Titian, how he painted, 130;
colors of, compared with Reynolds', 179.
Tomochichi, would be taught before he was baptized, 101;
what he thought of the colonists, 101.
Tooke, Horne, how to be powerful, 67;
Beckford's speech, 252;
a remark on, by Coleridge, 378.
Torquemada, and the Inquisition, 46.
Townshend, Charles, and Fitzherbert, 211.
Trench, of the fraud played off on Voltaire, 176.
Truth, as humanity knows it, 4;
the difficulty of finding it, 360;
it must be repeated over and over again, 361;
the infinite number who persecute it, 362.
Tyndall, of the formation of icicles, 209.
Tyrian purple, 179.
Tytler, a remark by, on Raleigh's History, 135.
Value of an epithet, 110.
Vandyck, portrait of a celebrated widow by, 189.
Vanity of human judgment, 24;
of the world, 240.
Vanvenargues, on curing the vices of nature, 91.
Vere, Sir Horace, what caused his death, 121.
Vespasian, a story told of, 167.
Vicar of Wakefield and the peasant, 312.
Vinci, Leonardo da, his conscientiousness as a painter, 130;
anecdote of, 377.
Virgil, his care in composition, 125;
what Pliny and Seneca thought of him, 144.
Virtue, of the soul, 23;
takes no pupils, 95.
Voltaire, the history of human opinions, 7;
upon what the fate of a nation has often depended, 8;
anecdote of, 8;
compares us to a river, 11;
we on this globe like insects in a garden, 18;
confesses his ignorance, 31;
of the story of Newton and the apple, 176;
the forged Veda, 176;
invention of scissors, shirts, and socks, 203;
Candide's supper at Venice with the six kings, 333.
Vondel, poverty of, 134.
Wallenstein, faculties of, improved by a fall, 226.
Waller, a laborious writer, 126;
his opinion of Paradise Lost, 147;
lines by, 355.
Walpole, Horace, compares man to a butterfly, 19;
man a ridiculous animal, 20;
opinion of the Divina Commedia, 145;
contempt of Johnson and Goldsmith, 145;
criticises Sterne, Sheridan, Spenser, Chaucer, Dante,
Montaigne, Boswell, and Johnson, 146;
and Strawberry Hill, 154;
opinion of Lord Anson, 189;
a curious fact of, 258.
Walton, Izaak, quaint passages from, relating to Hooker, 225;
reply to the discontented man, 344.
Warren, Samuel, how the critics misjudged his first work, 148.
Washington, a story related by, 163;
his remarkable gravity, 246.
Webster, Daniel, wrote and re-wrote his fine passages, 132;
the best talker he ever heard, 246.
Weighing souls in a literal balance, 55.
Wesley, Charles, his son a papist, 254.
Wesley, John, on witchcraft, 59;
and Tomochichi, 101;
his belief in ghosts, 243;
his quiescent turbulence, 261;
his story of a parishioner who lived on boiled parsnips, 382.
White, Gilbert, effect of certain food on a bullfinch, 10;
differences in flocks of sheep, 11;
a strange propensity of cats, 210;
peculiarity of the tortoise, 211.
Whitefield, always improving his discourses, 132;
an exclamation of, 376.
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