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which the kindness of others is sometimes gained by those to whom he never could have imparted his own. We are by our occupations, education, and habits of life, divided almost into different species, which regard one another for the most part with scorn and malignity. Each of these classes of the human race has desires, fears, and conversation, vexations and merriment, peculiar to itself; cares which another cannot feel; pleasures which he cannot partake; and modes of expressing every sensation, which he cannot understand. That frolic which shakes one man with laughter will convulse another with indignation; the strain of jocularity which in one place obtains treats and patronage, would in another be heard with indifference, and in a third with abhorrence.

To raise esteem, we must benefit others; to procure love, we must please them. Aristotle observes that old men do not readily form friendships, because they are not easily susceptible of pleasure. He that can contribute to the hilarity of the vacant hour, or partake with equal gust the favourite amusement, he whose mind is employed on the same objects, and who therefore never harasses the understanding with unaccustomed ideas, will be welcomed with ardour, and left with regret, unless he destroys those recommendations by faults with which peace and security cannot consist.

It were happy if, in forming friendships, virtue could concur with pleasure; but the greatest part of human gratifications approach so near to vice, that few who make delight of others their rule of conduct, can avoid disingenuous compliances; yet certainly he that suffers himself to be driven or allured from virtue, mistakes his own interest, since he gains succour by means for which his friend, if ever he becomes wise, must scorn him, and for which at last he must scorn himself.

MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS FOR ESSAYS.

1. Filial Affection.

2. Advantages of Early Piety.

3. Power of God.

4. Wisdom of God. 5. Goodness of God. 6. God in Nature. 7. God in History. 8. Value of Time. 9. Ravages of Time. 10. Regularity of Nature. 11. Economy of Nature. 12. History.

13. Biography.

14. Industry. 15. Pride.

16. Prejudice.

17. Importance of Geology.
18. Importance of Mathematics.

19. Pleasures of Memory.

20. Pleasures of Conversation.

21. Colonisation.

22. Flattery.

23. Remorse.

24. Economy.

25. Power of Custom.

26. Importance of Trifles.

27. Decision of Character.

28. Public Opinion.

29. A Good Temper.

30. Taste.

31. Sublimity.

32. Power of Association.

33. Love of Fame.

34. Conscience.

35. Intemperance.

36. Revenge.

37. True Greatness.

38. Truth. 39. Genius.

40. Curiosity.

41. Advantages of a Classical Education. 42. Advantages of a well cultivated Mind. 43. Power of Application.

44. Evanescence of Pleasure.

45. Heroism.

46. The Study of the Bible.

47. The Imagination.

48. Sensibility.

49. Sources of Britain's Prosperity. 50. Origin and Progress of Language.

51. Character of the Romans.

52. Greek Literature.

53. Uses of Adversity.

54. Qualifications of a General. 55. Qualifications of a Historian.

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56. Power of Fashion.

57. Society.

58. Value of Character.

59. Value of Common Qualities.

60. On the Choice of a Profession.

61. True Happiness.

62. Extravagance.

63. Insufficiency of Genius without Learning.

64. Modesty.

65. Morality of Christianity.

66. National Character.

67. The Domestic Virtues.

68. Knowledge of the World.

69. Progress of the Fine Arts.

70. The Study of Nature. 71. On Tragedy.

72. On Comedy.

73. France viewed as a Commercial Country. 74. The Advantages to be derived from a proper method of Reading.

75. On the Progress of Science within the Nineteenth Century.

76. Advantages conferred on Society by Literary Men.

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81. The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral Constitution of Man.

82. The Necessity of Subduing the Passions.

83. Division of Labour.

84. The Regulation of the Affections.

85. The Mythology of the Hindoos.

86. The Literature of the Reign of Queen Anne. 87. Posthumous Fame.

88. The Cultivation of the Memory.

89. The Pleasures of Anticipation.
90. National Amusements.
91. The Folly of Pretension.
92. Allegorical Instruction.

93. National Costumes.

94. Present Condition and Future Prospects of Australia.

95. The Benefits conferred upon History by Antiquarian Researches.

96. Mythology of the Greeks and Romans.

97. The Superstitions of the Ancient Egyptians. 98. The Saxon Race and its Influences.

99. The Spirit of Controversy.

100. The Arctic Expeditions, in connection with their influence upon Science.

BOOK VI.

ON VERSIFICATION.

INTRODUCTION.

As a means of acquiring polish and flexibility of style, the pupil should frequently be invited to cultivate his powers of versification. Besides the subjects now presented for poetical composition, there are many in the previous parts of this work which may be rendered available for the same kind of writing; and it is intended that the pupil should carry on the exercises in this Book simultaneously with those in prose. As facility of composition is here the chief end proposed, he should be left at liberty to give either a paraphrase or such a version of the original as he can most readily accomplish; and in order to show the latitude he is permitted in this respect, a double version is given in several of the models. His ingenuity may be also tested, and the exercise invested with additional interest, by the repetition of a successful effort in a new measure. The Latin, Greek, and French languages, have been adopted for translation, as being those which are most likely to form a portion of the pupil's studies.

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