CONTENTS.

JANUARY.

Lesson

I.

JAN. 1. Reflections for New Year's Day

2. Death of General Wolfe............

II. ..........

III. ......... 3. Cicero

IV.......... 4. Roger Ascham

V........... 5. Character of the British Soldier

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6. On the Pleasures arising from true Taste.........

VII. ......... 7. The Groves and Forests of the Tropical Regions.

VIII. ........ 8. Galileo

IX........... 9. Nelson

X. ........... 10. Linnæus

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11. Sir Hans Sloane

XII. ......... 12. Maximilian I.

XIII. ........ 13. The Music of Nature ......

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XIV.......... 14. Destruction of the Alexandrian Library

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15. Queen Elizabeth

XVI.......... 16. Death of Sir John Moore.........

XVII. ....... 17. On Man ..........

XVIII. ....... 18. Mount Jura..

XXI......... 21. Fate of Louis XVI. and Family

22. The Migration of Birds.........

XXIII. ....... 23. William Pitt..........

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XXVI. ....... 26. A Squire of Queen Anne's Time.

27. Lord Hood.........

XXVIII. 28. The Ocean an Image of Eternity...

29. A Thunder-storm in the Highlands...

XXX......... 30. Decollation of Charles I.....

31. Churches on the Continent..

XXXII. FEB. 1. The Study of Natural History......

XLV. .......... 14.

The Common Lot

Lady Jane Grey and her Husband

William III.

Captain Cook

XLVI. ......... 15. Shakspeare's Literary Character

XLVII. ........ 16. Melancthon

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19. Beauty

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20. The Approach of Spring......

LII.

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21. The Horrors of a Siege, as exemplified in that

24. Battle of Pavia.......

LVI............ 25. Sir Christopher Wren.

LVII........... 26. John Philip Kemble

LVIII. ......... 27. John Evelyn

LIX........... 28. Of the Attraction of Cohesion

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7. State of the Arabs at the Coming of Mahomet

8. The Duke of Bridgewater

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9. Lord Capel's Execution

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10. On Novels and other Works of Fiction.........

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Recollection of Youthful Days

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LXXIV......... 15. Julius Cæsar..

LXXVI. ........ 17. St. Patrick

LXXI. ......... 12. Effects of Temperance in prolonging Life...... 99

LXXII. ........ 13. Belisarius

LXXIII. ....... 14. Admiral Byng.......

LXXV.......... 16. A Naval Ode, by T. Campbell

LXXVII. ............... 18. Edward, King of the West Saxons......

CONTENTS.

Lesson

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MARCH 22. Napoleon at Fontainebleau

LXXXII.

23. Kotzebue

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LXXXIII................................ 24. Of the Specific Gravity of Bodies ........ 114

LXXXIV. ............................. 25. The Hermit

LXXXV............................. 26. Of Heat and Cold

LXXXVI. ............................. 27. The Value of Good Advice

LXXXVII.

28. Sir Ralph Abercrombie

LXXXVIII. ........ 29.

Battle of Towton

30. The Defence of Acre

XC................. 31. The Elements of Hydrostatics

APRIL.

XCI.......

APRIL 1. On the Circulation, &c., of the Blood.... 127

2. The great Naval Victory at Copenhagen... 128

XCIII. ............. 3. The Captive

XCIV. ............................. 4. Queen Elizabeth and Admiral Drake

XCV................................. 5. On Sound, and its Velocity

6. Napoleon in the Zenith of his Power

7. Liberty and Slavery

C.................................. 10. Effect of the Human Eye on Animals...... 139

CI................. 11. Youth and Summer

CII. ............... 12. Galgacus, the General of the Caledonii, to

CIII. ................................. 13. The Falls of the Missouri

CIV.................................. 14. Otway

CXIII. ............. 23. The Village Clergyman........

CXIV. .................................. 24. Châteaubriand's Description of the Valley

CXV. .............. 25. Cowper

CXVI. .................................. 26. Iceland and its Inhabitants

CXVII. ......................... 27. Sir William Jones

CXVIII. ........... 28. Of the Nature and Uses of Gold

CXIX. ............. 29. The Fine Arts........

CXX. .............. 30. General Washington

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of Jehoshaphat

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Lesson

CXXIV. MAY 4. Barthelemy

CXXV........ 5. Account of Massieu, a Deaf and Dumb Pupil

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CXXIX.

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CXXVIII. .... 8.

10. The Battle of Lodi

CXXXI. ...... 11. The Earl of Chatham

cxxxш....... 12. Description of New Orleans

CXXXIII. ..... 13. John, King of England

CXXXIV...... 14. Henry IV., King of France

CXXXV....... 15. The Discovery of America by Columbus

CXXXVI...... 16. Same Subject continued

CXXXVII. .... 17. The Substantial English Farmer's Wife

CXXXVIII. 18. Graphic Description of the Mediterranean

CXXXIX...... 19. Stage-Effect the Ruling Passion of the

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CXL.......... 20. Americus Vesputius

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CXLIII.

21. Battle of Cannæ

22. Battle of the Granicus

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The Duke of Marlborough

Edward the Black Prince

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12. Filial Affection exemplified

13. The Unbeneficed Old Bachelor...

CLXV........ 14. Battle of Marengo and Friedland.

CLXVI........ 15. On History and Chronology

CLXVIII. 17. The Influence of Poetry on the Mind and

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10. The Cause and Nature of the Tides

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