INDEX.

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [R] [S] [T] [V] [W] [Y] [Z]

A.
1. Accumulation of property, its misery to all, [44].
2. Admiralty, British, its characteristics, [9].
3. Addington, Mr. his residence, [167].
4. ——, political character, [280].
5. Almanacks of prognostication, their prodigious sale, [252].
6. Alfred the Great, his rare merits, [8].
7. American Aloe, reflections on, [59].
8. Anne Boleyn, her interview with Henry the Eighth, [58].
9. Animal motion, economy of, [124].
10. Ancestors, their number ascertained, [259].
11. Ancestry, no ground of pride, [262].
12. Anglican Church, its true foundation, [266].
13. Ant-hill, like the British metropolis, [151].
14. Antiquities, folly of the science so called, [340].
15. Archbishops of Canterbury, their ancient residence, [303].
16. Argument in behalf of poverty, [106].
17. Aristocracy of trade characterized, [101].
18. Arithmetic, its connexion with nature, [189].
19. Articles of faith, necessity of revising, [267].
20. Asparagus, its extensive cultivation, [55].
21. Assembly, a subscription one described, [91].
22. Astrology, its pretensions investigated, [234], [241].
23. Author, his feelings on concluding his Walk, [389].
B.
1. Barber, Alderman, his tomb and merit, [253].
2. Battersea-bridge, reflections on its toll, [41].
3. Ballot, choice by, its pernicious effect and erroneous principle, [91].
4. Bakewell, Mr. his mode of riding, [125].
5. Barnes Poor-house, libel on political economy, [193].
6. —— Common, its geological phenomena, [197].
7. —— Church-yard, reflections on, [215].
8. Bastile Palace, at Kew, [379].
9. Beggars, their habits and gains, [3] and [4].
10. Bee-hive, its buzz that of a distant town, [152].
11. Besborough, Lord, his seal, [177].
12. Bells, abuse of them, [210], [282].
13. Blenkinsop’s steam-engine, its convenient powers, [76].
14. Black balls, a majority of, how produced, [93].
15. Blair’s Universal Preceptor, its merits, [294].
16. Box-trees, ancient ones, [311].
17. Botanic Garden, at Chelsea, [37].
18. Bolingbroke, Lord, his house at Battersea, [51].
19. ——, recollections of, [54].
20. Book-clubs, a test of intellectual improvement, [98].
21. Book of Nature, described, [341].
22. British society, its radical diseases, [161].
23. Brunell, Mr. his workshops, [45].
24. Bramah, Mr. his ingenuity, [21].
25. Britain, mistress of imperial Rome, [36].
26. Buckingham House, notice of, [20].
27. Burke, his bigotry, [39].
28. Burial fees, account of, [382].
C.
1. Cæsar, his passage of the Thames, [35].
2. Causeways, necessity of improving, [126].
3. Cards, their absurd prognostics, [251].
4. Cause of causes, its instruments, [188].
5. ——, its incomprehensibleness, [272].
6. Catechism of Social Duties, its importance, [333].
7. Causes, physical and mental, defined, [238].
8. Causation, original, questions upon, [343].
9. Centinarian in Chelsea Hospital, [34].
10. Cemeteries, ought to be open, [216].
11. Certainty alone necessary, [237].
12. Chorus of the eye, [149].
13. Chaldeans, their demonology, [324].
14. Chances, laws of, govern all prognostication, [247], &c.
15. Church, system of attendance, [264].
16. ——, National, grounds for its moderation, [266].
17. Chabannes, Marquis de, his speculations, [223].
18. Chiswick, its bells and Church, [211].
19. Charters of Liberty, enumerated, [10].
20. Chelsea buns, notice of, [25].
21. Christianity, its total failure in preserving peace, [34].
22. ——, vulgar definition of, [371].
