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HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
June 28, 1938
Librof this Ellen Haven Ross.
CHARLES WHITTINGHAM
LONDON
CONTENTS.
VOLUME I.
LIFE OF YOUNG, by the Rev. J. Mitford
Page
.... ix
THE COMPLAINT; OR, NIGHT THOUGHTS.
Night I. ON LIfe, Death, and IMMORTALITY
II. ON TIME, DEATH, AND FRIENDSHIP
III. NARCISSA...
IV. THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH
V. THE RELAPSE........
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36
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77
VI. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED, Part I.......... 109
VII. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED, Part II.
In the Sixth Night arguments were drawn, from
Nature, in proof of immortality: here, others are
drawn from Man: from his discontent, p. 138; from
his passions and powers, 139; from the gradual growth
of reason, 140; from his fear of death, 140; from
the nature of hope, 141; and of virtue, 142, &c.;
from knowledge, and love, as being the most essen-
tial properties of the soul, 145; from the order of
creation, 146, &c.; from the nature of ambition, 148,
&c. Avarice, 151; pleasure, 152. A digression on
the grandeur of the passions, 153, &c. Immortality
alone renders our present state intelligible, 154. An
objection from the stoics' disbelief of immortality
answered, 155. Endless questions unresolvable, but
on supposition of our immortality, 156. The natural,
most melancholy, and pathetic complaint of a worthy
man, under the persuasion of no futurity, 157, &c.
The gross absurdities and horrors of annihilation urged
135
state.
home on Lorenzo, 163, &c. The soul's vast import-
ance, 167, &c.; from whence it arises, 170, &c. The
difficulty of being an infidel, 171; the infamy, 172;
the cause, 173; and the character, 173, of an infidel
What true free-thinking is, 174; the neces-
sary punishment of the false, 175. Man's ruin is
from himself, 176. An infidel accuses himself of guilt
and hypocrisy; and that of the worst sort, 177. His
obligation to Christians, 177. What danger he incurs
by virtue, 178. Vice recommended to him, 178. His
high pretences to virtue, and benevolence, exploded,
178. The conclusion, on the nature of faith, 180.
Reason, 180; and Hope, 181; with an apology for
this attempt, 181.
VIII. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY; OR, THE MAN OF
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