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Bacon, an extract from his works, 7.

Barber, the obfervation of one on the weather, 175. Beatitude, the highest which man is capable of enjoying in this world, 309.

Beautiful, operates differently from the Sublime, 116,

119.

Biel, defcription of the beauties which adorn the borders of its lake, 116.

Blair, his opinion of the importance of attention, 18; the utility of his lectures on rhetoric, 18; his opinion of the effects of ferious retirement, 26.

Blockheads in power always dangerous, 149.

Boileau's lines on the advantages of retirement to a poet, 135.

Bolingbroke, the merit of his treatife on exile, 282, 287. Bonnet, an extract from his work on the nature of the foul, 22.

Bofcawen, his tranflation of the eleventh ode of Horace, 34; of the fixth ode of book vii, 94.

British Character described, 9.

Brutus, his love of letters, 44; his employment during the night preceding the battle of Pharsalia, 45; his obfervations on vifiting Marcellus in exile, 283. Buckebourg, the Count of, his extraordinary character,

72.

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Cardinal Colonna, the friend of Fetrarch, invited to vifit the folitude of Vauclufe, 167.

Cavaillon,

Cavaillon, the Bishop of, locks Petrarch out of his library, 47.

Cafar, the confequences of his virtue, 67.

Charles the Fifth, his employments in Solitude, 66; his folitude at Eftramadura, and the manner in which he employed his time, 138; vifits his tomb, and performs his funeral obfequies, 300.

Cicero, his love of letters, 45; his avowal of it in his

oration for the poet Archias, 45; his defence of the love of fame, 56; his mind intoxicated by the love of it, 60; his dejection on being banished, 285. Chatham, the Earl of, his love of Solitude the chief cause of his greatness, 48.

Chriftianity, its comforts, 306.

Cincinnatus's character and love of Solitude, 169. Clement the Sixth, the infamy of his pontificate expofed by Petrarch, 90.

Colonna, the letter of Petrarch to that Cardinal, 167. Competency, what, 163; competency and content the bafis of earthly happiness, 175.

Corregio, an anecdote of this celebrated painter, 29.
Cottagers, their happiness described, 120, 121.
Country, its pleasures more fatisfactory and lafting than
thofe of the town, 6; it is only in the country that
real happiness can be found, 121; our native place
preferable to every other, 122.

Courage is the companion of Solitude, 50.
Courts, the abfurdity of their pleasures, 215.

Curius, description of his character, 276.

Death,

Critics, defcribed and ridiculed, 36, 37.

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Death, the comforts of which the mind is capable on the death of a friend, 246; advantages of Solitude on the bed of death, 289.

Damer, the Honourable Mr. account of his life and

death, 255.

Debauchery, its consequences described, 211.

De Luc, his character and good conduct, 87.
Demetrius, his behaviour to Stilpo, the philofopher, upon

taking the city of Megara by storm, 51.

Defpair, to be conquered by reason, 244.
Dioclefian's amusements in Solitude, 66.

Diogenes, a love of truth led him to his tub, 66.

Dion, defcription of his character, 13.

Domeftic comforts, best enjoyed in Solitude, 38; as enjoyed by the inhabitants of Lausanne, 151; most friendly to the best pursuits of man, 152.

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Eclogues defcribed, 129, 130.

Employment, the neceffity of it in Solitude, 138; men of genius frequently confined to employments unfit for them, 223.

Emprefs of Germany, her philofophic conduct, 299; vifits her tomb, goo.

English, defcription of their character, 9; their good fenfe and love of Solitude, 171.

Enthufiafm, the use of it in the education of youth, 58. Epaminondas, his military skill owing to his ufe of Solitude, 89.

Exile, the advantages Solitude affords in exile, 279.

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Fame, the love of it defended by Cicero, 56; likely to be acquired by fatirifts, 58.

Fanaticifm frequently engendered by Solitude, 252. Fitzofborne's Letters, an extract from them, 156. Fox, the Perfian fable of the, 149.

Frederic the Great, his Solitude while at Spa, 30.. Freedom, defcription of it, 11; the parent of opulence, 162.

Friendship, refined by Solitude, 175.

Frefcati, the beauties of its neighbourhood defcribed,

117.

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Gardening, the true and false state of it described,

105. Garve eludes the pain of fickness by ftudying the works

of Cicero, 243; indebted to sickness for a knowledge of himself, 253; his opinion of those who hope that God will reward them with riches and honours, 307. Gellert banishes melancholy by addicting himself to literary pursuits, 242.

Genius, its ufe and confequences, 70,

Geffner, his Idylls inspired by the romantic scenery around Zurich, 117; the merits of them defcribed, 131.

Government, obfervations on the different species of it, 97; the notions of a rational man on it, 98.

Greatnefs,

Greatness, inftance of its effect in viewing the Alps, 107.

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Haller refufed admiffion into the Schintzuach society, 83.

Happiness not to be attained by frequenting public places,

218; to be found in true fociety, 220.

Heart, not to be neglected in the education of youth, 13; the influence which Solitude has on it, 100; to enjoy Solitude it is neceffary to diveft the heart of its emotions, 101.

Helvetius, his opinion of indolence, 70.

Henriade, written by Voltaire during his confinement in the Baftille, 4.

Herder, his account of a particular caft of people in Afia, 181, 182.

Horace, his ode on the subject of time, 34; his love of Solitude, 94; his ode on the fubject of retirement,

95.

Hotze, the phyfician, an account of his humane and happy character, and of his beautiful and romantic fituation at Richterfwyl, 141, 147.

Humanity, a term frequently mifapplied, 265.

Humility, the firft leffon we learn from reflection, 249.

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Japan, defcription of a college of blind perfons there,

23.

Idleness

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