279. Dialogue, 71, 72. Courage, 108, 109, 113, 159, 163, 175, 418. Dictionnaire portatif des Vies des Hommes how to be taught, 114. of a prince, 418. Court, hanger-on of, 251. Cowardice, 108. Cowley, 1. Cowper, 93. Coxe's Travels, 215. Crammers, 243. Crichton, 20. Cross-examination, art of, 344. Cullen's First Lines, 223. Cupid, the classical compared with the In- dian one, 464. Curate, 56 to 66. a good one, 96. Cuvier's Anatomy, 223. 158, 303. illustres, 133. Diet of soldiers, 146. Dieu et mon droit, 418. Dieudonne de Gazon, and a serpent, 133. Difference and resemblance, association of, as a principle of memory, 20. Diplomacy, and diplomatists, 357, 358, curious example of the equivo- Discipline, strict, at military academies, 153. 368. Cyropædia, Xenophon's, 125, 151, 156, Dissection of a whale, 211. Cyrus, 151. Czar Peter, 193, 429. Distance, estimation of, 118. Dodington, 393. Dogs and horses, 113. D. D'Aguesson, chancellor, 341. Domestic education, 142, 145. for a statesman, 364, 369. Doubt, state of philosophic, 208, 209. Drake, Johnson's Life of, 124. a prince should not interfere with Edict, an absurd one, 237. Duelling, 186 to 190. Education, clerical, 55. military and naval, 108. medical, 201. of country-gentlemen, or of men of lawyers, 280. of men intended for public life, of a prince, 412. Education continues through life, 377. better with swords than pistols, Effects and causes, 54. 152, 153. Electors and members of parliament, 259. letter from a captain in the navy Elementary schools, 37, 53. concerning, 460. Duguesclin, 130, 131, 445. Elephant and ambassador, 113. Dumont (M.), on legislation, 187, 320, 402. Eloquence, 404, 409, 410. medical, 205, 288. Farming, 68. Fashion, follies of, 277. Fashions of education change, 332, 333. Feather-spring Ned, 189. Fevers, absurd doctrine of, 226, 227. Finance, study of, 399, 400. Fish, anatomy of, 214. Flattery, 431. should be despised by a prince, Flechier, 98. Fools, 111. Foot-races, 150. Fortification, 155, 173. Fortitude, trials of, 150. Fortune of physicians, 201. independence of, 247. Fox (Mr.), remarks on his education, 362 te 364. Extempore preaching, how it came to be France, its public establishments for educa- Holidays, 40. Ideas, 28. Ignorance, 92. I. of religion, 105. Il far niente, 377. Iliad, where kept by Alexander, 129. 200. Holland (lord), remarks on his behaviour to Improvements, 35. his children, 362 to 364. Home, when hurtful to a young man, 263. Homer quoted, 199. when safe and when dan- Homme de robe, 305. Honesty, its rarity, 360. Honour, 109, 159. of mind, 248. Industry, 9, 56. Infant prodigies, 3. |