23. Changes, geological, their causes, [338].
24. Civilized and savage society contrasted, [102], [364].
25. Clerks, their ease of heart, [12].
26. Cleanliness, an auxiliary of virtue, [231].
27. Courtezans, cause of their turpitude, [27].
28. Contentment, its difficult acquisition, [43].
29. Commercial enterprise, instance of, [42].
30. Commons, their anti-social character, [155], [161].
31. Complaints of the poor, [106].
32. Cost of the poor at Wandsworth, [114].
33. Cottages, mile-stone and marine ones proposed, [127].
34. Conch, its sound that of a distant town, [152].
35. Cottage ornée described, [175].
36. Covent-garden market, mode of supplying, [225].
37. Compatibility of relative existences, [352].
38. Common Council of London, its patriotic conduct, 282, [note].
39. Creation, its never ceasing agents, [198], &c.
40. ——, its progress, [335].
41. Cuvier, M. his geological discoveries, [337].
D.
1. D’Antraigues, Count and Countess, their horrible assassination, [219].
2. Dancing assemblies, their mistaken arrangements, [91].
3. Death, how a source of consolation, [62].
4. Demon of war described, [89].
5. Devonshire, Duchess of, her amiable character, [213].
6. Demonology, its absurdities, [269].
7. Dead, the sympathy towards, [216].
8. Descendants, their numbers ascertained, [257].
9. Distilleries, the bad policy of encouraging them, [64].
10. Dimsdale, Sir Harry, Mayor of Garrat, [80].
11. Don Saltero, his museum, [38].
12. Dolland’s achromatics, their misapplication, [145].
13. Dormitories of avarice described, [127].
14. Dreams, no prognostics, [249], [251].
15. Dramas of real life, [117].
16. Druids, their impostures, [172].
17. Drunkenness, its pernicious effects, [65].
18. ——, its cause, [66].
19. Dundas, his baneful orgies, [192].
20. Dunstan, Sir Jeffery, Mayor of Garrat, [79].
E.
1. East-Sheen, its pleasant sights, [232], [278].
2. Earth, the, its primative state, [340].
3. Economy of a workhouse, [109].
4. ——, political, its primary law, [139].
5. Education, obligation to make it universal, [332].
6. ——, —— to teach public duties, [362].
7. Egyptians, their absurd mythology, [324].
8. Ellenborough, Lord, his residence, [178].
9. Electricity, illustrations of, [183] to [191].
10. Election at Garrat, described, [81].
11. Eloquence of Pitt, recollections of, [162].
12. England, its exemplary road system, [122].
13. Enclosure Bill proposed, [158].
14. Enclosing parks, objections to, [172].
15. Entrails of animals, no prognostics, [249].
16. End of the world, phenomena leading to it, [354].
17. Erasmus, his character, [39].
18. Essex, cleanliness of its towns, [230].
19. Eternals, what are so, [350].
20. External species infinite in number, [353].
21. Excise system, its mischievous effects, [255].
22. Experience, a transcendent quality in a statesman, [165].
23. ——, a chief test of truth, [268].
24. Eye, concert played on it, [148].
F.
1. Family group in a workhouse, [110].
2. Farming out the poor, its inhumanity, [113].
3. Fate and fatality, discussion on, [235] to [244].
4. Family of man, its necessary co-mixture, [259].
5. Fever of the brain, its mental hallucinations, [71], [271].
6. Fertility, means of preserving, [314].
7. Ferdinand, cost of his restoration, [42].
8. Female education, discussion respecting, [292].
9. Fear, its operation on the mind, [70].
10. Females on fire, mode of extinguishing, [139].
11. Ferme ornée, described, [175].
12. Final causes, their nature, [353].
13. Fitness in nature, the primary law, [200], [352].
14. Fires, mode of preventing, [135], [138].
15. Fire-house, Hartley’s, [135].
16. ——, interesting prospect from, [145].
17. Finance, Pitt’s absurd system, [164].
18. Flame, when ungovernable, [139].
19. Food of a labouring family, [105].
20. Foot-paths, necessity for good ones, [125].
21. Fortune-telling, its errors exposed, [369].
22. Fox, Charles James, his patriotic character, [164].
23. ——, his death, [218].
