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Aposiopesis, 2360.

ENGLISH SUBJECT INDEX.

'Appeal from Philip drunk to P. sober,' 2170.
Appearance versus Reality, 675, 1464.
Appearances, Distrust, 458, 831, 1778, 2457.
Appetite comes with eating,' 1275.
Appetite, Want of, 1986.

Applause, 2107, 2581 (5.), 2961.
Apple, The Golden, 2179.

Application, A felicitous, 1022.

Apprehension, its pains, 219, 2111.

'Aranjuez, The days of,' 1036.

'Arcadia, I too have been in,' 3128.
'Arcadians both,' 102.

Archimedes, 1729, 2138.

Architect of his fortune, 750 (v. Destiny).
'Architecture is frozen music,' 1301.
Argue, Argument, 364, 1014, 1194, 2515.
Argument, A feeble, 1705, 1964, 2709.

The last a. of kings, 2811.

Aristides the Just, 675.

Auspi-ces, -cious, 1707, 2167, 2435, 2579.
Austerity of life, 818.

Austrian Empire, 47, 215.

Author and his book, The, 717, 1769, 2691, 3087.
Author's corrections, 1591, 2244, 2370.
Authors (v. Books, Literary Composition, Poets),
568, 982, 1538, 2646.

Ambitious, 412, 414; careless, 2104; dull,
1355,1818; florid and shallow, 466, 2890,2898;
good, 1828, 1855, 2305, 2366, 2475; humble,
717, 1769, 2244; instructive, 198, 1355, 1901;
popular, 1901; unsuccessful, 1777.
Don't read too many, 568, 779, 1598, 1775.
Great a. are common property, 1189, 2352.
mirrored in their works, 629, 1412, 2233.
Old versus new, 676, 1063.

Authorship, a poor profession, 201, 712.

cheered by success, 2453.

Autobiography, 2651.

[1590, 2480.

Avarice (v. Covetousness, Miser), 710, 1101,

Aristocrats and the people, The, 862, 1362, 2358. Avenger, 736, 1575, 2415.

The a. to the lantern!' 72, 240.

in the last resort, 1913, 2811.

Army, The, 1619, 1652, 2590; a standing a.,
1672; the British a., 2181, 2187.

Arnoald, Sophie, 1874.

Arrival, An opportune, 975.
Art, 159, 1499, 1823, 2744, 3060.

,, cheerful, Life serious, 666; a. difficult,
criticism easy, 1229; a. long, life short, 157;
a judge of a., 2644; a. and nature, 438, 1039,
1919; a. lives by patronage, 712, 2559; a.
neglected, 712; a. should conceal art, 2809,
3021; the ignorant no judge of a., 1678, 1687.
Art-critic, 1678.

Artifice, 579, 3093.

[2195, 2471.

Artist (v. Painter, Pictures), 1678, 1812, 1828,
Artistic trifles, 810.

Arts, 1196, 1497.

The liberal, 712, 1082, 3049.

Ashamed, 504, 940.

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Most men are, 1882; our b. deeds always re-
membered, 1425; the b. never amusing, 1326,
nor happy, 1656.

The, never sing, 3011.
Balaclava charge, The, 298.
Baldness no cure for grief, 2634.
Ballooning, v. Aeronauts.

Bar, Barrister (see Lawyers), 561, 1606.
Barberini, The, 3099A.
Barnave, 72.

Bartholomew (St) Massacre, The, 722.

Base, 'Give me a b. and I'll move the earth,' 2138.
Bath, Order of the, 2776.

'Battalions, Heav'n favours the big,' 470.

Battle (v. Combat, Fight, War), 349, 2641.
Battlefields, 1169.

Battles, 'Fighting his battles o'er again,' 170.
Bavius and Mævius, 2238.

Ashes, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires, '58. Bayard, The Chevalier, 2439.

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Bayonettes, The argument of, 1805.
'Be, To think is to,' 618, 2939.

Beaconsfield, Lord, 1050.

Bear, and forbear, 119.

Beast and man compared, 1062.
Beatrice, 113.

Beauharnais, Mme. Fanny de, 616.

