Men, their characters, 190 dying, 8 wise, 6 Opportunity, present, 258 Mercy, 72, 119, 680, 705, 728 Order, universal, 378 pretended, 204 Mercies, 729, 730 Merit, 117, 118 Mind, 113, 531, 619 Passions, mental, 201 Past and future, 5, 211 Patience, 249, 330, 597, 598, and art, 33 Poetry, 391 human, 139, 186, 288 Policy, 458 418 and honour, 589 perverted, 236 Pomp, 227 weakness of, 183 and power, 304 News, 171, 563 Popularity, 295 Novelty, 26 Poverty and pride, 377 desire of, 522 riches, 181, 265 Power, 36, 456 insolence of, 222 loss of, 274 mental, 357 and pomp, 304 supernatural, 760 Practice and theory, 159, 475 Praise, 583 Occupation, 380, 381 false, 70 Office, 178 self, 153, 443 Omnipotence, 324 Prayers, 41 Opinion of things, 440 Opinions, modern and pre- feigned, 761 insincere, 196 sent, 4 Precept and example, 123 Opportunity personified, 532 | Precipitancy, 412, 623 Prevention, 172 Pride, 32, 46 effects of, 189 Pleasure and knowledge, 530 Security, confident, 311 and poverty, 377 Pride's mirror, 32, 225 Prosperity and adversity, 263 Prudence, 162, 697 Punishment, 451 Qualifications, 464 Secrecy, 516 Selfishness, 483 detestation of a thea- humility, 773, 774 on the shortness of life, Sight, clearest, 307 Reason, 379, 388, 543, 582, Silence, 352, 472, 498 Rumour, 55, 56, 292 in, 303 Stubbornness, 195 Studies, 605 Studiousness, over-, 285 Submission, 564, 609, 626, 738, 739, 750 Sufferance, 544 and poverty, 181, 265 | Suicide, 546, 575 Sufferings, 210, 229 Supplication, 725 Suspicion, 361, 482, 525, 586 | Vicissitudes of life, 187 Sympathy, 229, 467 Taste and judgment, 286 unavoidable, 574 Time's progress, 385 and murder, 205 Trials, 406 fortitude in, 245 Troubles, 500 Truth and beauty, 232 Virtue, 20, 145, 185, 260, 281 Vows, sincere, 351 beauty's ornament, 297 Youth, 663 Valour, false, 152 and age, 89, 348, 662 Vice, effrontery of, 48 |