Tell how storms deform the skies, 9 Youth, you're mistaken, if you think to find And satiate mourns the quick return of day: 10 God never made an independent man; Fool, dost thou think he'd revel on the store, Though waters flow'd, flow'rs bloom'd, and Phœbus shone, Whom Heaven approves of most, must feel her rod. * One of the accusers of Socrates. CONTENTS. The good can never be unfortunate. CONTENTS. PART I. PIECES IN PROSE. - CHAPTER I. Select Sentences and Paragraphs. CHAPTER II. Narrative Pieces. 2149 GRAINGER. Sect. 1. No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind happy 2. Change of external condition often adverse to virtue 3. Haman; or the misery of pride Didactic Pieces. 46 8. On the importance of order in the distribution of our time 12. Rank and riches afford no ground for envy 13. Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty 14. Moderation in our wishes recommended 15. Omniscience and omnipresence of the Deity, the source of Sect. 1. Happiness is founded in rectitude of conduct 3. The injustice of an uncharitable spirit (93 4. The misfortunes of men mostly chargeable on themselves & On the immortality of the soul Bect. 1. The seasons CHAPTER V. 8. Prosperity is redoubled to a good man 9. On the beauties of the Psalms 10. Character of Alfred, king of England Beet. 1. Trial and execution of the Earl of Strafford 5. Exalted society, and the renewal of virtuous connexions, two sources of future felicity 6. The clemency and amiable character of the patriarch Joseph S. The Apostle Paul's noble defence before Festus and Agrippa 4. Lord Mansfield's speech in the House of Lords, 1770, on the bill for preventing the delays of justice, by claiming the privi- 7. On the proper state of our temper with respect to one another 8. Excellence of the Holy Scriptures 9. Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings, pronounced . 199 .140 12. On the true honour of man, 15. The influence of devotion on the happiness of life, 14. The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered, 15. On the power of custom, and the uses to which it may be applied, 150 16. The pleasures resulting from a proper use of our faculties, . 154 • 158 . 161 164 21. Trust in the care of Providence recommended, 22 Piety and gratitude enliven prosperity, 23. Virtue, when deeply rooted, is not subject to the influence of 21. The Speech of Fabricius, a Roman ambassador, to king Pyrrhus, 165 2. Verses in which the lines are of different length, 172 174 3. Verses containing exclamations, interrogations, and parentheses, 175 4. Verses in various forms, 5. Verses in which sound corresponds to signification, 6. Paragraphs of greater length, 10. That philosophy, which stops at secondary causes, |