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CHAPTER 1X.

Promiscuous Pieces,
I'1 Eart quake at Calabri.., in the year 1958,

2. Leer froni Phny to Ceminius,
3. Lf er from Pliny to Marcellinus, on the death

of an amiable young woman,
a discretion,

137
5. In the government of our thoughts,
6 du the evils that fi'wirom u estroined passions, 14 !,
On the proper state of our temper, with respect

to one anoiher,
8. Excellence of the holy scriptures,
9. Redictions rccasioned by a review of the bles.

sings pronounced by Christ, on his disciples

in his sermon on the mount,
10. Schemes of life cften illusory,
11. The pleasures of virtueus sensibility,
12. On the true honour of man

150
13. The influence of devotion on the happiness oflise, 15!
14. The planetar; and terrestrial worlds, compara-
lively considered,

15
15. On the power of custom, and the uses to which

it may be applied,
16 The pleasures resulting from a proper use of ou.

faculties,
17. Description of cele dour,
18. On the imperfection oi that happiness which

rest solely on worldly pleasures,
· 19, What are the real and solid enjoyments of

man-life,
20. Scale of, beings,
21. Trust in the care of Providence recomme
22. Piets and gratitude en iven prosperity,
23. Virtue, when deeply rooled, is 'ot subject

influence of fortune,
24. The speech of Fabricius, a Roman

dor,to'king Pyrrhus, who attempler
him to his intertois, uy the oila

sum of in 11ty,
25. Character of James I. king of Easter
26. Charles V en peror of Ceiman;

dominions and reures from
27. The same subject continu:ly

PART II.

PIECES IN POETRY

CHAPTERI,

Select Sentences and Paragraphs.

SECT. I. Short and easy sentences,

2. Verses in which the lines are of different length

3. Verses containing exciamations, interrogacic

and parenthesis,

4. Verses in various forms,

3. Verses in which sound corresponds to significa

tion,

6. Paragraphs of greater length,

CHAPTER II.

Nurralio: Pieces,
Secr. 1. The bears and the bees,

2. The nightingale and the glow-worm,
3. The trials of virtue,
4. The youth and the piuilosopher
5. Discourse between Adam and Eve, retiring to

rest,

6. Religion and Death,

CHAPTER III.

Didaciic pieces.
T. 1. The vanity of wealth,

198
2. Nothing formed in vain,

198
3. On pride,

199
4. Cruely to brutes censured,

201
5. A paraphrase on the latter part of the sixth
chapter of Matthew,

201
The death of a good inan a strong incentive to
virtue,

202
Reflections on a future state, from review of
winter,

202
Adani's advice to Eve, to avoid temptation, 203
On procrastination

204

that philosophy, which stops at secondary cau.

ses, reproved,

nant sentiments on national prejudices,

and hatred ; and on slavery,

CHAPTER IV.

Descriptio Pieces

morning in summer,

207
sounds, as well as rural sights, delightful,.08

193
196

205

206

SAGE
3. The rose,

209
4. Care of birds for their young,

209
5. Liberty and slavery contrasted,

210
6. Charity. A paraphrast on the 13th chapter of
the first epistle to the Corinthians,

211
7. Pictu e of a good man,

212
8. The pleasures of retirement,

214
9. The pleasures and benefits of an improved and
well directed imagination,

CHAPTER V.

Pathetic Pieces.
LECT. 1. The hermit,

216
2. The beggar's petition,

218
3. Unhappy close of life,

219
4. Elegy 10 pity,

219
5. Verses supposed to be written by Alexander

Selkirk, during his solitary abode in the isl.
and of Juan Fernandız,

220
6. Gratitude,

221
7. A man perishing in the snow,

22$
a. A morning hymn,

225
CHAPTER VI.

Promiscuous Pieces
SECT, 1. Ode to content,

226
2. The shepherd and the philosopher,

227
3. The road to happiness open to all men, 229
4. The goodness of providence,

230
5. The.Creator's works attest his greatness, 231
6. Address to the Deity,

231
7. The pursuit of happiness often ill directed, , 233
8. The fireside,

234
9. Providence vindicated in the present state of man 236

licated
10. Selfishness reprover,

237*
ll, Human frailty,

238
12. Ode to peace,

239
13. Ode to adversity,

239
14. The creation required to praise its author,

240
15. The universal prayer,