95

"Actio," full and restricted mean-
ings of, 398

Actions, double source of, 19

Affliction, use of, 13; in Christians
and in others, 492

Age lays open the character, 502
"Ages of Faith," 165, 167
Ajax's prayer, 265

Ambition, 23; none in heaven, 157;
446

Amo-why given as an example in
grammars, 546
Amphion, story of, 504
Ancients-Greeks and Romans con-
founded under this title, 82;
animal and sensuous life of, 177;
understood by us better than by
themselves, 472

Annoyances and nettles, to be handled
firmly, 526

Anthropomorphism, 209

Appetite, use and abuse of, 445
Approbation, 549

A priori reasoning, 541
Archery, a lesson from, 301
Architecture, Christian and Greek,
297

Arguments, good and bad, 162;
truth in bad, 163
Argus, story of the dog, 437
Aristocracy, 142, 180

Aristotle, the best commentator on
Shakspeare, 189.

Art, and science the expounders of
Nature, 33; mere, perverts taste,
354

Artificiality, 396

Association (of ideas), 180
Atheism, 26, 27, 492

Atonement, 502

Augustine quoted, 242

Autos-da-fé within ourselves desir
able, 490

Avignon, incident at, 484

BAADER quoted, 559

Bacon, 140; quoted, 9, 26, 60, 61,

321
Beatitudes of Matthew and Luke,
264

Beautifying glass, 429

Beauty, 79, 379, 386; power of, 354:
and expression, 447; and truth
lost by severing what God has
joined, 489

Bees suck but do not spoil, 556
Begging pardon, begging the ques
tion, 158

Bentham, 147, 148

Bible, translations of the, 523; mis-
use of the, 540

Bigotry, 501; and scepticism, 484
Biography, 266

"Blessed are they that weep," 245
Blind, the, need leading, 441
Blindness, 240

Blossom and fruit, 354
Body, rights of the, 496

Books, judgment of, 429; which
most profitable and most loved,
458; of one thought, 484
Brilliant speakers or writers, a cav
tion for, 361

"Broad stone of honour," 162, 167
Brotherhood, human, 526

Brown, Sir Thomas, quoted, 486
Butler, Bishop, quoted, 495
Byron, 416

Chaos, 525

Character, to judge of, 206; one sure
standard of, 429; how carried, ib.
Charity begins at home," 182
Childhood, 263; spiritual, to be
gently treated, 558

Children, turn to the light, 159; their
tone in reading, 161; how to be
rewarded, 521; how to be tasked,
ib.; a needful lesson for, ib.;
their faults, how to be corrected,
ib.; unequal growth of, ib..
Christian ministry, argument for a
learned, 10; candour, 159; writers
of various times and countries
compared, 311
Christianity, 151, 152; and Pagan-
ism, virtues of, 1; its threatenings
tangible, promises not so, 3; means
employed in its first establishment,
9; various aspects of, 310; its
effect upon literature, 70; the great
civilizer, 353; commonly preceded
by Judaism or Platonism, ib.;
not to be judged by the lives of
Christians, 517
Christmas, 10

Church and ministry, 233; robbery

in a, 511

Cicero quoted, 97, 465; and Plato,
460
Civilization, 159; tends to barbar-
ism, 459; an evil result of, 496
Clergy and laity, 234

Close boroughs, and forty shilling
freeholders, 79, 80

Clouds and sunshine, 180

Coast, view of, 4

Cobbett, 101, 394; quoted, 214
Cobweb on a knocker, 240
Cobwebs, 485

Cock-crow, the hour of death, 438
Coleridge, 174, 235; quoted, 161,
191, 467; on Shakspeare, 190
Colonization, 86

Commandment, the third, 541
Commerce, 13
Compliments, 159

Compulsion in religion, 449

Concession in argument, 526
Confidence, 153, 206

Congruity, essential to beauty, 297
Connoisseurship, 143

Conscience and reason superseded
by the understanding, the conse
quence, 80

Constitution-mongers, 71, 72, 79
Contrast, 156

Controversy, effect of concession in,
526

Convents, vulgar abuse of, 516
Conversation, 528

Corruption, human, 557
"Count Julian," author of, 49.

Courage, 176, 178; and faith, 28;
moral, 491
Cousin, 472
Cowper, 219

Creation, folly of reviling the works

of, 261

Dress 263

Dryden's epigram on Milton, 348
Duels, 509

Dunged field, smell of, 198

Duty above all consequences, 508

EARNESTNESS, a proof of sincerity,

15

Earth, and man must reciprocate
services, 547; conceivable effect of
revisiting after death, 556
Ease in writing, 156

Eclecticism, 463, 464, 475; and true
philosophy, 466, 471
Economy, 238

Education, 10, 420; female, 82, 539;
and instruction, 231; one defect
of modern, 263; true principle of,
396

Edwardes, Herbert, quoted, 289
Elevation, effect of, 541

Eloquence, and grandiloquence, 361;
Irish, 540
Emulation, 550
Enclosing, 499

Encoring a piece of music justified,

434

Encyclopædia, 449
End and means, 188

England and Greece compared, 75;
and France, 155

English, a peculiarity of the, 155;
constitution, 181; various styles of
writing, viz. Scotch, English,
Irish-English, &c. 229; individu-
ality of character among, 430;
travellers, 525

Enlightenment, modern, 186
Enthusiasm, I

Epigrams, infelicitous on great men,
349

Epistles, the apostolical, 206

Epithets, use and abuse of, 362
Error, contagious, 176

Erskine, saying of, 475
Essence and extract, 298

Establishments, necessity for na-
tional, 544
Evangelization, 88

Evans' censure on Socrates, remarks
on, 438

Events, learning from and judging
from, 80

Evil, natural bias to, in man, 13;
and good, 180; speaking and hear-
ing, 182; and good, where to be
looked for and dwelt on, 261;
doing, that good may come, 444;

Feeling, and opinion, 183; wayward,
speaking in the language of its
opposite, 400

Female, 109

Fickleness in women, 8

Fine passages in a book, 459
Flattery and detraction, 527
Folk, 107

Folly, 189; is always right, 445
Fondness not love, 551
Forms, 176, 181

Fox, George, quoted, 127
Fragmentary writing, 296
Freedom and independence, 478
Free-thinkers and free-thinking, 483
French Revolutions, 74; character,
74, 482; ditto, symbolised by
French rivers, 444; phrases in
English writing, 210; and Eng-
lish characteristics, 299; want of
individuality among, 430, 431;
beauty, 446

Friend, true value of a, never known,
492; loss of a, 562

Friendship, 27; and malice, 169
the duty of, 520
Full cup, 239

Fuller, quoted, 97, 557

GAMBOLING and gambling, 554
Genius, never satisfied with the out-
ward expression of its conceptions,
59; unpopularity of, 143; com-
pared to a pie of blackbirds, 354;
and goodness, analogous, 197;
and nature, analogous, ib.; and
talent, 386; unconscious of its ex-
cellence, 401

Gentleman, defined, 158
German literature, 193; modern
drama, some absurdities of, 414;
philosophy, 470

Ghost seers, political and philosophi-
cal, 184

God, His gifts to man, 243; denial of,

245; vile motive to love, ib.; His