NUMBER XXXVI.

Of Truth-Speaking as denoting Courage,

Of Vulgarity,

NUMBER XXXVII.

NUMBER XXXVIII,

126

129

Of the very great influence of use, or custom, as res-

pects children,

Of the advantages of the long-protracted weakness and

dependance of childhood,

NUMBER XL.

Of the moral benefits accruing to parents by means of

the good instruction they give their children,

NUMBER XLI.

Of the condition of old age-with directions for lighten-

ing its burden,

NUMBER XLII.

Of the silly quarrel between a venerable old couple a-

bout a little goat,

NUMBER XLIII.

Of Friendship and the choice of friends,

NUMBER XLIV.

Of the importance of learning to say No,

NUMBER XLV.

Of the calamities of hereditary Idleness,

NUMBER XLVI.

132

136

138

142

146

Of the lamentable species of helplessness occasioned by

Pride and false Shame,

NUMBER XLVII.

Of the Proper and Improper as depending upon the di-

verse circumstances and ages of life,

Of several of the predisposing causes of unhappy marriages,177

NUMBER LI,

NUMBER LII.

Of favouritism as respects the deal of parents with their

children,

NUMBER LIII.

Of one of the many remarkable instances of Divine Prov-

idence, rewarding filial piety,

181

184

Of general diffusion of knowledge.-Part 2.

205

NUMBER LX.

Of the adaptation of Education to the various callings of

life,

NUMBER LXI.

Of the adaptation of female Education to the peculiar hab-

itudes of the sex,

208

212

NUMBER LXII.

Of cruelty to the brute creation-instanced in the barba-

rous usage of that noble animal, the Horse,

215

NUMBER LXIII.

Of the vainness of trying to please every body-instanced

in the authentic story of the minister's wig,

NUMBER LXIV.

Of the easiness of the transition from christian civilization

to comparative barbarism,

NUMBER LXV.

A comment upon a celebrated Allegory of antiquity,

NUMBER LXVI.

218

222

Of forgetting old debts, and shuffling off the payment of

small ones.

Of Vainness, or Vanity, as making part of the warp of

our general nature.

236

NUMBER LXIX.

Of the importance of the Goose, to Man.

Of an interesting trial of old, before the royal court of

Persia.

NUMBER LXXVII.

Of moral Education.

NUMBER LXXVIII.

Of the power of Imagination over young minds-instanced

in George Hopewell.

NUMBER LXXIX.

265

268

271

Of the foul nature and direful effects of customary gaming. 275

Of the almost insuperable power of Habit,

Of the World,

NUMBER LXXX.

NUMBER LXXXI.

279

282

286

290

Of the influence of early impressions upon all the follow-

ing periods of life,

NUMBER LXXXV.

NUMBER LXXXVI.

294

Of calamitious reverses in respect to worldly circumstances 298

Of the attention due both to Mind and Body,

Of useful Industry, considered as a moral duty,

Of the moral use of the Pillow-with reflections on sleep, 323

Of the two opposite errors-the extreme of Suspicion,

NUMBER XCVI.

A comment upon the fable of the Invisible Spectacles, 337

NUMBER XCVII.

Of the misuse, and the proper use of Reading,

NUMBER XCVIII.

Of excessive and indiscriminate Novel reading,

NUMBER XCIX.

Of the impassable limits to the pleasures of Sense,

NUMBER C..

Of the difference between ignorance as respects learning,

and a natural weakness of undertsanding,

341

344

348

NUMBER CI.

NUMBER CHI.

NUMBER CIV.

Of treating children with excessive severity,

Of drawing and fixing the attention of children,

Of balancing the principles of Hope and Fear in the gov

ernance of children,

NUMBER CV.

Of Brevity in relation to sundry particulars,

NUMBER CVI.

Of some particulars conducive to conjugal peace and hap-

piness,

Of regarding Accomplishments as the principal part of

NUMBER CVII.

female education,

NUMBER CVIII.

Of the common use of false weights and measures in deal-

ing out both Praise and Censure,

NUMBER CIX.

Of officiously meddling with, and a total disregard, of the

affairs of others,

NUMBER CX.

NUMBER CXI.

Of turning good to ill, by tampering with it,

Of a restless desire to know what others say of us,

NUMBER CXII.

NUMBER CXIII.

Summary Characteristics,

Of the necessity of seasonable precaution,

NUMBER CXIV.

351

355

358

361

365

366

371

376

381

385

388

Of our proneness to run from one extreme to the other, 403

THE BRIEF REMARKER, &c.

NUMBER I.

On the blessing of Peace.*

TIMES of general tranquillity are thought, perhaps generally, to be capable of furnishing very little for gazetteers. This is partly true, but, for the greater part, quite erroneous. Tranquil times do indeed, comparatively speaking, "furnish very few astonishing incidents very little to excite deep wonder, or to hold expectation on the rack; but of other and more useful matter they furnish a plenty. When "the world is at rest and is quiet," it is then that those arts are best cultivated, which minister to the comfort and adornment of life; and it is then that the human family has the greatest amount of enjoyment. And though in such a state of things there is little to amaze, there is very much that is calculated to afford sound instruction, and to humanize and elevate the mind.

At the period of several centuries back, the evervalorous Irish, (if we may believe Stanihurst, a very old historian) baptized their children by immersion, but

* The publication of the Brief Remarker was begun directIyafter the joyful uews of general peace had reached this country.