Note.-The Figures refer not to the Page, but to the Articles.
ACADEMICAL honours useful, when, | Caution, a cunning one, 559.
Celebrity, short road to it, 86.
Characters oddly contradictory, 60.
Church schisms in it to be lament-
ed, 485.
Classification, 297.
Coat, shabby one, what few can af-
ford to wear, 210.
Code, civil, not likely to be mended,
141.
Commentators, 153.
Common sense right without rules,
48.
80.
Adversity and Prosperity both
temptations, 19.
Advice, 190. To Projectors, 316.
Agreement dangerous, when, 376.
Agriculture, the safest source of
wealth, 270.
Alexander makes a distinction not
without a difference, 467.
Ambition. Its Evils, 37. Bears no
rival passion, 148.
Analogy powerful, when, 328.
Anger and Confidence, 35.
Like
wine 240
Anticipations foolish, when, 81.
Antithesis, its relation to wit, 340.
Antiquity, the Alma Mater of
dants, 368.
Animals, two very important ones,
488.
Contemporaneous applause, 6.
Constitution of mind, what fittest
for a great man, 63.
Conceit differs from confidence, 75.
pe-Constellation of great men, 225.
Conversation, a concert of mind, 407.
Conversion slow in India, 182.
Country towns all alike, in what,
585.
Cowardice most incorrigible, when,
44.
Ancients compared with the mo-
derns, 490
Apprentice Boy, 498.
Apostacy, good excuse for it, 157. Coxcombs seldom alone, 77.
Arbitration, 418.
Atheism, its absurdities, 59.
Augustus, his craft, 452.
Authority of great names, 2.
Avarice, why it increases with age,
24.
Battles, not decisive of what, 844.
Beauty perfect, when, 230.
Benefits sometimes refined revenge,
152.
Courtiers abused but courted, 234
Cromwell, his narrow escape, 412.
Cunning differs from skill, 74.
Curse, a blessing in disguise, 67.
Dairo of Japan, 443.
Death terrible in what, 419.
Debts give consequence, 166
Defeat politic, when, 129.
Defendit numerus an unsafe rule, 34.
Demagogues despotic, 392.
Destruction proceeds geometrically
preservation arithmetically, 352.
Devil laughs, at whom, 484.
Bible and Sword, 38.
Bigotry, 5.
Bills drawn on futurity, 395.
Bodies more difficult to make up Different reports of travellers, why,
than minds, 405.
261.
Dilemma an awkward one, 351.
Dissimulation pardonable, when
Books, 128.
Bravery of cowards, what, 263.
Britain, her resources a mystery to
Napoleon, 501.
British Constitution, 528.
136.
Disinterested gifts, what, 65.
Disputes begin at the wrong end,
306.
Dogmatism not confined to scho- Gamester doubly ruined, how, 200.
lars, 169.
Doubt, a vestibule, 251.
Glory, road to it, arduous, 68.
Glory of the christian, 149.
God on the side of virtue, 154.
Doubt, a serious one, 324.
Drafts drawn by genius on posteri-God will excuse our prayers, when,
ty always paid, 36.
149.
Duels the fault of seconds as often
as of principals, 58.
Ease in style not easy, 584.
Eccentricity, 16.
Dreams prove nothing but the cre- Good unalloyed, a rare thing, 7.
dulity of mankind, 446.
Governments give national charac-
ter, not climates, 335.
Great men like comets, 252,
Great men, where deceived, 132.
Greatness best appreciated by the
greatest, 583.
Habit, 558.
Half measures, 174.
Happiness, 447.
Hatred differs from pity, in what,
478.
Efforts profusely rewarded, when,
416.
her life preserv-
Egotism awkward, 104.
Eloquence true, hits hearts as well
as heads, 268.
Elizabeth, Queen,
ed, how, 503.
Emulation, a spur not of gold, 212
Ennui, its empire, 259.
Enthusiasm, 17.
Envy, 310.
Head, the seat of contentment, 163.
Head of a party, 22.
Heaven, the road to it too narrow
for wheels, 178.
Hesitation, a weakness, 401.
Envious, their censure does us cre- Honour differs from virtue, 26.
dit, 573.
Hope, 108.
Error differs from ignorance, 1.
Error, one that all commit and all
abuse, 502.
Errors, little ones to be pardoned,
when, 560.
Horace, a sycophantic satyrist, 413.
