CONTENTS.. PART FIRST. LESSONS IN PROSE. NARRATIVE PIECES, HISTORICAL OR FICTITIOUS. 28. No life pleasing to God that is not useful to 34. The Mice :-A fable, 39. Interview between Waverley and Mc. Ivor, 50. The White Bear, 66. Fortitude of the Indian character, 93. The Baptism,. 94. Romantick story, 95. Anecdotes of Mozart, Bradbury's Travels. 311 DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. 20. Brief description of Pompey's Pillar,-Address and fearlessness of British sailors, 40. Egyptian Mummies, Tombs, and Manners, 59. Last days of Herculaneum, Irwin. 53 Scrap Book. 141 Lesson. DIDACTICK PIECES, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. 5. The Contrast; or Peace and War, 8. Advantages of a Taste for Natural History, Athenæum. 22 Wood. 29 Alison. 72 81. On the reasonableness of Christian Faith, 82. On the importance of Christian Faith, 119. The Head-stone, 164. The Prodigal Son, · DRAMATICK PIECES. DIALOGUES, ADDRESSES, AND SOLILOQUIES. 11. Real virtue can love nothing but virtue ;-a Dia- 33. Mercury, an English Duellist, and 45. Lord Bacon and Shakspeare, 99. The Sultan and Mr. Haswell, Page. 375 Dialogues of the Dead. 88 199. Address of Brutus to the Roman populace, Shakspeare. 453 PIECES FOR RECITATION, OR SPEAKING. 149. Conclusion of a discourse delivered at Plymouth, Mass. 22d Dec. 1820, 89. Extract from a criticism on Ossian, 97. Character of Mr. James Watt, Grahame. 209 MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. 3. Select sentences and paragraphs, from various authors, 17. Lines to a child on his voyage, 23. On Early Rising, 30. Incentives to Devotion, 31. Ode to Sickness, 35. The Lord and the Judge, 37. Hope triumphant in Death, 38. Lines written during a Thunder-storm, Russian Anthology. 96 151 An Evening in the Grave-yard, AMERICAN WATCHMAN. 335 175. Prophecy of the Destruction of Babylon, Campbell. 253 Burns. 396 |