Cuvier on Life, 65. Davy, Sir H., on Time, 8, 9. Day and Martin’s Blacking, 194. Death before Adam, 116. Death, Eloquent, 256. Death, Preparatory to, 115. Debating Society, 169. Demosthenes’ Oratory, 166, 167. Denisons, the, 196. Desmond, Old Countess of, 88. Dials: see Sun-Dials. Dickens, Charles, and Yorkshire Schools, 141. Diplomatic Handwriting, 166. Discipline, Practical, 132. Disraeli, Isaac and Benjamin, 211, 212. Distance reckoned by Time, 16. Early Rising: Albert, Prince Consort, 51; Burgess, Bishop, 47; Burghley, Lord, 41; Cambridge University, 41; Chatham, Lord, 47; Cobbett, William, 48, 49, 50; Coke, Sir Edward, 42; Cooper, Sir Astley, 47; Doddridge, 45; Eton College, 41; Gibbon, 46; Kant, 46; Ken, Bishop, 42, 43; Rubens, 44; Thomson, the poet, 46; Webster, Daniel, 50; Wesley, John, 44, 45. Earthly existence, Future of the Human Race, 117. Ease of Mind, 250. Education Alarmists, 140. Education, the best, 137. Education, Business of, 123. Education at Home, 121. Education, Liberal, 126. Education, Unsound, 128. Education, What is it? 119. Educations, Two, 131. Energy, Worth of, 154. Engineers, aged, 112. Engineers and Mechanicians, eminent, 177. English Character, the, 153. Family Portraits, 219. Farming, Scientific, 187. Fate, Waywardness of, 246. Flood, Mr., Oratory of, 170. Flourens, M., on Longevity, 79. Floyer, Sir John, his age, 108. Fontenelle, on growing Old, 78, 103. Fortunes, Large, 188. Fox, C. J., 249. Fox, C. J., Oratory of, 167. Friends, How to Keep, 220. Friendships, Lasting, 221. Garrick’s Talent predicted, 248. Generations, Passing, 68-71. Geology in Education, 135. Gibson, Sidney, on Longevity, 82. Good Man’s Life, the, 253. Grace, Dr. Whately on, 121. Greatness, Test of, 156. Grief and old Age, 108. Growing to the spot, 103. Grub-street and Criticism, 110. Haller on Age, 79. Handwriting, Character in, 145. Hardwicke, Dowager Countess of, 91. Hard workers long livers, 106. Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 90. Herschel, Sir John, 240. Hill, Thomas, 205. Historians, long-lived, 111. Historic Traditions through few Links, 82. History and Geography, Teaching at Home, 121. Home, Love of, 218. Home Thoughts, 225. HOME TRAITS, 218-226. Hook, Theodore, 247. Hooke’s Magnetic Watch, 14. Hour-glass, the, 27, 28, 29. How, Hon. Chas., on Life, 68. Hudson, "the Railway King," 196. Humanity to Animals, 123. Humility and Self-Improvement, 244. Journalists, Ages of, 111. Keith, Viscountess, Great age of, 92. Kelly, Alderman, 202. Ken, Bishop, and Early Rising, 42, 43. Knowledge, too much, 151. Knowledge and Wisdom, 139.