M.
Mash, _marsh_.
Mean, _stingy_, _ill-natured_.
Min', _mind_.
N.
Ned, a slang phrase, going it like Ned, equivalent to our 'going like old Harry.'
Nimepunce, _ninepence_, _twelve and a half cents_.
Nowers, _nowhere_.
O.
Offen, _often_.
Ole, _old_.
Ollers, olluz, _always_.
On, _of_; used before _it_ or _them_, or at the end of a sentence, as _on 't_, _on 'em_, _nut ez ever I heerd on_.
On'y, _only_.
Ossifer, _officer_ (seldom heard).
P.
Peaked, _pointed_.
Peek, _to peep_.
Pickerel, _the pike, a fish_.
Pint, _point_.
Pocket full of rocks, _plenty of money_.
Pooty, _pretty_.
Pop'ler, _conceited_, _popular_.
Pus, _purse_.
Put out, _troubled_, _vexed_.
Q.
Quarter, _a quarter-dollar_.
Queen's arm, _a musket_.
R.
Resh, _rush_.
Revelee, _the reveille_.
Rile, _to trouble_.
Riled, _angry_; _disturbed_, as the sediment in any liquid.
Riz, _risen_.
Row, a long row to hoe, _a difficult task_.
Rugged, _robust_.
Row-de-dow, _troublesome talk_.
S.
Sarse, _abuse_, _impertinence_.
Sartin, _certain_.
Saxon, _sacristan_, _sexton_.
Scaliest, _worst_.
Scringe, _cringe_.
Scrouge, _to crowd_.
Sech, _such_.
Set by, _valued_.
Shakes, great, _of considerable consequence_.
Shappoes, _chapeaux_, _cocked-hats_.
Sheer, _share_.
Shet, _shut_.
Shine, _a fancy or liking_, also written _shindy_.
Shut, _shirt_.
Skeered, _scared_.
Skeeter, _mosquito_.
Skooting, _running_ or _moving swiftly_.
Slarterin', _slaughtering_.
Slim, _contemptible_.
Snaked, _crawled like a snake_; but _to snake any one out_, is to track him to his hiding-place; _to snake a thing out_ is to snatch it out.
Soffies, _sofas_.
Sogerin', _soldiering_; a barbarous amusement common among men in the savage state.
Som'ers, _somewhere_.
So 'st, _so as that_.
Sot, _set_, _obstinate_, _resolute_.
Spiles, _spoils_; _objects of political ambition_.
Spry, _active_.
Staddles, _stout stakes driven into the salt marshes_, on which the hay-ricks are set, and thus raised out of the reach of high tides.
Streaked, _uncomfortable_, _discomfited_.
Suckle, _circle_.
Sutthin', _something_.
Suttin, _certain_.
Swan, _to swear_.
T.
Take on, _to sorrow_.
Talents, _talons_.
Taters, _potatoes_.
Tell, _till_.
Tetch, _touch_.
Tetch tu, _to be able_; used always after a negative in this sense.
Tollable, _tolerable_.
Toot, used derisively _for playing on any wind instrument_.
Thru, _through_.
Thundering, a euphemism common in New England, for the profane English expression _devilish_. Perhaps derived from the belief, common formerly, that thunder was caused by the Prince of the Air, for some of whose accomplishments consult Cotton Mather.
Tu, _to_, _too_; commonly has this sound when used emphatically, or at the end of a sentence. At other times it has the sound of _t_ in _tough_, as _Ware ye goin' tu? Goin' ta Boston_.
U.
Ugly, _ill-tempered_, _intractable_.
Uncle Sam, _United States_; the largest boaster of liberty and owner of slaves.
Unrizzest, applied to dough or bread; _heavy_, _most unrisen_, or _most incapable of rising_.
V
V spot, _a five-dollar bill_.
Vally, _value_.
W.
Wake snakes, _to get into trouble_.
Wal, _well_; spoken with great deliberation, and sometimes with the _a_ very much flattened, sometimes (but more seldom) very much broadened.
Wannut, _walnut_ (_hickory_).
Ware, _where_.
Ware, _were_.
Whopper, _an uncommonly large lie_; as, that General Taylor is in favour of the Wilmot Proviso.
