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visitor, who had tried it once, began to titter; and Sydney, after attempting a weak apology for his practice, heartily joined in the laugh, exclaiming: "What a story you will make of this, when you next breakfast with Rogers, and how he and Luttrell will triumph in it!"
A BISHOP'S COURTSHIP.
SOME one asked if the Bishop of was going to marry. "Perhaps he may—yet how can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is, 'I will see you in the vestry after
service." "
TITHES.
Ir is an atrocious way of paying the clergy. The custom of tithe in kind will seem incredible to our posterity; no one will believe in the ramiferous priest officiating in the cornfield.
ILLUSIONS.
I
WE naturally lose illusions as we get older, like teeth; but there is no Cartwright to fit a new set into our understandings. have, alas! only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Bull's Charity Subscriptions, 162.
Bulls, Irish, 232.
Bunch, 48. 54.
Burges, James Bland, 24.
Beautiful, Incentives of the, 237; Ac-
tion of the, 239.
Bell, Robert, Life of Canning, quoted, Burlesque, 232.
310.
Burning Alive on Railroads, 350
454
Byron, Lord, Notice of "The Exo-D'Epinay, Madame, 154–156.
diad," 24; of Lady Holland, 89; No- De Quincey, Notice of Robert Smith,
tices of Smith in his Poems, 93; 436. 12.
Campanero, the, 168.
De Stael, Madame, Delphine, 113.
Campbell, Thomas, Anecdotes of, 22, Diary, Reflections from, 292-4.
89; Lochiel, quoted, 221.
Dickens, Charles, Letters to, 407-9.
Canning, George, 10, 160; his Para-Digestion and the Virtues, 404.
sites, 301; Character of, 309. Dinner in the Country, 420.
Canvas-Back Ducks, 433.
Dinner Table Conversation, 450.
Carlisle, Lord, Notice of Robert Smith, Discussing, Habit of, 203.
14; Notice of, 52;
Disputant, A, 446.
Carlyle, Thomas, 92.
Dogs, 421, 430.
Castlereagh, Lord, 160.
Cathedral Revenue Bill, 329.
Catholic Church Question, 363-378;
see Peter Plymley.
Catholic Toleration, &c., 41-3; 64.
Caucus, 185.
Caution, in Use of Talent, 214.
Ceylon, Inhabitants of, 111.
Channing, Dr., Sermon preached
St. Paul's, 33.
Charades, 233.
Dome of St. Paul's, 434.
Dort, Chronicle of, 332.
Doubling the Cape, 445.
|Doyle, Dr., 367.
Dress and Beauty, 424.
Drunkenness, 289.
Dunces, 448.
Dwight, Timothy, 187.
at Dying Speeches, 415.
Edinburgh, Visit to, 398.
Edinburgh Review, Early History of
25; Attack on Oxford, 45; Pa..
sages from, 107-194.
Edinburgh Society, 19.
Edmonton, Living of, 67.
Education, Classical, 121-131.
Female, 136-154.
Popular, 274-5.
Elephant, Anecdote of, 243.
Ellis, George, 309.
Emulation, 207.
England in an Invasion, 304.
Erin go Bragh, 366.
Erskine, Lord, Anecdote of, 39.
Cheerfulness, of, 282.
Chemistry, 135.
Chesterfield, Lord, quoted, 450.
Childhood, Sensibility of, 418.
Chimney-Sweepers, 159.
Christian Charity, 261.
Church in Danger, 299.
Claphamites, the, 301.
Classes of Society, 431.
Classical Education, 121-131.
Club Life, 38.
Cobbett, Notice of Netheravon, 18.
Combe Florey, Life at, 61-63.
Common Sense for 1810, 46.
Commons, House of, 425.
Composition, 426.
Conquerors, Use of, 157.
Conversational Cook, 445.
Conversation and Books, 212.
Conversation, Educated, 150.
Cool of the Evening, 447.
Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, Reply
to Ed. Review, 45; Smith's Reply
to, 131-136; Letters of Ward, 440.
Cork, Lady, 429.
Country House, 431.
Courage in the Use of Talent, 201.
Cranzius and Ernesti, 124, 132.
Crashaw, Epigram of, 221.
Crowe, Mrs., Letter to, 410.
Crumpet's Ascent to St. Paul's, 333. Frere, John Hookham, 10.
Curates, 338, 340, 341.
Delphine, Analysis of 113.
Demerara, 168.
Friendship, of, 281.
Friendship, 433.
Fuller, Dr. Thomas, 102, 259.
Essays and Sketches, 278-296.
Everett, Edward, 72; Letter on, 415.
Facts and Figures, 426.
Fagging System, 16.
Fallacies, 283-5.
False Quantities, 115.
Fearon, H. B., 185.
Female Education, 136-154.
Fireplaces, 423.
Foolometer, a, 337.
Foston-le-Clay, 47-57.
Fox, C. J., Saying of, 337.
Fragment on the Irish Roman Cath>
lic Church, 363-378.
Franklin, Benjamin, 62, 315.
Fraser's Gallery of Portraits, 94.
Magazine cited, 119, 436.
Gardener, Scotch, 451.
Gladstone, W. E., 373.
God save the King, 311.
Goderich, Lord, 373.
Good Man and a Bad Minister, 299.
Gout, 409.
Granby, Novel of, 176-9.
Grant, Sir William, 395.
Grattan, Visits Mickleham, 36.
Character of, 161.
Gravity and License, 95-102.
Great Western Railway, 344.
Green, Duff, 71; 359.
