earthquake at Talcahuano, 17;
a curious fox on the island of San Pedro, 18;
conduct of the Fuegians, 27;
petrified trees on the Andes, 108;
conduct of the New Zealand chief, 211;
the three years' drought in Buenos Ayres, 222;
sound and silence in the forest of Brazil, 301.
D'Alembert, declines the favors of royalty, 141.
De Coverley, Sir Roger, cause of the death of, 373.
De Foe, rules from the Complete English Tradesman, 86.
De l'Isle and the Marseillaise, 205, 248.
Della Valle, conduct of the women at Goa, 34;
his own strange conduct, 35.
Demetrius, and his father, 166;
a story told of, 167.
Democritus, thought to be a madman, 144.
Demosthenes, gloried in the smell of the lamp, 131;
timidity of, 262.
Denham, curious facts relating to, 235;
anecdote of, 235.
De Quincey, no thought without blemish, 90;
his estimate of Goethe, 146;
of Milton, 152.
Descartes, modesty of, 238.
De Retz, statement of, 234.
Desert, painful silence of the, 301.
De Stael, Madame, criticism of Godwin, 98;
and Madame Recamier, 172;
Talleyrand's reply to, 187;
Napoleon's hatred of, 253;
mourns the solitude of life, 335.
De Tocqueville, character of the French, 40;
remark of an old lady to, 75;
story told to by Rulhiere, 77;
on old age, 333;
some wise observations on life, 341.
Devil, the Reformation and the, 204;
the priest and the, 204.
Dickens, his care in composition, 128.
Digby, an illustration from, 11.
Dignity, assumed, described, and satirized, 67, 68, 69, 70.
Diminutive writing and printing, 178.
Diogenes, banished for counterfeiting, 260.
Dionysius, story of, 166.
Disraeli, Isaac, his sketch of Audley, 73;
anecdote of, 138;
on proverbs, 159;
on men of genius, 232.
Disraeli, Benjamin, on the limits of human reason, 62.
Diversity, 4, 5.
Doddington, Bubb, characterized by Cumberland, 378.
Doing good, Lamb on, 89;
difficulty of, 93;
remark of Coleridge, 93;
passages from Thoreau, 93.
Domitian, amused himself catching flies, 263.
Drake, and the origin of the Culprit Fay, 193.
Drummond, the sonorous laugher, 271.
Dryden, criticises the judges of his day, 3;
anecdote relating to, 154;
a curious fact of, 255.
Duchatel, his poverty and renown, 125.
Dunbar, neglect of the poems of, 199.
Dutch Ambassador and the King of Siam, 101.
Dyer, George, his experience while usher, 88;
an associate of Lamb's, 284;
his biography of Robinson, 284;
his absent-mindedness, 284;
anecdotes of, 285, 286.
Eckermann, describes a scene on the Simplon, 350.
Edwards, Jonathan, effect of his work on Original Sin, 56;
curious fact relating to, 266.
Egypt, hospitals for cats in, 99;
ventilation in the pyramids of, 181;
the railroad dates back to, 181;
social questions discussed to rags in, 181.
Eldon, Lord, an anecdote he was fond of relating, 76;
a remark in old age, 104;
and Bessy Surtees, 246;
his daughter's elopement, 246;
a curious experience of, at Oxford, 246.
Elizabeth, Queen, a curious fact of, 245.
Elliot, Sir Gilbert, passion necessary to revolution, 46.
Elliott, the Corn-Law Rhymer, defines a communist, 105.
Eloquence, a rude specimen of, 313.
Emerson, a man like a bit of Labrador spar, 3;
the soul not twin-born, 5;
life a series of surprises, 24;
confesses his ignorance, 32;
on the good of evil, 40;
few spontaneous actions, 64;
on reforming, 90;
is virtue piecemeal? 93;
of one that would help himself and others, 105;
the martyrdom of John Brown, 119;
advantages of riches not with the heir, 121;
personal independence, 138;
of Shakespeare, 153;
of the theory and practice of life, 240;
the plant papyrus, 241;
relating to Columbus, 259;
the difference between the wise and the unwise, 354;
effects of an acceptance of the sentiment of love, 359.
Epictetus, on forgiving injuries, 185.
Epicurus, his name a synonym for sensuality, 261;
his moderation, 349.
Erasmus, on self-love, 12;
two natures in Luther, 47;
of the Colloquies of, 193;
effect of the smell of fish upon, 244;
and Luther, 308;
what he said of Luther, 309.
Erskine, a severe corrector, 132.
Essay on Man, curious statement relating to, 249.
Esquirol, effects of occupation, 378.
Euclid, stereoscope known to, 181.
Evelyn, observation on Jeffreys, 189;
his argument against solitude, 244.
Evil, ceremony of touching for the, 224.
Extremes, law of, 295;
meeting of in morals and legislation, 304.
