an enthusiast, anecdote of, 367.

Layard, nature breaking out in a party of Arabs, 48;
engravings on Nineveh, 178;
lens found in Nineveh, 181;
tradition of Nimrod and the gnat, 302.

Lecky, witchcraft in England, 56;
opinion of Hooker, 225;
great and multiform influences of Christian philanthropy, 372.

Legends and parables:
a Brahman turned into a monkey, 49;
Moses and the dwellers by the Dead Sea, 49;
the redbreast, and how it was singed, 55;
the man in the moon, 79;
man and woman in the moon, 79;
Gertrud bird, the woodpecker, 79;
the Wandering Jew, 80;
the Brahman and the three rogues, 296;
Og, a king of Bashan, 298;
Nimrod and the gnat, 302;
Gabriel and the idol-worshiper, 346;
St. John in the arms of his disciples, 359;
blind men and the elephant, 379;
St. Brendan and Judas Iscariot, 387;
Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, 388.

Leighton, a clergyman, persecution of, 363.

Le Notre and Louis XIV., 167.

Le Sage, poverty of, 134.

Leslie, anecdote of Owen and Wilberforce, 92.

Lessing, the restless instinct for truth, 32.

Levelers, remark of Johnson on, 105.

Life, every year of a wise man's, 8;
a series of surprises, 24;
knowledge of, 353;
beginning and end of, 353;
stanza on, 356.

Lilli Burlero, ballad of, 204.

Lilliput, the mighty emperor of, 28.

Lincoln, his dislike of being preached to, 94;
how he earned his first dollar, 122;
idea the slaves had of him, 314;
the reason he gave for not uniting himself to any church, 386.

Linnaeus, curious facts relating to, 235.

Liston, a confirmed hypochondriac, 315.

Livingstone, exclamation of Sekwebu at seeing the sea, 19;
tribe of good Africans, 102.

Livy, on curing public evils, 26.

Llandaff, Bishop of, anecdote of, 121.

Lloyd, his remedy for madness, 267.

Locke, of the king of Siam, 101.

Lockhart, wrote the first of the Noctes papers, 255.

Longfellow, lines from Hiawatha, 299.

Lovelace and Suckling, 266.

Lowell, definition of common sense, 7;
Montaigne and Shakespeare, 12;
witchcraft, 61.

Lucian, a pretty passage in one of his dialogues, 296.

Lucretius, his one poem, 125.

Luther, a violent saint sometimes, 45;
what Heine said of him, 47;
what he said of himself, 47;
and the devil, 204;
believed in ghosts, 243;
relations with Erasmus, 308;
opinion of Erasmus, 309;
with Melancthon in the pulpit, 310.

Mabillon, a genius by an accident, 226.

Macaulay, conduct of a nephew of, 25;
a laborious writer, 129;
Machiavelli, 233;
Byron, 298;
times of Cromwell and Charles II., 304, 305, 306;
ethics of Charles II.;
hanging of Aikenhead, 362.

Machiavelli, of judging by appearances, 71;
a zealous republican, 233;
curious facts relating to, 233.

Mackenzie, Henry, his advice to Burns, 145;
a hard-headed, practical man, 255.

Mackenzie, Sir George, an advocate of solitude, 244.

Mahagam, ruins of, 222.

Mahomet, turns a misfortune to advantage, 66.

Maintenon, Madame de, to her niece, 336.

Maistre, Xavier de, on self-love, 12;
of people fancying themselves ill, 76.

Malherbe, how he composed 126;
anecdotes of, 126.

Mallet, a curious fact relating to, 256.

Man, like a certain statue, 2;
like a bit of Labrador spar, 3;
a noble animal, 3;
his own chiefest flatterer, 13;
most apt to believe what he least understands, 17;
lives blindly, 23;
tries to pass for more than he is, 27;
a terrible Voltaic pile, 33;
some devil and some God in him, 42;
who succeeds, 46;
a curious object for microscopic study, 63;
a natural reformer, 90;
persuadability of, 103;
when he is powerful, 105;
the fittest place where he can die, 120;
when he becomes conscious of a higher self, 355;
naturally religious, 368.

Mandeville, an observation by, 346.

Man-mending, mania of, 103.

Marat, kept doves, 99.

Marlborough, avarice of, 264;
meanness of, 264.

Marlowe, Peele, and Greene, 249.

Marseillaise, origin of the, 205.

