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 D'Alembert, 12, 404

Dalton, John, 113, 153 Dargan, William, on independence, 5

Darwin, Dr., author, 154 Davy, Sir H., 12, 14, 149-50, 399, 422; on Coleridge, 151; in boyhood, 420

Deal boatmen, intrepidity of, 471

Decision, 380

Details, importance of, 352

Dick, Robert, geologist, 180

Difficulty, uses of, 400-6

Diligence indispensable, 21

Discoveries not accidental, 139

Dishonest gains, 337-8

Disraeli, Benjamin, 24, 27; on Cobden's influence, 426

Douglas, anecdote of the, 435-6

Drake, Sir F., Admiral, 13; character of, 479

Drew, Samuel, shoemaker and metaphysician, 130; his origin, 130; his career, 131-2; his studies, 132-3; his writings, 135; on frugality, 344-5. 377,437

Drinking, vice of, 357

Dunces, illustrious, 306, 373, 417-22

and independence, 347-50

Edgeworth, Mr., 35, 432

Edwardes, Colonel, 13, 278

Edwards, Thomas, Banff, 10

Eldon, Lord, his career, 257

Erskine, Lord, his notes, 156; on conduct, 453

Etruscan pottery, 79

Etty, William, 183; as a worker, 217

Example, power of, 423-4, 429, 435

, Professor, 12, 150

Ferguson, astronomer, 147, 377

Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, 468

Flaxman, John, sculptor, 108, 183; his life and works, 204-5; his wife, 208; his 'Anatomical Studies', 228

Foley Peerage, the founder of, 241

Foster, John, 10, 112

Fox, C. J., 19; his painstaking, 319, 398

Francis, Emperor, 472

Franklin, Benjamin, and electricity, 144, 437; his integrity, 452

Franklin, Sir John, his tenderness, 473

French generals risen from the ranks, 16

Fuller, Andrew, 376

, painter, 183, 187

Galileo's observing faculty, 142

Galvani and electricity, 144

Genius, definition of, 112, 146

Genteel life, 354

Gentleman, the true, 449, 467, 473

Gentleness, influence of, 460, 478

Geology, discoveries in, 171-81