J
Jackson, Stonewall, in boyhood, 419
Jackson, Wm., self-taught musician, 233-7
Birken Jackson, W., Birkenhead, 20
Jacquard, inventor, 65-9
Jenner, Dr., discoverer of vaccination, 163
Jerrold, Douglas, on comic literature, 391
Jervis, Admiral, on debt, 353-4
Johnson, Andrew, President of the United States, 11
Johnson, Dr., on observation, 141; on genius, 146; on impatience, 380; on looking at the bright side, 459
Jones, Inigo, 9, 183
Jonson, Ben, 9
K
Kemp, George, architect, 219
Kepler, 12, 112
Knowledge and goodness, 383
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Labour a blessing, 33
Labourers' sons, distinguished, 9
Lammenais' opinion on will, 267
Langdale, Lord, 259-61; on mother's influence, 426-7
Lansdowne, Marquis of, on Malesherbes, 433
Lansdowne peerage, the, 250
Late learners, 416
Lawrences, the, in India, 277
Layard, Austen, his perseverance, 13, 122
Learning and wisdom, 385
Lee, Professor, linguist, 9, 147; his perseverance, 413
Lee, Rev. Wm., inventor of stocking-loom, 50-5
Leyden, John, his perseverance, 411-2
Lindsay, W. S., 19
Linnæus, naturalist, 312
Literary culture, 384
Livingstone, Dr., missionary, 10, 284-7
Locke, John, on debt, 352
Loom, the Jacquard, 72
Lorraine, Claude, painter, 189-90
Loudon, landscape-gardener, 129
Loyola, Ignatius, 378, 438
Luddites, the, machine-breakers, 62
Lyndhurst, Lord, defence of Heathcoat's patent, 60; on difficulty, 403
Lyons silk industry, 73
Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer, 26
M
Malesherbes, M. de, 433
Malthus, D., on exercise, 371-2
Manners, their influence, 461-2
Mansfield, Lord, lawyer, 255, 302
Martin, John, artist, 184, 217-8
Massena, Marshal, 17
Mather, Cotton, his essays, 437
Melbourne, Lord, and Moore's son, 314
Mendelssohn on criticism, 399
Method, 320
Meyerbeer, musician, 233
Mill, John Stuart, 4, 313
Miller, Hugh, geologist, his origin, 22; on work as a teacher, 33, 177, 240, 264; on drink, 356
