attempts suicide, 146; captures
Arcot, 148; resolutely defends
it, 149; relieves Trichinopoly,
152; captures Gheriah, 153;
wins the victory of Plassey, 154;
accomplishes great reforms, 157;
his death and character, 159
Clyde, Lord, anecdote of, 113
Cobbett, William, anecdote of, 210
Coleridge, example of his life, 5;
quoted, 164, 258
Cook, Captain James, his sea far-
ing experiences, 160; services
in North America, 161; voyages
round the world, 162-167; mas-
sacred at Owhyhee, 167; con-
cluding remarks, 168
Cooley, quoted, 165
Cornwall, Barry, quoted, 1
Craik, quoted, 159, 260
Curran, anecdote of, 209

Dalzell, Professor, anecdote of, 235
Dampier, William, his birth and

education, 137; adventures in
Jamaica and the Bay of Cam-
peachy, 138; joins the Bucca-
neers, 139; description of the
Mosquito men, 139; visits Juan
Fernandez, 140; his later ad-
ventures, 141-143; death and
character, 144

Davy, Sir Humphry, anecdotes of,
256; his chemical researches,
257; his honours, 257; his death
and character, 258
Desaguliers, Dr. account of, 10
Diligence, its value and rewards,
240

Disraeli, Benjamin, anecdote of,

208

Dundonald, Earl of, anecdote of,

112

Dundonald, Earl of, his birth and
education, 115; enters the navy,
116; acquires reputation as a
good officer, 117; services off
the African coast, 118; com-

mands the brig Speedy, 118; his
successes, 119; combat with the
Spanish frigate El Gamo, 120;
contests the borough of Honiton,
124; appointed to the Impéri-
euse, 125; elected M. P. for
Westminster, 125; gallant de-
fence of Fort Trinidad, 127;
action in the Basque Roads,
132-136; close of his career, 137

Earnshaw, Lawrence, anecdotes of,
106

Eddystone Lighthouse, the, 74
Emerson, quoted, 68
Energy, needfulness of, 235
Engines, value of their labours, 69
Erasmus, anecdote of, 210
Etty, William, anecdote of, 205

Falk, John, his early years, 243;
passionate love of music, 244
studies at Halle and Weimar,
244; his philanthropic labours,
245; establishes an orphanage,
246; founds the first reforma-
tory, 246; his death and epitaph,
247

Faraday, Michael, anecdotes of, 259
Ferguson, anecdote of, 209
Flaxman, John, his birth and edu-
cation, 181; becomes an artist,
182; employed by Wedgwood,
183; marries, 183; visits Italy,
184;facquires a world-wide fame,
184; his finest productions
named, 185

Fuller, Thomas, quoted, 112

Gay, quoted, 75

General, a great, qualities essen-
tial to, 111
Gleig, quoted, 145
Goldsmith, quoted, 204
Great men, influence of, 3

Hall, Mrs. S. C. quoted, 186, 191
Handel, anecdote of, 179

Hanway, Jonas, his mercantile
pursuits, 252; his labours as a
philanthropist, 253, 254; his
death, 255

Hargreaves, James, invents the
spinning jenny, 59

Hedley, William, allusion to, 20
Huss, his influence upon Luther, 3

Ingram, Herbert, the late, 239

Jeffrey, Lord, quoted, 17
Jervis, Sir John, anecdote of, 113

Kay, John, an inventor, 58

Lagrange, anecdote of, 210
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, anecdote
of, 205

Lee, Dr. Samuel, applies himself
to study, 233; works as a car-
penter, 234; becomes Professor
at Cambridge, 234; his death,
234

Leeds, Dukes of, their ancestor, 239
Leyden, John, his early years,

235; his abstruse studies, 236;
his celebrity as an author, 237;
visits Java, 237; his death, 238
Lindsay, Mr. anecdote of, 239
Locomotives, their progress,
London Bridge, 93
Lytton, Sir Bulwer, quoted, 112

18

Macaulay, Lord, quoted, 149, 159,
152, 157

Manufacture of cotton, 57
Menai Strait, the bridge across
the, 86

Minton, Herbert, anecdotes of, 55
Missionary enterprise, its heroism,

242

Morland, Sir Samuel, 9

Mosquito men, the, description of,

139

Mozart, anecdote of, 179
Muley Moluc, anecdote of, 112
Murdock, William, 18

265

Murray, Dr. Alexander, anecdote

of, 209
Murray, Dr. Alexander, his birth,
25; learns to read, 226; hard-
ships under which he laboured,
227; warm love of study, 228;
acquires a knowledge of French
and Latin, 229; of Greek, 230;
of Oriental languages, 231; ob-
tains a Professorship at Edin-
burgh, 231; remarks on his ca-
reer, 233