Marvell, pride and independence of, 139.

Mather, Cotton, epithets he applied to the Quakers, 44;
account of the trial of Mary Johnson for witchcraft, 58;
the panic he created in New England, 60.

Mathews, curious anecdote by, 207.

Mayflower, a slave-ship, 241.

Meanness, a study and an analysis of, 81.

Medhurst, Chinese opinions of Christians reported by, 101.

Melancthon, approved of the burning of Servetus, 258;
with Luther in the pulpit, 310.

Melmoth, on thinking authors, 158.

Menander, proverb from, quoted by St. Paul, 160.

Mencius, on the disease of men, 95.

Merck, and the Grand Duke, 89.

Mercury and Jove, 92.

Mesmerism, very old, 183.

Meyer, curious fact related by, 302.

Michelet, his horror of the sea, 252.

Middleton, stories of Cicero, 16, 215.

Migne, Abbe, curious cruelties referred to by, 99.

Milan cathedral, 196.

Mill, curious omission of, 266.

Miller, strange fact relating to, 267.

Mills of God, 107.

Milton, his care in composition, 126;
and Paradise Lost, 147;
De Quincey's estimate of, 152;
of lyric and epic poets, 348.

Mirabeau, ugliness and attractiveness of, 259;
his distrust of popular applause, 297.

Miser, characterized by Colton, 72;
a saying of Foote, 72;
effect of his hoarding habits illustrated, 73;
an observation of Lamb, 73.

Misfortunes never come singly, 299.

Moliere, on the profession of hypocrite, 71;
his slowness as a writer, 127;
used one of his servants as critic, 149;
a grave and silent man, 316.

Money-getter analyzed, 71, 72.

Monod, of the conduct of certain missionaries, 56.

Montagu, Basil, prejudice, the spider of the mind, 376.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, of the Duchess of Marlborough, 34;
her criticism of women, 34;
obloquy she endured, 201.

Montaigne, difference in opinions, 5;
of laws and events, 6;
action of seeing outward, 12;
a pattern within ourselves, 22;
the virtue of the soul, 23;
curing public evils, 25;
conduct of lecturers in the courts of philosophy, 41;
nature starting up, 47;
how estimated by his neighbors, 154;
faith in physicians, 208;
the fairest lives, in his opinion, 346;
the thoughts and actions of man, 375;
on distrusting our own judgments, 382.

Montespan, Madame de, to Madame de Maintenon, 34;
rigorous devotion of, 268.

Montesquieu, a laborious writer, 125.

Moore, the lady and the second volume of the Life of Byron, by, 54;
seventy lines a week's work for, 128;
pride and independence of, 140;
story of the jeweled lady, 165;
trick of Father Prout at the expense of, 176;
of Scott and Waverley, 191;
and the opera of Tarare, 221;
and Lalla Rookh, 251;
of the authorship of the Junius letters, 257;
statement relating to Sheridan, 267.

More, Hannah, her opinion of Milton's sonnets, 146.

More, Sir Thomas, a fierce persecutor, 245;

Morris, Robert, imprisoned for debt, 256.

Mosheim, a sentence from an old album, 347.

Mother Goose's Melodies, 206.

Motley, effects of the gout of Charles V., 8;
Luther when angry, 47;
Radbod and Bishop Wolfran, 100;
the Netherlands, 107;
long live the beggars! 110;
Erasmus and Luther, 308.

Mozart, declaration of, 30;
his estimate of Haendel, 228.

Mueller, Max, of children's fables, 160;
when a man becomes conscious of a higher self, 355;
of Christianity, 370.

Nanac, the holy, and the Moslem priest, 368.

Napoleon, what he said of Corneille, 153;
a thing that puzzled him, 170;
and Madame de Stael, 253;
his fondness for Ossian, 261;
remark to Bourienne, 297.

Nature, goes her own way, 103.

Neander, and Plutarch's Pedagogue, 265.

Nero, sensitive to poetry and music, 33.

Netherlands, the, Motley's description of, 107.

Newton, Sir Isaac, confesses his ignorance, 30;
his character illustrated, 105, 106, 107;
neglected as a lecturer, 133;
the story of the falling apple, 176;
a poor accountant, 263;
as a poet, 264.

Newton, John, to the woman in prison, 55.

Nicholls, a sensual clergyman, 43.

Nimrod and the gnat, 302.

