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impatience nor regret if it fail. Imagine that the thing is being done through you, not by you; that the good of it may never be known, but that at least, unless by your rebellion or foolishness, there can come no evil into it, nor wrong chance to it. Resolve also with steady industry to do what you can for the help of your country and its honour, and the honour of its God; and that you will not join hands in its iniquity, nor turn aside from its misery; and that in all you do and feel you will look frankly for the immediate help and direction, and to your own consciences, expressed approval, of God. Live thus, and believe, and with swiftness of answer proportioned to the frankness of the trust, most surely the God of hope will fill you with all joy and peace in believing.-Pleasures of England, II.

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Agriculture, 373-381.

Aiguilles de Bionnassay and du Goûté, 18; de Varens, 16.

Aire, river, 182, 360.

Aladdin, 176.

Alcestis, 428.

Alchemilla, 183.

Alfred, King, 467.

Allworthy (in "Tom Jones "), 157.

Alma, battle, 37, 459.

Alps, 120, 142, 180, 183, 184, 284, 365, 442.

Amberieux, 175.

Amiens, 1, 425, 432, 433, 437, 442, 446.

Anatomy, 101-105, 172, 186.

Angelico, Fra, 117.

Angels, 8, 31, 65, 354, 425.

Angle of Salève, 365.

Antiparos, grotto, 417.

Apennines, 120, 284.

Aphrodite of Melos, 26. (See Venus.)

Apollo, 282, 402, 419.

Arabian Nights, 142, 187. (See Aladdin.)

Arachne, 52.

Arbitration, 288.

Archaic art, 34.

Architecture, 2, 3, 9, 35, 38, 39, 49-58.

Arcola, battle, 387.

Aristocracy, 149, 355-357.

Aristophanes, 156.

Arno, river, 445.

Arpenaz, Nant, 16; Tower, 20.

Arthur (Shakespere's "King John "), 393.

Art, 1-132, 171, 280-286, 315-319, 404-408, 420. (See Drama,
Literature, Music, Painting, Sculpture.)

Artists, 7, 57, 349.

Arve, river, 18.

Ashestiel, 136-139.

Assisi, 60, 62, 91.

Athena, 114, 216, 282, 354, 417, 419-423, 426.

Agoraia, 56.

of Phidias, 98.

Athletics, 190.

Athol, duke of, 258.

Auxonne, 179.

BABYLON, 56.

Bacchus and Ariadne (Titian's), 67.

and Dionusos, 300.

Bacon, Lord, 385.

Balaclava, battle, 459.

Barbary corsair, 261.

Bautte (jeweller at Geneva), 366, 367.

Bayard, chevalier, 417.

Beau-pré, convent, 430.

Beauty, aim of art, 93, 162.

-human, 206, 238, 267-273.

Beddington Park, 259.

Beggars, 449.

Bellini, John, 75, 76, 103.

Bell ringing, 388-390.

Benvenuto Cellini, 332.

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Bottom (Shakespere's "Midsummer Night's Dream"), 392.
Boulogne, 1.

Bridge of Geneva, 363.

St. Martin's (Savoy), 18.

Britannia, 432.

Agoraia, 56.

British Museum, 119, 150, 200.

Brutus (Shakespere's "Julius Cæsar "), 393.

Buccleugh (Scott, "Lay of Last Minstrel "), 392.

Buffon's home, 174.

Bullfinch's nest, 5, 15.

Bunyan, John, 436.

Burne-Jones, Edward, 110-114.

Burns, Robert, 108, 136, 140, 143.

Buonconte (Dante, Purg. v. 85-136), 47.

Byron, Lord, 108, 140-144, 361.

Byzantine art, 33, 44, 113, 114, 426.

CADORE, 91.

California and Australia, gold-digging, 187, 299.

Calvin, 361.

Calypso's forests (Odyssey v. 63), 5.

Cambridge, 116, 134, 167.

Campo Santo, Pisa, 38.

"Candide" of Voltaire, 156.

Canterbury, 437.

Capital, 320-326, 330, 350.

Caricature, 93.

Carlisle, 136.

Carlyle, Thomas, 241.

Carpaccio, Victor, 62, 65, 105, 251, 269, 315-318.

Carriage, 176.

Carshalton, 259.

Carthusians, 440-442.

Caryatides, 50.

Cat, 221; and mice of pastry, 20.

Celtic courage, 37.

Cervantes, 156.

Chamouni, 18, 101, 175, 184, 364.

Char-à-banc, 16.

Character formed by taste, 131.

in fiction, 157.

Charenton, 179.

Charing Cross, 1, 437.

Charity, 450, 455.

Charlemagne, 34.

Charles Richardson, the author's cousin, 143, 224-228.

Chartreuse, Grande, 442.

Charybdis, 37.

Chaucer, 47, 156, 157, 270.

Cherwell, river, 125.

Chiaroscuro, 76-81.

Children, 81, 82, 129, 163-166, 204-206, 270, 391, 420, 449.

and parents, 61, 224, 315.

Chivalry, 262, 287-289.

Christian architecture, 39.

art, 45, 442-447.

Christianity, 424-468.

Chrysippus and Crantor (Horace, Epistles I. ii. 4), 158.
Choragus, 59.

Church building, 198.

Cid, 417.

Cimabue, 116.

Citeaux, 175.

City life, 2-5.

Civilisation, 13, 332, 394.

Cleanliness, 122, 352.

Clematis stalks in bird's nest, 6.

Cleopatra's galley, 347.

Clergyman, 309.

Clotilde, Queen, 431.

Clovis, 433.

Cluse (Savoy), 388.

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