MORAL AND LITERARY.

BY

VICESIMUS KNOX, M.A.

Studia et Mores. VIRG.

A NEW EDITION, IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, CHEAPSIDE;

G. AND J. ROBINSON; G. OFFOR; AND J. EVANS AND CO: ALSO, R. GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW, AND J. CUMMING, DUBLIN.

1823.

ཀ;
Undergraduate
Library

No.

CONTENTS.

VOL. III.

Page

118. ON the Character of Addison as a Poet

119. The Folly of bringing up Children to a

Learned Profession, without the probability

of providing them with a Competency.....

120. On Decency, as the only Motive of our appa-

rent Virtues, and particularly of our Religious

121. On the Animosities occasioned in the Country

by the Game Laws

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8

12

23

122. On the Importance of Governing the Temper 18

123. On the Moral Effects of a good Tragedy ...

124. On the Influence of Politics, as a Subject of

Conversation, on the State of Literature ...

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33

125. On Buffoonery in Conversation...........................

126. On the Style of Xenophon and Plato................................ 37

127. On the Advantages derivable from National

Adversity

128. On some of the False Pretensions and Imposi-

tions of the Artful and Avaricious............

129. On the Prevailing Taste in Poetry

130. On the Peculiar Danger of falling into Indo-

lence in a Literary and Retired Life.........

Scholars of the Fifteenth Century............ 64

133. On the Inefficacy of that Style of Speaking and

Writing, which may be called the Frothy... 68

134. On the Genius of Erasmus......

135. On the Education of a Prince

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76

136. Introductory Remarks on the Art of Printing... 81

137. On the Circumstances which led to the Disco-

very of the Art of Printing, with Miscella-

neous Remarks on it.............

85

91

138. On the Moral, Political, and Religious Effects

of Printing, with concluding Remarks

139. Cursory Thoughts on Satire and Satirists.............. 100

140. On Logic and Metaphysics ........................................................... 104

141. On Latin Verse as an Exercise at Schools...... 109

142. On the Insensibility of the Men to the Charms

of a Female Mind, cultivated with Polite

144. On the Poems attributed to Rowley............ 124

145. On the Moral Tendency of the Writings of

Sterne.......

..... 129

146. On the Weight and Efficacy which Morality

may derive from the Influence and Example

of those who are called the Great............ 133

147. On the Profligacy and consequent Misery of

the Lower Classes and on the Means of

Prevention...

148. On some Passages in Aristotle's Rhetoric, with

Miscellaneous Remarks on his Style, Genius,

and Works........................

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143