Human expletives, 89
Humility, 556.
Hunter, John, 473.
Hurry differs from dispatch, 74.
Hypocrites, 11-29.
Hypocrisy, 143.
Estate, a very large one, and pays
no tax, what, 85.
Events, how construed by enthusi-
asts, 167.
Evils remediless, two, 55.
Evidence seldom, if ever, appears
in a court of justice, 578.
Experience, when cheapest, 33.
Falsehood, like a perspective, 241.
Falstaff, his soldiers feared but one
thing, 299.
Fame, an undertaker, 527.
Fanatics always inexorable, 222.
Fashion, 547.
Female improvement, 137.
Fear debilitates, 286.
Fine houses, finest when, 30.
Flattery adroit, when, 83.
Fools formidable, why, 266.
Fortune not blind, why, 79.
Forbidden things, 14.
Franklin, Doctor, 404.
Friends more difficult to forgive
than enemies, 576.
Friendship's politic, when, 390.
of vice, 271.
Hypochondriacs die daily, 238.
Idiosyncrasy exists in mind as well
as in body, 586.
Idleness expensive, why, 70.
Ignorance, 1.
Imitators of princes numerous, 199.
Infidels believe more than believers,
567
Ingratitude, 563.
Inequalities of life real things, 8
Intrigues of state, 571.
Injuries seldom pardoned, when,
43.
with impunity, 51.
Inventors or perfectors, which most
meritorious, 142.
Ism, words ending in it, 451.
Jealousy, why so insupportable,
163.
a hard task-master, 47.
Jesuits mix in their generation, 492.
Khan of Tartary, 443.
Kings, their highest wisdom, what,
57.
King of England interested in pre-
serving the freedom of the press,
100.
$87.
Kings, their noblest ambition, what,
Neutrality no favourite with Pro-
vidence, 366.
209.
155.
, living ones, more flattered, Nothing should excite murmurs,
but less praised than they de
serve, 545.
Knowledge, 50.
Man both social and selfih, 327.
Martyrdom, proves what, 410.
Matrimony, 532.
Martyrs, modern, scarce, 201.
Mathematics, 336.
Men every where the same, 91.
Have two eyes, but one tongue,
112.
187
Nations always as free as they de-
serve, 109,
119.
How attained,
213. The clearest the most Opponents best answered, how,
simple, 187.
Labour, a good, 67.
Law and equity, 381.
Laws and arms, 162.
Learned blunders, 403.
Letters, laboured ones, 125.
Means, great, seldom combined
with great measures, 186.
Memory the friend of wit, 293.
Measures, if unpopular, how to
carry them, 415.
Metals, two omnipotent, where,
339.
Nature works with few tools, 223.
no chasm in her operations,
Metaphysics promise much, per-
form little, 342.
Mind, its existence proved by doubt-
ing it, 349.
Miracle, the greatest, 300
Mistake, a royal one, 88.
Mistaken consciousness, 402.
Money well laid out, 275.
Motives differ often from pretexts,
97.
Mystery magnifies, $59.
Name in literature, 267.
Life a theatre, 18.
Patriots, modern, 176.
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its ills how to bear them, 95. Pedantry wrong by rules, 48.
Logic, 302, 548.
Persecutors often hypocrites, 206.
People, remarks on enlightening,
London audience, 309.
Love without jealousy, 94.
of power, 156.
494.
Magnanimity in a cottage, 90.
Man a paradox, 408. A link, 587.
Many men neither bad nor good,
why, 82.
Opinions, when they may be chang-
ed without suspicion, 102.
Opportunities often overlooked, 46.
Orators, pleaders seldom good ones,
581.
Passions compared to pendulums,
497.
Philip, King, 505.
Philosophy a jack of all trades, 205.
Physiognomists, pickpockets the
best, 437.
Physic most despised by physicians,
338.
Pitt, William, a neat manœuvre of
his, 414-
Plans best executed, when, 61.
Plagiarism, 546.
Politic knave, 10.
Poets, seldom original, 198.
Poor laws, 529.
Posthumous charity, 341.
Politics and personalities, 566.
Powerful friends may be too pow-
erful to serve us, 535.
Prayer, a good one, 194.
Profession abused with safety,
when, 53
Property, the only real, 52.
Pride paradoxical, 207. Miscalcu-
lates, 150.
