INDEX OF GENERAL TOPICS. 



409 







JDistinctiveness, 91 



Diversity concealed by resemblance, 93 



.Diversity of form, but unity of benefit, 



92 

 Drawbacks, every condition has its, 



94 



Dreams, boybood's, 95 

 Doldrums of life, the, 96 

 ^ Drones, Nature's sentence upon, 96 

 Dull natures splendid pain-bearers, 97 

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EARTH, the transitional nature of, 98 

 ~" .Economy that is loathsome, 98 



Education, virtues and limits of, 98 

 Effort, the smallest, is not lost, 100 

 Eloquence, a condition of, 100 

 Emigration, 125 

 Enemies, power of small, 101 

 Enemies, power and method of small, 



101 



Enemies, our own peculiar, 102 

 Enemy, no one is too contemptible to 



have an,. 103 



Enemy, the unexpected, 103 

 Enjoyment, the perils of, 104 

 Enthusiasm, thedeobstruent power of, 



104 



Epicure, the wasteful, 395 

 Error, instinct and operations of, 105 

 t*' Error, the annihilation of, 106 



Error, the recuperative power of, 105 

 Errors, old, reappearance of, 105 

 Eternal cycle, the, 107, 299 

 Eventide favourable to meditation, 107 

 Evil, the good of, 107 

 Evil, destroyers of, 108 

 Evil, the power to reject, 108 

 Evil, the limitation of, no 

 JT~~~ Evil in unexpected places, no 



Evil detected though in new modes of 



existence, in 



Evil, the breaking forth of hidden, in 

 Evil thing, terrific force of an, 112 

 <5~Exaction, the unwisdom of, 112 

 Existence by instalments, 112 

 Existence, the dissimilar effects of an 



anxious and easy, 99 

 - JSxteriority secondary to utility ^ 113 

 External change without radical altera- 

 tion, 113 



Expansion, room for, 114 

 Explosive acquaintances, 77 

 Extremes, the love for, 115 

 Eye, the, not infallible, 115 

 Eyes, creatures without, 116 



FALLEN, the tempting instinct of the, 



116 



Falling, obstacles to, 117 

 Family, unlike the, 118 



Fascination, a weapon of destruction, 

 118 



Fear, the stupefying effects of, 118 



Feeble, the might of the, 119 



Feminine masculinity, 120 



Fictitious prestige, 121 



Fits and starts, 132- 



Flagging energies, refreshing influ- 

 ences for, 123 



Food of one may be the poison of an- 

 other, 156 



Fools as a species, 123 



Footprints on the sands of time, 124, 



370 



Foreknowledge and prophecy, 125 

 Foresight, 126 ^ 



Forethought, 126 .. 

 Forewarned is forearmed, 127 *" 

 Form, unimportance of, to substance, 



93 

 Formalists, the, 127 



Fortune-fishing, running risks in, 128 

 Friends, even the vile have, 129 

 Friendship, emblems of true, 129 

 Frothy period, the, 130 

 Fuss, great effects without, 130 



GENIUS, the irresistible current of, 131 



Genius, the perpetuating power of, 132 



Gluttons and geese, 132 



Gluttony, the fate of, 133 



God, human opinions concerning, 133 



God, the pretence of knowing the 



whole truth of, 143 

 Good feedifig, the political value of, 



I3S 



Good found where least expected, 135 

 Graveyards, relative sizes of, 279 

 Great, the loneliness of the, 136 

 Great Britain, healthiness of, 136 

 Great, everything, is composed of the 



small, 137 

 Greatest good, the, occasioning the 



greatest evil, 138 - 



Greediness insatiable, 140 " 

 Greedy disposition, the, 140 -- 

 Gregariousness, 89 

 Gross natures in useful employ ment,_ 



140 



HABIT, age altering, 142 



Habit, the force of, 141 



Half truths and hemiopia, 142 



Hand-to-mouth people, 126 . ~~~~O 



Hangers-on-, 143 



Happiness is relative, 144 - S 



Happy, through the hateful to the, 145 



Harmless yet armed, 144 



Harmony where least expected, 145 ^ 



Heads, some, worth little, 146 



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