24. Food distributed from religious houses, [308].
25. French Encyclopædists, their oversight, [1].
26. France, its improvements under Napoleon, [121], [170].
27. Free agency demonstrated, 241, [note].
28. Fruit-trees, their general plantation recommended, [168].
29. Franklin, Dr. his electrical rods, [189].
G.
1. Gainsborough, his tomb and character, [383].
2. Garrat, mock mayor of, [77].
3. Galilean telescopes, preferred for telegraphs, [146].
4. Gardeners, their habits and slavery, [224].
5. Geometry, its connexion with nature, [189].
6. Geocentric phenomena, error relative, [246].
7. Generations, the law of their mixture, [260], &c.
8. George III. his liberal views on education, [332].
9. Geological changes, their causes traced, [339].
10. Ghosts, vulgar belief in, [68], [269].
11. Gipsies, interview with, [363].
12. Gluttony, lesson to, [195].
13. Goldsmid, Mr. his seat, character and history, [272].
14. Goodbehere, Alderman, his character, [256].
15. God, attributes of, [272].
16. Greeks, their mythological personification, [324].
17. Gravitation, its causes, [185].
18. Grief, its luxury described, [216].
19. Greatness, how best sustained, [17].
20. Grammars of Philosophy, &c. their merits, [294].
21. Great buildings, no standard of locality, [24].
22. —— men, their opinions no test of truth, [40].
23. Griffiths, Dr. anecdote of, [213].
24. Gradation of organized beings, [346].
25. Guelph, the Second, anecdote of, [208].
H.
1. Happiness, its production the test of worth, [8].
2. —— produced by employment, [174].
3. Haunted house, anecdotes of one, [66].
4. Harmony of relative existences, [352], [363].
5. Harper, Sir John, mayor of Garrat, [78].
6. Hartley, David, Esq. his fire-house described, [135].
7. Hayley, Mr. his epitaph on Meyer, [381].
8. Handel and Haydn compared, [149].
9. Hamilton, Lady, her distresses, [182].
10. Hedge-rows ought to be productive, [170].
11. Heat, its causes, [185].
12. Heydegger, his entertainment, [208].
13. Herschell, Dr. his clustering power, [351].
14. Historical justice, no atonement for suffering, [9].
15. Hindoos, their absurd mythology, [324].
16. Houses, method of securing them against fire, [139].
17. Home Tourist, his expected modesty, [2].
18. Howard, Mr. his exemplary character, [116].
19. Horses, cruelty of tight-reining them, [123].
20. House of Commons, character of its majorities, [163].
21. Hoare, Mr. his residence, [201].
22. Hogarth, Mrs. anecdote of, [213].
23. ——, Mr. his tomb and character, [388].
24. Horoscope, its supposed powers, [234].
25. House of God, its inadequacy, [271].
I.
1. Ignorance, the basis of superstition, [73].
2. Impress, its frightful tyranny, [366].
3. Infatuated nations characterized, [90].
4. Ingenuity superseded by taxation, [89].
5. Inclination of roads, determined, [121].
6. Instructors, clerical, their errors, [265].
7. Intellectual powers, their limited nature, [342].
8. —— philosophy, its indestructibility, [321].
9. Instincts of men compared, [364].
10. Iron-foundery, description of one, [86].
11. Isle of St. Peter’s, its ancient boundaries and modern splendor, [19].
J.
1. Jews, their superstitious demonology, [324].
2. Juries, Special, their disgraceful character, [255].
K.
1. Kelvedon, its cleanliness, [230].
2. Kew Priory, described, [376].
3. —— Green, ditto, [378].
4. Kit-Cat Club, its house at Barnes Elms, [201], [204].
5. ——, pictures, [207].
L.
