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SIVE RISUS ESSENT MOVENDI, SIVE LACRYMÆ, AFFECTUUM POTENS, AT LENIS DOMINATOR.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
EDINBURGH:
PUBLISHED, FOR THE PROPRIETORS,
BY W. & R. CHAMBERS, EDINBURGH; W. ORR, LONDON;
AND W. CURRY, JUN. & CO. DUBLIN.
MDCCCXXXIII.
Printed by ANDREW SHORTREDE, Thistle Lane.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND.
CHAP.
THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.
I. The description of the family of Wakefield, in which
a kindred likeness prevails, as well of minds as of
persons,
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II. Family misfortunes. The loss of fortune only serves
to increase the pride of the worthy,
III. A migration. The fortunate circumstances of our lives
are generally found at last to be of our own pro-
curing,
IV. A proof that even the humblest fortune may grant
happiness, which depends, not on circumstances, but
constitution,
V. A new and great acquaintance introduced. What we
place most hopes upon generally proves most fatal,
VI. The happiness of a country fireside,
VII. A town wit described. The dullest fellows may learn
to be comical for a night or two,
VIII. An amour, which promises little good fortune, yet may
be productive of much,
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IX. Two ladies of great distinction introduced. Superior
finery ever seems to confer superior breeding,
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X. The family endeavour to cope with their betters. The
miseries of the poor, when they attempt to appear
XI. The family still resolve to hold up their heads,
XII. Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wake-
field. Mortifications are often more painful than
XIII. Mr Burchell is found to be an enemy; for he has the
confidence to give disagreeable advice,
XIV. Fresh mortifications, or a demonstration that seeming
calamities may be real blessings,
XV. All Mr Burchell's villany at once detected. The folly
XVI. The family use art, which is opposed by still greater,
XVII. Scarcely any virtue found to resist the power of long
and pleasing temptation,
XVIII. The pursuit of a father to reclaim a lost child to virtue,
XIX. The description of a person discontented with the
present government, and apprehensive of the loss of
our liberties,
XX. The history of a philosophic vagabond, pursuing
novelty, but losing content,
XXI. The short continuance of friendship amongst the vicious,
which is coeval only with mutual satisfaction,
XXII. Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at
bottom,
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XXIII. None but the guilty can be long and completely
miserable,
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XXIV. Fresh calamities,
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XXV. No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some
XXVI. A reformation in the jail. To make laws complete
they should reward as well as punish,
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XXVII. The same subject continued,
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СНАР.
XXVIII. Happiness and misery rather the result of prudence
than of virtue in this life; temporal evils or felicities
being regarded by Heaven as things merely in them-
selves trifling and unworthy its care in the distribu-
tion,
XXIX. The equal dealings of Providence demonstrated with
regard to the happy and the miserable here below.
That from the nature of pleasure and pain, the
wretched must be repaid the balance of their suffer-
ings in the life hereafter,
XXX. Happier prospects begin to appear. Let us be inflexible,
and fortune will at last change in our favour,
XXXI. Former benevolence now repaid with unexpected
interest,
XXXII. The Conclusion,
ESSAYS.
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Preface to the Essays,
I. Description of various Clubs,
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163
II. Specimen of a Magazine in Miniature,
170
III. Asem, an Eastern Tale; or a Vindication of the Wisdom
of Providence in the Moral Government of the World, 174
IV. On the English Clergy and Popular Preachers,
180
V. A Reverie at the Boar's-Head Tavern, Eastcheap,
185
204
VII. Rules enjoined to be observed at a Russian Assembly,
VIII. Biographical Memoir, supposed to be written by the