12. On the true honour of man,

149

13. The influence of devotion on the happiness of life,

151

14. The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively con-

sidered,

152

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

applied,

154

16. The pleasure resulting from a proper use of our faculties, 156

17. Description of Candour,

157

18. On the imperfection of that happiness which resta solely

on worldly pleasures,

158

19. What are the real and solid enjoyments of human life, 161

20. Scale of being,

163

21. Trust in the care of Providence recommended,

165,

22. Piety and gratitude enliven prosperity,

167

23. Virtue, deeply rooted, is not subject to the influence of

fortune,

24. The speech of Fabricius, to king Pyrrhus, who attempted to

bribe him to his interests, by the offer of a large sum of

money,

170

25. Character of Jamos I. king of England,

171.

26. Charles V. Em.of Germany, resigns his dominions, &c.

172

27. The same subjeot continued,

175

169

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PART II.

PIECES EN POETRY,

178

179

ses, &c.

181

182

184

185

CHAPTER I.

Select Sentences and Paragraphs.

1. Short and easy sentences,

2. Verses in which the lines are of different length;

3. Verses containing exclamations, interrogations, parenthe-

4. Verses in various forms,

5. Verses in which sound corresponds with signification,

6. Connubial Affection,

CHAPTER II.

Narralive Pieces.
1. The bears and the bees,
2. The nightingale and the glow worm,
3. The trials of virtue,
4. The youth and the philosopher,
5. Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest,
6. Religion and death,

CHAPTER HII.

187
188
189
190
191
193

209

210

197
4. Cruelty to brutes censured,

197
5. A paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th chapt. of Matthew,

198
6. The death of a good man a 'strong incentive to virtue,

199
7. Reflections on the future state, from a review of winter,

200
8. Adam's adyice to Eve, to aroid temptation,

200
9. On procrastination,
10. That philosophy which stops at secondary causes, reproved, 201

202
11. Indignant sentiments on national prejudice, slavery, &c. -

CHAPTER IV.
Descripture Pieces.

203

1. The morning in summer,

2. Rural-sounds

, as well as rural sights, delightful,

204

205

3. The Rose,

4. Care of birds for their young,

205

206

5. Liberty and slavery contrasted,

16. Charity. A paraphrase on the 13th chap, to the Corinthians, 206

7. Picture of a good man,

209

8. The pleasures of retirement,

9. The pleasures and benefit of an improved imagination,

CHAPTER V.

Pathelic Pieces

211

1. The Hermit,

212

2. The Beggar's Petition,

213

3. Unhappy close of life,

213

4. Elegy to Fity,

214

5. Verses by Alex Selkirk, in the island of Juan Fernandez,

6. Gratitude,

215

216

7. A man perishing in the snow, with reflections, etc. oto.

218

8. A morning hymn,

CHAPTER VI.

Promiscuous Pieces.

1. Ode to Content,

219

220

2. Y'he Shepherd and the Philosopher,

222

3. The road to happiness open to all men,

222

4. The goodness of Providence,

5. T'he Creator's works attest his greatness,

223

6. Address to the deity,

223

225

7. The pursuit of happiness often ill directed,

8. The fire-side,

226

227

9. Providence vindicated in the present state of man,

10. Selfishness reproved,

228

11. Human frailty,

229

12. Ode to peace,

230

13. Ode to adversity,

230

231

14. The Creation required to praise its author,

15. The universal prayer,

233

234

16. Conscience,

234

17. On an infant,

18. The cuckoo,

235

19. Day. A pastoral in three parts,

237

20. The order of nature,

239

21. Hymn composed during sickness,

239

22. Hymn on a review of the seasons,

23. On solitude,

241

24. The landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,

244

235

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