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In vain may death in various shapes invade,
The swift-wing'd arrow, the descending blade;
His naked breast their impotence defies;
The dart rebounds, the brittle fauchion flies.
Shut in himself, the war without he hears,
Safe in the tempest of their rattling spears;
The cumber'd strand their wasted vollies strow;
His sport the rage and labour of the foe.
His pastimes like a caldron boil the flood,
And blacken ocean with the rising mud;
The billows feel him as he works his way,
His hoary footsteps shine along the sea;
The foam high-wrought with white divides the green,
And distant sailors point where death has been.
His like earth bears not on her spacious face;
Alone in nature stands his dauntless race,
For utter ignorance of fear renown'd:
In wrath he rolls his baleful eye around;
Makes every swoln disdainful heart subside,
And holds dominion o'er the sons of Pride."
Then the Chaldean eas'd his labouring breast,
With full conviction of his crime oppress'd.
"Thou canst accomplish all things, Lord of might!
And every thought is naked to thy sight:
But, oh! thy ways are wonderful, and lie
Beyond the deepest reach of mortal eye.
Oft have I heard of thine Almighty pow'r,
But never saw thee till this dreadful hour.
O'erwhelm'd with shame, the Lord of life I see,
Abhor myself, and give my soul to thee:
Nor shall my weakness tempt thine anger more:
Man is not made to question, but adore.'

of the hippopotamos and crocodile, from their daily mischiefs and ravages around him, it is very accountable why he should permit them to take place.

THE END.

DDRESS to Death, 6. to Deluge described, 199

A the great and indolent, 20. Devil, his sentence, 203

to the lilies, 36. to man, 248. Discontent of man proves him
to the aged, 51. to God, 52, to be immortal, 123

53, 208, 211, 250, 251. to Je Disease the harbinger of death46
sus Christ, 255. to infidels, Diversions censured, 15
54, 152. to the day of judg. Dreams aproof of immortality,3
ment, 201. to night, 239 to Earth, the, 37. compared with
the moon, ib. to the stars, eternity, 114

and their supposed inhabi- Epitaph on the human race,sup-
tants, 216, 226. to the ocean,
164. to Lorenzo to awake, 257
Adjuration, solemn, 249
Afflictions, beneficial, 206
Age and disease harbingers of
death, 46

posing no future existence, 143
Eternity described, 113
Evening, a summer's, 32
Evils,natural,their benefits, 206
Experience the corrector of
pride, 76

Faith dissipates the terrors of
death, 66

Fame, its vanity, 51. descrip-
tion of, 131

Fear of a future state proves
its reality, 155,
Firmament described, 222
Florello, story of, 166
Follycontrasted with wisdom 183
Fortune, its inutility to the
wicked, 186

Allegory on sleep, 1. on aged
trees, 51. on time, 17. on the
end of life, 52. on learning, 76
Altamont, death of, 81
Ambition and avarice, their in-
fluence, 104, 109. the true,
104. proof of immortality, 131
Angels and men compared, 61
Annihilation,absurdities of, 144
Art, bad effects of, 71
Astrology, the true, 222
Author's prayer for himself, 254 Free-thinking, the true defined,
Bell,the striking of,its import,2 152
Bible, the reading of, 156, 179 Friends, their value, 26,27. how
Brutes,how superior to man,130 miracles on earth, 28, fine de-
Bliss, earthly, its instability, 6 scription of their death, 82
Christian, his dignity, 68. com- Friendship, how preserved, 28
pared to a ship at sea, 87. Funerals, pompous described249
difference between him and Future state, a good man's com-
worldly men, 188
plaint supposing none, 138
Christ's crucifixion, 53. his life, Glory, true, defined, 171
death, &c. proofs of immor-God sublimely described, 58.
tality, 54
his decrees vindicated, 205-
Clouds beautifully described210 from what cause adored, 151
Complaint, a good man's,on the Grace described, 4. a hell if
idea of no future existence 138 there be no future state, 143
Conscience, the treachery of,20. Greatness, true, described, 171
its power whence derived, 151 Grief the school of wisdom, 77
Conversation, the benefits of, 26 Happiness, present, an earnest
Creation,its endimmortality 147 of future pain, 9. where on-
Day of judgment, 201
ly to be found on earth, 27.
Dead, folly of lamenting them, the true defined, 184
4 crime of violating the, 38 Health of mind described, 183
Death, danger of sudden and Heavens, starry, questions aris-
unexpected, 14. its great ing from a view of, 228
advantages, 61. its different Hell described, 201

forms, 91. antidote against Hope, 125. a proof of immor-
the fear of, 87. view of, 199.tality, 159

