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21. On good breeding,
22. Address to a young student,
23. Advantages of, and motives to cheerful-
Page.
Chesterfield, 77
Knox, 80
ness,
Spectator, 82
SECTION II.
1. The bad reader,
2. Respect due to old age,
Percival's Tales, -87
Spectator, 88
3. Piety to God recommended to the young, Blair,
88
4. Modesty and docility,
ib.
89
5. Sincerity,
6. Benevolence and humanity,
7. Industry and application,
11. Needle work recommended to the Ladies, ib. 97
12. On pride,
Guardian, 99
13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus, Gibbon, 101
6 The folly of inconsistent expectations, 7. Description of the vale of Keswick in Cumberland,
8. Pity, an allegory,
9. Advantages of commerce,
10. On public speaking,
11. Advantages of history,
12. On the immortality of the soul,
118
Aitkin, 121
Brown, 124
Aitkin, 127
Spectator, 128
ib. 130
Hume, 132
Spectator, 184
18. The combat of the Horatii and the
Curiatii,
14. On the power of custom,
15. On pedantry,
16. The journey of a day; a picture of
human life,
SECTION IV.
1. Description of the amphitheatre of Titus,
2. Reflections on Westminister abbey, 3. The character of Mary, queen of
Scotts,
4. The character of queen Elizabeth, 5. Charles V's resignation of his do- minions,
6. Importance of virtue,
7. Address to Art,
& Flattery,
9. The absent man,
10. The monk,
11. On the head dress of the ladies,
12. On the present and a future state,
13. Uncle Toby's benevolence,
Page
Livy, 136
Spectator, 138
Mirror, 140
Rambler, 143.
Gibbon, 147
Spectator, 148.
Robertson, 150
Hume, 152
Robertson, 154
Price, 157
Harris, 158
Theophrastus, 160.
Spectator, 161
Sterne, 163:
Spectator, 165,
168
Sterne, 171
14. Story of the Siege of Calais, Fool of Quality, 171
SECTION V.
1. On grace in writing,.
Fitzsborne's Letters, 176.
Spectator, 177
2. On the structure of animals,
3. On natural and fantastical pleasures, Guardian, 180
4. The folly and madness of ambition
illustrated,
5. Battle of Pharsalia, and death of
Pompey,
6. Character of king Alfred,.
7. Awkardness in company,.
8. Virtue, man's highest interest,
9. On the pleasure arising from objects
11. The cant of criticism,
Sterne, 200
12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden,
Johnson, 201
13. Story of Le Fever,
Sterne, 202
SECTION VI.
1. The shepherd and the philosopher,/
2. Ode to Leaven Water,
3. Ode from the 19th psalm,
4. Rural charms,
5. The painter who pleased nobody and
every body,
6. Diversity in the human character,
7. The toilet,
8. The hermit,
9. On the death of Mrs. Mason,/
10. Extract from the temple of fame,
11. A panegyric on Great Britain,
12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons
of the year,
Gay, 211
Smollet, 213
Spectator, 213
Goldsmith, 214
Gay, 215
Pope, 217
ib. 218
Parnel, 219
Mason, 225
Pope, 225
Thomson, 227
}
230
1. The camelion,
SECTION VII.
Merrick, 233
Pope, 234
Goldsmith, 235
2. On the order of nature,
3. Description of a country ale house,
4. Character of a country schoolmaster,
5. Story of Palemon and Lavinia,
6. Celadon and Amelia,
7. Description of Mab, queen of the
fairies,
8. On the existence of a Deity,
9. Evening in paradise described,
10. Elegy written in a country churchyard, Gray, 245
11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her
lover,
Thomson, 248
12. Humorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot of
the impertinence of scribblers,
19 Hymn to adversity,
14. The passions. An ode
Pope, 250
Gray, 251
Collins, 252
SECTION VIH.
1. Lamentation for the loss of sight,
2. L'Allegro, or the merry man,
3. On the pursuits of mankind,
4. Adam and Eve's morning hymn,
5. Parting of Hector and Andromache,
6. Facetious history of John Gilpin,
7. The creation of the world,/
8. Overthrow of the rebel angels,
9. Alexander's feast, or the power of
music,
PART II.-LESSONS IN SPEAKING.
SECTION I.
ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT.
1. On truth and integrity,
Tillotson, 278
2. On doing as we would be done unto,
Atterbury, 280
3. On benevolence and charity,
Seed, 282
4. On happiness,
Sterne, 284
5. On the death of Christ,
Blair, 288
ELOQUENGE OF THE SENATE.
1. Speech of the Earl of Chesterfield,
2.
-Lord Mansfield,
SECTION III.
ELOQUENCE OF THE BAR.
1. Pleadings of Cicero against Verres,
2. Cicero for Milo,
292
297
301
304
SPEECHES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
1. Romulus to the people of Rome, after build-
ing the city,
2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus,
3. Scipio's reply,
4. Calisthenes' reproof of Cleon's flattery to
Alexander,
5. Caius Marius to the Romans,
6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army,
7. Hannibal to the Carthagenian army,
8. Adherbal to the Roman senators,
9. Canuleius to the Roman consuls,
10. Junius Brutus over the dead body of
Lucretia,
11. Demosthenes to the Athenians,
12. Jupiter to the inferiour deities,
13. Eneas to queen Dido,
14. Moloch to the infernal powers,
15. Speech of Belial, advising peace,
Page,
Hooke, 310
ib. 311
ib. 312
313
Q. Curtius,
Hooke, 313
ib. 316
ib. $19
Sallust, 321
Hooke, 824
ib. 327
Lansdown, 328
Homer, 333
Virgil, 334
Milton, 336,
ib. 337
DRAMATIC PIECES.-I.-DIALOGUES.
West Indian, 340
2. Lady Townly and Lady Grace, Provoked Husband, 342
1. Belcour and Stockwell,
3. Priuli and Jaffier,
4. Boniface and Aimwell,
5. Lovegold and Lappet,
6. Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell, Henry, VIII 354
7. Sir Charles and Lady Racket,
Three weeks after Marriage, 357
8. Brutus and Cassius, Shakespeare's Julius Cesar, 361
II. SPEECHES AND SOLILOQUIES.
1. Hamlet's advice to the players,.
Tragedy of Hamlet, 364
2. Douglas' account of himself, Tragedy of Douglas, 365,