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PART I.
PIECES IN PROSE.
CHAPTER 1.
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,
CHAPTER III.
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7. The journey of a day; a picture of human
life,
Didactic Pieces.
22
23
SECT. 1. The importance of a good education,
2. On gratitude,
3. On forgiveness,
4. Motives to the practice of gentleness,
5. A suspicious temper the source of misery to
its possessor,
47
49
6. Comforts of Religion,
7. Diffidence of our abilities a mark of wisdom, 50
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37
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44
4.4
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SECT. 8. On the importance of order in the distribu
tion of our time,
51
9. The dignity of virtue amidst corrupt examples, 53
10. The mortifications of vice greater than
those of virtue,
CHAPTER IV.
11 On contentment,
12. Rank and riches afford no ground for envy,
13. Patience under provocations our interest as
well as duty,
14 Moderation in our wishes recommended,
15. Omniscience and omnipresence of the Deity,
the source of consolation to good men, 66
CHAPTER V.
Descriptive Pieces,
SECT. 1. The seasons,
America,
3. The grotto of Antiparos,
4. The grotto of Antiparos continued,
5. Earthquake at Catanea,
6. Creation,
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Schur
Argumentative Pieces.
SECT. 1. Happiness is founded in rectitude of conduct, 71
2. Virtue man's highest interest,
72
73
3. The injustice of an uncharitable spirit,
4. The misfortunes of men mostly chargeable
on themselves,
5. On disinterested friendship,
6. On the immortality of the soul,
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,
2. The cataract of Niagara, in Canada, North
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98
SECT. 12. On the slavery of vice,
13. The man of integrity,"
14. Gentleness,
CHAPTER VI.
Pathetic Pieces.
CHAPTER VII.
SECT. 1. Trial and execution of the Earl of Strafford, 106
2. An eminent instance of true fortitude of
Dialogues.
SECT. 1. Democritus and Heraclitus,
mind,
3. The good man's comfort in affliction,
4. The close of life,
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5. Exalted society, and the renewal of virtuous
connections, two sources of future felicity, 112
6. The clemency and amiable character of the
patriarch Joseph,
7. Altamont,
2. Dionysius, Pythias, and Damon,
3. Locke and Bayle,
CHAPTER VIII.
100
102
103
Public Speeches.
SECT. 1. Cicero against Verres,
114
. 117
107
109
110/
135
2. Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senate, im-
ploring their protection against Jugurtha, 139
3. The Apostle Paul's noble defence before Fes-
tus and Agrippa,
120
123
127
143
4. Lord Mansfield's speech in the House of
Lords, 1770, on the bill for preventing the
delays of justice, by claiming the privilege
5. An address to young persons,
145
150
CHAPTER IXA
Promiscuous Pieces.
SECT. REarthquake at Calabria, in the year 1688,
2. Better from Pliny to Geminius,
·
6. Detter from Pliny to Marcellinus, on the
death of an amiable young woman,
On Discretion,
3. On the government of our thoughts,
6. On the evils which flow from unrestrained
155
159
passions,
7. On the proper state of our temper, with res
pect to one another,
8. Excellence of the Holy Scriptures,
9. Reflections occasioned by a review of the
blessings, pronounced by Christ on his dis-
ciples, in his sermon on the mount,
10. Schemes of life often illusory,
11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility,
12. On the true honour of man,
13. The influence of devotion on the happiness
of life,
14. The planetary and terrestrial worlds compa-
ratively considered,
15. On the power of custom, and the uses to
which it may be applied,
. 186
16. The pleasures resulting from a proper use of
our faculties,
. 189
189
173:
174.
. 177
179
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161
166
167
17. Description of candour,
18. On the imperfection of that happiness which
rests solely on worldly pleasures,
191
19. What are the real and solid enjoyments of
human life,
20. Scale of beings,
21. Trust in the care of Providence recommend-
169
172
181
184
ed,
22. Biety and gratitude enliven prosperity,
23. Virtue, when deeply rooted, is not subject to
the influence of fortune,
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201
. 203.
SECT. 24. The speech of Fabricius, a Roman am-
bassador, to king Pyrrhus, who attempted
to bribe him to his interest, by the offer
of a great sum of money,
25. Character of James 1. King of England, 208
26. Charles V. emperor of Germany, resigns
. 207
his dominions, and retires from the world, 210
27. The same subject continued,
213
PART II.
PIECES IN POETRY.
CHAPTER I.
SECT. 1. Short and easy sentences,
2Verses in which the lines are of different
5
lengths,
Verses containing exclamations, interroga-
tions, and parentheses,
Merses in various forms,
5 Verses in which sound corresponds to signifi-
2. The nightingale and the glow-worm,
3. The trials of virtue,
to rest,
6. Beligion and death,
. 219
4. The youth and the philosopher,
5. Discourse between Adam and Eve, retiring
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