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are every way acceptable. In most literary compositions, likewise something will be found capable of administering delight. The sobriety of plain prose, and the gaiety of sprightly verse, have charms for him. Every production, from the gravity of history down to the artless simplicity of fable, catches his attention and engages his heart. From the enchanting softness of beauty in all her variegated forms, up to the tremendous terrors of the sublime, what a range of enjoyment! That man is an object of envy. He lives as in a superior region. He converses with an higher circle of objects. To this favoured votary of taste, especially if he be a virtuous character, the following lines may with propriety be addressed :

"To please thine ear, soft notes the linnet pours,
And with grand peals the deep-ton'd thunder rolls;
The streamlet murmurs and the torrent roars;
The zephyr whispers and the tempest howls.

From each, or lofty, or mellifluous sound,

Each fair or awful form that strikes the sight, In art's wide sphere, or nature's ample round, 'Tis thine to draw refin'd and rich delight!"

Fawcett.

Thus have I attempted by a few cursory remarks on Genius and Taste-to inform the understanding and improve the judgment of the Rising Generation. The mind should be taught early to discriminate---to view on every side the objects presented to it--to ascertain their bearings and tendencies--and thus to render every thing with which it comes in contact subservient to its advantage. In an age when there is so general a taste for reading, it is de

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Liberality of Sentiment......Lord Kaimes 103 Parable against Persecution..Dr. Franklin 104 Undutiful Child..........Dr. H. Smith 105 Eccentricities of Genius.....Southey

The Elephant

ib.

..Buffon.... 106 ... 107

The Rock of Gibraltar........Semple
The Human Mind

..Dr. Lardner 108 109

Differences of Opinion .......Dr. Paley
Goldsmith ..

.......Cumberland 110
111
..Cumberland 112

The New Testament ..........Dr. Paley
Johnson

The Methods of Improvement Watts ... 113.
Early Taste for Reading......Godwin...... 116
The Power of Habit...

The Golden Mean ..
Youth ..

Resentment ..

The Beauties of Nature

Personal Elegance

118

•Gilpin...... 117 Dr. Johnson Dr. Johnson Gilpin ... 120 •Dr. Paley .. 122 Dr. Percival 123 ..Usher ...... 125

The March of Life......Barbauld

The Horse ...

126

..Buffon ..... 127

The Stages of Human Life ....Dr. H. Smith 128
The Works of Creation........Bigland
Bigland .... 129
Royal Epitaph.............

Taste....

Devotion...

Bad Company

Ancient Rome

The Discharge of Duty.
The Waste of Life ...

Raising the Hand to the Head
The Love of Fame..
Early Improvement

Social Life....

Father and Son

Sir William Jones's Epitaph

Vanity

Dr. Bently.

Southey .. 130
Blair
Dr. Gregory

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..Dr. Drake.. 145

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Knowledge....Knight

Garrality

Ridicule

Origin of Language............Blair

The Golden Rule

The Image of God

Labour

Covering of Animals..........Dr. Paley .. 157 Variety of Labour............Adam Smith 158 The Earth

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Morrice.... 149

..Mrs. Chapone 150

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.Atterbury

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..Kaimes...... 160
..Anon........ ib.

.Ditto........ 162

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The Two Gardeners.......... Anon...

Vanity and Affectation........Mrs. Chapone 161

Regularity

Friendship

Reading

The Kindness of Providence..St. Pierre.... 164

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An Estimate of History........G. Walker.. 169

The History of England......J. Holland.. 170

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Meditation on a Padding......Dr. Johnson 192
Duty to Parents

Delicacy of Conduct..........J. 8. ........
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Character of Dr. Robertson..Dr. Erskine 215

The Canterbury Tales........Dryden

.. 217

Mumbo Jumbo...

.Park

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History

.Dr.H.Hunter 228

Person & Manners of Cowper Hayley.. 229

The Origin of all things ......Dr.H Hunter 230

Frenchman and Englishman.

St. Paul's Dome

The Cultivation of the Mind..A.

Mount Vernon

Wonderful Effect of Music

The Adventurous Dutchman

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The Rise of the Reformation.. Roscoe...... 237

The Soul...

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The Imitation of the Saviour..Dr.H.Hunter 245

London ..
Mystery and Revelation......Dr.H.Hunter 248
Address to Christian Mothers..Dr. Hunter ib.
The Folly of Atheism
..Dr. Parr.... 249

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....Godwin...... 246

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