Pope, of every year of a wise man's life, 8; opinion of Newton, 107; an unwearied corrector, 126; tradition of at Twickenham, 154; anecdote of, 168; Johnson's Latin version of his Messiah, 176; and Gay and Arbuthnot, fate of a joint play of, 255; timidity of, 262. Poussin, reply to a person of rank, 121; story told of, 175; reply to Cardinal Mancini, 349. Poverty, fine horror of, 73; and parts, 121; necessary to success 121; amusing evidence of, 124. Prayer, the, said to have been in use by the Jews for four thousand years, 185. Preaching, remarks of Thoreau on, 94; Lincoln's horror of being preached to, 94; virtue takes no pupils, 95. Presbyterian Holdenough and Episcopalian Rochecliffe, 366. Prescott, of the Aztec priests, 33; a statement of, 240. Procter, of Lamb's tragedy, 272. Protogenes, and Apelles, 171. Prout, Father, and Moore, 176. Psalmanazar and Johnson, 250. Public opinion, 71, 361. Publius Syrus, sayings of, 48, 158, 226. Puritanism in New England, 36. Pyramids, story of the erection of one of them, 253. Pythagoras, a curious statement relating to, 250. Rabelais, a strange fact relating to, 190; knew Rome, 308. Racine and Louis XIV., 134. Radbod, at the baptismal font, 100; declines the Christian's heaven, 100. Radcliffe, Mrs., an interesting fact of, 255. Railroads and rain, 209. Raleigh, Sir Walter, 135. Randolph, John, his first public speech, 264. Raphael, story of and Michel Angelo, 171; his Transfiguration, 197. Rawlinson, the stone he brought from Nineveh, 179. Recamier, Madame, and Madame de Stael, 172; sits and muses on the shore of the ocean, 336. Reformers, stories of, 96, 97. Reign of Terror, incident during the, 40. Religion, a subject proscribed in general society, 242; if charity were made the principle of it instead of faith, 357; two religions, the religion of amity and the religion of enmity, 365. Renous and his caterpillars, 267. Reynolds, Sir Joshua, story related of, 174; his colors fading, 179; inquires in the Vatican for the works of Raphael, 197; critical remark of, 197; and Hogarth, 197; his portrait of Bott, alongside of Goldsmith, 200. Richard Coeur de Lion and Saladin, 180. Richardson, man's resemblance to a statue made to stand against a wall, 2. Right, too rigid, hardens into wrong, 96. Robertson, F. W., from his sermon on the Tongue, 365. Robertson, advised against writing his history of Charles V., 148. Robespierre, defends Franklin's lightning-rods, 203; and Frederick, 238; what was found in his desk, 256; Madame Roland to, 298. Robinson, Henry Crabb, his partiality for the Book of Revelation, 20; how he reconciled himself to his ignorance, 29; rebuke of spiritual pride, 52; the Mahometan's heaven and the Christian's hell, 55; his opinion of Edwards' Original Sin, 56; Jeffrey's portrait, 189; at the Fountain of Arethusa, 302.