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.
Linnæus, 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, Abbé, 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.
Molière, 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 Händel, 228.
Müller, 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 Staël, 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.