project of pantisocracy, 102;
fears he has caught the itch, 103;
gained little by his writings, 133;
what he thought a sufficient income, 138;
of Goethe, 147;
intellect of, 151;
comparison of Shakespeare with Milton, 152;
on Shakespeare and Homer, 152;
at York minster, 196;
a remark of, in one of his lectures, 200;
and John Chester, 211;
curious facts relating to, 250;
and the House that Jack built, 268;
on certain smells, 302;
his summing up of life, 336;
remark on Horne Tooke, 378;
remark on toleration, 383.
Columbus, and the egg, 166;
fact relating to, 259.
Commodus, tolerant to Christians, 247.
Common sense defined, 7.
Communist, a, defined, 105.
Conciergerie, flirting and love-making in the, 35.
Confucius, describes the conduct of the superior man, 23;
his joy in frugality, 136;
and the Golden Rule, 185;
anecdote of, 373.
Congreve, what the one wise man knew, 32.
Conscience, 22.
Corey, Giles, pressed to death, 60.
Corneille, his poverty, 134;
what Napoleon said of him, 153;
tiresome in conversation, 260.
Cornwall, Barry, his fear of the sea, 251.
Correggio, no portrait of, 262.
Corwin, Thomas, anecdote of, 168.
Cottle, Joseph, relating to Coleridge, 22;
of Coleridge at York minster, 196;
lines by, admired by Coleridge, 378.
Couthon, devoted to a spaniel, 99.
Cowley, a curious fact of, 245.
Cowper, his poems and their publisher, 192;
his mental malady, 226;
the ballad of John Gilpin, 227;
the poor school-master, Teedon, 228;
his attempt at suicide, 246;
his giggling with Thurlow, 246;
the sanest of English poets, 254;
fancied himself hated by his Creator, 259;
a melancholy confession of, 317.
Crabbe, wrote and burned three novels, 259.
Credulity, 20, 224.
Creed, in the biliary duct, 8;
referred to in the rebuke of a clergyman, 20.
Crichton, curious achievement of, 264.
Cromwell, his distrust of popular applause, 298;
and Charles II., 304;
and Milton, 304;
how estimated when flattery was mute, 304;
manner of his death, 304.
Crowne, John, reading by lightning, 46.
Cumberland, and Sheridan, 9;
describes Soame Jenyns, 236;
Goldsmith and his comedy, 270;
the dinner at the Shakespeare tavern, 271;
predicament of an artist in serpents, 300;
a reflection on old age, 332;
on a man gifted with worldly qualities, 350;
remark on Bubb Doddington, 378.
Curing public evils, 25.
Curiosity, 17, 32.
Curran, contest with the fish-woman, 28;
remark to Phillips about his speeches, 249;
melancholy nature of, 314.
Curtis, George William, castles in Spain, 327.
Cushman, Charlotte, anecdote related by, 35.
Custom, doth make cowards of us all, 64.
Daguerre, his discovery anticipated, 181.
Damascus blades of the Crusades, 180.
Dante, a story told of, 170;
the prodigal and the avaricious together, 302.
D'Arblay, Madame, and Mrs. Barbauld's stanza on Life, 356.
Darwin, cattle in East Falkland Island, 10;
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 Staël, Madame, criticism of Godwin, 98;
and Madame Récamier, 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 Rulhière, 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.
Duchâtel, 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.
Fénelon, 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,