Wig, _Whig_; a party now dissolved.
Wiz, _to whiz_; _go off_ (like a rocket).
Wunt, _will not_.
Wus, _worse_.
Wut, _what_.
Wuth, _worth_; as, _Antislavery perfessions 'fore 'lection aint wuth a Bungtown copper_.
Wuz, _was_, sometimes _were_.
Y.
Yaller, _yellow_.
Yeller, _yellow_.
Yellers, _a disease of peach-trees_.
Z.
Zach, Ole, _a second Washington_, _an antislavery slaveholder_, _a humane buyer and seller of men and women_, _a Christian hero generally_.
INDEX.
A. B., information wanted concerning, 76.
Adam, eldest son of, respected, 10.
AEneas goes to hell, 101.
AEolus, a seller of money, as is supposed by some, 101.
AEschylus, a saying of, 51, _note_.
Alligator, a decent one conjectured to be, in some sort, humane, 120.
Alphonso the Sixth of Portugal, tyrannical act of, 120.
Ambrose, Saint, excellent (but rationalistic) sentiment of, 35.
"American Citizen," new compost so called, 104.
American Eagle, a source of inspiration, 45 --hitherto wrongly classed, 51 --long bill of, 51.
Amos, cited, 34.
Anakim, that they formerly existed, shown, 124.
Angels, providentially speak French, 23 --conjectured to be skilled in all tongues, _ib._
Anglo-Saxondom, its idea, what, 21.
Anglo-Saxon mask, 21.
Anglo-Saxon race, 16.
Anglo-Saxon verse, by whom carried to perfection, 11.
Antonius, a speech of, 40 --by whom best reported, _ib._
Apocalypse, beast in, magnetic to theologians, 83.
Apollo, confessed mortal by his own oracle, 83.
Apollyon, his tragedies popular, 72.
Appian, an Alexandrian, not equal to Shakspeare as an orator, 40.
Ararat, ignorance of foreign tongues is an, 53.
Arcadian background, 106.
Aristophanes, 34.
Arms, profession of, once esteemed especially that of gentlemen, 10.
Arnold, 42.
Ashland, 106.
Astor, Jacob, a rich man, 91.
Astraea, nineteenth century forsaken by, 102.
Athenians, ancient, an institution of, 41.
Atherton, Senator, envies the loon, 60.
Austin, St., profane wish of, 43, _note_.
Aye-Aye, the, an African animal, America supposed to be settled by, 25.
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.
Baton 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._
Caesar, 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.
Koenigsmark, Count, 10.
Lamb, Charles, his epistolary excellence, 76.
Latimer, Bishop, episcopizes Satan, 10.
Latin tongue, curious information concerning, 33.
Launcelot, Sir, a trusser of giants formerly, perhaps would find less sport therein now, 56.
Letters classed, 76 --their shape, _ib._ --of candidates, 81 --often fatal, 82.
Lewis Philip, a scourger of young native Americans, 50 --commiserated (though not deserving it,) 51, _note_.
Liberator, a newspaper, condemned by implication, 35.
Liberty unwholesome for men of certain complexions, 66.
Lignum vitae, a gift of this valuable wood proposed, 22.
Longinus recommends swearing, 13, _note_ (Fuseli did same thing).
Long sweetening recommended, 90.
Lost arts, one sorrowfully added to list of, 124.
Louis the Eleventh of France, some odd trees of his, 100.
Lowell, Mr. J. R., unaccountable silence of, 33.
Luther, Martin, his first appearance as Europa, 22.
Lyttelton, Lord, his letters, an imposition, 76.
Macrobii, their diplomacy, 84.
Mahomet, got nearer Sinai than some, 66.
Mahound, his filthy gobbets, 23.
Mangum, Mr., speaks to the point, 58.
Manichaean, excellently confuted, 54.
Man-trees, grew where, 100.
Mares'-nests, finders of, benevolent, 75.
Marshfield, 106, 113.
Martin, Mr. Sawin used to vote for him, 115.
Mason and Dixon's line, slaves north of, 58.
Mass, the, its duty defined, 59.
Massachusetts, on her knees, 8 --something mentioned in connection with, worthy the attention of tailors, 44 --citizen of, baked, boiled, and roasted (_nefandum!_), 95.