Napier, Sir Charles, quoted, 110;
allusion to, 114

Napoleon, quoted, 4, 112
Nelson, Lord, anecdote of, 113
Newcomen, the engineer, 10
Nicholson, Brigadier-General, his
character, 113

Nicoll, Robert, quoted, 5, 209

Opportunity, value of, 73
Owhyhee, island of, 167

Palissy, Bernard de, his early life,
243; investigates the art of
enamelling pottery, 44; his
failures, 45; his unremitting
exertions, 46; his last experi-
ments, 47; crowned with success,
48; he is patronised by the king,
48; persecuted on account of his
religion, 49; dies in prison, 49
Papin, Denis, anecdote of, 9
Patience, illustrations of its value,

112

Pease, the Quaker, 33

Peel, Sir Robert, anecdotes of the
first, 240

Pine, the wild, 138
Plassey, battle of, 154
Plymouth Breakwater, the, 94
Potter, the engineer, 11

Pottery, art of, forgotten in the
dark ages, 41; revived in Italy,
42; in France, 43; in England,
50, 51

Quebec, siege of, 161

Quotations, 1, 4, 5, 6, 17, 24, 29,
34, 37, 38, 40, 67, 68, 75, 87,
96, 103, 106, 110, 112, 145, 149,
152, 156, 157, 159, 164, 165,
170, 180, 186, 191, 204, 208,
209, 225, 238, 239, 214, 245,
258

Reformatory, the first, 246
Rennie, John, his love of mechani-
cal pursuits, 88; his laborious
studies, 89; constructs the
Albion Mills, 90; his various
works, 91; invents coining ma-
chinery, 91; the Kennet and
Avon canal constructed by him,
91; builds Waterloo, South-
wark, and London Bridges, 93;
the Plymouth Breakwater, 94;
his last years, 95; his death, 96
Requiem, the, by Mozart, 180
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, quoted, 96,
170; anecdote of, 184
Robbia, Luca della, 42

Romilly, Sir Samuel, anecdote of, 3
Rudyerd, John, 75

comes an engineer, 71; his
labours, 72; travels in Holland
and Belgium, 73; builds the
Eddystone Lighthouse, 76; con-
structs the Clyde canal, 77; in-
vents the carronade, 77; his
closing years, 78

Smiles, Mr. Samuel, quoted, 24, 29,

34, 37, 38, 40, 67, 87, 103, 106
Society Islands, discovery of, 162
Southey, Robert, his birth and edu-
cation, 222; publishes Wat
Tyler,' marries, visits Portugal,
223; his literary labours, 224;
daily life, 224; death and epi-
taph by Wordsworth, 225
Southwark Bridge, 93
Stephenson, George, his birth and

childhood, 21; ardent pursuit
of knowledge, 23; becomes a
brakesman, 24; marries, 25; in-
vents a new locomotive, 28; his
safety lamp, 29; his bold ex-
periment, 31; the Darlington
Railway, 33; Chat Moss, 37;
Manchester and Liverpool Rail-
way opened, 37; Stephenson's
railway operations, 38, 39; his
closing years, 40; his death, 41
Sterling, John, quoted, 96
Stevenson, Rev. W. Fleming,
quoted, 244, 245

Storm, description of a terrible,
142

Success, material and moral, de-
fined, 1

Swan, the dying, 180

Swift, Dean, anecdote of, 235

Tahiti, Cook at, 162, 166
Talent defined, 235
Telford, Thomas, his youth, 79;
writes poetry, 80; establishes
himself in London, 81; his daily
life, 82; his bridges, aqueducts,
and canals, 83; his iron-bridges
and harbour-works, 84; the
Caledonian Canal, 84; the

267

West, Benjamin, his early love of
art, 197; pursues his studies
under great difficulties, 199;
gradual improvement as a
painter, 200; reception at Rome,
202; visits England, 203; obtains
a great success, 203; his death,
204
Wharton, Duke of, his miserable
end, 5

Wilkie, Sir David, his early years,
194; success as a student, 195;
sudden growth of his fame, 195;
his masterpieces, his death, 196
Williams, Samuel, anecdotes of,
173

Winstanley, Henry, 74

Wilson, Richard, born in Mont-
gomeryshire, 191; his career
in London, 192; his growing
reputation, 193; his death,

194

Worcester, Marquis of, 8
Wordsworth, quoted, 110, 225
Work, excellence of, 261