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BEING A
COPIOUS SELECTION
OF
INSTRUCTIVE, MORAL, AND ENTERTAINING
PASSAGES,
FROM THE MOST EMINENT
PROSE WRITERS.
VOLUME II.
BOOK III. IV.
PRECEPTIVE-CLASSICAL.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR SHARPE AND HAILES,
PICCADILLY.
1812.
WHITTINGHAM AND ROWLAND, PRINTERS,
GOSWELL-STREET, LONDON.
CONTENTS.
BOOK IJI.
Dia
PRECEPTIVE.
Page
A FATHER'S advice to his son .................. Law. 1
The mind should habituate itself early to serious thought.
Blair. 2
The happiness of life depends on our conduct in the
early stages of it ....
.................. Blair.
Qualities most becoming in youth.............. Blair. 5
Necessity in youth of virtuous dispositions and habits.
Blair,
The choice of Hercules...................... Tatler. 9
Necessity of an early application to wisdom ...... Seed. 13
Industry a duty of the young .............. Blair. 15
Labour and rest : an allegory................ Johnson. 16
Remarks on the swiftness of time................ Idler. 21
Knowledge of the use and value of time important to
yoath .......
.......... Chesterfield. 24
Negligent waste of time censured ............ Johnson. 25
Value of method in our pursuits .......... Chesterfield. 31
Dependence of beings on each other............ Sturm. 32
The art of pleasing .. ............ Chesterfield. 34
On vulgarity.
............. Chesterfield. 37
On good breeding........... ........... Chesterfield. 40
On dignity of manners ................. Chesterfield. 44
Difference between true and false politeness .... Hurd. 46
On the choice of company ............., Dean Bolton. 50
On truth and sincerity ....... ....... Tillotson.
VOL, II.
On lying............................... Chesterfield. 56
What constitutes a lie ........................ Paley. 58
On the practice of swearing.................. Johnson. 61
Folly of anger ..............
.. Johnson. 65
On cleanliness.............................. Addison. 68
Envy and emulation ...................... Barbauld. 69
Cruelty to animals .............. ............ Pope. 72
On the same subject ... .................... Jenyns. 75
Instructive lesson on the same subject.......... Sterne. 81
Virtue man's true interest......
.... Harris. 82
Character and importance of virtue ............ Price. 84
Importance of a good education. ........... Addison. 85
Necessity of writing a good band ........ Chesterfield. 88
General rules for the attainment of knowledge .. Watts. 90
Different methods of improving in knowledge.... Watts. 92
On books and reading ........................ Watts. 95
On the several branches of education .......... Watts. 96
Study of astronomy peculiarly delightful........ Tatler. 100
Advantages of a good elocution ............Chesterfield. 102
On the art of public speaking .................. Blair. 104
On emphasis and pauses ............. ....... Blair. 107
of energy, compass, and variety of voice ........ Blair. 109
Hamlet to the players... ................ Shakspeare. 111
On reading the Common Prayer ................ Swift. 113
Advice to a young clergyman....... ..... ......Swift. 116
On public preaching....................... Gregory. 123
On the duties of schoolboys.................... Rollin. 126
Methods of improving the memory .... Rollin, 130
On composition ........
... Rollin, 137
Method of improving our style.............. Franklin. 138
On thinking
Melmoth. 140