CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | PAGE. | |
| [Preface] | i.–vi. | |
| I. | [Hesiod] | 1 |
| II. | [Pythagoras] | 4 |
| III. | [Plato] | 12 |
| IV. | [Ovid] | 23 |
| V. | [Seneca] | 27 |
| VI. | [Plutarch] | 41 |
| VII. | [Tertullian] | 51 |
| VIII. | [Clement of Alexandria] | 56 |
| IX. | [Porphyry] | 63 |
| X. | [Chrysostom] | 76 |
| XI. | [Cornaro] | 83 |
| XII. | [Thomas More] | 90 |
| XIII. | [Montaigne] | 94 |
| XIV. | [Gassendi] | 100 |
| XV. | [Ray] | 106 |
| XVI. | [Evelyn] | 107 |
| XVII. | [Mandeville] | 113 |
| XVIII. | [Gay] | 115 |
| XIX. | [Cheyne] | 120 |
| XX. | [Pope] | 128 |
| XXI. | [Thomson] | 134 |
| XXII. | [Hartley] | 138 |
| XXIII. | [Chesterfield] | 139 |
| XXIV. | [Voltaire] | 141 |
| XXV. | [Haller] | 156 |
| XXVI. | [Cocchi] | 157 |
| XXVII. | [Rousseau] | 159 |
| XXVIII. | [Linné] | 164 |
| XXIX. | [Buffon] | 166 |
| XXX. | [Hawkesworth] | 168 |
| XXXI. | [Paley] | 169 |
| XXXII. | [St. Pierre] | 173 |
| XXXIII. | [Oswald] | 179 |
| XXXIV. | [Hufeland] | 184 |
| XXXV. | [Ritson] | 185 |
| XXXVI. | [Nicholson] | 190 |
| XXXVII. | [Abernethy] | 196 |
| XXXVIII. | [Lambe] | 198 |
| XXXIX. | [Newton] | 205 |
| XL. | [Gleïzès] | 208 |
| XLI. | [Shelley] | 218 |
| XLII. | [Phillips] | 235 |
| XLIII. | [Lamartine] | 245 |
| XLIV. | [Michelet] | 252 |
| XLV. | [Cowherd] | 258 |
| XLVI. | [Metcalfe] | 260 |
| XLVII. | [Graham] | 264 |
| XLVIII. | [Struve] | 271 |
| XLIX. | [Daumer] | 282 |
| L. | [Schopenhauer] | 286 |
APPENDIX.
| CHAP. | PAGE. | |
| I. | [Hesiod] | 293 |
| II. | [The Golden Verses] | 294 |
| III. | [The Buddhist Canon] | 295 |
| IV. | [Ovid] | 299 |
| V. | [Musonius] | 303 |
| VI. | [Lessio] | 305 |
| VII. | [Cowley] | 308 |
| VIII. | [Tryon] | 309 |
| IX. | [Hecquet] | 314 |
| X. | [Pope] | 318 |
| XI. | [Chesterfield] | 320 |
| XII. | [Jenyns] | 322 |
| XIII. | [Pressavin] | 324 |
| XIV. | [Schiller] | 326 |
| XV. | [Bentham] | 327 |
| XVI. | [Sinclair] | 329 |
| XVII. | [Byron] | 331 |