4. The close of life,

5. Exalted society and the renewal of virtuous connexions, &c.

6. The clemency and amiable character of the patriarch Joseph,

7. Altamont,

CHAPTER VII.-Dialogues.

1. Democritus and Heraclitus,

2. Dionysius, Pythias, and Damon,

S. Locke and Bayle,

CHAPTER VIII.-Public Speeches

1. Cicero against Verres,

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

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

4. Lord Mansfield's speech in the House of Lords, 1770, on the bill

for preventing the delays of justice, &e.

5. An Address to yonng persons,

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

young woman,

6. On the evils which flow from unrestrained passion,

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

9. Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pronounced by

10. Schemes of life often illusory,

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12. On the true honour of man,

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

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14. The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered,

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

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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,

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,

25. Character of James I. king of England,

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

27. The same subject continued,

PART II.

PIECES IN POETRY.

CHAPTER 1.-Select Sentences and Paragraphs.

1. Short and easy sentences,

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

3. Verses containing exclamations, interrogations, parentheses, &c.

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,

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6. Religion and death,

CHAPTER III.-Didactic Pieces.

1. The vanity of wealth,

!. Nothing formed in vain,

3. On pride,

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,

S. Adam's advice to Eve, to avoid temptation,

9. On procrastination,

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10. That philosophy which stops at secondary causes, reproved,

11. Indignant sentiments on national prejudice, slavery, &c.

1. The morning in summer,

5. The Creator's works attest his greatness,

2. The Beggar's Petition,

4. Elegy to Pity,

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

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

8. A morning hymn,

CHAPTER VI.-Promiscuous Pieces.

1. Ode to Content,

2. The Shepherd and the Philosopher,

3. The road to happiness open to all men,

4. The goodness of Providence,

6. Address to the Deity,

CHAPTER IV.-Descriptive Pieces.

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

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

9. The pleasures and benefit of an improved imagination,

CHAPTER V.-Pathetic Pieces.

1. The Hermit,

3. Unhappy close of life,

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8. The fire-side,

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9. Providence vindicated in the present state of man,