-- at variance with clergy, 274

Scott, Sir Walter, physical exercise, 24
-- habits of, 33
-- writing-closet, 549

Secular power resists ecclesiastical, 258

Selection of knowledge, 108

Selfishness of authors, 471

Senses, usefulness to intellectual life, 60

Separation of languages, 159

Shelley, boating exercise, 24
-- the morality of, 99
-- writings unprofitable, 232
-- desire for solitude, 409

Ships of the line, old, 262

Shopkeepers, treatment by English authors, 348

Siege of Paris, 95

Silent student, attainments, 444

Simon Jules, allusion to, 141

Sincerity induced by culture, 332

Skill, indifference to, 502

Skip judiciously in reading, 211

Small talk in England and France, 399

Smiles, Mr., _Character_ quoted, 506

Smith, Sydney, quoted, 173
-- common sense of, 277

Smoking, moderate and excessive, 39

Social diversions of the rich, 220

Society, penalties for infringing custom, 247
-- _will be obeyed_, 248
-- desires harmony, 249
-- and solitude, 374
-- fashionable demands, 380
-- external deference to culture, 393

Solitude and society, 374
-- traditional view of, 405
-- effects upon man, 406

Soul and poverty, reconciliation, 242

Soundness, requisite to best success, 179

Spain, secular power resists ecclesiastical, 250

Spenser, the fables of, 251

State schools, exclusion of theology, 491

Station fetters intellect, 371

Steam makes cities of States, 257

Stimulants, effects of, 37
-- mental, 69

Stone in Glen Croe, the, 455

Structural relations of languages, 170

Student, the poor, encouragement, 243
-- the poor, sad story, 344
-- dangers of society, 382

Study, indirect uses of, 131
-- of medicine, 495

Substitution of experiment for tradition, 251

Success, result of discipline, 81
-- common road, gradual increase, 226

Sue, Eugene, daily habits, 24

Surgeon, social rise of, 496

Surroundings of cultivated men, 434, 531

Swiss gentleman, anecdote of, 276

Systematic arrangement of work, 478

Taste, public, experiments on, 235

Tea and coffee, use of, 39

Teachings, poetical, true intentions, 458

Telescope, colossal, of Lord Rosse, 220

Temptations of wealth, 218

Test of religious belief, 272

Theology, exclusion from state schools, 481

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