Life, partiality of such as represent it other
wise, 656

Life, its different appearances in prosperity
and pain, 657

Life, caution against forming a false esti-
mate of it, 709

Life, lamentations on the shortness of,
ridiculed, 759

Libanius writes about an ox, 394
Lilly, the astrologer, examined by the
House of Commons, 402

Literature, its influence on individual and
national character, 325
Literature, its pleasures, 326
Literature, Cicero's eulogium on, 328
Literature, Godwin's remarks on, &c.
329

Love, the most delightful of passions, 28
Love never to be successfully feigned, 29
Love, noble minds alone susceptible of, 30
Love, genuine, its requisites, ib.
Love superseded by philosophy and de-
bauchery, 31

Love, true, inseparable from personal
respect, ib.

Love, romantic, to be avoided, 37
Love affairs, curious questions on, 45
Love, its beneficial effects on the male
character, 74

Lucian, his rambles of a fly, 394
M

Marcan, M. on the cure of spasmodic dis-
orders by music, 418

Man, the nobleness of his nature, 21
Man, the extent of his researches, 22
Man, his similitude to God, ib.

Man, a continued instrument in the hands
of God, 23

Man, the beauty of his outward form, ib.
Man, the exercise of his reflection essential
to happiness, 26

ignorance, 310, 324

Knowledge, Swift's address to, 312
Knowledge, the different branches of, 314
Kosciusko of Poland, anecdote of, 526

L

Labour, health, and contentment, an alle-
gory, 213

Lapirius, generous conduct of, 523
Levity of conduct reprobated, 572
Levity, affecting narrative connected with,
573

Levity productive of callousness, 586
Life, why pleasure attends its opening
scenes, 14

Life, the retrospect of its pleasures delight-
ful to the last, 15

Life insurances, produce more money than
wisdom, 693

Life, a state of moral probation, 637
Life designed upon the whole to be agree-
able, 655

Life proved to be so, by our fondness of it, ib.

prosperity, ib.

Man and Woman, which is the superior,
discussed, 39

Man not doomed to be unhappy, 650
Man, on the quantum of pleasure enjoyed
in a single year by, 670
Man not so bad as often represented, 671
Manhood, the importance of, 20
Manhood, all preceding states merely pre-

paratory to, ib.

Marriage, a rash, misery of, 79
Marriage, the necessity of prudence in, 89
Marriage, Gisborne on the duties antece-

dent to, 91

Marriage, piety essential in, 92
Marriage, letter to Mrs. Montague on her,

101

Marriage contrasted with celibacy, by
Jeremy Taylor, 103

Materialism, the doctrines of, examined,

467

Matrimonial infidelity, cautions against, 75

Matter and motion, the wonderful laws of,
346
Maunday Thursday, papal ceremonies on,
described by Lady Morgan, 747

Mausoleus, referred to, 86

Melancholy, an effect of idleness, 220
Mendicant, the blind; his situation depicted,.
694

Michal Pfellus, on a gnat, 394
Mighty things done by degrees, 624
Milk, the maternal: Phavorinus, Dioh-Cas-
sius, Aulus Gellius, Marcus Aurelius,
Beda, Cato, &c. on, 116
Mirth, Sir Philip Sidney on, 198
Misery, the salvation of the world, 648-
Misery chiefly produced by the bad pas-

sions of mankind, 6443-

Morality, the inculcation of, not to be
neglected because human nature is
originally corrupt, 737
Morality triumphed over infirmity in many
of the ancient philosophers, 738
Mother, a, bound to suckle her child, 113
Mother, a foster, care necessary in the
choice of, 115

Mother, a young, short rules for, 119
Mother, excessive affection in a, repro-
bated, 127

Mungo Park, how treated by the African
women, 48

Music, its effects and charms, 406
Music apostrophized, 410

Music, the power of, exemplified, 411
Music, simple, its superiority asserted, 412
Music of the feathered race, 414

Music, the medicinal powers of, investi-
gated, 417

Music, martial, its influence, 420
Music, Des Cartes upon, 421

Music of the spheres, theory of the, 422
Musical instrument, the first, 406
Mysteries in religion, Sir Thomas Browne
on, 756

Old age, the nature of its pleasures and
pursuits, 534

Old age, its authority, 536

Old age, the dread of, exposed and re-
prehended, 541

Old age, philosophy and religion its great
consolations, 544

Old age, its querulousness accounted for, 547
Old age, why disrespected by youth, 549
Old age, good-natured condescension recom-
mended to, 552

Old age, Paley on the enjoyments of, 555
Old age, Sir Tho. Bernard, on the comforts
of, 557

Old age, on the miseries of, considered and
palliated, 565

Old age, piety the only proper resource of,
569

Old age, Bacon's comparison between youth
and, ib.

Old maid's thermometer, 162

Old maids, cruelty of ridiculing, 163
Old maids, Graves on the future condition
of, 166

Old women, cheerful, praised, 552
Omichand, a black merchant, anecdote of,
521

On natural insensibility to external circum-
stances, 691

On natural insensibility, the degree of alle-
viation it produces to the afflicted, 693
On natural insensibility, the position illus-
trated, 694

Orpheus, referred to, 86
Overbury, Sir Thos., his portrait of a milk
maid, 286

Ovid, deficient in chastity, 29

P
Painting, its antiquity and excellence, 423
Paley, Dr., on the season of youth, 16
Patience, Mrs. Sheridan's ode to, 712
Petrarch, his love-sonnets inimitable, 29
Phidias, his representation of Venus, 88
Phocion, anecdote of, 683
Plato, his ideas of a sentimental union, 29
Pliny, his letter to his wife, 153
Pliny, his generosity to the poor, 526
Pleasure connected with every stage of
life, 16

Pleasure and happiness, mistakes respect
ing, 571

Pleasure, on the things opposed to; dis-
cussed at length, 635
Pleasure, on the difference between natural

and fantastical, 673

Pleasure, moderate, a rational pursuit, 721
Pockets, the necessity of women's wearing,
215

Pœtus, referred to, 16

Poverty no real cause of discontent, 679
Poverty the way to heaven, 681
Poverty, Zeno's magnanimity in, 683

misery of being, 553

ries, ib.

