The good can never be unfortunate.
And be this maxim graven in thy mind;
The height of virtue is, to serve mankind.
But when old age has silver'd o'er thy head,
When memory fails, and all thy vigour's fled,
Then mayst thou seek the stillness of retreat,
Then hear aloof the human tempest beat;
Then will I greet thee to my woodland cave,
Allay the pangs of age, and smooth thy grave.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

PIECES IN PROSE.

CHAPTER I.

Select Sentences and Paragraphs.
CHAPTER II.

Narrative Pieces.

Sect. 1. No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind happy
2 Change of external condition often adverse to virtue

3. Haman or the misery of pride
4. Lady Jane Grey

5. Ortogrul; or the vanity of riches
6. The hill of science

7 The journey of a day; a picture of human life

CHAPTER III.

Didactic Pieces.

CHAPTER IV.

Argumentative Pieces.

Beet. 1. The importance of a good education 2. On gratitude

3.

On forgiveness

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Motives to the practice of gentleness
5. A suspicious temper the source of misery to its possessor
6. Comforts of religion
7.Diffidence of our abilities a mark of wisdom

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8. On the importance of order in the distribution of our time 9. The dignity of virtue amidst corrupt examples 10. The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue 11. On contentment

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12. Rank and riches afford no ground for envy

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Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty 14. Moderation in our wishes recommended

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1. Happiness is founded in rectitude of conduct 2. Virtue and piety man's highest interest

3. The injustice of an uncbaritable spirit

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15. O science and omnipresence of the Deity, the source of

onsolation to good men

4. The misfortunes of men mostly chargeable on themselves
disinterested friendship

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6. On the immortality of the soul

Sect. 1 The seasons

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. The slavery of vice

13. The man of integrity
14. Gentleness

CHAPTER V.

Descriptive Pieces,

2. The cataraot of Niagara, in Canada, North America

3. The grotto of Antiparos

4. The grotto of Antiparos continued

5. Earthquake at Catanea

6. Creation

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CHAPTER VI.

Pathetic Pieces.

Sect. 1. Trial and execution of the Earl of Strafford

2. An eminent instance of true fortitude of mind

3. The good man's confort in affliction

4. The close of life

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

Seet. 1. Cicero against Verres

young woman

two sources of future felicity

6. The clemency and amiable character of the patriarch Josep

7. Altaniont

CHAPTER VIII.

Public Speeches.

CHAPTER IX.

Promiscuous Pieces.

2. Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senate, imploring

their protection against Jugurtha.

S. The Apostle Paul's noble defence before Festus and Agripps

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

for preventing the delays of justice, by claiming the privi

lege of parliament

5. An address to young persons

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

2. Letter from Pliny to Germinius

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

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4. On Discretion

On the government of our thoughts

6 On the evils which flow from unrestrained passions

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

8. Excellence of the Holy Scriptures

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

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