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CHAPTER IX.

Promiscuous Preces.

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PART II.

PIECES IN POETRY.

CHAPTER I

Select Sentences and Paragraphs.

r. 1. Short and easy sentences,

2. Verses in which the lines are of different length,

3. Verses containing exclamations, interrogations, and

parentheses,

4. Verses in various forms,

5. Verses in which sound corresponds to signification.
6. Paragraphs of greater length,

CHAPTER II.

Narrative Pieces.

ECT. 1. The bear and the bees,

2. The nightingale and the glow-worm,

3. The trials of virtue,

4. The youth and the philosopher,

5. Discourse between Adam and Eve, retiring to rest,
6. Religion and death,

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2. Nothing formed in vain,

3. On pride,

4. Cruelty to brutes censured,

5. A paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th chapter
of Matthew,

6. The death of a good man a strong incentive to
virtue,

7. Reflections on a future state, from a review of

winter,

8. Adams advice to Eve, to avoid temptation,

9. On procrastination,

reproved,

jo. That philosophy, which stops at secondary causes,

11 Indignant sentiments on national prejudices and ha-
tred; and on slavery,

CHAPTER IV.

Descriptive Pieces.

Szer. 1. The morning in summer,

2. Rural sounds, as well as rural sights, delightful,
3. The rose,

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scr. 4 Care of birds for their young,

5. Liberty and slavery contrasted,

6. Charity. A paraphrase on the 13th chapter of the
First Epistle to the Corinthians,

7. Picture of a good man,

8. The pleasures of retirement,

9. The pleasure and benefit of an improved and well-
directed imagination,

CHAPTER V.

Patheric Pieces.

BICT. 1. The hermit,

2. The beggar's petition,

S. Unhappy close of life,

4. Elegy to pity,

5. Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk,
during his solitary abode in the Island of Juan
Fernandez,

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6. Gratitude,

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7. A man perishing in the snow; from whence reflec-
tions are raised on the miseries of life,

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8. A morning hymn,

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CHAPTER VI.

Promiscuous Pieces.

Sac 1. Ode to Content,

2. The shepherd and the philosopher,
3. The road to happiness open to all men,
4. The goodness of Providence,

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7. The pursuit of happiness often ill directed

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6. The fire-side,

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9. Providence vindicated in the present state of man,

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