CHAPTER IL Narrative Pieces. Sect. 1. No rank or possessione 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 Gray, 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. Sect. 1. The importance of a good education, 2. Ou gratitude, 3. On forgiveness, 4. Motives to the practice of gentleness, 5. A suspicious temper the source of misery to its possessor, 7. Diffidence of our abilities a mark of wisdom, Page: 44 45 47 49 52 54 58 64 65 67 69 8. On the importance of order in the distribution of our time, 71 74 75 77 81 10. The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue, 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 conso- Sect. 1. Happiness is founded in rectitude of conduct, 2. Virtue man's highest interest, 3. The injustice of an uncharitable spirit, 4. The misfortunes of men mostly chargeable on themselves, 85 89 90 91 93 96 99 102 2. The cataract of Niagara, in Canada, North America, 104 CHAPTER VI.. Pathetic Pizzes. Sect. 1. Trial and execution of the Earl of Strafferd, 3. The Apostle Paul's noble defence before Festus and Agrippa 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. 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, 14. The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered, 15. On the power of custom, and the uses to which it may be applied, 16. The pleasures resulting from a proper use of our faculties. 24. The speech of Fabricius, a Roman ambassador, to king Pyrrhus, who attempted to bribe him to his interests, by the offer of a 2. Verses in which the lines are of different length, 224 3. Verses containing exclamations, interrogations, and parentheses, 225 4. Verses in various forms, 227 5. Verses in which sound corresponds to signification, 229 6. Paragraphs of greater length, 231 4. The youth and the philosopher, 236 5. Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest, 237 240 5. A paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th chap. of Matthew, 6. The death of a good man a strong incentive to virtue, 7. Reflections on a future state, from a review of winter, 8. Adam's advice to Eve, to avoid temptation, 9. On procrastination, 10. That philosophy, which stops at secondary causes, reproved, 11. Indignant sentiments on national prejudice and hatred; and on sla- Sect. 1. The morning in summer, 2. Rural sounds, as well as rural sights, delightful, 6. Charity. A paraphrase on the 13th chap. of the First Epistle to 9. The pleasure and benefit of an improved and well directed imagi- nation, 5. Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during his 264 6. Gratitude, 266 7. A man perishing in the snow; from whenco reflections are raised on the miseries of life, 8. A morning hymn, 8. The fire side, 278 9. Providence vindicated in the present state of man, 280 10. Selfishness reproved, 281 |