Dickens, his care in composition, 128. Digby, an illustration from, 11. Dignity, assumed, described, and satirized, 67, 68, 69, 70. Diminutive writing and printing, 178. Diogenes, banished for counterfeiting, 260. Dionysius, story of, 166. Disraeli, Isaac, his sketch of Audley, 73; anecdote of, 138; on proverbs, 159; on men of genius, 232. Disraeli, Benjamin, on the limits of human reason, 62. Diversity, 4, 5. Doddington, Bubb, characterized by Cumberland, 378. Doing good, Lamb on, 89; difficulty of, 93; remark of Coleridge, 93; passages from Thoreau, 93. Domitian, amused himself catching flies, 263. Drake, and the origin of the Culprit Fay, 193. Drummond, the sonorous laugher, 271. Dryden, criticises the judges of his day, 3; anecdote relating to, 154; a curious fact of, 255. Duchatel, his poverty and renown, 125. Dunbar, neglect of the poems of, 199. Dutch Ambassador and the King of Siam, 101. Dyer, George, his experience while usher, 88; an associate of Lamb's, 284; his biography of Robinson, 284; his absent-mindedness, 284; anecdotes of, 285, 286. Eckermann, describes a scene on the Simplon, 350. Edwards, Jonathan, effect of his work on Original Sin, 56; curious fact relating to, 266. Egypt, hospitals for cats in, 99; ventilation in the pyramids of, 181; the railroad dates back to, 181; social questions discussed to rags in, 181. Eldon, Lord, an anecdote he was fond of relating, 76; a remark in old age, 104; and Bessy Surtees, 246; his daughter's elopement, 246; a curious experience of, at Oxford, 246. Elizabeth, Queen, a curious fact of, 245. Elliot, Sir Gilbert, passion necessary to revolution, 46. Elliott, the Corn-Law Rhymer, defines a communist, 105. Eloquence, a rude specimen of, 313. Emerson, a man like a bit of Labrador spar, 3; the soul not twin-born, 5; life a series of surprises, 24; confesses his ignorance, 32; on the good of evil, 40; few spontaneous actions, 64; on reforming, 90; is virtue piecemeal? 93; of one that would help himself and others, 105; the martyrdom of John Brown, 119; advantages of riches not with the heir, 121; personal independence, 138; of Shakespeare, 153; of the theory and practice of life, 240; the plant papyrus, 241; relating to Columbus, 259; the difference between the wise and the unwise, 354; effects of an acceptance of the sentiment of love, 359. Epictetus, on forgiving injuries, 185. Epicurus, his name a synonym for sensuality, 261; his moderation, 349. Erasmus, on self-love, 12; two natures in Luther, 47; of the Colloquies of, 193; effect of the smell of fish upon, 244; and Luther, 308; what he said of Luther, 309. Erskine, a severe corrector, 132. Essay on Man, curious statement relating to, 249. Esquirol, effects of occupation, 378. Euclid, stereoscope known to, 181. Evelyn, observation on Jeffreys, 189; his argument against solitude, 244.