Line 2326.- Let it outcry the boy at Philip's ear.'

It is said, that PHILIP of MACEDON, father of ALEXANDER the Great, employed a boy to admonish him every morning of his mortality in these words- PHILIP, thou art a man!'

Line 2425.-When time, like him of Gaza in his wrath,' &c.

Alluding to SAMPSON's taking away the gates of the PHILISTINES. See Judges XVI. 29, 30. The allusion here is not improper in itself; but I cannot altogether admire it as a final conclusion of the NIGHT THOUGHTS; which, instead of opening into eternal day, abruptly close the subject in universal midnight.'

The Reader, however, who has perused the work with a taste for serious reflection, and has condescended to take these remarks with him as a guide, will not close the work without confessing, that among all the Author's blemishes he has found a great variety of beauties, uncommon originality of thought, many passages of the true sublime, and, above all, the finest moral sentiments, and the most interesting religious truths; may they rest with all their just and infinite importance on our minds!

END OF THE NOTES.

INDEX.

THE FIRST FIGURES REFER TO THE NIGHTS, THE OTHER TO THE LINES.

A.

ADDRESS, or Apostrophe, to Death, Night 1, Line 205. To the

great and indolent, 2. 234. To man, respecting his instability of
will and choice, 9. 2074. To the lilies of the field, 3. 124. To the
aged, 4. 109. To God, as the Creator, 4. 138; as an artist, 9. 1320;
on the instability of this world, S. 136; as omniscient, omnipresent,
the great first Cause and Father of all, 9. 2192. 2213; on his mercy,
love, and justice, 4. 201; on the perfection of his ways, 9. 462; as
the Essence of bliss and true happiness, 9. 578. To Jesus Christ, as
God-man, 9. 2343. To infidels, 7. 1195. 4. 234. To the day of
judgment, 9. 217. To the ocean, 8. 168. To Night, 9. 549. 1676.
To the moon, 9. 1680. To the stars, 9. 1163. To the supposed in-
habitants of the stars and planets, 9.777. To the nightingale, 1.440.
To Lorenzo, to awake from sleep, 9. 2418.

Adjuration, solemn, the Author's, by night, addrest to Lorenzo, 9. 2093.
Afflictions, beneficial to good men, 9. 405.

Age and Disease, the harbingers of Death, 3. 487.

Aged, the, less heedful of Death's approach than the young, 5. 606.
Absurdities of, 5. 636. See Address.

Ajax, the story of, alluded to, 3.271.
Allegory on sleep, 1. 1.

On aged trees, 4. 111. On time, 2. 139. On
experience, 4. 122. On the end of life, 4. 135. On wit, 5. 13. On
the passions, 7.533. On pleasure, 8. 575. On art, 2. 120. On ima-
gination, 8. 994. On learning, 5. 257.

Altamont, the death of, 5. 434.

Ambition and Avarice, the influence of, 6. 221. 399. True, described,
6. 236. And pleasure, inexhaustible topics, 8. 411. In a certain
degree, infect all mankind, 8. 4. 15. A proof of immortality, 7.339.
Fame, the cure of, 7. 368.

Angels, half their joy derived from friendship, 2. 577.
pared, 4. 533. The relationship between, 4. 670.
1048. The ministers of God, 9. 875.

Analogy, man's surest guide, 6. 734.

And men, com-

The war of, 7.

Annihilation, the absurdities and horrors of, urged, 7. 844.

Art the bad effects of, 5. 43. And genius, inadequate to the attain-
ment of true glory, 6. 259. See Allegory.

Arts, human, surpassed by Nature, 9.916.

Astrology, true, what it is, found out, 9. 1047.

Avarice, furnishes an argument of immortality, 7. 444.

Author, the, his disappointments, 4. 60. His prayer for himself, 9.2309.
Predicted fate of his book, 8. 1392.

B.

Balchen, Admiral, his unhappy fate alluded to, s. 172.
Beings, irrational, denied the privilege of sorrow, 5.558.
Bell, the striking of a, its language and import, 1. 55.

Belshazzar, the history of, in Dan. v. 5. alluded to, 2. 412.
Bible, reading of the, recommended, 7. 1360. 8.771.

Blest, the, see the works of creation in their due proportion, 8. 30.
Brutes, in what light superior to man, 7. 292. Happier than rational
beings, 7.735.

C.

Caution, frequently betrays men into danger, 1. 272.

Christian, the dignity of a, 4.788. Compared to a ship at sea, 8. 1081.
A real, description of, 8. 1083. Difference between him and the
men of the world, 8. 1097.

Christ, his crucifixion described, 4. 245. His life, death, and ascen-
sion, proofs of immortality, 4. 268. His philanthropy, 4. 602. His
death, a ransom, 4. 243.

