Answer, a soft, wrath-dispelling,
357; most exquisite revenge for re-
proaches, 358; like healing balm,
359; comes of practised patience,
359; Illustrations from Alison, Sir
Matthew Hale, Spenser, Decker,
and others, 357-360.
Anticipations of the future, delusive,
333; often crushed when nearest
realization, 334; when seeming
fulfilled, extinguished by death,
336; Illustrations from Homer,
Michelet, Cowper, Mrs. Gaskell,
and others, 333-337.
Anxious foreboding, forbidden by
Scripture, 47; deprecated by
pagan philosophy, 48; no pre-
paration for coming ills, 48; only
causes a depression of spirits,
49; and cripples energy, 50; de-
stroys present enjoyment, 51;
cannot see into the future, 52; in-
dulged in, breeds despair, 54;
remedy for, 54; Illustrations from
Hume, Swift, Schleiermacher,
Longfellow, and others, 48–55.
Appetite, indulgence in, indecent,
249; cause of death to royalty,
250; inability of some to resist,
251; allowed in Italy, in case of
fatal sickness, 253; a common
weakness, 254; Illustrations from
Adam Smith, Gibbon, Tennyson,
Gray, George Herbert, and others,
242-255.

Bargains, makers of, their tactics,
367; depreciate when buying,
568; exaggerate when selling,
369; customs of different coun-
tries, 370; horse-dealers, their
tactics, 371; an exception to the
general rule of, 372; Illustrations
from A. K. H. B., Fuller, Leigh
Hunt, Capt. Marryat, Kingsley,
Plautus, and others, 367-372.

Beauty, but a clothed skeleton, IoI;
all lost in the grave, 102; only
food for worms, 133; Illustrations
from Byron, Southey, Blair, Mac-
aulay, and others, 100-104.
Beneficence, secret, an exception to
the rule, 259; dislike of, to
thanks, 260; of Wellington and
Byron, 261; finds a reward in it-
self, 262; Illustrations from Cham-
fort, Goldsmith, Smollett, Cowper,
and others, 259–262.

Childhood,

be

everything may
hoped from, 382; evanescence
of promise in, 383; retrospect
of, shows how we have fallen,
384; possibility of a noble future
for all, 385; much of the good
in, checked from development,
386; Illustrations from Dante,
Adam Smith, Samuel Rogers,
Baron Alderson, Charles Lamb,
Dr. Caird, and others, 381-386.
Children, dying before their parents,
an inversion of natural order, 182;
one of the greatest sorrows to
man, 183; the case of Mohammed
cited, 184; ruins the hopes of the
parents, 186; Citations from Canon
Melvill, Edmund Burke, Moore,
and others, 182-187.
Co-workers, all human beings, 348;

each in his place or degree, 349;
all required to account for their
performance of their part, 350;
the difference in, not position,
but how duties performed, 351;
all to one end, and that is with

God, 352; Illustrations from
Coleridge, John Newton, Mrs.
Gaskell, Colani, Milton, and
others, 348-352.

Darkness, increases the sense of
danger, 223; and the bitterness

of death, 324; power of, over the
guilty, 324; natural dread of, in
mankind, 326; of coming death,
rouses a longing for light, 327;
the concomitant of misery, 327;
Illustrations from Marlowe, Scott,
Croly, Professor Newman, Lord
Lytton, Dickens, and others, 323-
328.
Death, sum and story of all
humanity, 156; the inevitable
fate of all, 157; a leveller of all
distinctions and grades, 160;
even in Arcadia, 163; the ac-
tions of the just blossom in,
165; Illustrations from Addison,
Barry Cornwall, James Mont-
gomery, Gibbon, Warton, Prior,
George Herbert, and others, 156–
165.

Elements, the, God only can con-
trol, 233; the folly of man com-
manding, 232; all men subject to,
232; folly of Xerxes cited, 233;
legends of power of priests over,
234; the greatest conquerors,
impotent against, 235; moral ap-
plication, 237; Illustrations from
Pepys, Longfellow, Gibbon,
Carlyle, Cowper, and others,
231-237.