Masses, the, used as butter by some, 46.
M. C., an invertebrate animal, 49.
Mechanics' Fair, reflections suggested at, 87.
Mentor, letters of, dreary, 76.
Mephistopheles at a nonplus, 62.
Mexican blood, its effect in raising price of cloth, 103.
Mexican polka, 24.
Mexicans charged with various breaches of etiquette, 22 --kind feelings beaten into them, 70.
Mexico, no glory in overcoming, 45.
Military glory spoken disrespectfully of, 17, _note_ --militia treated still worse, _ib._
Milk-trees, growing still, 100.
Mills for manufacturing gabble, how driven, 53.
Milton, an unconscious plagiary, 43, _note_ --a Latin verse of, cited, 66.
Missions, a profitable kind of, 67.
Monarch, a pagan, probably not favoured in philosophical experiments, 12.
Money-trees desirable, 100 --that they once existed shown to be variously probable, _ib._
Montaigne, a communicative old Gascon, 75.
Monterey, battle of, its singular chromatic effect on a species of two-headed eagle, 50.
Moses held up vainly as an example, 65 --construed by Joe Smith, _ib._
Myths, how to interpret readily, 84.
Naboths, Popish ones, how distinguished, 25.
Nation, rights of, proportionate to size, 20.
National pudding, its effect on the organs of speech, a curious physiological fact, 25.
Nephelim, not yet extinct, 124.
New England overpoweringly honoured, 48 --wants no more speakers, _ib._ --done brown by whom, _ib._ --her experience in beans beyond Cicero's, 84.
Newspaper, the, wonderful, 70 --a strolling theatre, 71 --thoughts suggested by tearing wrapper of, 72 --a vacant sheet, _ib._ --a sheet in which a vision was let down, 73 --wrapper to a bar of soap, _ib._ --a cheap impromptu platter, _ib._
New York, Letters from, commended, 76.
Next life, what, 72.
Niggers, 5 --area of abusing extended, 46 --Mr. Sawin's opinions of, 117.
Ninepence a day low for murder, 14.
No, a monosyllable, 25 --hard to utter, _ib._
Noah, inclosed letter in bottle, probably, 75.
Nornas, Lapland, what, 101.
North, has no business, 58 --bristling, crowded off roost, 81.
North Bend, geese inhumanly treated at, 82 --mentioned, 113.
North Star, a proposition to indict, 62.
Off ox, 70.
Officers, miraculous transformation in character of, 21 --Anglo-Saxon, come very near being anathematized, 22.
O'Phace, Increase D., Esq., speech of, 40.
Oracle of Fools, still respectfully consulted, 41.
Orion, becomes commonplace, 73.
Orrery, Lord, his letters (lord!), 76.
Ostracism, curious species of, 41.
Palestine, 23.
Palfrey, Hon. J. G., 41, 50 (a worthy representative of Massachusetts.)
Pantagruel recommends a popular oracle, 41.
Panurge, his interview with Goatsnose, 84.
Papists, female, slain by zealous Protestant bomb-shell, 104.
Paralipomenon, a man suspected of being, 82.
Paris, liberal principles safe as far away as, 66.
_Parliamentum Indoctorum_ sitting in permanence, 44.
Past, the, a good nurse, 55.
Patience, sister, quoted, 16.
Paynims, their throats propagandistically cut, 23.
Penelope, her wise choice, 32.
People, soft enough, 68 --want correct ideas, 97.
Pepin, King, 76.
Periwig, 80.
Persius, a pithy saying of, 46, _note_.
Pescara, Marquis, saying of, 10.
Peter, Saint, a letter of (_post-mortem_), 76.
Pharisees, opprobriously referred to, 66.
Philippe, Louis, in pea-jacket, 71.
Phlegyas quoted, 63.
Phrygian language, whether Adam spoke it, 11.
Pilgrims, the, 45.
Pillows, constitutional, 49.
Pinto, Mr., some letters of his commended, 76.
Pisgah, an impromptu one, 100.
Platform, party, a convenient one, 97.
Plato, supped with, 75 --his man, 82.
Pleiades, the, not enough esteemed, 73.
