TABLE OF CONTENTS. NARRATIVE PIECES. Execution of Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, The Voyage of Life :-an allegory, Account of William Penn's treaty with the Indians, CHAPTER III. DIDACTIC PIECES. The unhappiness of unrestrained passions, Of curiosity concerning the affairs of others, The miseries of Men mostly of their own procuring, The Creator's works attest his greatness, The advantages of a taste for Natural History, Necessity of Industry, even to Genius, Religion the only basis of Society, On the reasonableness of Devotion, DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. CHAPTER V. PATHETIC PIECES. CHAPTER VI. PUBLIC SPEECHES. Panegyric on the Eloquence of Mr. Sheridan, Extract from Mr. Pitt's Speech in Parliament, Extract from Patrick Henry's Speech before a Convention of Delegates, in Virginia, 1775, Extract from an Eulogy on Jefferson and Adams, delivered in Extract from a Speech of Mr. Phillips, in Ireland, on a certain Mr. Sheridan's Invective against Hastings, Mr. Burke's description of Junius, Mr. Burke's Compliment to Mr. Fox, Extract of a Speech of Mr. Curran, Extract from a Eulogy on Jefferson and Adams, pronounced Extract from an Address at the laying of the corner stone of the Speech of Titus Quinctius to the Romans, Extract from Judge Story's Continental Address, delivered at The Cotter's Saturday Night, CHAPTER VI. PROMISCUOUS PIECES. The Rose of the Wilderness, The Sacking of Prague, The Silent Expression of Nature, The Ruins, A Summer Evening Meditation, PART III. 215 The Passions:-an Ode, Gray 220 Elegy written in a country Churchyard, CHAPTER II. AMERICAN HISTORY. CHAPTER I. Discovery of America :-Settlement of Virginia by tae English, DO. CHAPTER III. Settlement of Massachusetts, DO. 245 DO. 243 DO. Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, CHAPTER IV. Campbell 205 Constitution of the State of New York, Page Burns 201 Wolfe 203 ib. London Magazine 213 FLINT 223 225 247 DO. 251 DO. 254 261 265 280 |
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