Beautiful, 1856, 2772; the b., 829, 2100, 3069.

'It was too b. to come true,' 211.

Beauty, 1483, 1887, 2508, 2824; and wit, 502; a re-
commendation, 814, 1228; 'devil's beauty,'1313;
fatal gift of, 1153; fragility of b., 17, 812, 1238,
1576(iv.),1870: judge of,149,1786; prize of,2179.
Bed, One's own b., 1973.

Beginning, From b. to end, 7.

ENGLISH SUBJECT INDEX.

I know my beginning best,' 274
Beginning (The), is half the battle, 551, 766, 1231.
of anything, The, 1977; of the end, 295, 994.
Begone! 2157.

Begun well, ended ill, 21, 334, 1091, 1908.
Behind the scenes, 2930.

Being, and seeming to be, 675.

Bekker, the linguist, 213.

Belief, and Unbelief, both dangerous, 2078, 2862.
Believe, we b. as we fear, 23, 97.

wish, 787, 2701.

Believing, because it's impossible, 285.

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"in hand worth two in the bush,' 283, 2836.

Birds, Providence feeds the, 201.

'Birds of a feather flock together,' 2617.
Birth, 1968, 2016; and death, 1609.
Birth, High, 1601; boasting of, 1555, 1599, 2295,
2624; has its obligations, 1727; ignored by philo-
sophy, 2568; vain, without money, 699; vain,
without morals, 1265, 1601, 2624.

Birth (Low) unchanged by wealth, 1418, 2166.
Birthdays, 1610.

Birthplace, 1156, 2913.

Bismarck, Prince,522, 523, 1463, 1600, 3043, 3084.

Bishops, 2562.

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Bon mots,300; better lose a bon mot than a friend,
563; telling b. a bad sign, 563.

Book, Along,845,3040; a short,310; great b., great
evil, 1511; a b. is a friend, 3111; the best b.,
1337, 1369.
[of, 717, 1903.
and its author, 717,1769,2691,3087; dedication
man of one book, A, 1598.

Books (v. Author, Reading), 874, 1185, 1688, 1693,
1784, 2177, 2574, 2653.

Books, and lectures compared, 505; b. and their
readers, 717, 2155; and their subjects, 930,
1471, 2241, 2280, 2651.

Books, Choice of, 1775; lending b., 3111.

Of making books there is no end, 752.
Books, Modern, 1271; rare b., 292; tedious, or
worthless b., 452, 1818, 2275, 2280, 2752.

Books reflect their authors, 629, 1412, 2233.
Books universally enjoyed, 874, 1099, 1185, 1980,
2177, 2574, 2785.
Boorish, 162.
Bore, A, 7, 2752.

Boredom, v. Ennui.

Borgia, Cæsar, 193.

Born, Better not to be, 1968.

Borrowing, 2580.

Bosquet, Gen., 298.

Bough, The Golden, 2146.

Bourbons, The, 1035.

Bourn, The, no traveller returns, 2311.

Bow should be unstrung, The, 331.
Boys, 1083, 1864, 1870.

'Boys will be boys,' 3106.

Show reverence to boys, 1708.
Brains, Wanting in, 1972.
Branca Doria, 644.

Brass, Men's evil manners live in, 1425.
Brave (v. Audacity, Courage), 15, 19, 474, 727, 890,
2529, 2951.

A b. man battling with misfortune, 611.

Brave at home everywhere, The, 1897.

Fortune favours the, 182, 733; and Prudence,

182, 1990; and Venus, 182.

Bravo! 1451, 3025.

Brawls, 1200, 2491.

'Bread and horse-racing,' 2011.
Breeding tells, 230.

Brennus' sack of Rome, 900, 2868.

[1355,1985.

Brevity (v. Conciseness) is the soul of wit, 310,

Brick and Marble Rome, 1493.

Brickbat, Washing a, 1290.

Bride, Young b., old husband, 302.

Bridge, Twixt b. and river,' etc., 1558.

Briefly, 872, 1679, 1985, 2982.

Britain's isolation, 2063.

British army, The, 2181, 2187; B. constitution,
The, 2688; B. enterprise, 2181.

