TABLE OF CONTENTS. PART I. PIECES IN PROSE. CHAPTER I. [The names of American authors are in small capitals.] Select Sentences, CHAPTER II. NARRATIVE PIECES. Catharina, Empress of Russia, Execution of Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Death of Socrates, Account of William Penn's treaty with the Indians, Religion and Superstition contrasted, Edinburgh Review 34 CHAPTER III. DIDACTIC PIECES. On the pleasure of acquiring knowledge, On the uses of knowledge, Integrity the guide of life, The happiness of animals a proof of divine bencvolence, The Seasons, On the Swiftness of Time, The unhappiness of unrestrained passions, Of curiosity concerning the affairs of others, Alison 40 Blair 45 Paley 46 Monthly Anthology 49 The miseries of Men mostly of their own procuring, Mr. Sheridan's Invective against Hastings, Mr. Burke's description of Junius, PART III. AMERICAN HISTORY. CHAPTER I. Settlement of Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, War with France, and conquest of Canada, Difficulties between Great Britain and the Colonies, and conse- |