EDINBURGH:
WILLIAM P. NIMMO.
MURRAY AND GIBB, EDINBURGH,
PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Abernethy and the Duke of York, [61];
Anecdotes of, [83];
Conquered by Curran, [151]
Abstinence, Precept and Example of, [21]
Agricultural Defence of Bigotry, An, [138]
André Boulanger, Father, [70]
Angel-Worship, [110]
Antics of the Fanatics, [66]
Application, A Too Personal, [124]
Archbishop's Installation Feast, An, [76]
Archdeacon? What is an, [99]
"Atterbury's Pad", [16]
Awkward Association, An, [81]
Baptism, A Sanitary View of, [40]
Barrow, The Exhaustive, [15]; his Rhymes with Reason, [63]
Barrowby, Dr., Anecdotes of, [126]
Baxter, Addison's Introduction to, [13];
Cromwell and, [131]
Berkeley's (Bishop) Bermuda Scheme, [33]
Bishops and the Poor, [150]
Blomfield's Rebuke to Non-Resident Rectors, [85]
Blood-Jewels, Queen Elizabeth's, [22]
Bloodletters, Blunders of, [149]
Bottle-Blind, [104]
Bourdaloue, Bold Application of, [146]
"Breaking-up" before the Holidays, [104]
Bunyan's Successful and Persistent Preaching, [111]
Burgess, Daniel, Pulpit Jokes of, [86]
Burnet, Bishop, Against Pluralities, [151]
Capacity of an Abbé, The, [100]
Charles II. and his Chaplain, [30]
Christian Names among the Puritans, [98]
Civil to the Prince of Evil, [113]
Clergy, Benefit of, [101]
Commonwealth Preachers, South on the, [45]
Cooper's (Sir Astley) Night-Cap Fee, [11]
Crabbe, George, The Apothecary Poet, [144]
Cucumber, How to Dress a, [18]
Curate and the Duke, The, [23]
Cure of Souls, A Desirable, [127]
Dangers of Too Good Company, The, [82]
Da Vinci a Great Anatomist, [77]
Devotion of a Catholic Priest, [85]
Diffidence in the Pulpit, [97]
Donne's (Dr.) Prayerful Pun, [143]
Drubbing-in Religious Feeling, [121]
Fees, Ancient, of Magnitude, [89];
Early English, [89];
in the Reign of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth, [90];
After the Revolution, [91];
Large Royal, in Later Times, [92];
For a Political Consultation, [94];
Generous Refusal of, [95];
Sticklers for, [95];
Collectively Irresistible, [96]
Flavel's "Day of Heaven", [24]
Footscrapers Reproved, The, [17]
Garrick's Precepts for Preachers, [147]
George II. as an Amateur Surgeon, [148]
Gibbon's Retort on the Physician, [51]
Gilpin and the Northumbrian Brawlers, [19]
Gospel, The, A Novelty, [34]
Gregory, Dr., Generosity of, [73]
Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood, [35]
Herrnhuters, the, Extravagances of, [78]
Hill, The Rev. Rowland, [157]
Hour-Glasses in Church, [49]
How to be Kept in Health, [64]
Hunter (William) and Cullen, The Partnership of, [14]
Hunter, John, the Anatomist, [139]; Routing the Rout, [65]
Iconoclastic Zeal in the North, [137]
Indian Commerce, Origin of our, [122]
Intercessor for Himself, An, [71]
Interpolation, A Significant, [27]
Jebb, Sir Richard, [40]
Jenner, the Discoverer of Vaccination, [107]
Kennet, Bishop, on Late Repentance, [42]
Kirwan, Dr., Dean of Killala, [55]
Knox, John, Fearlessness of, [105]
Leighton, Archbishop, on Time and Eternity, [159]
Lettsom's Liberation of his Slaves, [112]
Licenced Lay Preaching, [62]
"Make the Most of Him", [158]
Mal-apropos Quotation, A, [43]
Masses Transferred, [21]
Massillon, Eloquence of, [12]
Mathews on his Deathbed, [32]
Mayerne, Sir Theodore, [92]
Medicine, A Royal, [25]
Methodist Dog, The, [50]
Mild Criticism, A, [48]
Monsey, Messenger, his Dying Jests, [132]
Nash's (Beau) Treatment of a Prescription, [128]
Pacific She, A, [158]
Paley's Career, Turning Point in, [81];
Economy of Conscience, [97]
Perkins' "Tractors" Exposed, [113]
Perversion of Scripture, A Clever, [136]
Peter the Great as Dentist, [47]
Physicians and their Fees, [86]; and Clergymen, [159]
Playing-Cards, Puritan Re-Christening of, [139]
Pope's Last Epigram, [68]
Prayer, A Loyal and Fata, [124]
Preacher, A Popular, [16]; A Witty French, [130]
Preaching for a Crown, [54]
Preaching to Purpose, Latimer's, [124]
Preparing for the Worst and Best, [143]
Prescription in Disguise, A, [18];
Prescription for Long Life, A, [61]
Promotion, The Way to, [145]
Pulteney's Cure by Small Beer, [128]
Radcliffe's Enmity to Hannes, [30]
Radcliffe and Kneller, [58]
Revival of "Prophesying," Lord Bacon on the, [141]
Revolution, The French, and the Bible, [107]
Rude Truth for a Queen, [75]
Saint's Bell, The, [39]
Seaman Bishop, The, [27]
Sermon Reading, Charles II. on, [44]
Servant and Master, [126]
Shedding his Blood for his Country, [54]
Slaps for Sleepers in Church, [59]
Sloane, Sir Hans, [154]
Smith, Sydney, Bon-Mots of, [121]
Sterne, A Home Thrust at, [34]
Stillingfleet, Charles II. and Bishop, [123]
Sunday Sports, James I. on, [37]
Swift's (Dean) Contributory Dinner, [102]
"Tapping" a Toper, [100]
Tar-water, The Power of, [22]
Taylor, Jeremy, on Marriage, [57]
Tillotson, Archbishop, Charity of, [120]
Transfusion of Blood, [68]
Trump Cards, [52]
Two-Edged Accusation, A, [58]
Two Gates of Heaven, The, [51]
Unconcern in Presence of Death, [137]
Unlucky Coincidence, An, [61]
Unmistakeable Identity, [134]
Unpreaching Prelates, [28]
Wasdale's (Dr.) Long Ride, [136]
Wesley and Beau Nash, [106]
Whately, Witticisms of Archbishop, [152]
Whitfield, Persuasiveness of, [52];
his Influence on the Church, [72];
"Improving" an Execution in Edinburgh, [117];
Dr. Johnson's Opinion of, [118];
and the New York Sailors, [135];
and the Kingswood Colliers, [153]
Wolcot, Dr. ("Peter Pindar") in Jamaica, [119]