INDEX. Pago. LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE POET INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS A CRITICAL ESTIMATE OF THE WORKS OF DR. YOUNG. CONTENTS OF NIGHT I., ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY. Address to the Author of Light My departed Hours Contrasts in man.. Night proclaims the Soul immortal The buried live .... 75 76 77 78 78 Resignation to the great Arbiter of life and death. 161 164 166 166 167 171 172 The praise of Redemption more appropriate to man than to 184 Page. The Second Advent The Christian's faith is rational False pretensions of philosophic infidelity The voice of Conscience must be heard... NIGHT V.-THE RELAPSE.. Pleasure and Pride, of opposite tendencies 196 197 199 201 203 204 204 Happiness, in contentment; not in fortune The base idolatry of fortune....... Lysander and Aspasia. The disappointed nuptials...... NIGHT VI.-THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED. PART I. The nature of Immortality. 24' 24. 241 1 25 254 True wealth, in the intellectual and moral powers. 271 Bp. Butler's argument, from analogy, for a future state 288 Page. 294 296 297 .... NIGHT VII-THE SECOND PART OF THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED Argument from the nature and rewards of Virtue 299 300 The anguish and complaints of a good man in view of Anni- 324 An all-preserving contrasted with an annihilating God.... 334 The importance of a soul immortal..... 336 True free-thinking defined. Two kinds of life and of death... Vice alone recommends the scheme of Annihilation. 345 348 350 351 352 354 355 355 The several stages of life, in the history of Florello. The man who lives as an immortal contrasted with the world- The grand and awful events which follow the last sentence.. 431 Feelings arising upon a view of the nocturnal heavens Devotion the daughter of Astronomy.. 439 440 442 445 446 The existence and grandeur of the Deity The stars tell of angelic beings. 447 449 Nature contrasted with Art 450 |