Winter Evenings: Or Lucubrations on Life and Letters: In Three Volumes. ...

Charles Dilly, 1788 - Christian life

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Mifcellaneous Literature The Padotrophia	19

The abfurdity of fome religious Prints to Books	25

Religious Subjects neglected from Prejudice	35

LearningSome Inconveniencies attending	44

Of the Benevolence of the Age	49

Of Sunday Schools	54

Mifcellaneous Literature	59

Of the Voluptuary	134

Of the Mifer	136

Of the ambitious Man	139

Of the Man of the World	143

Of the Danger of being led by Imitation with out Principles of Religion	145

Of a moral Life without Religion	147

Of the Honour of Men of the World as a Sub ftitute for Religion	149

Of the knowledge of ones Self the Nature of Man and our dependent State	151

Of being pleaſed with One felf	64

Of affected Senfibility a Lamentation over an unfortunate Animalcule	69

Of the Art of Speaking or Rhetoric as culti vated at preſent	74

Of the dull Style	79

Of fome circumftances relating to conjugal Felicity	83

Of the prefent State of theatrical amuſements	88

CHAP XXOf the Practice of attributing all religious Prin ciples and Actions to Superftition	92

CHAP XXIOf the Folly of fuffering the Judgment to be feduced by Wit in Things of Moment	98

BOOK THE SEVENTH CHAP I Of the mere Preferment Hunter in the Church	102

Of the Expediency of introducing Chriftianity into the newly difcovered Iſlands of the SouthSea	109

Of the Prevalence of Methodiſm	114

Of the Habit of confulting no ones Inclination but ones own	118

Of the prevailing Practice of acting Plays by private Gentlemen and Ladies writing and ſpeaking Pró logues and Epilogues and building private Theat...	122

Of Man as diftinguished from other Animals	128

Of the World in a religious View of it	130

Of an exceffive Attachment to the World	132

Of the Interruption which the vulgar Cares of Life	168

182	177

Of the Appearance of Superftition in the Cha	186

CHAP VIA Ramble of a benevolent	195

Of the Elevation of Sentiment and Character	213

Of the Practice of printing emphatic Words	220

A Sunday Exhortation to Scholarsfuppofed	226

Of ſome ſelfcreated Miſeries	232

BOOK THE NINTH	243

One or two Sketches drawn at a Wateringplace	252

Of the Preference of the idiomatic Style and	258

Of communicating Ideas by Writing or Conver	268

Of the Modes of Infinuation practifed by worth	278

Of Writers of Characters	287

Of modern Comedyas deficient in the vis comica	299

Title	Winter Evenings: Or Lucubrations on Life and Letters: In Three Volumes. ... Volume 2 of Winter Evenings: Or Lucubrations on Life and Letters: In Three Volumes, Vicesimus Knox
Author	Vicesimus Knox
Publisher	Charles Dilly, 1788
Original from	The British Library
Digitized	4 May 2017

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