Chesterfield, the Earl of, complimented, S. 1266.

Clouds, a fine description of them, 9. 554.

Complaint, the, of a good man, on the supposition of no future exist-
ence, 7. 653.

Competence recommended, 6. 506.

Conscience, the treachery of, 2. 256. Notices our thoughts as well as
actions, 2.265. The power of, whence it is derived, 7. 1176.
Contemplation, the defectiveness of, without converse, 2. 488.
Conversation, the benefits of, 2. 491. Fits for solitude, 2. 494.
Creation, the magnificence of, a mockery on man if doomed to anni-
hilation, 7. 787. End of it immortality, 7. 1031. A specimen and
earnest of God's power, 6. 195.
Crimes, covered by night, 9. 947.

D.

Time's daughters, 8. 113.

Darkness. See Silence.
Days, the full powers of each, 2.317.
Day of judgment described, 9. 157.
Dead, the, who properly mourn, 2. 24.
190. The folly of lamenting, 1. 107.

1. 114.

Heinousness of violating, 3.
Pity more justly the living,

Death, proprietor of all, 1. 205. Sudden and unexpected, the danger
of, 1.388. Damps all worldly enjoyments, 2. 358. The great ad-
vantages derived from, 3. 512. To be welcomed by age, 4. 19.
The swiftness of its progress, 4.807. The different forms it appears
in, 5. 827. The thought of, an antidote against the fear of, 5. 677.
9.2382. Characterized, 5, 756. The insidiousness or treachery of,
5.809. Compared to a masquer, 5. 860. Enters into gay company,
5. 849. Hastened by the smile of Fortune, 5. 1007. The uncer-
tainty of, should excite us to watchfulness, 5. 887. The false por-
trait of, 6. 49; by whom drawn, 6. 58. The dread of, a proof of a
future state, 7. 97. Its nature changed, if man is man no more,
7.779. The double, of man, described, 7. 1281. A retrospective
view of, 9. 113. And pain, the benefits of, 9. 376. Of friends, how
to be improved, 5. 374. 7. 1264. Neglect of, the cause investigated,
5. 384. See Address.

Death-bed of friends, a fine description of the, 5. 496. Of the just,
described, 2.633.

Deception, defeats its own power, 8.357. A contempt of, recommend-
ed, 8. 364. How rendered unnecessary, 8. 370.

Deity. See Address.

Deluge, the, and conflagration of all things, described, 9. 137.

Devil, the, his sentence, what, 9. 275.

Devotion, the daughter of Astronomy, 9. 770.

Dial, the language of a, 2. 409.

Directions, for self-examination, 9. 1439. Necessary to remove gloom

and melancholy, 8. 737.

Discontent, man's, a proof of immortality, 7. 29.

Disease, Death's harbinger, 3. 487. Attacks the temperate and volup-
tuous, 1.268

Disobedience to the command of God, in what case recommended,
7.167.

Diversions censured, 2. 60.

Dreams, a proof of the soul's immortality, 1.98.

Duration, necessary to the bliss of an immortal being, 8. 1340.

E.

Earth, the region of melancholy, 1. 115. The comparatively small
extent of its habitable parts, 1. 285. Not to be trusted in, 3. 145.
Compared with the skies, 7. 1244; with eternity, 6. 599.

Earthly bliss, the instability of, 1. 180.

Endymion, his story alluded to, 9. 542.

Epitaph on the human race, supposing there is no future state, 7.833.
Eternity, description of, 6. 579. Compared to the leviathan, 8. 34.
See Man.

Evening, fine description of a summer's, 2. 685.

Evils, natural, are benefits, 9. 389.

Experience, its language, 2.381. The corrector of human pride, 5.
234. See Allegory.

F.

Faith, disarms death of its terrors, 4. 722. And reason, the relation
between, 4.743.

Fame, the fondness for, disavowed by man, 7.342. Condemned, 5. 2.
Described, 7. 365. The vanity of, 4. 98. The trumpet of, what it
sounds, 8. 106. The shade of immortality, 7. 365. The cure of
ambition, 7.368.

Fear of a future state, a proof of its reality, 7. 1320.

Firmament, what it is, 9. 1034.

Florello, his story, 8.245.

Folly, subject to misery, 8. 391. And wisdom contrasted, 8. 916.
Fortune cannot give joy to the wicked, 8. 1023.
Free-will, the doctrine of, maintained, 7. 1296.

Free-thinking, true, defined, 7. 1222.

Friend, the bosom of a, finely described, 2. 519.

