10. But if a hermit you're resolv'd to dwel!, God never made an independent man; Suns shine, birds sing, flowers bloom, and water flows, He'd sigh, he'd murmur, that he was alone. 3. The God (whate'er misanthropy may say,) What boots through space's furthest bourns to roam Then know thyself, the human mind survey; Nor study only, practise what you know; Your life, your knowledge, to mankind you owe. 14. Though man's ungrateful,or though fortune frown; Whom Heaven approves of most, must feel her rod. 16. But when old age has silver'd o'er thy head, *One of the accusers of Socrates. GRAINGER. FINIS. Sect 1. No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind happy, 4. Motives to the practice of gentleness, 5. A suspicions temper the source of misery to its pezsessor, 7. Diffidence of our abilities a mark of wisdom, 8. On the importance of order in the distribution of our time, 9. The dignity of virtue amidst corrupt examples, 10. The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue, CHAPTER VI. Pathetic Pieces. Beet. 1. Trial and execution of the Earl of Strafford, 3. The Apostle Paul's noble defence before Festus and Agrippa 4. Lord Mansfield's speech in the House of Lorda, 1770, on the bill for preventing the delays of justice, by claiming the privilege 3. Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus, on the death of an amiable young 165 109 170 171 174 176 14. The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered, 5. On the power of custom, and the uses to which it may be applied, 194 16. The pleasures resulting from a proper use of our faculties. 13. On the imperfection of that happiness which rests solely on world- 198 202 204 207 209 The same subject continued, 25. Character of Janies I king of England, S6. Charles V Emperor of Germany, resigns his dominions, and re- 24. The speech of Fabricius, a Roman ambassador, to king Pyrrhus, 213 214 215 218 PART II. PIECES IN POETRY Select Seriences and Paragraphs. Beet. Chort and easy sentences, 2. Verses in which the lines are of different length, "3. Verses containing exclamations, interrogations, and parentheses, Narrative Pieces. Sect. 1. The bears and the bees 2. The nightingale and the glow worm, 4. The youth and the philosopher, 5. A paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th chap. of Matthew, 6. The death of a good man a strong incentive to virtue, 10. That philosophy, which stops at secondary causes, reproved, 11. Indignant sentiments on national prejudice and hatred; and on sla- 2. The Beggar's Petition, 8. A morning nymo, |