Part 28

Keith, Viscountess, Great age of, 92. Kelly, Alderman, 202. Ken, Bishop, and Early Rising, 42, 43. Knowledge, too much, 151. Knowledge and Wisdom, 139.

Lansdowne, the late Lord, on Public Speaking, 169. Lawyers, aged, 111. Length of Days, 80, 97. Letter-writing, 148. Life of Man, 251. Life—a River, 65. Linwood, Miss, her great age, 91. Liverpool, Lord, Origin of, 163. Locke, Joseph, the engineer, 184. London, long life in, 101. Long Livers, noted, 96. Long Services, 107. Longevity and Diet, 92-95. Longevity, Female, 88-92. Longevity and Localities, 96-102. Lord Mayors of London, 199. Lytton, Sir Bulwer, on Office, 161. Lytton, Sir Bulwer, on Oratory, 169.

Macaulay, Lord, 213, 226. Marshall, Sir Chapman, 202. Marvels of the Universe, 240. Maseres, Baron, and Anti-Newtonian, _note_, 149, 258. Mathematics, Lord Rosse on, 133, 134. Mechi, Alderman, 187, 203. Memory, What is it? 75. Method in Books, 150. Midhurst, Great ages at, 101. Misadventure, Colonial, 235. Montaigne on Education, 139. More, Hannah, 74. Morison, James, 195. Morris, Capt., Great age of, 95. Morrison, James, M.P., 198. Musical Composers, aged, 112.

Negroes, aged, 113, 114. Nelson, his boyhood, 248.

Official Life, 161. Official Qualifications, 164. Old Man, the Happy, 114. Opportunity, 174. Oxford, Great ages in, 100.

Painters, aged, 112. Parr, Old, Diet of, 93. Parry, the Arctic Navigator, 249. Patten, Margaret, great age of, 89. Peel, Sir Robert, 235. Periods of Rest, 15. Phillips, John Pavin, on Longevity, 83. Phillips, Sir Richard, the Vegetarian, 69, 94. Philosophers, Great ages of, 102, 103. Physiognomy, Sir David Brewster on, 242. Pianoforte-making, Fortune by, 195. Pirie, Alderman Sir John, 202. Pitt, his political Life predicted, 248. Pleasures of the Imagination late in Life, 73. Poets, aged, 111. Poetry of Time, 1-8. Polite Writing, True Tone of, 223. Predictions of Flowers, 255. Present and the Past, 238. Pride and Meanness, 224. Profession, Choice of, 157. Progress of Knowledge, 227, 229. Public Speaking, 166. Pursuit, Want of, 152.

Quakers, Great ages of, 106.

Red Tape, 62. Rennie, John, the Engineer, 180. Rest, Periods of, 15. Restlessness and Enterprise, 235. Restraint, Early, 124. Rogers, Samuel, Age of, 85. Room, the best to speak in, 169. Rose, Rt. Hon. George, 163. Routh, Dr., Great age of, 86.

School-Indulgence, 128. School-Reform, Arnold’s, 127. Scientific Men, aged, 112. Scientific Progress, 229. Scotland, Longevity in, 98, 99. Scott, Sir Walter, 211. Scott, Sir W., on Presidency, 173. Sculptors, aged, 113. Self-dependence, Mr. Sharp on, 159. Self-formation, 131. Shaw, Sir James, 200. Shoreditch, St. Leonard’s, and Longevity, 80. Short-hand, Antiquity of, 147. Sidmouth Peerage, the, 162. Sinclair, Sir John, on Long Life, 96. Smith, Sidney, on Education, 131. Soldiers, Great ages of, 105. Somers, Lord, Omen to, 247. Southey, on English Style, 147. Southey, Letters of, 206. SPIRIT OF THE AGE, 227-243. Spring-time of Life, 66. Stanhope, Lord, on the Progress of Knowledge, 230. Statesmen, aged, 111. Steele, on the Choice of a Profession, 158. Stephenson, George and Robert, 178, 179. Stothard, the Painter, 112. Strahan, William and Andrew, the Printers, 191, 192. Strangford, Lord, on Time, 11. Style, English, 147. Suffolk, Great ages in, 99. SUN-DIALS: Bowles, Canon, on, 17, 18, 24; Boyle, Robert, on, 22; Bremhill, 17, 18; Hall, Bishop, on, 25; Lamb, Charles, on, 21; London, Inns of Court, 20; Mackay, Charles, Lines by, 26; Mottoes for Dials, 24; Mary Queen of Scots’ Dial, 27; Oxford, 17; Pyramids of Egypt, 25; Ring Dials, 23; Seven Dials, 21, 22; Temple, 21; Whitehall, 19. Surgeons, aged, 111.

Talkers, Profuse, 57. Teaching, Unsound, 128. Telford, the engineer, 179. Thackeray, W. M., 226. Tilt, the late Charles, 176. TIME, ART OF EMPLOYING: Aguesseau, 55; Boyle, Robert, 58; Brodie, Sir Benjamin, 59;

Coke, Sir Edward, 53; Coleridge, 61; Curran and Grattan, 62; Elizabeth, Queen, 55; Erasmus, 54; Fuller, 52; George III., 58; Hale, Sir Matthew, 56; Harrington, Sir John, 58; Johnson, Dr., 53; Jones, Sir W., 53; More, Sir Thomas, 64; Paley, 59; Sandwich, Lord, 58; Scott, Sir Walter, 61; South, Dr., 53; Sterne, 59; Thomson, the poet, 59; Wellington, Duke of, 63; Woodhouselee, Lord, 55. Time’s Garland, by Drayton, 6. Time and Eternity, 64. Time and Improvement, 231. Time, Management of, 244. Time, Measurement of, 12-15. Time, painted by the Poets, 1-8. Time, Past, Present, and Future, 9. Time-balls, London and Edinburgh, 34. Time-wasters, 57. Trade, the nobility of, 189. Trade and Philanthropy, 243. Translation, Free, 150. Truth, Speaking the, 234. Twenty Years, First, of Life, 67. Tying-up Thoughts, 62, 63.

Vegetarians and Long Life, 94.

Waithman, Alderman, 201. Walker, Jas., the Engineer, 186. Ware, the Architect, 174. Watson, Bishop, _note_, 136. Wear and Tear of Public Life, 217. Webster, Dr., on Longevity, 91. Wellington, Duke of, his boyhood, 248. Wellington, Duke of, 63, 64, 234, 235. Widows, aged, 90. Wilson, Professor, 216. Wire, Alderman, 203. Wood, Sir Matthew, 200. Woodstock, Great ages in, 100. World’s Cycles, 256. WORLD-KNOWLEDGE, 244-249. Wrecks of Time, 7. Writing, Art of, 149. Writing, Learning, 147.

Yorkshire Schools, 141. Youth, Tenderness of, 122.

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