Falsity of friends, the sharpest
pang of all, 201; darkens man's
views of the moral government
of God, 206; shakes confidence
in the whole world, 206; David's
lament over, 208; Illustrations
from Colani, Milman, Long-
fellow, Corneille, Shakspeare,
and others, 200-208.
Faults in others, more easily dis-
cerned than in ourselves, 187;
we should mend our own, before
looking for those of others, 188;
we often possess those, that we
attribute to others, 190; Illus-
trations from Trench, Horace,
Hogg, Molière, Mrs. Inchbald,
and others, 187-191.
Flowers, not to be considered in a
utilitarian light, 109; awaken

finer sensibilities, 110; akin to
the poetic faculty in man, III;
the teaching of, lost on the dull,
112; woman compared to, 113;
Illustrations from Tennyson, Leigh
Hunt, Isaac Taylor, Shenstone,
and others, 109–113.
Freedom, from righteousness, a
service to sin, 60; true, only
found in God's service, 61;
sweetened by constraint, 61;
without law, pernicious, 62; at
times a relief to give up, 63; too
much, in art and literature, hurt-
ful, 64; obedience nobler than,
65; Illustrations from Gray,
Wordsworth, Goethe, Mrs. Gas-
kell, and others, 60-66.
Freedom, the service of, 66; from
self-control, a bane, 67; not idle-
ness, 67; may be enjoyed in a
prison, 68; maintained by law,
70; Illustrations from Keble,
Cowper, Johnson, Hawthorne,
and others, 66–70.
Friendship, closer than relationship,
328; want of with relatives, arises
from lack of sympathy, 329; or of
knowledge of each other, 332;
Illustrations from Samuel Bailey,
Thackeray, Sir Thos. Browne,
Montaigne, Richardson, and
others, 328-332.

Futurity, prying into brings a
penalty, 76; ignorance of, an ad-
vantage and happiness, 77; a
knowledge of, would cloud our
life, 78; hidden from us by God;
79; could we foresee, we should
suffer by anticipation, as well
as reality, 80; and lose hope, 81;
visionary previsions of, vanity,
82; ignorance of, a source of
content, 84; and deprives death
of part of its gloom, 85; Illus-
trations from Cicero, Froude, De
Quincey, Scott, La Bruyère, and
others, 76-86.

Gray hairs, first notice of decline,
372; various ways, first discovery
of, met, 373; a shadow of the
end, 374; come unawares, 375;

Illustrations from Coleridge,
C. Bowles, Thackeray, Trollope,
Tennyson, and others, 372-376.
Greatness and affluence, sometimes
productive of selfishness, 15; loss
of, awakens sympathy with poor
and afflicted, 16; peculiar sin of,
carelessness rather than inhuma.
nity, 17; this often the result of
early education, 18; sympathy
with poverty need not destroy
natural joy of, 18; one object of
suffering, to re-unite poverty with,
19; of some, not a cause of po-
verty in others, 20; oft performs
its charity by commission, 21; de-
sirable for, to make personal ac-
quaintance with misery and suffer-
ing, 22; case of the Pretender
cited, 26; causes an isolation from
the poor, 28; shows best when
engaged in works of mercy, 28;
results of want of thought in,
29-31; benefit of proper use of,
32; Illustrations from Shak-
speare, 17; La Bruyère, Hannah
More, and others, 18-32.
Guilt, first thoughts of, abhorrent,

255; case of Hazael, 255; mere
protestation against, no safeguard
against, 256; familiarity with,
breeds apologies for, 257; one
step in, speedily induces others,
unsuspected, 258; transforms
those subject to it, 259; Illus-
trations from Miss Lee, Tobin,
Dr. Hamilton, Southey, Sainte-
Beuve, and others, 255-259.

Hearing, with the mind as well as

ears, 386; interest in theme,
creates attentive, 387; compared
with seeing, 388; difference be-
tween, and marking, 388, some
have no, for spiritual things, 389;
Illustrations: Milton, Webster,
Balzac, Dumas, Shakspeare, and
others, 386-389.
Human body, the, reduced to its
lowest terms, 104; Hamlet's
speculation on, 105; as Mummy,
a merchandise, 106; turned to
animal black, 106; suggestion to

use bones as a manure, 107; used
for earthworks, 108; Illustrations
from Sydney Smith, Chateau-
briand, Xenophon, Dicey, and
others, 101-109.