Brooms, New brooms sweep clean, 1091, 1908.
Brother, A, is a friend giv'n by nature, 2827.

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Brothers, 231, 2023.
Brougham, Lord, 2622.

ENGLISH SUBJECT INDEX.

Brush, All tarr'd with the same, 2805.
Brutus, 1967, 2782, 2796.

and Cassius, 234.

Buildings, Great, 1164.

Bull in a china shop, A, 2846.
Burial, 910, 1410, 1931, 2381.

Business (v. Affairs, Contracts, Work), 1836, 1837,
1994, 2022, 2984; a cure for love, 2292; b. is
business, '212; b. is other men's money, 1348.
'Mind your own b.,' 312, 1678, 1687, 2473.
Busy, 78, 139, 1020, 2284.
Busy-bodies, 932, 1263.

Buy necessaries only, 645.

Buying and selling, 262, 320, 1296, 1335.
Byegones, Let b. be b., 3119.

Byng, Admiral, The execution of, 986.
Cadmæan victory, A, 2907.

Cæsar, Julius, 15, 1607, 2460, 2469, 2885, 2927;
and his fortunes, 239; at the Rubicon, 74, 894;
death of, 2796; ghost of, 1967; his sayings,
219, 1821, 2442, 2796.

'Cæsar or nothing,' 193, 1821.

'C. is superior to grammar,' 1243.
Calendar (v. Weatherlore), 1198.
'Calumniate boldly, some always sticks,' 241.
Calumny (r. Detraction, Evil-speaking), 2992.
is best unnoticed, 253; should be refuted,2178.
Calvin, 3142.

'Camarina, Don't disturb,' 1514.
Cambridge University Motto, 913.

Cambronne, Gen., 1240.

'Came, saw, and conquered, I,' 89, 2885.

'Candle, Not worth the,' 1323.

Cannæ, Battle of, 2910.

Cannon, 2811.

Cap, If the c. fits, wear it, 2319.

'Canossa, We are not going to,' 1600.

Capacity (Mental), 1080, 1787.

Capital, and Income, 1173; and Labour, 590.

Capital Punishment, 1669, 2227; abolition of, 2227.
Cappadocians, 1213.

Capricious, 1053, 1518, 1806, 2417.

Caracalla, Emp., 1417.

Cardinal virtues, The, 821.

in their own nets, 773.

Cause, 875; c. and effect, 261, 625, 892.
A bad cause, 1606; a good c., 2732, 2734.
The winning c., 259.
Caution, Cautious, 793, 2239.
Cavour, 1409.

Celebrity, 169, 181, 269.
Censors, Censure, 2506.
Centre and Circumference, 305.
Century, End of the, 802.

'Certain because it's impossible, "Tis,' 285, 1909.
The unexpected, always c., 1111, 1909, 2408.
Certainties versus Uncertainties, 283, 2836.
Chairman (of dinner, feast, etc.), 149.
'Chamber, The matchless,' 314.

Chance (v. Fortune, Luck) and Change, 632, 2092.
Chances, Even (r. Uncertainty).
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Change (v. Difference), 200, 428, 1368, 1779, 1911,
A great, 2771; absence of c., 2560; benefits of
c., 273; incapable of c., 2683; nothing surer
than c., 1683, 2408; c. of mind, 1150, 1401,
1481, 1653, 1744; c. of scene, not mind, 238;
of tastes, 1388, 1744; sudden c. of circum-
stances, 632, 951.

Changeable, 552, 1190, 1401, 1406, 2255, 2262, 2417.
Changed, 76, 1744, 1748, 1782; for the better,
495; for the worse, 282, 884, 1867; changed, yet
the same, 1104, 1535, 2114.

Changed, 'Nothing c. in France, There's,' 1029.
'We've changed all that,' 1798.

Changes, The more c., the less alteration,' 2114.
Chaos, 133.

Chapel, The devil builds a c.,' etc., 3010.
Chapter, Beginning a new, 1471.
Character (Reputation), 955, 2005; a bad, 955,
1171, 1649; a good, 165, 938; c. better than
wealth, 419, 938; c. less than wealth, 2256; loss
of, 798, 2256; testimonials to, 2194.

