The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry ...

S. Raynor, 1853 - Readers - 264 pages

PIECES IN PROSE	i

Prosperity is redoubled to a good man	26

On the beauties of the Psalms	87

Character of Alfred king of England	88

Character of Queen Elizabeth	89

On the slavery of vice	91

The man of integrity	92

Gentleness	93

Liberty and slavery contrasted	212

Charity A paraphrase on the 13th chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians	213

Picture of a good man	215

The pleasures of retirement	216

The pleasure and benefit of an improved and well directed imagination	217

Pathetic Pieces Sect 1 The Hermit	219

The Beggars Petition	220

Unhappy close of life	221

Trial and execution of the Earl of Strafford	95

An eminent instance of true fertitude of mind	96

The good mans confort in affliction	98

Exalted society and the renewal of yhtuous connexions Avo sources of future felicity	100

The clemency and amiable character of the patriarch Josepla	101

Altamont	104

Democritus and Heraclitus 106	106

Dionysius Pythias and Damon 3 Locke and Bayle CHAPTER VIII	110

Cicero against Verres	115

Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senate imploring their pro tection against Jugurtha	119

The Apostle Pauls noble defence before Festus and Agrippa	122

Lord Mansfields speech in the House of Lords 1770 on the bill for preventing the delays of justice by claiming the privi lege of parliament	123

An address to young persons	127

Earthquake at Calabria in the year 1638	131

Letter from Pliny to Geminius	134

Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus on the death of an amiable young woman	135

On Discretion	136

On the government of our thoughts	139

On the evils which flow from unrestrained passions	140

On the proper state of our temper with respect to one another	141

Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pronounced by Christ on his disciples in his sermon on the mount	145

Schemes of life often illusory	146

The pleasures of virtuous sensibility	148

On the true honour of man 1 50	151

The planctary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered	153

On the power of custom and the uses to which it may be ap plied	155

The pleasures resulting from a proper use of our faculties	157

Description of Candour	159

Elegy to Pity	222

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk during his solitary abode in the island of Juan Fernandez	223

Gratitude	224

A man perishing in the snow from whence reflections are raised on the miseries of life	225

A morning hymn	227

Ode to Content	229

The Shepherd and the Philosopher	230

The road to happiness open to all men	232

The goodness of Providence	233

The Creators works attest his greatness	234

The pursuit of happiness often ill directed	236

The fireside	237

Providence vindicated in the present state of man	239

Selfishness reproved	240

Human frailty	241

Ode to peace	242

Ode to adversity	243

The Creation required to praise its Author	244

The universal prayer	246

Conscience	247

On an infant	248

Day A pastoral in three parts	249

The order of nature	252

Confidence in Divine protection	253

Hymn on a review of the seasons	254

On solitude	256

The cataract of Niagara in Canada North America	262

The vanity of wealth	264

Title	The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry ...
Author	Lindley Murray
Publisher	S. Raynor, 1853
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	23 Apr 2008
Length	264 pages

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