Poverty, Jeremy Taylor's observations

upon, 686

Psalmist, the, was inspired by the beauties
of nature, 349

Psalmody, a source of pleasure, 487
Public worship, the necessity of, defined
and enforced, 743

Public worship practised by the most bar.
barous nations, 744

Public worship, its peculiar advantages, 745
Public worship not to be practised by the
poor only, 746

Public worship, shameful neglect of, by the
rich and great, ib.

Public worship, the ceremonials of, not to
supersede the spirit, 747
Pythagoras, his golden verses translated,728
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Rapin, Father, referred to; 299
Readers, the opinions of, upon this work,
considered, 733

Recreation, Fuller's curious observations
on, 278

Religion to be divested of superstition,
255

Religion consistent with pleasure, 446
Religion, peculiar characteristics of, 448
Religion opposed to gloominess, 450
Religion, why so frequently a disgust to

Sacchini, his method of composing, 398
Sacrament, on receiving the, 489
Sage, Francis, affecting narrative of, 531
Sappho referred to, 41
Sarti, the composer, 398

Saviour our, his partiality for children, 12
Saviour, his character eminently social, 176
Scaliger, his opinion on the 9th Ode of
Horace, 331

Scaliger, his wisdom of the goose, 394
Scars a necessary appendage of beauty in
Africa, 66

Scawen, Sir Wm., his letter to a distressed
linen-draper, 524

Scotland, method of relieving the poor in,

522

Seduction stigmatized, 81

Selfishness often a cause of infidelity, 665
Seneca referred to, 86

Sense, man formed for the pleasures of, 191
Sense to be governed by reason and re-
ligion, 206

Senses, all our, inlets of delight, 657
Sesostris, invention of the guglia rotta, 406
Sexual pleasure, the source of every tender
relation, 641; and also of much vice

and misery, ib.

Shakspeare, bis eulogium on man, 24
Sight, the pleasure derived from the sense
of, 192

Sin the only evil to be feared, 653
Single life, its advantages, 160
Sleep, its nature, effects, &c. 234
Sleep, allegorical origin of, 243
Sleep, tranquillity of mind necessary to, 244
Sleep, prayer to be offered previously to,

245

Smell, the pleasure derived from the sense
of, 195

Society, its charms and advantages, 172
Society, an American's ideas of, ib,
Society, what is requisite to its real enjoy-
ment, 176

Society, Jeremy Taylor respecting, 178
Somnambulism, laughable instance of, 399
Somnambulism, opinion of the academicians
upon, 400

Sound learning, the advantages of, 334
Spartan justice, example of, 607
St. Pierre, his observations on love, 29
Strong drink, Dr. Reed, on the use of, 204
Summary of the work, 732
T

Talma, anecdote of, 401

Taste, pleasure derived from the sense of,
196

Taste, true, defined, 385

Temper, a narrow selfish, to be guarded
against, 519

Temperance, the benefits of, 199
Temperance and chastity, their charms and
advantages, 759

Theatres, why objectionable, 248
Theatres, their advantages, 251
Theatres, Howel's representation respect-
ing, ib.

Theatres, suppressed by the Puritans, 253
Theocritus, referred to, 29
Thermometer, Dr. Lettsom's, Moral and
Physical, 207

Things, just conceptions of, necessary to
happiness, 708

Tibullus, his love-pieces, 29

Time, its power of reconciling the mind to
pain, 692

Town, the, its peculiar pleasures, 246

343

Travelling, its uses and pleasures, 430

Travelling, shrewd remarks on, by Owen
Feltham, 432

Travelling, directions concerning, by Baron
Knigge, 434

Tullia, a female orator, 41

U

Unchastity, the mischiefs of, 146

Universe, the, composed of multifarious
relations, 599

V

Vice, the nature of the pleasure derived
from, 511

Vice, the evils attending it benevolent in
their end, 645

Virgil, sublime in his ideas upon love, 29
Virtue, her ways pleasant, 508
Virtue eminently lessens the pressure of
adversity, 701

Virtuous wife, various poetical tributes
to a, 98

Virtuous wife, Lord Bacon's description
of a, 154

W

Washington, General, quoted, 283

Watts, on the beauties of nature, 352
Weld, the pedestrian, anecdote of, 205
Wife, preferable to a mistress, 85
Wife, silence an important quality in a, 88
Wife, the duties of a, 100
Wisdom, true, Montaigne's characteristics
of, 317

Wisdom, Miss Carter's ode to, 319
Woman, various poetical tributes to, 36
Woman an irrational being, according to
Plato, 42

Woman a monster, according to Aris-
totle, ib.

Women, Owen Feltham's curious observa-
tions on, 45

Women, compassionate nature of, in every
climate, 46

Woman, a plain, the most agreeable, 51
Woman, a good education essential to a, 52
Woman, fidelity of, in love, 79
Worldly and spiritual enjoyments, compara-
tive value of, 591

Y

Youth the seed-time of virtue, 25