4. Cruelty to brutes censured,

228

5. A paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th

chapter of Matthew,

220

6. The death of a good man, a strong incen-

tive to virtue,

230

7. Reflections on a future state, from a review

of winter,

231

8. Adam's advice to Eve to avoid temptation, 232

9. On procrastination,

233

10. That philosophy which stops at secondary

causes reproved,

234

$1. Iudignant sentiments on national prejudices
and hatred; and on slavery,

335

CHAPTER IV.

Descriptive Pieces.

SECT. 1. The morning in summer,

237

2. Rural sounds, as well as rural sights, de-

lightful,

238

3. The

rose.

239

SECT. 4. Care of birds for their young,

5. Liberty and slavery contrasted,

6. Charity. A paraphrase on the 13th chap-

ibid.

246

ter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians. 241

7. Picture of a good man,

242

8. The pleasures of retirement.

244

9. The pleasure and benefit of an improved

and well directed imagination,

245

4. Elegy to pity,

247

246

249

idid.

5. Verses supposed to be written by Alexan-

der Selkirk, during his solitary abode in

the island of Juan Fernandez,

251

6. Gratitude,

253

7. A man erishing in the snow; from whence

reflections are raised on the miseries

3 The road to happiness open to all men,

261

4. The goodness of Providence,

262

5. The Creator's works attest his greatness,

263

6. Address to the Deity,

264

7. The pursuit of happiness often ill directed, 265

11 Human frailty,

12. Ode to peace,

43 Ode to adversity,

271

272

273

14. The creation required to praise its author, 274

15. The universal prayer,

276

20. The order of nature,

21. Coofidence in divine protection,

22. Hymn on a review of the seasons,

23. On solitude,

232

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286

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