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James Russell Lowell
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  • M.
  • Macrobii, their diplomacy, [432].
  • Mahomet, got nearer Sinai than some, [422].
  • Mahound, his filthy gobbets, [400].
  • Mangum, Mr., speaks to the point, [418].
  • Manichæan, excellently confuted, [416].
  • Man-trees, grew where, [441].
  • Mares'-nests, finders of, benevolent, [427].
  • Marshfield, [443], [447].
  • Martin, Mr. Sawin used to vote for him, [448].
  • Mason and Dixon's line, slaves north of, [418].
  • Mass, the, its duty defined, [418].
  • Massachusetts on her knees, [392]
    • something mentioned in connection with, worthy the attention of tailors, [410]
    • citizen of, baked, boiled, and roasted (nefandum!), [438].
  • Masses, the, used as butter by some, [411].
  • M. C., an invertebrate animal, [413].
  • Mechanics' Fair, reflections suggested at, [433].
  • Mentor, letters of, dreary, [427].
  • Mephistopheles at a nonplus, [420].
  • Mexican blood, its effect in raising price of cloth, [442].
  • Mexican polka, [400].
  • Mexicans charged with various breaches of etiquette, [398]
    • kind feelings beaten into them, [425].
  • Mexico, no glory in overcoming, [410].
  • Military glory spoken disrespectfully of, [396], note
    • militia treated still worse, ib.
  • Milk-trees, growing still, [440].
  • Mills for manufacturing gabble, how driven, [415].
  • Milton, an unconscious plagiary, [409], note
    • a Latin verse of, cited, [422].
  • Missions, a profitable kind of, [423].
  • Monarch, a pagan, probably not favored in philosophical experiments, [394].
  • Money-trees desirable, [441]
    • that they once existed shown to be variously probable, ib.
  • Montaigne, a communicative old Gascon, [427].
  • Monterey, battle of, its singular chromatic effect on a species of two-headed eagle, [414].
  • Moses held up vainly as an example, [422]
    • construed by Joe Smith, ib.
  • Myths, how to interpret readily, [432].
  • N.
  • Naboths, Popish ones, how distinguished, [401].
  • Nation, rights of, proportionate to size, [398].
  • National pudding, its effect on the organs of speech, a curious physiological fact, [401].
  • Nephelim, not yet extinct, [453].
  • New England overpoweringly honored, [412]
    • wants no more speakers, ib.
    • done brown by whom, ib.
    • her experience in beans beyond Cicero's, [432].
  • Newspaper, the, wonderful, [425]
    • a strolling theatre, ib.
    • thoughts suggested by tearing wrapper of, [426]
    • a vacant sheet, ib.
    • a sheet in which a vision was let down, ib.
    • wrapper to a bar of soap, ib.
    • a cheap impromptu platter, ib.
  • New York, letters from, commended, [427].
  • Next life, what, [421].
  • Niggers, [390]
    • area of abusing, extended, [410]
    • Mr. Sawin's opinions of, [449].
  • Ninepence a day low for murder, [395].
  • No, a monosyllable, [401]
    • hard to utter, ib.
  • Noah, enclosed letter in bottle, probably, [427].
  • Nornas, Lapland, what, [441].
  • North, has no business, [419]
    • bristling, crowded off roost, [430].
  • North Bend, geese inhumanly treated at, [431]
    • mentioned, [443].
  • North star, a proposition to indict, [420].
  • O.
  • Off ox, [429].
  • Officers, miraculous transformation in character of, [399]
    • Anglo-Saxon, come very near being anathematized, ib.
  • O'Phace, Increase D., Esq., speech of, [408].
  • Oracle of Fools, still respectfully consulted, [408].
  • Orion, becomes commonplace, [426].
  • Orrery, Lord, his letters (lord!), [427].
  • Ostracism, curious species of, [408].
  • P.
  • Palestine, [399].
  • Palfrey, Hon. J. G., [408], [412], [413] (a worthy representative of Massachusetts).
  • Pantagruel recommends a popular oracle, [408].
  • Panurge, his interview with Goatsnose, [432].
  • Papists, female, slain by zealous Protestant bomb-shell, [442].
