d by the
transplanters of, ib.; notice of many introduced by particular
persons, 154; origin of, distinguished by their names, 155; worthy
pride of introducers of, 156, 157.
FORGERIES and fictions, political and religious, iii. 144;
historical instances, 145-150; literary, iii. 304-319.
FORMOSA, Psalmanazar's pretended history of, i. 136, note.
FOSCOLO, Ugo, his opinion on the titles of Italian Academies, ii.
490.
FOURMONT, the Oriental scholar, anecdote of, iii. 396.
FOX'S Acts and Monuments, iii. 239.
FRIENDSHIPS of literary men, interesting anecdotes of, ii. 55-59.
FRANKLIN, Dr., experiments with lightning, ii. 413.
FRENCH REVOLUTION a commentary on the English, iii. 489.
FRONDEURS, organized by Cardinal de Retz, iii. 83.
FUGGERS, a wealthy family of merchants, i. 6, and note.
FUNERAL honours paid to their kings by the Goths and Huns, i. 196.
GALILEO, condemned to disavow his own opinions, i. 28; his
annotations on Tasso, ii. 444.
GAMESTERS, memoirs of celebrated, i. 190.
GAMING, a universal passion, i. 187; treatises on, ib.; among the
nations of the East, 188, 189; the ancients, ib.; picture of a
gambling-house in 1731, ib.
GARDENS, mediaeval, ii. 154, note; gradual introduction of fruits and
flowers, 151-157.
GAS, origin of the word, iii. 282.
GAYTON, Edmund, his pleasant notes upon Don Quixote and other works,
i. 139, note.
GEMARA.--See TALMUD.
GENIUS, inequalities of, i. 88; men of, deficient in conversation,
103; modern persecution of, 197.
GERBIER, Sir Balthazar, a confidential agent of the Duke of
Buckingham, ii. 358; notices of his Memoirs, 359-369; his account
of the preparations for the siege of Rochelle, 368.
GESTURES significant, used by the ancients and by modern
Neapolitans, ii. 119, note.
GETHIN, Lady Grace, her statue in Westminster Abbey, ii. 270; her
papers collected and published, under the title of Reliquiae
Gethinianae, 271; character of the book, ib.; Congreve's laudatory
lines on, ib.; its authenticity doubted, 272; her considerations on
the choice of a husband, 273.
GHOSTS, theory of, iii. 287, 288.
GIANNONE, his History of Naples, iii. 184; threatened by the
Inquisition, 185; died in the citadel of Turin, ib.
GIBBON, his mode of study useful to students, ii. 89.
GILL, Alexander, committed by the Star Cha
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