ht This work having been undertaken princi pally with the design of assisting the Students > at WARRINGTON in ' acquiring a just and graceful Elocution, I feel a peculiar propriety in addressing it to you;' as a public acknowledgment of the stearly support which you have given: to this Institution, and the important : services which you have rendered it. In this Seminary, which was at first established, and has been uniformly conducted, on the extensive plan of providing a proper course of Instruction for young men in the most useful branches of Science and Litera. ture, you have seen many respectable characters formed, who are now filling up their stations in society witli-reputation to themselves, and advantage to the Public. And, while the same great object continues to be pursued, by faithful endeavours to cultivate the understandings of youth, and by a steady attention to discipline, it is hoped, that you will have the satisfaction to observe the same effects produced, and that the scene will be realized, which OUR POETESS has so beautifully de scribed : The 130 Like ten:per'd harmony of light and shade, aj? With friendly union in one mass shall blend, And this adorn the state, and that defenda I am, DEAR SIR, WILLIAM ENFIELD. ... ... 1 The Dervise Spectatur 38 16 Celadon and Amelia 3 Ararice and Luxury Ib. 40117 Junio and Theana 4 Pleasure and Pain ...... Ib. 41 5 Labour ................ World 43 18 Douglas to Lord Randolph 16. 44 19 Othello's Apology Shaks. 71 Mrs. Barbauld 47 from the Flames of Troy Ib. 51 21 The parting of Hector and 11 Mária .. Ib. 52 Andromacbe 13 The Youth and the Philo- 22 The Progress of Discontent Pope 6023 The Modern Rake's Pro- ...... 1 On Modesty Speclator 84 8 On Good Sense ..Melmoth 101 2 On Cheerfulness ..16. 86 9 On Study Bacon 102 3 On Sincerity Tillotson 8910 On Satirieal Wit ... Sterne 103. 4 On Honour Grsardian 911) Hamlet's Instructions to 5 On Good Humour' the Players...Shakspeare 104 Rambler 94 12 The present Condition of 6 On the knowledge of the Man vindicated ... Pope 105 World .. ..... Ib. 97/13 On the Order of Nature 7 On the Advantage uni. .......... 16. 107 ting Gentleness of Man- 14 The Origin of Supersti. pers with Firmness of tion and Tyranny ... 16. 109 Mind .... Lord Chesterfield 99|15 On Happiness ......... Ib. 111 ........... Pope 113 23 On Procrastination. Young 125. 17 On Versification Ib. 115 24 The pain arising from .Armstrong 116 tended with Pleasure 20 Elegy to a Young Noble. 26 The Pleasures arising Muson 121 from a cultivated Ima- man Life Thomson. 122/27 Panacea; or, the Grand Restorative ....... Graves 132 State ... Ib. 123 ...... BOOK 4.--ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES. 1 On Anger .... Holland 134 4. On the Immortality of the Harris 1395 On the. Being of a God * Junius Brutus over the 7 The Earl of Arundel's. dead body of Lucretia Speech,proposing an Ac- commodation between 2 Hannibal to his Soldiers Henry 11. and Stephen 16. 1471 Ld. Lyttelton 159 3 C. Marius to the Romans, 8. Mr. Pulteney's Speech on on their hesitating to the Motion for reducing appoint himn General in the Atiny 164 the Expedition against 9 Sir John St. Aubin's Speech for repealing the account of his extrac. Scptenmal Act 167 tion Sattus& 150 10 Sw Robt. Walpole's Reply 172 * Calisthenes' Reproof of 1.1 Lord Lyttelton's Speech. Cleon's Flattery, to alex- on the Repeal of the Act ander 2. Curlius 153 called the Jew. Bill, in 5 The Scythian. Ambassa- the year. 1753 177 dors to Alexander ... lb. 154 12 Praise of Virtue.. Price 180 6 Galgacus, the General of 13 The Speech of Brutus on the Caledonji, to his Ar. the Death of Cæsar my, to incite them to Shakspeare 181 Action against the Ro. 14 Gloucester's Speech to mans. , come... .... Tucitus 157 the Nobles .............. Ib. 182 |