Nollekens and the widow, 9.

Norris, John, self-love, 13;
our passions, 47.

Northcote, and the pedantic coxcomb, 1;
blaming himself to Kemble, 15;
of two of his pictures, 190;
of the conceited painter in the Sistine Chapel, 197.

Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind, 52.

Old Hundred, 204.

Old Oaken Bucket, 248.

Opinions, no two alike, 5;
human, the history of, 7;
bundles of contradictions, 8;
of the same men at different times, 8.

Orrery, Lord, story of Swift, 170.

Owen, Robert, reply to Wilberforce,
on putting off the happiness of mankind, 92.

Oyster-eating, first act of, 169.

Paley, what he thought of Tristram Shandy, 147.

Palgrave, anecdotes of Abd-el-Lateef, 383.

Panis, devoted to pheasants, 99.

Pantisocracy, Coleridge's Utopia, 102.

Paracelsus, persecution of, 201.

Paradise and Paris, 308.

Paradise Lost, slow sale of, 133.

Park, Mungo, and the sable chief, 27.

Pascal, of vanity, 13;
on our love of wearing disguises, 66;
maxims of conduct, 159;
twenty days perfecting one letter, 126;
vanity of the world, 240;
Solomon and Job on human misery, 337;
the present never the mark of our designs, 339;
a great advantage of rank, 353;
remark on the ambition of Caesar, 353;
the two extremities of knowledge, 354;
maxims and first principles subject to revolution, 360;
the choice of a profession, 377.

Paul, St., effects of his preaching at Ephesus, 362.

Paul, Jean, a curious fact about sheep, 296;
his comic romance, Nicholas Margraf, 318.

Paul and Virginia, pronounced a failure, 148;
origin of an English translation of, 248.

Payne, and Home, Sweet Home, 205.

Peele, Greene, and Marlowe, 249.

Penn, a curious statement relating to, 257.

Pepys, his opinion of Hudibras, 146;
the poor widow in Holland, 325.

Pericles and Aspasia, 41.

Persian, passage from the, 344.

Persius, chastity and modesty of, 261.

Peruvian bark, an invention of the devil, 201.

Peterborough, of Fenelon, 373.

Petrarch, his sonnets, 190;
despised Dante, 199;
a curious fact of, 253;
an exclamation of, 355.

Petrified trees in the Andes, 108.

Phaedrus, apologue of the two sacks, 374.

Phidias, his reported service to Pericles, 41;
his sitting statue of Jupiter, 261.

Philanthropic man, a, not a philanthropist, 113.

Philanthropists, malicious, anecdotes of, 96, 97.

Philanthropy, traders in, wrong in head or heart, 97.

Philip III. and Don Quixote, 314.

Phillips, Wendell, on borrowing in literature, 162;
on the lost arts, 177;
curious statements relating to, 237.

Philosophy, molecular, 6.

Pitt, authorship of a famous speech of, 248.

Plague, curious superstitions as to the cause of the, 203.

Plato, evidence of great care in the composition of his Republic, 125;
accused of envy, lying, etc., 144;
timidity of, 262.

Playfair, a strange fact of, 258.

Plays of the stage and of literature, 207.

Pliny, opinion of the Christian religion, 266;
questions nature, 337;
a custom of the Thracians, 339.

Plutarch, of self-love, 13;
without a biography, 262;
strange omission of, 265;
learned Latin after he was seventy, 267;
on the universality of religion, 368.

Poe, of God and the soul, 32;
and the Swedenborgians, 188;
the grand duke of Weimar's criticism of the Raven, 317;
lines by, 329;
what he thought a strong argument for the religion of Christ, 359.

Pompadour, Madame de, and Cardinal Bernis, 268;
her life an improbable romance, 336.

Pompey, career and end of, 222.

Pontifical army, soldiers of the, 241.

Pope, of every year of a wise man's life, 8;
opinion of Newton, 107;
an unwearied corrector, 126;
tradition of at Twickenham, 154;
anecdote of, 168;
Johnson's Latin version of his Messiah, 176;
and Gay and Arbuthnot, fate of a joint play of, 255;
timidity of, 262.

Poussin, reply to a person of rank, 121;
story told of, 175;
reply to Cardinal Mancini, 349.

Poverty, fine horror of, 73;
and parts, 121;
necessary to success 121;
amusing evidence of, 124.

Prayer, the, said to have been in use by the Jews
for four thousand years, 185.

