116.

115. Pragmatical meddling with other men's matters

Oliver Cromwell-his speech to Sir Matthew Hale.

Toleration of Christianity under Valerian

Political hatred

117.

118.

119. The Emperor Majorian, his zeal in preserving the

147.

Indifference to outward circumstances

Character of Thomas Cromwell

What kind of knowledge a student ought to attain

Ridicule, the talent of ungenerous tempers.

Letter to the Duke of Grafton

The original political state of the Roman Commons

148. Latter days of Oliver Cromwell

149. Agriculture

150. Argument for love of God

151. Prospect of death

152.

The danger of procrastination

153.

The virtue of a commander

154.

R. South

E. Burke

E. Gibbon

7. Addison

E. Gibbon

7. Addison

S. Johnson

Sir H. Wotton

E. Gibbon

S. Johnson

E. Burke

E. Burke

Lord Macaulay

7. Addison

Lord Bacon

7. Addison

Lord Clarendon

N. Machiavelli

W. Paley

Lord Bolingbroke

G. Burnet

I. Barrow

7. Addison

Junius

T. Arnold

D. Hume

155.

Character of John Hampden.

Character of the Barbarians

156. Sylla, apparent inconsistency in his character

157. Cicero

158. Certain imputations against learning

159.

Cardinal Wolsey

160. The estimate of an enemy as well as a friend de-

serves attention

161. Prospect of the ruins of Rome in the 15th century

Effects of education upon character

171. The English Ambassador at the court of the Em-

176. Talent of ridicule in the possession of an ill-condi-

Lord Clarendon

E. Gibbon

T. Arnold

Conyers Middleton

Lord Bacon

Lord Herbert

7. Addison

E. Gibbon

R. Southey

Long's Plutarch
J. Taylor

J. Milton

Lord Clarendon

D. Hume

J. Milton

W. Paley

W. Robertson

J. Milton

W. Robertson

7. Addison

Lord Bacon

248. Fortune, mistaken notions concerning her

249.

252.

Constantine the Great-his vast prodigality.

250. Gradual development of the English Constitution

251. Enquiry into the nature of the understanding

National Assembly of France, their constraint

253. Augustus' resignation of his usurped power.

Introduction to the apology for Smectymnus

255. Henry VIII. and the Emperor Charles V.

256. Orders of both Houses for subscribing money and

plate for the defence of the king refused, A.D. 1642

257. Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots.

258. The desire of communicating knowledge

254.

259.

260.

The Emperor Julian-his initiation and fanaticism

Considerations on death

261. Character of King Charles I..

262. Preference of the right hand, natural to man

263. Character of Queen Elizabeth

264. Atheists-their foolish credulity concerning atoms

265. Letter to Romilly on Fontenelle

266. English taste for the Italian opera

267. Twofold type of character common among men

268. William the Third, coldness of his manners.

269. Trial of Algernon Sydney, A.D. 1683

270.

271.

272.

273.

Mischievous effects of unseasonable liberty

The reduction of Veii by M. Furius Camillus

Character of the Spanish inquisition.

Paramount value of good counsellors to princes

274. Character of King Charles I

275. Operations before the battle of Flodden-field

276. Prospect of death-pleasure of-to the righteous.

277. Preparation for death

278. Eagerness for emigration in America

279. Character of an hyperbolical fop by Seneca

.

280-2. Devastation of the Carnatic by Hyder Ali Khan.

283. Eloquence, how it differs from the other fine arts

284. Christians ought to live as they would die

285. The Gonfaloniere di Justicia at Florence

286.

287.

288.

Character of Charles II

Riches are unable to confer real happiness

Nature and situation of the castle of Dumbarton

289. An African's speech

290.

Warren Hastings, brought to the Bar of the House

291. Virgil-his Æneid and its defects

Advice to those living in bondage to the world

294 Sympathetic revenge a duty

295. The true test of a good government

296.

297.

208.

299.

300.

301.

302.

303.

304.

Deliberations of the seven Magians

The wisest men think for themselves

Man's happiness regulated by his own behaviour

Benefits of truthfulness

Advice to Prince Henry Frederick

Lord Bacon, his demeanour at his impeachment

Effects of usurious transactions in the Carnatic

Prudence cannot always command success

The Earls of Lanrick and Lautherdale

305. Justice is slow-injury quick and rapid

306. Plato, his illustrations of moral instruction

307. Augustus Cæsar-character of his sovereignty

308. A mercenary war difficult to be sustained

309. Knowledge increases power

310. A walk upon the sea-shore

311. Cardinal Wolsey, his character

312. Retrospect of life, suggestive of humility

313. Frederic, Count of Schomberg.

314 The Carnatic

315.

316.

