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SNAKES hatched on a mantelpiece, and on a table, 7 14 



Holes, the use they make of, io 2 7, 29 



Hybernating, 2 9 



Incubators, 33 43 



Natural history of, how generally acquired, . . . . 16,17,26,36 



Nests, how made and found, 8, 15, 18-21, 31, 33 



Oviparous, 7, 8, 12, 14, 34, 37, 38 



Progeny, number of, 8,11,18,19,29,31-34 



Scriptural allusions to, i?, 3 r 



Skins, shedding of their, 9, 22, 27, 41 



Swallowing of their young, 7-9,11,13,15,16,18,19, 23, 24, 26, 27, 34, 35, 37, ^39 



Apparent mode of, . . . . . 9, 10, 16, 24, 26, 36, 38 



All snakes should be assumed to be " swallowers," . . 29, 38 



Viviparous (so-called), . . * - . " . - . . . 8, 12, 32, 34, 35, 37, 38 



Water, ./ '. V ...... 18 



How their nests are built, 19 



Young, how are they fed ? . '. -. V M \ . . . 10,16,25 



Seldom seen by themselves, v .' 9 J 5 



When seen by themselves, . . -y. ..... 27 



SOCRATES, his sacrifice to ^Esculapius, 5 r 



Man's ignorance regarding his origin, 7" 



On the existence of God, 79 



SOUTHEY, ROBERT, on the policy of the Jesuits, '; ' ' '' .... 7248 

 Styled Bunyan a "blackguard," . '. ': I '. ' '; . . .158 



On Bunyan's education, . . . , -. 159 



SPANISH GIPSIES, 123-127 



ST. ANDREWS, Mill's legacy to the students of, 74 



ST. PAUL on the laws of nature in the propagation of animals, . . .17 

 On godly sorrow and the sorrow of the world, .-; , . . . n$o 



On people who are " ever learning," 51 



The sacrifices of the Gentiles, and the religion of nature, . . .51 

 Taken for a god at Lystra, and in the Island of Malta, . . 52 



On the delusion sent to the ungodly, .- . .: . . . 53, 67 

 His horror at having the divine honours of Pagans offered him, . . 54 

 His opposition to St. Peter, . . . . . . . . 55 



On the religion of the Athenians, 58, 79, 82 



On speaking in an unknown tongue, as applicable to the Pope's infalli- 

 bility, 67 



On the teaching and influence of the Holy Scriptures, .... 67 



On the coming of Antichrist, ........ 68 



On the fear of death and future punishment, ...... 78 



On the Epicurean creed, ....... < 80 



ST. PETER scorned to accept money to confer a Christian grace, ... 54 

 He commands people to pray to GOD for forgiveness, and raises Corne- 

 lius from the ground, 54 



His character generally, 5 



STANLEY, DEAN, on the confessional and the Eastern Churches, 61 



Eulogizes Bunyan at Bedford, ni6i 