Preaching, remarks of Thoreau on, 94;
Lincoln's horror of being preached to, 94;
virtue takes no pupils, 95.

Presbyterian Holdenough and Episcopalian Rochecliffe, 366.

Prescott, of the Aztec priests, 33;
a statement of, 240.

Procter, of Lamb's tragedy, 272.

Protogenes, and Apelles, 171.

Prout, Father, and Moore, 176.

Psalmanazar and Johnson, 250.

Public opinion, 71, 361.

Publius Syrus, sayings of, 48, 158, 226.

Puritanism in New England, 36.

Pyramids, story of the erection of one of them, 253.

Pythagoras, a curious statement relating to, 250.

Rabelais, a strange fact relating to, 190;
knew Rome, 308.

Racine and Louis XIV., 134.

Radbod, at the baptismal font, 100;
declines the Christian's heaven, 100.

Radcliffe, Mrs., an interesting fact of, 255.

Railroads and rain, 209.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 135.

Randolph, John, his first public speech, 264.

Raphael, story of and Michel Angelo, 171;
his Transfiguration, 197.

Rawlinson, the stone he brought from Nineveh, 179.

Recamier, Madame, and Madame de Stael, 172;
sits and muses on the shore of the ocean, 336.

Reformers, stories of, 96, 97.

Reign of Terror, incident during the, 40.

Religion, a subject proscribed in general society, 242;
if charity were made the principle of it instead of faith, 357;
two religions, the religion of amity and the religion of enmity, 365.

Renous and his caterpillars, 267.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, story related of, 174;
his colors fading, 179;
inquires in the Vatican for the works of Raphael, 197;
critical remark of, 197;
and Hogarth, 197;
his portrait of Bott, alongside of Goldsmith, 200.

Richard Coeur de Lion and Saladin, 180.

Richardson, man's resemblance to a statue made to stand against a wall, 2.

Right, too rigid, hardens into wrong, 96.

Robertson, F. W., from his sermon on the Tongue, 365.

Robertson, advised against writing his history of Charles V., 148.

Robespierre, defends Franklin's lightning-rods, 203;
and Frederick, 238;
what was found in his desk, 256;
Madame Roland to, 298.

Robinson, Henry Crabb, his partiality for the Book of Revelation, 20;
how he reconciled himself to his ignorance, 29;
rebuke of spiritual pride, 52;
the Mahometan's heaven and the Christian's hell, 55;
his opinion of Edwards' Original Sin, 56;
Jeffrey's portrait, 189;
at the Fountain of Arethusa, 302.

Robinson, Robert, remark of relating to the Trinity, 20;
Dyer's biography of, 284.

Rochester, Lord, the last year of the life of, 236.

Rodgers, Judge, the dying Scotsman's tribute to Burns, 174.

Rogers, his care in composition, 129;
his proposition to Wordsworth, 137;
remark on Sydney Smith, 151;
anecdote of relating to Dryden, 154;
amusing incident of, 155;
pretty story of a little girl, 359.

Roland, Madame, to Robespierre, 298.

Rollo, Duke of Normandy, story told of, 165.

Roman emperor, curious use of the marble head of a, 302.

Romanianus, with only a name, 262.

Rome, a bitter republican's opinion of, 307.

Roesch, on effects of occupation on the mind, 378.

Rough and Godwin, 311.

Rousseau, a saying of, 103;
and Voltaire, 198;
cause of his cynicism, 245;
a painstaking writer, 248;
fancied himself the object of all men's hatred, 259;
his preaching and his practice, 268.

Rubens, a complaint of, 30.

Rulhiere, story of a Russian friend of, 77;
and Madame Geoffrin, 170;
guilty of only one wickedness, 375.

Ruskin to his students, 179.

Russell, Lord John, his definition of a proverb, 159.

Rutherford, Samuel, and Archbishop Usher, 357.

Saadi, the traveler and the bag of pearls, 122;
description of a drink, 184;
verse of the elephant-driver, 372;
reply of the piece of scented clay, 373;
Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, 387.

Sachs, of earth and heaven, 325.

Sainte-Beuve, fastidiousness as a writer, 126.

Saint Simon, story of two sisters, 34;
of the dying duchess, 75.

Saladin and Richard Coeur de Lion, 180.

Sanson, the hereditary executioner, 259.

Saurin, advice to Montesquieu, 148.

