Sect. 3. The Apostle Paul's noble defence before

Feftus and Agrippa,

Sect. 4. Lord Mansfield's fpeech in the Houfe of

Lords, 1770, on the bill for prevent-

ing the delays of justice, by claiming

the privilege of Parliament,

Sect. 5. An addrefs to young perfons,

CHAPTER IX.

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179

Sect. 1.

Sect. 2.

PROMISCUOUS AND MIXED PIECES.

Earthquake at Calabria, in the year 1638, 185

Letter from Pliny to Geminius,

189

Sect. 3.

Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus, on the

death of an amiable young woman,

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190

Sect. 7.

Sect. 8.

Sect. 9.

On the evils which flow from unrestrain-

On the proper ftate of our temper, with

respect to one another,

Excellence of the Christian religion,

Reflections occafioned by a review of the

bleffings, pronounced by Christ on

his difciples, in his fermon on the

mount,

Sect. 10. Schemes of life often illufory,

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199

201

Sect. 11. The pleafures of virtuous fenfibility,

Sect. 12. On the true honour of man,

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

which it may be applied,

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208

211

214

216

219

Sect. 16. The pleasures refulting from a proper use

of our faculties,

Sect. 17. Defcription of candour,

Sect. 18. On the imperfection of that happiness

which refts folely on worldly plea-

fures,

Sect. 19. What are the real and folid enjoyments

of human life,

Sect. 20. Scale of beings,

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226

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233

235

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242

Sect. 21. Truft in the care of Providence recom-

mended,

Sect. 22. Piety and gratitude enliven profperity,

Sect. 23. Virtue, when deeply rooted, is not fub-

ject to the influence of fortune,

Sect. 24. The fpeech of Fabricius, a Roman Am-

baffadour, to King Pyrrhus, who at-

tempted to bribe him to his interests,

by the offer of a great fum of money,

Sect. 25. Character of James I. King of England,

Sect. 26. Charles V. Emperour of Germany, re-
figns his dominions, and retires from

the world,

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247

248

250

Sect. 27. Continuation of the Emperour Charles V. 254

PART II.

PIECES IN POETRY.

CHAPTER I.

SELECT SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS.

Sect. 1. Short and eafy fentences,

Sect. 2. Verfes in which the lines are of different

length,

259

262

Sect. 6. The death of a good man a strong incen

tive to virtue,

Sect. 7. Reflections on a future ftate, from a review

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289

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293

).

294

of winter,

295

Sect. 8.

Sect. 9.

Adam's advice to Eve, to avoid temptation, 296
On procrastination,

298

Sect. 10.

That philofophy, which stops at fecondary

causes, reproved,

Sect. 11. Indignant fentiments on national prejudices

and hatred, and on flavery,

299

301

CHAPTER IV.

DESCRIPTIVE PIECES..

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Sect. 1.

The morning in fummer,

303

Sect. 21

Rural founds, as well as rural fights, de

lightful,

304

Sect. 3.

The rose,

305

Sect. 4.

Care of birds for their young,

306

Sect. 5.

Liberty and slavery contrafted,

307

Sect. 6.

Charity. A paraphrafe on the 13th chapter

of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, 308

Sect. 7.

Picture of a good man,

310

Sect. 8.

The pleasures of retirement,

312

Sect. 9.

The pleafure and benefit of an improved

and well-directed imagination,

313

Sect. 7. A man perishing in the fnow; from whence

reflections are raised on the miferies of

life,

Sect. 8. A morning hymn,

CHAPTER VI.

PROMISCUOUS AND MIXED PIECES.

Sect. 1. Ode to content,

Sect. 2. The fhepherd and the philofopher,

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325

328

330

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Sect. 3.

Sect. 4.

The road to happiness open to all men,

The goodness of Providence,

344

336

Sect. 5.

Sect. 6.

The Creator's works atteft his greatness, 337

Addrefs to the Deity,

338

Sect. 7.

The purfuit of happiness often ill-directed, 340

Sect. 13. Ode to Adversity,

349

Sect. 14. The creation required to praise its Author, 351

Sect. 18. The cuckoo,

Sect. 19. Day. A pastoral in three parts,

Sect. 20. The order of Nature,

Sect. 21. Hymn compofed during fickness,

Sect. 22. Hymn, on a review of the feasons,

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