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.
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.
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.
Skies prove the being of a God,
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.
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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