Brunelleschi, and the story of the egg, 166. Buffon, his manner of composing, 128. Buelow, effects of his stopping practice, 130. Bulwer, on truth, 4; anecdote of Kean, 13; relating to Calvin and Torquemada, 46; his description of a superior man, 68; on the English language, 158; on the language of Spain, 158; on La Rochefoucauld, 234; of Descartes, 238; looking from the window of his club, 338; paraphrase from Phaedrus, 374. Bunsen, dying exclamation of, 387. Bunyan, wrote Pilgrim's Progress in prison, 135. Burke, no great fire without great heat, 46; a remark of on idleness, 122; how he worried his printer, 132; at Beaconsfield, 154; his tribute to John Howard, 231; his great care as a writer, 249; his style in youth and old age, 254. Burnet, Bishop, his estimate of Newton, 107; on Lord Rochester, 236. Burns, characterizes woman, 3; remarks of and by, 123; his poverty and pride, 137; advised to imitate Mrs. John Hunter, 145; confidence in his own powers, 150; tribute of Hawthorne to, 153; the Scotsman's religion, 174; a complaint of himself, 244; pronounced incapable of music, 263; on sensibility, 314; his constitutional melancholy, 315; lines by, 344; his gospel of charity, 376. Burton, naught so sweet as melancholy, naught so damned as melancholy, 314; on content and true happiness, 325. Butler, misery of, 315. Byron, some lines by, 150; criticises mythology, 187; a peculiarity of, 244. Caesar, Augustus, his fear of thunder, 244. Caesar, Julius, the corpse of, 222; ambition of, criticised by Pascal, 353. Cagliostro, Lavater duped by, 258. Calamities sometimes blessings, 226. Caligula and his horse, 99. Caliph, memorial of an illustrious, 333. Callcott, his picture of Milton and his daughter, 175. Calvin, occasional violence of, 45. Camoens, poverty of, 134, 261. Campbell, his difficulty in finding a bookseller, 133; Scott and Hohenlinden, 150; and Prof. Wilson, 268. Candide's supper at Venice with the six kings, 333. Canova exhibiting his paintings, 261. Canute, the story of, 166. Captain of Virginia militia, exclamation of, 119. Carlyle, legend of Moses and the Dead Sea people, 49; on the effects of custom, 64; fastidiousness as a writer, 130; his opinion of a hero, 232; compares men to sheep, 295. Cashmere shawls, 180. Castelar, a republican's opinion of Rome, 307; on the unhappiness of life, 337; pleads for universal toleration, 361. Cato, how he was estimated by contemporaries, 144; learned Greek after he was seventy, 267. Cecil, sorrowed in the bright lustre of a court, 334. Cervantes, poverty of, 134; planned and commenced Don Quixote in prison, 135; a curious fact of, 191; his wretchedness and melancholy, 315. Chalmers, as to certain of his compositions, 254; and the views of Malthus, 263. Change, anecdotes and facts illustrating, 9, 10, 11. Channing, on establishing a new society, 386.