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BEING A
COPIOUS SELECTION
OF
INSTRUCTIVE, MORAL, AND ENTERTAINING
PASSAGES,
FROM THE MOST EMINENT
PROSE WRITERS.
VOLUME VI.
BOOK XI. XII.
MISCELLANEOUS CHRONOLOGY, &c.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR SHARPE AND HAILES,
PICCADILLY.
1812,
BIAN
13 AUG 1453
WHITTINGHAM AND ROWLAND, PRINTERS,
GOSWELL-STREET, LONDON,
CONTENTS.
BOOK XI.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Page
WOMAN.................. Economy of Human Life. 1
A Mistress............................... Habington. 4
A Wife .................................. Habington. 6
A Friend................................ Habington · 8
Marriage conpared with single Life.... Bishop Taylor. 10
Caution requisite in Marrying.......... Bishop Taylor.
The Charms of parental and filial Duties........ Steele. 13
The same subject.......,
......... Beattie. 16.
The Art of Happiness........
...... Harris. 1
On personal Beauty...........
........ Usher. 2
On Modesty in Dress.................... Dr. Fordyce. 27
Chastity an additional Ornament to Beauty.... Budgel. 28
Chastity valuable in a Man ................... Steele. 29
Painting disagreeable in Women. From the Connoiscur. 32
On the Virtue of Gentleness.... ................ Blair. 34
The Advantages of a cheerful Temper....... Addison. 37
' Affecting Letter from a dying Wife. From the Spectalor. 43
Rome saved by the Virtue of its female Inhabitants.
Hooke. 44
On Conversation
.......... Usher. 57
VOL. VI.
The true Use of the Senses perverted by Fashion.
Smollet. 61
Remarks on the prevailing Passion for Cards.
Dr. Fordyce. 66
The Character of Gamesters..... From the Connoiseur. 70
On Honour............................... Addison. 74
On Duelling ................................. Beattie. 78
On Suicide.................... From the Connoiseur. 80
On Prodigality............................. Johnson. 86
Economy necessary to the female Character.
Mrs. Chapone. 89
Contribution to our Charitable Institutions. Atterbury. 91
Of our Obligations to the Country and the Plough.
Watts. 95
The Pleasures of a Garden................... Addison. 100
The Origin and Right of exclusive Property explained.
Blackstone. 104
of the Constitution of England............. Guthrie. 114
What is Liberty?............................ Beattie. 116
On Smuggling, and its various Species....... Franklin. 120
On Imprisonment for Debt.... ....... From the Idler. 126
Imprisonment productive of Depravity in Morals.
From the Idler. 129
On the Liberty of the Press................... Milton. 132
of the Bravery of Engltsh Soldiers ........... Johnson. 138
of the Inconstancy of the British Climate, and the
Advantages of hardening ourselves against its cold.
• Addison. 141