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ОглавлениеINDEX. AFFECTION. ARTISTS. BEGGING. BENEVOLENCE. BOOKS. BONAPARTE. CHARITY. DINNERS. DOCTORS. THE DRAMA—ACTORS, ETC. DUTY. FIDELITY. FONTENELLE. FOOLS. FORGIVENESS. FRIENDS. GRATITUDE. GHOSTS. HEROISM. HOSPITALITY. HUMANITY. IMAGINATION AND FEAR. JOHNSON. KINGS. LAWS AND LAWYERS. LIBRARIANS. MAGNANIMITY. MUSICIANS. PARLIAMENT. PATIENCE. POETS. POLITENESS. PRESENCE OF MIND. PRIDE OF RANK AND ANCESTRY. PUNCTUALITY. ROBBERS. SAILORS. SCHOOLS. SERVANTS. SIGNS. SOLDIERS. TEMPER. TIME, VALUE OF. TRAVELLING. WAR. MISCELLANEOUS.
INDEX.
Abernethy, 26
Abon Hannifah, 39
Actors, 27-33
Adam, Dr., and the Schoolboy, 106
Aguesseau, D', Chancellor of France, 115
Alban's, Duchess of, and the Sailor, 28
Algerine Captain, 119
Alphonsus, King of Naples, 39
American Heroines, 135
Amour, St., General, 1
André, St., Marquis de, 90
Astley Cooper, 26
Atterbury, in the House of Peers, 113
Bakers, The, of Lyons, 18
Bailly, Miss—Escape of the Pretender, 94
Bannister, 19
Bautru and the Spanish Librarian, 77
Bayard, The Chevalier, 80
Beauvais, Ladies of, 118
Begging, 10
Belmont, Countess de, 45
Benbow and the Wounded Sailor, 101
Ben Jonson at Dinner, 21
Bernard, Father, 88
Bishop and Clerks, 104
Boufflers, Marshal, 120
Bouille, Marquis de, 121
Boutteville, Count de, and the Soldier, 81
Boutibonne, M., Imaginary Accident, 58
Breton Peasants, 48
Brougham, Lord—Examination of a Witness, 70
Budæus, 76
Buffon and his Servant, 115
Busby, Dr., and the Scholar, 106
Cajeta, Siege of, 51
Camden, Lord, in the Stocks, 73
Camerons and Christians, 117
Campo, Marquess del, and George III., 93
Candle Light, War by, 120
Canning and the Preacher, 125
Carteret, Lady, and Dean Swift, 132
Carving Accident, 90
Catalogue Making, 15
Chamillart the French Lawyer, 70
Chantrey—First sculpture, 9
Charity, 18
Charles II. and Killigrew, 63
Charles V. of France, 64
Charles VI. of Austria, 122
Charles XII. and his Secretary, 119
Charlotte, Princess, 54
Chatillon, Admiral, and the Beggar, 10
Cherin, General, 109
Child and Goat, 103
China Ware, 129
Christmas Pudding Extraordinary, 20
Clerambault and La Fontaine, 126
Cobbler of Leyden, The, 114
Cochrane, Sir John, 46
Cochrane, Lord, 56
Coleridge's "Watchman", 107
Coleridge and his Dinner Companion, 126
Conjugal Affection—French Troops in Italy, 4
Cornwallis, Admiral, and the Mutineers, 105
Crimean Captain, 111
Curran
and Dr. Boyse, 40 and the Jockey, 67 and the Farmer, 69 his Witty Replies, 70
Cuvier and his Visitors, 116
Day, Thomas, and Sir W. Jones, 72
Deaf and Dumb Mother, 1
Denon and Defoe, 16
Dey of Algiers and Admiral Keppel, 104
Dickens—Origin of "Boz", 15
Dictionaries, 14
Dieppe Pilot, 43
Domat, Judge, and the Poor Widow, 11
Douglas, The, 47
Drama, The, 27-33
Dreaming, 129
Drummond, Provost, 52
Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Pitt—a Dispute in Bed, 86
Duncan, Admiral, 121
Duty, 34
Duval, the Librarian, 77
Edinburgh—Spoiled Street, 130
Erskine and Lord Kellie, 126
Erskine, Legal Anecdotes of, 67-68
Eveillan, Archdeacon of Angers, 57
Faithful Depositary, 37
Faithful Domestic, 36
Falkland, Lord, and the House of Commons, 86
Family Sacrifice—French Revolution, 4
Fear of Death, 58
Fenelon, Archbishop—his Humanity, 56
Fidelity, 35-37
Fielding, Sir J., and the Irishman, 71
Filial Affection—French Boy, 2
Fletcher, of Saltown, and his Footman, 113
Fontenelle, 37, 38
Fools, 38
Foote, the Actor, 33
Forgiveness, 39
Fouché and Napoleon, 91
Francis I. and his Fool, 38
Frederick the Great
and the Page, 61 and the Soldier, 62 and the Deserter, 62 his Arguments, 62
French
Curate—Forgiveness, 39 Peasant Girl, 45 Officer in Flanders, 77 Officer in Spain, 77 Servant at Noyon, 95 of La Vendée, 91
Friends, 40
Gainsborough—Picture of the Pigs, 6
Garrick and Rich, 33
Garrick and Sir J. Reynolds, 115
Gendarmes and Priest, 91
George
I. and the Lieutenant, 121 II. and the Dutch-Innkeeper, 64 and the Court Martial, 122 III. —Punctuality, 64 Carbonel the Wine Merchant, 65 The Horse Dealer, 66 Memorial to a Servant, 66 Treatment of a Caricature, 66 and Lord Lothian, 102
Ghosts, 42
Gibbet, Sight of a, 117
Gin versus Drugs, 25
Glynn, Dr., and the Magpie, 12
Gonsalvo de Cordova, 119
Goldsmith's Marlow, 32
Gooch, Sir W., and the Negro, 90
Gratitude, 40
Gregory, Dr., a Militiaman, 38
Granby, Marquis of, and the Lord-in-Waiting, 108
Grancé, Count de, and the Cannon Ball, 112
Grenadier, French, 121
Grog, 103
Guise, Colonel, 24
H., Letter, Use of, 14
Haddock, Admiral, 102
Handel, 82
Hanging Judge, The, 73
Hanway, Jonas, and the Coachman, 107
Hawker, Colonel, and the French Officer, 77
Haydn, 84
Heavy Play, A, 28
Heber's Palestine, 14
Henderson and the Actor, 113
Henri IV. and D'Aubigné, 40
Heroism, 43
Hill,
Sergeant, 75 Rowland, 101
Hogarth—Picture of the Red Sea, 9
Hood, Sir S., 57
Hospitality, 48
Hough, Dr., and the Barometer, 114
Housemaid, Presence of mind of a, 92
Hulet, the Comedian, 31
Humanity, 51-57
Hume's Speeches, 86
Huntly, Marquis of, and James VI., 95
Ice, Custom-house doubt, 70
Imagination, 58
James I.