Pliny, his letters not admired, 76.
Plotinus, a story of, 55.
Plymouth Rock, Old, a Convention wrecked on, 45.
Point Tribulation, Mr. Sawin wrecked on, 100.
Poles, exile, whether crop of beans depends on, 19, _note_.
Polk, President, synonymous with our country, 30 --censured, 44 --in danger of being crushed, 46.
Polka, Mexican, 24.
Pomp, a runaway slave, his nest, 117 --hypocritically groans like white man, 118 --blind to Christian privileges, 119 --his society valued at fifty dollars, _ib._ --his treachery, 120 --takes Mr. Sawin prisoner, 121 --cruelly makes him work, _ib._ --puts himself illegally under his tuition, 122 --dismisses him with contumelious epithets, _ib._
Pontifical bull, a tamed one, 22.
Pope, his verse excellent, 11.
Pork, refractory in boiling, 22.
Portugal, Alphonso the Sixth of, a monster, 123.
Post, Boston, 33 --shaken visibly, 34 --bad guide-post, _ib._ --too swift, _ib._ --edited by a colonel, _ib._ --who is presumed officially in Mexico, _ib._ --referred to, 59.
Pot-hooks, death in, 59.
Preacher, an ornamental symbol, 65 --a breeder of dogmas, _ib._ --earnestness of, important, 123.
Present, considered as an annalist, 65 --not long wonderful, 73.
President, slaveholding natural to, 66 --must be a Southern resident, 98 --must own a nigger, _ib._
Principle, exposure spoils it, 43.
Principles, bad, when less harmful, 27.
Prophecy, a notable one, 51, _note_.
Proviso, bitterly spoken of, 79.
Prudence, sister, her idiosyncratic teapot, 92.
Psammeticus, an experiment of, 11.
Public opinion a blind and drunken guide, 25 --nudges Mr. Wilbur's elbow, 26 --ticklers of, 45.
Pythagoras a bean-hater, why, 84.
Pythagoreans, fish reverenced by, why, 54.
Quixote, Don, 57.
Rag, one of sacred college, 25.
Rantoul, Mr., talks loudly, 16 --pious reason for not enlisting, _ib._
Recruiting sergeant, Devil supposed the first, 10.
Representatives' Chamber, 54.
Rhinothism, society for promoting, 74.
Rhyme, whether natural _not_ considered, 11.
Rib, an infrangible one, 90.
Richard the First of England, his Christian fervour, 23.
Riches conjectured to have legs as well as wings, 62.
Robinson, Mr. John P., his opinions fully stated, 27-31.
Rocks, pocket full of, 91.
Rough and Ready, 111 --a wig, 112 --a kind of scratch, _ib._
Russian eagle turns Prussian blue, 50.
Sabbath, breach of, 27.
Sabellianism, one accused of, 82.
Saltillo, unfavourable view of, 17.
Salt-river in, Mexican, what, 17.
Samuel, Uncle, riotous, 50 --yet has qualities demanding reverence, 66 --a good provider for his family, 68 --an exorbitant bill of, 103.
Sansculottes, draw their wine before drinking, 61.
Santa Anna, his expensive leg, 96.
Satan, never wants attorneys, 22 --an expert talker by signs, _ib._ --a successful fisherman with little or no bait, 23 --cunning fetch of, 27 --dislikes ridicule, 34 --ought not to have credit of ancient oracles, 51, _note_.
Satirist, incident to certain dangers, 28.
Savages, Canadian, chance of redemption offered to, 123.