Character (Disposition), 563, 669; compared
with talent, 669, 1214; formed by education,
2005; reading c., 1043, 1197, 1924.

Charity, 2556.

(v. Giving) begins at home, 2174, 2790.
Charlatan, A, 855, 903, 3042.

Care (v. Apprehension, Trouble), 273, 408, 2900; Charlemagne and Roland, 2559.

'Begone, dull c.!' 583.

Career, Choice of, 642, 2590.

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Charles Albert (Savoy), 1427.

Charles I. (England), 2297, 2598.

III. (Spain), 317.

,, V., and Luther, 1743.

on the tongues of Europe, 191, 506.
IX. and Ronsard, 1284.

Childhood, 655, 1708.

Childish, 1856, 2097, 2975.

ENGLISH SUBJECT INDEX.

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Church, The (v. Anglican), 60, 386, 1050A, 1319,
2091, 2369, 2418, 2671, 2843, 3142.
Church, and State, 400, 1580; and the Revolu-
tion, 2562; controversy, the scab of the, 899.
'Free C. in a free state, A,' 1409; martyrs are
the seed of the, 2479; no martyrs, 1068, or
salvation, 747, out of the C.; why eternal, 967.
Church, God builds c., devil builds chapel, 3010.
Churchmen, not always the wisest of men, 1456.
Cicero, 1067, 1871, 1995, 2420.

'Circles, Don't disturb my,' 1729.
Circumlocution, 2440.

Circumstances, 1195; force of c., 1757; ruling c.,
1547; c. show the man, 70.

Citizen, a Roman, 757; a c. of the world, 909.
Tranquility a c.'s first duty, 2423.

Citizen-King, A, 2756.

Committees, 1647, 1900, 2775.

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Common (Commonplace), 434, 538, 672, 2986.
Common property, 105, 672.
Common-sense, v. Sense, Good.

'Communications, Evil, corrupt, etc.,' 371.
Companions, 338, 541, 1772, 1881, 2362; boon c.,
1561; c. in misfortune, 1987, 2357, 2585.
Company, Bad, 371, 1989.

,, c. is according to the place, One's, 1650.
man is known by his c., A, 1788, 1989.
Comparison isn't argument, 342.
Comparisons, 1829, 2034, 2563.
Compassion, v. Pity.
Competence, v. Means.
Competition, Open, 1075.
Compiling, 978.

Complaints, 912, 2283.

Completion of anything, 373, 724, 1166, 1489..
Complexions, Borrowed, 586, 616.
Composition, . Literary Composition.
Comrades, v. Companions.
Concealment, 20, 261, 1291.
,, aggravates evil, 84, 2637.
Conceit, v. Self-Conceit.

Concern, A matter of universal c., 49; it's no c. of
mine, 1546, 1765; that is your concern, 1608.
Concert, Acting in, 2490.

Concessions, Mutual, 265, 2038, 2449.

Conciseness, 447,679,1957,2271; leads to obscurity,
447; needs time, 1182.

Conclusions form'd from a single instance, 13.

City, Cities, 228, 836, 904, 1455, 2841, 2842, 2843, Concords, Discordant, 347.

Conditions, False (non-existent), 1622.
Conferences, 1900.

Confession, 351, 866, 1942, 2637, 3139.

Confessors, 20.

Confidence, 948, 1226, 2333, 2700.

Conflicts, 3084.

Confusion, 1227, 1621, 2846.

'Congress (The) dances, etc.,' 1311.

Connoisseurs, 124, 1196, 2644.

Conquer by flight, 287; by yielding, 265; with-
out risk, 202, 350.

Conquered and conqueror, The, 370, 1743, 1746.
"Woe to the conquered!' 2868.

Conquest (. Self-conquest), Right of, 2016.
Conscience, A good, 353, 354, 901,1531, 2435, 2566.

A guilty, 354, 725; salving one's c., 1411,2435.
Conscious, The c. water blush'd,' etc., 1842.
Consent, 1774; by general c., 1517, 2214, 2459.
Silence gives c., 267, 2331.
Consequence, Of no, 1790.