1. Language, its means of improvement, [298].
2. Land, the patrimony of man, [159].
3. Lancaster, Mr. his system recommended, [333].
4. Lakes of North America, their probable fate, [327].
5. Law, its malignity and perversion, [362].
6. Legislation, summary of its duties, [104].
7. Life, compared to a morning’s walk, [390].
8. Living errors, corrected too late, [28].
9. Liberty, taught in popular elections, [84].
10. Life of man, described, [205], [256].
11. Lincoln, Bishop of, his attendance on Pitt, [166].
12. Lightning, destructive effects of, [182].
13. ——, means of security from, [189].
14. London, its features of ingress and egress, [13].
15. ——, reflection suggested by its distant prospect, [150].
16. ——, its population characterized, [153].
17. —— smoke, described, [130].
18. —— ——, its moral suggestions, [149].
19. Loco-motion, means of producing, [124].
20. Loco-motive beings, their peculiar economy, [347].
21. Lovers, the dupes of gipsies, [369].
22. Lumber trees, unfit for a civilized country, [169].
23. Luck and ill-luck, relative terms, [237].
M.
1. Matron of a workhouse, her character, [109].
2. Manners of the Londoners, [11].
3. Mall in St. James’s Park, its ancient splendor, [15].
4. Manufactory of pitch and turpentine, [56].
5. Manners, effects of a change of, [16].
6. Marsh of Westminster, reflection on, [20].
7. Madam and Mistress, distinction between, [212].
8. Machinery, ought not to injure workmen, [50].
9. Maurice, Mr. his merits as a Poet, [150].
10. Manufactory, a country one described, [85].
11. Matter, inorganic, laws governing, [344].
12. —— ——, whether eternal, [350].
13. Manual labour, its economy in manufactories, [88].
14. Maternal feelings in a workhouse, [112].
15. Man, his false assumption, [60], [359].
16. ——, his pride, [60], [358].
17. ——, his unsociable character, [95].
18. ——, his uncharitableness, [102].
19. ——, his numerous wants, [117].
20. ——, his vanity, [152].
21. ——, his monopolizing spirit, [155], [360].
22. ——, opposes himself to Providence, [158].
23. ——, his proper employment, [159].
24. ——, his true happiness, [174].
25. ——, his transitory state, [205], [361].
26. ——, his origin, progress, and decay, [205], [256].
27. ——, his common nature, [262], [360].
28. ——, his definite existence, [272].
29. ——, general views of his social state, [357].
30. ——, his cruelty to inferior creatures, [360].
31. Mercy, an engine of priestcraft, [307].
32. Mechanics, their relation to nature, [189].
33. Meyer, his tomb, [381].
34. Milk-fair, description of, [5].
35. Military education reprobated, [32].
36. Mile-stone and marine cottages recommended, [127].
37. Middleton, Mr. his estimates of Middlesex, [224].
38. Misery, dense mass of, [155].
39. Ministers of England, their narrow views, [167].
40. Monks, disinterment of their bones, [313].
41. Morris, Valentine, Esq. his benevolent character, [218], [300].
42. Moral deduced from the state of St. James’s palace, [15].
43. —— rule against great mischiefs, [28].
44. More, Sir Thomas, his residence and character, [38].
45. Motion, terrestrial, its general cause, 242, [note].
46. Mortlake Church-yard, reflections on, [232], [263].
47. Moral condition of London, [152].
48. Mortlake Church, reflections within, [363], [280].
49. Music, its abuse in war, [10].
50. Mutilated Soldiers at Chelsea Hospital, [27].
51. Mussulmen, their exemplary sobriety, [65].
52. Mysteries, religious, their origin, [265].
53. Mythology, its origin and progress, [320].
N.
1. Natural feelings violated in workhouses, [110].
2. Nature superior to art, [118], [154].
3. ——, its operations uncomplicated, [188].
4. ——, its governing principle, [200].
5. Napoleon, his improvements of France, [121], [170].
6. Nell Gwyn, founder of Chelsea Hospital, [26].
7. Necessity, doctrine of, investigated, [235], [244].
8. Novels, characterized, [98].
O.
