easy. doing, we should need all the time we have to do it well. The duties of the day faithfully discharged, we should not much concern ourselves about the morrow. The The morrow anticipated morrow would be so far provided for that it and made would be anticipated and made easy, if it come. Refinement and intelligence and excellence would result from fidelity to duty, and a happiness would be established as serene as it would be unconscious. Living and acting, and getting the pleasure and good of life with each day of it, we should enjoy a foretaste of fruition and perpetuity. [Titles for essays, with some citations ESSAYS IN and hints.] Malignant Joy. — Edmund Kean's act ing. Monopolists of Salvation. The Heroism of Self-Denial. Indolence and Cowardice. At the bottom of too many of our beliefs and practices. Pitiers of Themselves. - Emerson. TITLES. "My Dear Devil.”—The fidelity of woman. Dodging the Drops. An Embodiment of Nothing. Animal Spirits.—"My distresses are so many that I can't afford to part with my spirits." The Difficult Ways of Honesty. Life, the Touchstone of Profession. One-Eyed Men. "It is only in the kingdom of the blind that one-eyed men are kings." Sally Jackson's Dream-Book. Faith in Knavery. - Jonas Chuzzlewit. Avarice of Reward. Keyholes. - Tom Jones. Milk and Praise. Mary Lamb. Morbid Oblivion. — Johnson to Boswell. · Medicines for the Mind. A saying of Burke's. Holmes in the Autocrat. Burns. Old pamphlet of Dr. Wayland's. Summer Friends. - Timon of Athens. Falsehood of Extremes.- Justice without mercy. An Autumnal Harvest of Leisure. Wordsworth's letter to Crabb Robinson. Sensibility of Reproach.-Swift. Steele's last paper of the Englishman. The Dismal Precocity of Poverty. Becky Sharp. Intellectual Detachment. Sour Bread. Hawthorne's great horror. Marble Faun. The Brutality of Justice. To be treated satirically. The Sniveling Virtue of Meekness. Walter Shandy. Incorrigible and Losing Honesty. Lamb's father. Ornamental Sorrow. - The Widow Row Constitutional Inertness. Ferocious Discontent. The Dull Virtuous and the Brilliant Wicked. A Glutton of Books. Solemn Plausibilities. Avarice in Youth. Protracted Misery. Expansive Intentions. — Skimpole. Snappishness of Tone. The brisk old. Domestic Dyspepsia. — The name given to the disease of which Jane Carlyle was a chronic sufferer, by Caroline Fox. The Decencies of Ignorance. - John Buncle. Too Quickly Won. - Romeo and Juliet. The Holy Goggle. - Halifax's advice to his daughter. The Infirmity of Pride. - Bulwer's Earl of Warwick. Other People's Sins. The Equity of Providence. - Rasselas. Microscopic Eyes. Socrates' Sauce. Foresight of Troubles. - John Buncle. Unfinished Faces. The Devil's Amanuensis. A misanthropic writer. Hazlitt's Commonplaces. Humboldt. Schopenhauer. Sir Thomas Browne. Aggressive Self-Possession. The Rapture of Ravage. Cork John. Nimble. Always atop. The Infinite Malice of Destiny. - Shelley to Hogg. Omnigenous Erudition. - Celestial Rail road. The Feeling of Identity and the Instinct of Perpetuity. Married Misery. The Wild Thunder Months. Richter. Disenchanted Maturity. "The years that bring the philosophic mind." Prelude to Laon and Cythna. Patent Antifrictions. Oil of flattery, etc. The Air of Omnipotence. Moral Physicians. Wise Slowness. Sainte-Beuve. Mad. Geoffrin. Raking the Desk of the Devil. — Byron's club-foot. Byron and his sister. Napoleon and his sisters. Memoirs of Mad. de Rémusat. The Medicine of Example. The Healing Power of Admiration. The George Eliot. Running a Thought to Death. The Popularity-Hunting Air. The Habit of Belief. The Diseases of Sorrow. Suffrage as a Safety-Valve. The Mythical Indispensable Man. Ignorance as a Medium. "One can see anything in a fog," is a saying of the Dutch. On Exchanging Advantages. Sanscrit for Memoranda. Responsibility the Basis of Morals. |