Colonies, ancient Greek, 380; penal, 381; provision for spiritual wants of, 391. Common-place book, 522. Common sense, 298. Concession to intimidation, 158. Condescension, spurious, 131. Confidence, partial, evil of, 495; confidences, 492. Consistency, 125. Contrarieties, the land of, 389. Controversy, two kinds of, to be avoided, 51. Conviction, openness to, 434- Courage, false, 594. Cowper, the poet, quotation from, 295. Crabbe, extract from, 318. Crafty men, 255. Credit, undeserved, instances of, 575. Credulity of unbelief, 172. Cruelty, not inconsistent with natural benevolence, 145. Cuckoo, the fable of, 496. Cunning not wisdom, 253; Churchill's description of, 256. Custom, power of, 427. DEFERENCE, mistakes concerning, 65, 420, 511, 565. Deformities, original, 462. Diet, remark concerning, 349. Differences in doctrine and morals, whether designed, 36, 173; reli- gious, not confined to speculative points, 37. Difficulties in study, rule for, 521. Dignity, moral, sense of, essential, 561. Disciples, three applications of the term, 48. Discipline and trial, 77. Discussion, oral and written, compared, 479; cautions to be observed Doubt, impatience of, 291; not inconsistent with a habit of faith, ECONOMY, 14. Education, like the grafting of a tree, 431, 432; Irish Board of, 534. Eiron and Bomolochus, 371. Embarrassment, pecuniary, of the rich, 324. England, freedom of, from ambition, 337. English, injustice done to the, 337. Errors, vulgar, secondary, 64. Erroneous notions, how to be dealt with, 485. Etymology, abuse of, 245, 533. Evils, escaped, underrating of, 159. Examples, bad, 318. Expect, ambiguity of the word, 325. Expenditure, showy, 323. Experience, not to be measured by age, 276, 452; and common sense, 297, 452. Eye, the evil, 105. FACULTIES, decay of the, 456. Fallacy of composition, in the spendthrift's case, 325. Faults, observing of, 317. Feigning, power of, 88. Flattery, domestic, 563. Followers of their own footsteps, 269, 285. Fond, modern use of the word, 113. Forgiveness, christian, mistakes concerning, 64, 420, 596; of real injuries, not the hardest, 61. Forest, American, 505. Formulary, alterations in a, 275. Fortune favours fools, 439. Friendship, indispensable, 309; continuance of, in the future state, 310; uses of, 316, 319. Frivolous, proper application of the term, 417. Future state, the preparedness for, illustrated, 19. GARDENING, landscape,-earliest writers on, 475. Grafting, 431. Grey, Earl, letter to, 382. HABIT and custom, distinction between, 425; an opposite, formed by the same thing, 431. Helotism, 161. History, study of, 421, 531, 539. Horse-rashness, 285. Hume, last hours of, 577. ICHNEUMON fly, 20. Idols of the race, 422. Ignorance of our ignorance, 507. Ill-used man, an, 440. Inconsistency, imputation of, 126. Indifference of the judgment and of the will, 7, 427, 526. Infallibility, a craving for, a cause of atheism, 177; pretension to, unconnected with persecution, 42. Influence, fear of impairing our, 13. Ingenuity, perverted, instances of, 534 JESTING, profane, 175, 186. Johnson, a paradox of, 433. Johnstone, Sir Alexander, 528. Joseph, the Patriarch, generosity of, 65. Judgment, private, 32. KITE, fable of the, 222. Knowledge, misapplication of, 532; its true end, 612. LANGUAGE, changes in, 277; technical, 53, 521. Latitudinarianism, intolerance of, 191. Life, recklessness of, 18; domestic, necessary to public men, 132. Longevity and early hours, 350. MANNER, a conscious, 370. Mean, the golden, 121, 297. Melbourne, Lord, 576. Measures, order of, important, 239. Minority, influence of, 230. Mirror of a wise man, 296. Monastic life, 314. Monopoly, 262, 408. Moral principle, trials of, advantageous, 76; value of, to knowledge of, Motives of right actions, 566. Moth-rashness, 285. Mummies, preparers of the, 581. Myths, supposed, 537. NATURALIZATION, 336. Nobility, British, system of, 149. Non-resistance, 338. Nosology, mental, 245. Novelty, love of, 267, 280; exaggeration of, 283. OATH of abjuration, 535. Oppression, effects of, on character, 73, 75. Orators, two kinds of, 375. Oratory exercised on a man's self, 10, 316. Over-governing, error