"sure that is the most impenetrable piece of dignified dull 66 ness, that ever any princely family produced. Most of the "little conversation that used to be extorted from him con"sisted of inarticulate sounds, like Ah! and Hah! and when"ever he did deviate into articulation, his words were as bare "of meaning as his noises generally were of words; while "si fait, nonni, cela se peut, and peut-être, seemed to be all "the furniture in his whole vocabulary." gentlemen, 273. Argenson, M. d', 358, 380. Argument, 89. Attachment, a prince should know how to secure real, 421 to 423. Attorneys' desks, 315, 332. Axioms, how they lead to error, 225 to 236. B. Bacon, lord, 186, 231, 236, 327, 328, 338, Ballads, 126. Bar, a young lawyer should not go too soon Barbauld (Mrs.), quoted, 212. Barretier, 20. Barrister before he gets into practice, 354, character of a good one, 281 to 283. Barrow, anecdote of, 92. Architecture, knowledge of, for country- Barruel on education, 303. Battering-engine, 163, 167. Bayle on prudence and fortune, 322. polemic, 105. Aristotle, 18. Arithmetic, 41, 42. Army, how to rise in, 184. Beasts, wild, 113. Beatty, Dr. 78, 79. Beccaria, 326. Bell, Dr. 41. Bell's Anatomy, 237. Burke, 389, 390, 391, 409. Bible, to what degree a pupil should read Bull-baiting and cock-fighting, 152. it, 442. Bibliophobia, 220. Billiards, danger of, 156, 157. his address to the electors of Bristol, 259. very common at Valenciennes, 157. Burlemaqui, 326. Biography, 5, 50, 51, 90, 133, 353. Biot, 36. Bishop, 67 to 76. Black (Dr.), his letter to Lavoisier, 236. Blackmore, Dr. 233. Sir Richard, quoted, 5. Blackstone, his Commentaries, 258, 313, 314, 315, 319, 338, 356. his Farewel to his Muse, 329. Blood, familiarity with the sight of, 152. 227. Blue-blaze Devil Bob, 189. Boerhaave, 233. Bolingbroke on English history, 387, 411. Bologna, old school of, 235. Bone of a hare's back, 213. Books, 90. Bossuet, 73, 96, 98. Botany, 78, 96. use and abuse of, 212. botanical excursions, 221. Boufflers and Villars, sayings of, 159. Bowes, chancellor of Ireland, 332. Boyle, how he learned to stutter, 284. Burleigh, 393. Butler's Analogy, 444. anecdotes of him, 91. Chaptal on education, 303. Character, 89. Classical taste, 372 to 374. a knowledge of, necessary to a Clergyman, a good one, 106. statesman, 376. of Sir Edward Coke, 351. of Helvidius Priscus, 379. Roman-catholic, 77. Clerical education, 55 to 77. Clerkship to an attorney, 332. Charity often forgotten in the support of Cock-fighting, 152. Christianity, whether reconcilable with Conversations on chemistry, 206. |