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Page

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A parable on brotherly love

The busy-body

Petition of the cats

34

Hasty changes

43

Morals of chess

Commerce

49

Causes of depopulation

55

Dialogues between Philocles and Horatio, concerning

virtue and pleasure

57

Dogmatism

69

The art of procuring pleasant dreams

71

Duelling

76

An economical project

77

Conversation of a company of ephemeræ; with a soli-

loquy of one advanced in age

83

Epitaph for himself

85

Exercise

86

Faith and works

87

Causes of felicity

89

Death of friends

ib, .

A future state

90

Gratitude

91

On true happiness

92

Hereditary honours

95

The Indians of North America

100

Unproductive labour

108

Languages

110

The handsome and deformed leg

111

Letter of recommendation

114

The waste of life

115

Luxury

• 119

Early marriages

120

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Moral algebra

122

Plan of moral reform

123

Paper, a poem

133

Peace-makers

185

A parable against persecution

136

The poor and the rich

138

The poor laws

141

Positions to be examined

142

An account of the highest court of judicature in Penn-

sylvania, viz. the court of the press

145

Influence of the press

Pride

ib.

Privateering

ib.

Private property

153

Particular providerce

154

Public affairs

156

On the punishment of death for theft

Proper mode of reading

160

Rules for reducing a great empire to a small one

161

Self denial not the essence of virtue

171

The slave trade

174

Encouragement of smuggling

178

Solitude

180

Taxes

181

Vanity

182

Observations on war

ib.

The whistle: a true story

184

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