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of Abdallah and Balsora, Rashness and Cowardice, Fortitude founded upon the Fear of God, The Folly of youthful Extravagance, The Misery of depending upon the Great, What it is to see the World, The Story of Melissa, On the Omniscience and Omnipresence of the Deity, together with the Immensity of his Works, Motives to Piety and Virtue, drawn from the Omniscience and Omnipresence of the Deity, Reflections on the third Heaven, The present Life to be considered only as it may conduce to the Happiness of a future one, On the Immortality of the Soul, On the Animal World, and the Scale of Beings, Providence proved from Animal instinct, Good-Breeding, Further Remarks, taken from Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son, Genteel Carriage, Cleanliness of Person, Dress, Elegance of Expression, Small Talk, Observation, Absence of Mind, Knowledge of the World, Choice of Company, Laughter, Sundry little Accomplishments, Dignity of Manners, Rules for Conversation, Further Remarks, taken from Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son, Entrance upon the World, Advice to a young Man, The Vision of Mirza, exhibiting a Picture of Human Life, Riches not productive of Happiness: The Story of Ortogrul of Basra, Of the Scriptures, as the Rule of Life, Of Genesis, Of Exodus, Of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, Of Joshua, Of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, Of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah; and Esther, Of Job, Of the Psalms, Of the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Solomon's Song, the Prophecies, and Apocrypha, Of the New Testament, Of the Example set by our Savior, and his Character, A comparative View of the Blessed and Cursed at the last Day, and the Inference to be drawn from it, Character of St. Paul, Of the Epistles, The Epistle of St. James, Epistles of St. Peter, and the first of St. John, Of the Revelations, True Devotion productive of the truest Pleasure, A Morning Prayer for a young Student at School, or for the common Use of a School, An Evening Prayer,
APPENDIX.
Of Columbus, and the Discovery of America, Speech of Romulus after founding Rome, Speech of Quinctius Capitolinus, Caius Marius to the Romans, Demosthenes to the Athenians, The perfect Speaker, On the Duties of School-Boys, from the pious and judicious Rollin, Columbia.--A Poem, The Choice of a Rural Life.--A Poem, Hymns and Prayers, Character of Man, Winter, Douglas's Account of himself, ------how he learned the Art of War, Baucis and Philemon, On Happiness, Speech of Adam to Eve, Soliloquy and Prayer of Edward the Black Prince, before the battle of Poictiers, Invocation to Paradise Lost, Morning Hymn, _ibid._ The Hermit, by Dr. Beatie, Compassion, Advantages of Peace, The Progress of Life, Speeches in the Roman Senate, Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul, Hamlet's Meditation on Death,
_Select Passages from Dramatic Writers._
Joy,----_Distressed Mother,_ Grief,----_Distressed Mother,_ Pity,----_Venice Preserved,_ Fear,----_Lear,_ Awe and Fear,----_Mourning Bride,_ Horror,----_Scanderberg,_ Anger,----_Lear,_ Revenge,----_Merchant of Venice,_ Admiration,----_Merchant of Venice,_ Haughtiness,----_Tamerlane,_ Contempt,----_Fair Penitent,_ Resignation,----_Jane Shore,_ Impatience,--Volpone Remorse and Despair,--_Busiris_, Distraction,--_Jane Shore_, Gratitude,--_Fair Penitent_, Intreaty,--_Jane Shore_, Commanding,--_Rinaldo and Armida_, Courage,--_Alfred_, Boasting,--_Every Man in his Humour_, Perplexity,--Tancred and Sigismunda Suspicion,--_Julius C?sar_, Wit and Humour,--_2d Henry_ 4, _1st Henry_ 4, Ridicule,--_Julius C?sar_, Perturbation--_Lear_,
ELEMENTS OF GESTURE.
Section I, Section II. Section III.
On Reading and Speaking,
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THE
YOUNG GENTLEMAN
AND
LADY'S MONITOR,
AND
ENGLISH TEACHERS ASSISTANT,

Pursuit of Knowledge recommended to Youth.
1. I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasure and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world. The greatest part of our British youth lose their figure, and grow out of fashion, by that time they are five and twenty.
2. As soon as the natural gaiety and amiableness of the young man wears off, they have nothing left to recommend them, but lie by the rest of their lives, among the lumber and refuse of the species.
It sometimes happens, indeed, that for want of applying themselves in due time to the pursuits of knowledge, they take up a book in their declining years, and grow very hopeful scholars by that time they are threescore. I must therefore earnestly press my readers who are in the flower of their youth, to labour at these accomplishments which may set off their persons when their bloom is gone, and to lay in timely provisions for manhood and old age. In short, I would advise the youth of fifteen to be dressing up every day the man of fifty; or to consider how to make himself venerable at threescore.
3. Young men, who are naturally ambitious, would do well to observe how the greatest men of antiquity wade it their ambition to excel all their cotemporaries in knowledge. _Julius C?sar_ and _Alexander_, the most celebrated instances of human greatness, took a particular care to distinguish themselves by their skill in the arts and sciences. We