Sawin, B., Esquire, his letter not written in verse, 11 --a native of Jaalam, 12 --not regular attendant on Rev. Mr. Wilbur's preaching, _ib._ --a fool, _ib._ --his statements trustworthy, _ib._ --his ornithological tastes, _ib._ --letter from, 13, 86, 106 --his curious discovery in regard to bayonets, 15 --displays proper family pride, _ib._ --modestly confesses himself less wise than the Queen of Sheba, 19 --the old Adam in, peeps out, 21 --a _miles emeritus_, 86 --is made text for a sermon, _ib._ --loses a leg, 88 --an eye, 89 --left hand, _ib._ --four fingers of right hand, _ib._ --has six or more ribs broken, _ib._ --a rib of his infrangible, 90 --allows a certain amount of preterite greenness in himself, 90, 91 --his share of spoil limited, _ib._ --his opinion of Mexican climate, 92 --acquires property of a certain sort, 93 --his experience of glory, 93, 94 --stands sentry, and puns thereupon, 95 --undergoes martyrdom in some of its most painful forms, _ib._ --enters the candidating business, 96 --modestly states the (avail) abilities which qualify him for high political station, 96, 99 --has no principles, 96 --a peaceman, _ib._ --unpledged, 97 --has no objections to owning _peculiar_ property, but would not like to monopolize the truth, 98 --his account with glory, 99 --a selfish motive hinted in, 100 --sails for Eldorado, _ib._ --shipwrecked on a metaphorical promontory, _ib._ --parallel between, and Rev. Mr. Wilbur (not Plutarchian), 102 --conjectured to have bathed in river Selemnus, 106 --loves plough wisely, but not too well, _ib._ --a foreign mission probably expected by, 107 --unanimously nominated for presidency, 108 --his country's father-in-law, 109 --nobly emulates Cincinnatus, 110 --is not a crooked stick, _ib._ --advises his adherents, _ib._ --views of, on present state of politics, 110-117 --popular enthusiasm for, at Bellers's, and its disagreeable consequences, 111 --inhuman treatment of, by Bellers, 112 --his opinion of the two parties, 113 --agrees with Mr. Webster, _ib._ --his antislavery zeal, 115 --his proper self-respect, _ib._ --his unaffected piety, _ib._ --his not intemperate temperance, 117 --a thrilling adventure of, 117-122 --his prudence and economy, 117 --bound to Captain Jakes, but regains his freedom, 119 --is taken prisoner, 121-122 --ignominiously treated, 121-122 --his consequent resolution, 122.
Sayres, a martyr, 55.
Scaliger, saying of, 28.
_Scarabaeus pilularius_, 18.
Scott, General, his claims to the presidency, 34, 37.
Scythians, their diplomacy commended, 84.
Seamen, coloured, sold, 8.
Selemnus, a sort of Lethean river, 106.
Senate, debate in, made readable, 55.
Seneca, saying of, 27 --another, 51 --overrated by a saint (but see Lord Bolingbroke's opinion of, in a letter to Dean Swift), 76 --his letters not commended, _ib._ --a son of Rev. Mr. Wilbur, 102.
Serbonian bog of literature, 54.
Sextons, demand for, 61 --heroic official devotion of one, 120.
Shaking fever, considered as an employer, 93.
Shakspeare, a good reporter, 40.
Sham, President, honest, 45.
Sheba, Queen of, 19.
Sheep, none of Rev. Mr. Wilbur's turned wolves, 12.
Shem, Scriptural curse of, 122.
Show, natural to love it, 17, _note_.
Silver spoon born in Democracy's mouth what, 43.
Sinai suffers outrages, 66.
Sin, wilderness of, modern, what, 66.
Skin, hole in, strange taste of some for, 94.
Slaughter, whether God strengthen us for, 24.
Slaughterers and soldiers compared, 104.
Slaughtering nowadays _is_ slaughtering, 104.
Slavery, of no colour, 6 --cornerstone of liberty, 52 --also keystone, 58 --last crumb of Eden, 61 --a Jonah, 62 --an institution, 80 --a private State concern, 118.
Smith, Joe, used as a translation, 65.
Smith, John, an interesting character, 74.
Smith, Mr., fears entertained for, 63 --dined with, 75.
Smith, N. B., his magnanimity, 75.
Soandso, Mr., the great, defines his position, 75.
Sol, the fisherman, 18 --soundness of respiratory organs hypothetically attributed to, _ib._
Solon, a saying of, 25.
South Carolina, futile attempt to anchor, 57.
Spanish, to walk, what, 20.
Speech-making, an abuse of gift of speech, 53.
Star, north, subject to indictment, whether, 62.
Store, cheap cash, a wicked fraud, 102.
Strong, Governor Caleb, a patriot, 32.
Swearing, commended as a figure of speech, 13, _note_.
Swift, Dean, threadbare saying of, 34.