Friends, real, the value of, 2. 461. 510. What makes them miracles on
earth, 2. 558. The death of, how to be improved, 7. 1264. God's
design in taking them from us, 5.374. 9.388. Dying, a striking
description of, 5. 498.

Friendship, the benefits of, 2. 463. Directions for preserving, 2. 563.
Funerals, description of pompous, 9. 2124.

Future state, a good man's complaint, supposing there is none, 7. 653.

Gaiety, its instructions, 5.779.

G.

Genius and art insufficient to the acquision of true greatness, 6. 259.
Glasses, discoveries by, alluded to, 9. 1575.

Glory, true, wherein it consists, 8.431.

God, erroneously defined by infidels, 4. 225. Proved to be a Spirit, 9.
1417. The omnipresence of, alluded to, 4. 392. A sublime de-
scription of, 4. 409. All things prove a, 9.772. Reason of the loca-
lity of his throne, 4. 405. All he does, right, 9. 373. His residence
described, 9. 2294. Found by all true worshippers of him, 9. 1856.
A sublime description of, 9. 2192. The first command of, to man,
7. 170. In what light viewed by the believer, 7.914; by those who
favour annihilation, 7. 948. From what cause adored, 7. 1175.
The being of a, admitted, solves all difficulties, 7. 1416. The decrees

of, vindicated, 9. 370. Denied, creates innumerable mysteries, 7.
1419. See Address.

Gold, where it glitters most, 5.966. Eagerness of mankind to acquire,
5.968. Various fates of its votaries, 5. 984.

Good man, the, exposed to trials in this life, 8. 1045. Characterized,
8. 1083. And wicked, compared, 8. 1094.

Grave the, a description of, 1. 116. 2. 361. 3. 255. Of a friend, the
most instructive, 5. 371. The, a real hell, if there is no future state,
7.818.

Great, the, their mistaken notions of friendship, 2. 542. See Address.
Greatness, true, described, 8.427.

Grief, the proper school of wisdom, 5. 253.

H.

Happiness, earthly, its insufficiency and emptiness, 1. 274. Present,
an earnest of future pain, 1. 316. Where her sole residence on
earth, 2. 516. Earthly, described, 8. 220. True, what it is, 8. 935.

1022.

Happy man, who is truly a, 8.935.

Health of the mind, what it is, 8. 924.

Heaven, the favours of, their nature explained, 1. 329.

Heavens, starry, questions suggested by a view of the, 9. 1273.

Hell described, 9. 185. 2404.

Homer and Milton, a panegyric on, 1. 450.

Hope, the different kinds of, described, 7. 134. 1445. A proof of im-
mortality, 7. 104. The flight of, surveyed, 7. 132.

7. 1454. False, its dictates, 7. 1446.

Hours, past, the wisdom of talking with them, 2. 376.
Human pursuit, the vanity of, 1. 150.

Humility, the praise of, 8. 475.

I.

Icarus, the fable of, alluded to, 5. 243.

Idleness, the bane of the soul, 2. 163.

True, its benefits,

See Allegory.

Ills, proceed from man alone, 9.444. The intent of, 9.493.
Imagination, her numerous follies, 8. 1005.
Immortality, the nature of, described, 6. 76. The value of, 6. 85. Its
beneficial influence on the soul, 6. 573. Knowledge to be derived
from, 6. 164. The portion of the meanest man, equally with the
Deity, 6. 548. Less esteemed by man, as being common to his
species, 6. 566. Taught by nature, 6. 671. And a future state,
proved from man's discontent, 7. 29; from his powers and passions,
7. 63; from the gradual growth of his reason, 7. 81; from nature, 6.
649; from the order of creation, 7. 290; from the fear of death, 7.
97; from the nature of hope, 7. 105; from virtue, 7. 141; from
knowledge and love, 7. 256; from ambition, 7. 337; from avarice,
7. 444; from pleasure, 7. 483; from self-applause, 7. 148. The
benefits of, 7.506. Questions answered by the supposition of an, 7.
606. Objections to the doctrine of, 7. 566. A belief of, the source
of true courage, 7. 197.

Infancy described, 8. 252. See Man.

Infidel, an, the most frantic of mad-men, 7. 201. Wretched state of
the, 7. 641. A knave in principle, 7. 1180. Arguments used by the,

7.904.

Infidels, their pretensions to philanthropy rejected, 8. 695. Satan's
hypocrites, 7. 1331. Their character at large. 7. 1195.
respects they resemble Satan, 7. 1334. See Address.

In what

Infidelity, the cause of, 7. 1190. The real existence of, denied, 9. 1416.
An evidence of guilt, 7. 1316.

Innocence, not dependent on fortune for joy, 8. 1024.

Inscription on those who believe the doctrine of annihilation, 7. 833.