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ank notes, 96
anks of the Dove, 223
aobab tree, 156
arnes, Dame Julia, 155
arrow on Incredulity, 192
eaver, 181
hnes' Seven Ages, 225
lls, the church, 20
il-shaped Sea Nettle, 243
lshazzar's feast, 105
nefit Societies, abuses of, 58; prin-
ciples of, 134; remarks on, 46
ble, lines on, by Sir W. Scott, 75
ble and Prayer, the language of, 171
ble, the, remarks on, by Bautain,
139; by eminent men, 195
ls of mortality, origin, 118
rds' nests, illuminated, 131
ack lead mine, 24
ack cloud, 227
ack pestilence of 14th century, 21
iling springs of Iceland, 25
scobel cottage, 96
anical diary, extract, 32
tanical diversions, 9, 49
wring, lines by, 232
ead, McCulloch, 15; adulteration of,
Churlish man, 228
Civilization, test of, 114
Climate, remarks on, 99
Cockfighter's Garland, Cowper, 170
Cocoa-nut, usefulness of, 96
Coffee and coffee-houses, 163
Coin, 158
Coke, Sir Edward, on old age, 91
Coleridge; on advice, 108; Aids to Re-
flection, extracts from, 56; a child's
evening prayer, 21
Colling, Maria, morning twilight, 55
Collingwood, Lord, on knowledge, 70
Collins, William, 196
Comets, 145
Commerce, 158
Conscience, Quarles, 48
Conscientious mimic, 239
Content, Johnson, 55
Walton, 231
Contentious dispositions, Bishop Hall,
110
Convolvulus, 76
Dove, Banks of the, 223
Drexelius, To-morrow, 135
Druids, superstitions of, 73
Dryden, remark by, 43
Duns Scotus, 97
Duties and advantages of society, 29,
46, 58, 134
Early training of children, 110
Economy, Cicero, 224
Edmeston's Cottager's Sabbath, 187;
lines by, 98; remark by, 171
Education in Scotland, Chalmers, 111
Eggs, McCulloch, 24
Egypt, in connexion with sacred his-
tory, &c., 196
its salubrity, 169
Ephemera, or day-flies, 59
Epictetus, a wise man, 119
Epitaph on an infidel, 183
Equality, Bishop Watson, 111
Eternity of the Deity, 135
Evening hymn, 106
lines on, 169
Faith, Hooper, 135
Fashionable dresses, 54
Father's advice to his son, Sidney, 175
Fear of the Lord, 200
Feltham, Owen, on hope, 48; on reli-
gion, 34; on time's speed, 72
Figure nine, properties of, 6
Fire in the human body, 50
Fishes, 199
Flavel, on two roses, 136
Flowers, 195
Food of the ancients, 190
Forests, conversion of, 179
Forms of animals, átness of, 41
Fossil Elephant, 106
Franklin, remark by, 82
Fraud, consequences of, Babbage, 218
Frederick the Great, anecdotes of, 47,
141
French wit and English sense, Diderot,
42
Fulgora Lanternaria, 245
Fuller on a broken glass, 147; on jest-
ing, 108; on the Lord's day, 31;
on the passions, 88
Funeral custom, ancient, 39
in Otaheite, 155
Genius, James Montgomery, 11
George II., anecdote of, 63
Gipsies, 245
Glasse, G. H., answer to lines on soli-
tude, 3
Glendower's oak, 241
Golden rules, Henshaw, 219
words, 63
Goldsmith, remark by, 83
Good for evil, 216
171
Hales' Scripture difficulties, 214
Hall, Bishop, on affectation, 215; on
contentious dispositions, 110; the
lark and the hawk, 31; music by
night, 221; on passion, 184; on a
redbreast, 231; on a tree in full
blossom, 195; extract from sermon,
23; on Elijah, 115; remarks by,
115, 154, 176, 219
Hall, Captain, extract from, 146
Hall, Robert, modern infidelity, 227
Hand-mills for corn, 65
Happiness, Sir Thomas Brown, 48
Paley, 211
on the term, 147
Happy Man, the, 152
Hayley, the swallows, 151
Heavenly bodies, 157
Heber, Bishop, anecdote of, 171.; hymn
for Christmas-day, 239; lines on
morning, 168; a prayer written in
sickness, 188
Malthus, remark by, 70
Mammoth of the north, 75
Man of Ross, 164
Manners of the fifteenth century, Mar.
tyn, 71
24
McCulloch on bread, 15; on eggs,
McNeill, The waes of war, 51
Martin, Belshazzar's Feast, 105
Medusa Campanulata, 244
Method, 7
counting, 96
Montague, Lady M., remarks by, 135
on reading, 71
Montague's dedication, extract, 3
Montgomery, James, on Genius, 11;
remark by, 96
Morning, Bishop Heber, 168
Morning Twilight, Maria Colling, 55
Mother teaching her Child to pray, 135
Mountains, account of the principal,
122
Munday, Capt., extract from, 12
Music by Night, Bishop Hall, 221
Musings on Waterloo Bridge, 112
My Birth-day, 39
Mysteries, the, of Creation, 23
Narcissus, 116
National afflictions and blessings, 166
National education, 181
Natural history, Johnson, 32
study of, 3
Natural magic, 61
Natural philosophy, Bacon, 111
Navigation, curious mode of, 131
New River, Sir Hugh Myddelton, 183
Newspapers, origin of, 66
Newton, Sir Isaac, 13
New Year's-Day, 243
Nocturnal fight with a lion, 151
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