RAND, Dr. Isaac, brief notice of, 111.
RAZORS, their antiquity:--mentioned by Homer, Samuel, Ezekiel:--how
sharpened:--of brass, 140:
--the best formerly from Palermo, 142.
RECHERCHES, Historiques et Physiologiques sur la Guilotine, 152.
RELICS, traffic and jugglery in, by the priests, 17.
REPUBLICS, extravagance fatal to, 87, 88.
REVENGE Church of Christ, 37.
REVIVAL, amusing example of, on the way to the grave, 91:
--of a child of Henry Laurens, which caused him to order his own
corpse to be burnt, 95.
ROCHEFOUCAULT, maxim erroneously ascribed to, 59.
ROMAN CATHOLICS, persecution of, in Massachusetts, 29.
ROSS, Sir John, his residence, in the Arctic regions:--discovery of him
and his company, 154.
ROTHSCHILD, Nathan Meyer, his funeral solemnities, 3.
RUM, mainspring of the slave trade in Massachusetts, 47.
RUSH, Dr. Benjamin, alluded to:--anecdote of, 111.