[2864, 2887.

Consequences, You must take the, 343, 878, 1254,
Consolation, 2094.

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ENGLISH SUBJECT INDEX.

Controversy, v. Religious controversy.
Conversation, 1772; secret of good, 1226, 1375.
Suit your c. to your company, 1009, 1010.
Convivial meetings, 149, 730,1200, 1881,1947,3001.
,, songs, 1541, 2509, 2999.
Cooking, 1927.

Corday, Charlotte, 1312.

Cordeliers, Don't talk Latin before the,' 1009.
'Corinth is hard to reach,' 1742.

Corporal Punishment, v. Flogging, Punishment.
Corrections (Literary), 1591, 2244.
Correggio, 118.

Corruption, 'The c. of the best is the worst,' 3031.
Cosmopolitan, 909, 2301.

'Cossack or Republican,' Europe either, 203.
Councillors, 1647.

Counsel,664, 1480; bad c., 1480, 1481; c. from holy
places, 355; the night brings counsel, 1096.
Counting, v. Enumeration.

Country (Campagne), Delights of the, 175, 210,
827, 897, 920, 1510, 1980, 2424, 2931.

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Cretans are all liars, The, 389, 2029.

Crime (v. Guilt, Vice), 13, 181, 808, 1312, 1415,
1449, 1834, 1847, 3130.

hard to hide, 2804; history, a record of, 1400.
Crime in high station,758,1895; crimes done in
religion's name, 2695; levelling effect of, 759;
meritorious, if successful, 2168; now punish'd,
now prais'd, 1593; sanctified by numbers, 928;
swift punishment of, 402; the offspring of
poverty and ignorance, 2533.

The c. of love, 923, 2508.

'Worse than a crime, a blunder,' 3030.

Crimean War, The, 298, 1207.

Crisis, A, 1624, 2692, 2886, 2908.

shows the man, 70, 2182.

Crispinus, 610.

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Customs, The old are best, 2671.
Cyrano de Bergerac, 1189.
Dagger of lead, A, 1964.
Damnation! O holy, 1982.

Damning what one don't understand, 1357, 1566.
Damocles' sword, 567.

'Dances, The Congress,' 1311.
Dancing on a volcano, 1800.
Dandies, 1791, 2729.

Danger, 62, 805, 1291, 1608, 1800, 2077, 2079, 2171,
2172,2357,3063; d.laughed at, comes the sooner,
330; running into, 287, 789, 1058, 1145.
Dante in exile, 2793.
Daring, v. Audacity.

Dark, Don't stab in the, 648.
Darkness hides defects, 1267, 1440A.
Lightening the, 1993.

Day, A happy, 387, 953, 2167; an awful, 722, 994;
a wasted,521,2071; distribution of one's, 2503.
The brightest d. must end, 1036, 2447.

The value of each day, 1684, 2277.

Day, Count each day your last, 1125, 2277.
I've lost a day,' 521.

'No day without a line,' 1812.
'Sufficient unto the day,' etc., 2645.
Day of doom, The, 526, 677.

Day-dreaming, 521, 2517, 2975.

Days, Happy past, 388, 1036, 1677, 3128.
No two alike, 1368.

Other days, other ways, 200, 1782.

Our best days go first, 1969.

The days that are no more, 2487.

Dead, The, 18, 891, 962, 987, 1931, 2311.

,, are beyond Fortune's reach, 643, 1410, 1576
(vii.); are gone before, 2141, 2656; are
praised, 2844, 2923, 3079.

Bidding farewell to the, 2662; mourning for
the, 110, 649, 887, 1595, 2318; prayer for the,
987, 2395, 2578.

Soon forgotten, 529; the unburied d., 237;
tributes to the, 918.

'I war not with the d.,' 1743.

'Say no ill of the dead,' 462, 3036.

"The dead ride fast,' 529.

Criticism, 1176, 1678, 2156; c. deprecated, 1769. Deaf to slander, 540.

is easy, art difficult, 1229, 1739.

Croesus, 69, 2812.

Death (v. Die), 392, 926, 1144, 1179, 1261, 1338,
1371, 1452, 1576, 1602, 1929.

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