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CONTENTS.
Page,
PURSUIT of Knowledge recommended to Youth,.
Directions how to spend our time,
Mispent Time how punished,
Modesty.
Affectation.
The same continued,
Good humour and Nature,
Friendship,
Detraction and Falsehood,
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Health,
Of Cheerfulness,
The Importance of Punctuality,
Exercise and Temperance the best Pre servative of
The Duty of Secrecy,
On the Advantages of a Cheerful Temper,
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Discretion,
Pride,
Drunkenness,
Gaming,
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Whisperers and Giglers complained of,
Beauty produced by Sentiment,
The Advantages of representing Human Nature, &c.
The Disadvantages of a bad Education,
Learning a necessary Accomplishment, &c.
A Life of Virtue preferable to a Life of Pleasure,
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Virtue rewarded; the History of Amanda,
The Story of Abdallah and Balsora,
Rashness and Cowardice,
Fortitude founded upon the Fear of God,
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The Folly of youthful Extravagance,
The Misery of depending upon the Great,
What it is to see the World; the story of Melissa,
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On the Omniscience & Omnipresence of the Deity, &c. 155
Motives to Pity and Virtue, &c.
159
Reflections on the third Heaven,.
163
The present Life to be considered, &c.
167
Of the Immortality of the Soul,
169
On the Animal World, and the Scale of Beings,
172
Ortogrul of Basra,
237
Of the Scriptures, as the Rule of Life,
239
Of Genesis,
241
Of Exodus
243
Of Leviticus Numbers, and Deuteronomy,
244
Of Joshua,
Of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther,
Of Job,
Of the Psalms,
Of Judges, Samuel, and Kings,
248
Of the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Solomon's Song, &c. 249
Of the New Testament,
250
Of the Example set by our Saviour, & his Caracter, 251 A Comparative View of the Blessed and Cursed at the
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last Day, and the Inference to be drawn from it, 253
Of the Epistles,
Character of St. Paul,
The Epistle of St. James,
Epistles of St. Peter, and the first of St. John,.
Of the Revelations,
True Devotion productive of the truest Pleasure,
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A morning Prayer for a young Student at School, &c, 260
An Evening Prayer,
APPENDIX,
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Columbia-A Poem,
285
The Choice of a Rural Life-A Poem,
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Hymns and Prayers,
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Character of Mun,
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Winter,
Douglas' Account of himself,
how he learned the Art of War,
307
Baucis and philemon,
308
On Happiness,
312
Speech of Adam to Eve,
313
Soliloquy and Prayer of Edward the Black Prince, &c. ibid