Sterne, conscience not a law, 22; on the affectation of gravity, 70; an incessant corrector, 129; the sermon in Tristram Shandy, 192; the charge of plagiarism against, 259. Story of the lady and her three lovers, 173. St. Peter's, first view of, 196. St. Pierre, and Paul and Virginia, 148. Stewart, Dugald, remark of, on Bacon's Essays, 30. Suckling and Lovelace, 266. Sue, Eugene, a Jesuitess more to be dreaded than a Jesuit, 3. Suetonius, of Caligula's horse, 99; how he regarded Christians, 266. Sully, story told of, and the veiled lady, 166. Surrey, Earl of, lines by, 326. Swift, on men's opinions, 8; story of and four clergymen in canonicals, 172; Bolingbroke to, 214; some thoughts of, 214; anticipates his death, 214; to Bolingbroke, 246; irony and seriousness of, 312; never known to smile, 315; just religion enough to make us hate, 364. Sydenham, poverty of, 135. Tacitus, his opinion of the Christian religion, 266. Taine, defines a character, 40; of Puritanism, 307. Talfourd, and Lamb's farce of Mr. H., 273; anecdotes of Dyer, 285, 286. Talleyrand, his reply to Madame de Stael, 172; trembled when the word death was pronounced, 244; his reply to Rulhiere, 375. Tamerlane and the spider, 166. Tasso, an unwearied corrector, 126; poverty of, 134; a curious fact relating to, 247; cause of his insanity, 247. Taylor, Demosthenes, Johnson's story of, 212. Taylor, Jeremy, arguments for humility, 14; earthen vessels better than golden chalices, 347; our trouble from within, 349; the religion of Christ, 371; those that need pity and those that refuse to pity, 376; of Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, 387. Tell, William, relating to, 175. Temple, Sir William, of the old earl of Norwich, 297; compares life to wine, 332. Tennyson, his care in composition, 127. Tertullian, his mode of dissuading Christians from frequenting public spectacles, 54; ideas of justice and mercy in his day, 55. Thackeray, the world can pry us out, but it don't care, 15; credulity of the sexes, 20; our paltry little rods to measure heaven immeasurable, 53; a reflection on marriage, 62; of the dying French duchess, 75; a reflection of, applied to Madame de Pompadour, 336; toil, the condition of life, 337. Themistocles, Thucydides' remark on, 379. Theophrastus, a lament of, 30; timidity of, 262. Thompson, George, what he saw in Calcutta, 180. Thomson, a lady's opinion of, gathered from his writings, 188; luxurious indolence of, 247. Thoreau, on doing good, 93; goodness tainted, 94; hacking at the branches of evil, 95; personal independence of, 136. Threshing-machines, first effect of, 203. Thucydides, how he toiled on his history, 125; ignorance bold and knowledge reserved, 240; a remark on Themistocles, 379. Thurlow, and his daughter, 247. Tiberius, life of, with two title-pages, 2. Tillotson, two wonders in heaven, 382.