Clergymen and Doctors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches.
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Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches.
CONTENTS.
NOTE.
SIR ASTLEY COOPER'S NIGHTCAP FEE.
ELOQUENCE OF MASSILLON.
ADDISON'S INTRODUCTION TO BAXTER.
THE PARTNERSHIP OF HUNTER AND CULLEN.
THE EXHAUSTIVE BARROW.
A POPULAR PREACHER.
"ATTERBURY'S PAD."
THE FOOT-SCRAPERS REPROVED.
A PRESCRIPTION IN DISGUISE.
HOW TO DRESS A CUCUMBER.
GILPIN AND THE NORTHUMBRIAN BRAWLERS.
MASSES TRANSFERRED.
PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE OF ABSTINENCE.
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S BLOOD JEWELS.
THE POWER OF TAR-WATER.
THE CURATE AND THE DUKE.
A LOYAL AND FATAL PRAYER.
FLAVEL'S "DAY OF HEAVEN."
A ROYAL MEDICINE.
A SIGNIFICANT INTERPOLATION.
THE SEAMAN-BISHOP.
UNPREACHING PRELATES.
CHARLES II. AND HIS CHAPLAIN.
RADCLIFFE'S ENMITY TO HANNES.
MATHEWS OH HIS DEATHBED.
BISHOP BERKELEY'S BERMUDA SCHEME.
A HOME-THRUST AT STERNE.
THE GOSPEL A NOVELTY.
HARVEY AND THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD.
SUNDAY SPORTS.
THE SAINT'S BELL.
SIR RICHARD JEBB.
A SANITARY VIEW OF BAPTISM.
BISHOP KENNET ON LATE REPENTANCE.
A MAL APROPOS QUOTATION.
CHARLES II. ON SERMON-READING.
SOUTH ON THE COMMONWEALTH PREACHERS.
PETER THE GREAT AS DENTIST.
A MILD CRITICISM.
HOUR-GLASSES IN CHURCH.
THE METHODIST DOG.
THE TWO GATES OF HEAVEN.
GIBBON'S RETORT ON THE PHYSICIAN.
TRUMP CARDS.
PERSUASIVENESS OF WHITFIELD.
"PREACHING FOR A CROWN."
SHEDDING HIS BLOOD FOR HIS COUNTRY.
DR. KIRWAN, DEAN OF KILLALA.
JEREMY TAYLOR.
A TWO-EDGED ACCUSATION.
RADCLIFFE AND KNELLER.
SLAPS FOR SLEEPERS IN CHURCH.
A PRESCRIPTION FOR LONG LIFE.
ABERNETHY AND THE DUKE OF YORK.
AN UNLUCKY COINCIDENCE.
LICENSED LAY PREACHING.
DR. BARROW'S RHYMES WITH REASON.
HOW TO BE KEPT IN HEALTH.
JOHN HUNTER ROUTING THE ROUT.
ANTICS OF THE FANATICS.
POPE'S LAST EPIGRAM.
TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD.
FATHER ANDRE BOULANGER.
AN INTERCESSOR FOR HIMSELF.
WHITFIELD'S INFLUENCE ON THE CHURCH.
GENEROSITY OF DR. GREGORY.
RUDE TRUTH FOR A QUEEN.
AN ARCHBISHOP'S INSTALLATION FEAST.
DA VINCI A GREAT ANATOMIST.
EXTRAVAGANCES OF THE HERRNHUTERS.
AN AWKWARD ASSOCIATION.
TURNING-POINT IN PALEY'S CAREER.
THE DANGERS OF TOO GOOD COMPANY.
ANECDOTES OF ABERNETHY.
BLOMFIELD'S REBUKE TO NON-RESIDENT RECTORS.
DEVOTION OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST.
PULPIT JOKES OF DANIEL BURGESS.
PHYSICIANS AND THEIR FEES.
PALEY'S ECONOMY OF CONSCIENCE.
DIFFIDENCE IN THE PULPIT.
CHRISTIAN NAMES AMONG THE PURITANS.
"WHAT IS AN ARCHDEACON?"
"TAPPING" A TOPER.
THE CAPACITY OF AN ABBE.
BENEFIT OF CLERGY.
DEAN SWIFT'S CONTRIBUTORY DINNER.
"BREAKING UP" BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS.
BOTTLE BLIND.
FEARLESSNESS OF JOHN KNOX.
WESLEY AND BEAU NASH.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE BIBLE.
EDWARD JENNER, THE DISCOVERER OF VACCINATION.
ANGEL-WORSHIP.
BUNYAN'S SUCCESSFUL AND PRESISTENT PREACHING.
LETTSOM'S LIBERATION OF HIS SLAVES.
CIVIL TO THE PRINCE OF EVIL.
"PERKINS' TRACTORS" EXPOSED.
WHITFIELD "IMPROVING" AN EXECUTION IN EDINBURGH.
DR. JOHNSON'S OPINION OF WHITFIELD.
DR. WOLCOT ("PETER PINDAR") IN JAMAICA.
CHARITY OF ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON.
DRUBBING-IN RELIGIOUS FEELING.
BON-MOTS OF SYDNEY SMITH.
THE ORIGIN OF OUR INDIAN COMMERCE.
CHARLES II. AND BISHOP STILLINGFLEET.
A TOO PERSONAL APPLICATION.
PREACHING TO PURPOSE.
SERVANT AND MASTER.
DR. BARROWBY,
A DESIRABLE CURE OF SOULS.
BEAU NASH'S TREATMENT OF A PRESCRIPTION.
PULTENEY'S CURE BY SMALL BEER.
A WITTY FRENCH PREACHER.
CROMWELL AND RICHARD BAXTER.
MESSENGER MONSEY'S DYING JESTS.
UNMISTAKEABLE IDENTITY.
WHITFIELD AND THE NEW YORK SAILORS.
CLEVER PERVERSION OF SCRIPTURE.
DR. WASDALE'S LONG RIDE.
ICONOCLASTIC ZEAL IN THE NORTH.
UNCONCERN IN PRESENCE OF DEATH.
AN AGRICULTURAL DEFENCE OF BIGOTRY.
PURITAN RECHRISTENING OF PLAYING CARDS.
JOHN HUNTER THE ANATOMIST.
LORD BACON ON THE REVIVAL OF "PROPHESYING."
DR. DONNE'S PRAYERFUL PUN.
PREPARING FOR THE WORST AND BEST.
GEORGE CRABBE, THE APOTHECARY POET.
THE WAY TO PROMOTION.
BOLD APPLICATION OF BOURDALOUE.
GARRICK'S PRECEPTS FOR PREACHERS.
GEORGE II. AS AN AMATEUR SURGEON.
BLUNDERS OF BLOOD-LETTERS.
BISHOPS AND THE POOR.
BISHOP BURNET AGAINST PLURALITIES.
ABERNETHY CONQUERED BY CURRAN.
WITTICISMS OF ARCHBISHOP WHATELY.
WHITFIELD AND THE KINGSWOOD COLLIERS.
SIR HANS SLOANE.
THE REV. ROWLAND HILL,
"MAKE THE MOST OF HIM."
A PACIFIC SHE.
TIME AND ETERNITY.
PHYSICIANS AND CLERGYMEN.
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