and the Courtier, 38 in Westminster Hall, 60 and the Earl of Scarborough, 96
James IV. of Scotland and the Robbers, 92
John Gilpin, Origin of, 14
Johnson, Dr.,
and the Hare, 49 and Wilkes, 60 and Lord Elibank, 60 reply to Miller, 60
Judge, A Benevolent, 11
Kaimes, Lord, and the Sheepstealer, 75
Kean, Charles, 29
Kennedies, The, 36
Keppel, Admiral, at Algiers, 104
Kings, 60
Kirwan, Dr., 20
Kosciusko, 19
Labat, Mons. of Bayonne, 47
Lady and Highwayman, 100
Lamb, Counsellor, 72
Lamb, Charles, and the Farmer, 116
Law and Lawyers, 66-75
Lely the Painter, and the Alderman, 6
Lessing, 130
Lettsom, Dr., and the Highwayman, 101
Librarians, 76
Lisieux, Bishop of, 53
Liston, 27
Long and Short Barristers, 74
Longueville, Duke of, 40
Louis,
St., 78 XII. and the Composer, 63 XIV. and the Comte de Grammont, 62 and Lord Stair, 63 and the Eddystone Workmen, 63
Lyndhurst, Lord—Retirement from Office, 87
Mackenzie, General, 34
Maclaurin and his Pupils, 130
Magnanimity, 77-81
Mariè Antoinette, 40
Maximilian I. and the Beggar, 11
Mayor,
An English, 89 A French, 89
Memory, Artificial, 127
Mimicry, 30
Miner, Swedish, 3
Molière and the Doctors, 23
Monkey, A Grenadier, 123
Montaigne on Doctors, 23
Montesquieu, M. de, 55
Morand and the Critics, 33
Morland the Painter, 6
Morvilliers and Charles IX., 34
Motte, M. de la, and the Critics, 28
Mozart, 84
Mungo Park and the African Woman, 50
Musicians, 82-85
Mysterious Benefactor, 19
Napoleon Bonaparte, 17, 18, 91, 110
Nash and the Doctor, 25
Navy Chaplains, 104
Neckar and the Corporation of Paris, 51
Nelson, Lord—Punctuality, 98
Nena Sahib and the Devil, 107
Nevailles, Marshal de, 48
Norton, Sir F. and Lord Mansfield, 72
O'Brien, Lieutenant, 102
Old Age secured—the Irish Beggar, 11
Old Ambrose, 35
O'Neil, Sir Phelim, 78
Orkney, Countess of, 1
Orleans, Duke of, 39
Ossuna, Duke of, and the Felon, 100
Parisian Stockbroker, 128
Parisian Ragman, 127
Parliament, 86-88
Patience, 88
Pepusch, Dr., 116
Peterborough, Lord, and the Mob, 91
Peter the Great, 71, 113
Philadelphian Lady, 128
Philip II. of Spain, 88
Physicians in China, 23
Pitt, and the Duke of Newcastle, 86
Pius IX., and the Attorney, 12
Poets, 89
Polignac, Compte de, 17
Politeness, 89
Poor-man-of-mutton, 21
Pope the Poet, 125
Presence of Mind, 90-95
Prideaux—Life of Mahomet, 13
Punctuality, 98
Quartering upon the Enemy, 111
Quick the Actor, 32
Racine and his Family, 3
Ragged Regiment, 118
Rank and Ancestry, 95
Reclaimed Robbers, 101
Rejected Addresses, The, 125
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 5
Richardson—opinion of a Picture, 5
Rivardes and the Wooden Leg, 111
Robbers, 100
Robert, King of France, 114
Ross, Lord, 124
Sailors, 101-105
Savage Dr., and the Pope, 132
Savoie, Magdeline De, 110
Schaumbourg, Count, 117
Schools, 105
Scott, Sir W.
—Punctuality, 99 and the Beggar, 11 and the Inn-keeper, 109
Scott, Mr., of Exeter, 98
Selwyn, G., and the Traveller, 116
Senesino and Farinelli, 30
Sentinel on the Stage, 31
Servants, 107
Shaving a Queen, 27
Sheridan, Dr., and the Scholar, 105
