Astronomers, learning of, 161.

B.

Bacon, Lord, prodigality of, 94.

Friar, 167.

Bajazet, 110.

Bar of Bastardy, 181.

Battle, end of, 243.

Becanus Goropius, 188.

Becket, Thomas, 61.

Beggar on London Bridge, 151.

Bias, opinion of, 266.

Bills at Ladies' Schools, 89.

Billiards, Game of, 24.

Biographical History, Granger's, 122.

Boileau on bad Poets, 192.

Bolingbroke, Lord, and Dr. Manton, 186.
Books, modern collectors of, 120.

Black letter, 121.

B-sw-ll's Tour to the Hebrides, 75.
Jemmy, anecdote of, 74.

Boudoirs, 2.

Busy bodies, note on, 117.

Butler on whipping, 90.

on the Occult Sciences, 168.

on abstruse Study, 186.

Bunbury, his caricature of Billiard playing, 247.

C.

Carausius, coin of, 128.

Caxton, William, 1.

Charles V. 201.

Charles XII. of Sweden, 221.

Ch-rtr-s Colonel, 16.

Chancery, Court of, sarcasm on, 146.

Chesterfield, Lord, and his Son, 63.

Christians, usurious, 83.

Cibber, Theophilus, anecdote of, 100.

Cincinnatus, 270.

Cleopatra and her pearl, 92.

Clergyman in Yorkshire, anecdote of, 57.
Clouds, the Comedy of, by Aristophanes, 188.
Cockfighting, and Mr. Ardersoif, 134.

Coctier, Jacques, and Louis XI. 217.

Coin of Carausius, 128.

Collectors of Books, 120.

a purging one, 129.

Colours, preservation of, 242.

Conceit, note on, 205.

Conniving Cuckold, anecdote of, 104.

Conscience, 188.

Costello, counsellor, anecdote of, 24.
Cromwell, Oliver, 177.

Cuckkoldom, lines on, 28.

Cup, Hardi Knute's, 127,
Curiosity, note on, 95.

Curls a la Recamiere, 9.

D.

Dancing at Seminaries, 87.

Dancing, nobility fond of, 214.

Dangerous Connexions, novel of, 2.

D'Aulnoi, Countess of, her Fairy Tales, 96.

Death, horrors of, 137.

Death, ridicule of, 263.

D-rh-st, Lord, 133.

De Foe's, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe, 140.

Discontent, note on, 141.

Disease, note on, 216.

Shakspeare on, 216.

Divorce, by whom unattainable, 29.

note on, 229.

lines on, from Butler, 230.

Dodd, the Rev. Dr. 137.

Drawing at Seminaries, 89.

Dutch, the language of Adam and Eve, 188.

E.

Education, modern, fallacy of, 85.
Education of a Sportsman, 260.
Edward III. and Alice Pierce, 17.
Election Feast, Hogarth's print of 36.
folly of interfering in, 118.

Elizabeth, Queen, anecdote of, 17.

and Sir John Perrot, 106.

Empire, note on, 193.

English drunkenness, Shakspeare on, 39.
Envy, note on, with respect to Females; 231.
note on, with respect to Males, 232.

Epicurus, his gluttony, 35.

Erasmus, his freedom on religious topics, 60.

F.

Fairy Tales of the Countess D'Aulnoi, 96.

Falsehood, Shakspeare on, 256.

Fasts, Dean Swift on, 186.

Feudal Times and Modern, 213.
Fighting, perseverance in, 242.
Fisher, Kitty, anecdote of, 92.
Flattery of Females, 76.
Folly, indulgence in, 266.

Food, any acceptable in war, 243.
Fortune, instability of, 110.

Shakspeare on, 254.

G.

Galau, Bishop of Munster, inventor of bombs, 62.

Galileo, 167.

Gambling, 52.

instability in, 53.

thirst after, in the lowest classes, 53.

effects of, among our nobles, 212.

Stock Exchange, 54.

Garrick, anecdote of, 80.

Garrulity, note on, 169.

Garnish, always necessary, 46.

Gay's Miser and Plutus, quotation from, 67.

Gentlemen Jockeys, 54.

Gentlemen upstarts, 224.

Gluttony, 34.

Grace at table, a long one, 64.

Granger's Biographical History, 122.

portraits, collectors of, 123.

Grose, Captain, anecdote related by, 239.

Grosthead, Robert, 167.

Guagin, his Latin History, 217.