Human Knowledge, imperfection of,
224; in things of this world, 226;
in the workings of providence,
226; imperfect, because we cannot
see the end of all, 229; Illus-
trations from Locke, Mrs. Brown-
ing, Thomson, Addison, Le
Maistre, and others, 224-231.
Hurry and Excitement, the charac-
teristic of the present age, 242;
its effect on current literature,
243; destructive of calm thought,
244; different from haste, 245;
hinders clearness of perception,
246; deadens capacity for simpler
enjoyments, 247; too little work
as fatal as, 248; Illustrations from
Chateaubriand, Dr. Boyd, Long-
fellow, Sir Henry Taylor, and
others, 242-249.

Joy-human, mostly overshadowed,
87; of success, overclouded by
the thought of the future, 88; of
hope, by thought of others' pre-
sent suffering, 89; present, by the
thought of death, 90; soon fades,
91; Illustrations from Gibbon, R.
Browning, Lord Lytton, Hannay,
and others, 86-91.

Judgment, Man's, of his fellow,
deprecated, 208; wrong, because
he knows not himself, 210; nor
the secrets of others, 211; nor
their motives, 212; the habit of,
presumptuous, 213; God's, the
only just, 214; God's, more mer-
ciful than man's, 215; man's
necessarily imperfect, 216; hu-
man, severe, 219; of the heart,
belongs only to God, 221; should
be charitable, because of our own
failings, 224; Illustrations from
Shakspeare, Sir Thomas Browne,
La Bruyère, Arthur Helps, O.
W. Holmes, Anthony Trollope,
Carlyle, and others, 208-224.

Lies, lead to further lies, case of
Jacob, 290; carry their punish-
ment, in necessity of further lies,
291; inextricably entangle those
who use them, 293; injurious to
those who tell them, 294; one
makes a necessity for others, 295;
Illustrations from Mrs. Browning,
Scott, Corneille, Cellini, Jeremy
Taylor, Beaumont and Fletcher,
and others, 290–296.
Light" at evening time"-the
promise of, a comfort, 313, a de-
liverance from the fear of death,
314; often clears up the end of a
life of trial, 315; disperses all
darkness and difficulties, 316;
a relief from troubles in declining
years, 317; appears sometimes
unexpectedly, 318; Light-a
longing of the human soul, 319;
to die in, almost a universal
craving, 321; the comfort of
dying moments, 322; Illustrations
from Bunyan, O. W. Holmes,
Dickens, Shirley Brooks, Mrs.
Schimmelpenninck, Sophocles,
Landor, and others, 313-323.
Love and Gentleness more powerful
agents than force, 33; illustrations
from Plutarch, 33; children more
easily governed by, than fear, 34;
this also the case with nations, 35;
natures not amenable to, excep-
tional, 35; the means usually em-
ployed by women to gain their
ends, 36; the best method for
missionaries, 37; used by Queen
Elizabeth and Empress Catherine
towards their people, 38; when
rulers fail with, they employ
worse means, 39; best means of
eliciting truth, 40; works even on
the most depraved natures, 40;
Illustrations from Ben Jonson, Mr.
Freeman, Scott, Dr. Beattie, and
others, 32-41.

Lying, engenders lying, 286; the
case of St. Peter, 287; demands
a good memory, 288; leads to
hopeless entanglement, 289; first
step in all wrong doing, 289; Il-
lustrated by Trench, Swift, Ro-

bertson, Froude, and others, 286–
290. (See also pp. 290–296.)

Mirth, good in due season, 296;

must be recommended by higher
qualities, 297; too much is weari-
some, 298; deep and true feeling
of more real value than mere,
299; in some, always inclines to
sadness, 300; Illustrations from
Tennyson, St. Evremond, Rich-
ardson, Scott, Mrs. Riddell,
Hood, and others, 296-300.
Music-its power to dispel evil
humours, 55; gives ease in various
nervous disorders, 56; used by
Luther to repel his visions of
Satan, 57; removed the melan-
choly of a king of Spain, 57;
wakes up feelings of the past, 58;
studied by the Jewish priesthood,
58; effect of, on lunatics, 59;
soothes grief, 60; Illustrations
from Beveridge, Burton, Sir
James Stephen, Schiller, and
others, 55-60.

