The Biglow Papers - James Russell Lowell

Babel, probably the first Congress, [53]
- —a gabble-mill, [ib.]
Baby, a low-priced one, [98].
Bagowind, Hon. Mr., whether to be damned, [63].
Baldwin apples, [125].
Baratarias, real or imaginary, which most pleasant, [102].
Barnum, a great natural curiosity recommended to, [49].
Barrels, an inference from seeing, [125].
Bâton Rouge, [106]
- —strange peculiarities of labourers at, [107].
Baxter, R., a saying of, [35].
Bay, Mattysqumscot, [119].
Bay State, singular effect produced on military officers by leaving it, [21].
Beast in Apocalypse, a loadstone, for whom, [83].
Beelzebub, his rigadoon, [61].
Behmen, his letters not letters, [76].
Bellers, a saloon-keeper, [111]
- —inhumanly refuses credit to a presidential candidate, [112].
Biglow, Ezekiel, his letter to Hon. J. T. Buckingham, [1]
- —never heard of any one named Mundishes, [2]
- —nearly four-score years old, [ib.]
- —his aunt Keziah, a notable saying of, [3].
Biglow, Hosea, excited by composition, [2]
- —a poem by, [3], [66]
- —his opinion of war, [4]
- —wanted at home by Nancy, [7]
- —recommends a forcible enlistment of warlike editors, [ib.]
- —would not wonder, if generally agreed with, [9]
- —versifies letter of Mr. Sawin, [11]
- —a letter from, [12], [57], [77]
- —his opinion of Mr. Sawin, [12]
- —does not deny fun at Cornwallis, [14], [note]
- —his idea of militia glory, [17], [note]
- —a pun of, [18], [note]
- —is uncertain in regard to people of Boston, [ib.]
- —had never heard of Mr. John P. Robinson, [27]
- —aliquid sufflaminandus, [28]
- —his poems attributed to a Mr. Lowell, [33]
- —is unskilled in Latin, [ib.]
- —his poetry maligned by some, [34]
- —his disinterestedness, [ib.]
- —his deep share in commonweal, [ib.]
- —his claim to the presidency, [ib.]
- —his mowing, [ib.]
- —resents being called Whig, [35]
- —opposed to tariff, [ib.]
- —obstinate, [ib.]
- —infected with peculiar notions, [ib.]
- —reports a speech, [40]
- —emulates historians of antiquity, [ib.]
- —his character sketched from a hostile point of view, [52]
- —a request of his complied with, [64]
- —appointed at a public meeting in Jaalam, [77]
- —confesses ignorance, in one minute particular, of propriety, [ib.]
- —his opinion of cocked hats, [ib.]
- —letter to, [ib.]
- —called "Dear Sir," by a general, [ib.]
- —probably receives same compliment from two hundred and nine, [ib.]
- —picks his apples, [125]
- —his crop of Baldwins conjecturally large, [ib.]
Billings, Dea. Cephas, [14].
Birch, virtue of, in instilling certain of the dead languages, [100].
Bird of our country sings hosanna, [16].
Blind, to go it, [98].
Blitz pulls ribbons from his mouth, [16].
Bluenose potatoes, smell of, eagerly desired, [17].
Bobtail obtains a cardinal's hat, [25].
Bolles, Mr. Secondary, author of prize peace essay, [15]
- —presents sword to Lieutenant Colonel, [ib.]
- —a fluent orator, [ib.]
- —found to be in error, [17].
Bonaparte, N., a usurper, [83].
Boot-trees, productive, where, [100].
Boston, people of, supposed educated, [18], [note].
Brahmins, navel-contemplating, [74].
Bread-trees, [100].
Brigadier-Generals in militia, devotion of, [38].
Brown, Mr., engages in an unequal contest, [63].
Browne, Sir T., a pious and wise sentiment of, cited and commended, [11].
Buckingham, Hon. J. T., editor of the Boston Courier, letters to, [1], [12], [33], [57]
- —not afraid, [13].
Buffalo, a plan hatched there, [115]
- —plaster, a prophecy in regard to, [ib.]
Buncombe, in the other world supposed, [41].
Bung, the eternal, thought to be loose, [7].
Bungtown Fencibles, dinner of, [26].
Butter in Irish bogs, [100].

