Man, like a certain statue, 2; like a bit of Labrador spar, 3; a noble animal, 3; his own chiefest flatterer, 13; most apt to believe what he least understands, 17; lives blindly, 23; tries to pass for more than he is, 27; a terrible Voltaic pile, 33; some devil and some God in him, 42; who succeeds, 46; a curious object for microscopic study, 63; a natural reformer, 90; persuadability of, 103; when he is powerful, 105; the fittest place where he can die, 120; when he becomes conscious of a higher self, 355; naturally religious, 368. Mandeville, an observation by, 346. Man-mending, mania of, 103. Marat, kept doves, 99. Marlborough, avarice of, 264; meanness of, 264. Marlowe, Peele, and Greene, 249. Marseillaise, origin of the, 205. Marvell, pride and independence of, 139. Mather, Cotton, epithets he applied to the Quakers, 44; account of the trial of Mary Johnson for witchcraft, 58; the panic he created in New England, 60. Mathews, curious anecdote by, 207. Mayflower, a slave-ship, 241. Meanness, a study and an analysis of, 81. Medhurst, Chinese opinions of Christians reported by, 101. Melancthon, approved of the burning of Servetus, 258; with Luther in the pulpit, 310. Melmoth, on thinking authors, 158. Menander, proverb from, quoted by St. Paul, 160. Mencius, on the disease of men, 95. Merck, and the Grand Duke, 89. Mercury and Jove, 92. Mesmerism, very old, 183. Meyer, curious fact related by, 302. Michelet, his horror of the sea, 252. Middleton, stories of Cicero, 16, 215. Migne, Abbe, curious cruelties referred to by, 99. Milan cathedral, 196. Mill, curious omission of, 266. Miller, strange fact relating to, 267. Mills of God, 107. Milton, his care in composition, 126; and Paradise Lost, 147; De Quincey's estimate of, 152; of lyric and epic poets, 348. Mirabeau, ugliness and attractiveness of, 259; his distrust of popular applause, 297. Miser, characterized by Colton, 72; a saying of Foote, 72; effect of his hoarding habits illustrated, 73; an observation of Lamb, 73. Misfortunes never come singly, 299. Moliere, on the profession of hypocrite, 71; his slowness as a writer, 127; used one of his servants as critic, 149; a grave and silent man, 316. Money-getter analyzed, 71, 72. Monod, of the conduct of certain missionaries, 56. Montagu, Basil, prejudice, the spider of the mind, 376. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, of the Duchess of Marlborough, 34; her criticism of women, 34; obloquy she endured, 201.