Tiberius, life of, with two title-pages, 2.
Titian, how he painted, 130; colors of, compared with Reynolds', 179.
Tomochichi, would be taught before he was baptized, 101; what he thought of the colonists, 101.
Tooke, Horne, how to be powerful, 67; Beckford's speech, 252; a remark on, by Coleridge, 378.
Townshend, Charles, and Fitzherbert, 211.
Trench, of the fraud played off on Voltaire, 176.
Truth, as humanity knows it, 4; the difficulty of finding it, 360; it must be repeated over and over again, 361; the infinite number who persecute it, 362.
Tyndall, of the formation of icicles, 209.
Tytler, a remark by, on Raleigh's History, 135.
Vandyck, portrait of a celebrated widow by, 189.
Vanity of human judgment, 24; of the world, 240.
Vanvenargues, on curing the vices of nature, 91.
Vere, Sir Horace, what caused his death, 121.
Vinci, Leonardo da, his conscientiousness as a painter, 130; anecdote of, 377.
Virgil, his care in composition, 125; what Pliny and Seneca thought of him, 144.
Virtue, of the soul, 23; takes no pupils, 95.
Voltaire, the history of human opinions, 7; upon what the fate of a nation has often depended, 8; anecdote of, 8; compares us to a river, 11; we on this globe like insects in a garden, 18; confesses his ignorance, 31; of the story of Newton and the apple, 176; the forged Veda, 176; invention of scissors, shirts, and socks, 203; Candide's supper at Venice with the six kings, 333.
Wallenstein, faculties of, improved by a fall, 226.
Waller, a laborious writer, 126; his opinion of Paradise Lost, 147; lines by, 355.
Walpole, Horace, compares man to a butterfly, 19; man a ridiculous animal, 20; opinion of the Divina Commedia, 145; contempt of Johnson and Goldsmith, 145; criticises Sterne, Sheridan, Spenser, Chaucer, Dante, Montaigne, Boswell, and Johnson, 146; and Strawberry Hill, 154; opinion of Lord Anson, 189; a curious fact of, 258.
Walton, Izaak, quaint passages from, relating to Hooker, 225; reply to the discontented man, 344.
Warren, Samuel, how the critics misjudged his first work, 148.
Washington, a story related by, 163; his remarkable gravity, 246.
Webster, Daniel, wrote and re-wrote his fine passages, 132; the best talker he ever heard, 246.
Wesley, John, on witchcraft, 59; and Tomochichi, 101; his belief in ghosts, 243; his quiescent turbulence, 261; his story of a parishioner who lived on boiled parsnips, 382.