Mendicity, punished among the Jews and nations of antiquity, i. 199, 200; first made a trade of by liberated Christian slaves, 201; punishment of in China, 202.
Menot, Michael, a celebrated preacher, specimen of his sermons, i. 256.
Mental Disorders, singular mode of cure of, ii. 466; remarkable anecdotes of, 468-470.
Metempsychosis, doctrines of, advocated in the present age, i. 192; notion long extant in Greece before the time of Pythagoras, ib.; taught by the Egyptians, ib.; entertained by many Eastern nations and by the Druids, ib.; Welsh system of, explained by Sharon Turner, 193; believed in Mexico, 194; Plutarch’s description of, ib.
Michael Angelo, anecdote of, i. 258.
Mignard, a celebrated painter, curious anecdote concerning, i. 258, 259.
Milton, his controversy with Salmasius and Morus conducted with mutual revilings, i. 152, 153; absurdly criticised by Bentley, 370-373; indebted to Andreini for the first idea of Paradise Lost, ii. 141; his works suffered at the hands of both Royalist and Republican licensers, 223; his Areopagitica, 225; a passage in his History of England suppressed, but preserved in a pamphlet, 448; his Comus escaped the destruction of the Bridgewater papers, 451; the story of him and the Italian lady, probably an invention of George Steevens, iii. [299]; copied from a French story purporting to be of the 15th century, [300].
Milliners’bills, ancient and modern, ii. 39.
Mimes, Arch-mime followed the body of Vespasian at his funeral, iii. [120].