Death-bed of friends finely de- Hours, past, the wisdom of re-
scribed, 82. of the just, 30 calling to memory, 24
Deception, contempt of, recom- Idleness, the bane of the soul, 18
mended, 169. how to be ren-lls proceed from man, 207.
dered unnecessary, ib.

their intent, 208

Imagination, follies of, 185 Praise, effects of the love of, 130
Immortality described, 101. its Prayer,an asylum in trouble,231
influence on the soul, 113 Prince,the trulygreatdefined108
various proofs of, vii. at nu-Questions, various, not to be

merous passages
Infancy described, 166
Infidels resemble the devil, 155
Infidelity, cause of, 151
Instinct in animals wiser than
reason in man, 140
Joy, true, 179. false, 174
Knowledge, thought, and vir
tue, become evils by the
tem of the infidel, 139
Learning described71.thetrue89

resolved without the admis
sion of immortality, 137
Quietism, what, 63
Redemption, descant on, 56
Reflection, benefits of, 24
Religion, its blessings, 62
Ruin of man proceeds from
himself, 154

sys-Scale of beings, 117

Scriptures,their value, 156. whe
contemned by infidels, 179

Life, its length, how to be com- Seasons described, 116
puter, 90. various evils of, 7 Self-knowledge the highest de-
Lorenzo, various addresses to, gree of wisdom, 60)

see different parts of Nights Shame, why implanted in man,
i. iii. vi. and viii.

131

Skies prove the being of a God,

212

Love and joy the essence of Sinner, hardened, 197
heaven, 144
Lysander and Aspasia, 96
Man, the good, characterised,
22. complicated nature of, 3
melancholy picture of, 248
cause of his misery, 96. his
heart described, 125
Ministers of God described, 213
Miracles. 227. use of, 228
Moon influences the tides, 226
Morality defined, 68
Narcissa, character and death
of, 35

Solitude, its advantages, 33. the
companion of safety, 74
Sorrow the common lot of man-
kind, 8

Nature compared with man, 16
Necessity, its doctrine disap-
proved, 151

Night beautifully described, 1,
210, 214, 238. its pre-emi-
nence over day, 74, 214
Nobility,wealth,&c.vanity of,51

Soul, for what end created,
222. its immortality evinced
by dreams, 3
Speech, its advantages, 26
Spirits departed, their thoughts
of men, 257

Stars, fixed, their immense
distance from the earth, 234-
how kept in their places, 225
Starry heavens, 215
Suicide, 81. despair, the chief
incentive to, 192
Superstition, cruelty, and bi-
gotry of, 37

Obligations rendered null by Tears, their different sources,84

the plan of infidelity, 140
Ocean described, 164,
Pursuits, human, vanity of, 5
Passions, the grandeur of, 135.
their origin, ib.

last

Thought, serious, its import-
ance, 194. of death, 41
Time, fiue description of its
end, 193. its meeting with
eternity, 193

Tombs, instruction, derived
from, 78
Truth described, 70
his Understanding, its use, &c. 110
Virtue, the great advantages of,

Peace and pleasure, derivation
of, 171
Philander, effects of his
sigh on the author, 10.
death, 31

described in various parts of
Nights i. iii. vi. vii. aud viii.
re-Warnings, their use, 24

Philosophers, heathen, 221
Piety, its blessings, 178
Pleasure and pride, how
conciled, 72
Pleasure, its origin, 175
Pleasures prohibited by
science unnatural, 180
Poetryand prose, their affinity72

Wealth, true, described, 109
Wisdom the advantages of, 191
con-World, defined, 161, 164. a man
of it described, 167. the pre
sent a grave, 199

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