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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART I.

PIECES IN PROSE.

CHAPTER I.

[The names of American authors are in small capitals.]

Select Sentences,

CHAPTER II.

NARRATIVE PIECES.

Catharina, Empress of Russia,

Execution of Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury,
The Voyage of Life: :-an allegory,

Death of Socrates,

Account of William Penn's treaty with the Indians,

Religion and Superstition contrasted,

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Edinburgh Review 34
Carter 36

CHAPTER III.

DIDACTIC PIECES.

On the pleasure of acquiring knowledge,

On the uses of knowledge,

Integrity the guide of life,

The happiness of animals a proof of divine bencvolence,

The Seasons,

On the Swiftness of Time,

The unhappiness of unrestrained passions,

Of curiosity concerning the affairs of others,

Alison 40
do. 42

Blair 45

Paley 46

Monthly Anthology 49

The miseries of Men mostly of their own procuring,
The Creator's works attest his greatness,
The advantages of a taste for Natural History,
Necessity of Industry, even to Genius,
Religion the only basis of Society,
On the reasonableness of Devotion,

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