Fairy's funeral, description of a, 293.
Falstaff, dress to represent, 69.
Faraday, curious fact relating to, 253.
Farrar, legend of St. Brendan and Judas Iscariot, 387;
of the purification of souls, 388.
Faustina, wife of Marcus Aurelius, 247.
Fenelon, and the publication of Telemachus, 193;
on a violent zeal that we must correct, 363;
anecdotes of, 373.
Fielding, a curious fact relating to, 191;
and Richardson, 199;
on our faults, and the difficulty of amending them, 338.
Fittleworth, rector of, how he lost his living, 37.
Fitzherbert and Townshend, 211.
Flaxman, of the Graces and the Furies, 10;
determines the sex of a statue, 187;
strange fact of the wife of, 226.
Foote, how he took off the Dublin printer, 78;
a story of, 164;
a remark on the death of, 265.
Forster, relating to Goldsmith, 156.
Foster, record of a reflective aged man, 7;
analysis of an atheist, 19;
story of the devil turned preacher, 43;
on self-idolizing dreamers, 91;
care in composition, 129;
tribute to John Howard, 229;
on a violation of the laws of goodness, 240;
origin of his essays, 246.
Fournier, devoted to a squirrel, 99.
Fox, fastidious in composition, 126.
Francis, Sir Philip, and Junius, 257.
Franklin, Dr., his advice to the three sages, 367;
doubted his own judgment as he grew older, 381.
Frederick the Great, a story told of, 167;
and Robespierre, 238.
Frederick William, canes a Jew in a street of Berlin, 51.
Froissart, of a reverend monk, 48.
Froude, terrible story related by, 57;
human things and icebergs, 109;
a reflection of, applied to John Brown, 119;
of fortune and rank, 121;
prosperity consistent with worldliness, 349;
the Scots a happy people, 350;
on putting to death for a speculative theological opinion, 363;
how the laity should treat the controversial divines, 367.
Fuller, Margaret, on Goethe, 105;
few great, few able to appreciate greatness, 143.
Fuller, Thomas, statement relating to Rabelais, 190;
curious fact relating to Wolsey, 224;
the Holy Ghost came down not in the shape of a vulture, 359;
he shall be immortal who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault, 388.
Fuseli, a habit of in sketching, 2.
Gainsborough, a remark on painting and engraving, 198.
Galileo, ceremony of abjuration, 223;
blindness of, 228.
Galt, an observation by, 110;
Annals of the Parish, 148.
Garrick, variety of his countenance, 10;
a story of his acting, 78;
the public grew tired of admiring him, 297.
Gaskell, account of the death of a cock-fighting squire, 38;
anecdote of Grimshaw, 55.
Gay, Pope, and Arbuthnot, fate of a joint play of, 255.
Gems, imitations of, 177;
cabinet of in Italy, 178.
Genius, our obligations to, 161.
Geoffrin, Madame, and Rulhiere, 170.
Gertrud bird, 79.
Giardini, of playing the violin, 130.
Gibbon, his fastidiousness as a writer, 125;
review of the series of Byzantine emperors, 219.
Gladstone, interesting reply of, 263.
Glass in Pompeii, 177.
Godwin, Madame de Stael's criticism of, 98;
a good husband and kind father, 255;
and Rough, 311.
Goethe, confesses his ignorance, 29;
reason can never be popular, 62;
anecdote of Merck and the grand duke, 89;
to know how cherries and strawberries taste, 90;
a fortunate mistake of, 92;
nature, 103;
giving advice, 104;
aristocracy and democracy, 104;
the world cannot keep quiet, 109;
his works commercially, 133;
objections to luxurious furniture, 137;
of Dante's great poem, 147;
advised against writing Faust, 148;
genius of Shakespeare, 152;
influence of Voltaire, 153;
a staff officer's opinion of, 155;
first impression of Switzerland, 195;
critical remark of, 198;
on a peculiarity of Schiller, 244;
disparaged himself as a poet, 261;
pleasant dreams after falling asleep in tears, 318;
compares life to a residence at a watering-place, 332;
the simplicity of the world, 347;
arrogance natural to youth, 352;
remark of at the age of seventy-five, 355;
truth and error, 361;
of a Christianity of feeling and action, 366.
Goldsmith, of the vanity of human judgment, 24;
ten years composing the Traveller, 129;
to Bob Bryanton, 135;
proud reply to Hawkins, 139;
reply to Dr. Scott, 139;
criticises Waller, Pope, and Milton, 145;
opinion of Tristram Shandy, 147;
his street ballads, 156;
a saying of credited to Talleyrand, 172;
relations with Bott, the barrister, 200;
friendship and jealousy, 240;
as a talker and as a writer, 244;
Goody Two Shoes, 268;
at the British Coffee House, 270;
first acting of She Stoops to Conquer, 270;
conduct during, 271.
Goodness tainted, 94.
