Index

{523} ABELARD, 96, age of, 263
Accomplishments not education, l44
Addison, his Vision of Mirza, 279; his care in writing, 284;
    the child of the Revolution, 312, 329
Æschylus, 258
Alcuin, 17
Aldhelm, St., 17
Alexander the Great, his delight in Homer, 258; conquests of, 264
Anaxagoras, 116
Andes, the, 136
Animuccia and St. Philip Neri, 237
Apollo Belvidere, the, 283
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 134, 263, 384
Arcesilas, 101
Architecture, 81
Arian argument against our Lord's Divinity, 95
Ariosto, 316
Aristotelic philosophy, the, 52
Aristotle, xii., 6, 53; quoted, 78, 101, 106, 109, 134, 222, 275;
    his sketch of the magnanimous man, 280, 383, 431, 469
Athens, the fountain of secular knowledge, 264
Augustine, St., of Canterbury, mission of, 16
Augustine, St., of Hippo, quoted, 410

BACCI'S Life of St. Philip Neri, quoted, 236
Bacon, Friar, xiii., 220
Baconian philosophy, the, 109
Bacon, Lord, quoted, 77, 90, 117-119, 175, 221, 225, 263, 319, 437
Balaam, 66
Beethoven, 286, 313
Bentham's Preuves Judiciaires, 96
Berkeley, Bishop, on Gothic Architecture, 81
Boccaccio, 316
Boniface, St., 220
Borromeo, St. Carlo, enjoins the use of some of the Latin classics,
    261; on preaching, 406, 412, 414, 421
Bossuet and Bishop Bull, 7
Brougham, Lord, his Discourse at Glasgow, quoted, 30, 34-35
Brutus, abandoned by philosophy, 116
Burke, Edmund, 176; his valediction to the spirit of chivalry, 201 {524}
Burman, 140
Butler, Bishop, his Analogy, 61, 100, 158, 226
Byron, Lord, his versification, 326

CAIETAN, St., 235
Campbell, Thomas, 322, 326
Carneades, 106
Cato the elder, his opposition to the Greek philosophy, 106
Catullus, 325
Chinese civilization, 252
Christianity and Letters, 249
Chrysostom, St., on Judas, 86
Cicero, quoted, 77; on the pursuit of knowledge, 104, 116, 260;
    style of, 281, 282, 327; quoted, 399; his orations against
    Verres, 421
Civilization and Christianity, 255
Clarendon, Lord, 311
Colours, combination of, 100
"Condescension," two senses of, 205
Copleston, Dr., Bishop of Llandaff, 157; quoted, 167-169
Corinthian brass, 175
Cowper, quoted, 191, 467
Crabbe, his Tales of the Hall, 150; his versification, 326
Craik, Dr. G. L., his Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties,
    quoted, 103, 104

DANTE, 316, 329
Davison, John, 158; on Liberal Education, 169-177
Definiteness, the life of preaching, 426
Demosthenes, 259, 284
Descartes, 315
Dumesnil's Synonymes, 368
Du Pin's Ecclesiastical History, 140

EDGEWORTH, Mr., on Professional Education, 158, 170, 176
Edinburgh, 154
Edinburgh Review, the, 153, 157, 160, 301, 329
Edward II., King of England, vow at his flight from
    Bannockburn, 155
Elmsley, xiv.
Epicurus, 40
Euclid's Elements, 274, 313, 501
Euripides, 258

FENELON, on the Gothic style of Architecture, 82
Fontaine, La, his immoral Contes, 315
Fouqué, Lamotte, his tale of the Unknown Patient, 119
Fra Angelico, 287
Franklin, 304

Frederick II., 383, 384

GALEN, 222
Gentleman, the true, defined, 208
Gerdil, Cardinal, quoted, xiii., on the Emperor Julian, 194;
    on Malebranche, 477 {525}
Giannone, 316
Gibbon, on the darkness at the Passion, 95; his hatred of
    Christianity, 195, 196; his care in writing, 285; influence of
    his style on the literature of the present day, 323; his tribute to
    Hume and Robertson, 325
Goethe, 134
Gothic Architecture, 82
Grammar, 96, 334
Gregory the Great, St., 260

HARDOUIN, Father, on Latin literature, 310
Health, 164
Herodotus, 284, 325, 329
Hobbes, 311
Homer, his address to the Delian women, 257; his best descriptions,
    according to Sterne, marred by translation, 271
Hooker, 311
Horace, quoted, 257, 258, 329
Horne Tooke, 96
Hume, 40, 58; style of 325
Humility, 206
Huss, 155