Grenville, Thomas, 371.
Grey, Earl, 61; Conduct of the Re-
form Bill, 321; 394, 402.
Habit, Force of, 248; Orbit of, 251;
Superiority to, 251; Effect of, 253.
Half-Measures, 285.
Hallam, Henry, 21.
Hamilton, Alexander, 27.
Handshaking, 426.
Happiness, 434.
Happiness, Past, 248.
Hardness of Character, 286.
Hardships of Public Schools, 154.
Hare, James, 81.
Hawkesbury, Lord, 300.
Haydon, B. R., 36; 73.
Hay-Fever, the, 403.
Heptarchy of the Press, 323.
Hobbes and his Pipe, 248.
Hodgson, Dr., 374.
Key, Sir John, 446.
King of Clubs, the, 38.
Kinglake, Dr., 317.
Kingsley, Rev. Charles, quoted, 262.
Knowledge, Rewards of, 206; Pleas-
ures of, 216.
Labour and Genius, 195.
Lamb, Charles, 97.
Landseer, Sir Thomas, Anecdote, 102.
Langford, W., Anniversary Sermon,
108.
Lapdogs, 430.
Law, Cheapness of, in America, 186.
Letters, Passages from, 392–416.
Lewis, Frankland, 324.
Leyden, John, 21.
Leyden's Sonnet on the Sabbath, 238.
Licensing of Ale-Houses, 179-183.
Life of a Parent, 392.
Light and Shade, 425.
Lister, T. H., 177.
Literature of America, 187-8.
Local English Morals, 156.
Local Moralities, 422.
Lockhart, J. G., 450.
Locking-in on Railways, 344-352.
Longevity and Wisdom, 243.
Lucretius, quoted, 390.
456
Luttrell, H., Smith's Notices of, 440; New Zealand, Bishop of, 444.
Epigram by, 441; Witticisms of, Nice Person, a, 285.*
443; Account of, ib.
Lynch, Judge, 193.
Lyndhurst, Lord, 321.
and Lady, 52, 60.
Macaulay, T. B., 43; Tribute to Hol-
land House, 91.
an Illustration from
"
Smith, 120.
Sayings of Sydney
Smith on, 438-9.
Mackenzie, Henry, 22.
Mackintosh, Sir Æneas, 82.
Sir James, Character and
Anecdotes of, 379–386.
Memoirs, quoted, 38.
Malays, the, 112.
Malthus, T. R., 401.
Manners, 430.
Mathematics, 426.
Maxims, 394.
of Life, 292-4.
Medical Advice, 446.
Statesmanship, 312.
Practice of Sydney Smith,
Niebuhr's Discoveries, 422.
Noah, M. M., Anecdote of, 191.
Noctes Ambrosianæ, 94.
Noodledom, 143.
Noodle's Oration, 164.
No-Popery Outery, 183-4.
Notes and Queries, cited, 316.
Novel by Sydney Smith, 443.
Occupation, of, 279.
O'Connell, 326, 365, 369.
Old Age to be Passed in the City
404, 414
Olier, Miss, Birth and Character, 9
Mother of Sydney Smith, 15.
One-Book Man, 425.
Opera, Invitation to, 409, 414.
Oratorio, an, 399.
Oxford University Education, 121–136.
visited, 392.
451.
Melbourne, Lord, Character of, 334.
-, Spital Sermon, 107; Philo.
patris, 120.
Methodism, Articles on, 119.
Microcosm, the, 10.
Military Glory, 187.
Partington, Mrs., 64, 315.
Passions, the, 253.
Paying in Turbot, 394
Modern Changes, 295.
Monk, Dr., Bishop of Gloucester, 65, Peel, Sir Robert, Letter to, 352, 370.
Pennsylvania, Public Debt, 353.
Perceval, Spencer, 297, 299, 300, 302,
310, 311.
Percival, R., Account of Ceylon, 111.
Persecutions, Catholic and Protestant,
298.
Peter Plymley, Passages from, 297–
313.
Petition of Sydney Smith to Congress,
353.
Musa Etonenses, 11.
Napier, Sir Charles, History quoted,
313.
Paris visited by Smith, 58-60.
Parishioners, Advice to, 287.
Parody, 232.
of Milton, 405.
Parr, Dr., Tributes to Robert Smith,
13.
341.
Montrand and Talleyrand, 437.
Moore, Thomas, Sydney Smith's Me-
moir, 10; Notice of Robert Smith,
13; Anecdote of Newton's Studio,
75; Anecdotes of Smith, 84 98; of
Holland House, 90; Poetical Com-
pliment, 93; Letter to, 401; Diary,
quoted, 437, 445.
Moral Philosophy-Passages from
Lectures, 195–255.
Morgan, Capt. E. E., Correspondent
of Smith, 71-2; Portrait of Smith,
75.
Morley, Countess of, 413.
Murray, John A. (Lord Murray), 21, Pope, Parody on, 429.
27.
New Song to an Old Tune, 70.
Newton, Gilbert Stuart, Portrait
Smith, 75.
New Zealand Attorney, 422.
Philips, Sir George, Notice of, 73.
Pictures, Smith's Purchase of, 425.
Pilpay, Fable from, 360.
Playfair, John, 22.
Plymley Letters, 40, 297–313.
Porson's Review of the Sovereig▲,
24; Epigram, ib.
Portrait of Sydney Smith, 404.
Practical Joking, 448.
Praise, 434.
of Prancing Indenture, 108.
Preferment at Court, 401.
Prescott, W. H., 435.
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