  • Paralipomenon, a man suspected of being, [431].
  • Paris, liberal principles safe as far away as, [422].
  • Parliamentum Indoctorum sitting in permanence, [408].
  • Past, the, a good nurse, [417].
  • Patience, sister, quoted, [396].
  • Paynims, their throats propagandistically cut, [400].
  • Penelope, her wise choice, [404].
  • People, soft enough, [423]
    • want correct ideas, [439].
  • Pepin, King, [428].
  • Periwig, [430].
  • Persius, a pithy saying of, [411], note.
  • Pescara, Marquis, saying of, [393].
  • Peter, Saint, a letter of (post-mortem), [428].
  • Pharisees, opprobriously referred to, [422].
  • Philippe, Louis, in pea-jacket, [425].
  • Phlegyas, quoted, [421].
  • Phrygian language, whether Adam spoke it, [394].
  • Pilgrims, the, [410].
  • Pillows, constitutional, [413].
  • Pinto, Mr., some letters of his commended, [428].
  • Pisgah, an impromptu one, [441].
  • Platform, party, a convenient one, [439].
  • Plato, supped with, [427]
    • his man, [431].
  • Pleiades, the, not enough esteemed, [426].
  • Pliny, his letters not admired, [427].
  • Plotinus, a story of, [417].
  • Plymouth Rock, Old, a Convention wrecked on, [410].
  • Point Tribulation, Mr. Sawin wrecked on, [440].
  • Poles, exile, whether crop of beans depends on, [397], note.
  • Polk, President, synonymous with our country, [403]
    • censured, [410]
    • in danger of being crushed, [411].
  • Polka, Mexican, [400].
  • Pomp, a runaway slave, his nest, [450]
    • hypocritically groans like white man, ib.
    • blind to Christian privileges, ib.
    • his society valued at fifty dollars, ib.
    • his treachery, [451]
    • takes Mr. Sawin prisoner, [452]
    • cruelly makes him work, ib.
    • puts himself illegally under his tuition, ib.
    • dismisses him with contumelious epithets, ib.
  • Pontifical bull, a tamed one, [399].
  • Pope, his verse excellent, [393].
  • Pork, refractory in boiling, [399].
  • Portugal, Alphonso the Sixth of, a monster, [453].
  • Post, Boston 174,
    • shaken visibly, [405]
    • bad guide-post, ib.
    • too swift, ib.
    • edited by a colonel, ib.
    • who is presumed officially in Mexico, ib.
    • referred to, [415].
  • Pot-hooks, death in, [432].
  • Preacher, an ornamental symbol, [421]
    • a breeder of dogmas, ib.
    • earnestness of, important, [453].
  • Present, considered as an annalist, [422]
    • not long wonderful, [426].
  • President, slaveholding natural to, [424]
    • must be a Southern resident, [439]
    • must own a nigger, ib.
  • Principle, exposure spoils it, [409].
  • Principles, bad, when less harmful, [401].
  • Prophecy, a notable one, [414].
  • Proviso, bitterly spoken of, [429].
  • Prudence, sister, her idiosyncratic teapot, [436].
  • Psammeticus, an experiment of, [394].
  • Public opinion, a blind and drunken guide, [401]
    • nudges Mr. Wilbur's elbow, ib.
    • ticklers of, [411].
  • Pythagoras a bean-hater, why, [432].
  • Pythagoreans, fish reverenced by, why, [416].
  • Q.
  • Quixote, Don, [417].
  • R.
  • Rag, one of sacred college, [401].
  • Rantoul, Mr., talks loudly, [396]
    • pious reason for not enlisting, ib.
  • Recruiting sergeant, Devil supposed the first, [393].
  • Representatives' Chamber, [416].
  • Rhinothism, society for promoting, [427].
  • Rhyme, whether natural not considered, [393].
  • Rib, an infrangible one, [435].
  • Richard the First of England, his Christian fervor, [399].
  • Riches conjectured to have legs as well as wings, [420].
  • Robinson, Mr. John P., his opinions fully stated, [402]-[404].
  • Rocks, pocket full of, [436].