C., General, commended for parts, [29]
- —for ubiquity, [ib.]
- —for consistency, [ib.]
- —for fidelity, [ib.]
- —is in favour of war, [ib.]
- —his curious valuation of principle, [ib.]
Cæsar, tribute to, [66]
- —his veni, vidi, vici, censured for undue prolixity, [85].
Cainites, sect of, supposed still extant, [10].
Caleb, a monopoly of his denied, [15]
- —curious notions of, as to meaning of "shelter," [19]
- —his definition of Anglo-Saxon, [20]
- —charges Mexicans (not with bayonets, but) with improprieties, [ib.]
Calhoun, Hon. J. C., his cow-bell curfew, light of the nineteenth century to be extinguished at sound of, [55]
- —cannot let go apron-string of the Past, [ib.]
- —his unsuccessful tilt at Spirit of the Age, [56]
- —the Sir Kay of modern chivalry, [ib.]
- —his anchor made of a crooked pin, [57]
- —mentioned, [58-61].
Cambridge Platform, use discovered for, [24].
Canary Islands, [100].
Candidate, presidential, letter from, [74]
- —smells a rat, [78]
- —against a bank, [79]
- —takes a revolving position, [ib.]
- —opinion of pledges, [80]
- —is a periwig, [ib.]
- —fronts south by north, [81]
- —qualifications of, lessening, [85]
- —wooden leg (and head) useful to, [96].
Cape Cod clergymen, what, [24]
- —Sabbath-breakers, perhaps, reproved by, [ib.]
Carpini, Father John de Plano, among the Tartars, [123].
Cartier, Jacques, commendable zeal of, [123].
Cass, General, [59]
- —clearness of his merit, [60]
- —limited popularity at "Bellers's," [111].
Castles, Spanish, comfortable accommodations in, [102].
Cato, letters of, so called, suspended naso adunco, [76].
C. D., friends of, can hear of him, [76].
Chalk egg, we are proud of incubation of, [75].
Chappelow on Job, a copy of, lost, [65].
Cherubusco, news of, its effects on English royalty, [50].
Chesterfield no letter-writer, [76].
Chief Magistrate, dancing esteemed sinful by, [24].
Children naturally speak Hebrew, [11].
China-tree, [100].
Chinese, whether they invented gunpowder before the Christian era, not considered, [25].
Choate hired, [113].
Christ shuffled into Apocrypha, [25]
- —conjectured to disapprove of slaughter and pillage, [30]
- —condemns a certain piece of barbarism, [63].
Christianity, profession of, plebian, whether, [10].
Christian soldiers, perhaps inconsistent, whether, [38].
Cicero, an opinion of, disputed, [84].
Cilley, Ensign, author of nefarious sentiment, [26].
Cimex lectularius, [18].
Cincinnatus, a stock character in modern comedy, [106].
Civilization, progress of, an alias, [65]
- —rides upon a powder-cart, [79].
Clergymen, their ill husbandry, [64]
- —their place in processions, [105]
- —some, cruelly banished for the soundness of their lungs, [123].
Cocked-hat, advantages of being knocked into, [77].
College of Cardinals, a strange one, [25].
Colman, Dr. Benjamin, anecdote of, [38].
Coloured folks, curious national diversion of kicking, [19].
Colquitt, a remark of, [60]
- —acquainted with some principles of aerostation, [ib.]
Columbia, District of, its peculiar climatic effects, [44]
- —not certain that Martin is for abolishing it, [115].
Columbus, a Paul Pry of genius, [74].
Columby, [109].
Complete Letter-Writer, fatal gift of, [82].
Compostella, St. James of, seen, [22].
Congress, singular consequence of getting into, [43].
Congressional debates, found instructive, [53].
Constituents, useful for what, [44].
Constitution trampled on, [58]
- —to stand upon, what, [78].
Convention, what, [44].
Convention, Springfield, [44].
Coon, old, pleasure in skinning, [59].
Coppers, caste in picking up of, [94].
Copres, a monk, his excellent method of arguing, [54].
Cornwallis, a, [14]
- —acknowledged entertaining, [ib.], [note].
Cotton Mather, summoned as witness, [23].
Country lawyers, sent providentially, [31].
Country, our, its boundaries more exactly defined, [32]
- —right or wrong, nonsense about exposed, [ib.]
Courier, The Boston, an unsafe print, [52].
Court, General, farmers sometimes attain seats in, [107].
Cowper, W., his letters commended, [76].
Creed, a safe kind of, [97].
Crusade, first American, [23].
Cuneiform script recommended, [85].
Curiosity distinguishes man from brutes, [74].

Davis, Mr., of Mississippi, a remark of his, [59].
Day and Martin, proverbially "on hand," [2].
Death, rings down curtain, [72].
Delphi, oracle of, surpassed, [51], [note]
- —alluded to, [83].
Destiny, her account, [49].
Devil, the, unskilled in certain Indian tongues, [23].
Dey of Tripoli, [55].
Diaz, Bernal, has a vision, [22]
- —his relationship to the Scarlet Woman, [ib.]
Didymus, a somewhat voluminous grammarian, [83].
Dighton rock character might be usefully employed in some emergencies, [84].
Dimitry Bruisgins, fresh supply of, [73].
Diogenes, his zeal for propagating certain variety of olive, [100].
Dioscuri, imps of the pit, [23].
District-Attorney, contemptible conduct of one, [55].
Ditchwater on brain, a too common ailing, [54].
Doctor, the, a proverbial saying of, [22].
Doughface, yeast-proof, [69].
Drayton, a martyr, [55]
- —north star, culpable for aiding, whether, [62].