Tag, elevated to the Cardinalate, 25.
Taxes, direct, advantages of, 103.
Taylor zeal, its origin, 111 --General, greased by Mr. Choate, 113.
Thanks, get lodged, 93.
Thirty-nine articles might be made serviceable, 24.
Thor, a foolish attempt of, 57.
Thumb, General Thomas, a valuable member of society, 49.
Thunder, supposed in easy circumstances, 90.
Thynne, Mr., murdered, 10.
Time, an innocent personage to swear by, 13, _note_ --a scene-shifter, 72.
Toms, Peeping, 74.
Trees, various kinds of extraordinary ones, 100.
Trowbridge, William, mariner, adventure of, 24.
Truth and falsehood start from same point, 27 --truth invulnerable to satire, _ib._ --compared to a river, 40 --of fiction sometimes truer than fact, _ib._ --told plainly, _passim_.
Tuileries, exciting scene at, 51.
Tully, a saying of, 43, _note_.
Tweedledee, gospel according to, 66.
Tweedledum, great principles of, 66.
Ulysses, husband of Penelope, 32 --borrows money, 101. (For full particulars of, see Homer and Dante.)
University, triennial catalogue of, 36.
Van Buren fails of gaining Mr. Sawin's confidence, 116 --his son John reproved, _ib._
Van, Old, plan to set up, 115.
Venetians, invented something once, 101.
Vices, cardinal, sacred conclave of, 24.
Victoria, Queen, her natural terror, 50.
Vratz, Captain, a Pomeranian, singular views of, 10.
Walpole, Horace, classed, 75 --his letters praised, 76.
Waltham Plain, Cornwallis at, 14.
Walton, punctilious in his intercourse with fishes, 25.
War, abstract, horrid, 79 --its hoppers, grist of, what, 94.
Warton, Thomas, a story of, 38.
Washington, charge brought against, 109.
Washington, city of, climatic influence of, on coats, 44 --mentioned, 55 --grand jury of, 62.
Washingtons, two hatched at a time by improved machine, 109.
Wate, Taunton, proverbially weak, 117.
Water-trees, 100.
Webster, some sentiments of, commended by Mr. Sawin, 113.
Westcott, Mr., his horror, 61.
Whig party, has a large throat, 35 --but query as to swallowing spurs, 114.
White-house, 81.
Wife-trees, 100.
Wilbur, Rev. Homer, A. M., consulted, 2 --his instructions to his flock, 12 --a proposition of his for Protestant bombshells, 24 --his elbow nudged, 26 --his notions of satire, 27 --some opinions of his quoted with apparent approval by Mr. Biglow, 31 --geographical speculations of, 32 --a justice of the peace, _ib._ --a letter of, 33 --a Latin pun of, _ib._ --runs against a post without injury, 34 --does not seek notoriety (whatever some malignants may affirm), 36 --fits youths for college, _ib._ --a chaplain during late war with England, 38 --a shrewd observation of, 40 --some curious speculations of, 52, 54 --his martello-tower, 53 --forgets he is not in pulpit, 62, 86 --extracts from sermon of, 64, 70 --interested in John Smith, 74 --his views concerning present state of letters, 74, 77 --a stratagem of, 82 --ventures two hundred and fourth interpretation of Beast in Apocalypse, 83 --christens Hon. B. Sawin, then an infant, 86 --an addition to our _sylva_ proposed by, 100 --curious and instructive adventure of, 101, 102 --his account with an unnatural uncle, 103 --his uncomfortable imagination, 104 --speculations concerning Cincinnatus, 106 --confesses digressive tendency of mind, 123 --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 delinquent debtor of his, calling him in his will, and thus holding him up to posterity, as "John Peterson, THE BORE"), 125.
Wilbur, Mrs., an invariable rule of, 37 --her profile, _ib._
Wildbore, a vernacular one, how to escape, 54.
Wind, the, a good Samaritan, 86.
Wooden leg, remarkable for sobriety, 88 --never eats pudding, 90.
Wright, Colonel, providentially rescued, 18.
Wrong, abstract, safe to oppose, 46.
Zack, Old, 110.
THE END.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Biglow Papers, by James Russell Lowell