MANUAL of moral, philosophical, and critical
compositions in the popular form of Essays;
exempted from the faults of many of the origi-
nal authors, and without a single passage to shock
the most delicate mind. We have never allowed
ourselves to add a new idea, though we have oc-
casionally taken the liberty to correct or alter
expressions which were either obsolete, vulgar, or
incorrect. We refer the reader to the Table of
Contents for the entertainment laid before him, -
and here add a list of the Authors.

CONTENTS.

ESSAY

1. On Miscellanies-Lord Shaftesbury's

Miscellaneous Reflections, chap. 1

2. On Truth-Bacon's Essays

3. On Patience

Essays.

Page

1

7

10

13

16

Lord Clarendon's

6. Greatness-Cowley's Miscellaneous

Writings

7. Industry-Lord Clarendon's Essays

8. Youth and Age- Lord Bacon's

Essays.

9. Suspicion-The same

10. Praise-The same

11. Myself Cowley's

-

Writings.

19

31

34

12. Talent for Humour and Peculiarities

of the English Nation-from Sir

Wm. Temple's Essay on Poetry

13. Delays-Lord Bacon's Essays

14. Obscurity-Cowley's Miscellaneous

Writings

15. Courage-Norris's Essays

52

57

59

65

ESSAY

16. Spleen-Collier's Essays

17. Solitude Cowley's Miscellaneous

Writings

18. Nature in Man-Lord Bacon's

Essays .

Page

8888

19. Liberty-Lord Clarendon's Essays 83

20. Nature and Effect of Poetry-Sir

Wm. Temple's Essay on Poetry

88

95

21. On the Poetic Spirit-The same

22. Value of Life-Collier's Essays 100

23. Social Affections-Lord Shaftesbury's

Essays on Wit and Humour, part

24. Conjugal Love-Museum or Literary

and Historical Register for 1746,

106

113

. 118

124

27. Health-Sir Wm. Temple's Essay on

Health and long Life

28. Improvement of Time

Essays .

29. Taste-Burke on the Sublime and
Beautiful .

30. Different Characters of Mankind-

Melmoth, Letters of Sir T. Fitz-

osborne, Letter 38

31. Despair-Collier's Essays.

146

150

35. On the Benefits of Instruction and

Practice in promoting bodily and

mental Improvement Lord

Shaftesbury's Advice to an Author 189

-

36. Refinement in the Arts Hume's

Essays.

37. Pleasure-Collier's Essays, 17

193

201

208

212

38. Universality of Knowledge-Locke

Conduct of the Understanding

39. Reading-The same.

40. On the true Use of Retirement-

Lord Bolingbroke's Reflections

on Exile

216

41. Wit-Sir R. Blackmore's Essays. 289

42. On the excellency of the British

Constitution-Bishop Atterbury's

Works

233

236

43. Beautiful Objects, small-Burke on

the Sublime and Beautiful

44. Minos, a Fable-Museum or Lite-
rary and Historical Register for
1746, p. 324

45. On Generosity Melmoth, Fitz-

osborne's Letters, 26

238

242

ESSAY

Page

46. Love of Life increasing with Age-

Goldsmith's Citizen of the World,

Essay 72

47. Practice and Habits-Locke

48. The Danger of Procrastination--Cow-

ley's Miscellaneous Writings

245

250

256

263

49. On Essay Writing-Sir R. Black-

more's Essays..

VOL. II.

50. On Posthumous Publications-Cow-

ley's Miscellaneous Writings

51. A Word to Modern Critics-Dryden's

Preface to the State of Innocence

52. On the Use of Letters-Lord Lyttle-

ton's Dialogues of the Dead,

Cadmus and Hercules

53. On the Character of Poets-Gold-

smith's Citizen of the World

54. Confidence-Collier's Essays

11

17

55. Ideal Beauty-Dryden's Parallel of

Poetry and Painting

56. Advantage of Restraint, a Tale-

Museum for 1747, p. 128.

57. Polite Philosophy- Polite Philoso-
pher, Dodsley's Fugitive Pieces

58. Egotism-The same.

59. The Society of Women the best
School of Politeness-The same

25

33

39

47

53