Knowledge under Difficulties. But the selection of examples we have made, regulated as it had been with a view to give as much diversity of interest as possible to the contents of the work, will probably be thought sufficiently extensive for our purpose. The lesson we would teach, as we have already frequently had occasion to remark, is, that in no situation of life, be it what it may, is the work of mental cultivation impossible to him who in good earnest sets about it. What is chiefly wanted to invigorate the mind to the encounter and conquest of the most formidable difficulties which any circumstances can oppose to it, is simply the conviction of this truth; and of that conviction we can bring forward nothing likely to produce a more deep and abiding impression than some of the histories recorded in the preceding pages. FINIS. INDEX. ADAMS, Dr. vol. i., page 51 Epinus, M., i. 252 Africanus, Scipio, i. 114 Alexis Michelovitch, ii. 23 Alfred the Great, i. 63; ii. 11 Baines, Mr., ii. 328 Beaufort, Lady Joanna, i. 283 Beaumont, F., i. 75 Élie de, i. 284 Beckman, Professor, i, 124 Beddoes, Dr., ii. 117 Alphonso X. of Castile, ii, 20 Behmen, Jacob, ii. 215 Ames, Joseph, i. 189 Beighton, Mr., ii. 306 Aram, Eugene, i. 355 Anaxagoras, ii. 4 Archimedes, i. 20 Aurelius, Marcus, ii. 7 Avicenna, ii. 247 Bagford, John, 189 VOL. II. Belzoni, G. B., ii, 387 Bewick, Thomas, ii. 191 Blacklock, Dr., i. 298, 312 Bodmer, i. 153 Boethius, i. 279 Boot, Mr., ii. 229 2 M Bridgewater, Francis Duke of, Charlemagne, Emperor, ii. 9 i. 325 Briggs, Henry, ii. 52 Burton, Mr., ii. 278 Calley, John, ii. 303 Canstein, Baron von, ii. 98 Cantley, Mr., i. 200 Caravaggio, P., i. 211 Charles V., Emperor, i. 38 Chatterton, T., i. 212 Chaucer, i. 80 Cicero, i. 106 Cimabue, ii. 179 Clarendon, Lord, i. 119 Clement VII., Pope, i. 66 Cook, Capt. J., i. 131; ii. 375 Colines, Simon de, i. 167 Mr., i. 221 M. A., i. 211 Carter, Dr., i. 65 Caslon, W., i. 59 Casserio, i. 45 Castagno, A. del, ii. 116 Castalio, S., i. 43, 268 Castell, Edm., i. 274 Cato, i. 62 Dalmasi, Lippo, ii. 183 Dampier, Captain, i. 127 Cartwright, Rev. E., ii. 341, 345 Davies, Miles, i. 274 Davis, John, i. 127 Davy, Sir H., ii. 111 Caus, Solomon de, ii, 296 Cavedone, i. 211 Cavendish, H., i. 252; ii. 92 Cavendish, Lord C., ii. 92 John, ii. 116 Rev. W., i. 274 Decow, Isaac, i. 237 Defoe, Daniel, i. 191 Dent, Dr. ii. 89 Desaguliers, Dr., ii, 302 Drury, Robert, i. 127 Edward VI. of England, ii. 19 William, ii. 353 Ehret, G. D. ii. 180 Elizabeth, Queen, ii. 19 Epictetus, i. 31 Erasmus, i. 265 Farmer, Dr., i. 383 Faust, John, i. 190, ii. 99 Fiore, Colantonio del, ii. 182 Folckz, J., i. 45 Gesner, J. M., i. 30 Solomon, i. 153 Gifford, W., i. 398 Gilbert, Davies, ii. 117 Wm., i. 245 Gilpin, Sawrey, ii. 156 Gilchrist, M., i. 199 Goddard, Dr., ii. 79 Guericke, Otto, ii. 81,305 Guest, Mr., ii. 327 Guttenberg, John, i. 190 |