Contents

  1. Half title page

  2. Printer

  3. Title page

  4. Table of Contents

    1. 1. Mirrors.

    2. 2. Etymology of Dunce.

    3. 3. Plum Pudding.

    4. 4. Medical Poets.

    5. 5. Taudry Lace.

    6. 6. The Camel and the Needle.

    7. 7. Citoyenne.

    8. 8. Cauda Diaboli.

    9. 9. Methodist Camp Meetings.

    10. 10. Law of the Mozcas.

    11. 11. Inferiority of Women.

    12. 12. Steam Engines.

    13. 13. Aristotle.

    14. 14. Arrow-headed letters.

    15. 15. Three methods of lessening the number of rats.

    16. 16. Translations.

    17. 17. Hell.

    18. 18. Transplanting Trees.

    19. 19. St. Andrew's Cross.

    20. 20. Clock-Mill.

    21. 21. Locke.

    22. 22. Hans Engelbrecht.

    23. 23. Effect of Music upon Animals.

    24. 24. Dogs.

    25. 25. St. Romuald.

    26. 26. Touching for the evil.

    27. 27. The Oak of Mamre.

    28. 28. Invention for the blind.

    29. Words and Symbols.

    30. 30. Stilling the Sea with Oil.

    31. 31: An heptastic Vocable

    32. 32. Service for Prisoners.

    33. 33. Mode of ventilating a Town.

    34. 34. [Melancholy.]

    35. 35. Mosquitos.

    36. 36. Coup de soleil.

    37. 37. Anthony Purver,

    38. 38.

    39. 39. Fr. Domenico Ottomano.

    40. 41. Menageries.

    41. 42. Juan de Esquivel Navarro.

    42. 42. The Virgin Marys Milk.

    43. 43. Omar II.

    44. 44. Tomb-flies.

    45. 45. Thomas O'Brian Mac Mahon.

    46. 46. Solan Geese.

    47. 47. Hole's Arthur.

    48. 48. Poetical Moods and Tenses.

    49. 49. Garden at Banstead.

    50. 50. Foot-Racing.

    51. 51. Queen Mary's Funeral.

    52. 52. Bunyan's holy War.

    53. 53. A Dual Giant.

    54. 54. Henrietta Maria.

    55. 55. The worst of all Puns.

    56. 56. Poem attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh.

    57. 57. Steel Mirrors for assisting the sight.

    58. 58. Classification of Novels

    59. 59 Crocodile.

    60. 60. Small Wit.

    61. 61. Grapes in Madagascar.

    62. 62. Richard Flecknoe.

    63. 63. Defence of Popery.

    64. 64. The Wafer.

    65. 65. Motteux.

    66. 66. Public Accommodations.

    67. 67. Catholic Devotion to the Virgin.

    68. 68. Cupid and Psyche.

    69. 69. Writing Tables.

    70. 70. Lions of Romance.

    71. 71. Cortes.

    72. 72. Cocoa Cordage.

    73. 73. Odour of Sanctity.

    74. 74. Mexican Tennis.

    75. 75. Amadis and Esplandian.

    76. 76. The Gossamer.

    77. 77. Ship's Names.

    78. 78. Stationers in Spain.

    79. 79. Sindbad.

    80. 80. Nebuchadnezzar.

    81. 81. Omens.

    82. 82. Munchausen.

    83. 83. Cold-bathing in Fevers.

    84. 84. Payment of a Copyer of Books.

    85. 85. Animals in Paradise.

    86. 86. Glover's Leonidas.

    87. 87. The French Decade.

    88. 88. Labrador.

    89. 89. Ride and Tie.

    90. 90. Jeremy Taylor..

    91. 91. Criticism.

    92. 92. Public Instruction.

    93. 93. Tractors.

    94. 94. Blackguard.

    95. 95. Frith the Martyr.

    96. 96. Tostatus.

    97. 97. Picturesque Words.

    98. 98. Météorolithes.

    99. 99. Meditation, and Contemplation.

    100. 100. Parchment-book-covers.

    101. 101. The Carpenter Bird.

    102. 102. Toleration.

    103. 103. War.

    104. 104. Bishop Kenn.

    105. 105. Parodies.

    106. 106. M. Dupuis.

    107. 107. Hereticks of the early ages.

    108. 108. The Needle.

    109. 109. Origin of the worship of Hymen.

    110. 110. Egotism.

    111. 111. Cap of Liberty.

    112. 112. Ablactation... as our old Dictionaries call it.

    113. 113. Bulls.

    114. 114. Wise Ignorance.

    115. 115. Change of Climate.

    116. 116. Gift of Tongues.

    117. 117. Rouge.

    118. 118. Επεα πτεροεντα, i.e. Hasty Words.

    119. 119. Motives and Impulses.

    120. 120. Inward Blindness.

    121. 121. The vices of Slaves no excuse for Slavery.

    122. 122. Circulation of the Blood.

    123. 123. Perituræ parcere chartæ.

    124. 124. To have and to be.

    125. 125. Party Passion.

    126. 126. Goodness of Heart indispensable to a Man of Genius.

    127. 127. Milton and Ben Jonson.

    128. 128. Statistics.

    129. 129. Magnanimity.

    130. 130. Christianas Franciscus Paullinus.

    131. 131. Sindbad.

    132. 132. Mostansir Billah.

    133. 133. Bishop Berkeley.

    134. 134. Government of Norcia.

    135. 135. Early English Metre.

    136. 136. Troilus and Creseide.

    137. 137. Miraculous combustion of wood without ashes, and oil without smoke.

    138. 138. Two modes of Atheism.

    139. 139. Sea fires..

    140. 140. Ground-fires.

    141. 141. Dey.

    142. 142. The Night Mare.

    143. 143. Sects in Egypt.

    144. 144. The Squid-hound.

    145. 145. The Stigmata

    146. 146 Tree of Life.

    147. 147. Tentzelius.

    148. 148. Mayor Merino.

    149. 149. He shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. Mat. xxv, 33.

    150. 150. Dogs at Court.

    151. 151. Feasts.

    152. 152. Goldsmith.

    153. 153. Aqua Vitæ.

    154. 154. Torrid Zone.

    155. 155. Negroes and Narcissuses.

    156. 156. An Anecdote.

    157. 157 The Pharos at Alexandria.

    158. 158. Sense and Common Sense.

    159. 159. Toleration.

    160. 160. Hint for a new species of History.

    161. 161. Rabbinnical Legend.

    162. 162. St. Vitus.

    163. 163. Burial Grounds.

    164. 164. Image Worship.

    165. 165. Effect of domestication upon the skin and tendons of animals.

    166. 166. Filtering Apparatus.

    167. 167. Palestines.

    168. 168. Earth Bathing.

  6. Index