Swearing, commended as a fig-
ure of speech, 37, note.
Swift, Dean, threadbare saying
of, 60.
Tag, elevated to the Cardinal-
ate, 51.
Slaughterers and soldiers com-
pared, 138
Slaughtering
slaughtering, 138.
Slavery, of no color, 29-corner-
stone of liberty, 80 — also
keystone, 87-last crumb of
Eden, 91-a Jonah, 92-an
institution, 111- a private
State concern, 153.
Smith, Joe, used as a transla-
tion, 95.
Smith, John, an interesting cha-
racter, 104.
Smith, Mr., fears entertained
for, 93-dined with, 105.
Smith, N. B., his magnanimity,
102.
Soandso, Mr., the great, defines
his position, 102.
Sol, the fisherman, 43-sound-
ness of respiratory organs
hypothetically attributed to,
Solon, a saying of, 51.
South Carolina, futile attempt
to anchor, 86
Spanish, to walk, what, 45.
Speech-making, an abuse of gift
of speech, 81.
Star, north, subject to indict-
ment, whether, 92.
Store, cheap cash, a wicked
fraud, 135.
Strong, Governor Caleb, a pa-
triot, 57.
Taxes, direct, advantages, of,
136, 137.
Taylor zeal, its origin, 147—
General, greased by Mr.
Choate, 148, 149.
Thanks, get lodged, 126.
Thirty-nine articles might be
made serviceable, 50.
Thor, a foolish attempt of, 85.
Thumb, General Thomas, a
valuable member of society,
76.
Thunder, supposed in easy cir-
cumstances, 122.
Thynne, Mr., murdered, 34.
Time, an innocent personage to
swear by, 37-a scene-shifter
Toms, Peeping, 104.
Trees, various kinds of extra-
ordinary ones, 134.
Trowbridge, William, mariner,
adventure of, 50.
Truth and falsehood start from
same point, 53-truth invul.
nerable to satire, ib.-com-
pared to a river, 65-of fiction
sometimes truer than fact, ib.
-told plainly, passim.
Tuileries, exciting scene at, 79.
Tully, a saying of, 68, note.
Tweedledee, gospel according
to, 96.
Tweedledum, great principles
of, 96.
Walpole, Horace, classed, 105-
his letters praised, 106.
Waltham Plain, Cornwallis at,
38.
Walton, punctilious in his in-
tercourse with fishes, 50.
War, abstract, horrid, 109-its
hoppers, grist of, what, 127.
Warton, Thomas, a story of, 63.
Washington, charge brought
against, 142.
Washington, city of, climatic in-
fluence of, on coats, 69-
mentioned, 84-grand jury
of, 92.
Washingtons, two hatched at a
time by improved machine,
142.
Water, Taunton, proverbially
weak, 152.
Water-trees, 134.
Webster, some sentiments of
commended by Mr. Sawin,
Westcott, Mr., his horror, 91.
Whig party, has a large throat,
61-but query as to swallow-
ing spurs, 149.
White-house, 112.
Wife-trees, 134.
Wilbur, Rev. Homer, A.M., con-
sulted, 24-his instructions
to his flock, 36-a proposition
of his for Protestant bomb-
shells, 50-his elbow nudged,
51-his notions of satire, 52
-some opinions of his quot-
ed with apparent approval by
Mr. Biglow, 56-geographi-
cal speculations of, 57-a
justice of the peace, ib.-
-a
letter of, 58-a Latin pun of,
59-runs against a post with-
out injury, 60-does not seek
notoriety (whatever some ma-
lignants may affirm), 62-fits
youths for college, ib.—a chap-
lain during late war with Eng-
land, 64-a shrewd observa-
tion of, 66-some curious
speculations of, 81-83-his
martello-tower, 81-forgets
he is not in pulpit, 92, 117, 119
-extracts from sermon of, 94,
96-interested in John Smith,
104-his views concerning
present state of letters, 104-
107-a stratagem of, 113-
ventures two hundred and
fourth interpretation of Beast
in Apocalypse, 114 -christens
Hon. B. Sawin, then an in-
fant, 118-an addition to our
sylva proposed by, 134-curi-
ous and instructive adventure | Wilbur, Mrs., an invariable rule
of, 135-136-his account of, 62-her profile, 63.
how to escape, 82.
Wind, the, a good Samaritan,
with an unnatural uncle, 137 Wildbore, a vernacular one,
-his uncomfortable imagina-
tion, 138-speculations con
cerning Cincinnatus, 139, 140
confesses digressive ten-
dency of mind, ib.-goes to
work on sermon (not without
fear that his readers will dub
him with a reproachful epithet
like that with which Isaac
Allerton, a Mayflower man,
revenges himself on a delin-
quent debtor of his, calling
him in his will, and thus
holding him up to posterity,
as "John Peterson, THE
BORE"), 161.
Wooden leg, remarkable for
sobriety, 120 - never eats
pudding, 122.
Wright, Colonel, providentially
rescued, 43.
Wrong, abstract, safe to oppose,
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[I HAVE observed, reader, (bene- or male-volent, as it may happen,) that it is customary to append to the second editions of books, and to the second works of authors, short sentences commendatory of the first, under the title of Notices of the Press These, I have been given to understand, are procurable at certain established rates, payment being made either in money or advertising patronage by the publisher, or by an adequate outlay of servility on the part of the author. Considering these things with myself, and also that such notices are neither intended, nor generally believed, to convey any real opinions, being a purely ceremonial accompaniment of literature, and resembling certificates to the virtues of various morbiferal panaceas, I conceived that it would be not only more economical to prepare a sufficient number of such myself, but also more immediately subservient to the end in view to prefix them to this our primary edition rather than await the contingency of a second, when they would seem to be of small utility. To delay attaching the bobs until the second attempt at flying the kite would indicate but a slender experience in that useful art. Neither has it escaped my notice, nor failed to afford me matter of reflection, that, when a circus or a caravan is about to visit Jaalam, the initial step is to send
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