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CONTENTS.
1.
INTRODUCTORY LESSONS.
Page.
9
20
N the speaking of speeches at schools, Walker,
2. On the acting of plays at schools,
16.
3. Rules for expressing with propriety, the prin
cipal passions and humors, which occur in
reading or public speaking,
Rules respecting elocution,
Burgh,
28
Walker,
46
8. The court of death,
9. The partial judge,
ib.
64
10. The sick lion, the fox and the wolf,
11. Dishonesty punished,
12. The picture,
13. The two bees,
14. Beauty and deformity.
Percival's Tales,
15. Remarkable instance of friendship,
Art of Speaking, 68
16. Dionysius and Damocles,
23. Advantages of and motives to cheerfulness, Spectator, 84
Sallust,
Spectator,
Tatler,
69
Chesterfieid, Knox,
75
78
91
SECTION II.
1. The bad reader,
89
2. Respect due to old age,
90
3. Piety to God recommended to the young, Blair,
4. Modesty and decility,
5. Sincerity,
6. Benevolence and humanity,
93
7. Industry and application,
94
8. Proper employment of time,
95
9. The true patriot,
10. On contentment,
Art of Thinking, 96
Spectator, 97
11. Needlework recommended to the Ladies, ib.
100
12. On pride,
Guardian.
102
13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus,
Gibbon, 104
14. Character of Julius Cesar,
Miadleton, 105
15. On misspent time,
Guardian, 106
16. Character of Francis I,
Robertson, 110.
17. The supper and grace,
Sterne, 113
18. Rustic felicity,
115
19. House of mourning,
116
7. Description of the vale of Keswick in
Cumberland,
8. Pity, and allegory,
-
9. Advantages of commerce,
10. On public speaking,
11. Advantages of history.
12. On the immortality of the soul,
13. The combat of the Horatii and the
Curiatii,
14. On the power of Custom,
15. On pedantry,
Spectator, 159
SECTION IV.
16. The journey of a day; a picture of
human life,
3. The character of Mary, queen of Scots, Robertson,
4. The character of queen Elizabeth, Hume,
156
158
5. Charles V's resignation of his dominions, Robertson, 160
6. Importance of virtue,
7. Address to art,
3. Flattery
9. The absent man,
10. The monk,
11. On the head dress of the Ladies,
12. On the present and future state,
13. Uncle Toby's benevolence,
14. Story of the seige of Calais,
SECTION V.
Price,
164
Harris, 165
Fitzborne's letters,
Spectator.
184
185
3. On natural and fantastical pleasures, - Guardian,
189
4. The folly and madness of ambition
illustrated,
5. Battle of Pharsalia, and the death of
Pompey,
6. Character of king Alfred,
7. Awkwardness in company,
8. Virtue man's highest interest,
9. On the pleasure arising from objects
of sight,
10. Liberty and slavery,
11. The cant of criticism
5. The painter who pleased nobody and
every body,
Gay,
224
Pope,
226
the year,
7. The toilet,
8. The hermit,
9. On the death of Mr. Mason,
10. Eanegyric on Great Britain,
12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of
227
SECTION VII.
7. Description of Mab, queen of the fairies, Shakespeare,247
Pages
1. The camelion,
Merrick, 240
2. On the order o nature,
Pope, 241
3. Description of a country alehouse,
Goldsmith,
242
4. Character of a country schoolmaster,
5. Story of Palemon and Lavinia,
6. Caledonia and Amelia,
246
8. On the existence of a Deity,
Young,
248
9. Evening in Paradise described,
Milion,
10. Elegy written in a country churchyard,
11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her
lover,
12. Humorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot
of the impertinence of scribblers,
13. Hymn to adversity,
9: Alexander's feast, or the power of music, Dryden, 275.