Gordianus, epitaph of, 263.
Grammont, Count, on Sir John Denham, 235.
Gray, twenty years touching up his Elegy, 126;
criticises Thomson and Akenside, 145;
diffidence and fastidiousness of, 238;
his Elegy not intended for the public, 258.
Greene, Peele, and Marlowe, 249.
Grimaldi, devouring melancholy of, 315.
Groenvelt, Dr., persecution of, 201.
Guerin, Eugenie de, her story of the poor shepherdess, 345.
Guerin, Maurice de, on a solitary life, 342.
Guido, and the portrait of Beatrice Cenci, 313.
Guizot, declines a title, 141.
Hadrian's villa, 217.
Hale, Sir Matthew, criticised by Charles II., 3;
unpublished writings of, 194;
trials before for witchcraft, 224;
influenced by Jeffreys, 247.
Hall, Robert, sought relief in Dante, 267.
Hallam, his opinion of Hooker, 225.
Hammond, Elton, 278.
Haendel, blindness of, 228;
his hallelujahs open the heavens, 229.
Harrington, imprisonment of, 135;
man a religious creature, 368.
Harvey, effects of his discovery, 147, 301.
Hawthorne, on men who surrender themselves to an overruling power, 97;
on special reformers, 98;
distinction between a philanthropic man and a philanthropist, 113;
Byron and Burns, 153;
of the Scarlet Letter, 188;
statement relating to the Mayflower, 241;
of artists who have painted their own portraits, 377.
Haydn, a story told of, 175.
Hayward, passages from, 164, 165, 174.
Hazlitt, his violence at times, 36;
legend of a Brahman turned into a monkey, 48;
of two pictures by Northcote, 190;
of Coleridge and John Chester, 211;
the poet Gray, 238;
every man an exception, 240;
strange facts about, 263;
opinion of Mary Lamb, 267;
of Garrick, 297;
wanting one thing, he wanted everything, 325;
on aiming at too much, 337;
on keeping in our own walk in life, 347;
life, at the beginning and the end, 352.
Heart, insensibility of the, 242.
Heine, pleads for the negro king, 27;
of Luther, 47;
when he would forgive his enemies, 53;
tribute to Goethe, 153;
ignorance of doctors, 208;
of the leper-poet, 318;
a paralytic, 320;
fame nauseous to, 331.
Helps, Arthur, the nature of man, 33;
you never know enough about a man to condemn him, 39;
the art of life, 341;
dialogue on toleration and charity, 383.
Helvetius, of the passions, 46;
advice to Montesquieu, 148.
Henderson, faculty of getting words by heart, 125.
Henry VI. of France, a story of, 171.
Henry, Patrick, his last speech, 264.
Hercules, a diminutive figure of, 178.
Herder, advice to Goethe, 148.
Herrick, a painstaking elaborator, 129.
Hiero, questions Simonides, 31, 348.
Hildebrand, Pope, fate of, 223.
Hill, Dr., and Hannah Glass, 268.
Hillard, on Hadrian's villa, 217.
History and fiction, 164.
Hogarth, relating to the sale of certain pictures, 192;
his estimate of Reynolds, 198;
impressions as to his true vocation, 258.
Hogg, his neighbors thought him no poet, 145.
Holbein, German engraving in the manner of, 326.
Hood, origin of the Song of the Shirt, 149;
what delighted him, 155;
a victim of distress and melancholy, 321;
anecdotes of, 321;
lines on his dead child, 322;
passages from letters to little children, 322, 323.
Hook, attempt of Southey to hoax, 200.
Hooker, circumstances of his marriage, 224;
character of, by Izaak Walton, 225.
Home, Sweet Home, 205.
Homer, called a plagiarist, 144;
effect of his character and genius, 162.
Horace, a laborious writer, 125;
passage from, 302.
Howard, John, humanity of, 229;
and solitary confinement, 260.
Howe, John, his method of conducting public fasts, 37.
Huber, Francois, blindness of, 259.
Human things compared to icebergs, 109.
Humboldt, credits the Chinese with magnetic carriages, 181.
Hume, his care in composition, 126;
his history slow of sale at first, 133;
advice to Robertson, 148.
Humility illustrated by the rain-drop, 344.
Hunt, Leigh, tribute to Haendel, 228;
on pseudo-Christianity, 364;
remark on Lamb, 383.
Hyacinthe, the church of the future, 366.
Hypocrite, profession of, 71.
Ice, curious facts relating to, 210.
Iceland, the best building in, 241.
Icicles, formation of, 209.
Ideas, the few great, remain about the same, 157.
Ignorance, 17, 18, 19, 20, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 240, 352.
Incledon, stories of Garrick and Foote, 77.
Indian cazique, story of, 101.
Intellectual chemistry, 42.
Invective, a primitive Quaker's, 44.
Ireland, baptisms in, 37.
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;