PART I.

PIECES IN PROSE.

CHAPTER 1.

Page

Select Sentences and Paragraphe.

CHAPTER II.

Narraliré Pieces.

r. 1. No rank or possesions can make the guilty mind,

happy,

39

2. Change of external condition often adverse to virtue, 40

3. Haman; or the misery of pride,

41

4. Lady Jane Grey,

42

5. Ortogrul; or the vanity of riches,

45

6. The hill of science,

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

60

CILAPTER III.

Didactic. Pieces.

Ert. 1. The importance of good education,

64

2. On gratitude,

55

3. On forgiveness.

66

4. Motives to the raç !0p of gentleness,

57

5. A suspicious tempe. We source of inisery to its pos-
sessor,

68

6. Comforts of religion,

59

7. Diffidence of our abilities a mark of wisdom,

60

8. On the importance of order in the distribution of

our tine,

61

9. The dignity of virtue amidst corrupt examples,

62

10. The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue, 64

11. On contentinent,

65

12. Rank and riches afford no ground for envy,

6°

13. Patience under provocalions our interest as well as

duty,

69

14. Moderation in our wishes recommended,

70

15. Omniscience and omnipresence of the Deity, the

source of consolation to good men.

CHAPTER IV.

Argumentalire Pieces.

lect. 1. Happiness is founded in rectitude of conduct,

76

2. Virtue man's highest interest,

76

2. The injustice of an uncharitable spirit,

BY

Sect. 4 The misfortunes of men mostly chargeable on them.

selves,
8. On disinterested friondship,
6. On the immortality of the soul,

80
87

CHAPTER V.

Descriptive Piecus.

Sect. I. The seasons,

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

3. The grotto of Antiparos,

4. The grotto of Antiparos continued,

6. Earthquake at Catanea,

6. Creation,

7. Charity,

8. Prosperity is redoubled to a good man,

9. On the leauties of the Psalms,

10. Character of Alfred, king of England,

II. Character of Queen Elizabeth,

12. On the slavery of vice,

13. The man of integrity,

14. Gentleness,

CHAPTER VI.

101

102

100

104

Pathelic Pieces.

Srct. 1. Trial and execution of the Earl of Strafford,

2. An eminent instance of true fortitude of mind,

8. The good man's comfort in affliction,

4. The close of life,

3. Exalted society, and the renewal of virtuous con-

nexions, two sources of future felicity,

6. The clemency und amiable character of the patri-

arch Joseph,

7. Altamont,

131

Public Speeches.

VECT 1. Cicero against Verres,

2. Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senate, imploring

their protection agains na,

& The Apostle Paul's noble defence before Festus and

Agrippa,

Pago. lucr. 4. Lord Mansfield's speech in the House of Lords, 1770,

on the bill for preventing the delays of justice, by
claining the privilege of parliament,

128 & An address to young persons,

CHAPTER IX.

Promiscuous Preces.

186

Bict. 1. Earthquake at Calabria, in the year 1638. 2. Letter from Pliny to Geminius,

139 3 Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus, on the death of an amiable young woman,

ib. 4. On Discretion,

140 6. On the government of our thoughts,

149 6. On the evils which flow from unrestrained passions, 145 7. On the proper state of our temper, with respect to one another,

146 8. Excellence of the Holy Scriptures,

148 9. Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings,

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

149 10. Schemes of life often illusory,

160 Jl. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility,

102 12 On the true honour of man,

164 13. The influence of devotion on the happiness of life, 10 14. The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered,

157 15. On the power of custom, and the uses to which it may be applied,

180 16. The pleasures resulting from a proper use of our faculties,

160 17. Description of candour,

161 18. On the imperfection of that happiness which rosts solely on worldly pleasures,

162 19. What are the real and solid cnjoyments of human life,

165 20. Scale of beings,

167 21. Trust in the care of Providence recominended, 169 2. Piety and gratitude culiven prosperity,

171 B. Virtue, when deeply rooted, is not subject to the influence of fortune,

173 The speech of Fabricius, a Roman ambassador, to

king Pyrrhus, who attempted to bribe him to his
interests, by the offer of a great sum of money,

174 & Character of James I. king of England,

176 m Charles V. emperor of Germany, rosigns bis dominicns, and retires from the world,

176 57. The same subject continued,

170

PART II.

PIECES IN POETRY.

Page.

189 184

185 187 188 191

198 194 194 190 198 200

CHAPTER I

Selecl Sentences and Paragraphs. f. 1. short and easy sentences,

2. Verses in which the lines are of different length,
3. Verses containing exclamations, interrogations, and

parentheses,
nzi 4. Verses in various forms,

7. Verses in which sound corresponds to signification.
6. Paragraphs of greater length,

CHAPTER II.

Narralire Pieces.
ECT. 1. The bear and the bees,

2. The nightingale and the glow-worm,
3. The trials of virtue,
4. The youth and the pliilosopher,
5. Discourse between Adam and Eve, retiring to rest,
6. Religion and death,

CHAPTER V.

Didaclic Pieces. 1. 1. The vanily of wealth,

2. Nothing formed in vain,
3. On pride,
4. Cruelty to brutes censured,
5. A paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th chapter
6. The death of a good man a strong incentive to

virtue,
7. Reflections on a future staly, from a review of

winter,
8. Adams advice to Eve, to arvid temptation,
9. On procrastination,
10. That philosophy, which sups at secondary causes,

reproved,
11 Indignant sentiments on national prejudices and ha-
tred; and on slavery,

Page 214 216

dser. A Care of birds for their young,

6. Liberty and slavery contrasted,
6. Charity. A paraphrase on the 13th chapter of the

First Epistle to the Corinthians,
7. Picture of a good man,
8. The pleasures of retireinent,
D. The pleasure and benefit of an improved and well.

directed imagination,

CHAPTER V.

Palheric Pieces.

221 223 224 ib.

Bicy. 1. The hermil,

2. The beggar's petition,
S. Unhappy close of life,
4. Elegy to pity,
6. Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk,

during his solitary abode in the Island of Juan

Fernandez,
6. Gratitude,
9. A raan perishing in the snow; from whence refloc.