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Sect. 10. That philosophy, which stops at secondary causes, reproved, 249
11. Indignant sentiments on national prejudice and hatred ;
on slavery,

CHAPTER IV.-Descriptive Pieces.

Sect. 1. The morning in summer,

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

3. The Rose,

4. Care of birds for their young,

5. Liberty and slavery, contrasted,

6. Charity. A paraphrase on the 13th chap. of the First Epis-

and

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252

ib.

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254

ib.

tle to the Corinthians,

255

7. Picture of a good man,

257

8. The pleasures of retirement,

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9. The pleasure and benefit of an improved and well directed

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Sect. 1. Democritus and Heracion by Alexander Selkirk, dur-
2. Dionysius, Pythias, and Damon,

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2. Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senate, imploring their
protection against Jugurtha,

3. The Apostle Paul's noble defence before Festus and Agrippa, 154
4. Lord Mansfield's speech in the House of Lords, 1770, on
the bill for preventing the delays of justice, by claiming
the privilege of parliament,

5. An address to young persons,

CHAPTER IX.

Promiscuous Pieces.

Sect. 1. Earthquake at Calabria, in the year 1638,

2. Letter from Pliny to Geminius,

3. Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus on the death of an amia-

ble young woman,

4. On Discretion,

5. On the government of our thoughts,

6. On the evils which flow from unrestrained passions,

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

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8. Excellence of the Holy Scriptures,

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

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