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PART I.

PIECES IN PROSE.

CHAPTER I.

Select Sentences and paragraphs,

CHAPTER II.

Narrative Pieces.

essions can make the guilty mind happy,

ondition often adverse to virtue,

of pride,

riches,

a picture of human life,

CHAPTER III.

Didactic Pieces.

1. The importance of a good education,

2. On gratiade,

3. On forgiveness,

4. Motiv to the practice of gentleness,

5. A suscious temper the source of misery to its possessor,

6. Com rts of religion,

7. Difence of our abilities a mark of wisdom,

8. On the importance of order in the distribution of our time,

9. The of virtue amidst

10. The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue,

CHAPTER IV.
Argumentative Pieces.

11. On contentment,

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12. Rank and riches afford no ground for envy,"

13. Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty,

14. Moderation in our wishes recommended,

15. Omniscience and omnipresence of the Deity, source of

consolation,

1. Happiness is founded in rectitude of conduct,

2. Virtue man's

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3. Grotto of Antiparos,

4. The grotto of Antiparos continued,

5. Earthquake at Catanea,

6. Creation,

7. Charity,

8. Prosperity is redoubled to a good man,

9. On the beauties of the Psalms,

10. Character of Alfred, king of England,

11. Character of Queen Elizabeth,

12. On the slavery of vice,

13. The man of integrity,

14. Gentleness,

CHAPTER VI.

Pathetic Pieces.

i. Trial and execution of the Earl of Strafford,

2. An eminent instance of true fortitude of mind,

3. The good man's comfort in affliction,

4. The close of life,

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6. The clemency and amiable character of the patriarch Jo-

seph,

7. Altamont,

CHAPTER VII.

Dialogues.

1. Democritus and Heraclitus,

2. Dionysius, Pythias, and Damon,

3. Locke and Bayle,

CHAPTER VIII.

Public Speeches:

1. Cicero against Verres,

2. Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senate, imploring protec

tion,

3. The Apostle Paul's noble defence before Festus and

CHAPTER IX.

Promiscuous Pieces.

1. Earthquake at Calabria, in the year 1538,

2. Letter from Pliny to Geminius,

3. Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus, on the death of an amiable

young woman,

4. On Discretion,

5. On the government of our thoughts,

6. On the evils which flow from unrestrained passion,

7. On the proper state of our temper, with respect to one ano-

ther,

mount,

10. Schemes of life often illusory,

11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility,

8. Excellence of the Holy Scriptures,

9. Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pro-

nounced by Christ, on his disciples, in his sermon on the

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Agrippa,

4. Lord Mansfield's speech in the House of Lords, 1770, on the
bill for preventing the delays of justice, &c.

5. An Address to young persons,

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12. On the true honour of man,

13. The influence of devotion on the happiness of life,

14. The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively con-

sidered,

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15. On the power of custom, and the uses to which it may be

applied,

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16. The pleasure resulting from a proper use of our faculties,

17. Description of Candour,.

18. On the imperfection of that happiness which rests solely

on worldly pleasures,

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19. What are the real and solid enjoyments of human life,

20. Scale of being,

21. Trust in the care of Providence recommended,

22, Piety and gratitude enliven prosperity,

23. Virtue, deeply rooted, is not subject to the influence of

fortune,

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24. The speech of Fabricius, to king Pyrrhus, who attempted to

bribe him to his interests, by the offer of a large sum of

money,

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25. Character of James I. king of England,

26. Charles V. Em. of Germany, resigns his dominions, &c.

27. The same subject continued,

PART II.

PIECES IN POETRY,

CHAPTER I.

Select Sentences and Paragraphs.

1. Short and easy sentences,

2. Verses in which the lines are of different length,

3. Verses containing exclamations, interrogations, parenthe.

ses, &c.

4. Verses in various forms,

5. Verses in which sound corresponds with signification,

6. Connubial Affection,

CHAPTER II.

Narrative Pieces.

1. The bears and the bees,

2. The nightingale and the glow worm,

3. The trials of virtue,

4. The youth and the philosopher,

5. Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest,

6. Religion and death,

CHAPTER HI.
Didactic Pieces.

1. The vanity of wealth,
2. Nothing formed in vain,
3. On pride,

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4. Cruelty to brutes censured,

5. A paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th chapt. of Matthew,
6. The death of a good man a strong incentive to virtue,
7. Reflections on the future state, from a review of winter,
8. Adam's advice to Eve, to avoid temptation,

9. On procrastination,

10. That philosophy which stops at secondary causes, reproved, 201
11. Indignant sentiments on national prejudice, slavery, &c. -

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CHAPTER IV.
Descriptive Pieces.

1. The morning in summer,

2. Rural sounds, as well as rural sights, delightful,

3. The Rose,

8. The pleasures of retirement,

9. The pleasures and benefit of an improved imagination,

CHAPTER V.

Pathetic Pieces.

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4. Care of birds for their young,

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5. Liberty and slavery contrasted,

6. Charity. A paraphrase on the 13th chap. to the Corinthians, 206

7. Picture of a good man,

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1. The Hermit,

2. The Beggar's Petition,

3. Unhappy close of life,

4. Elegy to Fity,

7. A man perishing in the snow, with reflections, etc. etc.

8. A morning hymn,

CHAPTER VI.

Promiscuous Pieces.

5. Verses by Alex, Selkirk, in the island of Juan Fernandez,

6. Gratitude,

1. Ode to Content,

2. The Shepherd and the Philosopher,

3. The road to happiness open to all men,

4. The goodness of Providence,

5. The Creator's works attest his greatness,

6. Address to the deity,

7. The pursuit of happiness often ill directed,

8. The fire-side,

9. Providence vindicated in the present state of man,

10. Selfishness reproved,

11. Human frailty,

12. Ode to peace,

13. Ode to adversity,

14. The Creation required to praise its author,

15. The universal prayer,

16. Conscience,

17. On an infant,

18. The cuckoo,

19. Day. A pastoral in three parts,

20. The order of nature,

21. Hymn composed during sickness,

22. Hymn on a review of the seasons,

23. On solitude,

24. The landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,

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