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THOMAS HOBBES,

God,

Pity and Indignation,

Emulation and Envy,

Laughter,

To Sir William St John, Knight,

To Captain Thomas B.,

To the Right Hon. the Lord Cliffe,

Tales of Travellers,

SIR THOMAS HERBERT,

Description of St Helena,

WILLIAM CAMDEN,

SIR HENRY SPELMAN-SIR ROBERT COTTON-JOHN SPEED

-SAMUEL DANIEL,

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Uncertainty of the Early History of Nations,

THOMAS MAY-SIR JOHN HAYWARD-RICHARD KNOLLES, 264

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The Taking of Constantinople by the Turks,

ARTHUR WILSON-SIR RICHARD BAKER,

SIR HENRY WOTTON,

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What Education Embraces,

Every Nature is not a Fit Stock to Graft a Scholar on,

Commendation before Trial Injudicious,

Love of Knowledge,

The Necessity of the Will,

LORD HERBERT,

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Sir Thomas More's Resignation of the Great Seal,

TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE,

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KING JAMES L.,

Sorcery and Witchcraft,

How Witches Travel,

ROBERT BURTON,

The Author's Abstract of Melancholy,

Melancholy and Contemplation,

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THOMAS DEKKER,

Against Fine Clothes,

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How a Gallant should behave himself in Paul's Walks, 274

JOSEPH HALL,

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Upon the kindling of a Charcoal Fire

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Sonnet on his own Blindness,

In Anticipation of the Attack of the Royalists upon the

City,.

On the Massacre of the Protestants in Piedmont,

Scene from Comus, .

Praise of Chastity,

The Spirit's Epilogue in Comus,

L'Allegro,

Il Penseroso,

From Lycidas,

Satan's Address to the Sun,

Assembling of the Fallen Angels,

The Garden of Eden,

Eve's Account of her Creation,

Morning in Paradise,

Evening in Paradise,

Expulsion from Paradise,

Satan's Survey of Greece,

ANDREW MARvell,

The Emigrants in Bermudas,

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn,

Thoughts in a Garden,

A Whimsical Satire on Holland,

SAMUEL BUTLER,

Accomplishments of Hudibras,

Religion of Hudibras,

Personal Appearance of Hudibras,

The Elephant in the Moon,

Miscellaneous Thoughts,

JOHN PHILIPs,

The Splendid Shilling,

JOHN POMFREt,

Extract from The Choice,

Inconveniences of Life in Rome,

Enjoyment of the Present Hour Recommended,

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Devout Contemplation of the Works of God,

Nature of the Evidence of the Existence of God,

RICHARD BAXTER,

Fruits of Experience of Human Character,

Baxter's Judgment of his Writings,

Desire of Approbation,

Change in Baxter's Estimate of his Own and other Men's

Knowledge,

On the Credit due to History,

Character of Sir Matthew Hale,

Observance of the Sabbath in Baxter's Youth,

Theological Controversies,

JOHN OWEN,

EDMUND CALAMY,

JOHN FLAVEL,

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Character of Charles II.,

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Against Repining in the Season of Want,

MATTHEW HENRY,

GEORGE Fox,

Fox's Ill-treatment at Ulverstone,

Interview with Oliver Cromwell,

ROBERT BARCLAY,

Against Titles of Honour,

WILLIAM PENN,

Against the Pride of Noble Birth,

Penn's Advice to his Children,

THOMAS ELLWOOD,

Ellwood's Intercourse with Milton,

JOHN BUNYAN,

Extracts from Bunyan's Autobiography,

Christian in the Hands of Giant Despair,

The Golden City,

LORD CLARENDON,

Reception of the Liturgy at Edinburgh in 1637,

Character of Hampden,

Character of Falkland,

Character of Charles I.,

Escape of Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester,

Character of Oliver Cromwell,

BULSTRODE WHITELOCKE,

GILBERT BUrnet,

Death and Character of Edward VI.,

Shakspeare,

Beaumont and Fletcher,

The Czar Peter in England in 1698,

Character of William III.,

JOHN DRYDEN,

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Against Excessive Grief,

Right of Private Judgment in Religion,

Poetical Genius,

WILLIAM WOTTON,

Decline of Pedantry in England,

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The Thief and the Cordelier-A Ballad,

The Cameleon,

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Fifth Period.

REIGNS OF WILLIAM III., ANNE, and George I.

[1689 TO 1727.]

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