Nor yet unrecompens❜d are virtue's pains;
Good Allen lives, and bounteous Brunswick reigns.
On each condition disappointments wait,
Enter the hut, and force the guarded gate.
Nor dare repine, though early friendship bleed,
From love, the world, and all its cares, he's freed.
But know, adversity's the child of God:

Whom Heaven approves of most, must feel her rod.
When smooth old Ocean, and each storm's asleep,
Then ignorance may plough the watery deep;
But when the demons of the tempest rave,
Skill must conduct the vessel through the wave.
14 Sidney, what good man envies not thy blow?
Who would not wish Anytus*—for a foe?
Intrepid virtue triumphs over fate;
The good can never be unfortunate.
And be this maxim graven in thy mind;
The height of virtue is, to serve mankind.
But when old age has silver'd o'er thy head,
When memory fails, and all thy vigour's fled,
Then mayst thou seek the stillness of retreat,
Then hear aloof the human tempest beat;
Then will I greet thee to my woodland cave,
Allay the pangs of age, and smooth thy grave.

* One of the accusers of Socrates.

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PART L

PIECES IN PROSE.

CHAPTER I.

Select Sentences and Paragraphs,
CHAPTER II.-Narrative Pieces.

1. No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind happ
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,

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

CHAPTER III.-Didactic Pieces.

1. The importance of a good education,

2. On gratitude, .

3. On forgiveness,

4. Motives & the practice of gentleness,

5. A suspicious temper th source of misery to its possessor, 6. Comforts of religion,

7. Diffidence of our abilities a mark of wisdom,

8. On the importance of order in the distribution of our time, 9. The dignity of virtue amidst corrupt examples,

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

12. Rank and riches afford ne ground for envy,

13. Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty,

14. Moderation in our wishes recommended,

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15. Omniscience and omnipresence of the Deity, source of consolation, 62

CHAPTER IV.-Argumentative Pieces.

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, 5. On disinterested friendship,

6. On the immortality of the soul,

1. The seasons,

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

CHAPTER VI.-Pathetic Pieces.

1. Trial and execution of the earl of S rafford,

2. An eminent instance of true fortitur e of mind, 8 The good man's comfort in affliction,

4. The close of life,

5. Exalted society and the renewal of virtuous connexions, &c. .

6. The clemency and amiable character of .ne patriarch Joseph,

7. Altamont,

CHAPTER VII.-Dialogues.

1. Democritus and Heraclitus,

2. Dionysius, Pythias, and Damon,

3. Locke and Bayle,

CHAPTER VIII-Public Speeches.

1. Cicero against Verres,

2. Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senate, imploring protection,

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, &c.

5. An Address to young persons,

CHAPTER IX.-Promiscuous Pieces.

1. Earthquake at Calabria, in the year 1538,

2. Letter from Pliny to Geminius,

3. Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus, on the death of an amiable

young woman,

4. On Discretion,

5. On the government of our thoughts,

6. On the evils which flow from unrestrained passion,.

7. On the proper state of our temper, with respect to one another,

8. Excellence of the Holy Scriptures, .

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9. Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pronounced

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

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

10. Schemes of life often illusory,.

11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility,

-12. On the true honour of man,

14. The planetary and terrestrial worids comparatively considered, 147

15. On the power of custom, and the uses to which it may be applied, 149

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

17. Description of Candour,.

18. On the imperfection of that happiness which rests solely on

worldly pleasures, .

152

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

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, 164

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

27. The same subject continued,

PART II.

PIECES IN POETRY.

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CHAPTER I. Select Sentences and Paragraphs.

1. Short and easy sentences,

171

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

173

3. Verses containing exclamations, interrogations, parentheses, &c 174

4. Verses in various forms,

2. The nightingale and the glow-worin,

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 III.-Didactic Pieces.

1 The vanity of wealth,

2. Nothing formed in vain,

3. On pride,

4. Cruelty to brutes censured,

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

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

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ib.

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

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195

ib.

3. The Rose,

4. Care of birds for their young,

5. Liberty and slavery contrasted,

7. Picture of a good man,

8. The pleasures of retirement,

CHAPTER V.-Pathetic Pieces.

3. Unhappy close of life,

6. Gratitude,

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

10. That philosophy which stops at secondary causes, reproved,

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

1. The morning in summer,

2. Rural sounds, as well as rural sights, delightful,

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

9. The pleasures and benefit of an improved imagination,

1. The Hermit,

2. The Beggar's Petition,

4. Elegy to Pity,.

CHAPTER IV.-Descriptive Pieces.

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7. A man perishing in the snow, with reflections, &c. &c.

8. A morning hymn,

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9. Providence vindicated in the present state of man,

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11. Human frailty,

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12. Ode to peace,-

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13. Ode to adversity,

ib.

14. The creation required to praise its Author,

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17. On an infant, -

18 The Cuckoo,

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20. The order of nature,

19. Day. A pastoral, in three parts,

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21. Confidence in Divine protection,

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22 Hymn on a review of the Seasons, -

23 On Solitude,

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