Faults, observing of, 295. Feigning, power of, 77. Flattery, domestic, 530. Followers of their own footsteps, 250, 265. Forgiveness, christian, mistakes concerning, 57, 394, 563; of real in Forest, American, 475. Fortune favours fools, 413. Friendship, indispensable, 287; continuance of, in the future state, Frivolous, proper application of the term, 391. Gardening, landscape-earliest writer on, 449. Good-humour and good-nature, 131. Habit and custom, distinction between, 400; an opposite, formed by the same thing, 405. Helotism, 148. History, study of, 395, 500, 507. Horse-rashness, 265. Ichneumon fly, 17. Idols of the race, 396. Ignorance of our ignorance, 477. Ill-used man, an, 414. Inconsistency, imputation of, 518. Indifference of the judgment and the will, 7, 401, 495. Infallibility, a craving for, a cause of atheism, 163; pretension to, unconnected with persecution, 39. Ingenuity perverted, instances of, 503. Jesting, profane, 161, 172. Johnson, a parodox of, 407. Judgment, private, 28. Kite, fable of the, 207. Knowledge, misapplication of, 501; its true end, 578. Language, changes in, 259; technical, 48, 491. Latitudinarianism, intolerance of, 176. Life, recklessness of, 16; domestic, necessary to public men, 120. Longevity and early hours, 325. Manner, a conscious, 346. Mathematics, study of, 493. Mean, the golden, 109, 275. Measures, order of, important, 222. Minority, influence of, 215. Mirror of a wise man, 274. Monopoly, 244, 381. Moral principle, trials of, advantageous, 66; value of, to knowledge Motives of right actions, 534. Moth-rashness, 265. Mummies, preparers of the, 548. Naturalization, 314. Nobility, British, system of, 136. Non-resistance, 315. Nosology, mental, 229. Novelty, love of, 249, 261; exaggeration of, 265. Oath of abjuration, 504. Oppression, effects of, on character, 63, 65. Orators, two kinds of, 351. Oratory, exercised on a man's self, 9, 294. Over-governing, error of, 151, 420. Over-rating of cautious characters, 124; of reserved characters, 75 ; of the seen and known, 381. Pagans, atheism of, 159; objects of their worship, 160. Palimpsest, a human, 431. Parable, what properly so called, 505. Parochial visitors, 461. Party-spirit, 44, 49, 402, 514; effect of, on the moral standard, 517. Persecution, by what argument precluded, 39; not consisting in seve- Phenakism, 13. Pilate's question, 4. Pilgrim Fathers, intolerance of, 63. Poems and tales, influence of, 33, 497. Political economy, absurd notions of, 153. Poverty, exposure of, 300; praise of, 375. Power, despotic, anomaly in, 146. Predictions, political, 380, 572. Prejudices, cautions to be observed in combating, 457. Priest-craft, exclusion of, from Christianity, 501; true origin of, 180 Procrastination in study, 480. Proverbs, true character of, 3. Pumpkin and pine-apple, 521. Puzzle-headedness conducive to sudden celebrity, 546. Questions, impertinent, how to deal with, 75; in teaching three kinds of, recommended, 488. Rashness of the horse and the moth, 265, 429. Re-actions, danger of, 190, 263. Reading through coloured spectacles, 485. Recommendations, 471. Religion, any better than none,' fallacy of the maxim, 160; effect of, on national character, 319. Remedy of a remedy, comparatively easy, 253. Reputation, posthumous, 18, 544. Restoration mistaken for innovation, 259. Revolution, best safeguard against, 207, 261. Rewards and punishments, temporal, a distinctive characteristic of the Mosaic dispensation, 68. Rise by merit, 98. Robinson Crusoe's goats, 229. Rumours, effect of, 380, 572. Scripture, rationalistic explainers of, 505; study of, 482. Self-conceit and modesty, 538. Self-distrust, 59; flattery, 9, 294; torment, 68. Selfishness distinct from self-love, 242; taught by the unselfish, 84. Self-love and social, 243. Sergeant, a Scotch, anecdote of, 402. Shakespere, Whately on, 449. Smattering, 477. Society, progress of, how provided for, 319, 374. Sovereign, British, power of, 205; hereditary, some reasons for pre- Station, high, two classes of men in, 108; their relations with subor- Studies, contempt of, 474, 478. Style, dim and mystical, a, viii., 278; at different periods of life, 432. Sympathy, reflex, phenomena referred to, 348. Temperature, alternations of, 328. Terms fixed, 48. Tests of Church communion necessary, 26. Thaumatrope, fallacy of the, 358. Thomson's Seasons, by whom first brought into notice, 449. Time not properly an agent, 220, 248. Toldoth Jeschu, 511. Tradition, vagueness of, 187; co-ordinate and subordinate, not prao tically distinct, 189. Translation, oral, utility of, 454. Travellers, one-eyed, 196; in Ireland, 198. Tricks of cunning, 231, 237, 278, 352, 572. Truth, obstacles to the pursuit of, 10. Unbelief, credulity of, 158; intolerance of, 40, 176. Unity and truth, 32, 39. Verbs, neuter, 328. Virtues, the higher, disparagement of, 525. War, fallacy with regard to its costliness, 316. Warburton, Bishop, his aphorism on nobility, 136. Wealth, influence of, on character, 370; not to be despised, 375. Whately, Thomas, on Landscape-Gardening, 449. Wilkes, a saying of, 458. Will of God, the, two senses of, confounded, 37. Williams, Roger, 64. Wisdom, pretensions to, 275; of ancestors, 254, 257. Wise man, the mirror of a, 274. Words, change in meaning of, 259. |