  • Rough and Ready, [446]
    • a wig, [447]
    • a kind of scratch, ib.
  • Russian eagle turns Prussian blue, [414].
  • S.
  • Sabbath, breach of, [400].
  • Sabellianism, one accused of, [431].
  • Saltillo, unfavorable view of, [396].
  • Salt-river, in Mexican, what, [396].
  • Samuel, Uncle, riotous, [414]
    • yet has qualities demanding reverence, [423]
    • a good provider for his family, ib.
    • an exorbitant bill of, [442].
  • Sansculottes, draw their wine before drinking, [419].
  • Santa Anna, his expensive leg, [438].
  • Satan, never wants attorneys, [400]
    • an expert talker by signs, ib.
    • a successful fisherman with little or no bait, ib.
    • cunning fetch of, [402]
    • dislikes ridicule, [405]
    • ought not to have credit of ancient oracles, [414], note.
  • Satirist, incident to certain dangers, [401].
  • Savages, Canadian, chance of redemption offered to, [453].
  • Sawin, B., Esquire, his letter not written in verse, [393]
    • a native of Jaalam, [394]
    • not regular attendant on Rev. Mr. Wilbur's preaching, ib.
    • a fool, ib.
    • his statements trustworthy, ib.
    • his ornithological tastes, ib.
    • letter from, ib., [433], [443]
    • his curious discovery in regard to bayonets, [395], [396]
    • displays proper family pride, [395]
    • modestly confesses himself less wise than the Queen of Sheba, [398]
    • the old Adam in, peeps out, [399]
    • a miles emeritus, [433]
    • is made text for a sermon, ib.
    • loses a leg, [434]
    • an eye, ib.
    • left hand, ib.
    • four fingers of right hand, ib.
    • has six or more ribs broken, ib.
    • a rib. of his infrangible, ib.
    • allows a certain amount of preterite greenness in himself, [435], [436]
    • his share of spoil limited, [436]
    • his opinion of Mexican climate, ib.
    • acquires property of a certain sort, ib.
    • his experience of glory, [437]
    • stands sentry, and puns thereupon, [438]
    • undergoes martyrdom in some of its most painful forms, ib.
    • enters the candidating business, ib.
    • modestly states the (avail) abilities which qualify him for high political station, [438]-[440]
    • has no principles, [438]
    • a peace man, ib.
    • unpledged, ib.
    • has no objections to owning peculiar property, but would not like to monopolize the truth, [439]
    • his account with glory, [440]
    • a selfish motive hinted in, ib.
    • sails for Eldorado, ib.
    • shipwrecked on a metaphorical promontory, ib.
    • parallel between, and Rev. Mr. Wilbur (not Plutarchian), [442]
    • conjectured to have bathed in river Selemnus, [443]
    • loves plough wisely, but not too well, ib.
    • a foreign mission probably expected by, [444]
    • unanimously nominated for presidency, ib.
    • his country's father-in-law, ib.
    • nobly emulates Cincinnatus, [445]
    • is not a crooked stick, ib.
    • advises his adherents, ib.
    • views of, on present state of politics, [445]-[449]
    • popular enthusiasm for, at Bellers's, and its disagreeable consequences, [446]
    • inhuman treatment of, by Bellers, ib.
    • his opinion of the two parties, [447]
    • agrees with Mr. Webster, [448]
    • his antislavery zeal, ib.
    • his proper self-respect, ib.
    • his unaffected piety, ib.
    • his not intemperate temperance, [449]
    • a thrilling adventure of, [449]-[452]
    • his prudence and economy, [450]
    • bound to Captain Jakes, but regains his freedom, ib.
    • is taken prisoner, [451], [452]
    • ignominiously treated, [452]
    • his consequent resolution, ib.
  • Sayres, a martyr, [416].
  • Scaliger, saying of, [402].
  • Scarabæus pilularius, [397].
  • Scott, General, his claims to the presidency, [405], [407].
  • Scythians, their diplomacy commended, [432].
  • Seamen, colored, sold, [392].
  • Selemnus, a sort of Lethean river, [443].
  • Senate, debate in, made readable, [416].
