Ainsworth, Robert, his destroyed MSS., Balzac, 214.
224.
Alexander, Dr. J. W., on sermons, 74;
on faith, 53; on bits of knowledge,
277, 278.
Alexandre, glove-maker, 98.
Allen, Andrew Jackson, 106.
Americans, too often jacks-at-all-trades,
70; an imitative people, 100, 101;
their impatience, 258; their haste
to be rich, 308; their lack of indi-
viduality, 95; their fast living, 334,
335.
Angelo, Michael, 42; his love for his
art, 67; his application, 226, 234;
his proposal to fortify Florence, 248.
Application, 164 - 166.
Archimedes, 93, 278.
Argyle, Duke of, his elocution, 148.
Arkwright, Richard, inventor, 92.
Aristotle, his attention to bodiculture,
57.
Arnault on rest, 274,
Barrow, Dr. Isaac, 58; his studious-
ness, 229; his mental grasp, 246.
Beecher, Henry Ward, on mental
power, 54; on manner, 144; his In-
diana pastorate, 216; his drill in
elocution, 236.
Beecher, Dr. Lyman, 236.
Bembo, Cardinal, 231.
Bentham, Jeremy, on happiness, 114;
on habit, 160.
Beethoven, on Rossini, 89; his igno-
rance of finance, 123; his poverty,
123.
Bellamy, Dr., on sermons, 259.
Bentley, Dr. Richard, 68; his Phala-
ris controversy, 250-252.
Béranger, 231.
Blair, Dr. Hugh, his advice to Bos-
well, 81.
Blucher, Marshal, his decision, 139;
his will, 199; his defeat at Ligny,
248.
Boileau, his failure as a lyrist, 68.
Bolingbroke, Lord, 118.
Bonner (of the N. Y. Ledger), 98.
Boswell, James, 81.
Boyle, Hon. Charles, 250.
Braham, vocalist, 77.
Brandreth, Dr., 98.
Briggs, Gov., of Mass., on failures,
305.
Brindley, engineer, 118.
Brooks, James, 216-218.
Brooks, Peter C., 311.
Brougham, Lord, his physical vigor,
61, 62; his universality, 79; on Na-
poleon's attention to details, 112;
his perseverance, 196.
Buxton, Sir Fowell, his advice to be
ginners, 91; on will, 191.
Byron, Lord, his imitators, 105, 106;
his irritability, 194; his first poem,
198; his motive for writing, 342.
Cady, Daniel, his attention to details,
Casar, Julius, on luck, 25; described
by De Quincey, 32; his power of
will, 190;
Calhoun, John C., 44; his faith in
himself, 94; his power of attention,
165.
Callings, all equally honorable, 8.
Campbell, Sir Colin, his decision, 139.
Brown, Dr. John, on presence of mind, Campbell, Lord, 211.
135.
Browne, Sir Thomas, on the world's
rulers, 119.
Brummell, Beau, 21, 22, 44.
Brunelleschi, architect, his attention
to details, 110, 111.
Brydges, Sir Egerton, 244.
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 342.
Buffon, on invention, 31; on genius,
166; on style, 232.
Canning, George, his imprudence, 72,
73; as a gentleman, 152.
Camden, Lord, 210.
Cano, Alonzo, sculptor, 233.
Capitalists are public stewards, 288
Carlyle, Thomas, on poverty and toil,
86; his lack of courtesy, 157; on
work, 223; his destroyed MSS., 224.
Carnot, statesman, 44.
Bulwer, Sir Henry L., on Mackintosh, Caylus, Count, 36.
138.
Burke, Edmund, his masterpiece, 11;
his early struggles, 86; his labo-
riousness, 229; his "Letter to a
Noble Lord," 232.
Burnett, Bishop, 229.
Burns, Robert, his boyhood, 41; his
bodily vigor, 60; his politeness, 157;
on gathering gear, 294.
Cecil on method, 166.
Chalmers, Dr. Thomas, his politeness,
157.
Chambers, William and Robert, 98.
Chantrey, sculptor, 44.
Charity, 84, 85.
Charlemagne, 119.
Charles V., Emperor, his indecision,
136; on Philip II., 139.
Burr, Aaron, his manners, 148; his Chatham, Lord, his manner, 148; on
Burritt, Elihu, 273.
Burton, Robert, 35, 342.
Business, a means of mental training,
163, 164; changes of, 313.
Business habits, 159 - 177.
Business men not machines, 163.
Butler, Bishop, 78.
Butler, Cyrus, merchant, 153.
Butler, Samuel, his commonplace-book,
226; his imitators, 102.
impossibilities, 200; his painstak
ing, 226; his magnetism and will,
245.
Chatterton, Thomas, 43.
Chaucer, 61.
Cheerfulness, 222, 223.
Chesterfield, Lord, on choice of a call-
ing, 42; his son, 42; on manner,
142, 152, 153; on the Duke of Argyle,
148; his elocution, 149; on genius,
166; his translations, 226.
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