D'Alembert, 12, 404
Dalton, John, 113, 153 Dargan, William, on independence, 5
Darwin, Dr., author, 154 Davy, Sir H., 12, 14, 149-50, 399, 422; on Coleridge, 151; in boyhood, 420
Deal boatmen, intrepidity of, 471
Decision, 380
Details, importance of, 352
Dick, Robert, geologist, 180
Difficulty, uses of, 400-6
Diligence indispensable, 21
Discoveries not accidental, 139
Dishonest gains, 337-8
Disraeli, Benjamin, 24, 27; on Cobden's influence, 426
Douglas, anecdote of the, 435-6
Drake, Sir F., Admiral, 13; character of, 479
Drew, Samuel, shoemaker and metaphysician, 130; his origin, 130; his career, 131-2; his studies, 132-3; his writings, 135; on frugality, 344-5. 377,437
Drinking, vice of, 357
Dunces, illustrious, 306, 373, 417-22
E
Economy and independence, 347-50
Edgeworth, Mr., 35, 432
Edwardes, Colonel, 13, 278
Edwards, Thomas, Banff, 10
Eldon, Lord, his career, 257
Erskine, Lord, his notes, 156; on conduct, 453
Etruscan pottery, 79
Etty, William, 183; as a worker, 217
Example, power of, 423-4, 429, 435
F
Faraday, Professor, 12, 150
Ferguson, astronomer, 147, 377
Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, 468
Flaxman, John, sculptor, 108, 183; his life and works, 204-5; his wife, 208; his 'Anatomical Studies', 228
Foley Peerage, the founder of, 241
Foster, John, 10, 112
Fox, C. J., 19; his painstaking, 319, 398
Francis, Emperor, 472
Franklin, Benjamin, and electricity, 144, 437; his integrity, 452
Franklin, Sir John, his tenderness, 473
French generals risen from the ranks, 16
Fuller, Andrew, 376
G
Gainsborough, painter, 183, 187
Galileo's observing faculty, 142
Galvani and electricity, 144
Genius, definition of, 112, 146
Genteel life, 354
Gentleman, the true, 449, 467, 473
Gentleness, influence of, 460, 478
Geology, discoveries in, 171-81
