REING 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.

ODLEIAT

13 AUG 953

WHITTINGHAM AND ROWLAND, PRINTERS, GOSWELL-STREET, LONDON,

Marriage compared with single Life.... Bishop Taylor, 10

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Bishop Taylor. 11

Caution requisite in Marrying...

The Charms of parental and filial Duties........ Steele. 13

Chastity an additional Ornament to Beauty.... Budgel. 28

Chastity valuable in a Man

Steele. 29

Painting disagreeable in Women. From the Connoiseur. 32

On the Virtue of Gentleness.... ................ Blair. 34

The Advantages of a cheerful Temper.... Addison. 37

Affecting Letter from a dying Wife. From the Spectator. 43.

Rome saved by the Virtue of its female Inhabitants.

On Conversation........

VOL. VI.

Hooke. 44

...... Usher. 57

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The true Use of the Senses perverted by Fashion.

Remarks on the prevailing Passion for Cards.

Page

Smollet. 61

Dr. Fordyce. 66

Contribution to our Charitable Institutions. Atterbury. 91

Of our Obligations to the Country and the Plough.

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Watts. 95

Addison. 100

The Pleasures of a Garden.....

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.

Of the Inconstancy of the British Climate, and the

Advantages of hardening ourselves against its cold.

Addison. 141