ARGUMENT. REFLECTIONS suggested by the conclusion of the former book. Peace among the nations recommended on the ground of their common fellowship in sorrow. Prodigies enumerated. Sicilian earthquakes. Man rendered obnoxious to these calamities by sin. God the agent in them. The philosophy that stops at secondary causes reproved. Our own late miscarriages accounted for. Satirical notice taken of our trips to Fontainbleau. But the pulpit, not satire, the proper engine of reformation. The Reverend Advertiser of engraved sermons. Petit-maître parson. The good preacher. Pioture of a theatrical clerical coxcomb. Story tellers and jesters in the pulpit reproved. Apostrophe to popular applause. Retailers of ancient philosophy expostulated with. Sum of the whole matter. Effects of sacerdotal mismanagement on the laity. Their folly and extravagance. The mischiefs of profusion. Profusion itself, with all its consequent evils, ascribed, as to its principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities, THE TASK. BOOK ILI THE TIME-PIECE. On for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own; and having power As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. Sure there is need of social intercourse, |