Private vices public benefits, false,
350:
Prating coxcombs, 373.
Prodigality, the rarest, 445.
Pulpit eloquence, 64.
Public events, their moral, 31.
Pursuit, there is but one that all
can follow, 49.
Quacks, literary ones, 553.
INDEX.
Quack, when preferable to a physi-[Talent not always successful, 93
cian, 323.
Talent, histrionic, overpaid, 309.
Talent compared to treason, 295.
Telescopes may be more dangerous
than cannon, 247.
Query, an important one, 388.
Readers, three classes, 554.
Reform, a paradox, 113.
Reformers, modern, their
ties, 27.
difficul-Testimony differs most materially
from evidence, 578.
Religion, one thing that men will Theory fine but not firm, 116,
not do for it, 25.
Things, three that never stand still,
Repartee, perfect, 144.
457.
Reputation established, how, 218.
Repentance repented of, when, 305.
Restorations disappoint the loyal,
poverty, 233.
Rome pontifical, 175.
Safety, if built on revenge,
safe, 45.
393.
Revenge has no sex, 197
Riches more easily concealed than Travelling, 41.
Sceptics, 177.
Scotchmen good gardeners, 67.
Secrecy of design, 32.
Secrets, who fondest of them, 40.
Self-love ashamed of her own name,
134.
Self-importance, a cure for it, 506.
Sensibility, 106.
Sight, an uncommon one, 506.
Singular, how to be so, 460.
Skull, the advantages of a thick
one, 549.
Threats, the loudest the most harm-
less, 255.
Truth powerful, even if defeated, 4650
not Turnspits, London ones, on two
legs, 526.
Slight condescensions, 11.
Society semicivilized most hospita-
ble, 543.
Softness of demeanour suspicious,
124.
Time a paradox, 587.
Torture perverts the order of things,
542.
Sorrow for sin, effectual, when, 317.
Statesmen not to be envied, 73.
Two kinds of men succeed as pub
lic characters, 42.
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ANTITHESIS, defence of it, 1.
Applause cotemporaneous, 14.
Acquirements recondite, 53.
Antient philosophers, 55.
Arcesilaus, a remark of his, 56.
Attention, 65.
Acquaintance, two sorts, 70.
Authorship, 85.
Adried, 91.
Antiquity and ancestry, 113.
Absurdities, 119.
Apostles, three great ones,
Authors, 206.
Age and Love, 259.
Ataraxy, 261.
Ancestry, its pride, 272.
Benevolence, 64.
Bodies corporate, 76.
British constitution, 208
Books, 248.
Death, 110.
Diogenes, why he used a lanthorn, 11
Disorders, 118.
Diamond, 134.
Consolations selfish, 247.
Christianity a social religion, 282.
Drunkenness, 38.
Dunces, how to manage them, 19.
Death, 68.
Diplomacy, 69.
Delight, its cause, 143.
Doubt, 146.
Duels, 161.
Death, a wonder, 186.
Devil and trustees, 195.
Deception, a double one, 240
Dotage, 267.
Experience neglected, 25.
Evil parturescent, 60.
Education of the lower orders 87
Epigram, 103.
Effects and causes, 147.
England's four powers, 155
Education, female, 175.
Early impressions, 203.
Extemporaneous harangues, 225.
Coxcombs, grateful when, Preface, Excellence, 258.
Page 1.
Cuckoldom, 41.
Candour, 45.
Characters, 63.
Character of a People, 80.
Credulity, 86.
Courage, 93.
Cause, a good one injured, 98.
Controversies, religious, 111.
Criticism, 122.
Centuries when of age, 134.
Codes, severe ones, 139.
Composition, 143.
Coxcombs, 165
Conversions, 197.
Calumny, 239.
Enemies, how to get them, 275.
Flattery, 72.
Flattery, cunning, 75.
Fame posthumous, 105.
Fortune a goddess, 106.
Fame a small fountain, 124.
Fools and Rogues, 156.
Free press, 179.
Fashion its miseries, 187.
Flattery, 198.
French Revolution, 211.
Flat catchers, 245.
Forms of Liberty, 268.
Foreknowledge, 280.
Free agency, 280.
Great men seldom pitied-why, il
Gossipers, 78.
Great minds, 112.
Gibbon, a mistake of his, 123
Genius, 133.
Grandfathers and grandmothers, 144.
Ghosts, 202.
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