Order, Heaven's first law, 273;
human not to be compared with
Divine, 274; obedience to, the
stay of the world, 275; to be
found in all God's handiwork,
276; man should be the servant
of, 277; love of, improving to
the mind, 278; the basis of civil
government, 279; truth is, 280;
a love of, may subsist with a low
mental standard, 281; the happi-
ness of heaven, 281; Illustrations
from C. H. Townshend, Hooker,
Carlyle, Shaftesbury, Lowell,
George Herbert, Crabbe, Pat-
more, Southey, 273–282.

Plans, of Man, overruled by God,

305; for the future, vain, 306;
often bring but trouble, 308;
Illustrations from Helps, Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu, Thack-
eray, Schiller, Congreve, Tasso,
305-309.

Praise, of self, unseemly, 96; pro-

ductive of ridicule, 96; common
among savages, 97; a mark of
vanity, 98; fault of Cato and
Cicero, 98; true merit disdains,
99; degrading, 100; Illustrations
from Plutarch, Swift, Chateau-
briand, Barrow, Feltham, Carlyle,
96-100.

Prayer, without action, the mark
of feebleness, 342; with action,
shows trust in God, 343; for
help, must be accompanied by
self-help, 345; only when in
danger, the folly of some, 346;
of Benvenuto Cellini, 347; Illus-
trations from Bentley, Kingsley,
Froude, John Brown, Lord
Broughton, and others, 342-347.
Prayers at times made for what
would be our own hurt, 147;
made in ignorance of true needs,
148; the best, for those things
which God sees needful for us,
149; instances of ruin, by granted,
150; real answer to, opposite of
what we expect, 152; granted,
by seeming to be rejected, 154;
Illustrations from Plato, Juvenal,
Montaigne, Madame de Sévigné,
Carlyle, Walpole, Jane Taylor,
De Quincey, Tennyson, 147-156.
Present despair, succeeded by com-
fort, 92; anger, by joy, 92; joy,
by grief, 92; pleasure, mixed
with pain, 93; triumph, with
anxiety for the future, 94; pros-
perity bears within it decay, 95;
Illustrations from Shakspeare,
Byron, Mrs. Browning, Johnson,
Tennyson, Pope, 91-95.

Prophet, no man one in his own
country," 143; few admired by
their own domestics, 144; man-
kind apt to underrate those they
are familiar with, 145; some ex-
ceptions to the rule, 146; Illus-
trations from Montaigne, Ben Jon-
son, Scott, Mrs. Oliphant, Mil-
man, 143-147.
Protestation, fervid, case of Peter's,
165; too much, a mark of in-
sincerity, 166; over, awakens
suspicion, 167; over, the refuge

of base minds, 168; not needful
to truth, 168; seldom to be
trusted, 169; fails of its purpose,
170; Illustrations from Racine,
Disraeli, Milman, Hawthorne,
Wolcot, Corneille, Feltham,
Fielding, B. Jonson, Alison,
165-170.

Purposes of man, often frustrated by
God, 301; confounded by the
smallest accident, 302; often end
as least expected, 302; Illus-
trations from Molière, Dryden,
W. Irving, Burns, Wordsworth,
301-304.

Repentance and Relapse, in the case
of Pharaoh, 125; in sickness, and
falling back in health, a mark of
weak minds, 126; made in fear of
death, usually vanishes on removal
of cause, 127; the irreligious,
prompt with in trouble, 128;
Infidels in health, repentant in
sickness, 130; at times, but want
of power to sin, 131; may in
some, be measured by their health,
132; when in danger, no repent-
ance, 134; Illustrations from
Boileau, Lady M. W. Montagu,
Scott, Le Sage, Crabbe, Montes-
quieu, Butler, Wolcot, Gibbon,
Whately, 125-134.

Retributive Justice, in the case of
Haman, 41; that of Daniel, and
his accusers, 42; the delight of
early ballads, 42; popular history
teaches, by examples, 43; ex-
amples of, from ancient history,
44; Illustrations from Hamlet,
47.

Retrospect of Human Life, vanity,
361; in, swiftness of time seems
infinite, 302; in, past seems as a
dream, 364; nothing in regard to
eternity, 364; Illustrations from
Seneca, Moore, Southey, Mde. de
Sévigné, Cowper, and others,
361-365.

Saints considered as Strangers and
Pilgrims, 192; to them, this world
but as an inn, 193; looking to
their home, lightens their earthly

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