TABLE OF CONTENTS. PART I. PIECES IN PROSE. CHAPTER I. [The names of American authors are in small capitals.] NARRATIVE PIECES. CHAPTER III. DIDACTIC PIECES. The miseries of Men mostly of their own procuring, The Creator's works attest his greatness, The advantages of a taste for Natural History, Necessity of Industry, even to Genius, Of the Forum and other public buildings at Rome, The Blind Preacher, The Head Stone, CHAPTER VI. Cadmus and Hercules, Lord Bacon and Shakspeare, CHAPTER VII. PUBLIC SPEECHES. Extract from a Speech of Mr. Phillips, in Ireland, on a certain Extract from an Address at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, Speech of Titus Quinctius to the Romans, Extract from Judge Story's Continental Address, The incidents of a Voyage across the Atlantic, The happy effects of a virtuous sensibility, |