Aikenhead, hanged for free religious opinions, 362.
Alger, public opinion the atmosphere of society, 7; most men live blindly, 23; ruins, and what they symbolize, 216; on the blindness or Homer, Milton, Galileo, and Händel, 228; on the happiness of solitude, 342; his account of the hermit of Grub Street, 343; the forest of statues on the roof of Milan cathedral, 354; the scholar's pantheon at the top of his mind, 354.
Anaxagoras, a request made by, 216; whom he believed to be most happy, 346.
Anecdote of a singer and his wife in Leipsic, 316; of a hypochondriacal comedian, 323.
Angelo, Michel, confesses his ignorance, 29; on reforming mankind, 93; anecdote of, 168; and Raphael, 171; a gem once worn on the finger of, 178; and the Reformation, 252; the statues of, 303; and Bramante, 303; of Donatello's statue, 325; a saying of his commending moderation, 348.
Appleseed, Johnny, character and career of, 112.
Apuleius, a curious fact relating to, 249.
Arbuthnot, Pope, and Gay, fate of a joint play of, 255.
Arctic region, small proportion of fuel used in the, 241; effect of frost in the, 301.
Aristotle, on proverbs, 159; logic known before, 182; fate of, 223.
Arnold, Matthew, moral rules for the sage only, 369.
Atterbury, Bishop, what he said of Newton, 107.
Augereau, at the coronation of Napoleon, 110.
Augustine, St., and the idea of Fourierism, 182; subtleties on the question, What then is time? 339; on a happy life, 340; a passage from his Confessions, 354.
Auld Robin Gray, its authorship a secret for fifty years, 254.
Aurelius, Marcus, tolerant and good to all but Christians, 33; his idea of free government, 185; his doubtful wife and bad son, 247; what he learnt from his tutor, 347; a lofty thought of, on the sacredness of life, 355.
Babinet, his opinion of a submarine telegraph, 267.
Bacon, on nature reviving--Æsop's damsel, 48; of policy and craft, 65.
Barbauld, Mrs., passage from, 296; lines by, 356.
Barère, views and conduct early and late in life, 104.
Barton, Bernard, his surprise at a funeral, 156.
Bathurst, Lord, and the Essay on Man, 249.
Baxter, a believer in witchcraft, 250; his views at the end of life, 268; the result, after a trial of worldly things, 326.
Bayle, on Pericles and Aspasia, 41; on the spirit of party, 61; on Machiavelli's Prince, 233; the purity of, 245.