1. Obligations of the rich to the poor, [103].
2. Oil mills, description of one, [84].
3. Organic life, difficulty of conceiving its principle, [349].
4. Organized beings, intricacy of the laws governing, [345].
5. Origin of organized beings, its philosophical obscurity, [346].
P.
1. Painting and Poetry, compared, [384].
2. Palace of the Regent, its costly fitting, [6].
3. Partridge, John, his tomb and errors, [233].
4. Parks of London, their utility and capability, [17].
5. ——, noblemen’s, their inutility, [133].
6. Patronage, cause of war, [29].
7. Parish allowances to the poor, [113].
8. Panorama from Wimbledon Common, [149].
9. Paper circulation always ruinous, [181].
10. Parish poor-houses described, [109], [193].
11. Peace, its security, [33].
12. Peach, its crawling myriads, [352].
13. Peter the Hermit, his fanaticism, [39].
14. Perihelion point, importance of its place in producing terrestrial changes, [339].
15. Penley, Mr. his garden at Mortlake, [310].
16. Philosophy, modern, its divinities, [324].
17. ——, address to, [327].
18. Philosophical speculations on unseen powers, [185].
19. Pilton’s fences recommended, [176].
20. Pitt, Mr. his death and character, [162].
21. Planetary influences, examined, [234], [252].
22. Poetry and Painting, compared, [384].
23. Poor, diseased, provision for, [5].
24. Pottery, observations on its antiquity and application, [300].
25. Pope, Mr. his parlour at Battersea, [53].
26. Popular elections, their importance, [82].
27. Policy, wicked, its features, [7].
28. Poverty and wealth, contrasted, [102].
29. Priestcraft, its origin and progress, [320].
30. Probabilities, their connexion with fortune-telling, [247].
31. Productive powers, their intricacy, [346].
32. Promenades, evening ones proposed, [90].
33. Prosperity, national, its true signs, [129].
34. Principals in trade, their cares, [12].
35. Promenade in St. James’s Park, its ancient splendor, [15].
36. Pride, lessons to correct, [60], [358].
37. Printing, its abuse, [362].
38. Public Debt, how has it been expended, [41].
39. Putney-Heath, objects upon it described, [137], [166].
40. Public purse, a necessary stimulus to candidates, [81].
R.
1. Ranelagh, its scite described, [21].
2. Railways, proposal for extending them, [75].
3. Religious houses turned into market-gardens, [303].
4. Reformation of Religion, [267].
5. Retreats of men of business, [101].
6. Repton, Mr. his powers of arrangement, [133].
7. Rivers, absurd worship of, [355].
8. ——, phenomena of their banks, [63], [356].
9. ——, agents of never-ceasing changes, [192].
10. Richmond Park, notice of, [166].
11. Rights of man, intrigues against, [219].
12. Road Police, suggested, [123].
13. Royal Family, fond of Chelsea buns, [26].
14. Rome sunk and London exalted, [36].
15. Roads, principle of constructing them, [121].
16. Roehampton, its cheerless aspect, [171].
17. Ruins, without antiquity, [23].
S.
1. Saws, circular, their wonderful powers, [46].
2. Self-knowledge, neglect of, [1], [362].
3. Secondary causes, their general nature, [189].
4. Senses, animal, their limited powers, [342].
5. Shoe-making machinery, account of, [47].
6. Show, policy of, among princes, [6].
7. Shropshire girls, their industry and beauty, [226].
8. Slavery, its protean shapes, [365].
9. Sloane, Sir Hans, his statue, [37]—tomb, [40].
10. Smoke, improperly emitted, [21].
11. —— of London, its remarkable phenomena, [130].
12. —— ——, plans for consuming, [132].
