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An orpban boy .............

Bossuet .......

177
A parable .................

Bassanio and Shyluck. ....... 234
A happy reply.......:::
An odd way of accounting for Cleon and I .................

25
length of rope ............

19 Curious calculation .........
Absence of mind ............ 21 Can a mother forget her child ?
Adventure with a bear....... 31 | Col. B. and rum.............
A bee in defence of his property 35 Cæsar's exploit .........
A joke .....

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40 | Capt. Bobadil's method ...... 64
Arteries and veins........... 54 Childhood and his visiters .... 76
Autumn has come..

69 Commerce ....
Arabella Clark ...

71 | Christian integrity........... 99
A troubled heart..

80 Christ's entry into Jerusalem.. 114
Attempt on Charleston....... 82

82 Correct view of education..... 109
A century from the birth of Comments on 2 Cor. vii. 9.... 121
Washington ....

Conversation with Jews ...... 123
Affections detached from earth. 108 Compliment to the fair sex.... 146
Animals ....

Coin ..............
An old story.
118 | Christ at Emmaus...

158
Art of writing .........

126 Cyrus in his youth........... 165
Air and exercise
rcise ...........

Commentaries on the Bible ... 167
American battles.......

Cruelty to animals..

178
Absurd chronology of the Hin Change of seasons..

201
doos ...............ver

144 Children should be admitted to
Acts 12th..................

society .............
A king, his own gardener.....

Courage ............

220
A consistent servant ......... 163 Charity to orphans .......... 231
An idea of faith impressed. 164
A haven at last ..

| Drunkard reproved. ......
A converted merchant ....... 193 Detached thoughts .......
An apology for seriousness.... 203 Distribution of parts for rehear-
A friend ...

204
sal.............

89
Advertisement........ 214 Dialogue between master and
Anger.

217
Adam and Orlando... 235 Duty of literary men to their
A brave boy.
.. 237 country........

119
Address to the ocean ........

.. 245 Disappearance of the Indians.. 129
Death of Socrates...

154
Boots with a puppy in them .. " at the toilet ......... 180
Be kind .....

of Lord Chatham. 181
Bee and fly ................ " of Ashmun.

183
Be satisfied ....

" of Demosthenes .... 200
Bethelsdorp and Thropolis.... Detached thoughts, No. 2.. 156
Babylon .....
96 Dover Cliffs.

175
Beauty and glory ........... 153 Distraction. ...

188

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servant..................

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Demosthenes against Philip... 225 Indian honesty ........ 32
" the Athe Implicit faith...............

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nians....................

.. 227 Isaac and Toby....... 100
Daily miracles..............

240 Isaiah, ch. 60th .............. 212
Disappearance of the plague

from London ............. 241 Jeremy Taylor's prayer ......

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Extent of the United States... 15 Loss of the first-born .......
Education out of school....... 16 | Love or country...........
Evil speaking............... 18 Longevity .......

38
Exchanges .................

88 Lamentation of Job........ .. 96
Eloquence of Patrick Henry... 120 | Long sermons and prayers.... 161
Epithets......
140 Luxury.........

192
Early rising and devotion..... 152 Lost nestlings .............. 233
Epitaph on Mrs. Mason....... 166
Example of our Saviour ...... 189 Men would be remembered af.
Early inhabitants of Europe .. 194 ter death .......
Extract from a speech of the Money .......

Revolution............... 211 Mediterranean Sea .......... 130
Extract from an emigrant's jour Morning air ................ 141
nal of a day.............. 222 Method.....

143
Eve lamenting the loss of Par Music adapted to joy, not grief 164
adise...........

Massachusetts ..............

168
Enemies at home............ 245 Means of preserving health.... 172

Morning prayer for a young stu-
From Washington — Treasury dent ...............

186
report...........:::.;.

26 Magnificent prospect....
First printing in New England. 48 Matt. xxi. 23-31'..
Filial piety rewarded ........ 50 " xiv. 22–33 ..
Funny mistakes of printers.... 55 Mystery unexplained ..
Freak of a hypochondriac.... Moral progress ....

