On a beautiful Youth ftruck blind by Lightning. 146

Remarks on our Theatres...

The Story of Alcander and Septimius.

A Letter from a Traveller.

Account of Mr. Maupertuis.

ib.

150

155

157

160

Some Particulars relative to Charles XII... . 165

Happiness dependant on Constitution.

171

Some Particulars relative to Father Freijo., 193

A Word or Two upon High Life below Stairs. 230

Upon Unfortunate Merit.

VI. On Education.

232

236

248

On the Inftability of Worldly Grandeur. ...

Some Account of the Academies of Italy.

No VII. Of Eloquence.

Cuftom and Laws compared.

On the Pride and Luxury of the Middling

Class of People...

Sabinus and Olinda.....

The Sentiments of a Frenchman on the Tem-

per of the English.

VIII. On Deceit and Falfhood.

255

264

268

270

An Account of the Auguftan Age of England. 283

Of the Opera in England.

Preface to the ESSAYS.

I. Defcription of various Clubs

II. Specimen of a Magazine in Miniature.

III. Afem, an Eastern Tale; or Vindication of the

Wisdom of PROVIDENCE in the moral Govern-

ment of the World.

292

311

315

IV. On the English Clergy, and popular Preachers. 324

V. A Reverie at the Boar's Head Tavern, Eaft-

`VI. Adventures of a Strolling Player.

VII. Rules enjoined to be obferved at a Ruffian

344

VIII. Biographical Memoir fuppofed to be written

by the Ordinary of Newgate..

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XIX. Schools of Mufic, Objections thereto, and

THE

LIFE

OF

THOMAS PARNELL, D. D.

ARCHDEACON OF CLOGHER.

FIRST PRINTED IN THE YEAR 1770.

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