when all is done, I do not find she hath made it so much as proof against one disease, lest it should be thought to have made it no less than a prison to the soul.-Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury. MDLXV. Ill news Are swallow-wing'd, but what's good walks on crutches. MDLXVI. Massinger. I have often thought that a story-teller is born, as well as a poet.-Steele. MDLXVII. An Englishman fears contempt more than death: he often flies to death as a refuge from its pressure, and dies when he fancies the world has ceased to esteem him.-Goldsmith. MDLXVIII. The painters are most envious, if they want MDLXIX. Men do not always take the right way; for they often think they have totally taken leave of all business, when they have only exchanged one employment for another. There is little less trouble in forming a private family than a whole kingdom: wherever the mind is perplexed, it is an entire disorder, and domestic employments are not less troublesome, for being less important. Moreover, for having shaken off the court and public employment, we have not taken leave of the principal vexations of life.-Montaigne. INDEX. ABILITIES, 834 Academies, 969 Acquaintance, 712, 1351 Bar, the, 873 Bashfulness, 586, 1547 Beauty, 99, 161, 302, 529, 631, Actors, 476, 616, 839, 1020, 1338, Benefits, 520, 584, 601, 729, 808, Advice, 774, 1011, 1137 819, 841, 978, 1036, 1069, 1084, Affectation, 195, 261, 779, 846, Benevolence, 365, 391, 543, 866, 1368 Almsgiving, 994 1253 Birth, 372, 377, 501, 1452 Books, 68, 179, 431, 466, 500, 521, Brains, 328, 1296, 1513 Ambition, 293, 356, 552, 663, 828, Building, 929 1038 Business, 294, 706, 1186 Busy men, 1298 Butts, 1041 Atheists, 555, 746, 1564 Avarice, 86, 626, 845, 1278, 1284, Authors. 77, 193, 320, 413, 510, Axioms, 896 Babblers, 461, 756, 845 Cameleon, 769 Candour, 603, 1430 Care, origin of, 1123 Change, the, 1508 Character, 305, 639, 861 Cheat, 1156 Comedy and Tragedy, 402 Commerce, 1023, 1186 Common Sense, 1561 Company, 310, 383,397, 621, 651, 793, 894, 938, 1215, 1273 Complaisance, 137, 898 Compliments, 576, 1443 Composition, 1537 Conceit, 133, 491, 718, 1263 Conscience, 114, 404, 902, 1329, 1338, 1358 Constancy, 454, 541, 1430 Counsel, 721, 1404 Life, 22, 149, 213, 458, 1337, 1356 mournings, 1255 Courtier, 201,963, 1259 Coxcombry, 257, 443, 444, 1519 Criticism, 536, 680,789, 842, 1233, Critics, 44, 95, 127, 182, 244, 276, Cultivation, 460, 1345 Curiosity, 679, 1114, 1557 Custom,311, 885, 1072 Deceit, 271, 342, 430, 581, 1058, 1228, 1275, 1320 Deference, 144 Detraction, 1416 Discontent, 698, 843, 1111, 1139 Content, 43, 104, 583, 742, 773, Disgrace at court, 1039 893, 1304, 1418 Contrarieties, 1047, 1487 Correction, 1421, 1552 Disobedience, 1462, 1490 Dress of the earth, 304, 553 Duelling, 783, 1420 Dunces, 547 Duty, 983 Enthusiasm, 516, 664, 1545 Envy, 96, 254, 331, 437, 508, 671, Gaiety, 259 787, 1416 Epicureans, 330 Epigrams, 961 Epitaphs, 1318, 1395, 1482, 1525 Error, 1049, 1189, 1229 Evasions, 1224 Evil, 26, 47, 100, 115, 299 Example, 785, 886 Excellence, 145, 572, 738, 1052, Exile, 75 Experience, 353, 730, 1082 Favours, 1021 Gain, 668 Game of Life, 400 Gaming, 255, 465, 578, 754, 908, Gentleman, 1227, 1474, 1535, country, 1504 Gentlewoman, 1143 Good and Evil, 17, 232, 275, 363, Good Breeding, 89, 227, 263, 303, 1541 Gratitude, 449, 532, 720, 760 Fear, 9, 291, 389, 458, 968, 1085, Greatness, 18, 319, 974, 1247, 1254, Fiddle-playing, 775 1489 Fidelity, 158 Fine sense, 4 Flattery, 260, 403, 408, 526, 714, Horse, the, 1115 Hospital for Incurables, 1080 Human Life, 12, 13, 25, 53, 82, 90, Hypocrisy, 165, 246, 457, 1205 personal, 996, 1008 Jesters, 995 Jews, the, 999 Johnson, Samuel, 1168, 1201 Joy, 568 Knavery, 141 Knaves, 238, 744, 762, 914, 1050 |