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SPEAKER; 85

OR

BY WILLIAM ENFIELD, L. L. D.
Lecturer of Belles Lettres, in the Academy of

Warrington.

BOSTON
PUBLISHD BY JOSEPH LARKIN

E. C. Beals, Printer.

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The Dervise

Spectator

Turkish Tale

ibid.

Avarice and Luxury

ibid.

Pleasure and Pain

ibid.

Labuur

World

The Old man and his Ass

ibid.

Hercules's Choice

Tattler

Pity

Mrs. Barbauld

The Dead Ass

Sterrie

The Sword

ibid.

Maria

ibid.

The Camelion

Merrick

The Youth and the Philospher Whitehead

Sir Balaam

Pope

Edwin and Emma

Mallet

Celadon and Amelia

Thomson

Juno apd Pheana

Grainger

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25

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Douglas to Lord Randolph

Othello's Apology

Eliza

The Moralizer corrected

The Faithful Friend

Paring Time anticipated

The Needless Alarm

The Modern Rake's Progress

Page:

Home 56.

Shakspeare 57

Darwin 59

Cooper 60

ibid. 62

ibid. 64

ibid. 66

Adriano 70

BOOK IN

DIDACTIC PIECES.

On Modesty

Spectator 73

On Cheerfulness

ibid. 76

On Sincerity

Tillotson 79

On Honour

Guardian 81

Ou Good Humour

Rambler 84

On the Knowledge of the World

ibido 88

On the Advantages of uniting Gentle.

ness of Manners with Firmness of

Mind

Ld. Chesterfield 90

On Good Sense

Melmoth 92

On Study

Bacon

94

On Satirical Wit

Sterne

Hamlet's Instructions to the Players Shaks. 96

The present condition of Man vindicated Pope 97

On the Order of Nature

ibid. 99

The Origin of Superstition and Tyranny ibid. 101

On Happiness

ibid. 103

On Virtue

ibid. 106

On Versification

ibid. 108

Lessons on Wisdom

Armstrong 109

Against Indolence; an Epistle

112

Elegy to a young Nobleman

Mason 115

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On the Miseries of Human Life Thomson 116

Reflections on a future State

ibid. 118

On Procrastination

Young 119

The Pain arising from virtuous Emotions

attended with Pleasure

Akenside 121

On Taste

ibid. 124

The Pleasures arising from a cultivated

Imagination

ibid. 125

Slavery

Darwin 127

BOOK IV.

ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES.

On Anger

Holland 129

Virtue our highest interest

Harris 135

The same Subject

ibid. 137

Ou the Immortality of the Soul Spectator ibid.

On the Being of a God

Young 140

BOOK V.

ORATIONS AND HARANGUES.

Junius Brutus over the dead Body of Lu-

cretia

Livy 142

Hannibal to his Soldiers-

ibido 144

C. Marius to the Romans, on their hesi-

tating to appoint bim General in the

Expedition against Jugurtha, merely

on Account of his Extraction Sallust 147

Calisthenes's Reproof of Cleon's Flatte-

ry to Alexander Quintus Curtius 150

The Scythian Ambassadors to Alexander ibid. 151