13. Soldiery, their specious character, [10].
14. Society, state of, in England, [90].
15. Soldiers, why and for what they are killed and wounded, [27].
16. Soldier, who had lost both arms, [29].
17. Spontaneous combustion, productive of superstition, [72].
18. Spencer, Lord, his park, [133].
19. Space, whether eternal, [350].
20. Stage-coach horses, mismanagement of, [123].
21. Standard of truth defined, [268].
22. Sterility of ancient countries, cause of, [356].
23. Statesmen, their mistaken policy, [4].
24. St. James’s palace, its ruined state, [14].
25. St. Paul’s Cathedral, [151].
26. St. Lawrence, the, its probable fate, [337].
27. Surfaces, the residence of electric power, [185].
28. Surrey, its disgraceful wastes, [156].
29. Supernatural appearances, referred to their causes, [70].
30. Survivors in regiments, their small numbers, [33].
31. Subjects for painters, [108].
32. Superstition, instances of, [69], [222].
33. ——, its origin and progress, [320].
34. Symmachus, his bigotry, [39].
T.
1. Taxes, not the sole business of governments, [18].
2. Tart-hall, account of, [18].
3. Taxation, its pernicious effects, [89].
4. Telegraphs, particulars of, [141], [146].
5. ——, their application to domestic purposes, [146].
6. Terror, vulgar, instances of, [68], [375].
7. Thames, its phenomena and changes, [355].
8. Thomson, the Poet, his town and character, [388].
9. Tides, their nature explained, [354].
10. Time and space characterized, [201], [256], [272].
11. Tooke, Mr. Horne, his character, [192].
12. Tonson, Jacob, his house at Barnes Elms, [201].
13. Trees, their importance in fertilization, [356].
14. Treasury, British, its pernicious powers, [9].
15. Transitory state of man, [16], [24], [52], [59], [312].
16. Treaty-breakers, appeal to them, [31].
17. Tragedies, in real life, [117], [140].
18. Tybourn, its present course, [19].
V.
1. Vegetables, their organization, [343].
2. Vital principle, its incomprehensible nature, [349].
3. Virtue, its worth, [350].
4. Virtuous exertion entitled to support, [104].
5. Village promenades, proposal for, [96].
6. Villages round London, their want of society, [100].
7. Villas, no signs of public wealth, [129].
8. Village bells, cause of their peculiar effect, [209].
9. Virtue, promoted by cleanliness, [231].
10. Vulcan, his residence, [86].
W.
1. Washington, the great, his character and glory, [7].
2. War-office, British, its equivocal merit, [9].
3. Water, the cause of change, [64].
4. War, its improper duration, [255].
5. ——, its horrors, associated with British grandeur, [11].
6. Want, the seat of its empire, [155].
7. ——, means of extinguishing, [159].
8. Wandsworth, its population, &c. [74].
9. —— workhouse, a visit to, [107].
10. Wages of labour, [105].
11. Walnut-trees, prodigious ones, [310].
12. Waithman, Mr. his patriotic character, [256].
13. Waste lands, a libel on political economy, [156].
14. Wealth, its personal consequences, [12].
15. ——, its relative nature, [103].
16. Welding Hammer, described, [86].
17. Westminster Abbey, characterized, [150].
18. Webb, Mr. his benevolent character, [116].
19. Wesley, Mr. his godlike zeal, [117].
20. —— his mode of riding, [135].
21. Webster, Mr. his geological discoveries, [337].
22. Welch girls, their industry and beauty, [226], [228].
23. Witham, its exemplary cleanliness, [230].
24. Winchester palace, notice of, [38].
25. Wimbledon Common, its elevation, [119].
26. ——, its misuse, [192].
27. Workmen, entitled to indemnity on the introduction of machinery, [49].
28. Woollet, Mr. his skill as an engraver, [134].
29. Workhouses, obligation to visit them, [105].
30. World, its end explained, [354].
31. Wood, Alderman, his patriotic character, [256].
32. Wordsworth, Mr. his poetical merit, [270].
33. Women, an employment worthy of them, [117].
Y.
1. York-house, the residence of Wolsey, [57].
Z.
1. Zoffany, Mr. his tomb and character, [386].