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CONTEXTS. 



Prior, Matthew, Poet and Diploma- 

 tist, 185 



Proby, John, the Parliamentary 

 Reporter, ...... 203 



Pronunciation, American, . . 214 



Vulgar, ... 280 



Property, Literary, . . . . 93 



Prynne, William, ..... 241 



Psalmody, 362 



Publishers, 42, 193 



Pulpit Climaxes, ..... 315 



Piracy in, 128 



the 124 



Pun on a Tea-Chest, . . . . 195 



Punctuation, 188, 287 



Punning in French, .... 195 

 in Latin, ... 196, 255 



Text, 315 



Puns, Translatable, . . . . 318 

 and Anagrams, .... 194 

 Pursuits of Johnson, Chaucer, Cel- 

 lini, and Franklin, in ad- 

 vanced Life, . . . 211 

 of Drydcn, Angelo, "Wren, 

 and Accorso, in ad- 

 vanced Life, . . . 211 



Quantity and Quality, . . . 267 

 Queen Elizabeth's Manuscripts, 244 

 Quid Pro Quo, . . . . 252 



Rabelais' Opinion of the "World, 152 

 Racan, . . . . . . .235 



Racine and Boileau, . . . . 155 



Railway System, 83 



Railways and Steamboats, Poetical 



Prediction of. 88 



Raleigh's History of the "World, . 9 



Readers, Book-Stall, .... 280 



Reading, 196 



Elegant and Expressive, 123 



Hood the Humourist on, 198 



Methodical 198 



Receipt for Payment of " Paradise 



Lost," 167 



Reid's, Dr. John, Heroism, . . 4 



Relics, 300 



Religion and Law, .... 94 



Reporting and Reporters, . . . 200 



from Memory, . . 205 



Reports, the First Parliamentary, 203 



Retort, Courteous, .... 271 



Reward of Poetical Composition, 156 



Richard I., 270 



Richelieu, Cardinal, .... 272 



Ritson the Antiquary, and Leyden, 23 



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Rival Remembrance, ... 173 

 Robber and Restitution to a Poet, 15S 

 Rogers', Samuel, Wealth and Taste. 165 

 Rolinns' Sermons, . . . . 233 



Rome 266 



Romilly's Affection, .... 90- 

 " Rosciad," Churchill's, . . . 153 

 Rousseau's Account of Himself, . 12 



Quarrel with David Hume, 31 

 Rowe, Mrs., and Dr. Watts, . . 155 

 Roxburgh Club, 108 



Library, Sale of, . . 41 



Royal Society of London, Mace of, 205 



Sale of Literary Works, ... 93 

 Santeuil and the Devil, . . . 267 

 " Sat Cito, Si Sat Bene," . . 90 

 Satire, How to Circulate a, . . 260 

 Saussure and the Arran Mineralogist, 6J> 

 Savans in Egypt, their Joint Work, 209 

 of France, Napoleon's, in 



Egypt, .... 206, 209- 



Scaliger, Julius, 240 



Scarron and the Hiccup, ... 



Scepticism, 252 



Schiller's True Nobility, . . 222 

 Schoeffer, Peter, Inventor of Mov- 

 able Types 188- 



Scholar, a Scarred, . . . . Sol 

 Schb'nbein, Professor, Inventor of 



Gun-Cotton, 88 



" Schoolmaster Abroad," . . 245 



Science and Commerce, . . 213 



Royal Problem in, . . 27t> 



and Superstition, . . 20ft 



,, its Triumphs, . . . 207 



Scientific Adventure, 



and Literary Pursuits of 



Age 211 



Men, 209 



Scot and Sot, 25 



Scott, Sir Walter, Sir H. Davy, 

 and the Tyro- 

 Icse Patriot, 228 

 on Acquiring Knowledge, . 214 

 ,, and the, American Authoress, 115 

 Scott's, Sir Walter, Amanuenses, 34 

 . Breakfasts, . 283 



. Early Life, . 112 



First Verses, 146 



Habits, . .113 



Habits of Com- 



position, . Ill 

 Reverses,. . 114 



Scott, Sir William, his Wit, and 



Dislike to Novelty, ... 89 

 Scottish Prospects, Johnson on, . 11 