Earth, Dame, a peep at her housekeeping, [56].
Eating words, habit of, convenient in time of famine, [49].
Eavesdroppers, [74].
Editor, his position, [64]
- —commanding pulpit of, [ib.]
- —large congregation of, [ib.]
- —name derived from what, [66]
- —fondness for mutton, [ib.]
- —a pious one, his creed, [ib.]
- —a showman, [71]
- —in danger of sudden arrest, without bail, [72].
Editors, certain ones who crow like cockerels, [7].
Egyptian darkness, phial of, use for, [84].
Eldorado, Mr. Sawin sets sail for, [100].
Elizabeth, Queen, mistake of her ambassador, [41].
Empedocles, [74].
Employment, regular, a good thing, [93].
Epaulets, perhaps no badge of saint-ship, [30].
Episcopius, his marvellous oratory, [123].
Eric, king of Sweden, his cap, [101].
Evangelists, iron ones, [24].
Eyelids, a divine shield against authors, [54].
Ezekiel, text taken from, [64].

Factory-girls, expected rebellion of, [60].
Family-trees, fruit of jejune, [100].
Faneuil Hall, a place where persons tap themselves for a species of hydrocephalus, [54]
- —a bill of fare mendaciously advertised in, [100].
Father of country, his shoes, [108].
Female Papists, cut off in midst of idolatry, [104].
Fire, we all like to play with it, [56].
Fish, emblematic, but disregarded, where, [54].
Flam, President, untrustworthy, [45].
Fly-leaves, providential increase of, [54].
Foote, Mr., his taste for field-sports, [58].
Fourier, a squinting toward, [52].
Fourth of Julys, boiling, [42].
France, a strange dance begun in, [61].
Fuller, Dr. Thomas, a wise saying of, [28].
Funnel, Old, hurraing in, [15].

Gawain, Sir, his amusements, [56].
Gay, S. H., Esquire, editor of National Antislavery Standard, letter to, [74].
Getting up early, [4], [20].
Ghosts, some, presumed fidgety, (but see Stilling's Pneumatology,) [75].
Giants formerly stupid, [56].
Gift of Tongues, distressing case of, [53].
Globe Theatre, cheap season-ticket to, [72].
Glory, a perquisite of officers, [94]
- —her account with B. Sawin, Esq., [99].
Goatsnose, the celebrated interview, with, [84].
Gray's letters are letters, [76].
Great horn spoon, sworn by, [58].
Greeks, ancient, whether they questioned candidates, [84].
Green Man, sign of, [35].

Ham, sandwich, an orthodox (but peculiar) one, [62].
Hamlets, machine for making, [87].
Hammon, [51], [note], [83].
Hannegan, Mr., something said by, [59].
Harrison, General, how preserved, [82].
Hat-trees, in full bearing, [100].
Hawkins, Sir John, stout, something he saw, [100].
Henry the Fourth, of England, a Parliament of, how named, [41].
Hercules, his second labour probably what, [124].
Herodotus, story from, [11].
Hesperides, an inference from, [100].
Holden, Mr. Shearjashub, Preceptor of Jaalam Academy, [83]
- —his knowledge of Greek limited, [ib.]
- —a heresy of his, [ib.]
- —leaves a fund to propagate it, [84].
Hollis, Ezra, goes to a Cornwallis, [14].
Hollow, why men providentially so constructed, [42].
Homer, a phrase of, cited, [65].
Horners, democratic ones, plums left for, [46].
Howell, James, Esq. story told by, [41]
- —letters of, commended, [76].
Human rights out of order on the floor of Congress, [58].
Humbug, ascription of praise to, [70]
- —generally believed in, [ib.]
Husbandry, instance of bad, [28].

Icarius, Penelope's father, [32].
Infants, prattlings of, curious observation concerning, [11].
Information wanted (universally, but especially at page), [76].

Jaalam Centre, Anglo-Saxons unjustly suspected by the young ladies there, [21]
- —"Independent Blunderbuss," strange conduct of editor of, [64]
- —public meeting at, [77].
Jaalam Point, light-house on charge of prospectively offered to Mr. H. Biglow, [81]
- —meeting-house ornamented with imaginary clock, [102].
Jakes, Captain, [119]
- —reproved for avarice, [ib.]
James the Fourth of Scots, experiment by, [11].
Jarnagin, Mr., his opinion of the completeness of Northern education, [60].
Jerome, Saint, his list of sacred writers, [76].
Job, Book of, [10]
- —Chappelow on, [65].
Johnson, Mr., communicates some intelligence, [61].
Jonah, the inevitable destiny of, [62]
- —probably studied internal economy of the cetacea, [75].
Jortin, Dr., cited [39], [51], [note].
Judea, everything not known there, [31].
Juvenal, a saying of, [50], [note].

Kay, Sir, the, of modern chivalry, who, [56].
Key, brazen one, [55].
Keziah, Aunt, profound observation of, [3].
Kinderhook, [106].
Kingdom Come, march to, easy, [89].
Königsmark, Count, [10].