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III. RICHARD HOOKER. Circa 1553-1600.

Creation.

2. Faith, Hope, and Charity

3. Music

4. Past and Present

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V. FRANCIS BACON, LORD VERULAM. 1560-1626 .

I. Of the Use of Reason in Religion

2. Of Poesy

3. Of Studies

4. King Henry the Seventh

VI. JOHN DONNE. 1573-1631

1. Heavenly Mansions

2. Religion

3. So speak ye

4. For, where your heart is, there is your treasure also

VII. JOSEPH HALL, BISHOP OF NORWICH. 1574—1656

I. The Deceit of Appearances

The Busybody

3. Common Prayer

VIII. EDWARD HERBERT, LORD CHERBURY. 1581–1648

Evidences of a better Life to come

2. Wolsey

3. Learning must be met by Learning

4. Indulgences

5. Queen Katharine's timely submission

6. A Knight of the Bath

IX. THOMAS HOBBES. 1588—1679

The Origin of Law

Of Custom

3. Of the interpretation of Law

4. Why Suits are multiplied

5. Ethics of Subjects and Sovereigns

6. History of the House of Commons

7. Vain Philosophy

X. IZAAK WALTON. 1593–1683

The Praise of Angling

Richard Hooker at Oxford .

3. A quiet Scene

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XI. SIR THOMAS BROWNE. 1605–1682

I. God in Nature .

True Affection.

3. The faithful Physician

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XII. THOMAS FULLER. 1608-1661

1. King David fleeth from Jerusalem

Hooker and Travers .

3. Travers is silenced by the Archbishop

4. Robert Thorn .

5. The Schoolmaster

6. Of Recreation

7. God's Weapons last while they are wanted

8. A Votary at a doubtful Shrine

XIII. EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON. 1608—1674

1. Character of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

2. Character of Blake

3. Lord Falkland's Home

4. Letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford

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XVI. SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE. 1628–1699.

Giants in Wit and Genius exceptional productions of

Nature

Of Gardening

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XVIII. JOHN TILLOTSON. 1630—1694.

The Uncertainty of Earthly Happiness

The Dignity of Man .

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XIX. JOHN DRYDEN. 1631–1700

I. Great Men as Poets and Patrons

2. Horace and Juvenal

3. Private Greatness, and Ambition

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XX. JOHN LOCKE. 1632-1704

The Opening of the 'Essay of Human Understanding'

2. Opposition to Government sometimes desirable

3. Of Recreation

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XXI. ROBERT SOUTH. 1633–1716

The Creation of Man in the Image of God:

The Understanding

The Will

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XXII. FRANCIS ATTERBURY. 1662—3—1731-2

1. King Charles the First

From the Speech before the House of Lords

3. Letter to Pope .