Savage, corrects a lady's judgment of Thomson, 188;
tribute of Johnson to, 236;
with Johnson all night in London streets, 243.

Saxe, Marshal, his terror of a cat, 244.

Scaliger, his opinion of Montaigne, 147;
a peculiarity of, 244;
difficulty in communicating his knowledge, 258.

Scaramouche, snuff of a thousand flowers, 300.

Scargill, of the English, Scotch and Irish, 302.

Scarron, wretchedness of, 320.

Schedone, of a painting by, 326.

Schiller, Indian Death Song, 147;
Joan of Arc, Don Carlos, and Tell, 174;
the scent of rotten apples a necessity to, 244;
a curious fact relating to, 251.

Scott, story of a placid minister near Dundee, 50;
how estimated by his neighbors, 144;
failure of Waverley predicted, 148;
Campbell and Hohenlinden, 150;
Burns and the mouse, 150;
meeting of Richard and Saladin, 180;
how he discovered his talents, 191;
the authorship of Old Mortality, 201;
never saw Melrose Abbey by moonlight, 251;
remarkable industry of, 266;
a sad bit of self-portraiture, 317;
a strange fact relating to the Bride of Lammermoor, 318.

Scott, General, a sculptor's story of, 173.

Seeing, limits to, 12;
action of seeing outward, 12.

Selden, a remark on marriage, 240.

Selwyn, his reply on being charged with a want of feeling, 53;
of vices becoming necessities, 65.

Seneca, an usurer with seven millions, 245;
a maxim of, 349.

Shakespeare, Johnson's tribute to, 152.

Sharp, on the difficulty of doing good, 22.

Shelley, sighs to Leigh Hunt, 357.

Shenstone, splendid misery of, 246.

Sheridan, sarcasm upon Cumberland, 8;
fastidiousness as a writer, 127;
how he elaborated his wit, 129;
a curious fact of, 267.

Sherlock, consolation for the shortness of life, 332.

Siddons, Mrs., confesses her ignorance, 30.

Sidney, Algernon, remark of Evelyn relating to, 189.

Silenus, of Jove and Mercury, 92.

Simonides, replies to Hiero, 31, 348;
fable of the crab and the snake, 364.

Small-pox, goddess of, worshiped and burned in China, 36.

Smith, Adam, a laborious writer, 129.

Smith, Sydney, how he was cured of shyness, 15;
his objection to Scotch philosophers, 93;
advice to the Bishop of New Zealand, 99;
the Suckling Act, 103;
remark to his brother, 169;
a phrenologist pronounces him a great naturalist, 188;
authorship of the Plymley Letters, 201;
resorted to Dante for solace, 267;
on getting human beings together who ought to be together, 341.

Smollett and his dependents, 199;
private character of, 245.

Socrates, reply to Menon, 6;
the hardest of all trades, 25;
called illiterate, 144;
to his judges, 174;
idolatry of, 243;
timidity of, 262;
a poor accountant, 263;
learned music after he was seventy, 267;
enlargement of a thought of, 374.

Solomon, there is no new thing, 186;
his wicked son, 247;
what he said of laughter, 314.

Somerset, duke of, 69.

Sophocles, considered a lunatic, 144.

Soul, purification of the, illustrated by the old coin, 388.

Southey, story of Vergara and the seventh commandment, 17;
to Cottle of the meanness of an Englishman at Lisbon, 88;
not ashamed of his radicalism, 104;
declines the editorship of the Times, 141;
unknown to his neighbors, 145;
on certain famous literary works, 199;
attempt to hoax Hook, 200.

Souvestre, virtue takes no pupils, 95;
philosophizes on the carnival, 299;
the small dwelling joy can live in, 348;
awards the palm to moderation, 348;
rest in an eternal childhood, 353.

Spencer, the religion of amity and the religion of enmity, 365.

Spenser, poverty of, 134;
story told of, 166.

Spinoza, declines a present, 142;
persecuted by the Jews, 254.

Spiritualism, very old, 182.

Stanley, Dean, story of Rutherford and Usher, 357.

Statue, doubtful sex of a, 187.

St. Bartholomew, conduct of ladies at the massacre of, 35.

Steele, one of his Tatlers referred to, 169;
Miss Prue, 246;
castle-builders, 330;
on Christianity, 372;
epitaph by, 382.