  • Seneca, saying of, [401]
    • another, [414], note
    • overrated by a saint (but see Lord Bolingbroke's opinion of, in a letter to Dean Swift), [427]
    • his letters not commended, ib.
    • a son of Rev. Mr. Wilbur, [442].
  • Serbonian bog of literature, [416].
  • Sextons, demand for, 396
    • heroic official devotion of one, [453].
  • Shaking fever, considered as an employer, [436].
  • Shakspeare, a good reporter, [408].
  • Sham, President, honest, [411].
  • Sheba, Queen of, [398].
  • Sheep, none of Rev. Mr. Wilbur's turned wolves, [394].
  • Shem, Scriptural curse of, [452].
  • Show, natural to love it, [396], note.
  • Silver spoon born in Democracy's mouth, what, [411].
  • Sinai, suffers outrages, [422].
  • Sin, wilderness of, modern, what, [422].
  • Skin, hole in, strange taste of some for, [437].
  • Slaughter, whether God strengthen us for, [400].
  • Slaughterers and soldiers compared, [443].
  • Slaughtering nowadays is slaughtering, [443].
  • Slavery, of no color, [391]
    • cornerstone of liberty, [415]
    • also keystone, [418]
    • last crumb of Eden, [420]
    • a Jonah, ib.
    • an institution, [431]
    • a private State concern, [450].
  • Smith, Joe, used as a translation, [422].
  • Smith, John, an interesting character, [426].
  • Smith, Mr., fears entertained for, [421]
    • dined with, [427].
  • Smith, N. B., his magnanimity, [425].
  • Soandso, Mr., the great, defines his position, [425].
  • Sol the fisherman, [397]
    • soundness of respiratory organs hypothetically attributed to, ib.
  • Solon, a saying of, [401].
  • South Carolina, futile attempt to anchor, [417].
  • Spanish, to walk, what, [398].
  • Speech-making, an abuse of gift of speech, [415].
  • Star, north, subject to indictment, whether, [420].
  • Store, cheap cash, a wicked fraud, [441].
  • Strong, Governor Caleb, a patriot, [404].
  • Swearing commended as a figure of speech, [394], note.
  • Swift, Dean, threadbare saying of, [405].
  • T.
  • Tag, elevated to the Cardinalate, [401].
  • Taxes, direct, advantages of, [442].
  • Taylor zeal, its origin, [446]
    • General, greased by Mr. Choate, [448].
  • Tesephone, banished for long-windedness, [416].
  • Thanks, get lodged, [437].
  • Thaumaturgus, St. Gregory, letter of, to the Devil, [428].
  • Thirty-nine articles might be made serviceable, [400].
  • Thor, a foolish attempt of, [417].
  • Thumb, General Thomas, a valuable member of society, [413].
  • Thunder, supposed in easy circumstances, [435].
  • Thynne, Mr., murdered, [393].
  • Time, an innocent personage to swear by, [394]
    • a scene-shifter [426].
  • Toms, Peeping, [426].
  • Trees, various kinds of extraordinary ones, [440], [441].
  • Trowbridge, William, mariner, adventure of, [400].
  • Truth and falsehood start from same point, [402]
    • truth invulnerable to satire, ib.
    • compared to a river, [408]
    • of fiction sometimes truer than fact, ib.
    • told plainly, passim.
  • Tuileries, exciting scene at, [414].
  • Tully, a saying of, [409], note.
  • Tweedledee, gospel according to, [422].
  • Tweedledum, great principles of, [422].
  • U.
  • Ulysses, husband of Penelope, [404]
    • borrows money, [441].
    • (For full particulars of, see Homer and Dante.)
  • University, triennial catalogue of, [406].
  • V.
  • Van Buren fails of gaining Mr. Sawin's confidence, [448]
    • his son John reproved, ib.
  • Van, Old, plan to set up, [449].
  • Venetians, invented something once, [441].
  • Vices, cardinal, sacred conclave of, [401].
  • Victoria, Queen, her natural terror, [414].
  • Virgin, the, letter of, to Magistrates of Messina, [428].
  • Vratz, Captain, a Pomeranian, singular views of, [393].