JACOB'S courtship, 232
Jeffrey, Lord, 157
Jerome, St., on idolizing the creature, 87
Jerusalem, the fountain-head of religious knowledge, 264
Ignatius, St. 235
Job, religious merry-makings of, 232; Book of, 289
John, King, 383
John of Salisbury, 262
Johnson, Dr., his method of writing the Ramblers, xx.; his vigour
    and resource of intellect, xxi.; his definition of the word
    University, 20; his Rasselas quoted, 116-117; style of, 283;
    his Table-talk, 313; his bias towards Catholicity, 319; his
    definition of Grammar, 334
Joseph, history of, 271
Isaac, feast at his weaning, 232
Isocrates, 282
Julian the Apostate, 194
Justinian, 265
Juvenal, 325

KEBLE, John, 158; his Latin Lectures, 369
Knowledge, its own end, 99; viewed in relation to learning, 124;
    to professional skill, 151; to religion, 179

LALANNE, Abbé, 9
Leo, St., on the love of gain, 87
Literature, 268
Locke, on Education, 158-160, 163, 319
Logos, 276
Lohner, Father, his story of a court-preacher, 411
Longinus, his admiration of the Mosaic account of Creation, 271
Lutheran leaven, spread of the, 28 {526}

MACAULAY, Lord, his Essay on Bacon's philosophy, 118, 221;
    his Essays quoted, 301, 435-438, 450
Machiavel, 316
Malebranche, 477
Maltby, Dr., bishop of Durham, his Address to the Deity, 33, 40
Michael Angelo, first attempts of, 283
Milman, Dean, his History of the Jews, 85
Milton, on Education, 169; his Samson Agonistes quoted, 323;
    his allusions to himself, 329
Modesty, 201
Montaigne's Essays, 355
More, Sir Thomas, 437
Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, 140
Muratori, 478, 520
Music, 80

NERI, St. Philip, 234
Newton, Sir Isaac, xiii., 49, 53; on the Apocalypse, 304; his
    marvellous powers, 324
Newtonian philosophy, the, 49
Noah's ark, 73

OLYMPIC games, the, 107
Optics, 46

PAINTING, 79
Palestrina, 237
Paley, 58, 449
Palladio, 57
Pascal, 315
Patrick, St., greatness of his work, 15
Periodical criticism, 333
Persian mode of letter-writing, 277
Pindar, 329
Pitt, William, his opinion of Butler's Analogy, 100
Pius IV., Pope, death of, 237
Plato, on poets, 101; on music, 110
Playfair, Professor, 157
Political Economy, 86
Pompey's Pillar, 136
Pope, Alex., quoted, 118; an indifferent Catholic, 318; has tuned
    our versification, 323; quoted, 375, 501
Porson, Richard, xiv., 304
Pride and self-respect, 207
Private Judgment, 97
Protestant argument against Transubstantiation, 93
Psalter, the, 289
Pulci, 316
Pythagoras, xiii.

RABELAIS, 315
Raffaelle, first attempts of, 283; 287
Rasselas quoted, 116 {527}
Recreations not Education, 144
Robertson, style of, 325
Rome, 265
Round Towers of Ireland, the, 95

SALES, St. Francis de, on preaching, 406, 410, 411
Salmasius, 140
Savonarola, 235
Scott, Sir Walter, 313; his Old Mortality, 359
Seneca, 110, 116, 327
Sermons of the seventeenth century, 140
Shaftesbury, Lord, his Characteristics, 196-201, 204
Shakespeare, quoted, 150; his Macbeth quoted, 280; Hamlet
    quoted, 281; quoted, 284, 287; morality of, 318; quoted, 410, 513
Simon of Tournay, narrative of, 384
Smith, Sydney, 157
Sophocles, 258
Southey's Thalaba, 323; quoted, 324
Sterne's Sermons, quoted, 270-272
Stuffing birds not education, 144
Sylvester II., Pope, accused of magic, 220

TARPEIA, 140
Taylor, Jeremy, his Liberty of Prophesying, 472
Terence and Menander, 259
Tertullian, 327
Thales, xiii.
Theology, a branch of knowledge, 19; definition of, 60
Thucydides, 259, 325, 329
Titus, armies of, 265

VIRGIL, his obligations to Greek poets, 259; wishes his
    Æneid burnt, 284; fixes the character of the hexameter, 325, 329
Voltaire, 303, 315

UTILITY in Education, 161

WATSON, Bishop, on Mathematics, 101
Wiclif 155
Wren, Sir Christopher, 57

XAVIER, St. Francis, 235
Xenophon quoted, 107, 258

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