Sterling, criticises Rochefoucauld's Maxims, 2;
on seeking perfect virtue, 90;
there will always be errors to mourn over, 91.

Sterne, conscience not a law, 22;
on the affectation of gravity, 70;
an incessant corrector, 129;
the sermon in Tristram Shandy, 192;
the charge of plagiarism against, 259.

Story of the lady and her three lovers, 173.

St. Peter's, first view of, 196.

St. Pierre, and Paul and Virginia, 148.

Stewart, Dugald, remark of, on Bacon's Essays, 30.

Suckling and Lovelace, 266.

Sue, Eugene, a Jesuitess more to be dreaded than a Jesuit, 3.

Suetonius, of Caligula's horse, 99;
how he regarded Christians, 266.

Sully, story told of, and the veiled lady, 166.

Surrey, Earl of, lines by, 326.

Swift, on men's opinions, 8;
story of and four clergymen in canonicals, 172;
Bolingbroke to, 214;
some thoughts of, 214;
anticipates his death, 214;
to Bolingbroke, 246;
irony and seriousness of, 312;
never known to smile, 315;
just religion enough to make us hate, 364.

Sydenham, poverty of, 135.

Tacitus, his opinion of the Christian religion, 266.

Taine, defines a character, 40;
of Puritanism, 307.

Talfourd, and Lamb's farce of Mr. H., 273;
anecdotes of Dyer, 285, 286.

Talleyrand, his reply to Madame de Stael, 172;
trembled when the word death was pronounced, 244;
his reply to Rulhiere, 375.

Tamerlane and the spider, 166.

Tasso, an unwearied corrector, 126;
poverty of, 134;
a curious fact relating to, 247;
cause of his insanity, 247.

Taylor, Demosthenes, Johnson's story of, 212.

Taylor, Jeremy, arguments for humility, 14;
earthen vessels better than golden chalices, 347;
our trouble from within, 349;
the religion of Christ, 371;
those that need pity and those that refuse to pity, 376;
of Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, 387.

Tell, William, relating to, 175.

Temple, Sir William, of the old earl of Norwich, 297;
compares life to wine, 332.

Tennyson, his care in composition, 127.

Tertullian, his mode of dissuading Christians
from frequenting public spectacles, 54;
ideas of justice and mercy in his day, 55.

Thackeray, the world can pry us out, but it don't care, 15;
credulity of the sexes, 20;
our paltry little rods to measure heaven immeasurable, 53;
a reflection on marriage, 62;
of the dying French duchess, 75;
a reflection of, applied to Madame de Pompadour, 336;
toil, the condition of life, 337.

Themistocles, Thucydides' remark on, 379.

Theophrastus, a lament of, 30;
timidity of, 262.

Thompson, George, what he saw in Calcutta, 180.

Thomson, a lady's opinion of, gathered from his writings, 188;
luxurious indolence of, 247.

Thoreau, on doing good, 93;
goodness tainted, 94;
hacking at the branches of evil, 95;
personal independence of, 136.

Threshing-machines, first effect of, 203.

Thucydides, how he toiled on his history, 125;
ignorance bold and knowledge reserved, 240;
a remark on Themistocles, 379.

Thurlow, and his daughter, 247.

Tiberius, life of, with two title-pages, 2.

Tillotson, two wonders in heaven, 382.

Titian, how he painted, 130;
colors of, compared with Reynolds', 179.

Tomochichi, would be taught before he was baptized, 101;
what he thought of the colonists, 101.

Tooke, Horne, how to be powerful, 67;
Beckford's speech, 252;
a remark on, by Coleridge, 378.

Torquemada, and the Inquisition, 46.

Townshend, Charles, and Fitzherbert, 211.

Trench, of the fraud played off on Voltaire, 176.

Truth, as humanity knows it, 4;
the difficulty of finding it, 360;
it must be repeated over and over again, 361;
the infinite number who persecute it, 362.

Tyndall, of the formation of icicles, 209.

Tyrian purple, 179.

Tytler, a remark by, on Raleigh's History, 135.

Value of an epithet, 110.

Vandyck, portrait of a celebrated widow by, 189.

Vanity of human judgment, 24;
of the world, 240.

Vanvenargues, on curing the vices of nature, 91.

Vere, Sir Horace, what caused his death, 121.

Vespasian, a story told of, 167.

Vicar of Wakefield and the peasant, 312.

