Evil, ceremony of touching for the, 224. Extremes, law of, 295; meeting of in morals and legislation, 304. Fairy's funeral, description of a, 293. Falstaff, dress to represent, 69. Faraday, curious fact relating to, 253. Farrar, legend of St. Brendan and Judas Iscariot, 387; of the purification of souls, 388. Faustina, wife of Marcus Aurelius, 247. Fenelon, and the publication of Telemachus, 193; on a violent zeal that we must correct, 363; anecdotes of, 373. Fielding, a curious fact relating to, 191; and Richardson, 199; on our faults, and the difficulty of amending them, 338. Fittleworth, rector of, how he lost his living, 37. Fitzherbert and Townshend, 211. Flaxman, of the Graces and the Furies, 10; determines the sex of a statue, 187; strange fact of the wife of, 226. Foote, how he took off the Dublin printer, 78; a story of, 164; a remark on the death of, 265. Forster, relating to Goldsmith, 156. Foster, record of a reflective aged man, 7; analysis of an atheist, 19; story of the devil turned preacher, 43; on self-idolizing dreamers, 91; care in composition, 129; tribute to John Howard, 229; on a violation of the laws of goodness, 240; origin of his essays, 246. Fournier, devoted to a squirrel, 99. Fox, fastidious in composition, 126. Francis, Sir Philip, and Junius, 257. Franklin, Dr., his advice to the three sages, 367; doubted his own judgment as he grew older, 381. Frederick the Great, a story told of, 167; and Robespierre, 238. Frederick William, canes a Jew in a street of Berlin, 51. Froissart, of a reverend monk, 48. Froude, terrible story related by, 57; human things and icebergs, 109; a reflection of, applied to John Brown, 119; of fortune and rank, 121; prosperity consistent with worldliness, 349; the Scots a happy people, 350; on putting to death for a speculative theological opinion, 363; how the laity should treat the controversial divines, 367. Fuller, Margaret, on Goethe, 105; few great, few able to appreciate greatness, 143. Fuller, Thomas, statement relating to Rabelais, 190; curious fact relating to Wolsey, 224; the Holy Ghost came down not in the shape of a vulture, 359; he shall be immortal who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault, 388. Fuseli, a habit of in sketching, 2. Gainsborough, a remark on painting and engraving, 198. Galileo, ceremony of abjuration, 223; blindness of, 228. Galt, an observation by, 110; Annals of the Parish, 148. Garrick, variety of his countenance, 10; a story of his acting, 78; the public grew tired of admiring him, 297. Gaskell, account of the death of a cock-fighting squire, 38; anecdote of Grimshaw, 55. Gay, Pope, and Arbuthnot, fate of a joint play of, 255. Gems, imitations of, 177; cabinet of in Italy, 178. Genius, our obligations to, 161. Geoffrin, Madame, and Rulhiere, 170. Gertrud bird, 79. Giardini, of playing the violin, 130.