[37] “If our friends appear to look upon us with little interest, if our arrival is seen without pleasure, and our departure without regret, instead of charging them with a deficiency of feeling, we should turn our scrutiny upon ourselves.”—_Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions_, v. i. [38] Hartley Coleridge, Sonnets. [39] That is, if attention be shown him. [40] Gusts of wind. [41] See Hanna’s Life of Chalmers, Journal of 1810 and of 1825-6, _passim_. [42] “See the well-known print of Mazarin’s death-bed, surrounded by ladies at cards. According to Grimm, the Maréchale de Luxembourg and two of her friends played at loto by that of Madame du Deffand till she expired. But at that time the proceeding was at least thought singular.”—“Historical Studies,” by Herman Merivale. [43] “God speaks to children, also, in dreams, and by the oracles that lurk in darkness. But in solitude, above all things, ... God holds with children ‘communion undisturbed.’”—“Autobiographic Sketches,” by Thomas de Quincey, i. 24. INDEX. Answer, a soft, wrath-dispelling, 357; most exquisite revenge for reproaches, 358; like healing balm, 359; comes of practised patience, 359; Illustrations from Alison, Sir Matthew Hale, Spenser, Decker, and others, 357-360. Anticipations of the future, delusive, 333; often crushed when nearest realization, 334; when seeming fulfilled, extinguished by death, 336; Illustrations from Homer, Michelet, Cowper, Mrs. Gaskell, and others, 333-337. Anxious foreboding, forbidden by Scripture, 47; deprecated by pagan philosophy, 48; no preparation for coming ills, 48; only causes a depression of spirits, 49; and cripples energy, 50; destroys present enjoyment, 51; cannot see into the future, 52; indulged in, breeds despair, 54; remedy for, 54; Illustrations from Hume, Swift, Schleiermacher, Longfellow, and others, 48-55. Appetite, indulgence in, indecent, 249; cause of death to royalty, 250; inability of some to resist, 251; allowed in Italy, in case of fatal sickness, 253; a common weakness, 254; Illustrations from Adam Smith, Gibbon, Tennyson, Gray, George Herbert, and others, 242-255. Bargains, makers of, their tactics, 367; depreciate when buying, 368; exaggerate when selling, 369; customs of different countries, 370; horse-dealers, their tactics, 371; an exception to the general rule of, 372; Illustrations from A. K. H. B., Fuller, Leigh Hunt, Capt. Marryat, Kingsley, Plautus, and others, 367-372. Beauty, but a clothed skeleton, 101; all lost in the grave, 102; only food for worms, 133; Illustrations from Byron, Southey, Blair, Macaulay, and others, 100-104.