257
Flour and grain............. 105
Friendship ..: ;:.

110 Nautical sermon .......
Fresh air on the Sabbath... 162 New way to reprove......

New use for a pumpkin ...
Great talker...

Newspapers......

104
Gossips...........:::::

Name in the sand .....
Great events from slight causes 42 Nathan's parable.........

... 169
God compared with idols..... 81 Never interrupt a story ......
God's design ............... 129
Gather up the fragments .... 136 | On folding and directing letters 56
Gratitude .................. 215 Opinion of the Orientals as to
Good spelling .......... 217 wine .....

79
Gil Blas selling his mule ..... 243 Our prejudices.............. 149
Good and evil; or Providence

Of Genesis .................

..., 174
vindicates itself.. ....... 254

209

Officers of the United States .. 228
Honesty.....
How Molly got coals ........ 23 Profanity.
Husband's confession..

28 | Progress of civilization ...
How to pay for a farm .

........ 36 Perverse, old comical fellow
House of prayer ...

134 Pointed preaching.......
Heaven of the Bible......... 135 Prospects of our country ..... 60
History of steam navigation on Presence of God.
Lake Ontario...

170 Providence guides impercepti-
Have I no father ........... 1971 bly ..........

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Power of imagination........ 141 | The whigs of South Carolina...
Pericles ......

159 | The hermit and the vision ...
Prayer for Zion's increase.. 169 The fool's reproof ...........
Pity .......

190 | Ten rules for practical life ....
Psalm xxiii...

215 | They are gone!.............
Perplexity, &c...........

218 | True courage...............
Pleading the promises in prayer 229 | The consequences of seeing
Partridge hearing Garrick .... 251 much wickedness .........

The old school..............
Robin Roughhead........... 11 The wasteful and wicked son..
Right and wrong way........

44 | The scorner humbled ........
Rip Van Winkle at the farm The parts of speech .........
house ...................

63 | The clay cottage of my Indian
Rewarding merit........ 53 friend ...................
Remembrance of an old man. 54 The Quaker and the little thief 74
Rehearsal preparing......

92 The Dutch shipmaster ....... 77
Remarks on Jerusalem.. 124 The first steamboat..........
Revolutionary officers... 145 | The world .........

101
Revenge...........

173 The Christian Israel .........
Ridicule .........;

187 Trick upon the doctor........ 113
Righteous and unrighteous gains 256 The doctor and his patient.... 119

The toothache ..............
Sabbath-breaker silenced..... 35 | The lawyer and the command-
Size of a whale ............. 39] ments .................. 137
Sir Walter Raleigh's death ... 47 They will think better of it ..

... 179
Served him right............ 51 The elder's deathbed ..
Silent companion............

The good minister...
Ship on fire .................

The convert ...........
Sonnet ......

The crucifixion.........

199
Song of Moses and Israel... The meaning of “chagrin”. 210
Seven children.............

The perfect speaker .. 219
Spanish real...............

The Psalms ....
Sudden change of fortune....

The sun .............

255
Savage and civilized life...

The revelation....... 257
Safety of ships at sea...... The beautiful maniac ..... 258
Shower of meteors ........
Spoilt child ..

| Universal prevalence of peace. 108
Saturday evening ........ 142 Uncultivated mind .......... 135
Scrap of history ..........

148
Self-examination ......... 160 Vain regret ................ 139
Summary punishment..... 175 Value of time .............. 206
Some queer fellows.......... 176
Sabbath-school teacher....... 184 | Will it mend the matter ! .... 14
Saints honorable.......

91 / When to think before you speak 46
State of New York. ......... 201 Wants of the heathen........ 68
Silly trick of laughing ........ 216 Wisdom .........

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Some rules of good-breeding.. 226 Whitefield's eloquence ....... 115
Some things money cannot buy 230 Words of Agur ...

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Steam-engines.............. 232 Wars between England and
Scythian ambassadors ....... 241 France .................. 193
Speech of Sulks ............ 253/ Washington, a model ..... 224

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The first oath .............. 1
The end of a lawsuit.......... 16 | Xerxes' army... .... 198

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