of, 164, 446. Over-rating of cautious characters, 137; of reserved characters, 86; of the seen and known, 407. PAGANS, atheism of, 173; objects of their worship, 174. Palimpsest, a human, 457. Parable, what properly so called, 537. Parochial visitors, 489. Party spirit, 47, 54, 428, 546; effect of, on the moral standard, 549- Penal colonies, 381. Persecution, principle of, 39; by what argument precluded, 42; not consisting in severity of penalty, 56. Phenakism, 14. Pilate's question, 4. Pilgrim Fathers, intolerance of, 73. Poems and tales, influence of, 36, 528. Political economy, absurd notions of, 166. Poverty, exposure of, 322; praise of, 400. Power, despotic, anomaly in, 159. Predictions, political, 406, 606. Prejudices, cautions to be observed in combating, 283. Priestcraft, exclusion of, from Christianity, 197; true origin of, 195. Profaneness, 175, 186. Prophecies, 407. Proverbs, true character of, v. Pumpkin and pine-apple, 553. Puzzle-headedness conducive to sudden celebrity, 577. QUESTIONS, impertinent, how to deal with, 86; in teaching, three RASHNESS of the horse and moth, 285, 455. Reactions, danger of, 205, 283. Reading through coloured spectacles, 516. Reason, proper employment of, 9. Recommendations, 500. Religion, any better than none,' fallacy of the maxim, 174; effect of, on national character, 342. Religious liberty, 57. Remedy of a remedy, comparatively easy, 271. Reputation, posthumous, 21, 576. Reserve, 86. Restoration mistaken for innovation, 277. Revolution, best safeguard against, 221, 286. Rewards and punishments, temporal, a distinctive characteristic of the Mosaic dispensation, 79. Ridicule, 175. Rise by merit, 109. River, windings of, 205. Robinson Crusoe's goats, 246. Rumours, effects of, 405, 606. SANDFORD and Merton, xviii. Satan scoffing, 175. Scripture, rationalistic explainers of, 535; study of, 512. Secondary vulgar errors, 135. Self-conceit and modesty, 570. Self-distrust, 66; flattery, 10, 316; torment, 79. Selfishness, distinct from self-love, 260; taught by the unselfish, 95. Self-love and social, 260. Senior, Professor, remark of, 263. Sergeant, a Scotch, anecdote of, 428. Shakespere, Whately on, 475. Slaves, ad valorem tax on, 238. Smattering, 505. Society, progress of, how provided for, 342, 400. Sovereign, British, power of, 220; hereditary, some reasons for pre- ferring, 110, 335.. Stability in laws and institutions, 286. Standing commissions, 232. Station, high, two classes of men in, 120; their relation with subor- Studies, contempt of, 503, 508. Style, dim and mystical, a, viii., 300; at different periods of life, 458. Sydney, society in, 389. Sympathy, reflex, phenomena referred to, 372. TALLEYRAND, anecdote of, 281. Temperature, alternations of, 352. Terms, fixed, 53- Territory, aggrandizement of, avoided by England, 337. Tests of church-communion necessary, 29. Thaumatrope, fallacy of the, 382. Thomson's Seasons, by whom first brought into notice, 475. Time not properly an agent, 236, 266. Toldoth Jeschu, 542. Tradition, vagueness of, 202; co-ordinate and sub-ordinate, not prac- tically distinct, 203. Translation, oral, utility of, 480. Travellers, one-eyed, 211; in Ireland, 213. Tricks of cunning, 248, 253, 300, 376, 606. Trifles, importance of, as tests, 259, 420. Truth, disregard of, 8; obstacles to the pursuit of, 11. Turks, indifference of, to human life, 145. UNBELIEF, credulity of, 172; intolerance of, 43, 191. Unity and truth, 34, 43. Use, what is the, 523. VERBS, neuter, 353. Veracity, credit obtained for, by impostors, 15. WAR, fallacy with regard to its costliness, 340. Warburton, Bishop, his aphorism on nobility, 149. Washington, General, 413. Wellington, Duke of, 576. Wealth, influence of, on character, 396; not to be despised, 401. "What is the use ?' 523. Whately, Thomas, on Landscape-Gardening, 475. Wilkes, a saying of, 484. Will of God, the, two senses of, confounded, 41. Williams, Roger, 74. Wisdom, pretensions to, 296; of ancestors, 272, 276. Wise man, the mirror of a, 296. Words, change in meaning of, 278. Writers, original, xiii. THE END. LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. 16 |