Vinci, Leonardo da, his conscientiousness as a painter, 130;
anecdote of, 377.

Virgil, his care in composition, 125;
what Pliny and Seneca thought of him, 144.

Virtue, of the soul, 23;
takes no pupils, 95.

Voltaire, the history of human opinions, 7;
upon what the fate of a nation has often depended, 8;
anecdote of, 8;
compares us to a river, 11;
we on this globe like insects in a garden, 18;
confesses his ignorance, 31;
of the story of Newton and the apple, 176;
the forged Veda, 176;
invention of scissors, shirts, and socks, 203;
Candide's supper at Venice with the six kings, 333.

Vondel, poverty of, 134.

Wallenstein, faculties of, improved by a fall, 226.

Waller, a laborious writer, 126;
his opinion of Paradise Lost, 147;
lines by, 355.

Walpole, Horace, compares man to a butterfly, 19;
man a ridiculous animal, 20;
opinion of the Divina Commedia, 145;
contempt of Johnson and Goldsmith, 145;
criticises Sterne, Sheridan, Spenser, Chaucer, Dante,
Montaigne, Boswell, and Johnson, 146;
and Strawberry Hill, 154;
opinion of Lord Anson, 189;
a curious fact of, 258.

Walton, Izaak, quaint passages from, relating to Hooker, 225;
reply to the discontented man, 344.

Warren, Samuel, how the critics misjudged his first work, 148.

Washington, a story related by, 163;
his remarkable gravity, 246.

Webster, Daniel, wrote and re-wrote his fine passages, 132;
the best talker he ever heard, 246.

Weighing souls in a literal balance, 55.

Wesley, Charles, his son a papist, 254.

Wesley, John, on witchcraft, 59;
and Tomochichi, 101;
his belief in ghosts, 243;
his quiescent turbulence, 261;
his story of a parishioner who lived on boiled parsnips, 382.

White, Gilbert, effect of certain food on a bullfinch, 10;
differences in flocks of sheep, 11;
a strange propensity of cats, 210;
peculiarity of the tortoise, 211.

Whitefield, always improving his discourses, 132;
an exclamation of, 376.

Whipple, on an affectation of dignity, 67;
of the mother of Thomas a Becket, 212.

Wilberforce, and Owen's scheme of reform, 92;
and Wendell Phillips, 237.

Willemson, Richard, martyrdom of, 51.

Wilson, Prof., to the Ettrick Shepherd, 10;
thought to be a madman in Glasgow, 145;
the idea of the Noctes not his, 255;
tete-a-tete with the poet Campbell, 267;
contest for the professorship, 287;
first lecture in the university, 288;
achievements in running, leaping, etc., 289;
encounter with a pugilist, 289;
pedestrian feats, 290;
scene in an Edinburgh street, 291;
interferes at a prize-fight, 292;
describes a fairy's funeral, 293;
his relations with Dr. Blair, 310.

Witchcraft, Sir Matthew Hale's belief in, 57;
Sir Thomas Browne's opinion of, 57;
terrible punishment of, 57;
John Wesley's belief in, 59;
Richard Baxter a believer in, 59;
a passage from Lowell on, 61.

Wither, George, wrote his Shepherd's Hunting in prison, 136.

Wolsey, credulity of, 224.

Woman, characterized by Burns, 3;
reply of a good, 377.

Woodworth and his famous song, 248.

Woolman, John, eulogium upon, and passage from, 370.

Wordsworth, his care in composition, 128;
his reply to Rogers, 137;
Tobin's advice to, 148;
origin of the Ancient Mariner, 149;
thought to be a fool by some of his neighbors, 155;
his defense of the church, and his opinion of the clergy, 257;
his man-servant James, 351;
lines by, 352;
what he said of Mrs. Barbauld's stanza on Life, 356.

World, the, 19;
on reforming it, 90;
it cannot keep quiet, 109.

Wotton, Sir Henry, his reply to a bigot, 372.

Wycherley, on reproving faults, 364.

Ximenes, Cardinal, a story told of, 167.

York minster, not appreciated by Coleridge, 196.

Youatt, differences in flocks of sheep, 11.

Young, Mr., the prototype of Parson Adams, 285.

Young, an incident of Swift, related by, 214;
gayety of, 245.

Young, Dean, passages from his sermons, 366, 372.

Zeal, a violent, that we must correct, 363.

Zenobia, temple of, idealized by La Bruyere, 219.