Of Self-praise

Every man's business is no man's

Sir T. Browne

E. Gibbon

Lord Macaulay

J. Locke

E. Burke

E. Gibbon

J. Milton

W. Robertson

Lord Clarendon

G. Buchanan

H. Mackenzie

E Gibbon

J. Taylor

D. Hume

Sir C. Bell

D. Hume

R. Bentley

Mirabeau

J. Addison

W. Paley

Lord Macaulay

D. Hume

B. G. Niebuhr

W. H. Prescott

B. Jonson

H. Hallam

Lord Herbert

W. Robertson

A. Cowley

E. Burke

H. Hallam

D. Hume

326. American hunting

327. Letter to H. Cromwell

328. Mental sufferings

329.

330.

331.

Excessive anxiety for life

The siege of Gloucester raised, A. D. 1643

Innate goodness of nature

332. Of Falsehood

333-4. The being of God proved

335.

336.

Mentem e caelesti demissam traximus arce

Our incapacity to discover all things in the world

337. Elizabeth, Queen of King Edward IV

338.

Sickness of Queen Elizabeth

339. A Jewish tradition concerning Moses

340.

341.

342.

National troubles and personal happiness

National character,-its source and development

Reason and fancy

343. The men of the eighteenth Century.

344.

Alaric accepts a ransom from the Romans

345. Qualities requisite for good government

346. The probability of the Resurrection

347. A letter from Sir William Temple

348. A letter from the Earl of Orford to General Churchill

349.

Transformations of language.

350. Relation of the States of the Latin name to Rome

35I.

Professions of latitudinarianism

352. Pompey the Great-his miserable death

353. Too high opinions of human nature

354. Poverty-how regarded by poets and philosophers.

Virtue has not its full scope here

358-9. An ideal perfectly virtuous kingdom

360. Character of Sir Robert Walpole

361. Inequalities of fortune

362. Knowledge of first principles, how attained

363. Advantage of the uncertainty of death

364. The happiness of sentient beings

365. The Gentoos-their distribution into castes

366. Wellington's attack at Salamanca, A. D. 1812

367. Adventure at the battle of Naseby, A. D. 1645

368. The Earl of Essex seizes Cirencester, A. D. 1643

369. Story of King Henry VII and an astrologer

British Government in India, A. D. 1783

371. Painful memory of departed folly

370.

372.

373.

374-

375.

376.

377.

Close of last speech against Warren Hastings

Character of King James the First.

Of Dissimulation

Gulliver and the ships of the Blefuscudians

Desire of perfection-not always commendable

Letter

378. Successive growth and decay of plants

379. Mustapha, heir to Solyman the Magnificent

380. Character of Henry VIII, king of England

381. Letter to his Mother on the loss of his Aunt

382. The evidences of Christianity

383. Proper employment of time

384. Effects of a life of labour on the poor

385. Prevalent fashion of censuring public officers

386. Lady Jane Grey accepts the crown

7. Addison

Lord Clarendon

I. Barrow

S. Parr

I. Barrow

1. Barrow

I. Barrow

Lord Bacon

D. Hume

7. Hughes

S. Johnson

D. Hume

S. Johnson

E. Gibbons

E. Burke

J. Pearson
Sir W. Temple

S. Johnson
T. Arnold
J. J. Blunt
Conyers Middleton
O. Goldsmith
S. Johnson

Life as a state of probation

401. Siege of Badajoz, A. D. 1812

402.

403.

404.

Motion for the repeal of the American Stamp Act

The Villa Pliniana on the Lake of Como

Repulse of the Tlascalans by Cortes, A. D. 1519

405. The successive stages of intellectual progress.

406. Death of Nicholas di Rienzi, A. D. 1354

407.

Devoted patriotism.

408. Disadvantages of an exalted reputation

Political discontents

409.

410.

411-12.

Moderation in both circumstances

The highest prosperity a forerunner of decay

Charles V. in the expedition against Algiers

413.

414.

Letter

415.

Letter to Mr Nicholls.

416. The origin of mourning apparel

417-18. Character of Julius Cæsar

419.

420.

421.

422.

423.

Emulation not to be confined to a narrow sphere

The sedatives of anger

Canning on the Spanish cause, A.D. 1809

Sir John Moore

Lord Raglan-his conduct in the Crimean campaign

424. Enterprising spirit of the Carthaginian government

425.

Distinct species of oratory

426. The Sienese and Charles V. and Cosmo De' Medici

427.

434. Preservation of the purity of a language-a great

Excellencies of the Greek and Roman historians

Defeat and death of Valens, A.D. 378

439. Empire of reason so called

440. Charles I.-his escape from Hampton Court

44I.

What constitutes intemperateness

442. Spirit of the English Constitution

443. The reality of what is truly before us

444. Pervading influence of ambition

445. The English language-its gradual improvement

446. The retreat from Moscow

447. Scene in Rasselas

J. Milton

F. Milton

7. Addison

H. Felton

E. Gibbon

E. Burke

Lord Clarendon

7. Ruskin

E. Burke

J. Hughes

S. Johnson

S. Johnson

J. Ruskin

T. Burnet

T. Burnet

Lord Lyttelton

A. Cowley

H. Vaughan

H. Coleridge