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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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