A Visit to the Courts of Justice in The Vicar's Rural Retreat. From On Forgiveness and Revenge. From On the Credibility of a Future Life. Samuel Richardson : 1689–1761. Pamela at Church. From Pamela, 105 Partridge at the Play-house. From The Middle Ages-Progress of Free- From The History of England, 113 Tobias George Smollett: 1721–1771. The Soldier's Return. From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, 115 Sir William Blackstone: 1723-1780. mentaries on the Laws of England, 118 A French Peasant's Supper. From Edmund Burke : 1730-1797. From his Speech on Conciliation with the American Colonies, 145 From his Letter to a Noble Lord, 147 Horace Walpole : 1717-1797. The Trial of the Rebel Lords. From A Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 149 . . Letter to Rev. William Unwin, . 151 The Perishable Nature of Poetical James Watt. -The Steam-Engine. The World made with a Benevolent Design. From Natural Theology, 154 Richard Brinsley Sheridan: 1751—1816. The Insignificance of this Earth. From Astronomical Discourses, 178 On the Pleasures of Imagination. Characters of Shakspeare's Plays, 180 From Philosophical Essays, 159 Sermon on the Sentiments proper to the Present Crisis (1803), 161 Henry Hallam: 1777-1859. Effects of the Feudal System. From Europe during the Middle Ages, 184 164 Robert Southey : 1774–1843. On the General Deficiency of Self- Observation. From Essay On a Washington Irving : 1783—1859. Rural Scenery in England. From The Combat between Ivanhoe and The Headstone. From Lights and Richard Hooker.. THEOLOGIANS. PAGE 17 24 28 46 .154 .161 { PHILOSOPHICAL WRITERS. 21 22 .Necessity of Precision in Using Language. 25 27 31 62 .The Deity Unfolded in His Works........ 82 .National Partiality and Prejudice....... 93 94 99 .139 .159 Sir Walter Raleigh... HISTORIANS. 19 39 135 .141 .184 194 .212 William Robertson ..... xii CLASSIFIED INDEX OF PROSE WRITERS. Abraham Cowley... Joseph Addison..... Oliver Goldsmith.... ESSAYISTS. PAGE 44 51 71 74 75 79 .127 .167 .180 .182 188 { Samuel Johnson ... John Foster ....... { William Hazlitt.... NOVELIST S. .The Great Plague in London......... 85 Visit to the Academy of Sciences at 89 .105 .107 115 .Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim.. .120 .123 .129 .169 .190 204 .208 {Guilbert... { LETTER-WRITERS. From a Letter to Lady Mary Wortley 96 .101 .149 Letter to Rev. William Unwin ......... .151 .152 a CLASSIFIED INDEX OF PROSE WRITERS. xiii MISCELLANEOUS PROSE WRITERS. PAGE 15 33 34 Thankfulness for Worldly Blessings....... 36 43 48 50 58 64 .118 From a Letter to the Duke of Bedford...124 .Parallel between Pope and Dryden........133 From his Speech on Conciliation with the 145 ..156 ..Extracts from Peter Plymley's Letters...164 .186 .198 .......... The Last Days of George III....... ....219 |
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