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Bees, a perpetual figure of good governaunce, 312
Bodies, co-operative, to be formed of a due proportion
of old and young, 251

Books, to be watched as well as men, 19

contain the image of men's wits, 239

BRITAIN, Roman Conquest of, 94

CARE will sometimes betray to the appearance of neg-
ligence, 154

Cavaliers, 156

Cheerfulness, two perpetual sources of, 60

CICERO, his skill in philosophy inferior to that in ora-
tory, 38; his fondness for glory, 43

Condition of the people a criterion of the government,

278

CREATOR, men insensible to his goodness, 120

Custom has a twofold operation, 334

DEATH closes a man's reputation, 230

contemplation of, 155, 179

Debt, a calamity, 77, 162; why insolvent debtors de-

serve imprisonment, 113

Decency, deserving of praise, 46

Delay, advantage of in composition, 17

Democracy more favourable to public virtue than are
other forms of government, 327; the ancient de-
mocracies, 260

DEMOSTHENES, his political object, 335

Duty, sense of, independent of admiration, 26; what

Elections to Parliament must be free, 246
Elements, natural, their various uses, 317
Eloquence, the study of, 221

what are the requisites for, 63

Employment in trades variable, 315

French Governors, how chosen, 247

Friendship, value of, 3, 133

Friends often flatter us, 136

GARDENS, English and French, compared, 102

Gentlemen, the true character of, 242

Glory, natural passion for, 43

Goodness, how discerned, 275; never despised in good
earnest, 237; few great men have died in honour, if
void of goodness, 73

HABITS of virtue to be cultivated in this life, 115, 117

Happiness, its attainment the end of all human in-

dustry, 227; wherein it consists, 107

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